#Just Like You 56

[girloftheisland]

First attempt at a minor restoration project

Adventures in buying used shit from ebay

Episode 1

Back in the days before the pandemic, I used to give piano lessons to kids. One student liked to call everyone “bro,” including me, so I’d like to pass on that sentiment to my dolls. Everyone’s a bro, bruh, brah. 

This blondie is Ellis, my lil dude. I got her for cheap on ebay, the kind of cheap that makes you think she’ll arrive with a number of flaws and broken parts. Limbs that hang from their sockets and rattle like maracas. Eyes rusted shut. You get the gist. 

Once I received the package and opened her up, it was a de-LIGHT to see that her limbs were still tight, and the only noticeable disaster was that frizzy, dry hair. I’m not against this type of hair — it perfectly describes my own. 

She came with a side braid, lipstick, and a few smudge marks across the face. This is a Just Like You #56 but obviously received some special treatment. Her hair reeks of product: the detergent smell of shampoo. I washed my dolls’ hair as a kid, so I can’t blame the previous owner. Kids just do kid stuff. She’s meant to have large curls, and luckily, most of them are still there. 

To revamp her with minimal effort, I knew I had two goals:

1.) Tame some of the frizzy hair.

2.) Wash her limbs and get rid of the lipstick (— or chapstick? Who can say.)

I used a wire brush and warm water to get rid of the tangles. Did it work? Eh, it could have gone better. [PICTURED ABOVE: The point when I thought: “Oh shit, oh damn, maybe this isn’t a good idea.”] She’s lost some hair, and there are a few gaps in the wig. These things can be hidden for now, right? She’s also got blue coloring on some of the ends. I have no idea what would cause this. Is it leftover shampoo? The stain of a blue popsicle that melted and dripped onto the doll’s head? Like I said, kids be kids.

I also used a magic eraser to clean the limbs and wash her face. She seemed relatively clean until I looked down at the eraser to see all the brown gunk that washed away. I’m not afraid of dirt, so I just sorta looked at it, thought huh, and thanked myself for NOT skipping this step. A used doll is never as clean as you think it is. 

I “styled” — a word I use loosely here — her hair and dressed her in a new outfit. Anyways, this how she turned out:

Is she finished? Nah, that wig will need some touching up, because there are significant gaps in the back. Not pictured: her bald spot. Plus, she has empty holes for earrings, and it’ll be fun to make something from my jewelry supplies. But she’s all set for now.

What’s she wearing? Glad you asked. I was going for an ambiguous 40s/50s vibe. The plaid skirt and sweater come from the World Traveler in Ireland AG outfit. The blouse and saddle shoes came from ebay. She is dressed and blessed and ready to hit the streets. 

#american girl fandom #american girl #ellis #doll restoration #Just Like You 56 #classic mold #ebay

[natyantle]

I can’t stop myself from killing you...

Wait, what do you mean that’s not what happend in the issue? 

#sonic idw #sonic the hedgehog #sonic idw 56 #56 #surge #sonic #surge the tenrec #I WAS SCREAMING FOR AN HOUR #I still can't draw #BUT I CAn'T MY WIFE JUST ALMOST #I'm so proud of her #you can do it bebe #kill Sonic #you deserve this #But also Sonic deserve to save you like a princess #I can't fucking decide #Also my fav ship happend in this issue #Sonic's neck x ANYONE'S HANDS #GKASDFHAGKHSADF #I'm fine #maybe gonna scream some more later idk #my art

[sydmarch]

anyway this is what i was actually trying to find. fucking thinking about this.

