#First And Main

[rose-chateau]

Ugh maybe my autistic ramblings with touch another soul on this godforsaken site

I have a hobby of trying to find/ID stuffed animals and toys I had as a child, basically from memory. It's fun to find things again, and it keeps my search algorithm in shape to continue ID'ing vintage off brand toys I thrift.

Lately I've become OBSESSED with the First and Main line of Kit Kat plushies?? Like, okay so

First & Main is a wholesale stuffed animal company, meaning they manufacture and sell plushies in bulk to events, gift shops, etc. They don't have a *ton* of stuffed animals to choose from, but one character/mascot(?) design is the Kit Kats plushies.

Kit Kats are 2 tabby cat teddies--one grey and one orange. They're redesigned regularly, which means there are a million slightly different variations of them.

Personally, I feel like these Kit Kats are best identified because they have a very distinct look from the back??

Idk I look at these pictures and I remember what mine felt like in my hands. Idk. It's bittersweet because on the one hand, it being a branded design makes the plush really easy to find. But all the redesigns mean I'm basically never going to find the one I had when I was a kid.

Here's the newest iterations of Kit Kat, available on the First and Main website (March, 2025)

[remnantglow]

looked up a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[poidkea]

I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far

The polycule learns about monster hunting

[mumbito]

me clicking on a video from the silliest man in the world: teehee what wacky hijinks await me

world renown block clown mumbo Fucking jumbo: you ever think about how old technology seems to live forever in the suspended state of whatever the newest advancements were at the time. how most technology immediately and fundamentally tells you when it was important and when it was left in the dust. it’s suspended in its era forever, and in that it is perfect.

stagnation is a form of death but nostalgia is cruel immortality. still i find myself locked in pursuit of it until i finally stumble across the undeath of the mechanical. as my hard earned improvement truly begins to pay dividends, surrounded by my opus of change, i will freeze myself in eternal utopia. the only way to never die is to preemptively kill whoever you might become. i will not have a grave, i will not be ashes and dust. i will be a perfect, extant machine.

me: Ok. i dont think this will plague me at all actually. like video.

[parientou]

Lunch time visit 😌

[hinamie]

matching eye horror for u and ur back-from-the-dead bestie <333

[ruporas]

soulmate(s) [id in alt]

[fudgecake-charlie]

i don't think they're getting paid for this guys

[kosmicprlz]

such fleeting moments on the surface

[lil-vibes]

Silk Cradle was rough on them lol

[rose-chateau]

I had The DreamTM about first and main kit kats the other night.

First&Main kit kats my beloved <33

[melioristicbeast]

top part's bc i wanted to design a little sticker for myself - couldn't resist adding a little smooch (:< 2-for-1 combo of a little more of a size difference than i usually go for and the pointy ears @poly-hebdo draws derek with because it's cute as fuck

[find this and my other art on Redbubble!]

[xinyuehui]

First Encounter ♡ Happy 1st Anniversary

[just-gingerkat]

Thinking about how The Murderbot Diaries is a character that is completly and fully character driven to the point where the very writing and book format is revolved around it.

The first book is short, concise. It skips a bunch of scenes over the course of many weeks. It focuses purely on what Murderbot thinks is important and worth focusing on. Thats why the majority of the book is dedicated to its thought process, its complaints, or it's fear. It skips over "meaningful" scenes because it doesn't find them important. Like most of the conversations, like it helping Volescu. It doesn't care. It does care when it feels uncomfortable and wants to be left alone. It does care when its scared and something big might happen. It does care about Mensah which is why the few scenes that are more meaningful are with Mensah and then back to narration.

The books get longer and longer as they go on, showing how as Murderbots journey continues so does its ability to care. More intimate moments, more admitting to us that it's afraid, it doesn't want this, it does want this. It begins to describe and pay attention more and more to whats going on around it and it grows to decide what it wants and it's all so beautifully conveyed through writing.

Even The Company was such a clever and subtle way of telling us something. Because everything in the books centers on how Murderbot thinks. Murderbot would never aknowledge its feelings towards The Company and therefore we never knew of it until someone pointed it out. And that too is development because now Murderbot cares enough to let us know. To let itself know. It still shuts down, draws away in its own thoughts. But each book gets longer and longer with less time between them because Murderbot is slowly learning to pay attention, and interact, and aknowledge the present moment. Its learning to care