#this is totally doable if male animals count

[datubooty]

a concept: autobiography divided by what fictional man i was obsessed with at the time and what that said about me

(is this a gentrified chronological kin list? no comment)

[matrixfairy]

50 BJD questions

from this post. I’m bored, so I thought I’d take some time and answer them.

1. Have your tastes in sculpts changed over the years? I don’t think so. I still like (most of) the same sculpts now as when I was first introduced to the BJD hobby. Cheekbones and strong noses is a reoccurring theme.

2. Do you have pre-made characters for the dolls that you get home which must fit a certain description, or, do you get them home and let inspiration hit? I’m leaning more towards the latter. If I find a sculpt i like i start to think of what type of character that sculpt could be. company pictures are often a big influence on what the character ends up as.

For example; Felix in a company photo:

and Felix as he looks now:

3. What do you do when you get hooked on a particular sculpt and want it home right here, right now but can’t as you have to save or some other reason? Well, actually, several of my dolls have been bought a little on impulse. It’s like, i find a doll i want, i look at my bank account, i look back at the doll, i spend a few days debating what to do, i look at the doll, i look at my bank account, i think “fuck it! i have money!”, i buy the doll and about a month later i realize i have barely no money.

4. How many dolls are too many to you personally? when i had two dolls i thought that was nice, but three was doable. when i had three dolls i thought that was nice, but four was doable. when i had four dolls i thought, this is good, i don’t need another. and then i got two more dolls and landed on six! that is the max number of dolls i’ve had so far, and that does feel like enough, for real this time. but who knows!

5. What are your thoughts on dolls with already pre-existing characters from movies/books/cartoons/etc.? eh, i’m not so much for that. fine if companies create characters/stories for their events and such, but i don’t really get the whole “here’s a mini version of this character from that thing”. i don’t want to “adopt” someone else’s character, i want to create my own.

6. Acrylic, glass or urethane? And why? glass or urethane. though some of my boys have acrylics. i just thing the former looks better.

7. How much does yellowing bother you? What is acceptable before you want something done to liven up that old yellow resin skin? the only one of my crew who’s got visible yellowing is felix, because he’s the oldest and i had him out in the sun a lot during his first year. it doesn’t really bother me, because it’s pretty even and it’s not super obvious with face up and body blush. it did bother me a little when i got him new hands, and they were so much more pink than his arms, but instead of doing something to de-yellow him, i just blushed his hands to match his forearms.

8. What are your thoughts on anthro BJDs vs actual animal BJDs? i kinda want a doll with hooves, horns and funny ears, because i think it’s cute and it can be used for really cool characters. animal dolls are cool, but not anything i’d be interested in getting.

9. How small is too small? How tall is too tall? Or does height even matter to you? I prefer dolls in the 60-70cm height. i could possibly go down to 50cm. over 70cm feels like a little too much though. 

10. Do you talk with your resin buddies while painting them, dressing them, just because? I talk to my crew a lot. when dressing them, when posing them or just randomly when i walk past. there’s a lot of “come here, let me just..., what are you doing?, come on i know you can do this” etc.

fun story: i had a friend’s doll at my place for a while and decided to take some photos of him with my own dolls. when i posed my friend’s doll it was all “could you do this, please?” while i carefully adjusted arms and legs and tested out the flexibility of joints. and when i posed my own it was “bitch, do what i tell you!” while pulling and bending joints like i wanted. (not to say that i’m not careful with my dolls, i just know better how their joints work and how to pose them, than other people’s dolls).

11. Do you have a doll you love but will probably never have because finances or impossible to get?   the 5th motif venitu is my grail doll, but i don’t think i’ll ever own one since they have been discontinued and are very hard to get secondhand, because everyone loves them.

12. Do you have a favourite clothing company where you go and buy clothing and/or shoes from?   nah

13. Your favourite pair of shoes you ever got home? Picture please!   I like these shoes a lot, because i want a pair like them

14. Favourite accessory and, again, picture!   not sure these count as accessories, but yeah

15. How many times have you had to redo a face-up in a day?   never really had to redo an entire faceup, but eyebrows...i can never seem to get them right on the first try

16. Ever sat screaming and cursing at your sewing machine? Or even if you’ve sown something by hand? Tell us a bit about one of those silly outbursts!   i don’t get loud-angry a lot, it’s more heavy sighing and questioning my life choices. and while i do sew a lot, i haven’t really had any major mishaps. i have on occasion made two right/left legs when making pants, though.

17. In the past year have you had to find homes for some of your resin buddies?   am looking for a new home for one of my dolls right now. my souldoll madalyn/shiva hybrid. she’s on DoA.

here’s a link

18. Have you ever made any miniature furniture of any kind or do you prefer to buy it?   never made, never bought. i would like to have more props for my dolls, but right now i have no space to store them so...maybe later.

19. What would you do if one of your dolls went green or banana yellow? Would you try and salvage the damage somehow by mods and the like, or would you reinvent their character?   I would probably start by trying to undo the damage, but if it was irreversible i think i’d end up re-designing the character, using the damage somehow. 

20. Ever got two dolls or more home in a year? i got ronja in december 2014 and a body for thoms in january 2015. tan-tan came home in january 2016 and Bellis in july 2016.

21. Are there a certain theme going style/face-up/accessory/other wise? Or are they all fairly different from one another?   both, i’d say. i prefer more realistic faceups, usually on the slightly darker side. 90% of all clothes i own are grey or black and i kinda like the bad boy/rocker style. but at the same time, each of my dolls has their own personality and key fashion points. 

