Me, myself and Hi ! 👋
Lady Miriro, The Seer of Briga
I am watching the gay pirate show, and I am trying very hard not to let it take over my life, but like Sisyphus, it's a task I attempt knowing I will fail
Shoenhut doll construction was fucking wild. You can show me as many examples as you want of it, and I still feel overwhelmed.
Like, their contribution to the toy industry in general is crazy, from how it was one of the biggest manufacturers in the United States to how no one outside of collectors knows of them now, but the sheer technological complexity of their play dolls is mind boggling.
This was the 1910s; ball jointing with string was the predominant method of movement, and composition was king. Shoenhut started out with toy pianos, and had only worked up to jointed dolls via their smaller scale circus line and a Teddy Roosevelt playset (yes, really).
The "All Wood Perfection Art Doll" was not only a mechanical marvel, but was specifically advertised as being durable and painted in such a way that it wouldn't (not for a while, at least) wear off or chip. They're a relic of a bygone "Made to Last Forever" mentality, and many of them can still hold their poses to this day.
fucking wild to simultaneously be living through a cultural moment where the middle class has absorbed the language of very milquetoast queer identification (pronouns in your zoom profile everyone or whatever) + certain modes of queerness have become more and more profitable as we cede more and more of our language and history to hegemonic forces of production, and the noose around bodily autonomy and gender presentation and the immediate safety of queer people both at the state and social level is tightening every single day. almost like assimilation & respectability politics were never going to save us and only functioned as a conduit for hypervisibility coming down hardest on the most vulnerable and unassimilable of us, or something.
'Lovers' by Max Svabinsky, 1896.
And from her touch, sprung the forest
A Keyleth from Vox Machina fanart.
forever and always insane about the fact that haunting means "heimsuchen" in german which literally translates to "homeseeking". a haunting is a search for a home you can never return to
The Goddess of the Hunt (and her best boy)
Rainy Friday in the city
Hope everyone had a great day, especially the ladies at the hair shop who called me beautiful and gave me special discounts
Hi. I'm Ene and I draw things. Sometimes it's frogs, sometimes it's people, other times it's my every day anxieties. Most of the time, I don't draw at all.
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