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reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

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Asheville town hall turns chaotic as Rep. Chuck Edwards faces constituents

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Carmen has to be my favorite RH doll of all time

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New rainbow high juniors reboot line has been revealed! And they’re actually cute??? At least to me!

Let’s analyse!

The new line is of the girls taking part in a junior high attempt at a rock band they’ve called “the prismatics” and has a more youthful look on Glamrock aesthetics and DIY stage costumes children might make.

Actually playing on the concept that these are younger versions of the girls and not just “girl but smaller in order to be budget friendly.” Which helps them feel less visually redundant!

How well does it achieve this? Depends on the girl!

So let’s go through and pick apart each to see!

Skyler Bradshaw

Hooooly hell. They actually managed to do something interesting with Skyler. I didn’t know that was something they were capable of.

Skyler here gets her usual “denim on denim with a touch of denim” replaced with a look centred on a mix and match contrast. This being most clear with her DIY half and half hoodie.

With the implication being she’s literally sewed two completely different hoodie half’s together as they both have completely separate unrelated patterns. The pink side having a subtle symbol pattern while the blue side having a more noticeable text based pattern.

It’s clashing heavily but in a way that reinforces the concept and theme in a good way.

This isn’t a costume made by a teenager in a prestigious fashion school. It’s a costume made by a child. Limited by both the time and budget of their parents and also their own inexperience.

She doesn’t have a class studio with rolls on rolls of fabric. She has two old hoodies, a pair of scissors and a dream.

This isn’t something that’s going on a runway to be judged by industry critics. It’s for a kids talent show only seen by parents and whoever they can wrangle into watching the recording they took of it.

It’s genuinely fantastic visual storytelling!

The other major element to her outfit is her dramatic statement hairstyle. Playing heavily into the Glamrock sub theme. Very “jem and the holograms.”

But I like the way it’s still very choppy. Thick blunt layers and random braids. It keeps it in how a child would likely view Glamrock hairstyles. More the result of a mother taking her eyes off her child at the wrong moment instead of a professional cut.

One you have to learn takes awhile to grow out the hard way.

The rest of the outfit is simpler and understated. And probably for the better that way. Two separate statement pieces in an outfit already borders on too much. So a simpler skirt and shoes is for the best. Both do their job well enough without taking away from the bolder design pieces.

Definitely not a doll for everyone. It’s a lot. But it’s outstanding visual storytelling at the minimum. So naturally I’m going to love it.

Amaya raine

Amaya is a character who was always going to struggle with a theme like this. Because the very concept clashes with her personal style.

Most of the time amaya balances having rainbow as a primary colour by having the majority of her none rainbow outfit pieces being a clean stark white (it was black back when they were pushing the blue hair but that didn’t last.)

Her style does not encourage the kind of childish visual messiness a line like this needs. And if they’d tried to force it then they would have ran the risk of making it not look like amaya at all. Luckily they don’t.

They’ve kept her design very curated. There’s a visual tension here. A strictness, It feels like the outfit wasn’t picked by the kid themselves. Or at least not completely by themselves. It gives “heavy parental involvement.”

She has bright rainbow streaks but the hairstyle itself is completely symmetrical, long and neat. More something done by a hairdresser than the kid themselves.

The top is dyed rainbow but in a store bought way. Like it was bought from one of the high end minimalist fashion shops and was the closest thing to messy they could find there.

The skirt goes so much against the theme it somehow doubles back round to fitting it again. Being a denim mini skirt with a massive stark white satin extension piece.

It’s weirdly formal. Like a piece pulled from an entirely different outfit originally worn to a completely different event. Like a bizarrely themed wedding or a family photoshoot. Something the parent may have pushed in a sort of compromise for allowing the dyed hair in the first place. To keep the outfit “clean.”

It feels like it’s coming from a parent who wants to be encouraging of their child’s hobbies but is still holding onto the steering wheel on how it’s executed a bit too much. Who still very much has a social standing and reputation to uphold.

