#the doll people

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#the doll people #ann m. martin #laura godwin #childrens #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #the littles #the magic thief #100 cupboards #dear dumb diary #the great brain #the hardy boys #moomintrullen #derkholm #the doll people #ivy and bean

[marzipanandminutiae]

Fun fact! Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, who wrote The Doll People, are both lesbians and were partners at the time of writing at least the first couple books - AND the illustrator Brian Selznick is also gay

Honestly, doll obsession is MLM/WLW solidarity. So much of the community is queer.

#ask #anon #dolls #the doll people #if you just Think They're Neat and you know it you may be gay

[citizen-zero]

I feel like Permanent Doll State from The Doll People books is like…you know that post that’s like “children’s media creators can’t show death onscreen so they come up with a fate much worse than death”? That’s Permanent Doll State

#does anyone even know the books I’m referring to #the doll people #personal #erika's blog and bar

[gmabasic]

now that they made barbie they can finally turn this book into a movie

#the doll people #barbie #barbenheimer

[blogthefiresidechats]

"The Doll People" by Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin (pictures by Brian Selznick)

I finished this one last night before going to bed and thought I’d share. Even though this is a book meant for the kiddos, it’s got a nice story to it (enough to keep me entertained, at least). I also liked the artwork provided throughout the book. I think it depicts the characters and what is going on very nicely. If your child liked the “Indian in the Cupboard” books then they might like to…

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#adventure #Ann M. Martin #Author #Brian Selznick #chapter books #childrens #family #fantasy #fiction #illustrator #juvenile #Laura Godwin #middle grade #mystery #paperback #series #The Doll People #young adult

[evezbeadz-blog]

#the doll people #book sale #childrens books #sale #sharegoodness #freeshipping #obo

[umblrspectrum]

hi heres art so you pay attention to me now go read the tags

#ive been rewatching episode 7 like its the only thing on youtube and made note of many things #first off. the solver can only have one host. nori mentions skyn wants to kill off all the other solver hosts (with the dds) and disregards #the idea of both uzi and doll being its current host when they get chased #plus the main solver possessions only occur when skyn is out of the picture (the fightt in ep 7 is only after n decapitates “tessa”) #solver uzi is possible too but i dont count her cause she doesn't have the yellow #personal theory is that its more an instinctual response to overheating or something and not full on possession #second off nori calls the solver cyn. how does she know that name #cyn was on earth and only showed up to copper 9 recently and i presume nori's been here her whole life #it probably wasn't the other dds cause none of them made it down and they're all more savage beasts #since cyn specifies n's team retained their personalities and that makes me think the other teams didnt #also also we should've immediately questioned tessa arriving in the same type of pod as the mds when they were revealed to not be sent by j #im running out of characters also the people who dont like when i use tags like this can bite me #murder drones #murder drones nori #artori? that sounds cool #ill probably just stick with nori though #i have so many solver heart refs now #art #episode 7 #murder drones episode 7 #murder drones episode 7 spoilers #using the same black for shadows as my lineart doesn't work when i have to draw thin things over it #murder drones spoilers

[relaxxattack]

tbfh i love when people will headcanon characters as being of their culture and then draw little comics of them participating in traditions that the artist is clearly intimately familiar with. like YESSS share your personal cultural experiences with me through the blorbos!!! i love to see it!!!!!!!

#once saw this comic of rezi eating like... this little doll thing that got hidden in food i think? i think it was a spanish thing maybe? #it was years and years ago so i dont remember but i did think it was cool #and lots of different wedding ones; those are always so cute #or literally just ones of the blorbos speaking other languages #its all so good! please share your beautiful or silly or dumb traditions with me! i love learning how other people live

[bowelfly]

a wizard offers you a hit. wyd

#quercus the magnificent #weevil #wizard #birds nest fungi #art doll #weezard #bug people #quieres? #i think the fungus is Nidula niveotomentosa but im dumb as shit about fungi

[wardback]

