Doll Faux Pas

YoSD are Volks' baby line. Here is an amazing Tiny doll comparison photo, and the YoSD is in the back third on the left. Warning for naked babies!

 

I can never, never remember different sculpts. I can usually just recognize the more disctinctive and more popular ones.

THEY CAN LOOK SO SIMILAR DARNIT

 

Ugh, agreed. I will never understand people who can just look at a sculpt and go, "Yup, that's obviously a Volks YoSD Tanpopo in Beauty White resin, probably from the 2003 batch." It baffles. Then again, my dad plays classical cello and he can pick out classical composers just from listening to a few minutes of one of their songs--I guess it comes with practice.

 

It's part practice, part obsession

 

I think my biggest thing was thinking that some where was a large online list of all dollie manufactuers that I could browse through. I felt so overwhelmed I had no idea where to even start shopping for a doll. It wasn't the price or wanting a "cheap doll" it was more a "where to buy" issue. In my head I just wanted there to be a giant online doll mall where you could buy anything you could possibly need for a doll, or at least get a link to a site to find it. Or that there was some secret place everyone went to find great values on doll accessories. LOL like a secret club. Of course there is the marketplace here which is very nice for the browsing. Even now I feel overwhelmed sometimes trying to find the exact right mold. There are just so many companies. It has taken me a year to find the right SD sized girl, and even then I'm sure I've missed plenty that I might like better. I doubt I've seen even half of the existing SD girl dolls.

I do have trouble with pronunciation too. But I try not to feel too bad about it. I grew up with a very hard to pronounce last name. No one ever got it right on the first try. I married a man with a very simple last name and you know people still mispronounce it. It is spelled exactly like it sounds. People just seem to want to make it harder than it is for some reason. I guess it looks to easy so we must be trying to trick them or something. Names can be tricky, phonetic rules don't always apply, and names from other cultures can have totally diffrent rules. So I give it my best shot and hope some one will understand and correct me if I am wrong.

 

that was my biggest thing too

 

I feel very much the same. Overwhelmed.

A friend of mine just got her first doll and I love him but I want to make sure my first doll is like.... so amazingly perfect for me.

 

Doll Faux Pas I've done:

*calling EVERY bjd a "Dollfie".

I'm sure there are more.

 

I got my Luts Bory today...

And with a Luts order, among various goodies, such as the lovely event head, I got a booklet on how to restring my doll.

And I feel like a total idiot because when I got my Soulkid back in early April, I spent a whole day trying to restring her. I should have looked up instructions, yes, but I didn't, and the way that I'd strung her was so much more complicated than it should have been. And so, for the past three months, I've been whining on Den of Angels at least once a week as to how much I hate restringing dolls when it turns out that it's really not nearly as much of an issue as I once made it to be.

Definitely a hurr durr moment.

 

Probably ordering a single, very-hard-to-take-care-of wig for my first BJD. Oh, and asking about alternatives to the tamiya enamel for lip gloss ^^;
Other than that, I am pretty good at reading lots first, and asking things later in case I really, really don't know what to do.

 

I know when I first got my BJD, I was shy about undressing him in public. Also, because of his personality, he wasn't exactly excited about public nudity either. So, when I went to my first meetup, I saw all of the pretty clothes and just stood at the area that sort of became the "changing" area like...no privacy? So I grabbed some clothes that I wanted him to try on, sat in a corner with my back to everyone and started trying his clothes on.

It's funny thinking about back about, now that he and I have grown out of that. :3

 

Hmm...I don't have much...

Other than when I had to unstring my friend's doll for the first time, I asked her if I had to cut the elastic.

Another is when my sempai had her very first SD size doll from Customhouse. And we unstrung him for me to do his body blushing. And when re-stringing him, we cursed a lot. We kept stringing him wrong for over 4 or 5 times.

They didn't use S hooks for the head/neck area. They used this round ring thing that you had to double the neck to legs elastic over the ring. And we kept doubling it wrong...We needed the knot to be in the body. So the wrongs were when the knot kept staying outside the body...

 

Not so much a "Doll Faux Pas" as a "DoA Faux Pas", this one... xD;;;;

The first time I joined I was absolutely confused and a little taken aback by this emote and why people we're using it so often!!! ---->

Why??? Because I could've sworn the little teardrop was actually a tiny rude hand giving you the finger.

Kurr's a smart girl, ohhhh yeah.

 

Oh my goodness.

I am such a n00b, and I had no idea. I've never been to a doll meet in person--I'd have no clue how to pronounce a single name--and I would be so embarrassed to mispronounce everything. And I wouldn't have any idea as to whether the dolls are males or females! I don't think I'll EVER be able to attend one of these shows in person!

