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did you ever seen a take on your fav character that was so bad and so off base compared to what you yourself depict them as, that you are just ????? lol wut. why. or do you manage to avoid this level of shock? sorry english not my first languege. i could have worded it strangely.
Everyone's take on Tsukasa as some deranged evil seme rapist is probably the furthest I've ever felt this. He's too naive to even grasp anyone's innuendo..... let alone...........act........... reality is, he's childish cutesy energetic otouto.... it's not even "compared to what you yourself depict them as" more like "what sensei themselves depicts them as" lol...
in Matsu there were some people perceiving Jyushimatsu as, somehow too autistic(?) to have sex(?). they can go work that out in therapy or something....
I guess JSHK is this 1,000 times over, but it's probably just as a result of this being one of the 'newest' things I like (in terms of its release) and thus the very modern plague of people being unable to not shuffle characters into the categories of 'evil groomer rapist crazy person' and 'innocent victim' (this comes from both fandom 'camps'. I would almost say its at times worse with 'problematic' culture than with cops *rubs my temples*). It's really funny how Amane/Tsukasa respectively get shuffled into these presets, even a Sumire/Hakubo...... honestly these categories get applied to like, a Sunny/Mari, too? If you look you'll see this again and again and again...... cute, endearing or twee incest or agegap is on the decline in America. Very sad. It's instead more like "yeah I like very bad things, I'm a bad bad boy!!!! it's so DISGUSTING for Mari to fuck Sunny!!! It's evil of her!!!!" I feel like, kids can you lighten up... its just a handjob, can't a sister help a brother out.............. I'm being lighthearted (I hope) .......
I think it has less to do with any narrative or author's vision or efficacy of delivering it and honestly not even necessarily individual reader's 'visions' and more like, a natural result of fanart as a form of virtue-signaling (and I think many people 'virtue signal' their 'degeneracy', in mirror to the other side). In this way I have gradually less and less shock... if there's any kind of complication in the dynamic or even just a discrepancy in age, they're going to get skewed into 'deliberate malicious attacker' and 'poor victim', regardless of canon. I'm sure if I participated in or observed western fandom more I'd have dozens of comical examples of this to list .........................................
historically examples of this were more idiosyncratic and thus more enriching to get mad about, I think there was more whimsy in discrepancies then.
Homotherium cub mummy!
its soooo exciting, suddenly such an explosion of paleo art of cubs which you don't see that often!!!!!
I'm really interested in the 'big white beard' concept derived from it potentially, but I also feel a lot of art of it doesn't go 'as far' as I feel it could, I'd love something like what Wildebeest have for males eccentrically...... going down the throat.... kind of reverse-mane on the lower end only.... ahhhnn I'd love to see such a typically-ungulate trait on a felid....
I know you enjoy both dick and pussy on characters, but how do you feel about hybrid or hermaphrodite genital arrangements?
get ready to meet my intersex shota character coming at you soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! the great and powerful whisker............................
but really, uhmm FUNnnn ! I enjoy realistic in-betweens and also fantastical, imaginary, or alien arrangements (: I think people should have fun and express their ideals or dreams in whatever way they wish without limit. AND THAT INCLUDES ME!!! ah I like to headcanon the Bakeneko Ryokan tsukasa as born intersexed... since he isn't actually Amane's twin in that AU & is a sad circus orphan ... .////. a shallow small pussy perfect for Amane's kitty-cock... flimsy half-hard little peenie for Amane to play with...
I have preferences for particular arrangements or combinations (I like small/dysfunctional cocks on the whole afterall!) of course! For my own fictions I do prefer to go more of a realistic(or -ish) plausible in-between, but I have no issue with drawing other arrangements for comms or what have you. I guess I have the least interest in fully separated fully intact dual parts, I like a messy mix or a smooth integration...! But you know, I like lolisho for a reason, isn't the point of it all a kind of frailty in a way ... I don't really want Powerful Cock and Powerful Pussy....
