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…and y'all, I almost cried. Just look at these. LOOK AT THEM.

So many skin tones!

PLUS SIZED BODY TYPES!

NATURAL HAIR STYLES!!! MULTIPLE SHADES OF DARK SKIN!!!

LOOK AT THIS PROFESSIONAL LADY!

SO MANY SKIN TONES AND BODY TYPES AND LOOK AT THAT MERMAN!!!

FRECKLES!!!

Y'all, I’m just…so so happy.

I’m 35 years old and I’ve never seen a Barbie that looked like me, and then there I am as a Barbie in a purple sweater with thick thighs and evenly proportioned boobs and pink hair and a cat.

I can only imagine how other girls must feel.

Guys… Even being confident there would be even MORE added to the barbie range of dolls…. I was not prepared.

I am about to image spam you so forgive but there’s just SO MUCH

holy shit. I’m like… not even a doll person and so many of these I want!

There’s LITERALLY too many to add

(who is she?)

Plus sized Barbie with DIMPLES

They actually have a barbie with albinism and bothered to give her a proper face-sculpt!

This one looks like she could kill me instantly if she made direct eye-contact

This one’s smile is just KILLING me

Nubian girl because we’re not messing around

Also… this doll does not have any name on the product listing nor on the packaging so this might just be me but…. help me out here guys… is this.. ….is this a non-binary barbie? Am I presuming too much or is that what I’m looking at here??

Also final note. Just to REALLY drill this all home, Barbie has some photos of kids playing with the dolls and

Ironically, Barbie did not come to play around.

Also I’m obsessed with this Sally Ride doll

i babysat the sweetest little girl who was in a hot pink wheelchair. it was almost brand new, and she was just so excited to finally have a good wheelchair!! the day i walked into the house after she’d gotten it, she wheeled over to me with the biggest smile and said “it doesn’t hurt my back anymore!!”

for her birthday, i got her a barbie doll who looked a lot like her (it was the one with vitiligo) and a little barbie wheelchair and a few other accessories because who doesn’t like accessories?

apparently she’d had a white doll for a while and of course loved her doll but when she saw not only the one with vitiligo but also the wheelchair? and she put that little doll into the wheelchair and pushed her around a bit on the table? she looked up at me and burst into tears, grinning from ear to ear, and murmured to me “she’s like me. i didn’t know there were ones like me” and lemme tell you i nearly broke down right then and there and i gave her the warmest smile and hug i could muster up and her parents called me a few months later (i’d stopped babysitting because they didn’t have money to pay and wouldn’t allow me to babysit for little/free like i offered because i knew they both were searching for jobs and couldn’t be around their kid much bc interviews) and they just thanked me, their daughter was “so happy to have a doll like her that she carried the barbie around with her all the time”. they hadn’t been able to afford the doll and were actually saving up for a wheelchair at least.

this isn’t overkill.

*Not my Gifs* This fic mentions abuse briefly and Steve’s father is homophobic. I do not us derogatory language in my stories and I don’t plan on starting now. I hope yall enjoy

Steve stood by his locker, staring at the gorgeous Tony Stark. Tony was someone that everyone wanted to know, and Steve wanted to know him so badly. He knew how to light a room up when he entered it. At the same time, he was very quiet. Only had his three friends with him and would always find a quiet corner to study new innovations. Steve kept looking forward at him and dreamed that one day Tony would see him.

Tony turned and saw Steve was looking at him. Tony’s heartbeat faster not knowing what to do. He smiled and gave a little wave. Maybe today was the day he would talk to the football star of the school. The funny thing was Steve was the talk of the town, but no one knew anything about him. He kept to himself. He didn’t have any friends at school and often would eat lunch in the art room. Tony was very curious about him but every time he tried to get close to him, Steve would always disappear.

Tony made his way over to Steve. Today was the day he was going to get Steve to talk to him.

Steve watched as Tony made his way over to him. So, beautiful with dark amber eyes and kissable lips. He sucked in a breath, slammed his locker, and ran away before Tony could get close. Why was he so scared of talking to him? Maybe because he was scared that the guy he really liked and could see himself love one day wouldn’t have the same feeling back. It was easier to run than to face his fears of rejection.

Tony stopped halfway to where he was going. He watched as Steve ran off without even a single word was spoken between them. What is with Steve Rogers? Tony huffed; he was going to have to trap Steve somewhere to talk to him. Tony really liked him and would love to get to know him better but that would be impossible if Steve kept avoiding him. He felt a clap on his back, and he turned around to see his best friend Rhodey.

“No luck.” Tony shook his head no.

“Every time. Poof, he’s gone. What am I supposed to do if he won’t stay around long enough for me to say anything?” Rhodey shrugged his shoulders. He didn’t know what to do to help his friend. All the people he ever liked was willing to talk to him and not run away.

“Well, I know that he has second lunch. Sneak out of calculus and ambush him there. He would have no other choice but to stay there and talk to you.” Tony nodded his head in agreement thinking that it was the best idea he had heard in a very long time.

Steve sat his lunch down in the back corner and pulled out some paper to sketch. This was the only place he felt like he could be himself instead of someone’s perspective of him. He heard the whispers about him but here he was able to shut out all of the noise and just draw. Sometimes he would draw his feelings, other memories that he wanted to hold on to. On special days he would draw Tony. Today seemed like one of those special days.

