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Not to say something so capitalist as a socialist, but I kind of don't care if the Barbie movie is actually some big ploy to sell more barbies, its been so much fun to see people excited about something that is at its core is made for girls enjoyment, for a traditionally feminine interest to be celebrated not ridiculed. Also at least its propaganda to buy dolls not like military propaganda or something
#Barbie movie#my post#seeing people switch up on this movie has low key annoyed me so i made a post#we live in a capitalist hellscape anyway at least let us have this one fun capitalist movie okay#also some of the backlash has just felt super misogynistic#like we get like 5 marvel movies a year for like the last decade which is also just there to sell toys and comics and trips to disney#if were using the same logic people are using about barbie#but we get one (1) doll movie and suddenly its a problem#and it just feels like the bullshit criticism barbie always gets#like why do people hate to see the original girlboss win#feel free to reblog this if you want#idk if i clearly explained what i feel but yeah it just annoying me
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I just ordered all of Jodie's era on DVD (I'm a physical media lover) and can I say how wonderful and ironic it is to see the thousands of top star reviews for her merchandise and how stuff like certain figurines and her TARDIS figurine are either totally sold out or priced up hundreds of pounds when the haters say she's unpopular and doesn't sell. I mean she even has her officially licensed scarf and everything lol. People love her Doctor.
People seem to take the downward trend of spending during the pandemic as some sort of indictment that 13/Jodie doesn't sell, when in fact in 2018/9 there was a ton of merch that sold just like all Doctor Who merch does, we got the 10inch doll, a barbie, action figures, her sonic, her series 11 funko pop set, 3 novels with matching audio books, 5 YA/Kids books, Comics, games, eaglemoss figures... and thats just off the top of my head and doesn't even include all the generic DW merch... then 2020 came... 13 era merch seemed to vanish... gee I wonder what happened that year that heavily effected the economy, the workforce and businesses, not to mention peoples LIVES? People were losing their jobs, hoping not to get sick, dealing with having sick loved ones and trying to make sure they had enough toilet paper somehow I don't think any shows merch was top of peoples minds, and businesses that were essential to making merch were losing money, making it harder to make things!
I don't believe there has ever been a problem with 13/Jodie selling, unfortunately during her tenure one of the most disruptive events in our generation happened and merch wasn't a priority and even made for fans to buy during that time due to the conditions, restrictions, and economy to know if it wouldn't sell, so its a ridiculous argument.
But as you said theres also a number of items of her merch that are not only expensive if you want one now but you'll be lucky if they even come up for sale because clearly people want to keep them.
For example... 13 Build a Bear, 13 Blush bear from Children in Need, the 2018 SDCC 13 Pop, the 1/5 signature edition Big Chief Studios figure.
You want any of these not only will you have to wait who knows how long for one to come up to buy but expect to be paying a small fortune... However you want a 10th Doctor Build a Bear? They are on Ebay now, more pricey then buying originally from Build a Bear but no where near as much as a 13 Bear when it comes up I've seen 2 come up in 12 months. You want one of the other Doctor Chidlen in Need bears that were release? Yeah you can get them pretty regularly on Ebay too and a pretty good price, head over there now and you'll find them, never seen a 13 one for sale, Big Chief Studios figure? You can find most all the other Doctors, 13 I've seen it come up twice in the last 12 months on Ebay, and only 1 was in its original condition so good luck, and hopefully you have a weeks salary you don't need to buy it if you wanted it they are so expensive, you can still find listings for the 2018 SDCC 13 Pop but you got a spare 250+ pounds to pick it up? Haven't seen any other Doctor pops cost that much if you want to get one.
If Jodie was soooooo unpopular why is she one of the most expensive and elusive Doctors to be able to get merch for when she is technically the most recent Doctor with merch you should just be easily able to pick up.
Jodie also recently had prints of an image she painted sold for charity they were not cheap! There was only 50, they were gone in under 1 day.
Haters are just gonna make things up because the truth doesn't fit their narrative.
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Hello Anon, this is your Oldie Chinese Diaspora Anon™️. The topic of the “Dream Fairy” dolls by DBS is going to be one of those controversies that will not fully die. There are a lot of grounds to cover here.
One thing I cannot do is to “weigh in” in the sense of putting a line in the sand. I prefer to present the facts as they stand; it is up to the individual to make the decision that they believe is right for them. To the best of my ability, I will run as succinct a summary for you as possible.
Dream Fairy is one of the many lines from DBS (DeBiShen Ltd. A Chinese toy factory.) The company works like a Mattel with different lines of dolls. Each line has the same facial sculpt with the differences focused on individually separate fashion designs. Think “different Barbies, same sculpt”.
This company known to plagiarize other BJD sculpts as the basis of their vinyl/ABS molds. The face sculpts from the 1/3 line is plagiarized from AS’s Liu Ruishi
Dream fairy:
AS:
The face sculpt for the ¼ anime line maybe plagiarized from TF’s Rita
DF:
TF:
The 1/6 lines have been plagiarized from Lina ChouCh0u (DBS Leisure Girl:
, Lina ChouChou Baby Piyo:
And SecretD0ll (DBS Dudu:
, Secret Doll Mong:
The 1/12 blind box seems to have taken their inspiration from Obitsu. But there are no direct 1:1 “original” found, yet.
There are suggestions that the facial molds were “transcribed” from legit BJD to counterfeit BJD into vinyl. Details are scant, however.
The original 1/3 bodies were highly similar to the YeL0Li (Night L0lita) bodies.The original ¼ bodies were most likely original to DBS. The new 1/3 is an enlarged version of the ¼, with minor changes.
The original 1/6 bodies were found from multiple factories. It’s tough to say who came up with it first.The “original” part of any Dream Fairy doll is the ensemble. Since they do not sell their clothes separately, people have bought their dolls for the clothes.
Best considered as “large Barbies”, their price point is a lot cheaper with similar capacity for customization, which is what makes them attractive. DBS’s history of plagiarizing other dolls has been noted by several different vendors and a good number of doll collectors. Since the release of their MT Blindbox series, several proxies have refused to carry them due to DBS’s history.
Sometimes, the decision to not carry their products were instigated by the collectors themselves:
https://x.com/hermeow_shop/status/1667536926080143360
If price point is the hook, there are several Chinese MJD companies that are completely original: Xinyi, Kurhn, YeLoLi and Monst are the examples I can think of on the top of my head that are not V0lks. If the facial sculpt is what you are interested in, there are the resin “originals” at a higher price point available. At the end of the day, whether you want to buy a DBS doll or not, the choice is up to you. They are, just as I’ve suggested earlier, a kind of “Controversial Doll”. They are not totally legit but they are also not an out-and-out recast.
As someone said, whatever you do with your money really is your choice. How other folks in the hobby decide to see you is their choice as well. Legality should never be the bottom line when it comes down to morality, after all.