#NEED to know about their young adulthood. acele is described as 'late teens to early twenties' & we have no fucking clue how old evrart #is beyond 'around the same age as harry' which could mean anything when klaasje thinks hes 44 & kim thinks hes 56 #but i imagine they ARE actuslly very close in age bcus it'd just make sense wrt the timing of the revolution & all & yknow the parallels #so like they definitely could have been somewhere in their mid or late 20s when they came into power? & this 'at her age' as just a handful #of years before that? (choosing to just believe this line rather than taking it as him only trying to 'kids will be kids'ing away the drug #lab thing & making something up. so i can totally just like imagine lots of anger. at the state of things. about powerlessness. what do we #DO about it? probably getting into trouble & getting in fights for a long time. like leo says they ALWAYS came to help it wasn't just a one #off thing where they defended him it was just that one incident where the bullying stopped. bcus they beat him until he NEEDED STITCHES #like god i can just imagine their childhood & then the adolescent & young adult frustration & all of that coalescing into ok we WILL do #something to make things better. whatever it takes even. coming to the decision it's worth killing for #'your honor it's fine that my little meow meow had someone assassinated he had a bad childhood you see' #im chewing through concrete im throwing up im pacing my enclosure #anyway. me when i'm normal about the video game men #texticles #de #disco elysium #evrart

[skoulsons]

It wasn’t just a laugh. He was giggling. He was literally physically adjusting himself because he was laughing. A wide-grinned and teeth showing smile. His face was red. He was wiggling his fingers to try and keep himself from laughing. But when this little girl is behind him laughing and prodding at him, how can he not? And him fully giving into that laughter just makes her laugh more which, in turn, makes him laugh more. While momentary, he is happy right now. He’s experiencing joy, even. Sure, it faded soon enough. But this moment? When they’re trying to sleep and probably at a time of night where laughter is easier to come by, no matter who you are, it’s easier. They’re not running or fighting or surviving or killing. They’re in the comfort of each other! And they get to just be for the night. And because of her, because of some stupid dad joke she memorized from her book, he laughs. Something she’s wanted to accomplish from day one. A not a blow-air-out-of-your-nose laugh. A real laugh. And she got it. And he, for probably the first time in a long time, got restful sleep.

#the saying is right you know #laughter is the best medicine #especially for someone like joel miller #this was pre apocalypse him. there was no difference. #I just can’t believe he GIGGLED. he may be 56 but he is tiny. very small man. #the last of us hbo #tlou spoilers #joel miller #ellie williams

[hella1975]

god i did not need to know richard siken is 56 years old and engaging in fandom discourse.. babes go back to bed before your back cracks again

you kind of suck for this

#like yeah the wincest thing is objectively bonkers insane hilarious #but just the fact he’s middle-aged (not even OLD. literally just 56. not that it makes a difference) and interacting with fandom? l #like okay? so what? these environments are not specifically for young people they weren’t even CREATED by our generation #there isn’t an age where you get picked up and thrown out of fandom for being too old #let people enjoy what they enjoy. stop engaging in cringe culture otherwise i promise you will leave looking worse for it #ask

[tothepointofinsanity]

I should really draw more of Racer and Droid 56(Racer being that anthro wolf thing and droid 56 being the robot with a black hole/face plate).

You should! Droid 56 is starting to grow on me in terms of fondness. It is a very curious looking bot, although understandably its shape design lends it a better chance of standing out when you present it as a rendered 3D model. I'll like it either ways. Racer has a very rogue-ish look to them, but it's funny that they got murder on their mind.

#ASKS 💌 #two (2) strange things #i like them very much... #really like looking at the way you assembled the polygons for droid 56 #it's probably a rudimentary blender thing but i just think the way its limbs actually connecting is cool #letters from ripper

[turtle-of-winter]

#like sir #did happy endings of season finales kill your mother and that's why you hate them? /j #for the love of everything let ten be happy 😭 #tenth doctor #doctor who #season 2 #season 3 #season 4 #russell t davies #yes i just finished s4 and now i can't sleep #imma just pretend the episode ended at 56:51 #and the last 10 minutes didn't happen #i love all his episodes but damn #let my blorbo be happy #just look at him #he's got trauma #(i can appreciate good tragedies but I'll still use fics to heal my heart)

[crossbackpoke-check]

56 and any Yamo pairing! 🫶

i just wheezed so hard when i saw what the song was i almost snorted coffee out of my nose i am so sorry for this one

#56 - kyoto phoebe bridgers + yamo

the story of how this song ended up on my wrapped is too long so it’s going in the tags but. let me set the scene for you.