22. How much is too much to pay for a doll/how little is too little? And why?   i don’t think i have a “too little” line. i don’t mind stuff being cheap (but i still want quality so...). and i don’t think i’d ever pay more than 700$ for a doll. 700 is A LOT!

23. Do you do mods? Show us some of your work! Would you do them on rare/limited sculpts? i don’t do mods. but if i had a limited/rare sculp and i knew how to mod and was sure of it turning out good, then sure, i might go for it.

24. Do you prefer getting dolls home blank so that you can do your own face-up, or, do you prefer to have the company paint them for you?   i always prefer a professional faceup over my own. (fucking eyebrows...!) but only 2 dolls have come home with company faceups, one with faceup by previous owner and three blank. but i do enjoy painting them, so it’s fine.

25. Do you keep up with the various companies releases, events and the like?   nah

26. Ever hated having to cover up a body with clothing because the sculpting was absolutely divine and you’d rather just be able to watch all that naked glory for all time?   thoms has a doll chateau body, and while it’s not exactly “pretty”, it’s still a piece of art and i love all the angles on it. i don’t mind the others having clothes so much. but i do adore tan-tans hips and felix’s back a lot...

27. What is your favourite wig brand?   home made. a wig you make yourself can literally look exactly however you want. and they always fit perfectly.

28. How many pairs of shoes do you own for your dolls?   I currently have a total of 7 pairs, but three are for sale. (poor thoms has no shoes).

29. How many wigs do you have for your dolls?   uh, 8? i think. two of which are also for sale. two are sort of home made experiments.

30. Do you have a favourite set of clothing? Do you own it? And if, picture please!   i have several pieces of clothing that i really like, but i don’t really have a full set. but i am very fond of zack’s whole outfit. and i don’t actually have a photo of it...not with the right shoes anyway. huh.

31. Do you have a favourite outfit you’ve made yourself?   so far i’m pretty proud over tan-tan and bellis’ outfits. most of them are made by me

32. Ever commissioned someone? And what for?   nope

33. How many pair of eyes do you have, spare and in use combined? seven? five in use and two spare pairs. no, wait, three spare, one of which is for sale. 

34. Ever called in sick because of an incoming package?   nope

35. What have been you longest wait? And the shortest? i think zack was the longest. he was almost two months late. the shortest was ronja. i bought her secondhand from someone in sweden, so she arrived only after a few days. 

36. Do you prefer shooting single shots or group pictures?   single or pairs. 

37. Do you prefer male or female dolls?   male

38. Ever had that one piece of accessory you could never quite find and are still searching for years later? i don’t think so. 

39. Ever had trouble settling for a sculpt for a given character and had to buy multiple sculpts home before finding that perfect one?   nope. i make the character based on sculpt, not the other way around.

40. Do you keep a journal in where you write all of your doll related ideas and plans even if they wont always come to fruition?   no. i keep most of it in my head, write some notes on stores and such on the computer and have various clothing and accessory scribbles all over, in different sketchpads and notebooks.

41. Ever shot some naughty naked/nude pictures? If not, why? yep! have done some “artistic nudes” in the past, as well as some naughty couples with a friend.   

42. What are the longest time you’ve had a layaway running? If you’ve never done one, why are you refraining from making use of this service? never done one, and not sure i ever will. i prefer to pay it all at once. dunno why. 

43. Do you mind not being able finding a whole lot of pictures of a given sculpt you want home or do you like it’s exclusivity? i’m pretty okay not finding owner pictures of sculpts i want to buy. if i find myself very indecisive i might go looking for owner pictures and be frustrated if there aren’t any. bellis was such a case. when i first saw him i fell head over heels in love with him, but when i saw the company photos of his profile i hesitated because it looked very weird to me. it still looks weird, but i love him too much to care. 

44. Are you more of a share all the pictures type of person or more of a keeping them all to yourself and only share a select few?   it depends on where i upload the photos. some sites gets all the photos, both the good, the bad and the weird. other sites only get the good, edited ones.

45. How good are you at sticking to your plans if, say, you told yourself you only were to bring home one more this year and then go on a break? i’d say i’m kind of good at it? i recently got an offer to buy a head i want, and it was hard to decline it, but i knew i had to because i don’t have much of an income right now and i need a new computer first.  

46. What doll body is your favourite? don’t really know. i mean, thoms is pretty to look at. zack is the easiest to find clothes for, felix is the steadiest, you just smack him down and he’s stand there. tan-tan and bellis are both easy to pose and pretty enough. so yeah, i don’t know.

47. Who in your resin crew has gone through the biggest transformation since arrival?   none of them have really had a complete transformation. i upgraded zack’s style once, but it wasn’t that big a change. the biggest was probably making him blond? felix has overall changed a bit, but that’s mostly because he didn’t have much clothes back when i got him.

48. Do you pamper some more than others? zack and felix are probably a little more pampered than the others. but they are the olest ones, so it makes sense to me. 

49. Ever bought something (dolls, clothing, accessories)  that looked amazing in the pictures but turned out to be nothing like it upon arrival? a couple of wigs. they have been too big, or just not the same style as the pictures. 

50. What are your continued plans for this year? hopefully i will get my thumb out and continue with bellis and tan-tan’s outfits. i also want to make new wigs for zack and bellis, get shoes and new pants for thoms aaand give all but felix new faceups and body blushes.