Do you care if other people like your doll?

My mom just got two ponies. My brother likes designer clothing, and my grandparents play with their corvettes. I think I'm entitled to a couple fancy dolls. I don't care if they like them or not, either. Though, I do show them who I am getting, just to chit chat or validate a decision.

My Gramma loves all my dolls, and she can't wait until I get frankenstein. OuO' I don't spend a whole lot of time with my family though, we've always been sort of distant. I live with my grandparents, and help them out a lot, so I usually am a little more open and mindful to them...but I still get my dolls. :P And they do sit at the table on Holidays...and travel about the house for photos or just to visit.

 

I buy the dolls that I want as long as I can afford them. It's nice if other people like them but I couldn't care less if they don't People have different tastes and interests I don't feel any need to confirm to other peoples opinions on what I buy whether it's clothes, food or dolls. If my fiance doesn't like one of my dolls thats just tough luck lol, he has plently of figures and random bits of technology that aren't my style but I wouldn't dream of telling him not to get something he likes just because it's not to my taste.

 

I don't really care if they like them until they make a comment. It's okay for them to say they aren't into dolls or aren't a fan of a particular sculpt, but I feel as if I'm being personally attacked if they say they don't like MY dolls especially if they say it in a rude way. I was always taught that if you can't say something nice you shouldn't say anything at all, I just wish more people would follow that principle and not treat me like some crazy person for being a "grown up" with dolls.

I don't tend to ask other people's opinions on a sculpt I'm eyeing, if it fits the character and I like it then I'll go for it once I can afford it. It saves me worrying what they'll think, it's my hobby, my money, my taste, and therefore just my business.

 

I really couldn't care less. I live with my fiance and he absolutely HATES these dolls. But does that stop me? Nope!

Honestly, though, I don't care at all. When I fall for a doll, I fall for that doll and I don't bother asking what other people think about it. Might have something to do with how I'm making personalities for them the minute I decide to buy them, so they become part of my family at once. If others don't like them, fine. They're not the ones who will own them or care for them, so why care? ^^

 

No, I don't care whether or not someone else likes my doll, all that matters to me is that I love my doll and I think it looks good.

 

As far as I know, most of the hobbies/tastes I'm into were not approved by my family. And I'm talking about normal stuff like drawing, reading manga, gaming, collecting LivingDeadDolls, and now BJDs. So if I had listened to any of them, I would be an extremely unhappy person.

As for choosing a sculpt to please someone...your character, you get to choose. If it's their character, they get to choose.
The doll is yours...if you already have a sculpt in mind, then that's obviously the right choice. But you're so easily swayed, then that must mean you don't love the sculpt as much as you initially believed.

In all seriousness, though, I don't think anyone around me will be able to sway me in my doll choice. They might show me a picture of a doll that might interest me, but other than that, unless they've managed to crawl into my mind to SEE the characters in my head and understand what I'm after, I don't think they ever could.

 

No, I choose the dolls that I like, and the important thing is that they live up to my expectations. I'm not going to love a doll less because nobody else likes it. At the same time, it does hurt me when people call one of my darlings ugly or creepy, just because I'm fond of them. I'm also upset when people call my cat ugly, because she's my cat and I love her and I think she is the most beautiful cat in the world .

Very, very few people close to me "get" my doll hobby. But as long as it makes sense to me and having the dolls is fulfilling and makes me happy, I'm not going to care too much about negative opinions.

 

It would be NICE if others that I cared about liked my dolls. I don't care about the opinions of strangers, though.

But if I really liked a doll, I wouldn't care about what anyone else said. Even if they lived with me... I could just keep it away from common areas, if they really hated to look at it, but I wouldn't go totally hide it away, either. It's not going to kill anyone to look at a doll, even if they don't like it... so they should be considerate and just not look and not complain--and I'd try not to flaunt it in front of their faces. Seems fair to me!

