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Say what you want about labubu and the horrible consumerist culture around it- I’m talking about the actual design of the dolls. I understood her so much more when I found out that she’s supposed to be just a little girl.

As someone who used to be Just A Little Girl, I don’t think I’ve seen a more accurate representation of what being Just A Little Girl is like. Idk how to explain it. It just captures the feeling of being a chaotic little beast that mixes shampoo to make potions and drawing all over yourself with mamas makeup and making worm hotels so well.

I feel almost a kinship with this terrible little elf girl. I’m so sorry labubu. You deserve better than being the face of scalpers and TikTok consumerist culture. They don’t understand you like how you should be.

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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What do you say when hurt?

Owie

Ow

Ouch

Ouchie

Curses

Random other noise

Results

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Finally

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Finding something that you knew in your heart had to exist but not knowing how to find it feels like sunlight on my face oohhh my god

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for your drawing requests, how bout one of the subnautica leviathans? they're all cool, but i think you'd have fun with the shadow, ghost, and chelicerate leviathans specifically :]

"Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"

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also a thing w fads is like. people often ARE into them bcos they just genuinely like the thing. obviously social bonding is part of it but if a thing becomes popular it's bcos a lot of people like it.

when i was a young teen all my friends hit their boyband phase and i was very irritated by it at the time in part bcos i didn't believe that everyone involved genuinely like the bands? i was like surely you are all just bandwagoning bcos it's what's popular rn. you cannot possibly all have just up and decided to care about these rubbish bands.

anyway a number of years later it registered with me that a big part of what was going on was that i was a baby lesbian and they were all into boys. undoubtedly they were all completely sincere in their passion for Charlie from Busted and i just wasn't getting it.

obviously this is quite an extreme example but hopefully u see my point

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Thinking about hikkikomori ghost bf........

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haha noo im not being mean to trans people lol! 😅 im just being mean to One kind of trans person!! because they are transgender! sorry 😅 ii meannn because they are transgender! oops! auto correct! 😅🥺😅😅 i actually think its because they are Transgender. Ahhh noo i dont mean it like that! i said its because they are Cringe

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& it's still misgendering if you treat a nonbinary character as binary trans btw

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So, okay. In the Anime, Nurse Joy is one of a couple of NPC families, probably an in-joke about being based on an RPG. In the original series, they were all identical individuals who were related (through marriage inexplicably sometimes) who shared the same name.

Not only are they physically identical, but they also have regional variants, which honestly are just like clothing style and hairstyle differences as art changes aside, they still look similar enough between regions that a hairstyle change could make them pretty good ringers for one another.

But, then in Diamond Pearl, they delivered this shocker:

We met Marnie and Page Joy and their father, Karsten. The implication is that

1.) Nurse Joy genes are passed down matrilineally. Anybody can have a child with the Nurse Joy and there is a chance they'll be like a clone of the mother.

2.) Joy is in fact their last name and that too, is passed down matrilineally. Having a living father does not stop them from having the last name Joy.

Now, Horizons/Pokemon SV gives us a unique specimen. A teenage/young adult delinquent Nurse Joy. Now, the Mossui Town Pokemon Center Lady isn't CONFIRMED to be a Nurse Joy relative and as far as we know, there's no other nurses in her region that resemble her.

In the most recent Japanese episode, we also see a Grandma Joy, confirming in fact that Nurse Joy does age, but also she's a Kanto Nurse Joy with a unique hairstyle compared to even the Joys at the same Pokemon Center.

But, then there's Molly. Molly is the first Pokemon Nurse who's a main character. She's IMPLIED to be a Nurse Joy as she claims to come from a family of Pokemon Doctors and is seen eventually working for Pokemon Centers.

When she as a young Pokemon Doctor, she bore a passing resemblance to a Galarian Nurse Joy, but notably, has always had a distinct design from the identical Nurse Joy family, which grew more distinct when she became independent and decided to travel the world treating Pokemon rather than stay at a Pokemon Center.

However, despite being a distinct design, she shares the basic physical features of a Nurse Joy as well as the voice actor, implying some manner of relation.

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you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent. like check this out

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the starwalker walk animation is actually a really strong candidate for the funniest sprite animation I've ever seen. even now, sometimes I'll randomly think of it in public and have to silently drag my hands down my face to not lose it

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Character Design In General really went off when it gave us antlers/horns/kitty ears/demon tails/bat wings/talons/fangs/blacked out eyes/huge fuckin boots/skulls/fingerless gloves/extra arms/multiple bird wings/satyr legs/fire/bitchin swords

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being a chiller and having ambition arent mutually exclusive..... understand this