#I love the velveteen rabbit

[twowink]

also ive never seen this mentioned before but i feel like sakis rabbit toy (the wxs sekai one) might be a reference to the story of the velveteen rabbit or something adjacent to it ? because i do know stories of objects gaining spirits over time are common but i mean moreso in the "sick child has a very-loved rabbit plush toy that they forgo at some point due to their sickness. the toy rabbit comes truly alive and real eventually, due to the child's love for it" though its more of 'tsukasa's memories of her love for it' lol

#.txt #riche.txt #project sekai #i love the velveteen rabbit

[utilitycaster]

After all that discussion touching on character death I want to note that I think Travis's self-imposed mechanic for Chetney rolling to see if he died of old age in his sleep is absolutely top-tier. On the one hand? Very possible he never rolls a 100 and this remains a running gag. On the other, if it does? Move of all time.

#i just can't relate to people who are like IF A CHARACTER I LIKE GETS A SINGLE SCRATCH ON THEM I WILL LOSE MY MARBLES #*Velveteen rabbit voice* characters are only real when they're loved to pieces and thrown into the fire and possibly an edwardian biohazard #chetney pock o'pea #this is also why whump is a chump's game

[puppyeared]

Book cover sketches

#I went with the velveteen rabbit cause I remember reading it when I was a kid and just. lying down for a good 10 minutes afterwards #I don’t think I have any specifically strong emotions connected to it #but I love how the story is so fluent and universal that it can remind you of anything #im playing with a medieval style for it because I think it suits the books fairytale/fable appeal #although vine borders are so tedious to mimic. weirdly fascinating though #I’m really feeling the first and third sketches #my art #myart #doodles #the velveteen rabbit #concept art #tw dissection #<- very light toy dissection

[nardacci-does-art]

I didn't expect either of my haunted doll comics to ever be liked so much, uuuhh anyway shoutout to everyone in the tags & replies who, like me, read books as children that gave them lifelong sentimental crybaby syndrome.

#nardacci doodles #corduroy was like FormativeTM #I don't remember if I ever actually read velveteen rabbit as a kid? like it seems SO familiar but I can't remember it #skelebee recommended it when I was brainstorming the restoration comic so I looked it up & was like wow yes this one line is perfect #I'll always love you isn't about toys it's about living pets #but I think some people treat their poor pets like toys & also act like both toys & pets are disposable #so I think it's good & important for children to understand that animals are real living things & should be treated well #anyway fight fast consumerism hug your dog cry over inanimate objects fuckin yolo

[superbeeny]

GIR becoming a popular Hot Topic mascot despite being an objectively terrifying concept is less weird when you consider that a big part of why the audience likes GIR is because he's a big chink in Zim's egomaniacal emotional armor. Zim put up with GIR's irritating singing the whole trip to Earth. Zim kept GIR even after it became clear he'd be dangerous to him if he was functioning properly. Zim feels bad when he thinks he made GIR cry (it was actually cuz GIR was sad because his cupcake was gone after he ate it but still).

What is GIR if not an example of a broken, defective thing that still ended up being loved and wanted?

#yes the show is a black comedy this is all played for laughs #but I have velveteen rabbit-inspired thoughts and I will state them against the world's will #invader zim #jhonen vasquez #gir #zim #love #robots #ai #artificial intelligence

[number-one-toku-robot-lover]

Sorry, but @timetoddddavis​’s tags on this post killed me.

#love i guess #velveteen rabbit epic of gilgamesh and kamen rider build #makes sense

[landwriter]

Dream as The Velveteen Rabbit, loved to life by Hob:

Dream is an Endless. Hob has loved him for a long, long time, but nonetheless they are parted, perhaps forever. On this dark night of the soul, he thinks of his life with Hob, what more he would have wished for it, and cries. One of his tears is a real mortal tear, and from that tear a magical flower blooms, and from that flower The Fates emerge, and they say, in their strange and three-voiced way, that he has become Real to the boy that truly loves him, and now they will turn him all the way Real, and he will have a different ending. And although he may no longer rule the Dreaming and it is no longer a part of him, he still visits it every night, when he falls asleep next to the mortal called Hob Gadling.

It is known that an Endless may never love a mortal, but there are no such rules about a mortal loving an Endless, and no one knew the consequences of being really loved by a human, not just played with and set aside, except perhaps The Fates themselves, who were watching it all, and smiling.

