At this point, I'm more or less caught up with my backlog of stuff I wanted to post on Sheezy! There's a few more things, but I either need to edit them or clean up/make some other things before I post them here lol. So, until then, I'm just gonna ramble about something else:

A few days ago, I finally completed a childhood goal nearly twenty years in the making, and that's finally completing my Jellybeanies collection! For some background, Jellybeanies was one of the fifty million Webkinz clones that came out during the mid-2000s, and had a scented plushie gimmick and some surprisingly detailed worldbuilding for a pretty basic virtual pet site. Each character had their own birthday and star sign, an element, and whole bunch of other unique tidbits in their character card, and the general aesthetics (element system! color-coded characters! cute fantasy world!) really appealed to me. I caught an ad for it while watching on-demand TV when I was seven, and became obsessed with the little guys! I'd ask for two new Jellybeanies every Christmas, and even though I didn't play on the website, I adored the plushies to bits. Unfortunately, the line quietly died off by the early 2010s with only one plush line to speak of, and also before I was able to get the last two beanies I needed: Peppermint Chocolate Penguin Palmer and Blue Orchid Bottlenose Dolphin Skye.

I ultimately managed to find a new-in-box Palmer on eBay in 2022, but had kind of given up on finding Skye. After all, the line was a flash-in-the-pan Webkinz clone that died not four years after it was made, and there was no way there'd be a huge market for any of that or anyone seriously selling these, right? I'd kinda made peace with that until one day, when I was talking about them with some friends, searched eBay for Jellybeanies on a whim... And found a lot with Skye, the very last Beanie I needed! She just came in today and is in super good quality, and once I figure out what box my last three beanies are in, I'm gonna do a photoshoot with my whole collection to celebrate!

Honestly, one day I'd like to get the rights to the series and revive it as like, a set of kids' books or a monster-catcher RPG or something, just because I feel they were way ahead of their time. If the series had been released like, a decade later, I'm sure they would've been huge hits with the kidcore/toycore crowd, and I'm taking this as my divine sign to do it (/j), considering that this happened right after I batted around a Jellybeanies rpg concept. Anyways, here's the commercial for the original line to leave things off.