#look at my dolls look at them

[strawberri-syrup]

[image id: a crochet doll with light blue skin and white hair. She is wearing a grey cropped tank top and a slitted skirt that ombres from dark blue to white. She has a tan satchel around her hips with a small book in it. Her hair has several seashells braided into it and is decorated with a crown of coral. She is looking off camera to the right with trees in the background. end id]

[image id: a crochet doll with dark red skin and black hair. She is wearing a tan tank top with black leggings and a golden cape. Her hair is pulled into two low pigtails with bangs. She has 4 dark red horns (2 big 2 small) and embroidered piercings on her left ear. She is standing in the fork of a small tee looking off camera to the left. end id]

meet mira daranath and karissa brightwater!!! more details under the cut :)

MIRA- so mira’s body type is based on tritons w some embelishments for the Vibe and coloring is based more on water genasis. SO her first name is a genasi name and the last name is more triton like. her appearence was frantically doodled during study hall where she suddenly came to be in my brain. STORY WISE she is an ambassador from the undersea! her family grew up in freshwater, but she left as soon as she could to really see the world and found her calling in the capitol. in title she is an ambassador but prefers to think of herself as more of a field researcher (she has a very light and airy voice w a hint of a southern accent)

KARISSA- karissa is based almost entirely on tieflings. she was doodled during woodshop when she suddenyl sprang to existence in my brain. unfortunately she doesnt look how i wanted her to </3 originally she had a tunic top but it came out too bulky (i still have it tho maybe ill give it to a different doll) and i wanted her to have soe kind of staff or walking stick but i never got around to making it. STORY WISE karissa grew up in a small village raised by the town as a whole with her 2 siblings. she first got a taste for adventure in the small caves found within the forest near her town and left with her older sibling to explore the world, tho she mostly sticks to caves and other abandoned places (her voice is pretty husky without a discernable accent)

[raepliica]

tristamp post-S1 mashwood sillies and tri98(?) merylwood :]

[inkskinned]

no, but really, we need to talk about the casual objectification that has become the fallback discourse of the internet: if you're pretty and dressed nicely, you're a slut. and if you're even vaguely outside of their body standard, you're fucking disgusting.

too-frequently, people position sex workers as being "the problem". they sneer you're addicted to pornography, you don't know what a real woman looks like. but real women are in pornography. the real bodies on display are not the issue here: the issue is that other people feel extremely confident when commenting on someone's physique.

2000's super-thin is slowly worming its way back into the public ideal. recently i saw someone get told to "go for a run", despite the fact she was on the thinner side of average. not that it would ever be appropriate to say that: but it's kind of like sticker shock when you see it. people think that is fat? holy shit. do they just have no idea about things?

but what are you going to do about it? that's the problem, right. because chances are - you're a normal person. we can say normalize carrying fat on your body, but we are not the billion-dollar diet industry. we are not the billion-dollar fashion industry. we are just, like. people. who are trying to make content on the internet, without being treated shittily.

as someone who has been on both sides of things: you are treated better when you are thin and pretty. this is statistically correct. i am not saying that you cannot be bullied for being thin; i'm saying there are objective institutional biases against certain bodytypes. there are videos of men and women who lost weight all saying: i now know for a fact exactly how much worse you're treated. in the comments, some asshole inevitably says something akin to you deserved to be dehumanized when you were fat.

which means that ... the easiest thing to do is be pretty and thin. it is the path of least resistance, because of course it is, because any time you post a picture of yourself without a thigh gap, someone immediately comments something like you need to try a diet.

the other half is also dehumanizing though, huh, just in a different way. when i put on makeup and nice clothes, i am told i slept my way to the top as a professional. do you know how many women in STEM have told me they purposefully dress to "unimpress" because they already struggle to be taken seriously and if they're ever considered pretty - it for some reason takes away from their authority.

so they make it seem like it's your fault. you, existing in a body - it's your fault! if you didn't want shitty comments, don't have a body. they position us against each other like chess pieces; vying for male attention we don't even need.

and i can be an authority on this unless you think i'm fat and unattractive. when i am pretty and thin, i'm an activist. when i am just a normal person who makes a good point: i am immediately dismissed. nobody fucking believes you if you're not seen as attractive. you literally lose value. you cease to exist.