@give-to-oblivion <3

#the sandman #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #velveteen rabbit spoilers #likely comic spoilers in comments etc bewarned #what if hob wasn't just the only being who saw dream as a person before his function #but the only one who could rescue him from its burden by loving him #just THINKING a lot about that #taking the concept a bit literally #although i also adore it as metaphor #it just goes SO WELL with the story holy moly #with show elements and....theoretical.....[sketchy eyes]....comic ones #my writing

[intertexts]

my number 1 flaw is that im incessantly collecting tiny little trinkets....

#so crow coded forreal.. the rest of my room is Also just many trinkets piled up everywhere & books & such. #anyway... whenever i find my camera i should do a jewelry tour. i love my tiny little articulatable silver fish & my bronze bracelet #with scenes from don quixote in relief & the tiny velveteen rabbit pendant & the little pin with a teapot and cup and chain connecting the #two... anyway. got an adorable jewelry box half off at the thrift store the other day n im restoring my sanity by sitting here peacefully #listening 2 parachutes on my cd player organizing things in it <3 #txt

[leos-regression-cove]

I think it says a lot about me as a person now that that the easiest way to make me cry as a child (and still now. I didn't think I'd tear up while writing this lmao) was to imply that the majesties and wonders of childhood and imagination are all a dream that inevitably leaves us as we get older that we can only regain in death and that the vivid inner worlds and personalities we give our toys in our early years either feel abandoned, vengeful, or die entirely as we age.

#i would literally have to leave the room for some movies or skip the endings of others because I found them so upsetting #a quick list of properties this post is about: #frosty the snowman‚ the polar express‚ the Carebears movie: the next generation‚ the velveteen rabbit‚ peter pan #the third tinkerbell movie‚ winnie the pooh‚ toy story 3‚ narnia‚ the wizard of oz (books)‚ the miraculous journey of edward tulane #and the songs goodbye yellow brick road‚ hey there delilah‚ and rainbow connection (by my own 9 year old interpretation) #The idea that adults can't access magic and it is something you HAVE to grow out of and this mystification of childhood upset me so much #I'm so glad I can put it into words now that I'm older #there are also probably many other properties that fit this description btw #like the brave little toaster and the raggedy anne musical I think #but after being traumatized by the velveteen rabbit I purposefully avoided most movies about toys #there are a lot of christmas shorts I also skip for that purpose #so anyway I'm putting it down this low for a reason #but I was reminded of this because now I'm using these same tattered toy and attatchment motifs in my own writing #but subverting that original meaning by sewing the toys back together so it becomes about repair and healing AS WELL AS the horrors of time #but also how such things can bring magic to people of all ages #and how love and comfort can still be provided by these inner worlds so many years later #the world is filled with beauty and wonder at any age and turning to cynicism and rejecting that reality is NOT what 'growing up' is about

[amanita-house]

Rabbit made with sealskin. by Lucy Enoch of Tuntutuliak, Alaska

#not mine #seen on an auction site #ill never have it but I love it so much all the same #Tuntutuliak #alaska native art #sealskin art #Lucy Enoch #f why am I awake looking at auction stuff rip goodnight #stuffed animals #stuffed rabbit #stuffed bunny #velveteen rabbit

[give-soup-please]

Is it okay to request you where the reader is a sentient plushie that usually just hangs out with the Narrator in his office?

Narrator With a Reader Who is a Plushie in His Office

Have you heard of rubber duck debugging? Where a programmer will explain a problem with their code to an object in order to solve the problem? That’s what the narrator does to you.

He’ll read his story to you again and again, hoping to work out all the flaws. Of course he believes his writing is already perfect, but there must be a way for him to make it even more so. 

He talks to you, debating whether to add another branching path, or to switch up his delivery. 

“Should I actually add a third door? The suggestion was a joke the first time I implemented it, but now I can’t help but wonder…”

Or, “I can’t tell whether to keep my voice steady, or let it waver a bit to let Stanley know I’m in on the joke too. Will being deadpan serve my purposes better? Hmm. What do you think?”

You sit there patiently, waiting for the narrator to come to a decision. Your button eyes glint from the fluorescent lights, your body heavy with stuffing. Sometimes he actually needs a verbal response, sometimes it’s better to hold your tongue and let him make up his mind. You’ve hung out with him long enough to be able to anticipate his needs well.

