I only want to live in peace & plant potatoes & dream

Had to draw Gris again but this time in my style!

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I have the purple one, too. She was supposed to be blue but according to a woman dressed like Barbie at FAO Schwarz in Chicago circa 2002, there was a dye lot issue with the fabric. I was so excited because I thought she was much prettier in purple. The name she originally came with was Theseus and I changed that immediately to Thessaly because there are no dragons in the Theseus myth.

The purple ones are extremely rare. They were only sold out of the Chicago store, if Barbie was telling me accurate info. The catalog entry- gosh I can remember it like it was yesterday- had both the blue and purple variants in one printing but i don't know if any of the purple ones were shipped, because I wanted the purple one, my parents ordered it, they sent blue, they knew I didn't want blue, parents called company, company said they only had those in Chicago, so we went to Chicago (we were going anyways for my birthday) and that's where I picked her up.

"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.

The "NEW GROOVE" part of the logo for The Emperor's New Groove (2000) is based on Funhouse (1993), with a bunch of customizations.

You might also recognize Funhouse as the old Build-A-Bear font.

The embellishments they added to the New Groove logo follow in the footsteps of a bunch of 90s fonts, like Jokerman (1995):

Or Wet n Wilde (1994):

An obvious source of influence on this style of lettering is the Memphis style that was popular in the 90s.

But I think another influence might be an earlier genre of slightly less crazy pattern fonts. These actually originated way back in 1920s Germany, but had a bit of a revival in the early 1990s. Here's an old one, Ege-Schrift (1923):

And another, Zierdolmen (1923):

And for the 90s equivalent, here's Jazz (1992):

And Zinjaro (1994):

The other half of the logo, "THE EMPEROR'S", is in good old Times New Roman (1932).