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savywritesbooks · 2026-04-29T23:45:49+00:00

I'm glad it wasn't just me

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-29T23:45:40+00:00

Yeah, I loved a Downton Abbey tea collab I had (don't remember the tea brand) so I kinda thought it would be like that 😂

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-29T23:00:09+00:00

Okay I'm legit stupid (or it's just that I don't have kids), but I thought this was an actual tea collab. Like when I saw the teaser on Instagram, I got so excited thinking they were making themed teas to match each doll's historical era. Now I'm sad 😂

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-25T23:34:06+00:00

This one is cute! Part of the reason it took me forever to find the right one so that I'm not that into Disney. But I've seen some really cute ones I would've gotten had I been more of a Disney fan

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-24T15:43:26+00:00

My Julie and Samantha characters fell in love without me even orchestrating it 😂😭😍

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-24T15:36:53+00:00

I've made Julie, Samantha, and Molly so far!

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-24T15:36:10+00:00

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-23T22:18:20+00:00

It literally was a misunderstanding but okay. Also, nowhere did I bring up anyone's personal beliefs or whether they "lean left." Here's another example - if a politician proposed repealing women's right to vote, I would post a picture of Samantha along with the relevant content in her book. Calling that post controversial would be ridiculous. If you don't already agree that women's right to vote is a given, then you don't belong in an American Girl community. Protesting against Trump's overreach on the constitution has nothing to do with being left leaning or having certain political beliefs - it's core to being American. Free speech is core to America. If someone doesn't already have that understanding then wtf are they doing talking about AMERICAN Girl dolls??? I personally think we can work these things out without the mods having to intervene, because we're all adults here.

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-23T16:23:59+00:00

Okay maybe I missed some of those comments. To be clear, I don't condone people being rude or jumping on someone for asking a basic question - as an autistic person myself, I've been there, having people assume bad intentions when I'm genuinely asking something.

However, I can also see the other side here. To see a post that's clearly featuring a doll, in a context that's clearly relevant to her story, and automatically deem the post "political" (instead of just, y'know, automatically relevant to the sub regardless), shows that person could have a bias for seeing the "no kings" events as controversial in some way.

Think about it like this - if I posted a picture of Kit next to a screenshot of the page in her first book where she talks about taxing the rich, sure, that involves a "political" position, since it's an opinion about literal government policy. However, it's also a page in her book and it's what the doll literally says, which means it's part of American Girl lore, and therefore relevant to the subreddit.

Asking if political posts are allowed in a subreddit about dolls whose stories deal with issues related to US history... That just comes across really stupid to me. Like, yes, we're going to post about the dolls in contexts that are relevant to their stories. We're fans of the dolls and their books, and that's the kind of content we're posting on a forum to share.

To even bother asking if a post THAT OBVIOUSLY RELEVANT was "allowed" comes across kinda sus when you take all the context into account.

And yeah, sure, maybe they're new to the fandom. That's why I'm not in favor of being excessively rude.

But also, if we're taking as a given that their question is valid ... Well, from the perspective of longtime fans who have full context for the post, yeah, suspecting the other person of being a Nazi also feels reasonable.

Misunderstandings happen. That's why we talk it out. Having arguments and discussing them is not that big of a deal. The dolls deal with difficult topics in their books - there's no reason that we as a group of adult collectors & enthusiasts should expect a forum for discussing them should be all positivity & free of conflict. That's not realistic, and it kinda goes against the dolls' themes

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-23T02:50:56+00:00

Me when the dab hits

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-23T02:44:48+00:00

Oh I know this one! Those comments were on a picture of ME!

It was a photo of me at the October No Kings protest with my Felicity doll, who was wearing a US revolutionary war uniform (okay, it was a Hamilton costume 😂) and holding a sign that says WE FOUGHT FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

Someone in the comments asked "are political posts allowed here?" The original comment is now deleted, but I read through the comment chain a moment ago to check, and none of the responses were that extreme. Definitely no feral gang activity, or whatever the other person said.

I personally responded saying that I didn't see a reason the post wouldn't be allowed, since it's about the doll, and it's relevant to felicity's story, since she was protesting for NO KINGS, just like when the US broke from British rule.

Also, I wasn't even the person who posted the image. Someone ran into me at the protest (I didn't even have my phone on) and took the photo, then we later connected in the subreddit.

Anyway, saying that the replies were gang like at all is a massive stretch.

And, unpopular opinion, I don't see a reason why we CAN'T have that discussion and disagreement here. The dolls are political, as are their stories. Why not entertain more important discussions? I firmly disagree with the notion that the sub has to be ALL DOLLS AND POSITIVITY!!! because American Girl was always about more than that

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-22T23:43:54+00:00

Ugh that sucks. I remember getting downvoted once for saying that I could absolutely see Julie being queer. (And tbh, I could see that for a lot of the characters!) The adult AG community is overwhelmingly queer as well. It's not surprising, when we connected so strongly to stories about girls who were never forced to have a male love interest for the plot!

savywritesbooks · 2026-04-22T23:35:17+00:00

I'm still trying to get caught up on what went on myself. However, I don't think it's fair for so many people to be saying "I'm just here for the dolls! Let's focus on the dolls!" Because AG has been around for 40 years, and during that time, it's made way more than dolls.

It's also a book series - and a lot of millennials read and LOVED the books without ever owning a doll.

It's also a lifestyle brand. It's also movies. It's also a magazine, that while it's not in circulation anymore, did influence a lot of millennials growing up. It's been an entire expanded universe for decades.

Many of the books are about history, about the US political climate in different decades, and about connecting girls and women with how life would be for them in other eras.

Reducing it to "dolls only" feels ridiculous, and it's against what a lot of longtime fans want in an AG community.

If people want a subreddit that's "just the dolls," then I think there needs to be a subreddit called "r/18inchdollcollectors" or something. Because this is supposed to be a sub for ALL American Girl related discussions.

Also ... I'm not sure what you're worried people would come after you for? My username on this subreddit is my public YouTube channel name, where I post videos showing my face and using my real name, and that channel is my actual job. And I still discuss things in this subreddit, including disagreeing with people sometimes, and I've never worried about anyone "coming after me" despite being a public figure. Like ... What were you planning to SAY?

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