Jello-o Gelatin Rainbow Cake Recipes, 1978. General Foods, USA. Via Eudaemonius / Flickr

Louis is basically that mom who loves you but loves her abusive husband more. Yeah, she loves you, but not enough to save you. She loves you just enough to keep you there, stuck with someone who hurts you, and someone who doesn’t love you enough to stop it.

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

Pining (Her lover smelled of clementines)

Some sketches tell stories sometimes.

A thousand things to do and remember to do every day. The insanity.

Shoenhut doll construction was fucking wild. You can show me as many examples as you want of it, and I still feel overwhelmed.

Like, their contribution to the toy industry in general is crazy, from how it was one of the biggest manufacturers in the United States to how no one outside of collectors knows of them now, but the sheer technological complexity of their play dolls is mind boggling.

This was the 1910s; ball jointing with string was the predominant method of movement, and composition was king. Shoenhut started out with toy pianos, and had only worked up to jointed dolls via their smaller scale circus line and a Teddy Roosevelt playset (yes, really).

The "All Wood Perfection Art Doll" was not only a mechanical marvel, but was specifically advertised as being durable and painted in such a way that it wouldn't (not for a while, at least) wear off or chip. They're a relic of a bygone "Made to Last Forever" mentality, and many of them can still hold their poses to this day.

I just need regular jeans bro, why is it so hard to find some ???

part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

Growing up is just learning to deal with disappointment, eh ?

3rd Lino design of the year !