It’s a completely different visual story being told but an excellent all the same!

Bella Parker

I was genuinely surprised they included Bella. Like genuinely. Especially for a line with this theme. Bella has always been the character the rainbow high staff have seemingly had a personal vendetta against from the start.

And while this doll is very cute? I can see the strain.

Most of Bella’s outfits tend to kinda do the same thing over and over since she was never really meant to be one of the main characters nor was designed with the visual flexibility of one.

She ended up a main character because they tried to textbook queerbait her with one of the main characters and then quickly write her out. That did not go over well with audiences. Obviously. So she got begrudgingly wrote back in. (Fuuuuck them for that btw. Her and jade should be girlfriends.)

And while i complemented amayas doll for not overly pushing the theme and instead re-contextualising it to fit her style?

This one mildly suffers from the reverse. It tries to really push the theme over Bella’s personal style.

Not without reason of course. Pink tweed vaguely academic/vintage wear is even less fitting for the “children rock band” theme than amaya.

So they kinda just abandon it? Giving her just a relatively average performance outfit. If anything slightly leaning on idol wear more than rocker.

Like it’s cute don’t get me wrong! But it’s also… not very interesting. It fits the theme the least.

It needed to either experiment more like Skylers does or hold itself back more like amayas does. And it doesn’t do either.

Sunny Madison

Pants!?!?!! Full sized baggy pants??? Not shorts??? On a reboot rainbow high doll???? I genuinely didn’t think they were still capable of that. Most doll companies avoid full pants nowadays because they can save money by reducing them to shorts. So a welcome sight they are indeed!

Depressingly uncommon doll leg wear aside? This is genuinely probably one of Sunny’s best looks. Perhaps ever. And I loooove Sunny’s style.

A more simpler look it’s heavily reliant on the concept of spray paint and stencil work. And uses it really well!

The skull with a unicorn horn on her seems to be freehand sprayed while the animals on said pants use repeat stencils. Holding onto a childish sense of “working with what I’ve got at home” while implying a liiiittle more technical skill than the others. It’s giving “supported class artist kid” vibes.

My only critique is I’m feeling the hair is missing something. Everyone else has some kind of dyed part of their hair. And while she has some very subtle pink in her braid buns you can barely even see it. It’s an issue of two warm tones blending together too well. I would’ve traded it out for a deeper orange if they wanted a natural look so it was more visible but still fit in.

This sunny is fantastic and will be and will be an immediate buy. I neeeeed her.

So yeah! Over all really great juniors line!

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Typical twins' night out

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Bonus version bc I thought it's funny:

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Haven't drawn for a bit bc of postgrad exams but I'm finally back on my bullshit on my break! This piece is a mix of traditional and digital. I sketched the lineart on paper and rendered it in paint tool sai. I miss u paint tool sai, I miss u digital art. Now I finally have time to get back into it <3

This is the original sketch :3

(I've drawn these twins before!)

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Help Rainbow High doesn’t even know their own characters

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This months challenge on the Marikyuun discord was to create a magazine cover using a character we like. I was heavily inspired by Harper's Bazaar and used my desk doll, Shanelle Onyx, as my muse.

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Ca Cupid fanart!!

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Learned there was an official Shadow High website with all the characters' bios and was reading through them for my redesigns and got so sad. Watching the Focuses, Fashion Details, and Catchphrases slowly go to Focuses and Catchphrases to just Catchphrases for Line 3. Series 1 had so much detail in the bios. There was life to the characters. There are hopes and dreams, sources of inspiration, and mention of families. Compared to series 3, it's all so nothing burger.

Story is what makes these doll lines stand out. It's what kept me in the fandom after Delilah released. It's heartbreaking to see such detail and care cut out.

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Pov: Demi Batista offers you an ibuprofen

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platonic third base: when you get to know someone well enough that they start making mortifyingly specific observations about you

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Do yall ever just

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Let’s talk about #tarot 🃏