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mydollsaregay · 1 year

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Last night, I was thinking about the twins and was able to put my finger on what was still bugging me about them.

Despite it making us feel old, the 90s IS history (hell, yesterday is history!). AG is saying it, but I’m not sure they… mean it?

From the hints of the girls’ stories I’ve seen so far, the only anchoring historical event seems to be y2k. Everything else is nice enough, but certainly not unique to the 90s, and could be given to a goty instead.

Honestly? Y2K is not enough. It’s a little too safe. Yes, it was a big deal to the people who lived through it. However, it was literally just New Years, but cooler (and with a lot of programming work in the background to change years to be stored as four digits). What are the lasting effects that kids can recognize today? Because I see very few that can’t just be chalked up to the passage of time.

There was a lot more to the 90s than fashion, pop culture, and the biggest new years ever, but it kinda seems like those are the only parts AG is interested in portraying. When you put y2k up against some of the other historical events that other American Girls live through, even just the ones from the 20th century, it seems pretty silly. Second wave feminism, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and now….. new years but the number changes a bit more than usual!!!!!! Like. Cmon.

Even if they were wedded to portraying y2k, columbine, the effects of which are VERY much felt by kids today, happened that same year. But I kinda doubt AG will have the guts to even discuss it in the girl’s stories, which is really sad (and honestly one of the biggest downsides to more modern historical dolls - the history they’re covering is still too touchy for a lot of parents to be comfortable with).

Also, by pushing the girls to be in the late 90s, I’m betting AG is trying to worm their way out of having the 2000s girl live through 9/11 (i.e. watching it on tv) and the start of the war on terror. Which like. I get WHY (still too touchy for parents) but it’s really frustrating. 9/11 and it’s aftermath is arguably one of the most impactful events in American history, it’s stupid to dance around it. Felicity gets to live through the actual revolution but god forbid a more modern girl actually live through recent historical events.

#american girl #agblr #american girl dolls #isabel hoffman #nicki hoffman #the twins #my posts #my opinions #to be clear: I don’t actually care if the 2000s girl watches the towers fall live. but the stuff that comes immediately after NEEDS to be in #her story. or there would be no reason at all besides nostalgia to make a 2000s doll.#which is kinda the problem I have with the twins. it really seems like had no reason besides nostalgia to make them 90s dolls.#which is also reflected heavily in the author interviews which like :/#the literally just answer the question of ‘why does this story matter’ with ‘they’re twins and that’s neat :)’#ok so like….. nothing about actual 90s history outside of pop history remember fondly?#nothing about their lives as part of an interfaith family?????#girl what?????#(to be clear that is on ag - not the authors. those interviews were HIGHLY manicured. ag was telling the story they wanted there. idk what #the authors actually think about it)

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br1ghtestlight · 1 year

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mr ambrose is so funny he's such a fucking terrible person its proof that gay characters do NOT have to be good people to be good representation. especially in that cheerleader episode

#WHY WAS HE SO FUCKED UP LIKE HE DIDNT CARE ABT THEM AT ALL DJDMDMDKDSKS #i get it though i mean he's a failed actor who works as an elementry school librarian. its rough out there #when he was like Five minutes ago i started to really care about you kids #GIRL WHAT?????#txt #bob's burgers

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incorrectdmp · 1 year

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Charlie: What kind of tea is this?

Oz: Oh, I just boiled some Gatorade

#im absolutely MORTIFIED this was just IN MY QUOTES LIKE THIS #I DIDNT FUCKING??? CHANGE ANY CHARACTERS WHEN PUTTING IT IN THE QUEUE #ITS JUST LIKE THIS?? AS A CHAOS VAN QUOTE #WHICH MEANS AT *SOME POINT* I WENT BACK TO EDIT SOMETHING THAT WAS ALREADY THERE BASED ON WHERE IT WAS IN MY NOTES #GIRL WHAT?????#quote #incorrect quotes #chaos van #charlie #ozolthog

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slapshot1977 · 1 year

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people always talk about their dads randomly dropping information about their lives but what about moms? today my mom casually told us that she went on 2 dates with a hitman for the mob when she was 19

#riley.txt #the way this woman played it off too #she was like yeah also he was later a suspect in a murder that took place in the neighborhood. there’s a book about it #girl what?????

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dio7r · 7 months

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#this is what makes us girls #girlblog #hyper feminine #girl interrupted syndrome #lizzy grant #black swan #divine feminine #female hysteria #girlblogging #tumblr girls #2014 tumblr #just girly things #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #hell is a teenage girl #just girly thoughts #girlhood #just girly posts

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kn1ght-l1ght · 10 months

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Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

#daily life of high school boys #anime #meme #rock memes #this is just what girls are like

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literallyaflame · 9 months

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how do conservatives think talking to children works? if a four year old came up to me and said “i’m a cat!!” i would say “really? what makes you a cat?” and they’d say some shit like “i have claws >:)” and i’d be like “oh wow, you do have claws. but wait, i thought cats had pointed ears!” and they’d say “they DO!!!” and then i’d pull up a picture of an elf and ask “is THIS a cat?” and they’d yell “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

u wouldn’t say “fucking hell, Emily, get it together. this is the real world”

#yes this applies to gender too #if a kid says ‘i’m a girl!!’ it might be because they’re a girl or #it might be because they’ve got an incomplete picture of what a ‘girl’ is in their brains #and as a parent ur job is to help them complete those pictures #by asking them questions and giving them new information and playing w them

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dracoj · 8 months

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what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this makes ur brain try to kill you with knives and hammers.

#j rambles #girl help. idk what’s even going to work anymore

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fleuvien · 5 months

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mooniluvyou · 3 months

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me fr

cred: kendollisms on insta

#girlblogger #just girly things #divine feminine #this is what makes us girls #femcel #coquette #girlblogging #this is a girlblog #female rage #just girly posts

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iiammrandi · 3 months

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#girlblogger #gatekeep gaslight girlboss #girly stuff #this is what makes us girls #lana del rey #tumblr girls #girlblogging #girlhood #just girly things #2014 tumblr #cats #pink pink pink #sleeping beauty #pinterest girl #anti mansplaining

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disteal · 7 months

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i love having adult horse girl friends. I’ll send them a 100x100px crunchy ass jpeg of a random brown horse and be like “thought of u🐴” and I can literally feel their sims relationship bar fill up in real time

#bedtime methinks #dis.txt #never met this many horse girls before moving to the american south #what a treat

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dlwrish · 6 months

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mentally a living corpse

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lipglossuser · 4 months

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fox-mulder-gets-pegged · 1 year

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I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

#she cornered me in the car and asked what shipping was and i almost had a fucking heart attack #imagine being like 16 years old and habing to explain knotting to your mother #random emo music girl I'm glad you had fun talking about your Band Guys to my mother #bc i also attended take your kid to work day at that office and i know how boring it was #but christ alive why did you have to fuck me like that?#anyways i hope this post reaches you so at the very least you know i think about you at least once a week #this has been weighing on me for ten years #im almost tempted to blaze this post

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johntorrington · 10 months

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toxic codependent familial dynamics this. toxic codependent romances that. what about toxic codependent coworkers. i can’t do my job without this guy here or i’ll kill myself.

#i don’t know what i’m doing girl. barely know my way around this theater #(circus music starts)

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