#so much to do @_@

[chocoperrito]

Junie !! ☀️🌈 chocotown's most vibrant little ambassador.

[runawaymac]

someone's upset

[romanoakalovi]

I’m going to do my best to be more active this 2025!

[barbielore]

So Much To Do was a Barbie line from the 1990s featuring Barbie as a busy woman on the go running errands. This is fascinating to me in many ways because in addition to showing us some really mundane minutiae of the Barbie world, these Barbies generally depict her patronizing different places rather than working in them, as is typically her way.

In fact, Ken is typically the one shown working in these playsets, as he is representing the employee at the Post Office, the Bank and the Supermarket.

In a way, in fact, you could interpret this run of Barbies as being an odd throwback, as the Kens are mostly the ones with jobs and the Barbies are the ones doing chores and keeping the household running. Because, in fact, these playsets were not just errands that took place outside the house. Barbie also got real domestic.

I have to say, though, you can interpret it however you want, but I love this. Barbie has a handheld dustbuster! She has a little bottle of cleaning spray!

And the Kens aren't the only employees in this branch of Barbie World. The Mini Mart seems to be run by a Skipper.

I'm not sure what's happening in the background art there on the box, but it really looks like a police officer is giving Barbie a parking ticket. I mean, let me know what else you think that could be. But I think that's a Ken Cop giving Barbie a parking ticket.

I love these so much because I love any Barbie set that comes with a bunch of little items. Little items are always the way to win me over.

Thank you, Mattel, for providing the world with tiny Barbie-sized laundry liquid and an iron. We needed that. Even if we didn't know it.

[luxmoogle]

I think its trending because there was that announcement stream for new games and KH fans were handling the lack of KH news well...

Ah I see... I'm personally hoping for as little news for as long as possible to keep my sanity intact, I am too old for this level of hysteria

[perplexingly]

Spent the entire day trying to understand ue5 lighting and landscaping, and feel like I made no progress at all 🥲 hopefully tomorrow I can start adding foliage and finish that tree

also just realized that with the way I'm setting up the scene most of the details are hidden lol

[wanderingmind867]

I feel like most of batman's villians are more authentic than Batman himself. Say what you want about The Joker, Penguin, Two-Face, etc. But at least they don't hide who they are. They're authentically themselves. And I feel like a lot of versions of Batman aren't that. He's a rich man who has high standards for the people around him. He's almost the definition of seeming pretension and arrogance. Whether he actually is like this depends on the story. But most versions really make me dislike Batman. And it makes me kind of feel like his villains all lead better lives than him.

I mean.. honestly. Batman hides behind a mask, but everyone he seems to care about ends up dead or injured or deformed anyways. Clearly this crime fighting career isn't working out as a very saintly thing. His money and his secrets only bring him more pain. But Batman's rogues are at least aware they're not well. They might not all try to improve themselves, but they at least know they're not okay. And so they just embrace that. They're living more authentically than most real people ever do.

This is why i came to love Black Mask after reading about him online. You can use him to really sharply hone in on topics of masks and masking and personas and identities. Black Mask hates masks. He collects them, but he hates the concept of masking your true feelings. It's all he ever did his whole life, and it broke him. His parents forced him to hide his true self. His company was bought out and destroyed because he chose to be authentic, took impulsive risks and got people injured. He was actually finally opening himself up to the world, and he was repayed with Bruce Wayne stealing his family's inheritance from him! Roman did injure many people with his cosmetics, that's true. But he still tried to be authentic, and he was punished for it.

Black Mask was tormented by masks and social rules and standards. He was invented to be a villian for the 1980s, the decade of excess. He embodies the worst of the decade. Lurking behind the fashions and spectacles were many broken souls, crushed by the soulless capitalistic business machine. Like the left wing radicals who sold their souls for comfortable living with money to burn. Roman Sionis is a repudiation of all of them, while simultaneously also serving as an embodiment of all of them. He's a villian stuck in his original time period, but his story transcends the 80s. As long as social rules and capitalism and the concept of masking exists, there will be a need for Black Mask and his False Face Society.

In fact, I think this is why so many DC animated TV shows seemed terrified to use Black Mask. Nobody is ready for an all ages audiences to meet a man who embodies the anti capitalism movement. Nobody is ready for the anti capitalist who's probably autistic (considering his hatred of social rules and socializing, which really feels painfully accurate to my own experiences). Nobody is ready for Roman Sionis, the businessman who hates capitalism, hates social rules and conventions, yet also embodies the dead inside feelings of a neglected rich child.

Roman Sionis is Batman if Batman had negligent parents and worse business acumen. He is…he is a great character. Doug Moench knew what he was doing. And I want to see Roman Sionis on an animated tv show, stat. I can imagine his episodes for Batman the Animated Series. I can picture them clearly, because his whole character is clearly defined. There's nothing you have to change. You just have to be willing to get political and socially satirical. Roman Sionis might now be my favourite villain i've barely read any comics with. If he had as much exposure as Two-Face did, I would have loved him as a kid. Why didn't anyone tell me about him!?

[starmocha]

This man is head over heels in love. He's so soft for us 🥹

[creatingblackcharacters]

This is going to be a funny experience. I have to mail out stuff for my wedding AND I'll be sending people thank you cards. Lots of letters. Get it all out of the way, I suppose. ☺️

[gncbozo]

They're so bestie material <3

[leftwiththeriverr]

[calitsnow]

WAKE UP, CANTO 8 TRAILER SHOWN AND THERES A HONG LU ANIMATION. HONG LU PMOON'S FAVOURITE CHILD ALLEGATIONS REAL?!?!?!?!?1

OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!!

THE BELL IS TOLLING, THE DAYS ARE NUMBERED, ANIMATION IN LIMBUS ?!! It's too much and it's just the teaser...

[temerity14]

working in a library might just be the best thing ever

[jayparked]

i’ll be honest i am not feelin like cinderella naega byeonhae

[barbielore]

From time to time, Barbie has dabbled in gardening as a hobby. Not just farming, where Barbie is raising animals and participating in agriculture, but gardening on a smaller scale.

Gardening Fun Barbie & Kelly gift set is one such release, however I have to say it's a little disappointing because there are some plastic accessories (watering can, spade, and so on) but the plants themselves are cardboard flowers in pots.

Bonus points, though, because it has instructions on the back for how to grow different kinds of plants.

A more recent release is the Barbie gardening playset, featuring a hat for optimal sun protection as well as a trellis upon which grapes and tomatoes can grow from the same vine. Barbie can be anything, and that includes a plant geneticist. I don't make the rules.

The playset itself does not actually package both grape and tomato on the vine but if you look you can see it on the demonstration picture on the box as well as in Mattel's promotional pictures.

There were also two different accessory sets labelled Gardenin Pretty: one from the So Much To Do line and the other Dress N Play. They were functionally extremely similar, featuring a rabbit, a dress with apron and a flowerbox containing some flowers.

But they weren't exactly the same. The flowers, dress and bunny are all different, even though they are broadly speaking the same items.

In fact, Dress N Play has two bunnies instead of just one.

The So Much To Do flowers match those from Barbie Flower Garden, an addition to the Folding Pretty House.