#blame the adhd

[madamechrissy]

CHRISSY I adore your writing, but frankly, I'm reading all of your face update at the same time and my brain confuses itself about who belongs where. ANYWYA IM NOT BLAMING YOU OR IMPLYING ANYTHING, I JUST LOVE YU 💕💕💕

Okay have a nice day. Also have a cupcake

I really do be posting too much lol, I hope the updates don't confuse everyone but I have a lot of projects 😭💖 have a nice day ilyt!

[mythosidhesdollhouse]

Rainbow High Littles: Indigo Bailey, Pt. 2

Hey folks, sorry it took longer than expected to get this posted (health complications, not serious just time consuming), but as promised here is the continuation of my RH Littles review (Pt.1 is here). Still feeling a bit drained from *stuff* so I'm going to keep this one fairly short and to the point...right after Krystal Jr. has finished banishing that slime daemon back to its own dimension...

...And now with that out of the way--Hair talk! (sorry for the lack of banter in this one, I'm too tired to script dialog today)

I've already seen one review claiming at least some of the Littles have polypropylene hair. Based on my examination of Indigo's braids, in her case at least I do not believe this assessment to be correct. In my opinion the evidence points to her rather having lower grade nylon hair (as referenced in @dollsahoy's excellent video on the problems with using polypropylene as a doll hair fiber). In this post we're going to take a look at how I came to this conclusion, with the help of some Shadow High girls with similarly textured hair.

First let's compare Indigo's braids to our purple QUEEN, Monique. Now, imo Monique is the gold standard for microbraids on a doll, not just just for RH/MGA but across the board. The majority of her braids are very fine, shiny, smooth to the touch, and made up of straids of multiple colors woven together. They hang quite straight, and have a nice weight to them. I say the majority because mixed into the base of multicolor braids there are a few monochrome blue and purple strands, which differ in weight and texture to the rest, being courser and slightly bulkier.

An initial side by side comparison shows that Indigo's braids look quite different than Monique's. They are mainly a solid periwinkle/lavender shade, with some strands incorporating a second, more magenta-leaning color mixed in. They feel lighter, and don't sit neatly around her head, though I attribute this at least in part to her rather chaotic rooting pattern. In texture and appearance they have more in common with Monique's blue and purple highlight strands than the bulk of her hair. Taking all this into account, I think it's safe to say these two do not share the same hair fiber.

But now let's take a look at our other braid ambassador, Pinkie. When I first got this doll I was immediately struck by how different her hair was, in both appearance and texture, from Monique's. It's both courser and duller in texture, has less complexity to the color blend (I see only two, extremely similar shades of pink), and doesn't appear to have the same weight to the fiber necessary to lie straight like Monique's does. Additionally, given their slightly crunchy feel and fact that they remain creased from her packaging months after I unboxed her, I suspect the only reason her braids lie as flat as they do is that some amount of product was added to her hair to keep them in place.

And when we compare Pinkie's braids to Indigo...this looks like a much closer match! Leaving aside the difference in color and length, the braids on these dolls look, feel, and behave in virtually identical ways. Taking everything I've observed from these comparisons into account, I feel comfortable with the conclusion that Pinkie's and Indigo's braids were made from the same fiber.

But here's the thing....MONIQUE AND PINKIE BOTH HAVE NYLON HAIR. I have never seen a single indication that a mainline Rainbow or Shadow High doll has had anything else. It might not all be the same quality of nylon, but it's nylon all the same. Just for good measure I grabbed a Skultimate Secrets MH doll (which very definitely has poly) and they don't feel the same. They just don't.

Aside from some speculation (completely unsubstantiated) that the Swim & Style budget dolls have polypropylene hair, it's never been in question that MGA has used anything other than nylon on this line, and it seems vaguely nonsensical to me to imply that they would start now. Sure I could be wrong--obviously if MGA makes an official statement confirming they've switched to poly I'll eat my words--but the detail and care that went into the design of Indigo's clothing tells me they are still trying to make a good quality product. While the target demographic and aesthetic of the brand may have changed since the soft reboot began earlier this year, I see absolutely no evidence that these are badly made dolls. Adult collectors may not like them, and yes it's a hard shift from the exemplary attention to detail we got used to when the focus of the brand was on older collectors, but that's not the same thing as them being objectively poor in quality. They're just different. It happens.

SO YEAH. That concludes my thoughts on Rainbow High Littles. I think they're fine for what they are. I like the one I got. I have no plans to buy more, but if they release other characters down the line, who knows? I for one am ready to move on from this 'controversy' and redirect my attention to other dolls I'm actually looking forward to.

[byler-alarmist]

If you think elmax is going to happen, how do you think the show is going to resolve Max's relationship with Lucas?

