Surprisingly Positive Things People Have Said!

When i told my friends i had bought one they seemed kinda shocked... maybe cos i'm unemployed at the moment and need find money for rent ><. My best friend went on and on about how expensive it was, how crazy I was... that dolls were creepy, etc etc. A friend from uni did the same... said i was insane and never ever she would spend this much money on a doll.
Even tho my boy haven't arrived yet, they all changed their minds now... oddly enough. All they can talk about is how they want to see him, another friend wants to make clothes to him, and one of them is even considering getting her own doll (yes, the one who said she wouldn't)

 

I was surprised my dad said my doll was pretty : p

The price however wasn't " pretty "

 

I work at a thrift store of sorts and I bring my boy Shadow with me every day. Behind the counter is a small table, and I pose him on the table with his thumb through his belt loop and his coat over his shoulder, where he stands and watches me work. It's been... maybe about a month since I got him, and he hasn't missed a day of work since. I've gotten many comments about him, but the one that comes to mind the most was from an older lady who was shopping with her husband.

The counter I work behind is L shaped and has a register at both ends. I work both registers myself, unless it gets busy and I have someone else from the back room come help. I was ringing up someone on one register and the older lady was ready to check out at the other one. While she was waiting, she came around to the back of the counter and turned Shadow to the side to get a look at his face. She was being really careful, but I told her to watch his feet so he doesn't fall. Turning him to the side turns his feet usually (I need to get that boy sueded!) and he has a tendency to fall forward if his feet aren't both facing the same direction. She made sure to re-pose him as he was and stayed for a minute to make sure he wasn't going to fall before going back to the other counter. When I was ringing up her things, she asked me a bunch of questions about him, what he is made of, what his name is, where I got him, things like that. Since there was nobody else ready to check out, I brought him over so she could get a better look. I tugged on his elbow to show her how he was held together with elastic, and pulled his headcap off to show her he could have his eyes and hair changed. She was really interested, and said she was going to look online to see if she can get one for her daughter (she didn't even blink at the price). Before she left, she said "take good care of Shadow!"

She came in again a few days ago, the same day my abio angel head came in the mail. The shop shares a parking lot with the post office (convenient for me!) so I had the head with me. The first thing she said was that she had looked online for the dolls but didn't know what they were called so she couldn't find them. I wrote down the websites for bobobie, volks, luts, dollzone, and a few others. She asked me which site I got Shadow from (she remembered his name!) which was bobobie. I told her about the head I had with me, and how he would eventually be a whole doll. His name will be Praedius, so let's see if she remembers that one.

It's nice to see people who take a genuine interest in such an obscure hobby.

 

albinoshadow, that's so sweet, hopefully she takes a look and finds something she likes! Maybe she'll come in again *excited because she apparently needs a life* lol

 

I think my most treasured experience is my dear friend's interest in the dolls. She usually yells at me for spending money, and she NEVER spends her money on things. (really!) But when I bought Orian, she fell in love with him and decided to create Orian's older brother.
So now, we share this hobby and it makes me really happy. ^__^

Many of my friends find Orian creepy... I think, though, it's because of his eyes. u__u I would like to get him normal eyes now... I think I'm still scared of what people will say when I take him out into the real world, so I haven't done it yet. O.O My school is full of honestly critical people.

I'm happy my family's already warmed up to the idea of Orian. I'm bringing him to my parents' house this summer. I know my baby brother and my mom will love him, but my dad might be rude to poor Orian and put him in weird positions ;__; When I told my mom about Orian she told me she's been doing miniatures for therapy (she recently went through a traumatic experience) and says she'd make Orian lots of things ^^ I'm hoping for some coffee mugs and plates...!

 

Whenever there is a local mini-meet, we always seem to end up at a coffee shop.

And so far, the reaction from random people has been very positive. We always get people asking us where we buy them, which sometimes leads into a lengthy conversation on various companies (or we just write down a few places for people to go look at them).

