Dope And Diamonds

Just a personal opinion, and this isn't hate by any means, but I really dislike how G3 (primarily the cartoon) is sanitizing just about everything. This is a franchise where horror is so deeply embedded in its roots, yet it shies away from such themes to present them as G-rated as possible; for example, Shea (the showrunner for the cartoon) revealed Spectra never was a human, that she is born from other ghosts . . . I can't be the only one who thinks that's really dumb, right? Ghosts are people who have passed. Children understand that very simple concept, and it's not a concept that scares them, so I'm not sure why the show is so focused on removing any aspect that could be seen as vaguely macabre. This is a show that should embrace the macabre and yet I feel it's rejecting it

Anyone have one of those "1 like = 1 hour I starve myself" images?

I'm a man...

The fact that you did this on anon just further perpetuates my idea that older "aspecs" (mentally ill women) are pathetic

Asexual is a label for insecure 13-year-old girls (or “non-binary” people who are also just obviously females) who don’t think they’re ever going to have a relationship so they’re trying to save face. If you’re 20, or God forbid 30, and calling yourself “asexual,” that’s embarrassing. Grow up

I will never respect the “identity” of people who try to act like polyamory is a sexuality. It’s just simply not. If you try to use “polysexual” as a form of identity in the same vein as gay, lesbian, etc., then respectfully I just think you need to hang rope

People complaining about G3′s fashion being “typical teen clothes” is quite confusing to me because G1 was that too, especially for characters like Clawdeen and Lagoona. I see the sentiment “G3 isn’t groundbreaking like G1 fashion” a lot and I think the reason on why it was groundbreaking gets confused or lost a lot somehow—it was groundbreaking because before Monster High, the (alt) teen demographic had been completely untouched. Monster High opened up doors to revenue that a lot of doll companies had been completely ignorant too. It’s thanks to Monster High that dolls like Rainbow High exist, and what was groundbreaking for the time is now just the industry standard. The fashion wasn’t groundbreaking because the clothes themselves were actually unique. If anything, they were rather typical. Which comes back to G3. G3 of Monster High is in its essence purely just a modern interpretation of G1. Every character (with the exception of Clawdeen) remains with their aesthetic and has a 2022 design for a 2010 prompt. G3 was never going to be groundbreaking or boundary pushing because the reason why G1 was those things has been so misconstrued over time

I don’t hate her, but when you remove the doll from the playset, I find her pretty underwhelming tbh. When you have her on the seat next to the table and little umbrella, it’s cute, it’s cohesive, it works as a collective. But like, when you remove her from that, she’s pretty boring to me. Which she shouldn’t be. A doll should be able to stand for itself. I hate the excessive reuse of molds that aren’t even old from the earrings to the shoes to the sunglasses, I hate the lack of actual detailing on the dress—the criss-crossing ladder on her bodice should be actual lace or string rather than just printed material—and most of all, I hate how her make-up is just . . . The same thing she’s had for basically every doll.

I do love her hair and the actual playset, though. The mostly black hair looks stunning, and I love the seat and removable umbrella. IMO this doll would have been the perfect one to give her that large brim hat she wears in the animated show, it would have elevated it

Johnny Depp is friends with 3 (three) p3d0philes so yes I wholeheartedly think Amber Heard should have done worse

Perhaps it’s just me, but I feel like there’s an inherent disconnect between these two versions of the character. With the way doll Clawdeen’s shirt sits off her shoulders, how her make-up is more prominent and noticeable, and the way her glasses are an optional accessory rather than on her in the box (like Ghoulia for example) I can’t imagine her as the nerdy, geeky, kind of awkward character as she is in the cartoon. It’s the minor details that separates them in character (to me)

The one thing I don’t understand about G3 is Lagoona’s friendship with Toralei

They just seem like they’d clash? A big part of G3 Lagoona is her fascination with humans. She's a huge romantic who fantasizes about a grand, forbidden relationship between a monster and human . . . So then you pair her up with Toralei? The racist who hates humans? I get it’s probably to balance out Toralei’s personality, but they both seem a bit too far in the opposite extremes to me to make sense

Monster High was “edgy” in the sense that they wore mini-skirts and distinct, “heavy” make-up, not in the sense of actually having edgy, dark gothic fashion. Parents were up-in-arms over them looking like “hookers,” not that they were scary or too influenced by horror. And don’t get me wrong, Monster High did have horror elements incorporated into it. Rather heavily. But there’s a safe way to do that, which MH did. Their horror was no different than that of a Scooby-Doo episode, like come on be serious  🤥

It’s so crazy that this image was so focused on in the court case due to her “not having a bruise”

Despite the fact that the bruise is still there, evident by all the other photos taken at this time? You can still see it faintly in the above photo, It’s just faded. Because that’s what bruises do. Not to mention most likely covered by a thin layer of foundation?