I ahhhh never really got into this exactly myself before fairly recently though 9////6 like for me's... but aouurr since auhhhm finally being broken mentally into enjoying clit sucking, I can't help but want the whole world of sensations ... 6///9 unfortunately its had an effect on the shotas at times... sucked and (pussy)fingered ...
oh my god, ive been looking at your username for months whenever i see you post stuff, and i only JUST NOW realized what it means
I wonder if it can even be gleaned through pure deliberation.... it means 'bottlebrush' after the Callistemon genus of plants. Were twitter to allow longer usernames it would be 'weeping bottlebrush' for that variety in particular....
though I also like bottlebrush as in the tail of an animal like a squirrel, or a frightened cat gone bushy. I'm a frightened sort of person so I am bottlebrushy
Where could one find ALL of your art ? like, all the art you’ve ever posted in one site? Or is it just around the place?
I sincerely wish more than you could possibly imagine, that there was 1 place I could post all of my art and archive it conveniently. At the moment, there really isn't anything like that. my Pixiv holds fanart, but I'm slow to update it as it's of course stressful to tag properly and make sure I use accurate acceptable terms, and of course it isn't super accessible to english users on the whole.... inkbunny has all my furry/anthro work, but it can't have human content... FA is my most narrow gallery, with the least allowed, not even allowing an eevee anymore. It's definitely bad. I dislike it immensely.
I would like to offer some downloadable file at the least some day, with an archive of the recent handful of years, organized.... though this will take a lot of time to meaningfully organize, which I don't have. I would also probably only update such a thing once a year, or maybe twice a year.
mostly, I feel rather suspended. I don't have any solution.
I keep hoping a new website manifests that can truly house everything, which I can comfortably use, which has a gallery/folders/sorting feature central to it (NOT a social media or microblogging hub, I DON'T NEED ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE AT ALL. I DO NOT EVEN LIKE X's FEATURES, even if it was owned by someone else, there's no difference ... ).
Instead, people are interested in websites exactly as if not more restrictive than even X or tumblr are, and flock to X-like or X-shaped websites, for some reason.
(this is why I have no interest in bluesky and no intention of adding it to my long exhaustive list of 'vaguely effective sites that allow some small fraction of my content'... useless, even if there was some new deranged lolisho centric X, I dislike the format entirely)
There's nothing that I can simply update regularly with all of my content that is accessible or comfortable to browse... in my opinion the website for this just doesn't exist. I feel even mastodon is too X-shaped for me. I would rather something be Deviantart/Furaffinity/Pixiv/Inkbunny shaped. I would even take tumblr shaped, as it at least has effective tagging and page features...
i am looking at your reference for a feral gangbang comm you did, along the bottom you wrote the sizes of all the critters (19 in, 15 in, etc), hooooow do you go about using that in the actual comm. i have a really hard time understanding sizes when someone tells me them, like i have noooo idea how something that is, say, six inches would look, until someone puts it in front of me. so, yes, is this just an innate understanding on your part, and any tips for someone wanting to get better at understanding this in particular?
I don't feel I'm really the best at size consistency, or necessarily accuracy...however...... if you like what I do, then I will do my best to explain it...
scale individual BODY PARTS to one another, not the entire animal. Suchas "okay, the linsang's head should be about as big as the Clouded Leopard's paw" or "the shetland pony's foreleg is about the same length as the total body of the ferret hob" or "the hummingbird's total body should be the size of the stylized cat's eye". Taking the entire body of everything into account IS very difficult, but chances are if you can at least start at the comparison of one part of each, the rest of the body will follow logically in reference to each individual, or at least be somewhat obviously wrong if completely messing up. You don't necessarily need to start drawing the entire bodies at once or even necessarily imagine so, you can build it starting from one small area, suchas a paw next to a head! I actually find drawing interspecies very stimulating because of this, I'm not always able to really imagine in my skull what they will fully proportion out to until I draw it. It can be shocking.
