AfteryearsI finally managed to get my hands on a Homura doll from the Takara Tomy Licca line, completing my set! Unfortunately Sayaka and Kyoko dolls were never made so this is it.
I got Mami and Madoka for pretty cheap in like 2014 and I’ve always wanted Homura to complete the set, but didn’t take the plunge until now. I found Homura on Yahoo Auctions Japan and while she ended up being way more expensive than the other two were I’m still happy!
These dolls are so pretty… I really wish they made more dolls for PMMM!
My Mami doll from the Pullip line! Pullip also made PMMM dolls and also left out Sayaka and Kyoko! Why do doll lines always do that?
I really wanna see a Madokami doll someday. Great to see another doll collector in the fandom!
Your Mami doll is so cute! And yeah, I’m a big fan of dolls! I have a bunch of Sailor Moon and Precure ones, and if PMMM made more of them/more affordable ones I’d buy those too.
Also, funnily enough, I also have these PMMM plushies that came out in 2011. For some reason, they alsoexcluded Sayaka and Kyoko.
I swear there’s also a few other lines of merchandise out there that only had Madoka, Homura, and Mami made. So weird!
Acquisitions! The two little guys from Disney’s Dinosaur were at a thrift shop, they’re the size of a regular schleich or safari fig but I was informed they were from Happy Meals and had another toy that attached to them and made them talk O_o
I question the accuracy of this Mononykus but I think it’s cute.
The new King Constantine I of the Hellenes after the assassination of his father, King George I.
You can see his wife, Queen Sophie, in a black veil, and his two eldest sons, George and Alexander, on either side of the royal couple.
Constantine was a first cousin of Nicholas II through the Danish line (and also a more distant cousin through Tsar Nicholas I), and Sophie was a first cousin of Alexandra Feodorovna through the British line.
OTMAA Contemporaries: Marta, Astrid and Carl of Sweden.
They were second cousins of OTMAA, their mother Ingeborg of Denmark being a first cousin of Nicholas II. They had an older sister, Margaretha (1899) who seems to have had a friendly correspondence with Maria Nikolaevna who was almost exactly the same age: Margaretha was born 25 June 1899, and Maria 26 June (14 Old Style).
Marta (or Martha) was born in 1901, the same year as Anastasia; Astrid in 1905, making her slightly younger than Alexei; and Carl in 1911.
Marta would eventually become Crown Princess of Norway (she died before her husband Olav ascended the throne, so was never Queen), and Astrid would become Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of Leopold III.
A few of my lovely, lovely pieces of BIF. Banded iron formations are old! They’re some of the oldest rock formations in the world, in fact, speculated to be caused by cyanobacteria learning how to photosynthesize and subsequently producing oxygen in the oceans. This new oxygen caused iron in the water to form oxides, which settled to the ocean floor and built up from there seasonally and new blooms created new iron deposits.
The red bands are silicates, usually jasper and usually red, but they can appear orange or purple as well. The black bands are the iron, either as hematite or magnetite. Formations can be found all over the world.
