this is our fucking monster high blog we guess

Absolutely thrilled if those pronouns aren’t a typo!

Even though this is in regard to the cartoon rather than the dolls directly, we would love it if this (seeming) willingness to branch out into other gender expressions for the characters indicates more inclusivity with the brand in general.

HMMMMM. ngl, mixed feelings abt a direct reproduction of sdcc grayscale frankie as a regular $25 release. like, ppl who bought sdcc frankie will still have the sdcc frankie, but it does sort of shift her value away from being a genuinely unique item to the perceived value of having The Original One, even if they are otherwise identical items. idk! it’s a weird move.

ofc it also all depends how you feel about limited release dolls in the first place. generally, we’re not super into the concept of limited release, expensive collectors edition dolls, but that didn’t stop our bitch asses from getting the skullector beetlejuice set and dracula dolls (or sdcc dead fast ghoulia back in the day). we’re easy marks.

Hey there,

we have been slacking on captions and we know it, we've both managed to get sick and busy at the same time. we're going to try to go through the backlog soon and add captions to old posts and resume embedding them in new ones or otherwise adding them beneath, depending on the picture size. apologies for the recent lack of accessibility.

we're gonna put together an FAQ, cuz we noticed we get a lot of similar questions, particularly on which non-brand clothes fit monster high dolls, what materials to use in modding, what customizers we recommend, where to inexpensively buy the dolls, how to accomplish certain modifications, where to find tutorials, etc. etc. i'm not sure when it'll be up since we have to go through the whole blog to gather links and such but we'll let you know when it is.

further asks on how it is omg so wrong and scandalous for 15-year-olds to wear short skirts will be deleted. instantly. especially if they're anonymous. especially if the poster is trying to make ridiculous false equivalencies along the lines of how saying "it is wrong for a mother to slut-shame her child or otherwise hold them responsible for their own slut-shaming at the hands of society" is, in effect, somehow, slut-shaming the mother, or just as bad as? yeah, no. delusional nonsense of that caliber has no place on this blog. take it to your own space.

another block of customs is on the way! we're going to slow down and stagger the queue so it's a bit more regular.

lol are you for real. I almost did not publish this because it is so absurd. Look, if a parent doesn't want their kid wearing a short skirt at 15, that's for them to duke it out with their kid. But I would hope that they, and for that matter you, could put that argument against it forth in a way that didn't boil down to "because it is your responsibility not to expose your body in ways that have been inherently sexualized against your will."

If you could additionally explain why it was OK when I ran track and field back in high school for the dudes on the team to wear short bike shorts and no top in hot weather and have absolutely no one bat an eyelash at it or think of it as inherently sexual, but if I wore a mid-thigh-length skirt to school, I was the eeeevil school slut for a week, that would also be cool. Not to make this shit all personal, but there's an IRL example for you of why this paradigm is busted as fuck. They were wearing even LESS clothing at the same age, and didn't get even a fraction of the flack. Or any, for that matter.

I mean never mind that, if you're a girl or a femme, at the same time that you've got people shouting at you to never expose your body, you've got the same number of people shouting at you that the only way you'll ever get any love or acknowledgment is to expose your body.

[Content Warning: discussion of slut-shaming, rape culture, forced sex work, body-shaming, sizism, eating disorders.]

For context, see strawberry-cupcake-kitten's post on a particular parent with some very strong opinions on Monster High, but not too much in the way of logic to back them up. I refuse to directly link to that woman's blog and provide her with additional traffic, plus this is sort of a general tirade, hence the new post, but that was the kicker for it, so.

Let's talk about Monster High critiques. Now, I got no vested interest in protecting Mattel's profit margins. I have an interest in Monster High, obviously, and Mattel makes the line, but they're a big company, they don't need me protecting them. So I'm not personally offended on their or the doll's behalf when people say busted shit about them. I'm more concerned with the actual people that are hurt by the following bullshit "critiques" that I have seen over and over and over again:

The dolls dress too slutty:

Look, I get it, you're coming from a place of not wanting impressionable kids to believe that the hypersexualization of their bodies is an inevitable fact to which they must submit. You want their sexual growth to be healthy and happy and do you know the best way to accomplish that? It's not by teaching them that there's something intrinsically sexual or wrong about wearing a short skirt, that's for fucking sure. It's teaching them that no one, fucking no one has a right to dictate their bodies, what they put on them or the "meaning" of what they put on them. You teach them that they are too young for very short skirts, but Frankie Stein, who is old enough, wears them because she likes them, because she likes the way her legs look in them, because she likes her body, because she has confidence and self-love and you teach that self-love to your fucking kid. You don't teach them that short skirts = slut and you DEFINITELY do not teach them that slut = bad, my fucking God, this is such basic shit.

The rest is going under a cut for the sake of length, and because the points on dolls looking "like sex-workers" or "like they have an eating disorder" may be particularly triggering for some folks. Proceed with care.