I am dying laughing.

I was in 8th grade when the entire grade was taken to a community theater production for cats.

I had a Felicity and a Samantha.

I worked in the American Girls hair salon as a side gig one Christmas season, years ago. I would say the parents and grandparents were actually worse than the kids. I had a mom scream at me because I couldn’t untangle her daughter’s doll’s hair, which had I don’t know what it in - soap, gum...it was gross. A coworker…

I loved my doll so much when I was a kid. I took it everywhere, slept with it every night, and read the books over and over again. For some reason I don’t quite understand I read the catalog cover to cover every time it came. I mean, the content didn’t really change but I was an addict, I guess.

The doll hospital still exists. I sent in my old Samantha last year for a new head (her hair was decent, but I’d cut it as a kid) and they replaced the arms and legs for no additional charge (the skin tone had changed because my doll was a Christmas present in 1993). 

I need to know more. Also, I have an original Pleasant Company Samantha who had a bad haircut. Whatever happened to doll hospital!?

A friend of mine worked as an American Girl hairstylist for a while. She said it was absolutely haunting having these entitled shits treat an eerie-looking mannequin as a human

I hadn’t paid too much attention to Gabrielle Union’s firing, but this second one from the same parent company makes me want to do a little reading. I liked the way American Gods dealt with racism in the US. They didn’t shy away from showing the dark, ugly, realistic side of it. They didn’t sugar coat the narrative…

Anansi was one of the best parts of the show, if not the best. Was he angry? Fuck yeah. It wouldn’t make sense for this character, the way they portrayed him on the show, to be calm about slavery and racism. This was a stupid move.

For me, Jones (Mr.Nancy), McShane (Odin), and Schreiber (Mad Sweeney) made that show worth watching. Their performances gave real weight to Gaiman’s world.

“He’s not in this part of the book” seems like a pretty weak defense. Like, that doesn’t mean he’s fired, that means he’s on hold. Also, if you were planning on making Anansi Boys, and having Jones reprise his role for that, he also wouldn’t really be fired.

I have always been firmly in the “white chocolate is sickeningly sweet and completely unnecessary” category but now that I’ve learned the difference between the commercial stuff and what it’s supposed to taste like, I am willing to give the real stuff a try. I’ve gotta get my hands on one of those bars from…

I once had possession of a full length silk robe that was LINED with real chinchilla. Completely lined from head to toe. It was a really rich shade of reddish purple and had a twisted and coiled silk belt.

So that’s the name of this repulsive coat/jacket I keep seeing everywhere. I was calling it a stuffed animal or Muppet coat. It’s like the Gen Z version of the Starter jacket.

I was given a full length raccoon coat for my 21st birthday in 1989. I often joke that I received this gift approximately 9 months before wearing fur was deemed socially unacceptable. I didn’t ask for this coat, but now I had it and I was scared to wear it out, lest I be harassed.

Hear, hear! and ditto.

I feel the same way about genuine shearling as I do rabbit fur and leather. They’re in a different category than the rest of the fur market since these are natural by products of human consumption vs items like mink, ermine, and beaver. Just because it’s less common for people in the US to eat rabbit and mutton,…

Faux fur is just terrible for the environment. If you really want to wear fur that much, go to the thrift store and buy some. Nobody new dies, and tons of fine particles of shed plastic acrylic fiber don’t end up in the ocean. 

The Queen 2: More Crown, More Furious.