#clopening

[offtheheezayy]

just got back home and have work in 6 hours again save me someone tell my manager to just fire me at this point

[fabulous-gabulous-theartist]

The look on my face when I wake up for the second half of a clopening shift. I even went to bed at a reasonable time too.

You think I'd be used to it by now cause I've done it every Monday/Tuesday for about two years now, but nope!

[icedjuiceboxes]

"I am undone without you."

[bugchuckles]

its MY birthday and I get to pick the silly meme redraws

[isamovingon]

cutest dumpling cat ୨୧

[casquecest]

If I end up having to train on the brunch shift tomorrow, and I end up being as tired from my shift tonight as I was last night, how am I going to watch the Olympic men's marathon live at 2 AM, EDT??

The answer is lots of little naps, I think.

[jazzums]

i work from 8:30a-11:30p tomorrow :,3 the first two hours of that is a meeting n then i’ll probably get a 1-2 hour break somewhere in there but 😬

[fulgurbugs]

Hey just wanted to let you know I don't really comment on the doll posts because it's not really my field of expertise (transmasc and tend to avoid that stuff due to bad memories of people getting me dolls and other stereotypically "girl" stuff as a kid) but I still read through them when you post them because I love the way you "review" everything. For this last one, you imply that the eyeballs not being in the doll initially is a fairly common thing with large dolls? I'm curious why is that, do you know? Are the eyes something that could get damaged in transportation? (Also how do you even handle putting the eyeballs in the doll's head that is so disturbing hehe...)

so im not actually huuuuuge into bjds, they tend to have their own sort of community from like playline barbies and monster highs and everything set of collectors, but its to my understanding that basically most large ball-jointed dolls focus far more on their customization aspects than these little blind boxes do.

basically, a high end bjd can be pretty costly, and there’s a ton of different artists/studios out there making custom sculpts for collectors. typically, these are bought as a nude doll with no sort of clothes or wig or anything, and the person who’s buying that doll will buy those separately. part of this customization can be custom eyes, which you put in with putty (and you can use this to do things like give them a side glance, etc)

afaik most of these dolls will include their own set of eyes, but people like to swap out the eye chips for different colors and styles as they please, so the inside of the head is basically empty with eye holes to swap out the eyes

larger dolls usually have something like this instead of the faceplates that the mini ones i have do.

but even then, it’s popular to switch out the eyes of the little dolls too! for some of them on kikagoods i’ve seen additional eye chips etc that you can get.

some of the other little ones i have actually have little paper slips inside instead, and theres already a clear layer on the head so they look like more standard inset eyes

i also have a few more standard fashion dolls that have inset eyes as well! rainbow/shadow high dolls also have them, but they instead use eye “chips” that go in the front, since they aren’t meant to be swapped out like bjd eyes. of course, customizers still find a way, but i just find it interesting that there’s so many different approaches to getting the inset eye look.

as for why i don’t have any problem putting them in, you get desensitized to the “creepy” factor of dissassembled dolls pretty quickly, especially if you like to do customization. i’ve had disembodied parts everywhere, dolls with hair drying left out around sinks with their hands removed, blank faces from taking the paint off. i think at this point i can’t really find dolls creepy anymore. sure, my family will still get jumpscared by the occasional project doll left drying in an unexpected place, but im used to it lol

[knotty-et-al]

Knotty's art of today [2023/08/07]

[nerdymemes]

[tazmiilly]

holiday retail hours are going to be kicking my ASS

[tedhead]

day 1 of temporary full time employment: fuck this

[tariah23]

My boss tried to schedule me to open at another location on Sunday morning even tho I close tonight/tomorrow 😭… I will never do a closing/opening back to back. That’s ridiculous to me.

[safein-yourskin]

[lonelyroommp3]

In the spirit of getting to know you asks - do you work in a church or are you just at church a lot and volunteer? I can't work it out!

(Do people get paid to work in churches? I actually have no idea)

i actually work in a church as director of music! i do get paid (and it’s a pretty generous hourly rate especially for weddings & funerals) but being a regular old parish church it is a very very part time commitment so i do other things on the side too :)

[paradoxgavel]

iiiii am so burnt out from my job that i feel like i'm gonna explode