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🌋🏆🦎VULKAN, DELTARUNE IN 3 HOURS AND GILDED BLACKSTONE JUMPSCARE!

This is Also my favorite Minecraft block besides MOSS—

Vulkan is here, but he can't stay, since he can't stay Dead and is no Daemon, BUT LOOK AT HIM! BTW He is irish now. Or was it australian? With jamaican accent. What? Black??? I Would Never draw him as—AHEM KHAN IS MONGOLIAN ahem—

CAN YOU TELL I LOVE VULKAN? I have him sketched with a hundred hairstyles but they wouldn't fit on a single post, so have him with a fro, with long dreads and with Disney's Hercules Hades fire hair.

OOOOOOHHHH I SHOULD HAVE MADE HIS FIRE HAIR BLUE, SHI—🔥

ALSO our Little Pet Horse on his way to get punched by every one of his loyalist brothers.

We forgive, we may even make amends, we don't forget.💅🏾

Let's make his scars become gold because WELL, BECAUSE BLING, PERPETUAL powers make no sense therefore I can paint his scars or not paint them However I want! AND YEAH this was inspired by gold dusted pottery repair.

✏️🐀These are 2625x3500 digital drawings done and captured on Ibis Paint X! The Armour reference is his Mini, since GW HAS NOT GIVEN HIM A JOYTOY YET, cowards, AND It made me recall WHYYYYY I HATE drawing Salamander Armour, BECAUSE THEY ARE DETAILED AS HECK.

ANYWAY IMMA DISAPEAR TO WATCH DELTARUNE GAMEPLAYS FOR SOME DAYS NOW BYE

Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.

Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.

Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.

Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.

And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or  Julie, who fights against her school’s gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or  Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.

Nah.

OP (of the tweet thread) was either a actively trying to start shit or is just a huge fucking moron. Probably both.

I’d like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesn’t skimp when doing their research and they don’t make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:

i think back on this & realize that as third graders we were talking about how awful slavery was & because we were simply innocent kids without any societal or institutional influence yet, all of us could kept saying “why would you treat a HUMAN like that ?!” this one girl for her birthday invited all of us for her party & she got the Addy doll - every single one of us (boys included) held her & was in awe of this doll - it was such a touching experience.

i went back home about a year ago & ran into my third grade teacher in the grocery store. she said that year opened up a whole new teaching structure for her. she now reads american girl stories to her students starting day one of class every day to calm them down after recess & she’ll get through maybe four or five sets of books a year. she has the dolls in the room with packets on information from the doll’s time period that her students can “check out” to take home for weekends to care for them.

we oftentimes overlook how powerful toys can be in influencing young children & american girl honestly knew that kids could read intense moments in history & synthesize the issues to learn how to be a better person. my grandma bought me my first doll, molly, when i was only six & the dolls became a huge part of my childhood. when i turned 21 a couple years ago - we were living in minneapolis - she took me to have lunch for my birthday at the american doll place in the mall of america & bought me the Addy doll for my birthday. it was such a powerful moment i hasn’t expected.

I learned a lot of my core beliefs from these girls.

These are from one of their latest books, A Smart Girl’s Guide to Body Image:

They got a lot of flak from conservative parents for this and they did. not. back. down.

Their newest historical doll, Claudie, is a black girl growing up in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Her story is about Black artists thriving, and making a safe, beautiful place for themselves in a society that tries to reject them. It teaches about the NAACP’s protests against lynchings, in ways kids can understand, but there’s also so much Black joy and creativity showcased in her story.

Another historical doll, Melody, is growing up in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement. She faces the struggles and triumphs of attending a newly integrated school, and learns about the bombing of a Black church in Alabama that killed four little girls her age. Her stories show how black people found support and community within the church, as well as music— she loves to sing! If you have a free hour, I highly recommend watching her special on Amazon (free with prime). It stars Caila Marsai Martin from Blackish and it will make you weep.

The girl of the year for 2022, Corinne, is Asian, and her story touches on the issues of anti-Asian hate in the wake of covid. When conservative parents threw a fit about this, American Girl went ahead and made the girl of the year for 2023 Asian, too.

Any of their dolls can be customized with assistive devices like hearing aids, service dogs, and wheelchairs. They also have bald dolls, to include stories about girls battling cancer or alopecia. And it’s not just girl dolls— they have boy dolls now, too! And dolls with no gender assigned to them! People complained that they couldn’t find any dolls in the Just Like Me line that looked like them, so they now give people the ability to create their own custom doll, with tons of different options.

Environmental advocacy and the LGBTQ+ rights movement share a common purpose: protecting vulnerable communities, caring for the spaces we all call home, and creating a world where we all can flourish. Our world is brightest when people can live authentically, love freely, and be embraced for who they are. From rainbow reefs to shimmering tides, diversity makes our blue planet stronger, healthier, and more inspiring.

In a 2011 blog, Platonic Forms of the Marginalized, Joshua Sawyer talks about his experiences writing Arcade Gannon, and his advice to other writers creating LGBT characters:

I Always wanted to draw The Primarch of The Blood Ravens saying that— what?

"Don't do that" Unless is me doing It, then it's Funny as heck.

LOOK a cute baby

YO I HAVE 8K IG FOLLOWERS WTF— okay Gotta make them Kiss now

And SOMEHOW They still find ways to fffffffffffffffffffriendly help one another with theyr respective Astartes Imortal problems, ain't that Fun?

Okay now back to being a lazy bi—