~Anonymous
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I saw 3 films on the plane to Athens, Greece, and since I woke up in the middle of the night here in Naxos, let me give you some thoughts:
1. Barbie—honestly, I thought it was awful. It fails on nearly every barometer—conceptually it made no sense, and while I know little to nothing about the Barbie universe, it seemed very dishonest in terms of its examination of its source material. The beginning ode to Planet of the Apes about mothers and baby dolls-huh? Why is there a “bigger Barbie” and why is weird Barbie like 40 and looks like she’s 60? (I understand there were some Barbie variations later on with older and career-oriented characters, but still?) Aren’t we supposed to examine a world in which Barbie is a thin white blonde Cali teenager with a stereotypical surfer boyfriend, where there’s maybe one (or two) black best friends (Christie? Later Grace?) just like in the typical Hallmark movie, which by the way, are still being made and mostly still dominated by the same racial and sexual formulas? Is there actually an Asian Ken? And I still don’t understand why stereotypical Barbie had to go into the real world to see why she suddenly had feelings—because a real world girl was having problems? And which problems? The real world girl ends up being a know-it-all over-educated Cali teenager (a Hispanic one—triumph!). Even from a feminist perspective, I felt it failed. Okay, so the Barbie world is supposedly ruled by women, while the real world is supposedly ruled by men, and Ken has a euphoria moment when he goes into the real world. Both are highly exaggerated and utterly ridiculous, but even so, I don’t see what it has to say about sex relations that isn’t obvious. And while the America Ferrara speech about double standards about women was spot on, wouldn’t it have been even more subversive to have Ken rant about all the double standards that exist for men (like for example, how society expects us to be aggressive, insensitive and dominant, and then punishes us when we are?). Instead, it’s all just typical, dumbed down stuff for the “universal” audience. Which brings me to why this film was so high-grossing, despite being utterly boring, badly made and intellectually idiotic (even sadder because I really liked Gerwig’s previous film Lady Bird). For the same reason they are making Total Recall remakes—because people are drawn to brands and what they are familiar with. The more original Margot Robbie vehicle Babylon, meanwhile, though also sourced from typical silent movie world info, was an utter flop. Maybe it is time to stop watching overly-marketed movies.
2. American Fiction—this was much different than what I expected, but in its own way, very dishonest too. It was more of a family story about a wealthy African-American man from an upper crust New England family who needs to make sacrifices while dealing with a series of family crises. To get money he creates a “ghetto” black book that suddenly sells, versus his literary books, which are only known to literary circles and marketed in African American Studies sections simply because he’s a black author (this part is funny and spot-on). This is a side narrative, but utterly untrue to reality. Black books that go “Ghetto” these days (and for the past 20 years or so) are immediately shoved into the Urban Fiction section of a highly regimented publishing industry and are unpublishable except to be self-published or distributed by Urban Fiction labels. They certainly would not get this kind of interest from the major publishing industry. The one exception to this is Junot Diaz (remember there can only be ONE), and that’s only because he became big in the 1990s, when we had a real indie grit lit sphere, with Sapphire etc. Yes, this whole scenario could have been plausible in the 1990s and very early 2000s, when indie lit authors had agents and were working through the now bogus traditional model (only reserved for the upper class, apparently), and the original book Erasure (2001) was published by Graywolf (and is nearly impossible to get now because of this) but it’s utterly untrue now. The celebrated black authors are upper crust Colson Whitehead, he of Black Sag Harbor vintage, or people who rant about (and make boatloads of money and endorsements through) anti-racism and reparations platforms. Otherwise, to have a “black” lit book published you have to be a well-educated Nigerian, and God help you if you are born in America! “Ghetto” black authors, subjects and books continue to be discriminated against, despite the fact that they actually depict (if in a steretypical way) the majority of the black experience today. In fact, the class and race dichotomy is worse than ever! Even my own book, Good Americans, a short story collection, won an award in the Urban Fiction category (because it has the “n” word in it?) but bombed in all the short story categories, because it dares to explore the class divide. And my ambitious new book Bad Americans seemed doomed to self-publishing for the same reasons.
3. The Holdovers—this was by far the best film structurally and in terms of impact, although not at all original. It’s the typical story about a teacher stuck with wayward students over a school break and how two become close despite their differences and of course there’s the black cook too, and isn’t it nice that there’s no racism mentioned except that her kid was the only one who died in Vietnam. We learn things about the teacher and we can ponder what being a good teacher means and about the nature of honor and dishonor. At least it was coherent and somewhat moving, unlike almost everything else being produced today.
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I FINALLY watched that barbie movie that came out, i watched it last night! it was cute and pretty solid i thought. and then immediately after finishing that i watched the 1989 found footage tv movie ufo abduction/the mcpherson tape?
barbie was mostly very funny (that smallpox joke is inexcusable tho) it seems aimed for maybe a tween-teen kind of audience? i havent heard of many big huge movies aimed at that demographic recently so thats really nice
you know i was worried id be insufferable to both barbie movie fans and barbie movie haters because i have 1) a doll hobby 2) too much interest in doll history and 3) a complete lack of trust and respect for mattel as a company in the past decade and i figured you wouldnt be able to talk to me about it without me um-actually-ing every two seconds BUT it wasnt as egregious as i expected in regards to doll history myths
im especially glad they didnt call stuff like happy family midge and earring magic ken like "recalled" or "banned" or whatever 'cause thats just one of those myths LOL BUT discontinued is a weird term... yeah they were discontinued but like. all dolls are some day. from what i can tell both those dolls werent even like prematurely (heh) discontinued or anything most reports seem that happy family midge sold okay (although there seems to have been controversies at least with the wedding ring and cardboard cutout husband situations) and earring magic ken probably didnt sell well. because hes ken. the earring magic barbies in the line probably sold better LOL i guess a better term could have been like. controversial barbies? infamous barbies? sugar's daddy ken is true and hilarious tho, although if i remember correctly it was like a collectors doll meant for adults that just never got released in the first place
I DID love tanner's inclusion. i love that stupid shitting dog so much i wanted it so bad as a kid but i didnt care about the barbie so it would have been a waste of a playset
speaking of not caring about the barbie so like. i didnt really like barbies as a kid. i didnt really like dolls. i was a furry i only liked animal shaped toys LOL i did have one barbie i picked out myself, fairytopia kindlee who i loved and adored and lost and i dream about her forever. but yeah nothing less interesting to me both as a child and as an adult than a default face sculpt blue eyed blonde barbie toy, which is, as most adults interesting in the modern day toy industry can attest, the reason for our disdain for mattel HFJDKHFDJS actually its more than that - weirdly inflated prices for cheaply made clothes and low quality printing, strangely dated fashion, the weird all or nothing either bare minimum 5 points of articulation or full out double jointed mtm bodies (where is single jointed elbows...i miss her....), THE DECADE LONG REIGN OF TERROR OF THE GLUE HEAD (although we're finally past that), why are those collectors dolls so expensive they look the same quality, why did they make that collectors mermaid ken white from the brown guy in the concept art, in canada the pricing and availability is wacky so i imagine its even worse everywhere else outside the US, this is a personal thing but why does every mattel doll ive ever owned like combust at its joints randomly. am i cursed? do i have a mattel curse? ive been thinking about this for years why does the plastic just disintigrate the second it enters my home what god did i anger. what plastic god did i anger. help me my bloodline has been cursed by some sort of polyvinyl based deity beyond my comprehension