I also tend to just start VERY loosely and generally....
I honestly have an incredibly poor grasp of numerals and sizes in general!! I only use the inches dimensions for the purpose of that initial reference (AND I DO NOT DO IT VERY CAREFULLY), but past that point, it doesn't really matter what is 3ft or 55 inches long, only what they look like interacting, and perhaps how large/small the environment around them should feel. And even so, it's only an impression. Something like, "the hoof should FEEL so big, capable of crushing every organ in the other" is enough to start anything.
The other tip is veterinary footage is very useful, when accessible, if you can stomach surgical things partic. I really watch a lot of whatever I can get my hands on, when plotting out a size comparison, I trawl flickr a loooot, until SOMEthing is in the shot that helps me with scale--!! I'm not innately good at it at all, but I am innately obsessive, I guess? I feel like UUGHHH I WILL FIND THE VIDEO OF DIFFERENT SPECIES OF MONKEY COEXISTING IN A ZOO EXHIBIT OR FOREIGN PARK!!! and then I like fall to my knees when i find it. The time it took to find a single video of a resplendent quetzal next to a person..... (because I was AGOG at dimensions listed on sites VS my impression... also sometimes different sites have opposing dimensions...)
In this way however I would say naturalistic environments are a lot more forgiving, I would have an infinitely harder time trying to ground a bunch of ferals inside of a domestic home environment where I have to consider the scale of a BED and CHAIR and COFFEE TABLE. I think in this scenario I would Little Nightmares the scales to hell.... I'M lucky I'm so not interested in an impala running an onlyfans from her apartment, LOL
Avvy! Thoughts in the world of beatrix potter books/art? :))
I had VHS of these in my childhood... they were definitely very enchanting to me, particularly the animation style. I have pretty surprisingly strong memories of the one about the frog in the mouse's home, it had an eating sequence that really stuck with me...
More than anything I remember this song... https://youtu.be/Jn5ayRIRqjg?si=o03QUSSmXpK3c36u
it created such a somber and ... menacing....? feeling ... this got inside of me forever, I still think about it. It made me very afraid but captivated.....
the deranged way the lady in the framing narrative conducts her little house. It really, in retrospect, feels disquieting. In a kind of intriguing way. What were they going for.
overall few things these days try to capture the charm of illustrations like that; instead going for translating/updating things as much as possible, aesthetically. The texture of the fur is particularly lovely.
All things told however, they weren't as influential to me as other things. The 'english countryside' tone actually doesn't really appeal to me much, bonnets and teatime and politeness ... little petticoats and such ... I liked the animals, but I didn't like how they talked or dressed when they did. At its most relevant when it is kittens misbehaving or mice being rowdy. But the broader world isn't very interesting ... I don't feel any urge to emulate it or return to it, I guess. And I never wanted my worlds to quite feel like that.
The illustrations in the Tucker Mouse & Harry Kitten books (like A Cricket in Times Square) were more influential to me, but above all of these were the Poppy & Ragweed book series. I really stared at the illustrations in those, and especially the cover of Ragweed, for ages. I also really liked those worlds-- more of wild animals surviving in the corners... using what they can, not living in tiny human houses with tiny human teasets. I liked the visual of Clutch's large, heavy earring, disproportionate to a mouse. Mice would just be eaten by owls out there ... captivating... Ragweed just fucking dies.... I named a lot of OCs Ragweed, for a while, as a kid.