One of the most amusing remarks was made by an elderly man who said my doll looked like a girlfriend he used to have. LOL

So yeah, I find that anyone who is inclined enough to say anything has only positive things to say. If they don't like them, they just tend to stare from afar. XD

 

mm My mom was a bit concerned when I got Sid (I dont normally like "girlie" things and shes "expensive" ) but the day I went out with Nez and Red and Sid came back with the purple wig, my mom was like "That's much better, you're not distracted by the hair now. she's so cute" and I was like O.O cause thats not my mum at all

 

I think the neatest thing that's ever happened to me was when I was at a local art show and a man approached my and took our picture. He and his wife were so interested and were really intrigued by him.

My most positive thing yet though, would be my boyfriend's approval of my dolls. He stated yesterday how much he loves Skylar and even helped me do a photoshoot. It was sweet.

 

The most positive thing I've ever gotten was recently...when I started making a portrait doll of a freelance model I admire (this is still in the works, btw). I comment on a lot of his pictures and he occasionally will comment on one of mine, so I told him I wanted to do his portrait in doll-form and wanted to make sure he was ok with it. I thought he'd think it was creepy or something, but he was really flattered! (in all honesty, I'd have probably still made the doll if he hadn't been ok with it, I just would have made a point of never posting pix of it publicly once it's done. ^^;.

 

When I first got Kome, I took him out with me and my mom to buy him some stuff at Michael's. At lunch, the cashier woman goes, "Oh my god! He's gorgeous!" I told her about going and getting him some stuff and she was just like, "Aww." and kept looking at him in awe almost.

Just last weekend when I went on a small vacation with my friend to the Queen Mary, an older woman on the elevator said, "She's so beautiful!" My friend and I both laughed a little at her calling Kome a girl, I said, "Oh, he's a boy." She didn't look too shocked and I let her hold his hand for a second. XD

I don't think I've heard anything negative about him. I have gotten more than a few odd stares though when I carry him around.

 

I had to bring my boy to work with me one day (I got called in unexpectedly and had to make it to a mini-meet with my roommate right after my shift ended XD) and it went... surprisingly well. I work at a slightly upscale clothing store aimed at older women, so most of my coworkers are older than me or fellow college-aged students who are into more... mainstream things than me. XD;

But one of my coworkers was in total awe of him and asked to hold him and now every time I go to work, she asks "so how is your son doing?" XD Even the people I work with who were kinda weirded out were super nice about it... they think I'm a freak, but they're good-humoured at least!

 

Once at a meetup in a public place, a lady wanted to buy my doll!

Once they get past the "raised-eyebrow" stage, I have found most people surprisingly positive. Most people understand hobbies and collections and what-not, so it's not unusual to be approached by the curious bystander during a meetup or photoshoot in a public place. I actually enjoy that. When I catch people staring in bemusement, I don't automatically assume they are thinking negatively. I catch their eye, nod and smile, and if they are interested, I will answer their questions. Most people walk away with, at the very least, an appreciation for an art form they previously knew nothing about.

At the urging of my co-workers who have seen lots of my doll photos, I am bringing one of my girls to work with me this Friday. They have been reminding me about it for DAYS. One of them even told me to be sure I brought all her outfits and shoes so she can play with her. Of course, we have worked together for a long time and they are used to my eccentricities. Oh, it's so nice to be loved and accepted! :-]

 

i brought my boy to show my friend "what is this doll i was always talking about" was he's responded with a simple that wasn't waht i was expecting. i ended up puting him on the corner of the table closest to me so my friend wouldn't freak out everytime he bumped the table XD but an older woman came up and said i REALLY like you're doll. i said thank you and she looked at him a bit more and said it again before leaving^^ it made me feel all warm and fuzzy^^

 

I havent heard any bad about Emily or Mju so far, and I bring them with me everywhere, specially shopping.