anyway as i was saying it was a little sobering watching a movie with a good fashion and prop and set budget do a take on the memories of what barbie dolls used to be and then thinking about that absolutely dire state we're in rn. bro i kept looking at outfits like modern mattel would never. theyre too busy making half printed t shirt dresses with a random ruffle attached on the side <3 but vintage mattel would also not be as diverse. although neither mattel has an actually fat doll so. um. thats the saddest um-actually im gonna do :(
ive been joking to myself for years that barbie is the name of the species, ken might be some kind of subspecies, so it is funny to see the brand in both real life stores and also this movie lean into that. barbie really is a species. they do move in herds. wait im getting distracted anyway years ago barbie had a big refresh where they leaned into the idea that anyone can be barbie - everyone is barbie: they brought out new body types (standard, tall, short, and slightly curvy) which was a big step, a bigger range of skintones and all kinds of new face molds and screenings, also theres like bald barbies and barbies with prosthetics and wheelchair barbies are made way more often. and all this is fantastic. but unfortunately the blonde blue eyed millie sculpts still haunt most non-fashionista releases.... stereotypical barbie u dont know what u are.... its a shame they didnt reference the millie sculpt in the movie i woulda died LOL
but i always thought it was pretty wack that they made all these cool dolls and then relegated them to wear t shirt dresses for eternity. i like that the budget line is so diverse and i dont even mind the lack of articulation that much (although i do miss basic 9 point articulation where are my elbows and knees) but GOD those outfits. can be ROUGH. and WHY do they never put like half of the diverse dolls in other playsets WHY cant basketball barbie be bald WHEN will i get that prosthetic leg barbie as a fairy like youve put all this effort into all this diversity and then ur doing NOTHING with it mattel im begging u. im begging u. make a fantasy wheelchair barbie i know you can do it. i know you can do it
im not even talking about the movie anymore sorry im just complaining about barbie dolls even tho im not a huge barbie collector JFKDHJRKF i was just picky about toys as a child and i want kids nowadays to get cool dolls too. i think a kid deserves a nice thing to play with that looks like them or like their family or other people around them that also allows to imaginative play you know
okay. okay in the context of the movie its fine and makes sense but lemme tell u. being so deep in the current state of mattel hearing america ferrera's character suggest "ordinary barbie" made me fucking jump out of my seat and point at my laptop screen i almost said outloud "YOUUU" jgekfjfd it was her.... she did this.... jk jk its a sweet message in the movie but just so u know in mattel's mind "ordinary barbie" translates to overpriced cheaply made sack dress barbie. orz
wait back on topic back on topic its a nice movie, im glad it resonates with a lot of people. the plot was a little strange but i dont mind, the sets and outfits and everything was so good anyway, i loved that big huge chunky necklace as a touch, its some fashion brand symbol i dont remember sowwy but i like how huge it is LOL also the music was pretty great, i liked the needle drops and the music composed for the movie was fun too, what was i made for is fantastic but i knew that already its been a hit for a while now and i heard a vocal synth cover of it that sounded nice so i was already on board HJKDHJKFDS sometimes the. racial aspect of the movie was. jarring? they really only mention race like thrice (one of those times being the aforementioned awful smallpox joke) which. you know sometimes i get a little annoyed with a lot of contemporary movies and shows bringing up race just for little quips and jokes here and there while completely ignoring anything substantial about the topic, i know this is a tween movie with a two hour run time and they wanted to focus but i dunno man. it always feels like they're making a joke about elephants while the ignoring the elephant in the room staring u down. but whatever. i'll just lock someone into an unskippable cutscene conversation about history in regards to race and dolls irl later LOL cute movie tho. i like when movies have cool sets and outfits
NOW to the second half of that very odd double feature i gave myself last night UFO ABDUCTION its basically considered the first found footage horror movie, as a tv movie from 1989, and lemme tell u IT IS hard to watch LOL not because its like scary but like. because its a little bit bad <3 but its okay i dont mind, the main character behind the camera got pretty insufferable near the end (would not shut up and made it hard to hear the other actors orz) but it was only an hour and had like no budget - plus i love seeing where so much of the genre came from. im glad to know people screaming at the main character to shut that damn camera off has been here since the very beginning. i also loved the stupid alien costumes its such a shame theyre only in there for like 3 scenes they were the best part: genuinely kind of creepy at the first sight at the ufo landing because theyre so far away and low quality, and also really silly and goofy when they walk right up to the camera <3 <3 <3
i truly madly deeply genuinely without a shred of irony adore found footage so im always happy to see more! even when its bad :) i like it when cameras shake and people scream OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT
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6 Questions
RULES: answer the questions then tag someone you want to get to know better/catch up with.
Tagged by @sheirukitriesfandom Thank you for tagging me!
I don’t know who’s done this already, so not tagging anyone: feel free just to take and
1. Last Song: Mike Bell and the Belltones - Dark Side of the Moon
They also have a song called “Loretta” on that same album 😉 Of course that was the first one I checked out.
If you look down to the bottom of my archive, you’ll find a lot of rockabilly / 50s stuff - there was a time I liked it really much. Recently I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic, so I turned that on.
2. Last Show: Does All for One count? (that’s an absolutely awesome Australian DnD webseries, highly recommended).
If no, then Westworld 3, and I didn’t bother to watch season 4... Not a big fan of shows in general. I watch them quite ocassinally and I’m usually very picky.
3. Currently Watching: Elden Ring lore videos... as usual.
Been thinking about watching \ rewatching some good cartoon show...
4. Currently Reading: Betty Edwards - Drawing on the right side of the brain. I don’t think I’ll practice all this course, but will use some techniques. For now I’m only reading, getting acquainted with it.
And some fanfiction.
5. Current Obsession: Elden Ring. My own headcanons and stories.
6. Unrelated Obsession: Fashion dolls. Since my early days, the only toys that got me interested were “dolls with tits” (c) mom - I didn’t like stuffed animals much and just hated baby dolls back then. Only Barbie-like dolls. They were my best friends, so then I became an adult doll enthusiast. I had many different dolls in my life. They helped me to meet some real friends (fellow collectors) and even earn some good money (by selling them, working with various doll businesses, making OOAK doll clothes).
I like to joke that only in my 30s I’ve finally moved from childhood to teens: almost quit doll hobby and switched to videogames 😆
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Jun 28
Some of today's insight is knowing that I am missing dolls I know I have, they're just somewhere in the garage. And the garage is right here with us not half a country away.
And the urge to want to do the sorting and purge I had planned for two years ago because I am not getting rid of anyone, maybe a couple, until I know who I have.
Somehow tho I am pretty good at knowing which modern things I bought at the store and so far there's only two of one 2010s outfit pack and now 2 of a cat themed accessory pack. It's not that I have a no twinsies policy it's that I'm on the side of getting something I don't have first. Doesn't count with Ken tuxedoes.
Also got to remember my first rule of rerooting- do something you can live with because chances are you're going to be stuck with the doll. I have 10 year old Gen 1 Monster reroots that prove that.
Part of me wants to say if you see a Barbie/Mattel (not Gen 1 Monsters) doll in my photos you might think you want send me a message. The worst I'll tell you is I'm keeping it or it's gone.
When I do get to selling I charge going rates for the condition, might do a lump sum depending on the situation, and are occasionally open to trades.