2026 NHL GLOBAL SERIES™️ JAPAN - Presented by YPPI

November 13 & 14, 2026: Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Seattle Kraken, Vancouver Canucks

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan

It’s a pitiful excuse of a consolation prize for not being able to go to the Olympics, but Kailer’s not going to look a vacation horse in the mouth. The arena’s cool. It’s huge. The people are cool. There’s so many more of them than he thought there’d be with jerseys that have his name on the back, and a lot more that have the familiar orange and blue. He takes a picture of the fifth Oilers Yamamoto jersey he signs—this one’s the good Reverse Retro—and texts it to Connor, says,

no one here has even heard of mcjesus

and gets a moon face emoji in response. Leon’s influence. Kailer’s still never really deciphered what that one means, and he doesn’t think Connor knows either.

They don’t have a lot of time off between games, but Kailer’s trying to be a good tourist. His dad had been so happy when Kailer had told him about the series that Kailer’d had to stop him from trying to book a flight a year in advance, and his mom’s been just as bad, sending him every article she sees about Best New Spot in Tokyo! Cool Restaurant! Have You Seen This Japanese Cat Café? that she scrolls across on Facebook since June. Suzy’s in the same boat, so they’ve been crossing off their compiled travel-guide list together, looping in as many guys as they can. Everyone’s been pretty game. All the teams are crammed into close quarters at the same hotel, which means everyone wants to spend as much time as possible outside of it, and it helps that Kailer’s gotten pretty close with all the other guys that the NHL picked up as Global Series figureheads. Robo’s memes? Absolutely fire. The groupchat loves them.

For every item he crosses off the list, Kailer takes a picture and keeps it tucked in his phone notes. It’s like speed-running a scavenger hunt—they’re only here for four days—but he’s doing a pretty good job. His favorite so far has been all the gardens. They’re stunning, trees shining bright red and yellow, and every vendor has been selling maple candies, maple cakes, and even fried maple, though the official maple festival doesn’t start until next week. The second garden he visits, he does it on his own after practice, buying two cakes from a cart near the gate and walking until he loses the bustle outside. It’s easy to get lost in the winding pathways, heading deeper into the quiet, and there’s dozens of benches underneath the burnished leaves where young couples are tucked away on dates, or old friends are laughing and catching up. In some of the little clearings, there’s small shrines where people leave offerings, a prayer for good luck or good fortune.

Kailer stops at one without any people and sets the second maple cake on top of it, then sits and scrolls through all the texts that he’s missed. His mom gets replied to with a picture of him outside the garden gate, grinning and surrounded by other travelers. He sends his brother a picture of a trashy graphic I Love Japan t-shirt with the threat that he’ll buy one for him, and Kailer’s dad gets a picture of the meticulously arranged and cut bonsai that are across from the bench where he’s sitting. The Seattle groupchat gets a recycled meme from Robo, and he gets two thumbs up and an “LMAO” before he can even exit the thread. Finally, Kailer takes a picture of the half-eaten maple cake in his hand, holding it next to a fallen maple leaf on the bench, and gets halfway through typing another message before he thinks better of it.

(On the plane over, Drieds was reading them a story about how when they first introduced the high-speed railway, people were afraid to use it because they thought it would be too fast for their souls to keep up.

“Bro, if that were true, you just left your soul in the middle of the Pacific,” Ebs had laughed. “Planes are faster than trains.”

“Are they?” Matty asked. “Isn’t the train in Japan the fastest in the world?”

Drieds couldn’t make it through the rest of the story over the sound of everyone ripping Matty to shreds, so Kailer didn’t get to ask whether or not they found out anything about planes. Kailer’s not worried about his soul, but the logic makes a strange kind of sense; after all, he traveled 429 miles in five and a half hours once, and that was a little too fast for his heart to keep up.)

Fuck it. Kailer’s been trying to write a response for the past ten days, and he’s sick of swiping in and out of the message, staring at the keyboard so long he starts to see swirls in his vision.

Kailer drafts the text again and sends it, no context, no caption. A text travels faster than a high-speed train or a jet. Maybe it’ll pick his heart back up on the way.