Let me add to this list, also:

Assuming that non-collectors are even remotely interested in your hobby, and wouldn't be shocked (and judgmental) at the price of your treasured collection.

 

I still call BJD's "Dollfies" in person too. If i said BJD i'm afraid my poor family would be completely lost

Maaaaany years ago (around 2004ish) i used to think the only BJD's in the world were the standard ones Volks sold in their US store

And i'm still a n00b, i get into arguements here all the time. I don't mean too, i just have a bad way with words.

 

I spend very little time talking IRL to people in the know about abjds, so pronunciation can usually be ducked around . . . although I do get confused as to whether I should go with the Japanese pronunciation or the way the name should be pronounced in its original language . . .

Headcaps I didn't quite get at first - I probably had my first doll for a couple of weeks before I happened to pull upward on his, and then was shocked that it moved so easily ^^;;;;; Second doll has magnets in his, and as I wasn't used to sitting an SD13 boy up I didn't make sure he "locked" into place. He fell backwards on the stool (fortunately didn't actually fall) - but his headcap and wig went flying across the room, to my horror! *heh*
Seeing my dolls nekkid used to embarrass me, too, and any kind of assembly/disassembly made me nervous. Now, of course, I'm always rummaging around in their heads . . .

As for real faux pas . . . I'm probably obliviously making them all the time ^^;;;;. I realized at one point that I should probably not assume that everyone knows all Volks models, and that I should specify the company for them, too . . . I have used the magic sponge for cleaning, too x_x;. Did no damage, but that was possibly a lucky miss . . .

 

I don't know how to pronounce most of them, including ones I have...

It didn't take me long to be able to tell girls from boys in most cases, though. If there aren't obvious boobs, I assume boy, unless the name indicates otherwise. That works about 90% of the time. My friends kept thinking mine were girls (umm... they don't look at all girly to me, except maybe Devon...) and I told them that if there weren't boobs, it was a boy.

 

oh yeah. get ready for my list...im amazed Alex is still around.

1. first day i had my first doll. my friend gets nail polish all over him, including his face. i use nail polish remover to take it off. i dont clean him afterwards.

2. i used a pencil eraser to clean him. even on his faceup. thats not a good idea btw.

3. had no idea how to change his eyes.

4. i both rubbed and chipped off his faceup.

5. left him out in the sun. im amazed he's not a lemon.

6. after i had four dolls i had still never removed his head. the first time i did it was to give him to a friend so he could get a new faceup...i made her do it. i cried when she took it off. (his head not the faceup)

7. it probably took me 8 months to finally restring him (and when i did, i discovered he is hands down the easiest doll i have to restring)

8. a while back i modded his body by wet-sanding him...still strung.

9. he's had a cracked hand for god-only-knows how long. i let him live with it. someday, when it falls off, i'll get him a new one.

10. i hold him by the neck and move his head by the chin so he's always dirty there. i think ive rubbed off all the MSC on his chin by cleaning him off.

11. he got horribly scratched on his stomach and instead of sanding him, i put a human bandage there and said he was wounded. it got really nasty before i finally took it off.

12. ive started carrying him around in my purse instead of one of them many doll bags i own and one day i turned around, the purse spun out away from me and i slammed him into a wall. hard. he lived.

13. i pet him on the head and play with his hair all the time, yet i refuse to brush it. he looks like an unwashed rockstar.

im sure there is more, but isnt that enough??? thats just one doll! true most of this i did before i was a member of DOA and you would be surprised how little info is out there when you dont know the search terms "BJD" and "dollfie" but still...i was a sucky doll mom sometimes i still am XD

other stuff i do thats totally faux pas...

i dont call them all dollfies, i didnt even know that term for a long time, but, i do call certain molds by my names for them. example: all Kara Klums are Alexs. all Sapphiras are Wyns...i dont think ive done it to anyones face yet, but im sure i will someday...

i miss-pronounce EVERYTHING. even my own dolls mold names.

i cannot tell the difference between most CP sculpted dolls, even tho i own 3.

i do not know the names of or the sculpts of ANY volks dolls. at all. even the ones my friends have. even the ones i like! i have no idea who they are.

i shove a lot of dolls into one bag. and often.

way back in the day, when i didnt have so many dolls, i tried to carry them all at once...this is a BAD idea. Wyn suffered a broken ear when i put him down on the table after dropping a tiny...he just leaped off the table!!

omg i suck. i shouldnt be allowed to own dolls XD

 

One Volks pronunciation that I've sometimes heard wrong is 'Syo' It's like English "Show". 'Sy' in Japanese is 'Sh' as a general rule of thumb. So Masya, Nasya, Sasya, etc. are all 'sh' sound as well.

 

Wow! I did not know that. That's really interesting; and good to know. *nod nod*

Yay for learning new things everyday~!