There will be a purge of rerooting supplies eventually. I have too much of what I call 'headband hair'. It's cut off of kid's dress up headbands I got at Dollar Tree, I'm assuming it's nylon, it's shiny and comes in natural and fantasy colors. Aside from the watermelon pink and a couple of the browns I'm not sure if I'm going to do much with it.
While looking and feeling sort of "cheap" honest to the doll gods I bought it for the Monster High, if you've done one you know the volume it requires, sold a bunch with it, customers were happy.
At least I know it's non toxic and probably non flammable because it was sold as a child's toy.
Or I might not because I still have a good half dozen or so Monsters and I know the one blue was headed for a Cleo.
It's the hormonal time of hte month where I don't do anything I can't undo and we'll just leave it at that.
And the incase I end up keeping the reroot is to make sure the Leah sculpt gets done in the lighter grey instead of the Baby Unicorn because I get the feeling that will look better on someone with Nostalgia skin.
Not Tina Lee or Drew, Drew has the color I thought Locket Kayla had.
Maybe someone I haven't bought yet or the not Malibu Stacey mold I want.
Don't know why I don't have a pic of her done, I really need to do that catalog, but she has glowing white hair and I did her lashes.
*Could reach all but one doll bin and I swear that little plastic bitch better be in that one. Did get to Bill and Ted and the Nostalgia skin tone girls along with a bag of heads for rerooting.
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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 23 Articulated Dolls-12 Monster High,4 Wild Hearts,5 Barbie,Rainbow High & LOL.
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I’ve Got Your Number
New tablet, new Loudspeaker.
#recently remembered Passion Pit exist so that's your problem now#I don't know if anyone actually checks out the songs I link in my headings so it could very well not be anyone's problem at all#bnha#mha#present mic#bnha au#Loudspeaker au#hizashi yamada#last night I dreamt there was a shop called What Pigs Buy (it was pig themed for some reason it was pretty cute)#and it was like a social commentary on buying products marketed as being for a specific race#I'm not sure whether like deodorant for specific races of people exists in real life I'm 99 percent sure it doesn't#but in my dream it did and this shop had something to say about it#so all the products were labelled normally but with 'for pigs' at the end#cornflakes for pigs. bar soap for pigs. courgette for pigs#I enjoyed the theming#they were also selling Barbie dolls for £1#not for pigs or anything just normal Barbies#the only explanation I have for this is that my brain was trying to think of the expression 'when pigs fly' and got dreadfully confused#but if there's a pig-themed shop anywhere I'd like to go and visit it#sorry for telling you all about my dreams but I can't suffer alone I have to make it everyone's problem
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can you explain how courtney could have a molly doll?
I think i answered this before, but that was like a year ago so im going to say my thoughts again but in more depth because i've been thinking more about it since then. Buckle your seatbelts folks because this is a long, wild, bumpy ride.
We all know the "real" answer is that Mattel wanted to bring more money and free advertizing in just like they did with Julie's barbie (barbie is made by mattel as well if you didn't know)
BUT
The in-universe explantion is much more thought provoking and fun to theorize.
Ok so, my theory on this is that in the AG universe, the dolls do exist (which is now obvious and confirmed) and are exactly the same as in our universe BUT one difference: the stories are based on real people rather than being fictional
So like in the AG universe, the girls descendants (or they themselves, if they were/are still alive) sell their story and appearance to pleasent rowland/mattel.
This has evidence in 3 places:
1: The mini dolls, were originally released as "dolls for your dolls: As in, Historical dolls for your American girl of today. This was changed later, but it still has always stuck in my mind
2: Z Yang's old youtube videos that AG released in preparation for Nanea's release. I can't find the specific videos now, but i remember in 2017 there was a few stop motion videos where Z Yang is seen playing with mini dolls (which are meant to be her own AG dolls) and she also talks about Nanea's upcoming release.
She makes an offhand comment about wishing she could have nanea on her show. Now, if she meant interviewing her own little Nanea doll, or an actual full sized nanea doll being in the room with her (Like how people on here just put all their historical dolls they own together in thier own "Universe" because why not) i would give it a pass but, Z talks about Nanea as if she were a real person who is unavailable for interview. Which would make sense if in Z's universe, Nanea was a real 84 year old woman who sold her life story and would probably be unwilling to fly to seattle for an interview and/or didn't know how to work a computer for an online call.
3: Courtney's molly doll. This is the most damning evidence of all, and one that sent alot of people into a frenzy, and what you orignally asked me. Before this was released, alot of people were content to believe that the historical girls all lived in one long timeline in the same universe, so we could have fun theories like Marie Grace and Grandmary, but courtney's books shattered that illusion.
She has her own Molly doll, and her books go into heavy detail about pleasent company in the 80s. This now meant that
A: Courtney took place in a seperate timeline than the other girls
or
B: they all took place in thier own universes with no crossovers allowed unless dr strange gets into here somehow.
Alot of people thought this because they assume that either AG dolls didn't exist in the AG-verse OR that it did exist, and its exactly the same as it works in our universe
But it doesn't have to be that way! We can still have all the girls on one timeline, with a bit of editing.
So lets say that in 1986, just like in our universe, Pleasent Rowland still gets the bright idea to make educational dolls to teach children the history of the USA, but instead of having authors make fictional characters, she seeks out real people.
This is where the timeline splits between our universe and thier universe (well it split a while before that when the girls were born but whatever) Anyway, She seeks out the story of 3 girls to start with. She finds the desendants of Kirsten and Samantha (Or possibly samantha herself if she was still alive in the 80s) and went straight to Molly.
They told their stories to her, she made it as usual, and boom, pleasent company is born. In this universe, she pays royalties to them or their families for using their stories and image, but the company makes millions so its worth it. The rest of the characters are made in the same way, and eventually in 2020, Courtney herself sells her story of her childhood growing up in the 80s. And that is how courtney can have a molly doll and still be in one big happy AG universe.
#late night rambles#its 11 pm help#please tell me y'all understand what im trying to say here#historical dolls
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real question for other doll people: why doesn't mattel just create a doll customizer brand?
i don't mean something like creatable world, with its new body and head sculpts that got lukewarm reviews, multiple fashions and wigs that were packaged in a "high end" box that ended up with a pretty high price for a base doll. (i know that wasn't the purpose Mattel marketed it with, but for a lot of people, that was a possible appeal.)
i don't mean something like CAM, which made parts modular (which I think was great conceptually), but also introduced flat and dull face molds in fantasy skintones people weren't as interested in as the OG MH dolls.
i don't even mean barbie basics, signature looks or made to move, which have sought-after bodies or face sculpts that come in an acceptable range of skintones but are somewhat limited in their releases so can be somewhat hard to find after a while. (limiting 2 signature looks dolls per customer? i spit.)
i mean something more like Obitsu, AZONE International or Volks. i know there's a different culture of doll collecting in the BJD community, but many collectors don't even consider these "real" bjds. (even the vinyl dolls that function through ball joints are othered for not being resin.) these are the 1/6 customizer's dolls. and the culture around using these as a base to create new dolls isn't unlike the ooak communities around MH and Barbie?
