Yu-Gi-Oh Singapore Dub

mouse hunt is actually a gothic horror, but y’ain’t ready for that observation

“I LOVE that game!” (watched a letsplay and commentary about it)

One part of me wants that my hyperfixations get popular n all

The other feels inexplicable rage when I see someone talk about it when they don't know every single thing about it. How DARE you use Masochism Tango without knowing that it was made by TOM LEHRER the man that CREATED JELLO SHOTS . How dare you use a frame of the Ludovico treatment without knowing that it made Malcom McDowell temporarily blind and can't name a Kubrick movie that isn't The Shining

Doctor Hermey will see you now!

i've been searching for this for an hour and a half

I'm honestly not entirely certain as there were definitely dolls available in 1918 that would seem to fit Ruth's criteria.

(source: Sears catalog, Fall/Winter 1918)

My best guess is that she was either referring to quality, and/or she wanted a doll with a bisque porcelain head and limbs - as that would have been the predominant style when her mother was a child.

By the late teens most doll heads/limbs were made of composition - a material consisting mainly of sawdust and glue. Composition dolls were marketed as "almost unbreakable" (as you can see above) which, considering how many late 19th/early 20th century letters to Santa involve stories of broken porcelain dolls, was definitely a needed innovation.

The most prized dolls at the time were made in Germany and France - which obviously meant that WWI severely interrupted the supply chain.

The fact that so many little girls coveted German-made dolls took a rather hilarious turn once the US and Germany were at war. I've found many, many dear Santa letters from children vehemently declaring that they would rather not have a doll at all than one made in Germany. Some went as far as to purposely break their German dolls in tiny fits of patriotism - such as Nancy from last year who had to request a new doll from Santa after she took her German-made doll and "chop it head off".

(source: Grand magasins du Louvre catalog, Christmas 1918.)

If you compare the Sears catalog dolls to dolls from a French catalog from the same period, you can definitely see the difference in quality - as well as the fact they more closely resemble dolls from when Ruth's mother was growing up.

Frederic Stanley - Costume Surprise, The Saturday Evening Post (1921)

I once got the titles "majora's mask" and "miracle mask" mixed up and it made me want to draw these.

Layton prequel trilogy spoilers below.