Some other thing of random big influence I actually CANNOT FIND, despire searching, was a green book of aesop fables my family had above the kitchen table, which had ink illustrations of all the tales ... I just know the foxes and storks and such in that really enchanted me. I have to imagine they were naturalistic....
wobbling my hands around!! So those are things I think in the general wheelhouse. Beatrix Potter isn't Nothing to me, it's definitely more to me than worlds like Redwall or Warrior Cats (snailpo BLEHHHH), LOL. But I don't list it when contemplating key inspirations in childhood..
your post abt "speaking within the shape of the delusion of the characters, not so much outside of it". like that puts words to something i desperately want, and want more from more things, i am not a huge fan of the detached clinical observations and judgements of the outside observer in romance especially and that being the avenue for so much even casual storytelling is kind of bothersome. like its Watering Down the obsession by merely being there. if you have them, i would like recommendations for things that do not suffer from this...gaze? i guess? framing? i am not picky whatsoever
I let this answer rot I'm sorry, because I didn't want to answer it in a way that might feel mean, but I think I will submit to answering it ... in the only way I can think to.... which is also going to be very [walking around in circles]
What you are describing is, how basically any work made any time other than the past few years works, generally (not that there aren't still new things coming out that are good, but that the skew is kind of unfortunate)..... Twilight is this, seriously. Most works take their own perspective to heart and believe in the delusions of the characters, because that is generally how storytelling works .... you can listen to entire DISCOGRAPHY about devotion, stalking, possessiveness, and they won't take the unartful time to be clinical or pause to use therapyspeak!!! Because MOST ART IS PEOPLE EXPRESSING THINGS THEY FEEL OR THINK AT THE MOMENT OF CREATION!!!!! EVEN if they are scary, make no sense, or sound completely deranged! Most stories want to live in their own fantasy of the events taking place! Or in the reality of their own mind's understanding of a situation!!
Like, I actually think the amount of media that is weirdly outside of itself or commentating on itself, is bizarre and new and an extremely immediately recent epidemic bore from the sense of self-consciousness we are experiencing as a culture from social media (and perhaps just constant increased narrative consumption?), and then from the inevitable conclusion of corporate (un)creativity ala Disney & ilk... while I don't like the concept of 'heteropessimism' on the whole lol [I literally don't think this issue is in any way linked to any sexuality, and think queer people exhibit this foible presently AS MUCH AS straight people...], there's a bit of an article I feel conveys something I've felt well, at least:
"you actually end up having this very heavily mediated experience of the world, where everything that you experience is kind of always being played back into this meta-narrative that you’re getting from social media.”
^ some people not only experience this in their own dating lives, but also uncontrollably write from this hindered, self-observant perspective .... you see it a LOT in modern fanfic, where it's as if the author has to pull back for an entire chapter to reassure the reader, "I am aware of all the things happening here and how bad or weird or convoluted they are!", and sometimes that takes the form in something like an intervention or a bizarre therapy session between teenagers mid-fic.
This doesn't happen in the VAST MAJORITY OF MEDIA, but it's definitely an issue in a lot of modern romcoms, webcomics, animated series, action flicks, etc. There's definitely a sense of cringe which prevents the story from continuing on its own terms with its own logic, to all the extremes that may lead to. The moment a media starts doing this, I feel so frustrated haha, I just can't handle it at all. It makes ME cringe....
I think that, a good writer cares about everything in the world being diegetic ... saying yes to the limited perspectives and experiences of the characters, and then writing from it. Just to pull a pop-culture example, basically it doesn't matter if you or anyone can say Edward is being Actually Really Creepy or Stalking Bella, her own understanding of the situation is romantic; we don't need to pull back and say, "but it's not really romantic!" or "but this isn't reasonable!". Within her own experience of this story, it's a love story .... there's a very recent sense in writing, where people feel a need to say "but I know it isn't really romantic!" or, "just so you know, I'm NOT writing a romance story", and sometimes also enforce that onto the characters, who aren't allowed to just experience what they are earnestly from their limited perspective ...
When the Omori fanfic pauses for Hero to explain Grooming to Sunny, I feel like I'm going insane, I feel like the author just wants me to know they know what grooming is. HOW and WHY does this kid in the 90s KNOW these terms, who TAUGHT them to him?? It's not diegetic at all!! They might as well all pause to discuss the 2024 US election because the author is anxious about it. This happens in cartoons on television, now .... it's absolutely bonkers... but it probably depresses me the most that it's happening in fanfic. I understand why people in LA feel self-conscious of what they are writing under the observation of their peers, but I'm very sad fujoshi have to.
