(for clarification, aotearoa is the original māori name for new zealand and is used widely across the country. nz is also often referred to as "aotearoa new zealand" instead of one or the other!!!)

please reblog because I'm kiwi and I need this to get to people who don't follow me directly for less biased results!!!

Listen. If all you know about Barbie is the movie, you need to know this:

Old dolls really aren't worth that much.

Nope, not even the original dolls from the early 1960s, not unless they are in absolutely pristine condition.

And every second-hand seller is out there ready to take advantage of the idea, held by most people, that "old doll automatically means valuable doll"

"The price being asked on eBay" is NOT the same as "the price the doll is worth"

And, ultimately, dolls are cheerful pieces of plastic. They are not vital to life--if you don't know me, I'll tell you I'm saying this as someone who has had fashion dolls as one of my main hobbies for decades. If you think something seems a bit expensive, it's perfectly OK to pass it by. It's just plastic.

There has always been a problem, especially on eBay, of predatory pricing sought by people who can't even tell the difference between a doll made in the 1960s versus one made in the 1990s that uses a 1960s copyrighted body.

Don't fall for it.

Adding to this PSA because someone at Cosmopolitan magazine fell for this old=valuable blunder. Now it's on the internet for all to see that someone purchased a budget doll ($15 max at time of release) for $200. Ariana Greenblatt was right when she chose that Extra barbie over the Pilot.

And the time of release was, what, about 7 years ago? Old enough not to be on store shelves anymore, but not old enough to be uncommon.

Fresh Strawberry Mousse Cake

Lighthouse in the Night

Prints here.

eepy 😴

Dutch people are like “we don’t need to wear a helmet when we ride our bikes, because unlike in the barbarous United States, we have simply outlawed traumatic brain injury”

Getting pampered

This dog is not squirmy enough for what’s happening to him

brionne from sun and moon

Pick a goddamn lane

Kwannon’s 2023 Hellfire Gala design by Luciano Vecchio

Read an absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking fanfic a while back about Aang’s oncoming passing and wanted to recreate one of the scenes! Haven’t made a comic comic in a while so this was soo much fun to draw, even though it took several weeks on and off 😭 If you enjoyed this, please read the full work on AO3 as there is some BEAUTIFUL prose that I had a hard time working into here. Also, be sure to give kudos and leave a comment for the author to see! 💖💖💖💖

also posting these two on their own :-) based on This post by @outpastthemoat

My mom asked my to draw something Barbie themed because of the movie that's coming out. Of course it had to be a lava lamp.

Arcane