bmouse
dankirkyyourbobbie-s
My Daughter, The Jock
Oh no, I’m crying.
This is one of my favorite things about being a parent: how you learn things that you might not have had to otherwise. That’s the thing about it–yes, I love my daughter and she is the focus of my parenting goals, but my experiences with her have helped me learn and grow in ways I never expected, and I’m grateful.
bmouse
Ah, what a nice day. I’m staring at the ocean, I’m about to go get donuts with two of my local besties who are in Florida with me, I’ll go to a mermaid show and then to a tiger sanctuary for a tour later this week… things really are aces.
Best of all, for a recovering perfectionist like me birthdays were traditionally a source of anxiety. I’d lie awake in bed gnawing on myself thinking: Have I accomplished enough? Am I still pretty now that I’m on the far north end of 22? Is my body OK? What’s going to go wrong in the future and how can I stop it?
I don’t really have those thoughts at the forefront of my mind anymore. They’re still there because even with a lot of therapy I’m still a bit crazy but they’re like a very small ant that’s crawling past my foot, way down there on the sand, so small I can barely make it out if I squint. It’s better to let my eyes unfocus and drift back the ocean.
I am enough, just the way I am today. Everything’s fine.
bmouse
It’s kind of awful how the majority of ‘cool’ and ‘worthwhile’ characters are thin.
And it’s all part of that shitty weirdly prevalent art school character design 101 bullshit where the shilouette is supposed to inform personality… but body-type doesn’t inform personality IRL. These things are not directly connected at all! And yet I look at every confident, life-loving sunshine badass (aka who I try to be every day) and damn if any of them have a body fat percentage over 20 and wide hips. I am so so tired of this shit, on tv, in animation, in shows set in the future or shows set in the past.
People bitch that it’s hard to make memorable original shows/content/characters. And it’s… really not. Just have characters who break that schilouette rule to pieces.
ladyyatexel
anthropwashere
i feel like the most important piece of wisdom i can impart on teenagers is that no one–no one–knows what the fuck they’re doing
my brother is 26 years old, makes $200k a year, and just bought a house with his fiance. he’s the success story you hear about but never actually meet in person, but it all happened by accident. he wanted to go to college for clarinet performance, but he got rejected from all the top schools. so he decided to major in physics instead, and then went on to get a doctorate to put off being an adult for a few more years. but then he ended up dropping out halfway through the program and accepting a job with google as a software engineer. so to reiterate: my brother majored in something he was not interested in, and then he got a job that had nothing to do with his degree.
he isn’t successful because he had some master plan he followed, he just stumbled around blindly until something worked out. and that’s what we’re all doing–i majored in political science and now i do customer service for a company that makes industrial-sized gas detection monitors. the marketing director at my company has a degree in biology, and my mom has an MBA and works at a middle school. no one knows what they’re doing, we’re all just trying different things until something works out.
so if you don’t have a plan, that’s fine. most of us don’t. and even those of us who do, don’t usually end up doing the thing they thought they would. it’s okay to relax and let life carry you wherever it’s gonna carry you. because even though a lot of us don’t end up doing the thing we wanted, most of us end up happy anyway.
I’ve been thinking about this post since I made it a few hours ago, and I realized that I literally don’t know anyone who’s doing what they thought they’d be doing at this point in their life.
I know a girl that has a degree in neuroscience and works in a restaurant (and makes quite a bit more money than I do, might I add), and a guy who wanted to be a parole officer but is now a security guard. I know people who wanted to be lawyers but ended up not having the grades for law school. I have a friend who’s 24 and just finished her bachelor’s, and two friends who decided to go to grad school because the idea of joining the adult world terrified them.
When I was seventeen, I was 100% sure that I was going to get a job as a bureaucrat and save the world. When I was a 21-year-old recent college grad, I found out that it’s impossible to get a government job unless you know someone. So I gave up and found something else. I know my teenage self would be disappointed if she could see where I’m at, but you know what? I don’t care. Because teenage me was an idiot. She didn’t know anything about the world or how it worked, and she couldn’t have possibly predicted the curveballs that life would throw at her. And because I don’t know a single person who’s doing the thing they wanted to do when they were teenagers.
I know a thousand people who aren’t where they thought they’d be, and zero people who are following the path they set out for themselves. All of us are confused and all of us are scared, and it’s okay if you are too.
Honestly thank u, i needed to hear this again
ladyyatexel
Anonymous asked:
WELL.
I’ve been interested in this as well!
The closest match that I have available to compare is a 90s gymnast body Christie (to the right of Tzipporah with the pink earrings in the first photo). Tzipporah falls right between her and the yellow top made to move (to the left of Tz).
I have three fresh dolls: Mia, Indigo, and Lynette. Mia and Indigo ( big fro and long braids) are too light and Lynette (puff wearing stripes and checks) is too dark. My single Prettie Girl Kimani ( glasses and blue necklace) is too dark, but her line has some skin diversity so that might be a decent place to check. There is also a skin tone in between the fresh dolls that I own that I would love to compare, but I just don’t have them. At least that narrows it down to maybe those ones. Tamra and Gabrielle, I think. They look like they’re a mid-tone between Mia and Lynette, anyway.
Black musician Barbie and the floral pants made to move are also both too dark. The tan and dark haired soccer made to move doll is not shown but she is also too light. She looks similar to the lighter fresh dolls in tone.
Tzipporah is warmer and redder, and most of the other girls are skewing cool or yellow.
So the answer from what I have available is a late 90s early 2000s gymnast body Christie. Unfortunately, I do not know which one she is, nor am I sure I would want to inflict that body on Tzipporah haha.
I’m sorry I can’t be of definitive help but maybe I’ve helped you eliminate some options!
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