DoA Members Over 30 Years Old~!

@Brightfires Im sorry your losing your MMO that sucks. Your boy is a gorgeous representation though. Im loving the trench coat and where did you find those wings? o.o they are amazing

 

Oh Brightfires, your guy is gorgeus!! And the wings are, just, spectacular! very beautiful!!!
I really love it!!

 

That is awful to hear about City of Heroes, Brightfires. I wonder what the decision behind it is, considering it seems like it still has a pretty active user base. Palrah the doll is lovely though. I love how you've managed a center part hair style. Why are they so difficult doll sized?

I've never gotten into any MMOs but with Marvel Universe coming out I'll prob get hooked.

I'm really excited that a shipping notice for my latest Bluefairy girl came yesterday. I love that they finally gave us another white skin preorder event. She's going to be a really rotten, awful shoujo manga villainess princess type.

I guess I am pretty lucky. My family has just given up on trying to understand my obsessions so they just ask what weird thing I've bought now. I occasionally take a doll into work because my boss and coworkers think they're interesting and sometimes ask to see my creepy dolls. Of course, my boss also wants to know all about my convention and cosplay exploits and my cubicle is decorated with Thor and Gundam toys. It's a pretty boring typical medical linen company office, but I am lucky to have fairly cool coworkers. One of my friends who is also a collector works with me and so last week we had dolly day.



Her's is on the left. Mine is on the right.

 

cute pics - the wings are fantastic

Fei-head arrived today and announced his name is Erol ... here's a quick pic of him blank:

<a target='_blank' title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/145/erolblank2.jpg/'><img src='http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9508/erolblank2.jpg' border='0'/></a><br>Uploaded with <a target='_blank' href='http://imageshack.us'>ImageShack.us</a>

(don't know if that HTML thing will work but the pic upload on here won't work for me - do I report that to the mods? )

I think I've missed that DiM Sergei I was after the seller still hasn't got back to me

 

FR, if you just paste this part it should do fine

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9508/erolblank2.jpg

 

I'm having so much trouble this week with the pic upload bit ... I click ok but nothing happens - not the best thing to happen to the tech-inept lol

Wish I had time to redo everyone's faceups (Erol, Ralphy, Aaron and Serena) but I have a jewellery swap project and 6 competition pieces to get finished *eek* ... maybe in a couple of weeks time, I really want to try out the masking fine lines thing ... plus I have to milliput the gap on Aeri's head closed (have to get one of the magnets out first) and give her a faceup as well, and restring Autumn, paint Merry, Moon, Iris and Amaryll and make some clothes for everyone! Oh and of course a group pic to celebrate 1 whole year in the hobby

 

FR: I see what you mean. The pic was there when I posted and now it's not but when I refreshed the screen it's there? Spooky!

 

I have to say I enjoyed COH myself, too. I didn't play as long as you, but I agree the character creation was just fantastic! I had an awesome healer called Nurse Anatomica and a fire damage dealer called The Super Volcano! It was really fun. Your doll though is gorgeous and looks way better than any 3-d rendering! All my dolls are characters from a Dungeons and Dragons game from long ago, so they are evolving as well.

 

I worked at computer games companies for 10 years, so odd hobbies were pretty accepted. I had McFarlane action figures (dragons and creatures, mostly) and Nene Thomas fantasy prints and Lord of the Rings statues (Legolas!) and such all over my office. It all fit right into the general culture. BUT... I have to say, that I was a bit reluctant to share the dolls with the office! Mostly guys there and I don't think they'd have been able to relate...

 

I'm a guy and I have a doll. Don't judge by stereotypes.

 

Alrick, guys who collect dolls are few and far between (except here! ). The majority of regular guys who aren't squicked out by them ACT like they are so their peers don't give them cr@p, especially in the *ordinary* workplace. Stating that the large contingent of guys working at a computer games company might not have been able to relate is NOT stereotyping, it's being realistic.

I have brought many different types of BJDs to the office (anthros, realistic, fantasy, etc.) and have yet to have a 'guy' express anything more than 'eh, yeah, you're kinda strange, you know?' Does that mean that ALL guys are that way? No.

Oh, and welcome to the thread. You sound like a highly creative person and I look forward to seeing your dolls and their photos in the future. I think you'll find there's all kinds of crazy nice doll folks here!

Donna

 

Thing is, I'm the type of person that could be working in a gaming company. I've been into Sci Fi since I was a small kid. I love Super Heroes. I've played just about every table top RP and card game there's been. From looking at me, you wouldn't think I'd ever go near a doll, yet I do own one. You really can't judge just because somebody seems like a "typical male." Especially those who already collect things like figures and other toys. *shrugs* Don't mean to start a fight or anything. It's just hard being a straight guy in this hobby. There's a giant stereotype against us that's very hard to fight off.

