#Dear America

[ritz-regrezzez]

25 days of moodboards day twelve! (nostalgia)

#i have a lot of general nostalgia boards already so i mad this one library themed! #we didnt go to our public library a lot when i was younger (moved around too much and my brother was a loud kid) #but i loved my school library and little free libraries! #anyways all of this to say SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY #GET A CARD #YOU CAN CHECK OUT E-BOOKS AND DVDS AND CRAFT KITS AND MAGAZINES AND GO TO EVENTS #DO IT #moodboard #books #nostalgia #agere #mine #library #dear america #chronicles of narnia #<< i loved both of these series #i wanted to put the royal diaries and fairy rainbow magic on here too but i couldnt find any good pictures

[whilereadingandwalking]

The Royal Diaries were my favorites! They and the Dear Anerica books made me big fans of the diary format—and maybe are why I’m such a good journaler today!

#royal diaries #dear america #bookstagram #booktok #book blog

[romanarose]

HELP!

I’m in my big ole final history class and I need a big research topic and I think I’m doing it on children history literature in the US.

I was a huge fan of American Girl as a child so that’s going to be the biggest lense, but right now in the us there’s a big to sanitize history for children push by right wing politics which is why I want to talk about it

I’ll also be going through the Dear America series, and probably some magic treehouse.

I would love if anyone mentioned other historical children’s literature and if you want, why you liked or didn’t like it, thoughts, etc

But ESPECIALLY my non-American friends. These books I like (American Girl, Dear America) are by nature American centric

US politics are very very different from a lot of places but I was wondering if there’s anything similar for other countries?

Thank you!

Pics of my dolls ♥️

#history #American girl #dear America #children’s books #children’s literature #historical fiction

[usssnarfblat]

Did Anastasia deserve to die for her family's crimes against Fieval's family?

I've always found it interesting that "Anastasia" and "An American Tail" were made by the same guy...

My mom got us "An American Tail" as kids, since we were Jewish, and a Disney-like movie with Jewish characters was a one-of-a-kind thing. ("The Prince of Egypt" was still a few years away. Yes, I'm that old.) More to the point, my dad's side of the family is largely Russian Jews, who immigrated in the early 1920s, for exactly the same reasons as the Mouskewitz. Being a child of this background and very literally obsessed with cats, I had mixed feelings about the movie.

When "Anastasia" came out a few years later, Mom didn't let that history stop us from enjoying the new princess movie, but she didn't shelter us from it either. We regarded it like we did the real history behind any sugar-coated princess movie. She even got us some history books about the real Romanov family, and we were fascinated by the subject.

Still, it's an odd elephant in the room, watching "Anastasia" and knowing that her granddad was the one who sent those Cossack cats after Fievel's village, and her dad himself continued doing it to the Jewish mice who didn't leave.

"Go, Pompom, Kibble and Fluff-Baron! Kill those Jew mice, and I'll give you extra catnip treats tonight!"

Don Bluth presents both the Romannov family and their victims with equal sympathy, even opening both movies with the family celebrating a holiday, with the kid heroes getting a plot-specific present, before being viciously attacked.

"Wow Grandmama! Fieval and Tanya could use this as a merry-go-round!"

*Cough* "Yes uh, about those Jewish mice Sweetie..."

Bluth's portrayal of the Romanov family is not entirely inaccurate. By all accounts, Nicholas II was a deeply loving father who both doted on his children, but raised them not to be spoiled. Despite being royalty, the princesses shared bedrooms and did charity work at hospitals.

It's a baffling irony that Nicholas was nevertheless was a tyrant, and not remotely just to his Jewish subjects. When I was about twelve, Mom got me the Dear America book A Coal Miner's Bride, about the Catholic Polish immigrants who also fled the oppression of the Russian Tzar. (Anastasia's family conquered part of Poland in the 1800s, banning the Pols from speaking their own language and drafting their sons into the Tzar's dick-measuring contest wars.) Anyway, that's what my mom's side of the family was fleeing when they immigrated. Yes, my family has double reason to hate the Romanovs.