#I don’t know how this song ended up on my Spotify wrapped because phoebe bridgers is too emotionally damaging for me to listen to like. #at all unless i am In It HOWEVER. there is this one silly video that brings me so much joy and made me feel semi-reasonable about listening #to kyoto & it’s the one video of the two painter guys painting the room & the lil guy is being a menace & the other guy just looks at him s #fondly & so lovingly & is that not the thesis of kailer yamamoto. be small be a menace be beloved by everyone. ANYWAY #liv in the replies #look this was going to be such a different thing and then. my brain went HEY BUDDY GUESS THE FUCK WHAT kyoto is a city in Japan. #day off in kyoto. guess who’s Japanese. guess what the nhl loves to do as HIFE publicity. also growing the AAPI audience is HUGE and i thin #they should. like originally i had NO idea what this was going to be (i’m so lying. the line ‘i’m gonna kill you’ but incredibly fond a la #the two painters video kept replaying in my head and i was like l m a o. klimmer & kailer. no plot all vibes it’s klimmer & Kailer that’s i #there is no real plot there is no actual idea the amount of googling that i did to write just this is UNREASONABLE i would love to be norma #about anything ever but i ALSO invented so much backstory to this that has no way of appearing in the actual fic and also jokes for ME #for instance. YPPI is the american manufacturer for yamaha motorcycles and. suzuki. yamamoto. (it’s not my brainworms it’s due to a fancam) #respectfully also i cannot write this fic. i have never been to japan and i think it would take me eight years to google enough #to be relatively comfortable like y’all have never seen the extensive research i put in to fucking phiLLY and a whole other COUNTRY??? #where the premise of the fic is learning how to be a tourist in your life and sometimes you have to grow out of things? #yeah i AM going to make something with the idea of Momijigari and life is ephemeral. is that a plot? no it’s vibes. #kailer goes to japan in the fall and realizes he’s a liar. who lies. (he misses [redacted]) (the redacted is because i haven’t decided) #also also. the garden reference is because a) i spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON GOOGLE and found out things to do in saitama and also that #kailer’s grandpa had a meticulous garden and i just think that’s neat #hiding-from-reality-56 #random ficlet is unbeta’d un-anything’d i don’t know WHERE this came from or the real plot of it at all. ok thanks byeeeee

[howaboutalittlehelpneos]

Kaiba in the sub when learning about the Orichalcos:

Meanwhile, Kaiba, in that exact same scene in the dub: Please tell me that story time is over. I’d like to duel.

#god he is such a bitch in the dub #such a bitch!!! #it can be funny for sure like in here #but sometimes the original is better. sometimes #ygo #ygo dm #seto kaiba #the dub version didnt have subtitles but just trust me bro #episode 178 at 2:56 if you wanna hear it for yourself

[mielplante]

waiting to be free of work to finally draw :D

#i have 3 free weeks ahead of me #the taste of freedom #soon in my lil hands #muahahah #this is also a sign that i still accept request for the touchstarved bebis #i just havent got the time to do them yet #<3 #also my commissions are open too if you feel like it uwu #i shall sleep 56 hours first tho

[rosasappho]

afaa is like my baby that me myself and i only know about HELP

#ari.txt #when i’m like 56 it’ll be published just you wait

[heartsoji]

@angelchigiri i couldn't find the post to reply to but i just found out that the 'tall-ass cute guy' (runa ykwim) that i like for being asian yet SO FUCKING TALL is 5"10 so i'd like to yell at everyone who tries to tell me that being 5"10 is short you overgrown giraffes

#10 IS TALL STFU #LIKE WYM 'imagine being under 5 #56..' EVERYONE LIKE THAT CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES #(just like i'd fuck puri) I LOVE YOU PURI IM JKKK (no im not) #jisu talks! #ji & friends 💌

[guttersniper]

while mutt does sometimes inspire parental feelings, usually in people who already are parents, as far as fond relationships go, he's more likely to give off the energy of a little brother, a cool young cousin, an apprentice/mentee, or simply that kid you have an intergenerational friendship and rapport with. his general attitude/bearing and fierce independence has something to do with it -- he doesn't act in a way that suggests he particularly needs or wants someone to feel that way about him.