Shout out to the lords in black gotta be 5 of my favourite genders

#i was unreasonabley happy to see femme presenting characters still be he/him #like their not people so gender isnt a thing #but like they still totally chose those forms #wiggly gave himself a crown and a wiggly doll backpack #nerdy prudes must die #the lords in black #npmd #starkid

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood world #poll #malory towers #unlondon #un lun #luster #the unicorn chronicles #moomin valley #mumintrullen #the dollhouse #the doll people #deltora quest

[marzipanandminutiae]

Have you ever read the Doll People? One of my favorite series growing up

I read the first one! I admit, though, that even as a child I thought the plastic dolls and their house sounded like a ripoff. Especially compared to the antiques. And that's coming from a kid who had no antique dolls at all, and whose dollhouse was Fisher-Price and EXTREMELY plastic.

In my college years, I learned that my grandmother's beautiful, handmade, wooden childhood dollhouse was still in the family. And my sister had gotten to play with it when she was little. You can imagine my indignation.

#ask #anon #the doll people

[inkskinned]

no, but really, we need to talk about the casual objectification that has become the fallback discourse of the internet: if you're pretty and dressed nicely, you're a slut. and if you're even vaguely outside of their body standard, you're fucking disgusting.

too-frequently, people position sex workers as being "the problem". they sneer you're addicted to pornography, you don't know what a real woman looks like. but real women are in pornography. the real bodies on display are not the issue here: the issue is that other people feel extremely confident when commenting on someone's physique.

2000's super-thin is slowly worming its way back into the public ideal. recently i saw someone get told to "go for a run", despite the fact she was on the thinner side of average. not that it would ever be appropriate to say that: but it's kind of like sticker shock when you see it. people think that is fat? holy shit. do they just have no idea about things?

but what are you going to do about it? that's the problem, right. because chances are - you're a normal person. we can say normalize carrying fat on your body, but we are not the billion-dollar diet industry. we are not the billion-dollar fashion industry. we are just, like. people. who are trying to make content on the internet, without being treated shittily.

as someone who has been on both sides of things: you are treated better when you are thin and pretty. this is statistically correct. i am not saying that you cannot be bullied for being thin; i'm saying there are objective institutional biases against certain bodytypes. there are videos of men and women who lost weight all saying: i now know for a fact exactly how much worse you're treated. in the comments, some asshole inevitably says something akin to you deserved to be dehumanized when you were fat.

which means that ... the easiest thing to do is be pretty and thin. it is the path of least resistance, because of course it is, because any time you post a picture of yourself without a thigh gap, someone immediately comments something like you need to try a diet.

the other half is also dehumanizing though, huh, just in a different way. when i put on makeup and nice clothes, i am told i slept my way to the top as a professional. do you know how many women in STEM have told me they purposefully dress to "unimpress" because they already struggle to be taken seriously and if they're ever considered pretty - it for some reason takes away from their authority.

so they make it seem like it's your fault. you, existing in a body - it's your fault! if you didn't want shitty comments, don't have a body. they position us against each other like chess pieces; vying for male attention we don't even need.

and i can be an authority on this unless you think i'm fat and unattractive. when i am pretty and thin, i'm an activist. when i am just a normal person who makes a good point: i am immediately dismissed. nobody fucking believes you if you're not seen as attractive. you literally lose value. you cease to exist.

but the whole time, it feels like - is anyone actually grounded the fuck in reality? the line of "pretty and thin" keeps shifting. nobody seems to understand what "a normal weight" even looks like, because it's not something that exists - you cannot tell a person's health by looking at their body. even if you think you could tell that, even if you're sure a person is dangerously overweight - people are not your dolls. they do not need to be dressed up or displayed properly to soothe your aesthetics. you aren't concerned for them, you're stealing their agency. you don't get to say if they're "allowed" to take pictures and post them on the internet - you don't get to tell them how to exist.

people hide behind "the obesity epidemic" without any actual qualifications. they crow things about "normalizing unhealthiness".

