Head hunting

\o/ I will be purchasing some Lumedoll Lumelight heads: elf Koit in tan, Blaze in yellow and Arine in tan. I'm very excited about Koit and Arine, as I love those sculpts, while Blaze will be a challenge. He looks stupefied in all the owner pics I've seen of him, so I'd like to try to make him look...uh...less stupefied. Typically, I like dolls with open mouths [witness Araminthe, Janvier Jett, Lola Paprika], but somehow Blaze tends to look like his train of thought is still boarding at the station.

Woo hoo! An excuse to hit up Hujoo for some bodies, at least two chocolate ones. Are you listening, Andrea? That's at least $40.00 of the way toward free s/h!

Akinator guesses fictional characters you're thinking of.

Entertaining. Works best with recent pop culture figures. Did not work with Willa Rahv, protagonist of the 1970s YA novel Early Disorder by Rebecca Jacobs, my favorite novel. It did, however, guess Jareth [hah!] and Candide [probably because it was developed by French people].

Cheapest BJDs ever!

Well, not the cheapest ever, just the cheapest I own personally.

So the aforementioned Lumedoll Lumelight heads are setting be back a total of $200.35, so that's about $66.78 a head.

I've got a 5StarDoll tiny body [$120.00] on the way for Blaze, and I'm gonna get Hujoo bodies for Koit and Arine [$20.00 apiece]. That would make Koit and Arine complete BJDs for <$100.00!

By the way, my definition of BJD at this point is a doll made of hollow parts and basically ball-shaped joints and strung with elastic. Head comes blank, with removable headcap and eyewells, but without hair. Custom painting, wigging, clothing, additive mods and/or subtractive mods are encouraged. Material can either be resin or something else [Hujoo makes some of its BJDs out of ABS plastic].

In other news, the Fairyland LittleFee body shown here is back on the market. It irritates me by being twice the price of a 5StarDoll tiny body, which is much superior for my purposes. I really wish it would go away already, but, if it doesn't sell, I might just keep it and use my by-then-perfected fats-making techniques to make an even shorter, fatter person.

Zombieville stats

These are all the denizens so far. Those names in brackets are the sculpt names of unassigned dolls. The Toxic Waste denizen is a person who has not been assigned a doll and who will probably end up being one of the people currently bracketed. "PWS" stands for person with spondis.

I'm thinking about changing Novella's name to Penelope, but I'm not sure if I can because she's been Novella for too long.

NO! MORE! WEIRD! NAMES!

 

 

Name	M/F	PWS	POC	Self ID	Fat
Anna	F	PWS		queer	ex-fat
Isabel	F	PWS		queer	fat
Carter	M			bi	fat
Béatrice	F			lesbian	fat
Dillon	M
Megan	F		POC
Dr. Z.	F	PWS	POC
Novella	F
[Metel]			POC
[Blaze]
[Koit]			POC
[Arine]			POC
Peter	M	PWS		straight
Chaz	F	PWS	POC
Theophany	F
Toxic Waste denizen

Visible articulation in doll photos

There's an interesting discussion currently on Figurvore about the above subject. Seneschal, the initial poster, asked why people don't erase/hide/edit out the articulation in their doll photos. He finds it a distracting problem that's easy to fix.

My response below:

When we engage with fictional realms, we agree to suspend our disbelief. I assume that, in most cases, when people see pictures of dolls, they agree to suspend their disbelief and therefore consider the dolls as representations of actual people. People can suspend their disbelief about pretty much anything if the story and characters interest them enough, so I operate under the assumption that my stories are cool enough to make visible joints pretty easy to ignore. People don't read my stuff to watch for obvious joints, so we [author and readers] are all in agreement that we are going to focus on other aspects. In conclusion, I think about articulation a lot because it facilitates realistic posing and body language, but I don't worry about visible joints.

In fact, I find erased joints very distracting. We all know we're playing with visibly articulated dolls, so we're all expecting [on some level] to see some obvious jointing. For me, erased joints call blatant attention to themselves. I end up getting pulled out of the fictional world and back into this one as I attempt to analyze the photographer's Photoshopping skillz.

People play with dolls for different reasons and wish to accomplish different things with their photos.

Shorter: Because some people think it's a feature, not a bug.