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Painted her mouth coral to add a bit of warmth and compliment her skin. I tried to draw in he teeth with the pen but all it did was smudge all over her lips.

To make the suit look a little more interesting I glued decals on the sides of top and bottoms.

#barbie #dollblr #customization

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Lips giving me a hard time other than that I love the way she turned out! You can't see it but I added glitter eyeshadow to make it shimmery like the source dolls.

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I traced the bra and waistband with a paint pen. I'm going to mix a custom color using my apple barrel (diva pink + white + bright blue). I want to try to match the streaks in her hair since I don't plan on rerooting

Her head was soft enough for me to pierce her ears. I used leftover pins. I stuck a clear decal on her navel to match. For her lips I might try a pink that flatters her skin tone since her original lip color made her look too faded.

#barbie #customization #dollblr

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Took this yesterday morning when I went with my mother to pick up dad from work.

#Bratz #bratz doll #bratz babyz #dollblr

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I'm doing a custom based on the 2001 palm beach barbies (I had barbie and Christie) and jinx from die another day.

#barbie #custom #art project #barbie doll

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Imagine forcing your f/o to play LPS with you

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steven lim: we actually need more money for higher production value so that you guys have the best! and we're bringing back a super expensive show! for you guys, the fans!

the fans:

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so if you're not on precuretwt, currently the fandom there is discussing this fanseries called deep dark web precure which is.... a horribly edgy fanseries which contains, among other things, alcoholism, underage sex, cannibalism, gore. there's a fucking character named cure blood, i wish i was joking. and one of the standout scenes was a cure (who's also an alcoholic) being forced to eat her mother's remains.

like.. what is this obsession adults have with wanting kids' shows to be dark and gritty? imagine seeing a cute show about teenage girls fighting evil with the power of friendship and going "hmmm, you know what this needs? DEATH, CANNIBALISM, GORE!" like jesus christ if you want a dark magical girl show that bad go watch madoka magica. or if that's STILL not dark enough for you watch magical girl site. just stay AWAY from kids shows

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‘I was unashamed’: Yumi Ishikawa on fighting sexism in Japan

It was meant to be just one of her regular, mundane musings about life as a woman in Japan. But Yumi Ishikawa’s life changed with a tweet she posted on January 24 this year: “Someday I want to get rid of the practice of women having to wear heels and pumps at work.”

The 32-year-old actor was working as an usher in a funeral parlour at the time, a job that involved eight-hour shifts in heels measuring 5cm-7cm. Her comment went viral; it has been retweeted 29,000 times, helping her become the face of the #KuToo movement — a play on the Japanese words for shoes (kutsu), pain (kutsuu) and #MeToo.

Encouraged by the response, Ishikawa, who is also a freelance writer, launched a petition for a ban on high-heel stipulations by employers in Japan. When she submitted her petition to the health ministry in June, it had been signed by nearly 19,000 people and has now collected more than 31,500 signatures.

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the swiftie who added this: No no guys, he’s not a nazi! he did that nazi salute ironically! he only listens to the neo nazi podcast bc the host is hot! watching violent porn that degrades black women isn’t THAT bad! mocking asian women for their accents doesn’t make him racist! none of these things are connected at all and you’re REACHING because you hate to see a WOMAN winning!!!!!!

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On April 6th in Hoodoo History: The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 🔥✊🏾

23 enslaved Afrikans set fire to NYC one year after the slave trade markets officially opened by the East River on Wall Street.

• On the night of April 6th, 1712, 23 Afrikans armed themselves with swords, knives, guns - laced with prayer & faith - and fire against White Slavers in the streets of NYC. They set an outhouse ablaze at the home of Peter Van Tilborough on Maiden Lane, at what was then the northern edge of Manhattan. They then picked off any White Slavers nearby who tried to stop it, from the cover of darkness. 9 Slavers were killed and 6 others were injured by nights end.

• On the following morning, the Governor of NY ordered two militias to "drive the island" aka capture & kill the rebels. 6 Afrikans took their lives in protest. The rest were burned alive or "broken" at the wheel. This unprecedented event hitting the streets of NYC quickly spurred the NY State Assembly to pass an act that would permit Slavers to punish Afrikans to the extreme measures by "not extending to life or member", thus cementing a new precedent for their cruelty in the North. In addition, Slavers would now be required to pay $200 dollars in security fees to the State & annuity for any freed Afrikans. Despite these stringent laws, NYC would see more slave rebellions in the next two decades; the next being in 1741.

To be of Hoodoo is, and has always been, to fight back. Let this be a reminder, forever to be drilled into our psyches: We been fighting. We been sacrificing. We been spiriting. We been victorious.

Today, 83 Maiden Lane sits in the infamous Financial District of Manhattan & now serves as the headquarters of the AHRC (Association of Help for Retarded Children). But beneath the cloak of modern amenities & reconstructive efforts, the once-scorched Earth still remembers the night of April 6th. This is where we made our stand. This, & the streets along the northern edge of Manhattan, is a place of power.

It is important to remember the when & WHERE of this event (and those that followed) as many to this day falsely believe that the North was somehow the righteous exception to the Eurocentric cruelties of Maafa. The North was not the exception then & is not the exception now. May we:

• Meditate on the cost of true freedom that these Ancestors paid in blood so we wouldn't have to.

• Pour libations for them, especially those of us residing on or near the Financial District, as this is where our Ancestors were bought & sold from the docks on the East River to Wall Street.

• Remember our plight & presence in the Northern states that have lightened their reputation with the mask of progressive thinking.

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Twilight Pink arrived today and completed my Silver Glow pony pose. 💕🪽🎀

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Amberlocks has found many snails.

In Holywell, in Cornwall, England.

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G3 Misty Blue.

She was, I believe, a Family Dollar exclusive.

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🌸 Petite Petunia 💐

2006 Europe Exclusive Super Long Hair Pony

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⛅️ Spring Breeze 🪁

2005 Spring Basket Pony released with Lulabelle & Dainty Daisy

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Daily G3 My Little Pony is: August Breeze! ♡