Sometimes, when he’s had a hard day, like when Stanley refuses to listen or throws himself off the staircase multiple times, he clutches you to his chest like a lifeline. No one else is going to see him, so there’s no need to hide his sadness or exhaustion. You try to give him what comfort you can. He’s surprised sometimes, when you hug him back.

The first time you talk to him, he’s startled. When he programmed you into his game, you were just for some extra comfort. He wasn’t expecting you to develop sentience. It’s nice though, to have someone to talk to.

He’s tossing papers left and right, not angry, just frustrated with writer’s block. When one of the papers lands near you, you begin to read without thinking about it. You say, “Hey, this is pretty good. Why’d you throw this one away?” The narrator whips around, clutching his chest. “Good God!” 

He stares at you in fear at first, from the slight jumpscare, then in confusion, before settling on suspicion. “Who are you?”

“I’m your plushie. Don’t you remember?” He approaches you cautiously, wondering if his mind has snapped. He picks you up and examines you closely. He can feel your coding underneath your fur. You’re alive, somehow.

Like always, a good friendship with the narrator takes time. He feels embarrassed that he’s vented to and cuddled with something without realizing that you were alive. But you weren’t always this way, he was sure.

(What neither of you realize, is that it’s a velveteen rabbit situation. He loved you so much he accidentally made you real.)

After he discovers you’re sentient, he moves you closer to his computer, for ease of access and additional comfort. Sometimes you flop onto his arm. Whether or not you do this intentionally is never discussed.

The two of you are odd friends, but you make it work. 

(warning, long commentary in the tags)

#the stanley parable #tsp narrator #headcanon #answered ask #tsp #stanley parable #narrator #i'm assuming this is platonic #ok so something in me snapped as soon as i made the velveteen rabbit connection #i had this horrible quaking thought about the narrator #'maybe we can love him enough to make him real too' #and it absolutely destroyed me #some desperate- slightly mentally ill part of me- thought 'if i play with him enough maybe he'll gain sentience' #it was just for a moment #but it threw me for such a loop #is that what he's looking for? to be loved enough to be made real? #that feels like it fits his character so well #but for me the boundary between fiction and reality is very hard to tell sometimes #i may need to make a separate post to discuss this in detail but holy shit #i mean this community is so dang passionate about the narrator WITH GOOD REASON #he's wonderful- he's lovely- his character is so beautiful in ways that will destroy you if you aren't careful #and for just a moment - a brief. wonderful moment. i had the idea of all of us banding together and loving him into existence #so he could finally see how much people care about him #the dream faded and now i'm just ranting in the tags #as you can see i am very normal about the narrator

[spectralpooch]

the velveteen rabbit (1922) / ep:link (2019)

#enst #i love this book a lot ok. i had to get this out of my system #'love makes you real' has been stuck in my head since i was like six years old and ep:link was written just for me #the caption makes this look like im trying to be fancy but i just wanted to properly credit them ok. these are both works of art to me #also the second velveteen rabbit quote also goes perfectly w eichi's 'i wouldn't mind a betrayal from you' but i gotta stay on topic!!! #oh also eichi's line in noel like 'you're not my toy. you're my idol now and forever' also goes perfectly w the first quote. but again ^

[martianbugsbunny]

YouTube sticking a trailer for a Velveteen Rabbit movie in my feed and I'm like don't you dare that book fricken traumatized me as a kid

#my mom got it because it was about a bunny and I LOVE BUNNIES #bunnies are my favorite thing in the universe #and then every time I read it I was emotionally distraught #to this DAY as an ADULT HUMAN BEING I cannot read that book #it's too upsetting #and I would rather be poked sixty times than even consider watching a movie about it #avaunt foul film #I have no need of you #youtube #the velveteen rabbit

[stellernorth]

something about toys being played with too much and beauty. in the book the velveteen rabbit, the toys that are most played with get shabby and their fur is matted and maybe their buttons come off. but they aren’t ugly because being played with means they are loved so much. and eventually those toys become Real. (a toy rabbit becoming a living rabbit.) the toys that are more played with are respected and asked for advice.

in barbie the barbies that are overidentified with by their people are like the weird barbie, who also shows these marks of play and experience and is asked for advice. but she’s kept hidden and to speak to her is shameful because she’s not beautiful. people are startled and horrified by her appearance.

barbie the movie did say it was exhausting to have to fit the beauty standard but we don’t really see any of the barbies stop presenting that way or see the movie value other kinds of beauty, for the barbies, although there was the one scene where barbie tells an older woman she’s beautiful.

