#historic toys

[canisalbus]

The Sheep plush has delighted me so much that I had to pause my work to quickly scribble a young Machete. please enjoy.

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#auough #b baby #and his sheep... #that's distressingly cute #and you remembered the floppy left ear too #now I'm very tempted to give him that plush in canon #even though it wouldn't come off as historically accurate the shape language is too modern and dog toy-ish #hhhh hhh #;_; #thank you! I'm in pain #tropinui #gift art #own characters #Machete #why can't he have nice things huh #let the crinkle rest for five minutes

[toytulini]

listen im ace and im pro kink at pride and whatever, but the way some of yall are wording your posts in response to the backlash against it is uh. really taking me back to the ace shitcourse era.

yall know theres nothing wrong with being a "virgin", right? that its not inherently shameful to have not had sex, to never have sex, even if youre not ace, even if you do want to have sex someday, like, its fine that you haven't had sex?

maybe if your problem is that theyre trying to police your behavior and shame you for expressing your sexuality, you can say that? instead of resorting to "haha stupid virgin gets no bitches" like my god. do you not hear how fucking regressive that attitude is? i know, i know, youre "joking".

get a better joke

#toy txt post #god im going to regret this post im gonna regret it so much i can feel it in my bones #let it flop..........pls #internalize my message let it sink in and understand what i am saying and then let the post flop #i say. knowing the ppl who need to see such a message are the ones who will make me regret this post and regrwt not having #1 million bajillion disclaimers #virgin is in quotes bc its a bullshit made up stupid purity culture concept anyway and quite frankly i hate even seeing the word #disclaimer: the previous sentence is not me saying that it is a slur for asexuals. it is me a single individual saying this specific word #grosses me out to read and see everywhere when its a stupid bullshit binary made up or at least historically largely used #to shame largely women and i dont know why we're still using it in 2023 #and ive just been. seeing such an uptick in this whole like. attitude? lately and like #im ace im minorly sex repulsed. mostly about anything sex at me bad. other adults sex at each other consensually? go wild #i like to think im pretty chill about it. i try to be. i think its fine ig to be like 'my meat is huge i fuck so much so good' #like okay not my thing but good for you. love that for you #but then some of yall have started turning it back around back to. 'haha your meat so small and shriveled you get no bitches' #'haha stupid incel virgin' like okay. didnt realize we all went back to fucking. middle school but okay #god im gonna run out of tine to get ready for my thing writing this stupid post UGH evil #but like idk we've kinda circled back to being like haha being a virgin still is stupid and silly and shameful #and if im quite honest. i do think the acecourse played a part in that bc i felt like we were making good progress in like #hey guys is fine to not have sex ever if you dont want to its fine to not want sex its fine #and then aphobes went fucking rabid on us and splintered and destroyed online communities all over but especially on tumblr #and so many aces went back in the closet we stopped talking about it we stopped spreading awareness and now this stupid goddamn like #and now this stupid bullshit attitude is back where its like funny to call someone a virgin as an insult but like no bro trust me its okay #its okay for me to do it bc im a hot queer person with huge meat instead of a cisstraight frat bro with huge meat #? like you know the issue was the behavior right? not the fact that it was straight dudes saying it? its bc the thing being said was shitty? #you know you can dunk on the puritan bitches trying to police your behavior at pride without getting us as collateral damage right #stop making me read that stupid ugly ass word ur not cool or funny #whatever #if you come on to this post to start shit i will not only block you but as many of your mutuals and followers as i can find. i will scroll #i will block this entire fucking website if i need to do not test me. i am exhausted and the acecourse ate up all my tolerance in 2015.

[cordycepsfem]

Play With It

So I'm reading this book, Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, by Wendy A. Woloson, mostly because I'm fascinated by collectors and how things like Beanie Babies and Precious Moments figurines became huge in the market. I just started the chapter on novelties, gag gifts, joke things like exploding cigars - you know the stuff.

And I was not expecting genuine exploration of "gendered stuff" in this book, but there it was, and damn, was it a punch in the chest. It made me realize exactly why I'd always hated pranks.