It's not entirely new in that I think creatives like .... .... Andrew Hussie, or Jhonen Vasquez, suffered from a sense of self-observation of their works that causes them to kneecap themselves and pull out a metaphorical fart piano whenever something gets too sincere or expresses something they really think and feel. Sometimes you'd see people express this in the form of taking a lot of unnecessary time debasing or insulting their main (actual self-insert, deep down) every so-often to say "don't worry, I know he sucks ass!" or "don't worry, I don't expect you to like him!" or "he's being irrational right now, I know, it's embarrassing!!" ..... I think, coming from people who, say, use somethingawful or 4chan, or even just a very gossipy indie comicsscene, you got the same result in the 90s/early 2000s, just without the therapyspeak or er, pathologizing... I won't say it is exclusively modern.... the same shape of shame and meta-eye-view. It's pretty sad that this has extended outside of this kind of person (typically just some fussy cis guy lol) and into just some poor teen girl's fanfiction honestly, it's kind of devastating to me on the daily to watch it happen ._. it honestly has depressed me to the point of being unable to engage with most western fandom or fanfic, it's like soulcrushing for me ....
[sits down] anyway. I'd just recommend like reading Inuyasha or something, idk. Like just enjoying an older movie or piece of media. This kind of straightforward storytelling exists in droves too infinite for me to innumerate.......................... read, Red Dragon, stream Hospice by the Antlers, I don't know ... sobs
JSHK is the definition of this, or I suppose I would say all of AidaIro-sensei's works as a whole. Complete shock & awe as the Red House arc came to pass... everything in the far shore between Akane & Aoi also completely floored me, and THEN Sumire/Hakubo ... it's incredible for ME personally, for a work to contain THIS MUCH thorough exploration of... characters who don't understand their own emotional capacity, who have a self-belief in being emotionless or unable to experience things (and aren't maudlin about it or really sad about it?) (whether that is from a sense of mistrust and misrepresentation of self, like Aoi, or having never been invited to imagine otherwise, with Hakubo... or from a sense of being past/over the ability to inhabit interactions fully, like Amane). I really didn't expect it at all!!! I love how forceful love is upon the bodies of people like this, forcing them to behave unexpectedly to themselves, or able to be cornered with it. I love how right it is to force it upon them, be relentless with it ...
And then Narisokonai Snow White was just an absolute gutpunch, what a piece of art.
LN2 also really did this eh .... I really didn't expect there to be significance to the world itself I guess (horror doesn't often need a whole lot justifying its environment?)... or just how precious and passive Six would be. Since LN1 doesn't need to justify the Maw, I didn't think the Pale City would be composed of a poor kid's psyche. Very endeared by the endless loop of a boy deleteriously committed to saving a girl.
