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Blocking is a big part of Tumblr culture, for a lot of reasons.

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passionfish11

The calico is Katarina and the sphinx is Mewsette. These photos are from July 2023, I truly just never post anything for some reason. They’re from AridaBJD on Etsy (she has a YouTube account also), Katarina was a custom order (in terms of eyes and markings etc). Couch and clothes made by me, shoes came with them.

queenofsquids

hahaha I just made the bunny hat from knit_joa's Miffy clothes on IG and it is killing me

so ridiculous, I love it 😂

dollsahoy

Photo from 2008

#i still have one doll and one piece of clothing from that photo

dollsahoy

I need to reroot a doll with yellow hair, because that color is currently missing from my doll assortment, while the other rainbow colors are represented

dollsahoy

I've chosen the doll to get the yellow hair. She's going to need to be repainted, too, so I should probably make the reroot my next project (I'm sewing a dress for me now) so I can have a chance at getting her finished, and then getting a photo of a rainbow of doll hair before the month is over

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dramatic-dolphin

i think i make the fake strawberry post in every may or june, but i just want to spread the word. too many times i've seen people online say they thought wild strawberries tasted bland and gross, when what actually happened is they were tricked by the fake strawberry!! genuine wild strawberries are some of the most amazing concentrated little flavor bombs you can find in the wild.

headspace-hotel

If the berry points straight up it's Mock Strawberry. It tastes like water with a hint of glucose and styrofoam

the real strawberries point towards the ground and usually multiple grow on one stem

#yep #had real wild strawberries in the yard growing up #didn't even know mock strawberries existed #was excited to see strawberries in this yard! then...oh. learned a new thing.

#Youtube

biracy

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

biracy

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"

masadonna

clematis and peach moment

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

dollsahoy

The whole thing was created in the US, by Aldi US's marketing director (Aldi US corporate headquarters is in Batavia, IL) and by an advertising agency based in Chicago

Leo Chicago and ALDI are heading out West for the latest chapter of the retailer’s ongoing “It’s an ALDI Thing” platform.

It was designed to be intentionally different from typical grocery store ad campaigns. The cowboy is meant to be incongruous, based on the average modern American experience.

The fast-growing company has turned away from posts that just highlight its low prices and toward more playful, culturally relevant content,

#sorry i may be a little too interested in aldi #i like browsing aldi europe ads to see the differences and similarities in products too #if aldi belgium can have an endive as a mascot without it seeming ridiculous...#(i think it was belgium. and an endive.)#(i can and have also gone on extensively about how trader joes is NOT the same as aldi us. that's a different aldi.)

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always ~love~ posts about stuff happening in the 1960s that gives a monetary value that we're supposed to interpret as ridiculously low for the situation being described, and it is never mentioned if that number was or was not adjusted for inflation

one US dollar in the 1960s was worth roughly ten times what one US dollar is today

of course the value of the US dollar was higher at all times in the past, but I have a two nickels situation with specifically early 1960s posts on my dash recently

parakeet

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

parakeet

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

parakeet

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

#i have had public likes disabled for uhhhhhh 14 years #so this is disabled too

queenofsquids

alright, take 3 on the crochet hat

mostly following this video but smaller brim

it's adorable but needs a lot of styling to get there. just plopping it on the head looks silly. have to pinch and situate everything just so. a little too tedious for my tastes, I'm more of the plopper type 😆

#i've found that to be accurate for wearing similar hats myself

YouTube has been suggesting this band to me--looking at the comments, I see they're one of those "maybe you've never heard of them, but they have masses of loyal fans" bands

A quick set of reference points for their music, if you're in the "never heard of them" pool, is somewhere between TMBG and CAKE in both sound and cynicism

#courtesy of the youtube algorithm #Youtube

The timing of Fender's cease and desist push against S-style builders, from ultra-affordable imports to high-end boutique shops, suggests a

After decades (and decades) of being OK with other guitar manufacturers copying the Fender Stratocaster body style, Fender has decided to threaten all of 'em

People Are Not Happy

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just watched an otherwise talented person repaint a doll on IG

but

they used eye shadow on the vinyl doll head

Don't do that!

Eye shadow contains micas, yes, but also oils and waxes and fillers and antibiotics and a whole lot of other things that are meant to help the micas stay on human skin (well, the antibiotics are meant to counter things that come off of human skin and get back into the eye shadow pot...)

You can get micas and use those. Doll vinyl doesn't need (or want) all the same babying as human skin--just brush the pure crushed rocks straight on!

this goes along with "Nail polish is not a craft paint"

#doll customizing

dollsahoy

I got this 1 Modern Circle Melody head as a generous gift from @floccentric a few years ago. It arrived with the original paint removed, and a new face up started, which I finished using bright colors and lots of pearl medium. I wasn't really happy with that, though, so I wiped the paint off and put the head back in the project box

I decided I would repaint her this past weekend. First, I attempted to mimic her original paint, and that went OK...but...I realized that I did not like how overpainted Melody's lip design is. And, honestly, I might not even have noticed if I hadn't been doing so much with genuine Mod Era dolls lately.

So I wiped that paint off and thought, "What if I copied the paint from Sears Jamie, another doll that used TNT Barbie's sculpt without actually being Barbie The Character?" I found a really good photo of a mint condition Jamie on Worthpoint, and used that for reference. I followed Jamie's paint shapes, but used Melody's original paint colors. (Roughly. All of the colors are straight out of Citadel paint pots.)

Between making the eyes and lips too big, and the reproduction sculpt used for Melody having noticeable differences from the original TNT Barbie sculpt (the biggest difference is that the nose on the repro isn't as pointy), and not rooting eyelashes, I don't know how much she reads as a Jamie Copy, but I'm willing to give it time to see if I like it more the farther I get from its creation, and, hey--at least she's finally painted again!

n.b.: wonky eyebrows are authentic to Jamie's stock paint

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