In the 1883 book Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, George Peck argued that the "best" boys are "full of tricks." He explained, "Those who are the readiest to play innocent jokes... are most apt to turn out to be first-class businessmen." Pranking showed a high-spiritedness, a willingness to take risks, and most important, the drive to show oneself as top dog. Perpetuating practical jokes on each other was a way for the best and the brightest to establish hierarchies within bonded groups in the guise of good-natured fun.

The pranks themselves were violations; the "conspiracy" that brought about public embarrassment made them doubly so. The point of performances with theaters of aggression was to distinguish the people who were in on the joke - witnesses and collaborators - from the humiliated, who were not... Likewise, boys could have fun "scaring your mother, uncle and aunts and the neighbors" with the Tarantula (a.k.a. Mexican Spider). Just when the "victim" was starting to smile, a button on the Royal Novelty Company's Squirting Camera could be pushed, releasing "a good squirt of water." "Boys, this is the very best joke and causes no end of fun and laughter," the company promised... The "fun commenced" with the Girl Catcher only after a girl inserted her finger into one end: "No matter how hard she pulls she cannot get away! The harder she pulls the tighter it holds. When you are ready to release her she can get her finger out easily, but not before." Jokes and gags of this sort created "disruptive" and "provocative" situations that ultimately reinforced the status quo... many jokes and gags involved a distinct gender component. Jokes like Girl Catchers and Squirting Cameras gave boys license to dominate girls as they would later dominate women. What was more, these jokes made girls complicit in their own humiliation, since perpetrators needed ready victims who, because of habits of politeness and deference, would have to be good sports. Although there was nothing preventing girls from buying and deploying novelty goods, they were told in so many ways that this was not their world. Humor and play belonged to boys more than them. Despite the promise of "fun for all," joke and gag articles were in truth a boy's (and man's) game, and pranking reinforced gender hierarchies. Boys (and men) did things while girls (and women) looked on. Further, boys (and men) had the power - physically, culturally - to do things to girls (and women)... pranking reinforced the widely held assumption that the fairer sex did not possess an innate sense of humor; women didn't even have a legitimate reason for engaging in humorous activities in the first place.

These small consumables opened boys to expansive worlds of limitless possibilities far beyond the confines of the home and its stifling domesticity. Merchandise evoking wonderment, curiosity, and acquisitiveness put within boys' reach, often quite literally, fun, exciting, new, and unapologetically frivolous experiences. In contrast, the toys available to girls prepared them for the domestic work they would be performing for the rest of their lives. Advertisements in girls' magazines dutifully promoted toys offering only inward-looking experiences... meanwhile, boys' literature... promoted toys and games that looked outward, toward adventure, the frontier, and anything else that might seize the imagination.

More sophisticated jokes and gags were predicated on the prescribed roles of girls and women as domestic and domesticated caretakers. Doubly cruel, they not only reinforced women's inferiority but also exploited their submission for a laugh. Women's caretaking sympathies made them susceptible to gags like the false ear bandage and the false chipped tooth. Likewise, their charge to maintain a clean household provided the fodder for many fake ink spills on fine linens... Because an imitation cigarette pretended to obliterate a woman's careful work and ruin her furnishings, it was, apparently, hilarious. The humor of novelties was not just "transgressive" and "subversive." It was also mean-spirited and corrosive, used to demean and embarrass, "at the expense" of someone else. ... perpetrators of jokes needed not just gag and pranks but also victims to serve as the "butt" of the joke.

How many of these things are still with us today? The notion that "women aren't funny." Or "she just can't take a joke."

The toy stores with their gendered aisles, providing dolls and toy houses and pretend kitchens with very obvious marketing to girls, while the aisles geared towards boys have cars and sports equipment and robots and spaceships and building blocks. Girls' toys are still made for them to "look inward," and boys' toys are still giving them the chance to "look outward." Even "girls" versions of Lego are pink and purple, because apparently we wouldn't want those girls to build anything too serious like a car or a rocket; their sporting equipment is covered in flowers or made by Mattel and rarely holds up to adequate sporting interaction.