(read the velveteen rabbit here it is 4,000 words long)

#let’s all read the velveteen rabbit velveteen rabbit SUMMER! #there’s a similar theme in a book called the most loved doll #post i made #barbie movie

[kentucky-fried-thea]

the velveteen rabbit be like "folks I actually do need to BeReal"

#what is real #does it mean having thing that buzz inside you and a stickout handle? #real jdnt how you are made #its a thing #that happens to you. when a child loves you for a really long time #not just to play with but really loves you then you become real #does it hurt? #sometimes #when you sre real you dont mind being hurt. #does it happen all at once like being wound up? #said the skin horse. #the velveteen rabbit #imma type the book until i run out of characters just to prove i have it memorized #here was a velveteen rabbit and in the beginning he was very splendid. he was fat and bunchy as a rabbit should be his coat was spotted bro #wn and white he had real thread whiskers and his ears were lined with pink satin. on christmas morning when he sat wedged in the top of the #boy's stocking with a sprig of holly between his paws #the effect was charming. there were other things in the stocking: nuts and oranges and a toy engine and chocolate almonds and a clockwork m #ouse but the rabbit was quite the best of all. for at least two hours the boy loved him #and then aunts and uncles came to dinner and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels and in the excitement of #looking at all the new presents the velveteen rabbit was forgotton. christmas morning: for a long time he lived in the toy cupoard or on th #e nursery floor and noone thought very much abiut him. he was naturally shy and being only made of velveteen some of the more expensice toy #s quite snubbed him. the mechanicsl toys were very superior and looked doen on everyone else they were full of modern ideas and pretended #they were real. the model boat who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint caught the tone from them and never missed an o #pportunity to refer to his rigging in technical terms. the rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything for he didnt know that real rab #bits existed. he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself and he understood thag sawdust was quite out of date and should ne #ver be mentioned in modern circles. even timithy the jointed wooded lion who was made by the disabled soldiers and should have had broader #views put on airs and pretended he was connected with government. between them all the poor little rabbit was made to feel himself very ins #ignificant and commonplace and the onlt person who was kind to him at all was the skin horse. the skin horse had lived longer in the nurser #y than any of the others. he was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams undernwath and most of the hairs in hi #s tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaxes. he was wise for he had seen a long succession of toys arrive to boast and swagger and

[labyrinthofcrystals]

Mad Tea....Family? Sure. Why not. My versions of the March Hare, Mad Hatter, Alice, and Dormouse!! I love them all dearly, my chaotic found family <;3 (i say like that isn't all of my oc groups).

From left to right it's Charlotte "Charlie" Hare, Phineas Hatter, Alice Glazier, Morpheus "Morphie" Mouse. Yes Morhpe's name is technically a pun/haha funny joke. Unfortunately in-universe only Alice is the one who understands the irony(?) of his name 😞

uuhhh idk. i think abt them a lot so idk what to say lol. uhm i know most adaptations make the march hare a dude (with the exception i think of dc's march harriet but like that's not really aiw yknow) sssoooo Be Nice. I haven't had a bad experience in this fandom yet and i'd hate it to start over something like transing a character. sorry i had to put that little disclaimer at least once, i have not had the best fandom experiences in the past so i gotta Protect myself yknow.

OTHER THAN THAT LOL you're free to ask anything about them, i love them dearly and WILL take any opportunity to talk about my ocs (they're like that weird middle ground between "canon character" & "OC" lksjdf idk ya'll)

#alice in wonderland #fanart #fan ocs #march hare #mad hatter #alice liddell #dormouse #character design #* mine / txt #* mine / ocs #* verse / fractured fables #* oc / charlotte velveteen #* oc / phineas glazier #ok TECHNICALLY his last name should also be ''Glazier'' bc he's related to Alice but uuhhh #lets just say 1) he was 10 & 2) they're sort of distantly related to it really wouldn't matter anyway #well. it matters to ME! but not yall. probbaly. #* oc / alice glazier #* oc / morphie mouse #i love that charlie is taller than phineas like first of all. in this house we love tall trans women. #second of all....man deserves a Tall Wife. and i just have to say it: jessica & roger rabbit vibes LMAO #me try to talk about my ocs without intense fandom anxiety challenge (impossible) (fail) #mad tea family #* fic / curiosity by another name