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can attest that they don’t look or even FEEL great in person. i see them everyday at work lol. not a fan of the more rubbery texture of the new ones. my store got the new paint, marwari, and mule families as well and they all have that weird texture. even comparing them to slightly older models like the belgian and tinkers makes the difference so obvious.

also just noticed while standing by the shelf writing this post, the new fjord pony has like? no coat texture?? why is she smooth 😭

if this was an attempt at conveying a clipped coat it did not translate!

another example while i’m here: even the tiny models are lower quality. this german shepherd has been around forever. the corgi is new.

no teeth? no teeth for little guy?

anyway. yeah as someone who’s had to watch the quality decline as i put these very things i grew up collecting on the shelf i had some thoughts. sorry to say more of the same op 😖

*sigh* why does the actual figure always feel like a temu version of the listing?

I wish Schleich would commit to dark undertones. Look how rich and brown the dun's legs are in the listing image. And then the actual model has almost greyish legs :( I also wish they would airbrush around the eyes, it adds so much to the figure.

At least they're not as bad about false advertising as Papo used to be lol. I'll never forget that one tiger.

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NEW BONGO CALF AT DENVER ZOO!!!!!!

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my streamer being based as fuck

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CG5?????????

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NYOOM

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did i do it right

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GAY FOR CHARITY

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ONCE MORE WITH THE BASED TAKE/ANALOGY

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has anyone done it this way yet

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sneeg's log entry! we thought the one he found under his bed was his before beky cleared the garbled text. turns out that one was phil's.

edit: phil's entry with the text cleared

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this website has a mini-documentary embedded about her, and i love it to bits

thinking about the japanese racehorse who was such a failgirl she became a folk hero for losers

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i cannot stop thinking about this

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yeah that's my streamer

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sneegsnag my king please continue speaking

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WOVEN TAPESTRIES.

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

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what's a little humanity in the grand scheme of things?

OOAAAAGGHH this has been cooking in my brain for all of maybe a week but i CAN'T HELP BUT PUT MY CC'S CHARACTERS INTO HELS/THE RNS UNIVERSE BECAUS AAAAUGH

he's a helsmet the way that Red and Martyn are helsmets, in that they are kind of characters that the cc's played for a server once. so this guy can double as tr!sneeg easilyyyy. either way, he's a warden now! with dragon traits thrown in bc i love that headcanon so much. he dealt the killing blow and got one of the only egg shards, so yea. and the egg shards are tied to hearing the warden heartbeats anyway. obv.

if i was gonna insert him into the environemnt of hels i don't think he'd be much like our current tr!sneeg. he doesn't align himself with anyone, fights only for himself, and isolates himself in an abandoned corner of hels that somehow has grown sculk to accommodate for him. (evil x can't figure out how he did that, but isn't interested in asking.) nobody who's encountered him refers to him as sneegsnag, not that he could really communicate that that is (was?) his name; he's just the warden to them, the way that red is the red king. he's lost too much of his mind to be very good at making machines anymore, not that redstone is readily available in hels, and there aren't any levels to grind in hels like on the realm so he doesn't have the motivation to anyway. maybe his hands itch sometimes like he needs to create something, but he doesn't know why, or what to create or how.

maybe someone ropes him into being a colosseum fighter. a trident feels familiar in his hands, but there aren't any pools of water in the arena for him to riptide from. he easily wields to heavy weapons at once without remembering where he got the strength. he never seems to bleed, but takes damage from well-aimed hits. his opponents have to face the souls of those sneeg has killed in another life if they want to strike his chest cavity or ribs. he's blind, but could one-shot you if you make one wrong move.

maybe he's just the monster on the edge of the city who emerges from the basalt when disturbed, functioning like a warden in-game because he's lost so much of his mind and consciousness. maybe he dives into the sculk he's created himself and appears in an ancient city in the overworld, darker and colder and quieter, and doesn't actually spend much time in hels at all. there's a lot i could do with a dark mirror of sneeg that has a very unknown amount of agency in his own body. how much awareness does he still have? because what does humanity mean if it includes more than your body?

as a prize for reading through my rambling here are some close ups

i end this post with a plea for you to read redstone and skulk!!!!!!!