I worked at a toy store for a period of time and only once did I have a parent specifically ask for, then purchase, a toy version of a pretend home good for a boy. It was a woman who wanted to buy a toy vacuum cleaner for her son, who was obsessed with the family's vacuum cleaner and wouldn't accept that he couldn't run it all the time. The general idea I got from her was that instead of being a normal adult who owns a vacuum and enjoys keeping their home tidy, she was hoping that her son might grow into a vacuum cleaner retailer, maker, or repairer. Even the "girls' toy" was "looking outward," simply because it was for a boy.

I had a lot of parents ask me for toys for girls that were "less" or "more" in many ways. Where are your dolls with more clothes on? With less makeup on? Do you have a doll that's not wearing a dress? Do you have it in a color that's not pink?

We haven't grown out of this since the 1880s. And I'm tired of the periodic regression that happens with toys. The Lego I used in the 1990's and early 2000's didn't have a purple or pink version. Every kid who bought Lego in the 1990s bought a bucket full of mixed colors. The ads looked like normal kids in their play-clothes - I'm sure you've seen them, because there's been a lot of talk about how the girl in them is dressed "like a boy." No, she's just dressed like a kid.

I looked today for that image and found something actually really amazing. My jaded heart thought that I would see ads from 2023 that had girls playing with the "girl" Lego only when I looked for recent content. Wow, was I wrong.

Lego took the original 1980's ad (bottom center) and used it to create the new ads for International Women's Day this year.

It's not as hard as it looks. We can have gender neutral toys that are still fun for all kids. Toys can just be toys. And if that appeals to you, there's a fantastic group in the UK begging toymakers and book publishers to do just that: Let toys be toys.

This was a whole mess of a ride, and I'm grateful if you got all the way through. It's important for me to know that in some way we've grown beyond gendered novelty, and that we'll continue to grow beyond gendered toys.

#gender #gender roles #gendered toys #gender is meaningless #misogyny #historical misogyny

[escapeoclock]

[Spoiler Alert] Jinshi and his toys. I wonder what kind of future awaits Maomao? Will the queen interfere between them? 🙁

Sauce: Apothecary Diaries

#manga screencap #manga screenshots #manga edit #josei manga #drama screencap #shoujo #shoujosei #historical manga #apothecary diaries #the apothecary diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #maomao jinshi #jinshi maomao #jinshi #maomao #manga meme #toys

[senditothemoonn]

I don't know if you've done other vintage outfits before, but your recent post just made me think of France in a 50s dress, maybe the Christian Dior style from back then with the cinched waist and the full skirt! He'd look so classy 😌🩷

“It was as if Europe had tired of dropping bombs and now wanted to let off a few fireworks” 🎇 🎆

#ask #my art #francis bonnefoy #hws france #aph france #ANOOONNN #please tell me who you are so i can thank you for such a wonderful request #PLEAAASEE #EXCELLENT SUGGESTION 💘 MORE LIKE THIS PLEASR 💘💘💘 #okay i love Dior and I think the new look is my favourite era of 20th century fashion #i was toying with putting him in a white jacket but i lowkey #think he’d want to show off his shoulders u know #queen #i have so many eras of historical fashion that i need to draw him in #and pieces from the 20th century… #like him in le smoking suit… #he’s a WOMAN #an androgynous woman #okay anyway

[transingthoseformers]

Every time I think about Mnemosurgery I'm reminded of just how much I hate how the Autobots seemed to flagrantly disregard consent with it. Optimus Prime Himself seemed to be pretty on board with it. Like, I get including it and Shadowplay as a very obvious showcase of how Awful Cybertronian Society before the war was, but god does having it rear its ugly head during the modern day feel just plain off. (And this is coming from someone who LIKES a bit of mindfuckery in their fiction)

Ikr???

It makes you wonder what we aren't seeing

#maccadam #transformers #i personally find mnemosurgery very off putting as the idea of someone snooping through my head is a fear of mine #i can kiiinda see Optimus's thought process here but //fuck// do the autobots and Decepticons have drastically different povs on it #idw optimus prime #mtmte megatron #mtmte chromedome #I've toyed with the idea of consensual mnemosurgery and the possible benefits but fuck does idw paint a bleak picture with it #idw-g1 is such an interesting continuity for situations like this #because mnemosurgery is clearly (clear to me anyway) and it's historical abuse is based on the lobotomy #it's interesting

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

IS BARNABY NEUTERED

THE PUPPET??????

