whoever invented stuffed animals really just understood whats important in life. sometimes you just wanna hold a guy
Im sorry but this calls for a story time
This is Margarete Steiff, founder of the Steiff Toy Company (They make mainly stuffed animals in case you didn’t know)
She was paralyzed due to Polio and was discriminated against very much for growing up in conservative Germany in the 1840´s, the townspeople literally arguing her father should just let her drown one time because she would never be “of any use”
But she was very determined to make something of her life, when an operation meant to help her walk failed she said she had to find something else to focus on, so she started sewing dresses, more importantly she started sewing dresses with a sewing machine (because it was easier to handle with one hand) wich received major backlash because bigoted people don’t like new things or disabled people doing things differently
Anyway she also made needle cushions to sell, and these were elephant shaped, She quickly realized that children love these things to play with, wich was a fairly new thing because most toys were made out of hard material or rag-dolls at the time, so stuffed animals really weren’t a thing
Steiff loved the concept and quickly turned to make more “animal dolls”, she even asked her brother for help going to local Zoos sketching the animals so she could use it as reference
The concept quickly took of and She was able to found a company giving work to many more seamstresses in town, but then the economy crisis struck and the Steiff company was on the verge of closing down
The last hope was a toy fair, if they could sell a large number of stuffed animals there it might save the company, And they indeed did get lucky, because they meet an overexcited American who fell in love with the stuffed bears they had made, for they were so life like, the man bought the entire stock and ordered thousands more in advance wich saved the company
Now you may wonder, why does one weird American need thousands of stuffed bears? Well to advertise for the presidency campaign of Theodore Roosevelt wich resulted in the stuffed bear becoming widely know as the Teddy Bear
Thank you, Margarete, for setting into motion the events that would lead to my plushie addiction.
I need Han to accidentally be force strong, mostly because HE WOULD HATE THAT SO MUCH
“Wow so you’re basically a self-taught Jedi”
“WHAT–ARE YOU–I’M THE BEST PILOT IN–”
“That’s force shit”
“I’M AN EXCELLENT SHOT”
“Yeah, because of the force”
“I’M INCREDIBLY PERSUASIVE”
“That’s the force making people believe your terrible lies against all reason ”
“I’LL SEE YOU IN HELL”
George Lucas can pry Force Sensitive Han from my cold dead hands.
I love everything about this theory, but my favourite part of it by far is now utterly offended he’d be by the suggestion.
I live in the hope of Force-Ghost Han
God, he’d be SO MAD. Just hanging out with the other force ghosts and so goddamned bitter about it.
And I want Anakin to be weirdly angry about Han breaking up with Leia, because she was the best thing that ever happened to him and Han still 100% not being over that he is VADER and tortured both of them. Oh oh no, I think I am developing Force Ghost headcanons.
I would watch and enjoy a movie about Han Solo leading a force ghost heist of some kind, complaining angrily the entire time. None of the movie characters who have become force ghosts were known for their ability to give a solitary fuck, and the bickering would be spectacular. Yoda making puns about how he can see right through people. Han claiming Obi Wan still owes him money. The fuck are you going to do with money in the afterlife, Solo? I’m gonna roll it up into A STICK AND BEAT YOU WITH IT SO HARD YOUR SON FEELS IT THROUGH THE FORCE, SKYWALKER. Obi Wan immediately hands him ten force ghost star wars dollars.
Stormtroopers constantly walking through them. At one point they recruit a force sensitive storm trooper they discover when she asks them if they can keep the petty bitching to a dull roar. She’s been there the whole time but hates her job so she just kept quiet about all the force yelling in the Death Star mark XXIV control room until now.
If you haven’t seen or heard of Kipo and the Age of WonderBeasts, I highly recommend you watch it. It’s simultaneously one of the most heartwarming and action-packed cartoons on Netflix in only its first season. The writing and characters in this show are phenomenal, especially Kipo,(the Pink girl). A lost child who is way out of her league in a world where she is target #1 for countless seemingly ruthless creatures. With her idealistic, insightful, and heart bigger than that monkey is a beckon of hope for almost everyone she meets, human or Mute in this harsh post-apocalyptic landscape. All without sacrificing her believability as a person, also unpopular opinion this my favorite song in the show.
I know that the “billionaire playboy” look is important to B’s look but honestly if the joker or smthn tried to kill someone at a gala and Bruce fuckin decked him everyone would probably just be like “damn these Gotham boys are just Like That huh”
Too true, the actual reason nobody makes Bruce Wayne the Batman seriously is because the entirety of Gotham is ridiculous and Like That
Reporter: Mister Wayne, how did you find the courage to punch the Joker?
Bruce: That clown comes to my party, threatens my guests and my children - of course I deck him. What else was I supposed to do? Wait for Batman to show up?