mattel makes multiple pieces that are sought-after by customizers. (MH heads, MtM Barbie, Barbie Collector Heads and the Ever After High Boy Body come to mind.) why not monetize this? like, even if theyre afraid that selling these parts separately will dilute the brand, why not do R&D to create a new customizer-friendly doll brand?
i ask not because i expect it of them (i mean, i'm not asking this about Hasbro, MGA or Integrity Toys), but because Mattel specifically seems to run brands into the ground to cut costs and/or appeal to the parents of children who want to play app games instead. so if appealing to adult collectors with quality products (good screening on good sculpts in well designed and well executed fashions that don't have QC issues) is too difficult/expensive, why not just give us blank dolls?
just blank heads with blank bodies that are made to be put together easily. maybe they're modular like CAM was. maybe we can buy separate fashions like barbie basics. the only thing they'd have to do is produce new face and body sculpts now and then. (they could frankenstein parts from existing bodies - they do that a lot anyway these days.) sure, they'd probably have to release a few new molds in a range of skintones every year... release collector heads or fantasy skintones now and then as LE... but how hard is that for mattel??? it seems like they wouldn't have to invest as much in the production of these to turn a decent profit as long as they listen to artists in the R&D stage.
the only reason i could figure they wouldn't do this are:
a) diluting the "brand" of the company being a maker of big name toys for kids that everyone knows... but they introduce new brands all the time (wild hearts crew, cave club, creatable world) and they also try to appeal to adult collectors (barbie signature, he-man).
or b) it could pull attention away from barbie... but how important could this be right now if they're willing to bring back monster high, which was arguably more popular in its heyday, and definitely will be right now since Gen Z is deeply nostalgic for it, rather than barbie?
idk, i don't "get" business or capitalist ideals a lot of the time. so i tend to think giving the people what they want is generally a good tactic for making money. (i regularly wonder why luxury fashion brands don't just sell old products instead of cutting them up and throwing them out.) so i admit i could be missing something big. but i think about it all the time. (especially when looking for an EAH Boy and finding they go for $50 used...)
#this post is a long stream of consciousness type rant giving context to my question#I didn't want to clog dashboards but I do want to talk about this#so if you collect and customize Mattel dolls and give a shot about the things the company does#please look?#dolls
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okok hi im here with public school stories :D
one time in grade 1 (?) I was doing jumprope and fell and I thought I was okay and when I walked into my classroom my teacher was like freaking out and turns out I was dripping blood all over the floor
one time a kid put a frozen pizza in a microwave for 17 minutes and got in barely any trouble
in grade 3 the class next to ours was practicing for a play and a kid tripped and fell and broke his ankle and we all heard the screams
in grade 6 my teacher was on paternity leave and the sub was horrible. a guy spilled water and when he went to clean it up the sub pointed to a group of girls and said "hey, clean the water. girls are made for cleaning"
same sub: we had a lockdown drill and he told us that there were no police in the school and no one had been informed of this drill so it was real and we were all gonna die. like just repeatedly telling us "this is how you die. be ready. theres no one coming to help". everyone was crying.
another sub (miss barbie doll) hit a kid with one of those rlly rlly long rulers multiple times. we got her fired :D
on the first day of grade 6 the pipes were broken and if you tried to flush the bathroom or use the sink, everything would come spilling back out.
in the third grade some kid hit the fire alarm and we were sent to stand outside in like –20 canadian degrees in the snow for like an hour before we were sent to the school next to ours so we wouldnt freeze to death and i was one of the few people not offered warm clothes
we went to a overnight camp one time and it was very weird. the guys who ran the camp had animal names. in the middle of the night the owners were running to the parking lot yelling "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE". we were taught a campfire song about bananas on the moon.
theres this little area at the basketball court thats two walls together and we would go there to play "death soccer". you would kick the ball into the wall as hard as possible and it would fly around nearly decapitating everyone. this was also a rlly good way to get soccer balls onto the roof.
there was an underground kazoo selling ring. i was part of it. people would buy a shit ton of plastic kazoos and sell them to the other students. i was one of the delivery people :D
one time these guys had to present a speech in front of the whole school and as soon as they got on stage one of them yelled "revoke the fifth amendment!" and people started cheering
this one kid stole another guy's phone and computer and smashed them to bits. he also kept a hammer in his locker. he was frequently violent and didnt get in trouble because he was smarter than most of us.
my friend likes telling the story of when he was in grade 2: he gave half the class a haircut and got suspended for it. the story had something to do with another kid scratching his eye so my bsf cut his hair in retaliation
i cant tell you how many times someone's tooth got knocked out or nose was broken. one girl broke her nose SIX TIMES at school
thats all i can think of for now, ill send u more stories if i think of them
"this is how you die. be ready. theres no one coming to help" SIR????? HELLO????????
the overnight camp tho that's some shit straight out of gemini home entertainment. i. would like to visit.
revoke the fifth amendment is the funniest thing to ever be yelled at a school assembly istg
also. what the fuck happened to that girl how did she break her nose six times
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Smallish toy-haul from all over the place. From top to left to bottom front right: BanDai Adverge Motion 3 Demon Slayer Complete Figure Set; Playmates Miraculous Ladybug Marienette Fashion Doll; Hasbro Disney Style Mulan Fashion Doll; Mattel Barbie Looks #8 Fashion Doll; Just Play Disney Doorables The Nightmare Before Christmas Collection Peek (Walmart exclusive) set; KamiSoul Master Figuarts Action Figure Body.
I’m super excited to get the KamiSoul body. I accidentally stumbled upon it, while looking for bodies I can use for my 1:6 female head sculpts I want on male bodies. They have an awesome figure based on the King’s Avatar license; I don’t know if they only have the license in China, but I haven’t seen the figure sold anywhere else but a few Chinese retailers. I haven’t watched the series, so I don’t know if I want to collect the figure, but I wanted to get the loose body and hopefully the head sculpt, as it looks gorgeous. Sadly, they don’t seem to be selling loose heads at this point. Their official shop had a few clothing sets, but Google only translates gibberish, so I have no clue if they are all sold out by now. I haven’t seen them on other retailers either, so I just had to settle for the nude body. Which is way too big for my female heads, but I think I can make it work for other projects I have in mind. (:
I am pretty happy with all the other purchases. Particularly Barbie Looks #8, she is stunning! I am hoping I can get #9, and a few of the earlier releases as well as a second of #5 to unbox as well as another one of #8 to unbox as well, because I am a hoarder. Lol! DX My Mulan seems to have misplaced eyes and eyebrows, but I got her for a very nice price, so I can’t complain too much. Marienette’s eyes are also a bit wonky, but I’m guessing that’s just what they were meant to look like -- I don’t watch the series, just like the dolls, I own the earlier Bandai ones as well.
#DemonSlayer#KimetsuNoYaiba#Barbie#BarbieLooks#FashionDoll#Doorables#Disney#KamiSoul#ActionFigure#MiraculousLadybug#ToyHaul#photography#Collectible
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Catch all post:
*egg/beauty blender holder as a head holder while drying after reroots. I didn’t have anything to prop up heads since the wire shelf was needed elsewhere in the appartment.
