I wasn’t really a fashion-focused tween, but I spent a lot of time in the mid-aughts looking for paper doll games that I could use to create my original characters. I think that must have been how I ...

It was the early 2000s, I was 11 and living at my grandmother’s house in Missouri for the summer. The rubber bands on my braces were a mildewy shade of purple, and I had just developed my first ...