You would think me insane but Ed Edd n Eddy is a very early example of being really pleasantly amazed by something that didn't have to be so comprehensible. And not just the movie for bluntly exposing abuse in Eddy's life ... the school season is so er, good at giving a context to Eddy's neurosis, he's so fucking miserable and tortured at school! He'll do anything to not go back. You even understand why double dee is more confident then him in ways, if he spends most of the year way more in his element .... able to feel ah, successful. It's not just Eddy though, I think EEnE does an impressive job giving you a solid answer to why all the mains are the way they are, if you pay attention. Ed isn't just dumb, he's criminally neglected haha, you know? That kind of thing. I... honestly think a lot of cartoons now are, way too cowardly to couch a kid's psyche in as variable poorly home lifes, lol, despite pretending they care about trauma as a concept. (Well, I think they're also afraid of approaching it without offering some kind of reconciliation of it... it's less permissible to just be ambiently, unfixably bad)
errr what ELSE... GOD the Moomin novels, they start out very kiddy and simplistic of course, as you'd expect, but the final couple of books really really knocked me downnnn me, at a time when I really needed it or didn't need it LOL (I remember being inconsolable for weeks). Everything Snufkin went through was so painfully real for me, and a , kind of lesson I, needed, to observe. I feel kind of at a loss with broad fandom's romanticization of his lack of attachment; I really love how the later novels explore it as a fear response for him (he's AFRAID of attachment, he CHILDISHLY rejects GOOD things at times, he is FUSSY and UNNECESSARILY COLD), and also, of the consequences of his lack of (openly) appreciating how he is accommodated, loved, which results in him being left alone, trapped with people who DON'T accommodate or understand him, in Moominvalley in November. I really loved his desperate search for Moomin's letters, the belief that "Moomin would NEVER leave without giving me a letter", his own ATTACHMENT to MOOMIN'S ATTACHMENT!!! which he took for granted, because Moomin loved him so consistently, even if Snufkin failed to reciprocate, or was lazy in writing him back.... He could feel so devastatingly let down by a lack of love on the other end, though his own attitude made him constantly show a lack of love, and therefor propagated an eventual abandonment ... why would Snufkin care about being abandoned? He's 'not that type of person'. He'll 'be fine'. Of course he won't be ...
Of all scenes in an earlier novel too, Moominvalley in Midwinter, I really love when Moomin longs to climb the mountain, reach the other side, get to Snufkin... but fails in his attempt, and remarks... that he could do it, if only he knew Snufkin was on the other side, waiting for him. But he can't, because, he isn't. I like how pining for Snufkin works ... loving someone this ah, obfuscative, this avoidant of love itself. When I read about Atos, the decade-long lover of Tove's who Snufkin was based on, I felt a very rare human connection, to someone who had so casually hurt someone else despite being present, for so many years. Again it was unexpected but a kind of lesson I needed. Consequences of my personality disorder lol.
Though honestly there are also works where I just simply have so much interest in the creator behind it, that I can't exactly be 100% disappointed by it, because I'm interested even in that voice's foibles or its feeble attempt at making an ending, or telling a story. Sometimes even when a work is disappointing in what it can achieve, it conveys the helplessness or limits of a real human mind; a world presenting itself as hopeful or maybe even funny, but with a real human hopelessness behind it, an inability to imagine better. A lot of the time I would call this sort of thing a good playground, 'suitable for my needs' for sure ... a lot to try to resolve, to use the pieces present in a new way, to show this world what can happen to it, with the right touch. But I don't necessarily want to say names of work that does this for me, wwwwwwww.... it's a little out of pocket to be too direct about it I think.....
CUTE GUMMY CEPH AAA SOREY FOR NOT BEING NORMAL AND ALL CAPS BUT I LOVE GUMMY!!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR GUMMY!
would you and bird ever draw more of ur sploon oc fruit gusher forms (ink/octolings with no skin/child) me and a friend of mine love theorizing their biology
awe yeahhhh, we like to RP different ages and AUs for them.... I really like thinking about those inbetween stages, all squishy.... prone to flopping over ...
the swim form is fun to think about, like Harpoon and Ruki goofing off in swim form in the lobby, him swimming over her ???? grazing her entire body with his weight... I think a lot of frivolous things can happen under the guise of swim form, you don't think so hard about the human gestures or implications, throwing these things around... I see Harpoon as having no hesitation towards Ruki's tiny little swim body, willing to reach into her ink and grasp her in his hands, throw her, hold her down, feel her squiggle and struggle. I don't think Harpoon would ever like to be smaller than Ruki though LMAO, what a normal boy in this way. I like both in swim or only Ruki in swim...
I like drawings of couples cuddling with only one in swim form. I like the rare exploration of sex this way, too ... I've seen a very lovely comic, of a girl fingering her girlfriend in swimform. I like the size difference.... how intense it would be, to grab that tiny, squishy body, in one fist, and drive fingers in with the other hand. I could imagine Harpoon really liking to do that, though Ruki would likely be shy about it at first, or surprised he could have such an interest in her (she's self-conscious at the best of times). I think treating the whole body like a kind of fleshlight would be appealing... very dehumanizing in a way haha. easy to contort the entire shape over cock...