So, I personally don't have a lot of sympathy for Nicholas II. But the horrors his poor wife and children endured in their final moments never fails to get the reaction from me.

The rationalization for the murder of the children and queen was that it was the only way to ensure that the monarchy never returned. But I assume most modern-thinking people would say that the ends do not justify the means in this case.

That said, millions of families like Anetka's and Fievel's suffered as bad or worse than the Romanovs, because of the Romanovs, and no one remembers them because they didn't wear tiaras. This no doubt was another factor that killed sympathy for the Romanov children. But they were still children.

The question today is, if we can feel for a family that was literal royalty, despite their father being an undeniable tyrant against our own families...can we also feel for Palestinian and Israeli families, during a conflict that is vastly more complicated than Imperial Russia?

Or do they need to be cute mice and glittery princesses to get our attention?

#don bluth #anastasia romanov #anastasia 1997 #an american tail #fievel #fievel mousekewitz #nicholas ii #tzar #russia #imperial russia #jewish #judaism #poland #a coal miner's bride #dear america #non disney princess #disney princesses #princess #immigrants #antisemitism #imperialism #russian revolution #mouse #mice #animation #hamas #west bank #israel palestine conflict #russian jews

[pancreasnostalgia]

Put half of the squad in summer outfits. Still wish to purchase the purple dress for Rebecca (don’t know why I haven’t yet), as well as Josefina and Samantha’s ensembles.

I was gifted Kirsten’s dress shortly after the hat was discontinued from it, and have not been able to find it listed separately.

The shoes that came with Kit’s summer dress are exactly the same as the ones with the birthday dress, so now I have two pairs.

#catherine carey logan #kaya’aton’my #abigail jane stewart #josefina montoya #kirsten larson #samantha parkington #matilda marchmont #rebecca rubin #kit kittredge #maryellen larkin #helena #american girl #madame alexander #dear america #a girl for all time

[best-childhood-book]

Round 1, Poll 11: Lockwood & Co. vs Dear America

#best childhood book #poll #lockwood & co #johnathan stroud #dear america

[coreysdolladventures]

Also pls rb so i can see the varied opinions and put those choices in the tags

#american girl #dear america #doll blogging #agblr #historical fiction #ag books #american girl books

[goryhorroor]

if you read these books as a child, then we’re the same person

#god a bad case of stripes gave me so much anxiety as a kid #but i loved them #childhood #books #literature #my sister the vampire #poison apple #candy apple book #i loved both series #dear america #rainbow magic #if you're reading this its too late #the bailey school kids #gone #a bad case of the stripes #chrysanthemum

[earlymodernbarbie]

Fun fact:

This book changed the entire trajectory of my life

#I read it in 6th grade and I’ve been hitting that tudor shit ever since #queen elizabeth i of england #elizabeth the first #elizabethan england #elizabeth tudor #elizabeth i #elizabeth i of england #queen elizabeth i #dear america #tudor history #the tudors #english history #tudor era #historical fiction

[arctic-hands]

Look I've said it before that I am so not prepared for American Girl (and should the series ever restart, Dear America) to be rapidly approaching Nine Eleven as a historical event to be covered, but I'm definitely not going to be prepared for covid to be covered as a historical event in a few decades

#american girl #dear america #American girl is covering Challenger with it's current historical doll and I'm thrown off by THAT and i wasn't even born yet #history is fast approaching

[nando161mando]

Dear Americans, you know you can just buy the very same safety cutter the cops use to release you from flexicuffs and they are legal to own*

*Sit/context could argue that it's intent? Don't take legal advise from Anarchists in other countries.

