detailed photoshoots of Barbies dressed up in different locations, like photo albums from vacations
Interestingly, I've seen this in media fandom too: "plastic incarnations," i.e. barbie doll versions of TV show characters, being made to act out scenes from various episodes and videoed/cut together with episode footage. It didn't last long and I haven't seen any new ones in more than a decade, but they're an interesting signal of the fact that many people on this earth grow up but don't ever stop playing with dolls.
Thinking of adoptee stories, one of my favorites is Momotaro, who is a foundling I suppose, although he was never lost by anybody. I suppose it's not really an adoptee story so much as a story about somebody (who is also an adoptee) who goes on to do exciting things, but anyway, I liked those exciting things very much when I was little.
Even when I was 10, I guessed that Taran of Prydain was a play on/gentle rebuke of standard high fantasy tropes, i.e. he is a foundling whose parentage cannot be known, like, prophecy said You Shall Not Know, because his deeds are more important than his heritage. It kind of bangs the anvil a bit hard, although it's also kind of neat to find examples that go against the standard tropes.
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Interestingly, I've seen this in media fandom too: "plastic incarnations," i.e. barbie doll versions of TV show characters, being made to act out scenes from various episodes and videoed/cut together with episode footage. It didn't last long and I haven't seen any new ones in more than a decade, but they're an interesting signal of the fact that many people on this earth grow up but don't ever stop playing with dolls.
Thinking of adoptee stories, one of my favorites is Momotaro, who is a foundling I suppose, although he was never lost by anybody. I suppose it's not really an adoptee story so much as a story about somebody (who is also an adoptee) who goes on to do exciting things, but anyway, I liked those exciting things very much when I was little.
Even when I was 10, I guessed that Taran of Prydain was a play on/gentle rebuke of standard high fantasy tropes, i.e. he is a foundling whose parentage cannot be known, like, prophecy said You Shall Not Know, because his deeds are more important than his heritage. It kind of bangs the anvil a bit hard, although it's also kind of neat to find examples that go against the standard tropes.