I also like agegaps in inkfish, very rare to see, but some day I would like to explore a couple with this centrally... it was actually loong ago my first interest in Splatoon world at all; when I wondered "what kind of inkfish would I like to see if I was here?", I liked the idea of someone with a distinct penchant for that stage. I think the look of what would be nice. I like that, hair feels so culturally important, as a very fashion-obsessed species, being into anything before or in the middle of formation of that, would be very strange! genuinely not SUPPOSED to be attracted to haha...
In general, I do love theorizing on their biology, we spend a lot of time discussing this, haha. Ruki herself is quite stunted, a premature girl, so she has some unusual traits for an Inkling her age (part of what makes her pretty unattractive to peers, by and large) ... from her size, to her larger ears (cutting a more baby-faced silhouette), a soft beak that didn't quite develop properly, and many dead photophores in her tentacles (product of Harpoon popping/hospitalizing her when she was still in early development), resulting in her patchy white colors (eventually, she'll probably be entirely white, due to his abuse) (overall, the white patching reads kind of 'unwell' or 'sickly' to others, not too disimilar to a person who is rashy or something, I guess .... when baring in mind that a lot of fish and squid lose their color when sick or dead, HAHA, so she has a kind of unpleasant appearance). I think all these things, Harpoon really likes ... because he fell in love with her when they were toddlers, really, even if he doesn't remember her, his hindbrain itches over the neotenous features she retains.
I want to some time go completely off book though and like, make my own stupid evolutionary chain for Inklings .... the canon one do nothing for me.... how and why they became this way, and then what culture influences (like how human cooking culture altered the evolution of our jaw muscles, soooo dummy weak compared to other apes now)... I really like the development chain though, no notes rly, would only love to spackle the in-between stages.
did you like any doll lines while growing up?
nah not at all. I had a grandma who was constantly pressuring me to be more feminine (and not crawl around on the floor and dig for bugs in the yard), who would try her damnest to force them on me, but I always stripped them naked and repurposed their clothes as beanie baby accessories ... (I didn't really 'get into' femininity as a concept or my own girlness until I was an adult, honestly).
I had a Pretty Pretty Princess gameset for the same reason, and I loved to put the clip-on earrings and bracelets, necklaces on my stuffed animals to make them beautiful :3 everything winds up on some sort of little beanie baby cat or something....
I only really got into humanoids for any kind of imaginative play, LARP or RP when I was in my teens. I had the opinion "I'm already a human, why would I want to pretend to be a human or play with humans? I deal with them every day..."
even so, when it did come into some interest, anime/manga captured me, and more narrowly lolisho. I didn't daydream about any kind of doll... fashion, budget, custom, or otherwise.
However as a fan of toy history in general now, there are a few doll channels I like to watch, and see people discuss their opinions on. But I still actually have no real opinion on things like Bratz VS Monster High or Rainbow High or LOL or American Girl ... (I like to watch BECAUSE it's so curiously alien to me, what is valuable or praised VS razed). Aesthetically, it's still a brand of femininity which does nothing for me, and the range between historical American Girl or urban fashion Bratz still doesn't encompass girls or styles I'm attracted to. I have never seen them evolve into something particularly interesting to me.
These days I do like looking at people's custom dolls, BDJ etc.... though I can't ever see myself being invested enough to pay $$$ the price. Like puppetry, I just like seeing something realized in physical materials and rotated.
foxiefluffs are cockwarmers.. this is the first thing you have tweeted that made me go hmm? bc… what is floxiefluffs :<
ah its an old flash short from many years ago that was fairly wellknown at the time https://dagobah.net/flash/FoxyFluffs.swf very emblematic of its era.
I'm not even sure what year it's from ...
at least 2007?
what flavor of fruit gummy are your and bird’s ocs?
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