*Star Darlings Libby has found her body, the hasbro blue leg body with a 5mm thick vinyl washer cut in the shape of a disc just bigger than her neck hole and squeezed over the neck knob. She can wear MH/EAH shoes. She’s also wearing the Daiso yukata with velcro added so it doesn’t gape. This leaves the final hasbro body (and better match) for her eventual orange reroot version: Annatto.
*Finally started that junk vs useful parts sort out i’d been trying to do for weeks and it turned into four different things: 1 my own personal doll body parts stash: that part’s done! 2 monster high (unfinished) and child dolls bundles I can sell cheap and get to owners that’ll appreciate them, 3 “just pay postage” and gifts for doll customizers stuff (hair, wigs, lashes, tinsel, eyes, reroot customs that need paint) that could bifurcate into n°4 an ebay france bundle for barbie/monster customizers. I don’t know, it’s a headache but at least I got rid of quite a few things that were just taking up space. If you’re in the EU, hit me up. If you’re in the USA i’ll do some trial letter post sized gifts later this year (is DeJoy gone yet?).
*Glue sueding with liquid superglue is a terrible idea. I know this and somehow managed to mess up anyway. A big drip seeped from the elbow joint to the peg which ripped off and had to be replaced with a pin. Sev can stand now but can’t bend her right elbow. I made a photo montage of the stages of ‘oh no’ that I went through seeing myself make a mistake made several times before. Feel free to use for your own “oh honey!” needs.
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Pretty in Pearls, Chapter 1 (Jankie) - Plastiquedoll
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Summary: For as long as she can remember, Jan has been in love with her baseball teammate. The only problem is that he always likes an Angela, a Pamela, a Sandra or a Rita better…
As years have gone by, she couldn’t get those feelings behind and as a college freshman, she starts noticing more and more things that set her apart from “the other girls”, the ones her crush seems to prefer. She can’t help but think that “maybe if she was prettier, maybe if she was more like them…” things would be different.
However, the more she gets to know those girls she also realizes how wonderful they can be; especially a certain girl named Jackie who works in the copy room and who keeps helping Jan unconditionally.
A/N: hi! this is my second chaptered fic -I wrote a little note on ao3 in case the concept of the story sounds off for anyone- but still, I hope you like it and thanks for reading it <3
-Prologue-
When Jan turned ten –to her chagrin- she received a Barbie doll with a lovely dress full of ribbons as her birthday gift. Her older brother -whose birthday had been just two months ago- got a brand new baseball bat and even when she had begged for over a year she could get one, all she got was a plastic lady with blonde hair and pink lips that didn’t look like her at all. It wasn’t fair, she had to play with his worn-out chipping bat with sticky duct tape on the grip when she was way better than her brother. Why couldn’t she get a bat too?
Luckily, Jan being the stubborn she was, had a plan. If her parents weren’t going to gift her a new bat to play baseball, she was going to get it by herself. She spent all summer selling lemonade on her front yard to raise money –hey, if life gives you lemons…- delivering newspapers and doing some other little tasks in exchange for some coins. Even when she worked hard and put her heart into everything she did it wasn’t enough to pay the full. She was about to give up when her grandfather showed up with a late birthday present –a book with a couple of bills hidden inside- not only she could get that new bat, she also got a couple of new balls that had the other kids in the neighborhood green with envy.
Jan had always been the kind of kid that was restless in class, she was a chatterbox and often her teacher had to remind her to be sat during a lesson but in the sports field it was different, she could run, play and win games like no other and she was celebrated for that. She was better than most kids her age and her team had always emerged victorious when she batted, so yeah, baseball was a big deal for her.
It was also around the time she met Nathan.
He was the new kid in school who didn’t talk much with other kids but one afternoon her classmates had asked him to join their team. Jan, who was always picked first with her messy ponytail and bruised knees, didn’t consider that scrawny kid to be a threat. Yet, he proved her wrong as he was the first person to strike her out of a game in ages. Everyone was in disbelief. Jan was competitive and after that humiliating defeat, her new goal was to beat her classmate. The only problem was that he was better than she expected and it took her a while to match his skills.
And with the years, what had started as a rivalry became a friendship. Jan was the only girl in her class that didn’t mind playing in the dirt or hanging out with the boys all day. In high school, the difference was even more noticeable since she never felt she belonged with the other girls, and with her sports passion, she could get a college scholarship if she kept pushing and winning games. During the senior year, she couldn’t care less about proms and fancy dresses when she was just one step ahead of making her dream a reality, playing in varsity.
Nathan was already signed by a few schools as well and whenever he was going, she was going as well. Not only he was her best friend, she had developed a crush on him when they grew older, she knew many things could change in her life but he was a constant and she’d do what it would take to keep it like that. The only problem was that Nathan was a handsome guy and he always liked an Angela, a Pamela, a Sandra or a Rita better.
He couldn’t see that Jan was in love with him, not yet at least.
But if she could still be a part of his life in the years to come, that would be enough for her. She’d stay in the shadows until she got her shot and she knew the day would come. She only needed to be patient. He was going to notice her and he was going to realize she was the one for him, she had always been.
It was a joyful day when she got accepted into the same university with a partial scholarship –her parents could afford the other half- she was ecstatic, the little girl from New Jersey with a bat was now going to play in the girls’ team and even when she wasn’t going to be in the same team than Nathan, she was going to be close enough.
Yes, everything would work out.
-1-
College is hell.
That was the first thing she thought the first day of school, even after going through orientation, she didn’t seem to find any of her classes, the classrooms were in different buildings, her schedules were all wrong and on top of all, she hadn’t seen Nathan in all morning.
To make things even worse, around noon she got called by one of the secretaries of the administration center, apparently, there was a problem with her papers, one of her forms got lost in the mail and she needed to present it before the end of the day.
If only she could find the copy room to get that form…
She kept going up and down stairs without complaining until she found the room at the end of a deserted aisle. She got a soda from the vending machine outside and then got inside. It was almost lunchtime so most students were at the cafeteria, only one girl was getting some book pages copied and she was paying by the time Jan walked in.
“Have a nice day.” The person behind the counter greeted her.
It was Jan’s turn now.
“Hi!” She approached the counter. “I- uh, I need this form…” Where was the paper the secretary had given her? “Wait for just a second, I had it here.”
Jan knew she looked like a train wreck, she had her books and notebooks in one hand, the soda can in the other, she had to empty her pockets with a barely free hand and held her phone under her neck.
“Do you need a copy of the form H-23?” The girl from the copier asked.
“Uh… I think so… Yes!” She found the paper. “H-23… that’s the one.” She smiled brightly.
The girl from the copier seemed calm and collected enough to make Jan feel a little better. She had silky brown hair tied in a half-updo, chocolate eyes framed by a pair of glasses, a knitted mustard sweater with a shirt underneath, a platted brick skirt, and high brown boots. She looked like what a college student wants to look like, in full control.
She was also really pretty.
“You’re like the fifth person who came today asking for that form…” She said while pressing some computer keys to set the printer. “Many students had a problem with the mail system for what it seems.”
“Yeah… I got notified just now and I’ve been running around all day.” She put all her things in one hand and stretched the now free hand. “I’m Jan, by the way.”