#HUH????? #WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY GONNA DO? SNIP A STRAY THREAD???? #im cackling! what the Hell are you talking about! #they are Puppets!!! they don't have anything!!! they're smooth all over!!! #damn... got this ask so Unprompted... what brought this on smh #its like pointing at someone's stuffed animal and going 'does that thing have its tubes tied' #my guy does it fuckign What? the plush toy??? you're talking about this absolute Object??? #rambles from the bog #humoring this ask is gonna have consequences i can feel it #and also i know from experience </3 #there's a certain point you reach in blog 'popularity' where you start getting the weirder stuff like this #i mean this ask is Very tame. Very Tame. yall would not believe the shit i've historically gotten on my dc blog. my god

[shiftythrifting]

An army of gnomes, an army of genuine stone age axes, one (1) denture earring, and my actual haul :)

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #gnomes #teeth #toys #historical objects

[peonycats]

Wtf is tibet holding and why does it look like women weird s*x toy

I feel like I missing some VERY important information or context here

#in my defense it was a male s*x toy #ask #hetalia #anonymous #hws tibet #hws india #tibind #// suggestive #anyways the context is that tibet has some strange tastes and india puts up with it #aph tibet #aph india #historically inaccurate hair is historically inaccurate

[ciceroballtorture]

if there was less kink in the small council of king's landing maybe westeros would be a better place

#.text #just realised how much historically your hand of the king is like your psychosexual chew toy #tywyn and aerys manifesto and all that

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of a handsome French officer, c. 1860s

#the way men not only cinched the waist but also padded the torso to create an unnaturally smooth curve makes them look like toy soldiers #which like so much of 19th century fashion sits in that sweet spot between attractive and absurd #19th century #1800s #1860s #19th century fashion #military fashion #military history #men's fashion #fashion history #historical fashion #uniforms #19th century photography #carte de visite #cdv #second empire

[lurking-latinist]

I think I might need the mathematical resources of category theory to express the blorbo thoughts I'm having right now

#webs of parallels between team dynamics #I need arrows to represent the dynamics between each team and also to represent the connections between different dynamics #like the kirk-spock-mccoy/aubrey-maturin parallels #but also kirk-spock leads to blake-avon (through a distorting funhouse mirror) #& I was reading this other military sci-fi book (With the Lightnings) with two protagonists #that is very obviously based on the aubrey-maturin relationship but like in a different direction #& I'm pretty convinced that blake-avon is not unrelated to breq-seivarden but idk if leckie is directly influenced by b7 or #if it's through other (sff?) media that I don't even know #but also fandom is my space to make completely acausal comparisons. #if I were doing this for work I'd have to prove influence was actually possible. this is where I can just line up my toys #without concern for actual literary-historical relevance #(hi ms leckie if you see this have you seen blake's 7. if not I think you would like it)

[devious-little-milkmaiden]

I want to be her

#boy toy energy #james d'arcy #thomas pullings #master and commander #movies #films #2000s movies #historical movies

[andrasteisolde]

Two uploads in 1 day? It’s true; you’re not dreaming. ;)  So, I’ve been working on the nursery in my medieval castle and noticed that sadly there just are not a lot of toys/decor for medieval children. Sad, right? There are some conversions, i.e., @zx-ta​ dolls and bears, which are wonderful and I have hoarded them, but other than that, there’s just ... not a lot, or at least I haven’t found any. Let’s make this short and to the point, though, so I don’t lose anybody before the download link.

These are conversions from The Sims Medieval that were converted by Almighty Hat for Sims 2, so a big thank you to them. The post is from 2013 and they do not explicity say you cannot convert, just don’t pay wall it. Therefore, if problems arise, I will take this down, but I think everything will be okay. Anyway, on to the specs!