 

Welcome Alrick! My husband doesn't want dolls but totally gets them since many of his game figures, the big ones, are resin as well. I would argue actually that he had them before we did just his don't have joints

 

I really understand what you're saying Alrick, and though you are at the most painful peak of YOUR stereotype - the straight male doll collector, we all fight it - many of us fight it at work AND at home with our families (what is a grown woman doing playing with dolls? Why are you wasting your money on THAT? Blah, Blah, Blah).

When someone on the Over 30 thread or the Over 55 thread posts a blanket statement that could be construed as judgmental or stereotyping, it's said within the framework that we're all dolly peeps here and we are talking about our experiences and frustrations with the NON-dolly peeps. april had prefaced her statement with the fact that the space was full of 'action figures' and fantasy posters, etc. Most of her dolls are a bit on the 'girly girl' side. I think she was probably making a very well thought out assessment when she stated that she personally felt that the guys in her office wouldn't be able to 'relate' to her dolls. She was in no way stating that ALL guys don't relate to dolls.

 

Alrick, I can relate in a different way, I have been a tabletop RPG fanatic for 30 years. Now, in 2012 it's changed significantly, but when I started out gaming was a male-dominated world and people harassed me for years being a girl-gamer. Comics too, girls weren't going into the local comic book shop and buying X-men and Batman. My girl friends from school were NOT coming over on the weekend, getting dressed up and running around the woods with roman candles (aka: magic missiles) and sticks shaped into swords or staffs. (many injuries occurred, yes... but it was all in good fun) I was more than a little bit of an outcast. But I had a lot of great guy friends that I know to this day and they all happen to think my dollies are the Cat's Pyjamas!

I don't think that anyone here judges based on stereotypes... You're a dude with a doll, so what? I'm a woman with 18 managers answering to me 7 days a week that goes home after driving back and forth halfway across Indiana every day... that sits on the couch, taking phone calls, answering emails, preparing for board meetings, crunching numbers while tabletop role playing with my husband and sewing dolly clothes.

Call me what you will... I call myself happy.

We are all in good company at this place. I say, do what you love, life is too short. Welcome to the thread!

 

Spot On erellor!

I apologize if I wasn't clear when I was posting today... it's been a bear!

 

That's one of the things I always loved about Microsoft... The folks I worked with there had the best office toys, and no one ever said a thing about how off the wall some of them were. I even knew a guy at MSNBC who had a couple of miniature siege weapons. (He took off with one of my 30-side gaming dice one afternoon after I mentioned that it was the perfect size and weight for his tension catapult. 'Turned out I was right! He sent that thing flying half-way across the courtyard at RedWest. )

While I didn't have any of my crew at the time (Harumatsu and Tien Jen were purchased a few months after I went ronin and became a freelancer, in part so my home office wouldn't feel quite so empty after I'd spent so much time in the middle of Slate.com and MSN's very noisy, very interactive teams-), but I have no doubt at all they'd have fit in just fine. They're no weirder than an eight-foot-tall Kinects ferris wheel (with solar-powered motors to turn it-), a collection of several hundred Matchbox cars (They belonged to one of the MSN Autos devs-) or a couple of surfboards when you get right down to it. ^_^

And re: MMOs.... Funny you should mention Marvel, Kim. I signed up for the beta when I was at PAX Prime last weekend. Being a more Diablo-style game it won't be the same as playing around in the City, but I grew up reading Marvel comics and I'm still very fond of some of their characters. Running around busting bad-guys with my own version of the Scarlet Witch should still be some excellent fun.

And yeah. I can relate to the whole "geek girl"-thing. I've also been a tabletop RPG player for about thirty years (My first game was Traveller, way back in the "big black box of little black books" days-) and a comics reader for even longer. They used to be quite the boys-club. They still are in some ways, but it *has* gotten better.

 

dhawktx - No, you were clear, it just took forever to write my post as work pulled me away. When I finally got around to it, yours had been up 15 minutes!

 

erellor: Okies, thanks, I often overthink things and didn't want to come off all pedantic.

Alrick: Your profile says you're a toy photographer... are you freelance or with a comany? I'd love to see some of your work!

 

Woooow, you guys have some fascinating jobs! Me, I make car batteries in an un-air-conditioned factory. I would love to bring one or two of my dolls with me to keep me company, but I wouldn't dare. Mostly because the Floor (as in the main factory) is NOT the cleanest area to be bringing ANY expensive collectibles. Grease, oil, dirt, water, lead contamination ... you name it, it's there. The dolls would never survive unscathed.

As for my coworkers ... I dunno. They don't strike me as the type to be interested in this kind of hobby. But I admit this is just based on my observations of their behavior at work over the past ten years, so I could totally be wrong. We get along, but I don't see them outside of work, so I'm not close enough to any of them to know how they'd react. Given the behavior of some of them inside the workplace, those aren't the type I'd want to be friends with in the first place. Certainly wouldn't trust them around my dolls.

I'd love to work in a small office where coworkers know each other by name and socialize outside of work. We have so many people coming and going all the time (we hire a lot of temps), it's hard to keep track. Sometimes a coworker either quits or is fired, and I don't even notice until a few weeks when I realize I haven't seen them around for awhile. ^^;