“Jackie.” The other girl shook her hand. “You can put your stuff here on the counter if you want. It’ll only take a minute.”
“Ah, thank you.” She did as she said.
“Freshman?” Jackie asked raising an eyebrow.
“Is it too obvious?” Jan could feel her cheeks getting colored.
“Just a little… you look like you still have a soul.”
“Is that a bad thing?”
“Oh, no, not at all.” She smiled at Jan.
Jackie’s kindness made her feel warm inside. It had been a rough morning and for the first time that day, someone was being genuinely nice to her.
“Do you study here too?” Jan asked while the brunette stapled her papers.
“Yes, I’m an Art History major. Junior.”
“Oh wow, that sounds sophisticated.”
“Girl… it’s not… there’re a lot of white men and my mother surely would’ve loved me picking something more… profitable. What about you? Have you declared your major yet?”
Jan nodded. “Economics, kind of boring, I know…” She rested her elbows on the counter. “I’m actually here with a sports scholarship.”
“That explains the baseball shirt.” She pointed at Jan’s outfit.
“Right!” Jan instinctively touched the fabric of the shirt. “Go, team!”
Being completely honest, Jan had forgotten she was wearing that. Early in the morning, she was more worried about showing up on time to orientation –clearly in vain since she kept getting lost- and because of that she hadn’t put a lot of thought into her fashion choices, instead, she picked a black tank top, a pair of jeans, sneakers and the baseball jacket with her lucky number –eleven- on it.
“Are you this excited all the time?” Jackie handed her the form.
Jan’s face lost light suddenly. “Is that bad? Because I’ve been said that I can be too much sometimes and-”
“No! I didn’t mean… no.” The brunette moved her hands in the air frantically. “It’s refreshing. I don’t think I’ve met someone like you before.”
“Oh, thank goodness.” She rummaged through her things until she found a couple of coins. “Here, for the form. Thank you so much for your help.”
She beamed and it was dashing enough to compete with the sun.
“T-Thank you.” Jackie stuttered while picking the money.
“I hope you have a nice day.” Jan slid all her things into her backpack.
“You too… see you around.” The brunette waved.
Jan copied the gesture and on her way out of the copy room she almost bumped into someone. It was Nathan.
“Hey!” She felt her pulse racing. “There you are! I haven’t seen you all day.”
“Janie! How are you doing?” He held the door open. “I’ve been around, you know? Getting used to all of this.”
“I know, right? I still can’t believe we’re here!” She couldn’t hide her enthusiasm.
Jackie, in the background, lowered her glasses and observed them in silence.
“I’m sorry I can’t chat right now, I need to get this form for the administration office and it’s a pain in the ass…”
“No way, they lost mine too… it must be New Jersey’s post service.”
“It really sucks. I better hurry up then or the place is going to get crowded.”
“Here.” She extended the paper without hesitation. “You can have mine, I haven’t filled it yet.”
“You don’t mind?”
The girl shook her head. “I can get another one.”
“Whoa, thank you, Janie. Wait, let me pay you.”
“No problem. You can give it back to me later.” She nervously touched her hair.
“Ah, I owe you one. Thank you. I was worried I wouldn’t get in time to have lunch. I just met the most gorgeous girl on campus, she’s stunning, I’m telling you and I was afraid I was going to miss my chance to speak with her because of this. You’re a great friend.” He patted her shoulder. “See you later.”
“Sure…” She mumbled.
He got out and closed the door without looking back.
With her slumped shoulders and drooping head, she looked back to where Jackie was.
“Do you think you could make another copy?”
The brunette who had witnessed the entire scene had her jaw clenched but she nodded and pressed print once again.
Jan shuffled back to the counter, she was grateful that the other girl didn’t say a word.
“Here you have, don’t lose this one.” Jackie smiled at Jan hoping that she could lift her mood a little bit.
“Thank you.” Her tone was barely audible. “I appreciate it.” She gave her some more coins and turned back.
Jackie knew she was going to regret it but she couldn’t let that girl go in that state of sadness. It wasn’t correct, it didn’t feel right.
“You know, I’m about to take my lunch break… would you like to join me?”
Jan looked at her for a moment that felt like an eternity.
“You don’t have to do it just because…”
“No, I don’t have to, I want to.” She assured.
“Okay…” She raised her voice a little. “That’d be nice.”
“Yeah. Nice.” Jackie grabbed her bag and held the keys of the room in her hand. “Let’s go.”
At that moment, a faint smile appeared on Jan’s face and Jackie knew for sure, she was going to regret this.
Freshmen were like little ducklings waddling around, imprinting on the first person who showed them a little affection –that was how they always ended up joining clubs and sororities on day one-, they were naïve, full of fears, expectations, and questions… they surely had a lot of questions. Jackie did her best to avoid them at least for the first couple of weeks. She was over the nervousness, the stutters, and sweaty palms –she had had enough during her first year.
However, this girl…
This one girl.
With her giant puppy eyes, her light brown hair falling all over her face whenever she tried to pick something that fell to the floor, the way she talked fast like she was going to forget what she was going to say if she didn’t say it quickly; she didn’t do it on purpose but a part of her body was continuously moving whether it was her fingers drumming on surfaces or her feet and she had this somehow chirpy personality even when odds weren’t on her favor.
Of course, Jan was straight. Jackie had seen it before, girls like that falling for douchebags and getting their hearts broken in multiple pieces. She saw it in her face on her body language when that guy showed up in the copy room, the way it was painfully obvious she was in love with him, and yet he treated her like a little sister taking advantage of her generosity.
She couldn’t just let her go back into the world like that, devastated.
The words escaped her mouth before she could give it a second thought.
And now she was having lunch with this girl, she kept explaining sports stuff to Jackie as if she had a clue what she was talking about and yet she listened to her because it was mesmerizing to watch.
“…that season was tight but we won within the last minutes even when the other team had their bases loaded.” She took a bite of her macaroni.
Her energies had been renewed the moment she started talking about baseball; she had listened to Jackie attentively when she explained the system of the cafeteria, how to activate and use her student card but the moment she gave her rise to talk about what she did before getting into college, she went directly to that point.
“Am I boring you? I’m sorry I didn’t realize I was talking too much I-”
“No! Please stop apologizing, it’s cool. I think it’s really cool that you’re… so passionate about something.”
“Really? I didn’t mean this to become a monologue, sometimes I get carried away.” She scratched the back of her head. “Anyway…”
Her gaze followed a figure in the cafeteria, it was the guy from before and he was having lunch with a large group of people but his attention was clearly focused on one girl next to him. Jackie noticed Jan taking a deep breath and then faking a smile trying to resume the conversation.
“What’s with that guy? Is he your boyfriend?” She asked, unscrupulous. Her salad was long forgotten in front of her.
“Nathan?!” She was like a deer caught in headlights. “Uh… He’s… he’s a friend from New Jersey. We used to play in the same baseball team until we got separated by boys and girls in high school.” She started blushing gradually until her face turned entirely red. “We’re friends, we have always been friends…”
Jackie arched an eyebrow. Interesting.
“So you like him.”
Now her face turned from red to burgundy.
“What?! No! I don’t… He’s… We’re… That’s ridiculous. I don’t like him he’s… a friend.”