These are decor objects and therefore nonfunctional. I don’t know how to make them functional, so they’re just pretty to look at. :3

The unicorn, horse and dragon have 3 swatches whilst the ship has 2.

The last picture is the actual size. They are kinda small, so if you want them bigger, use [ or ]. I enlarged them to show the detail.

They are base game compatible.

This is my first time converting objects, so please let me know if there are issues.

DOWNLOAD  ((simfileshare))

DO NOT claim as your own.

DO NOT reupload or redistribute.

THESE are conversions, including the recolors.

And as always,

TAG me if you use, if you’d be so kind. :)

If you like my creations, consider buying me a Ko-Fi?

#sims 4 #sims 4 cc #ts4 #ts4cc #sims 4 medieval #ts4 medieval #ts4 historical #ts4 toys #ts4 nursery #horse #unicorn #dragon #ship #ts2 conversion

[sleebyfrogs]

The shirt for my historically accurate Toy Soldier cosplay is done!!!!!

[Image: two photos, both taken in a mirror, of a young, transmasc person in their bedroom, wearing a reconstructed, white Victorian dress shirt. It has a shield-shaped bib area and a tab below the placket, with a detachable rounded collar and cuffs. The front placket and collar have a narrow black edge, and everything is fastened together with pearlescent shirt studs and cuff links. In the first image their face is blurred out, with comically simple eyes and a moustache doodled on top. In the second it is obscured by the body of a mandolin, held by its neck in one hand. Their short, dark hair is visible under an antique black-and-red military cap. End ID.]

(*almost historically accurate, and almost done)

After all this time!!!!! I started in September(?) and it’s now May but a lot of that was just putting off starting the twenty eight hand-done gimped and tailored buttonholes this ended up requiring because I can’t do anything by halves

If you’re wondering, I used this pattern, which worked wonderfully for me (special thanks to this tutorial too for demonstrating some of the more difficult parts), but I spent a long time trying to alter it to fit me, and to fit flatteringly, as I have never made a garment this complex before and I do not have the body an average men’s pattern expects. I had to do a lot of things multiple times over, but I’m really glad I did, because it’s definitely the most effort I’ve ever put into anything like this, and the finest sewing work I’ve ever done. I feel very dapper and handsome.

I did machine-stitch most of it because I knew, knowing me, that I could either end up with an ahistorically-sewn shirt or no shirt at all as I would procrastinate sewing all of that by hand just. Forever. I did hand-stitch a lot of it though, mostly the felled seams and fiddly collar bits. And the buttonholes. God so many buttonholes. The black edge is bias tape that I folded in half and ladder-stitched to itself through the shirt/collar fabric. (Also the horizontal seam you can see near the bottom in the lower picture exists solely because I didn’t have the fabric to cut the front out in one, and that part gets tucked into the pants anyway. Piecing is period.)

I’m still working on combining my various incomplete bits of antique cuff link and stud sets in the least-mismatched way, and the shirt itself is definitely not perfect (and there are still some minor adjustments I want to make), but all this to say I’m delighted with my work and excited to move onto the next item, which will probably be either the trousers or waistcoat, and I intend on documenting those too! I learnt so much from this experience and one day I’ll likely make another shirt much like it.

(Also, I’m happy to answer any questions about it!!! I know I could have used footsteps to follow in when I started this project)

They/them

#The Mechanisms #The Mechs #The Toy Soldier #Cosplay #Victorian #Fashion #Sewing #Historical sewing #Shirt #Dress shirt #19th century menswear #Toy Sewldier #Is my new tag for this project holy shit #Doriginal #One step closer to becoming a full-time dandy #It begins

[dovesandoranges]

if I ever see someone uwu-ify Marat and act like he's some completely innocent harmless guy who never did anything wrong or questionable ever I will fucking delete this account.

#personal #I have specific goals in mind for my future career and they include attempting to fix the damage done to his reputation #in a serious academic setting and make him more accessible. but seeing him get the tumblr treatment may very well break me. #I can't reconcile respecting someone and treating them like a toy #jokes can only go so far until I start to question how you actually view all this. not just the historical figures but the events themselve