but the whole time, it feels like - is anyone actually grounded the fuck in reality? the line of "pretty and thin" keeps shifting. nobody seems to understand what "a normal weight" even looks like, because it's not something that exists - you cannot tell a person's health by looking at their body. even if you think you could tell that, even if you're sure a person is dangerously overweight - people are not your dolls. they do not need to be dressed up or displayed properly to soothe your aesthetics. you aren't concerned for them, you're stealing their agency. you don't get to say if they're "allowed" to take pictures and post them on the internet - you don't get to tell them how to exist.

people hide behind "the obesity epidemic" without any actual qualifications. they crow things about "normalizing unhealthiness".

but it's bullshit. i have visible abs. there is a pair of parallel lines on my body, even when i'm relaxed; where my obliques meet my abdominal wall. i am proud of this because it means i'm strong, because i overcame an eating disorder only to be ripped as fuck. it is genetic and physical luck that i even get any definition, i'm pleased as punch.

but it does mean that my abdominal wall sticks out a little bit. the other day i posted a video of myself dancing, and, for a moment, my shirt slipped. you could see a little bit of my stomach. i was cartwheeling to the floor. moments before this, i'd had my foot over my head.

a guy slid into my DMs. a row of vomiting emojis prefaced: you should really lose some weight before you think about dancing.

i stared at it for a long time. there was a time when i would have been triggered by this, where it would have encouraged me to starve myself. i would have ignored the fact i'm flexible, agile, good at jumping: i would have lost the weight for a stranger's passing comment. i would have found myself and my body fucking disgusting.

and for what? to please what? because why? so that he can exist in this world without an unchallenged eyeball? what would my self-hatred even accomplish? usually i write paragraphs. obviously. on this particular occasion, in this body i've been at war with for ages: i just felt exhausted.

it shouldn't be even worth saying. it shouldn't be hard to explain. all of this emotional turmoil when he cannot even comprehend the most basic truth: i am not an object on display for him.

[arielluva]

gay people in my monster high??? more likely than you may think

[thefirstpaleontologist]

Anatomy of Alastors demonic forms

[leather-field]

Utopia

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

The blue Barnaby and Howdy artpieces match!!!!!

omg...

they're flirting i just know it...

[swati-art]

Funky hedgehog

[gubbly]

my dollies

[deweyduck]

COSTUMES IN MONSTER HIGH 2 🦇 draculaura

[imclou]

so like

hi :3333333cccccc

Hi, if you don't mind i took your sun and moon hostage :))

[amethyst-crowns]

Eddie ft. my closet

day two: borrowed pjs

(tattoo inspo from this post by @strangersatellites ^)

[cozylittleartblog]

baby's first polymer clay creation

her name is Annette

[artificialhaunts]

From BJ Hunnicutt's scrapbook

[cnidarian-tidalwave]

A project / a meal / a doll

Redraw of a post i made almost a year ago now <3

[tblsomedoodles]

I can explain.

So, i've been thinking...i've never done anything with the non-apocalypse futures past a few months.

I'd also been thinking, that out of all the fan kids i've seen around, there wasn't a lot (if any) for Raph.

I ALSO thought, Family Web would be an absolutely horrible au to have Bishop be involved in (mostly b/c Leo would NOT be good with an evil government scientist. at all.)

anyways, here's an in-story explanation for what i got so far

When Raph's 25, he gets word that there's some government program doing some shady things. Now that wouldn't really be his concern, but they're rumored to be using mutagen so they feel obligated to check it out.

SO the three of them check it out (Not leo. He tried but the medical equipment got to him. He portaled to the roof to wait on standby.) They find a lot of failed experiments and the like, most being with at least some turtle dna for some reason.

They also find two very young, very alive baby turtle mutants.

So, of course, they take them home. (after completely destroying the lab, information and all.)

They find out a few days later (b/c of course Donnie copied the info and he and Jenny have been going through it for anything good) that ever since the failed invasion, Bishop's group had been taking their DNA samples left over from various fight locations, (and probably paying a few people to get blood samples too) and using it it to do genetic experiments. B/c the four have such a hodge-podge of dna to start with, the experiments were never stable. The two they stole being the best they've accomplished over the years. The two that just happen to have used Raph's dna.

I'm going to have to do more with this. Like give the boys adult looks and the like. but these two were being rotated in my brain on high for list the last 9 hours now and if i didn't share them tonight i was going to go insane. (i couldn't even focus at work i was so fixated on these two bitties.)