#dear america #american indian #american #america #usa news #usa politics #usa #1312 #acab #all cops are bastards #all cops are bad #anti police #anti colonialism #anti cop #ftp #fuck the cops #fuck the police #class war #united states #unitedstateofamerica #dearrest #flexicuffs #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #antinazi #anti colonization #antiauthoritarian #police state #police #defund the cops

[dollplantcatlady]

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady was my favorite Dear America story when I was a kid, so when I came across the doll of her on eBay for cheap, I had to pick her up. Unfortunately, the original doll (by Madame Alexander) had a lot of problems that weren’t obvious in the listing, so I put her dress on Ruthie instead! (with an off-brand hair ribbon and tights) I always imagined Margaret to have dark hair anyway. I love this dress so much. It’s really well made. 

#american girl doll #american girl historical #18 inch dolls #dear america

[autistickirstenlarson]

Happy Juneteenth! 🖤❤️💚

Today, Cécile would like to highlight the Dear America book I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl, 1865. Cécile was born in a wealthy family to free people of color in New Orleans, Louisiana, but no doubt she would’ve been happy for all freed Black people in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Cécile would be 22 years old. She wants to remind everyone that Black Lives have always mattered and that no one is free until everyone is free! (I am white but it’s important for everyone to know Black history and work for justice today and every day!)

#american girl #ag dolls #cecile rey #american girl mini dolls #ag mini dolls #dear america books #dear america #i thought my soul would rise and fly #my dolls

[pancreasnostalgia]

I went from only two winter coat sets to having a lot more cold weather wear. Since I sold Samantha's Beforever coat, everything except for Rebecca's outfit is new.

Went with the calico dress for Julie since she wore the casual outfit a few months ago. Also since I had Kaya wearing her winter accessories previously, she gets to wear the fancy shawl this time.

The hardest to dress was Kirsten because her fingers kept catching the sweater. Hardest to pose was Maryellen, whose skates I think have permanently scratched my dresser.

It was a close race between Kirsten’s winter woolens and skating outfit, but Lindsey’s Valentine’s party outfit had a strong lead all the way.

#american girl #madame alexander #dear america #ag dolls #dolls #kaya'aton'my #catherine carey logan #abigail jane stewart #josefina montoya #kirsten larson #addy walker #samantha parkington #margaret ann brady #rebecca rubin #kit kittredge #maryellen larkin #julie albright #lindsey bergman

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #preliminary round #ingo #dear america #liesl and po #red planet #the secret seven #the bridge home #the squire’s tales #sweet valley high

[historicalfictionsims]

Zipporah Feldman - An Edwardian Lookbook

In case anyone was worried that I had switched entirely to the 21st century, I present one of my all-time favorite characters: Zipporah "Zippy" Feldman from the Dear America diary Dreams in the Golden Country. Her story begins as she arrives at Ellis Island following the Russian pogroms of 1903.

Zippy is twelve when her story starts but I made her a teen to have an easier time finding CC. Using the TV adaptation for inspiration. She has the Master Actress aspiration to go along with her dream of starring in the Yiddish theater. Her traits are Ambitious, Creative, and Loyal.

New Arrival Outfit: Babushka, sweater, skirt.

Shirtwaist Outfit: Hair, bow, blouse, skirt.

Audition Outfit: Hair, bow, dress.

Nighttime Outfit: Hair, nightgown (TSR).

Shulamith Costume: Dress, undershirt.

Skin overlay.

CC thanks to: @blogsimplesimmer, @buzzardly28, @chere-indolente, @clepysdra @dancemachinetrait, @dangerouslyfreejellyfish, @deetron-sims, @gilded-ghosts, @linzlu, Lollaleeloo, @serenity-cc, @simverses, @the-melancholy-maiden

#sims 4 lookbook #ts4 lookbook #sims 4 historical cc #ts4 historical cc #sims 4 decades challenge #sims 4 custom content #ts4cc #sims 4 maxis match #ts4mm #dear america #dreams in the golden country #zipporah feldman #1900s