but it's bullshit. i have visible abs. there is a pair of parallel lines on my body, even when i'm relaxed; where my obliques meet my abdominal wall. i am proud of this because it means i'm strong, because i overcame an eating disorder only to be ripped as fuck. it is genetic and physical luck that i even get any definition, i'm pleased as punch.

but it does mean that my abdominal wall sticks out a little bit. the other day i posted a video of myself dancing, and, for a moment, my shirt slipped. you could see a little bit of my stomach. i was cartwheeling to the floor. moments before this, i'd had my foot over my head.

a guy slid into my DMs. a row of vomiting emojis prefaced: you should really lose some weight before you think about dancing.

i stared at it for a long time. there was a time when i would have been triggered by this, where it would have encouraged me to starve myself. i would have ignored the fact i'm flexible, agile, good at jumping: i would have lost the weight for a stranger's passing comment. i would have found myself and my body fucking disgusting.

and for what? to please what? because why? so that he can exist in this world without an unchallenged eyeball? what would my self-hatred even accomplish? usually i write paragraphs. obviously. on this particular occasion, in this body i've been at war with for ages: i just felt exhausted.

it shouldn't be even worth saying. it shouldn't be hard to explain. all of this emotional turmoil when he cannot even comprehend the most basic truth: i am not an object on display for him.

#spilled ink #writeblr #warm up #like if im getting fatshamed. babe......... wake up #is there fat on my body? yes :) #btw this behavior wouldn't be okay even if I WAS overweight!!! that is my point!!! #it is both that people have no idea what weight is supposed to look like #and even if they DID... they do not seem to understand that PEOPLE ARE NOT DOLLS #YOU DO NOT GET TO TELL THEM HOW TO EXIST #if you respond anything akin to ''but raquel there IS an obesity epidemic'' #you're blocked and reported. #go fucking DONATE TO A FOOD BANK THEN. volunteer in a food desert. start a free fitness program #GO GET A DEGREE AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICE IN NUTRITION IN UNDERPRIVILEDGED LOCATIONS #FIGURE OUT HOW TO LOWER FOOD COSTS. FIGURE OUT HOW TO NORMALIZE AND STANDARDIZE #ACCESS TO FARM-FRESH FOOD. PROVIDE ACTUAL FREE ACCESS TO OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES #FIGURE OUT HOW TO TEACH PEOPLE HEALTHY CHOICE MAKING WHILE ALSO LOWERING THE COST OF MEALS. #THE AVERAGE GROCERY BILL OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN HAS QUADRUPILED IN THE LAST YEAR. #SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!!!!!!!!! #you don't want to help these people!!!!! #you want to bully them but still feel like a good person! #you want to be justified in your hatred of an entire CLASS of people!!! #you don't give a fuck about how it makes them feel!!!! #you care ONLY about whether or not YOU get to VIRTUE SIGNAL that YOURE so thin and pretty!!!! #it is BECAUSE of people like you #and the fact you tolerate fatphobia - BECAUSE of that normalization. that men like the one who called me fat #feel like they can get away with it. #bc there's a line for you where you WOULD be okay with it. where if i WASNT thin you'd be okay with it. #which means the line can always be pushed in a certain direction. and it's always going to appeal to male aesthetics. #''well you didn't deserve it'' maybe fucking NOBODY does babe. maybe we should just all agree not to comment on ppls bodies!!

[themortaldraw]

arts and craftmaster

#linked universe #lu four #four swords #red #green #blue #vio #shadow #lu shadow #i really wanna make these as real people dolls i think it would be fun #art #shrimpdraws

[blogthefiresidechats]

Latest trip to the bookstore...

I got to visit my local bookstore yesterday on my day off. I spent about an hour in there (I could live in there, to be honest) before I had to go on about my business. Anyway, I picked up three new books while I was there which you will find below. The second book shown, I just found out it is the first book in a series. I’m always happy to find that out, especially when I learn that the book I…

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#1-2-3 Scream! #Ann M. Martin #fiction #hardcover #Laura Godwin #Literature #paperback #R. U. Ginns #Rachel Eve Moulton #The Doll People #Tinfoil Butterfly