I've written WAY too many eah fics

it’s super consumerist and made to encourage people to buy a ton at once to get the one character/style/whatever that they actually want thus spending more money that the people wouldn’t have spent otherwise

also, as a toy collector……. i am ao fucking tired of every single toy rn being a blind box or having some sort of surprise or reveal gimmick. no, i don’t want to have to bend over backwards to find specific codes for specific states and search through the 30 boxes of lps at my local walmart just to get the ones i want. i don’t want to cut open 10 mini plastic bags to “reveal” my doll’s accessories. i don’t want to submerge my doll in water to “reveal” it’s makeup or whatever. i don’t want 40 plastic pieces that can’t be thrown away or recycled that have to take up space in my closet bc i can’t get rid of them. i don’t want to borderline open the buried secrets mh dolls in the middle of the store just to see the little colored icons so i can get the character i want and not fucking draculaura. just let me buy the damn thing

not only is it consumerist and annoying, but i also feel that it affects the quality of the toys. a majority of lps right now are blind boxes (which is why i’ve stopped buying them, i can never find the ones i actually like and the codes are rarely accurate) and i just think some of the reason they are blind boxes is to hide the basically non-existent quality control. almost every single G7 lps i have has some sort of issue, either they’re misprinted (a lot of them have their eye colors overlapping or the faces are slightly off to the side), have random specks of paint, were dirty despite being brand new out of the packaging, or they’re just completely fucked like the husky i got last year (it’s head was WAY too high up on it’s neck and the body and head were completely different shades of brown). it feels borderline like a scam now, i can’t actually see what i’m getting and a lot of it ends up being like bare minimum quality and it’s just not worth the money

and because of this stupid trend, EVERRYYYYTHIIIIIINNGGGGG is a blind box. toys are blind boxes, keychains, wallets/coin purses, enamel pins and buttons, rings, bracelets, it’s so irritating, i’m surprised groceries aren’t blind boxes atp

like okay, there's the guy we saw above. still wearing the same shoes, mind you!

this is the darkest Dylan ever gets but he also straightens his hair. or MAYBE those are meant to be braids, there might be some texture there but it's very hard to discern in this screenshot

and then there's uuuh extra ambiguous Dylan

and then he's just a third brunette white boy

and this, too, is Dylan

Fun World Chocolate Pudding and Bubble Gum