Do your irl friends/family know your doll story?

Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't really share my doll stories with anyone, in person or otherwise. Most of my dolls don't really have a fleshed out story, so there's nothing to talk about there beyond their defining aesthetic and personality traits. One of them only has a story in an AU version of her that I play in FFXIV, but nothing in her own right. I'm sure stories will start coming to me when my collection is closer to a state of completion than what it currently is.

Eden, my current lone boy, has a decently fleshed out backstory, but it's honestly a little embarrassing to talk about with polite company due to much of the subject matter. The less I talk about it, the less I need to explain why I have a thing for pretty, obsessive murderboys in fiction.

Pretty much everyone in my life that is closer than a passing acquaintance knows I collect dolls, though! I'm not shy about my collection in general, just the expanded universe behind them.

 

My irl group of friends I met through this hobby and are all doll owners themselves, so yes I talk about my dolls and their stories a bit with them (mostly on discord). However, I'm a pretty introverted person and don't like a lot of attention so I post my doll stories in a place only a few know to even look. I write or make photostories for myself, rather than to share or get views/comments. I get very nervous talking about my own characters in person or even in an online voice call..I'm just very self conscious anytime I open my mouth I guess. And my family doesn't really care so I don't share details with them at all unless they ask something specific. (which they don't lol)

I'm much happier to just listen to my friends babble on and on about their dolls and characters. That said, I have been meaning to do more writing about my own group...should get on that. :P

 

I can say I take a lot of pride on my collection, both vinyl and resin dolls. I will show anyone who is close to me the photos, the wips, anything I feel like sharing, mostly because it makes me so happy and I feel true joy when I am talking about them.

 

My family and friends only know their names but i too embarrassed to tell anyone about their storys. Only my mum knows some of their stories but i wouldn‘t tell anyone else :,)

 

My immediate family knows about my doll collecting, growing up, I had a hard time of letting go of my dolls. My close friends know about my passion for collecting different types of dolls. Some of them tease me for my "eccentricities," but I rather be viewed as unconventional than boring or bland.

 

nonono never. I feel nervous even if someone not familiar with this hobby looks at my display case for too long But I am happy to show my dolls, tell their names and some general facts about bjds to a few close friends and family.

 

My dolls don't have fully fledged out backstories, they do in personality and likes/dislikes and so on, but not so much in their life story. My partner is the only one that knows about everything related to them (and helps in picking names and other stuff) but no one else knows even their names.
Even in the past when I might have been inclined to tell someone else something about them and I just mentioned that I gave them names or something else as basic they already look at me like I'm being childish. I have no time or energy to tell or explain anything to people that don't seem interested. It tends to be people that have no creative drive and so happens that most people around in my life are like that (this is obviously excluding the people I've met through the hobby). Whenever I found someone that has shown interest in the dolls on a deeper level is always people that writes, crafts, etc. The latest of them was an actor, showed a lot of interest and bombarded me with so many questions, what felt so nice for a change.

 

Only with close friends also in the hobby. But to my family, partner, or other friends, no. I even nearly never use their name to avoid looking crazy to other people's eyes. I use their company or mold names.

 

My Dad does and all my friends do! I’m lucky to have 3 doll collecting friends and one of them also collects bjd so we always try to do doll hangouts!

 

More people in my life know about my dolls’ stories than know about my dolls for the most part! I’ve been a writer literally as long as I’ve been able to put words on paper. So a ton of people have heard something about the stories I work on, and might not know that my room is full of 1/3 recreations of these characters. Everyone who knows about the dolls knows who they represent in the worlds I write.

 

My most close friends know about it but not my family. To them they are only expensive toys so I prefer not to talk about my feelings about my dolls and how I love to spoil them with new clothes or shoes.

 

Just my boyfriend does, and he's the only one I've let read the story I'm writing. Some of the themes and so on are too personal for me to feel comfortable to share the written story itself, however I wouldn't mind others knowing the general stuff, just... never really felt any urge to share those parts either? I don't know, the bf also happens to be the only one that's into reading fiction to begin with so I guess I just don't really see any point in talking about it to others as well.

After all, the reason I asked him to read it was mainly because I wanted to know if I was committing any major writing blunders while they would still be fairly easily fixable, rather than finish the story and only then find out there's some glaring issue with timelines or something. I have since started enjoying letting him read it just to see his reactions as well though... that groan when I've left it at a really cruel cliffhanger is just priceless.