 

I'm happy when others like my dolls, but I wouldn't expect it - even if my experiences so far have been really nice. So far I haven't encountered actual dislike, but if someone were to tell me a sculpt I picked was ugly ... well, it depends on what exactly they say. If they criticise things I can actually see, point out "flaws" that I might have overlooked, I might reconsider my decision ... if they tell me "that doll's ugly, I don't like it", I guess I'd ignore it. It's my doll after all, not theirs.

 

No. I like weird dolls. Just yesterday a friend called one of them creepy. The way I see it, if you don't see the beauty in them, that's your loss.

 

It's nice to have friends to squee with me over my dolls, but ultimately I buy dolls for me and no one else. It does not bother me at all if people don't like my dolls

 

I do tend to care a little about what others think - but I don't get too upset for example if they say my girls are scary to them (because I know many people are scared of dolls, especially ones as realistic as bjds). I guess it only ever really gets to me if they are being insulting - but that's not about what they say so much as their rude actions/words, which upset me? haha~ Ultimately my doll hobby is for me - it doesn't matter what others think.

 

Seeing as I'm paying hundreds of dollars on dolls, having people like them is an added bonus, but ultimately they are here for my enjoyment. If I were aiming for the approval of others, then that would defeat the point of a hobby, and I don't willingly want to make myself worried or upset on what everyone else thinks!

 

Sometimes I'll ask my spouse's opinion on a character doll ("Do you think this sculpt would make a good so-and-so?"). And I'll ask her, "What if I bought this doll?" when I'm worried about spending the money, because she always encourages me to do so. XD But I don't need someone else's opinion to know whether or not I like something.

My wife is the opposite. She always asks, "Do you like him/her?"

I think it's a personality thing. Some people just like validation of their preferences. And some people are concerned about the cost of the hobby.

 

No.

I know what the character should look like. No one else can get inside my head to see that. I don't care if a doll is "popular" or not, as long as it fits my mental image. I'm not buying dolls for anyone else, I am buying them for myself.

My darling husband however just makes things worse. "You should buy that! You deserve it!" no matter what I show him (even when I am only showing it to him to show him a really amazing sculpt and with no intentions of buying). Of course, I suspect he does this to keep me from complaining about his purchases....

 

Hmm.. not really. I like what I like. But if others like them too would be a plus point. Best if they don't give negative comments though...~

 

Well, yes and no. I will always pick only the molds that I like, no matter if others like them or not. But of course it affects me if someone says if they don't like the dolls that I have, but fortunately no one has said that they don't like them. But I consider it the same as insulting something else than I have, I simply think it's rude to insult someone's things that they like themselves. Our dolls and other things are ours.

They don't have to say good things about my dolls if they don't like them, but I don't think they need to say bad things either.

But it's been fine. :3 I have only one friend who doesn't like any doll generally, because he is bit afraid of them, but he never shoves it up my face. xD One time he even said that "This doll scares me less than your other dolls", Which was kinda a honor coming from him.

So no, other people's opinions wouldn't affect what I buy, but it would affect me how I view the persons saying bad things about the dolls that I choose.

 

AHAHAHAHAHA enabling spouses, you gotta love it.

I like it if I get compliments, but then again, who doesn't? I do have a friend whose opinions on my dolls I very much value, but in the end, I get what I want. I'm the one dropping the money, so really, my opinion is the only one that fundamentally matters.

 

I buy dolls that I like and do not let my family or friends influence my decisions. My husband has his hobbies too and usually has nothing to say about my stuff and vice versa. However there was one time when I showed him a particular doll sculpt that I liked he just didn't like her. Long story short I bought that sculpt anyhow and when she arrived he thought she was just great. At best my family members tolerate them but that still doesn't stop me from buying what I like.

 

It's definitely a bonus as I love when my friends are encouraging and I can discuss future doll purchases with them in conversation. However, I could really care less if they end up disliking them - can't please everyone!