#add weirdo in front of all of those it’s important his weird kid status isn’t lost #he is more likely going to give ur badass lil cousin with a silver tooth in the back of his mouth #and little brother is funny. he will end up big brothering you. thats just how he works. #'but you use dad/mom/son so often' yeah and i stand by that! for the bit! #of course he’s been referred to as son but thats just what older people sometimes call him - he's Not a fan #u gotta be soooo important to him for him to allow u to call him terms of endearment like that ... i digress #found family can be many things i wish ppl would recognize it isn’t just applying Nuclear Family Labels #and putting them in boxes based on how you perceive how those people would act in a family unit #i.e. which one is the mom the dad the two and half kids #i know it ain't that serious but cmon #those tweets that say ‘work will have you 17 years old with a 56 year old best friend like dang where tf mr otis at today 😭’ mutt! #hc.

[flecks-of-stardust]

slightly different route:

the legendary one cycle sprint to ascension! route suggested by @sevenrs which i decided to try. the route is honestly pretty similar to what i was doing before, with a few minor tweaks that ended up making it faster than my original route.

as you can see from the score screen though, it's not actually 'one' cycle; i starved twice to bring my karma up so i could go to pebbles. but the game doesn't know any better :) tbh this was pretty fun, particularly because i'm more familiar with the route now. if you're okay with navigating drainage system and filtration system in the dark, you can give it a whirl!

#sky i am so sorry for the three tags now but i cannot in good conscience not tell you about this #or credit your (and your friend's) route planning #speeeeed #yes game i totally have only 1 minute and 56 seconds of playtime ✨ #rain world #for anyone legitimately interested in trying this out: #skip the tutorial by not entering any of the tutorial food rooms #and get food elsewhere. exactly 5 is enough so don't bother hunting bats for too long #save in the outskirts shelter near the industrial complex gate #upon cycle 1's start: starve #do NOT touch the karma flower before you starve. i had to restart because i realized i fucked up #once you enter your starve cycle eat the karma flower in the room below the den #then die. quitting out might be faster but i need to check if it works; it should but just to be safe yknow #repeat with industrial complex flower and den #once you hit karma 4 reroll your rain timer until it's long enough to run all the way to pebbles in one cycle #yes it's doable. it's fun and scary and you will feel so cool #and then die or quit out once he gives you karma 10 #so you'll be back in the outskirts den after that. just book it to filtration system through drainage system #you will have to deal with dark rooms but it's like. fuckinnnnnnn uhhh four or five rooms that are pitch black #and then you're in depths! and nothing matters anymore :) except fall damage i guess #don't die in depths to fall damage #i'm excited to see if anyone can beat my time. most of my speed comes from running away from enemies and chaining roll pounces #nothing fancy movement wise. so anyone better at movement than i am could probably beat that time easily

[heroes-fading]

oh no I'm thinking again

#OH #NO #but I just am very interested in the neuroses of people who embed not becoming their parents into their worldview and how for Joel that's #showing up and being there #after Sarah's mom leaves this just gets more ingrained #Staying and being and doing everything you can for your kid because you've felt that absence and that makes #new failure feel worse #OH NO IM THINKING #leaving like a father #never leaving can't leave it got imprinted on his fucking skeleton #never making the same failures new again #IM HURTING MYSELF #fic talk #not becoming like your same sex parent is needlessly personal to me I'm making it everyone else's problem too #how much younger is tommy again is that canon or #had to be 18 during desert storm so that's #90-91 #72 at earliest #i guess he's 51? tojoel's 56?

[xoxoemynn]

my biggest problem with working full time remote is I spend a LOT of time at home staring at my walls and I start getting these wild ideas about how I should just casually paint every room in my house and how easy it would be.

I've literally never painted in my life.

I am notoriously bad at making decisions.

I work myself up in a tizzy on at least a weekly basis wondering how I'd split up the paint in the parts of my house that is a semi-open floor plan.

And yET...

#yes I know this is not the first post I've made about painting but it's prob what I think about 87% of my mindless hours* #*mindless hours that are not spent thinking about pirates #also I know I told you all to call me out if I hadn't painted by March BUT #I was planning using my tax refund to do some redecorating #but my refund is $56 total #so I just have to do some........assessing #but again like if anyone has a good eye for design you are hereby invited to my house #to help me make some damn decisions #thank you #personal