How cute is this???: siren mini BJD of printed plastic

If I ever want to execute my mecha siren concept that I was going to use for Lura, I can always do it with this little therianthropic cutie by Silverbeam, an Etsy shop owner who uses a combination of digital sculpting and 3-D printing on demand to create 1:12 scale BJDs. She also offers several other therianthropic BJDs, but I am surprised that there are no merpeople, snake people or centaurs. There is, however, a design-your-own option from which you could easily get the therianthropic mini BJD of your choice.

Thanks for nothing, free sites.

Well, Front Porch Forum, Craigslist and Ebay Classifieds yielded no results for my BTVS DVDs, so they went to Ebay, where they already have bids. Sometimes living in a small state really annoys me.

The world needs fat mermaids.

Now that I'm an accomplished [hah hah] maker of 1:6 scale fat dolls from 1:3 scale toddler BJDs, I perk up whenever I see mermaid parts from Soom Wave and Soda Sea Elves on the DOA marketplace. As Teenie Gems, they are the 1:3 scale toddlers of the Soom Gem line. I could very easily splice a 5StarDoll tiny torso with the Soom Wave/Soda mer-parts and have a FAT MERMAID!!!!

I'm regretting that I passed on the Soom Faery Legend merdude Azur, so I might create my own 1:6 scale mermaid BJD to hang out with the other fairies.

EDIT: There's also the option of buying a Planetdoll Mini Aqua and plopping on a truly 1:6 scale head, but I have a hard time getting over how the tail starts below the crotch. No, merfolk do not have human genitalia and excretory systems!

Baby Faery Legends in the form of Soom's latest Monthly Dolls

Soom's latest theme for Monthly Dolls is Fairy Tales, so they just came out with some characters from Thumbelina, including Thumbelina and the Flower Fairy Prince, as well as the Toad and the Field Mouse.

Thumbelina and the Prince are Neo Angelregion Timps, which means that they are ~11cm tall. [Other measurements are here.] Like the mature 1:6 scale Faery Legends, Thumbelina and the Flower Fairy Prince come with faery wings and faery feets in translucent resin. They are pretty cute and also good for adding diversity of age to one's Faery Legend troupe.

...Nope. All my fairies are adults.

Comic software mini reviews and a whole lot of rage

All I want is a piece of comic creation software that has an intuitive, user-friendly UI, customizable, reuseable panel templates, decent documentation and/or tech support, word art and graphic insertions [like sound effects or hearts over someone's head], thought bubbles with the appropriate stems [dots connecting to people's heads, not stems like speech bubbles!] and a price that doesn't break the bank! Is that so hard? 

Yes, apparently.

I am this close to giving up on specialized comic creation software and making my own templates and such in PhotoShop Elements or equivalent.

I used to do very basic layout in PhotoShop Elements by stacking panels in a long column, then adding speech balloons from Elements' premade selections. I then tried a variety of comic layout programs. All of them have saved me some time by automating panel creation, balloon formatting, sound effect creation, etc., but none of them have been exactly to my liking.

Planetwide Games' Comic Book Creator was simple, intuitive, cheap, customizable and possessed of the sound effects and thought bubbles I wanted. However, it offered limited resizing of imported photos and no customizable speech balloons. Thankfully, this program is out of print, so I don't have to warn you to stay away from it.

I moved on to Comic Life by Plasq. More complex than Comic Book Creator, Comic Life was still cheap and somewhat customizable, with more sophisticated speech balloons and options for photo manipulation. Unfortunately, Comic Book Creator lacked adequate documentation, especially on creating reuseable templates. Plus Plasq didn't give a shit about Windows users, so tech support was nonexistent.

Then I tried Manga Studio EX. A bloated Japanese import translated and licensed by Smith Micro, Manga Studio EX came with a huge manual, but that could not compensate for all the little details lost in translation. Manga Studio had the capability to make and save custom page/panel templates, and it could do sophisticated manipulation of imported photos. However, I couldn't stand the cluttered, user-hostile UI and the fact that all the thought balloons had stems, not dots, connecting to the thinker's head. While under $100.00, Manga Studio was also the most expensive of all the comic creation software I had used so far.

I'm currently testing Summitsoft's Comic Creator. It's cheap, simple, pretty intuitive, with word art and graphic insertions. But I cannot figure out how to create and reuse my own custom page templates or avoid the stupid startup screen. There's also no tech support and ridiculously basic documentation.

In conclusion, I do not recommend Comic Book Creator, Manga Studio or Comic Creator. Of the four specialized programs I've tested, I hate Comic Life the least, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

And this is why I'm almost certainly going back to PhotoShop Elements...because everything else STINKS! 

BJD with swappable tongues!!!

Let's see...I've seen BJDs with swappable faceplates, ears, hands, feet, penises, legs, wings, torsos and eyelids, but I have never before seen a BJD with swappable tongues.

Behold Immortality of Soul's Infernale, a very pointy, stylized dude with narrow eyes and an open mouth done convincingly. He has two optional magnetic tongues; one is just sticking out [:p], while the other is licking his top lip [:d]. I admire his adherence to the angular, squinty bishounen aesthetic, as well as the obvious joy with which he was sculpted.

All my sets and medium-size things, 03/06/2013: all in one place!

All my 1:6 scale dolls, sets, medium-size things and accessories are now in one place: my house! Here are all my sets and medium-size things. Blue upholstered chair, bed, car, white framed window and two-tube lamp are new since last inventory. Trees, weapons and tombstones have been around for a while, but were never documented till now. 

Thinking about getting rid of 12-pane window, antique phones, wooden scene in glass case, round starry chair and fish tank.

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