omg the dream beauty....! I found one at a garage sale when I was a kid and never since then, I love the perfume beauties!

ok did anyone else play the cluefinders computer games or freddi fish when they were reallly little? Freddi fish seems to be findable and playable but the clufinders not so much! Thats what Ive been trying to play lately. I remember about 10 years ago I think I played "The Longest Journey" and I've been thinking of trying to play that one again as well!

I just want a playline rochelle... that's all...

I feel like I remember seeing these in stores when I was little... they certainly are delightfully wierd! Youtuber xcanadensis has talked about them a couple times I think!

I miss the days of LiveJournal and deviantART. I guess they're sort of "social media" sites? But they didn't seem to really have the same problems that modern sites like Tumblr/Twitter/etc have - I mean, they felt like communities.

Me tooooo ;_; they were really dying when I started being more active on the internet but I still remember them fondly. Was anyone else on the babydeeeer community on livejournal? It was just for cute and pastel stuff, and I think that's where I got the idea that my put away toys could come back out and be an aesthetic ~collection~. Though I also miss the days of tumblr being super active, with tons of funny gif replies.

There's a lot to be said about reading and writing and peoples' attention spans and so on, but just focusing on hobby communities- the forum format is what works best! Tumblr and instagram were my main sm sites as a teenager, but neither of them works particularly well for hobby discussions, and tiktok even less so. How can there be any community or discussion if everyone is just... floating around in a random mass of content with no central point or way to ask anything text based? Tumblr is slightly better in this regard (you can be anonymous, post text posts), but still there is no centralized place where you know people with similar interests will see and interact with your posts (I know there are tags, but obviously those never worked very well and there was nothing preventing random other people from jumping in or flooding the tags with whatever else).

I've had some lovely interactions with people on instagram, but it's just so awkward. There is no way to ask a public question to the community, comments under a post are clunky and not great for carrying on a conversation in, and if you make a post it won't get seen unless you have tons of followers. You have to post consistently and post the same type of thing and I don't like feeling like a hobby becomes another to do list item.

If anyone knows of any other sites where I can discuss vintage toy collecting let me know~ reddit doesn't seem like the place, but I keep hearing people talk about facebook groups...

I always wanted Duchess Ravenhair. I know she was the bad one, but she was my favourite character and her doll is really pretty.

Duchess ravenwaves is the BEST. She's just got the best color combo/ aesthetic, what can I say. visitors can't see pics , please register or login
 The purple misty forest, the spooky castle, it's all great!
I've always wanted like...  a notebook or stationery set with her color and theme. She's got the coolest name too!

Why wasn't abbey in the fearidescent skulltimate secrets?! Would have been perfect with the snow theme. I can't decide whether to purchase her signature doll... not sure if it's worth 40 plus dollars or if I should wait until I could hopefully pick her up in person this summer. Also, I just want more Rochelle dolls please!!