The other girl didn’t say a word.
Jan sighed. “It’s never gonna happen… He just doesn’t think of me that way.” She looked at Jackie, there was something melancholic in her eyes. “I’m happy with being part of his life regardless.”
Something inside Jackie was shattered. She couldn’t help but feel deeply sorry for that girl who was hopelessly devoted.
“Jan, it’s not-”
But she was abruptly interrupted by the voice of another girl.
“Well, Miss Cox you didn’t tell me you were going to be here today.”
She didn’t even have to turn around to recognize who it was.
“Hello, Heidi.” She massaged her temples. “How are you?”
The girl didn’t wait and sat with them in a heartbeat.
“Betrayed, clearly. I just passed by the copy room and you weren’t there.” Her eyes moved to the girl in front of them. “Aren’t you going to introduce me to your new friend?”
“Jan, this is Heidi… Heidi, Jan.”
“Heidi, nice to meet you. Jackie’s friends are my friends.” She extended her hand.
“Hi! I’m Jan.” The girl shook Heidi’s hand vigorously.
“Easy honey, I need that arm.”
Jan shrugged. “Sorry.”
“Jan is a freshman from New Jersey and she plays baseball.”
“Oh, that explains the inhuman super strength.” She moved her arm in circles to readjust it.
Jan giggled. “I don’t know my own strength.”
Heidi gave Jackie a look that the brunette ignored.
“Anyway, Jan, don’t forget to submit your form, the secretary can get really cranky if you find her on a bad day.”
“Oh, right! I still have to fulfill it.” She found a pen somewhere inside her backpack.
“Well, I’m going to leave you, ladies.” Heidi waved goodbye. “Jackie, I’ll drop by later I need some copies for Professor Brown.”
“Sure, my break is over in like ten minutes.”
“Alright. See you around.” She looked at Jan who was still going through the form. “Have a nice first day you…”
“Thank you!” She smiled and with that Heidi was gone. “I think I’m done.” Jan showed her form proudly.
“C’mon then, I’ll walk with you back to the office.”
“Oh my God. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I got lost so many times today.”
“Wait, didn’t you get a map and everything during orientation?”
“Yeah, but still… it’s very confusing.”
“Do you have it with you?”
Jan dug through her backpack once again until she got the binder with the things freshmen were given as their welcome package.
“Okay,” Jackie unfolded the piece of paper until it became five times its size. “give me a pen.”
The younger offered the same pen she was just using.
“You gotta have the important extra information they don’t give you. For example, these stairs…” She drew an x over them. “Are always full of people and if you’re in a hurry, I don’t recommend it… so instead, you get to use these.” She circled the point on the map.
Jan listened to every word she said.
“Now… this is where we’re heading, the administration office. You wanna know where it is because, if there’s any problem with your papers, you have to go there fast… best way to get to this building is passing by next to the library and using the elevator that will take you there directly. Do you get it now?”
“Jackie…” She reached for the brunette’s hands. “You’re the best… I could cry right now.”
“Please don’t…” Jackie said, flushed. She cleared her throat. “Do you think you could lead the way? The copy room is nearby.”
“I’ll definitely try.” Jan was excited.
She put all her things back in her bag and followed Jackie after leaving their trays and throwing the trash. As soon as they reached the hallway, it was Jan’s time to guide them. She took the map and used the cafeteria as their reference point, after that, she traced a route. Jackie had to bite her tongue to refrain from helping her because she knew that was the only way she could learn. In the end, she did a really good job.
“We’re here. This is the administration office and right upstairs is…”
“The copy room.”
“Correct.”
“Yay!” She celebrated clapping. “Thank you so much, really… I don’t know what I’d have done without your help today.”
“Don’t even mention it.” Jackie smiled at her.
“Can I go visit you later? After my class…? Maybe I could bring you some snacks for being so nice to me.”
“There’s no need… really.”
“But I want to.”
There was no way Jackie was going to say no to her, that was already established.
“Okay, sure. I like Snickers.”
“Noted… see you later, Jackie.”
“Good luck.”
She started walking away but had a last glimpse of Jan before taking the stairs.
Her heart started beating faster.
Oh for goodness sake… what have you done Jackie Cox?
#rpdr fanfiction#jan sport#jackie cox#jankie#college au#lesbian au#slow burn#pretty in pearls#plastiquedoll#concrit welcome
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Got the Rainbow High dolls I’d ordered on Amazon!
Only ordered Sunny and Violet. The other three in series 1′s standard run don’t really call to me.
So many reviews have already been done that I don’t feel like I really need to. I’ll just make a few notes.
Some of the clothes are really nice, and some aren’t. There are a lot of unfinished edges, a lot of clothes that simply do not fit, cut wrong, sewn wrong, etc. etc. There are a lot of problems with the clothing.
Violet’s alternate shoes are sticky. I don’t like that.
Sunny was boxed improperly, causing her ankle to be severely warped. Thankfully the lower legs are vinyl, so a dip in some boiling water reset her.
Violet’s hair was put up horribly and had to be taken down and redone.
Both dolls’ hair was so heavy with glue. I was able to whack the counter top with Sunny’s pigtails and they didn’t budge at all. It took a lot of washing to get it all out, and even then I missed some. Once you get it clean it’s nice and soft and I can easily imagine children wanting to brush and play with it.
Both dolls needed trimmed, but that might not matter to a child.
Though the dolls are stylized and a big glam, the makeup is done in colors that suit each doll’s skin tone and is relatively subtle.
The joints LOOK fancy but aren’t. This has been brought up in others’ reviews. They look like they should provide double-jointed range of motion and barely give you 90 degrees at the elbows and knees. All flash, no function. We BJD owners were pretty excited by how similar the joints looked to Fairyland’s joints (CAUTION: There is the legitimate Fairyland doll company which I linked, and then there’s the fake company that sells counterfeit copies at a much lower price. If you go looking for Fairyland dolls, make sure you’re looking at dolls originating in Korea, not China. Support the artists that created the dolls, not the thieves that copied them.)
Sunny has shoes with a lot of detail painting, so where there’s a smear of yellow paint I have to leave it or the rest of the paint will go with it.
Despite the eyes being inset, they look very flat. Might as well have been painted on the face.
The bodies feel sturdy and are cute. They can sit down without splaying, and the hands come off to aide in dressing.
I thought the all-over sparkle on the faces would be off putting in person, but it really isn’t. It gives the hint of shimmer in normal lighting and is really nice.
THE BOXES ARE VERY HARD TO OPEN without destroying them! I’d been at it for about a half-hour and my husband said “Wait, you’re still on the first one????” because I was trying very hard not to rip the box. I ended up ripping it in a few places anyway. I didn’t even take out Sunny’s alternate outfit.
I find it interesting that the color of the box doesn’t match the doll that comes in it. Sunny came in a purple box, and Violet in a red one.
The boxes are also super sparkly.
I would like to get Amaya Raine eventually (the deluxe with the white and rainbow hair), but Amazon still doesn’t have her in stock at retail and I’m not about to pay double/scalper prices.
Despite the problems, I do feel like the $27-ish price tag is appropriate compared to what you get for that money with Barbie.
And I like these a lot more than the LoL OMGs.
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