Hey, anon! This was my original response regarding Elumax:

I am very aligned with @mikesbasementbeets on the progression of Elmax throughout the seasons, and this excellent masterpost touches a little on how it could potentially end.

Personally, I could see the show leaving it up to interpretation, like it flashes forward in an epilogue and there's some casual line about going to visit "El and Lucas and Max" or something of that sort. I doubt they would make it explicit enough to say they are all in a poly relationship, but I would LOVE that.

Even if Lumax alone are endgame, the Duffers have built up too much Elmax (especially last season!) for it to go nowhere. If only Lumax are endgame, then I feel like El might die/disappear/end up in another dimension or something with some kind of romantic acknowledgement before. In that scenario, I do think the romantic feelings would be explicitly revealed. But then I'd get the impression that in her grief, Max would just do a repeat of the gap between S3 and S4, where she isolated and broke up with Lucas. I guess maybe it would be different if she's realized she can talk to Lucas about her feelings, even the complicated ones.

And I really do think, regardless of who Max ends up with or what happens to El, Lucas would be understanding and accepting of her feelings for El.

[jacks347]

I absolutely love your faithful and Albus fics you eat them up every time, MAKE MORE AND MY LIFE IS YOURSSS!!(jk)

D'awwww stop it 🥰

I absolutely adore writing about these two, they're some of my favorites and I definitely plan to do more with them

Is some of it fluffy and sweet and tooth-rottingly adorable? Absolutely

Is some of it horrifying and agonizing and soul-crushingly painful? Of course

Is one ridiculously spicy when I don't write spicy shit (at least not by myself)? Strangely enough yes

Will I ever finish any of them? No clue but I'm gonna try

Sorry GB, they're mine now and I'm not giving them back >:3

[renny-mayflower]

doodle page UvU

[fogclan]

Updates are going to be a little more sporadic until I'm able to build my queue back up, just a heads up!

[soldiersscream]

so its funny because as i write one muse my other muses are all watching and almost aways have something to say about it.

but with erwin...

and especially when hes all sexy and flirty they are all just speechless.

hanjis just "fuck thats hot" all the time

jeans just "I could never be this sexy"

and erwins just B) and what

like he is a dream honestly and i adore writing him because he goes from that to shitty dad jokes in a second

[whoopsyeahokay]

i feel called out.

Some writers: *meticulously plan out every plot point and the tone and meanings before they start writing*

Me:

[marleytheblossom]

A question for the pack of hungry hounds that make up the Guidestuck community.

How would we feel if I, perhaps, wrote a homestuck and Guidestuck fanfiction.?

And if we feel bad about that, how bad would we feel if I was already in the process of writing it and it was halfway done?

One more question, how long could it take to convince you that is going to be great? :)

[raidion]

try as i might, i will Never be able to play a character with low charisma, even though i always feel like i’m taking spotlight away from others 😭😭😭

[rebeccakatherine]

This is definitely me. I'm always coming up with new stories when I should be working on my works in progress. Blame the ADHD.

I feel like this a lot. In a way it's a nice and a bad feeling. Nice because there is so much I want to write about. Bad because I worry if I'll get the time to write it all. Overall though I'm glad I'll be able to add to my world for the very foreseeable future.

[bleeding-hart]

guess who has added another character to add to their collection of sunshiney summery bros to reference when describing their own personality (meee)

I seriously see so many people who compare themselves to like nico/regulus type emo depressed characters and I've yet to find another will solace/sunshiney type person who openly relates to them like I am the sunshine in grumpy x sunshine and I'm not ashamed of that

(To follow up on the opening thing it's James. He's me but a deer (I'm a magpie/hummingbird type person) and also magic yk)

Srsly tho like so many people say they love those ships bc they relate to the emo one and they want to have a sunshine person and I'm the opposite like yea I'm mostly aroace but the exception is soft depressed emo gay genderqueer-coded boys. So few of them exist in the Real World and it pains me

[beantothemax]

so far the list of asks I’ve sent you and you’ve ignored:

Songbird deleted snippet

A premise for a fic about the Nightwing

a second post reminding you about these two posts

it’s not that I ignore them! I just forget really easily.

[vanillaverses]

this whole stealing situation made me remember that I never. Uploaded the light of ancient cookies to here. is it too late to upload them now? Hi guys. I didn’t upload them here because I was planning to show the entire set in one big post… guess who never finished all 5 of them😭😭😭

look at them they’re so cool! art I definitely didn’t make months ago and then never posted. everybody look at these and pretend they’re cool and new

[phoenixofthestars]

I am cursed with indecision 

open tags :)

Everyone post a random picture from your gallery,this is a tag game yes

@fymo-blogs @the-real-gmail @totally-china @dhampirdreamerz @france-unofficial

[damian-lil-babybat]

They're judging their sibling's life decisions, and they are not impressed.

(And to think Jason and Dami have pit-madness in their system)