“Hey what are you drawing?” Steve jumped back by the sudden intrusion. He looked up and say it was Tony. He took his drawing and crumpled up in a ball and shoved it into his backpack. He could never let Tony see that. It would most likely freak him out.

“Nothing just doodles.” He started to gather his stuff to leave but Tony came and laid a hand on top of his stopping him from leaving. His breathing quickened. Tony was so close to him that if he leaned a little closer, he could touch Tony’s lips.

“Would it be okay if I hung out here with you? I brought snacks?” Tony held up a brown paper bag and gave him a smile. Steve sat back down and shook his head slightly yes. Tony pulled up a seat and sat across from him. They sat in a comfortable silence. Tony pulled out a journal of his finishing a sketch of one of his new inventions. Steve pulled out his own sketched pad and started sketching the window behind Tony.

This is getting kind of ridiculous.

“Hi sweetheart, I’ve missed you so much.”

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Without further ado… onto today’s gifts!

say my prayers for jayjayverse (616, 3.3k Words)

Steve gets into the motel at a quarter past nine in the morning.

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You’ve Got That Power Over Me for alexcat (MCU, 8k Words + Fanvid)

“Pull it together, Stark,” Tony muttered to himself.

Steve’s chest ached at the sound of Tony’s voice. God, he missed him. He wanted nothing more than to wrap him up in his arms and see if they could—no. YOU pull it together, Rogers. You’re here to help Tony, not yourself. Eyes up, soldier.

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Net of Wonder for Syan (MCU, 2.4k Words)

“You can’t control me.” Then Tony whips his tail again to turn away from his father.

“You swim out that door and I’m planning your wedding and coronation myself.”

Tony stills. He swallows down the way the oppression tries to pound him flat. But there’s no avoiding the inevitable. He looks over his shoulder to glare at Howard. “Be my guest. It’s not like you ever would have listened to me anyway.”

Tony isn’t expecting an apprentice when he goes to meet with Yinsen after a blowout fight with her dad, but he finds all that and more in Steve Rogers. Steve gives Tony everything he needs while Tony runs from his future, never knowing that their futures might be more entwined than they’d realized.

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diastolic pressure (in between heartbeats) for betheflame (MCU, 8k Words)

For flame, who gave the prompt “Steve and Tony have been fake dating for a while, but everyone else thinks they’re *really* in love. When a mission goes terribly and Tony is presumed dead, Steve realizes he’s in love with Tony and Dramatic Shenanigans Ensue.”

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Same Difference. for Huntress79 (MCU AU, 5k Words)

Tony and Steve are the successful heads of two different divisions of SHIELD IT Security and are the walking wet dreams of all ladies in the company. Tony Stark is the elegant genius with his dark humor while the newcomer Steve Rogers is known for his gentlemanly behaviour and kindness. On the surface the two men are rivals. But there’s more to it than meets the eye…

Canteen food is horrible, the intern is chaotic, and Tony goes toe-to-toe with a hyena to rescue the princess who doesn’t need to be rescued…

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Why Need a Thousand Words? I Prefer a Picture Instead for Neverever (MCU, 4k Words + Art)

Steve is struggling with a project for Tony, not that he knows of it. So of course Tony finds out and has to help out with whatever he can do.——————————————

Operation Check Yes or No for hundredthousands (MCU, 2.7k Words)

Steve just wants Tony to notice him, but he’s not sure how. Lucky for him, his friends help him make a plan to capture the attention of the one he wants.

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When I Look At You for AvengersNewB (MCU, Comic)

Steve is always looking at Tony in very meaningful ways… Or very embarrassed ways, depending on the situation~

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I watch my country burn and think of France, of the peasants that took what they deserved. I watch my country rip itself apart and think of rebellions that have led to hope, to freedom. I watch my country scream its pain and I hope, desperately, that this time, we will be heard.

Hospital Playlist (tvN, 2020)

E09 Preview

I think Gyeo Wool may be his crucial factor to his next big decision. But try to look at it this way - Jeong Won isn’t giving up priesthood because he likes Gyeo Wool, but through Gyeo Wool he finally sees the reason to continue being a doctor, which is actually a job that he loves too.

Notice how Gyeo Wool been sticking to Pediatric Dept, working with Jeong Won all the time? The way I see it, she’s actually trying to learn on how to become a sensitive and empathetic doctor towards her patients, just like Jeong Won, not simply because of her huge crush towards him. (Ahhhh I love her, she grows so much!)

Ik Jun just confirmed that in the latest episode, “...It’s just that she has a hard time sympathizing with people, but it looks like she’s trying to correct it these days,”

Perhaps in the final two episodes, Gyeo Wool might be saying something to Jeong Won - how he inspires her as fellow doctor to become better, so somehow at some point, Gyeo Wool’s remarks could be his turning point to finally see that being a doctor has always been the one he actually meant to be all this while.

I enjoyed this latest episode thanks to Ik Jun. Btw I’m really curious how he can be so confident that Jeong Won likes Gyeo Wool. The way he said he wanted Gyeo Wool to be happy with his friend, Jeong Won - Full of meanings damnnn!

Somehow my guts telling me that these two fools gonna end up with Jeong Won asking the similar question Gyeol Wool had asked him before - “Let me buy you dinner this weekend. Just the two of us, outside of this hospital. Not in these scrubs, but in our personal clothes,”