Who here likes plushies/stuffed animals?

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I love plushies very much (so fluffy! So huggable!) and was wondering if anyone else liked them as well!

I have a whole bunch of Cut the Rope Om Nom plushies that I like to sleep with.

Ever since I was a baby I've always loved teddy bears. I know it's not unusual for a child to love teddy bears but even now I still have a close relationship with my favourite teddy bear, a bit like Mr Bean with his teddy.

As a child I hardly liked baby dolls. I preferred to push a teddy bear around in my doll's pram. Teddy bears are much nicer and less creepy.

I bought a tiger costume for my plush cat.

Gold.

I think I'd like a plush if I had one.

Me, and dolls too.

It's one of the good things about being afab: a lot of my friends weren't introduced to the world of dolls early on in life (cos society is sexist and parents of the 90s didn't buy their cis sons dolls).

I've always liked to tell stories using dolls/soft toys.

I took a hiatus of it in my mid teens-breakdown, replacing it with playing the Sims.

After my breakdown I felt less like I had to act grown up so they came back

Only a few of my new ones have met my old ones... The ones I had left over.

I never was into the whole all the dolls are babies thing or the every day's a fashion show thing. They always had elaborate family trees & stuff going on & drama & personalities etc. Some of them get to be babies when they're first bought but it lasts for a year then toddler etc. Or I buy them with the intention they will be children/adults with backstories.

I think all kids should be given the chance to play with dolls & stuffed toys when they're young kids, it offers a chance at story telling. As kids grow older, kids of all genders get to decide what they're into and if a 7 yo says 'dolls aren't my thing' respect that but there's no reason not to give a 2 yo a ragdoll as well as a ball so they know all the choices are available to them. Who knows if that little boy you give a doll to might grow up to be a great writer telling a story he first came up with when playing with that doll?

I will NEVER tire of them

Me, but only the cute ones and/or the ones that are made of nice feeling material.

I hate that society has basically gender-locked plushies. I never considered them a female thing to a high extent, as I was not exposed to that much media when I was young. I did however have lots of plushies! (I still have quite a few of them.) Like, why shouldn't boys like plushies?? I think that's cool! Loving squishy huggable soft things is cool! They're great emotional support too.
(KT67, I didn't like dolls much either. I wasn't exposed to doll culture very much if at all growing up.)

I like plushies and have a few of them. I hope to someday get the rest of those Wind Waker plushies, they're super cute.

I love them and am always tempted to buy them.

I always thought boys just called their dolls action figures.

That's true. But they're branded and marketed so differently to plushies or dolls. They are seem as masculine, rather than feminine.

I've been collecting plush mascots at sporting events ever since I went to the 2010 Winter Olympic in Vancouver! I can't wait for sporting events to come back to normal so I can high-five the real ones

Which begs the questions:
When GI Joe goes home and does domestic things, does he become a doll?
If Barbie is doing action hero stuff, does she become an action figure?
What about Princess Leia? Is it a doll when you hold it and an action figure when I hold it, or does it depend on what we're pretending she's doing?

These are the sorts of questions that will keep me up all night.

Action figures are modern day toy soldiers...

I grew up reading a lot of books which were a lot before my time.

One was about a dolls' house and the dolls who lived in it. One of the dolls was independent (not a toy soldier from a set) and made of wood rather than tin. He was like a modern day GI Joe/Action Man.

They called him a 'doll' not an 'action figure'. By today's standards they'd have to say 'action figure' to show how masculine he was. The book was hardly written in progressive times but how they gendered him was just calling him 'him' and having him wear a soldier uniform rather than a dress. He was still a doll.

I wonder whether Action Man/GI Joe changed the language in order to get boys to only ask for their product/parents to only buy their product rather than other dolls?

Way I see it: if it's a toy human, it's a doll. If it's a toy bear, it's a teddy. If it's a toy other animal, it's a stuffed animal or a toy whatever it is like 'toy rabbit'. And they're all the same kind of toy - a mini character you can give a personality to.

They can all be friends with each other - I know that's not logically/actually true but it's an 'emotional truth' to me that all my stuffed animals are 'alive' and have feelings one way or another about each other, even the ones who are rivals.

My mum makes them so we have a whole menagerie! Everything from seagull to urangutan