One time, not long after I got Emily, I brought her to my favorite restaurant to eat, and she sat at the table on a box of stuff I had gotten in the mail. A lot of people looked on her but didnt stop to ask anything. But my fav waiter stopped to look on her and I let him hold her a little, inspecting her cute face. He didnt even twitch at the price, and wanted to buy one for his daughter.

And I have showed them to my psychiatrist. She is very fascinated by them and let me take them to our meetings to I can have something to fiddle with while we talk. She really likes Mju. Puki love.

My family isnt all keen about my doll hobby, but my mom shows interest in them. She once asked me to bring Emily when we went to visit her friend. She was really dazzled by her, and we talked a lot about them. Even mom did, she told more than me, proving that she had listened to all of my ramblings. That made me happy.
- My daddy just smiles at her and pets her head. He understands how it is to have a expensive hobby, and gives me money once in a while to buy things for her. That way he wont buy any weird stuff off eBay and drive mom crazy.

And my brother is the best. He lets me bring her and take her out when we go on our shopping/food-sprees when we get out salaries, and even if he says he is creeped out by her "eyes of stalking", he wants a doll himself. He wants a Hound-size one. He sews clothes and make armor and swords, so it would be fun if he got one to dress up.

 

I brought my little girl to the store where I work at (fabric store), and showed one of my managers first. She collects dolls already, but not AJBDs. She kept ooh-ing and aah-inh over her, and then when I checked out (hey, even now that I work there I can't help buy stuff!) she slid a piece of paper and a pen over and asked "So, what company did you say she was from again?" I wrote her down DoA's url, and told her that she could find just about everything out here.

Then I showed everybody else, and I had one woman say she was too afraid to touch her (but happy to look) and one other worker just thought she was adorable.

 

I was surprised, I took Lisi in to school one day, and while no one really had a super great reaction to her(mostly positives, but no one was all that excited), when I mentioned that I was going to save for a boy for after my birthday one of my friends got really excited and told me to bring him in. I go to a mostly girl's school full of aspiring teachers, so everyone's pretty accepting of weird hobbies.

Surprisingly enough, both of my parents and both of my grandmothers really like Lisi. I'm pretty sure we're actually going to buy one of my grandmothers a bjd someday, she nearly died when she first saw my doll, it was so cute. My dad says Lisi's creepy, but he's always asking to see stuff I'm thinking about buying or making for her, and he stood up for her when my uncle was making fun of her ears. It was pretty sweet.

 

Last Thursday, I was supposed to go and hang out with one of my friends at a local bookstore [we're nerds xD]. But earlier that day I was posing my boy outside, when he faceplanted and smashed his nose on the cement. I was absolutely devastated and began bawling my eyes out over the phone. I apologized and apologized, and explained I wouldnt be able to make it because I just had to find a way to fix Noah. I told him I knew it sounded lame, but that Noah really meant a lot to me. But he just said,

"It's okay, you dont have to apologize. I know, it feels like losing a part of yourself."

I was so touched, because that was exactly how I felt. He's never even seen my doll before, but it meant a lot to me that he understood how sentimentally valuable mine was. He wins

 

@ Insanse-Chan
Awwwwwwwww~!! That is so cute x D That makes me teary eyed! Give him a highfive for me!

As for myself.... Uhhh.... Well, when I got Prince Hachikos body, my step-mother who is very negative commented him x D She said "Oh wow, his hands are so much nicer then your friends doll!" My friend Gunter Von Christ has a DM Uri Rich, who's hands are really.... lanky D; And they look evil~ Prince Hachikos are cute and cuddly >w<​

 

Insane-Chan: Oh no!! I hope you were/are able to fix him! DDD:


My niece really likes my dolls. I think she pretends she isnt really that excited, because she tries to seem cool, but I can tell she likes them. xD The other day she said that if Dietre ( my bory) was a real boy he'd be "hot" (my niece is 12 so if Dietre was real, they'd be the same age!). She also seems to want to view Mai (my shushu) and Dietre as a couple. I tried to explain that Dietre is too young for Mai, but she keeps saying "NO! They are the same age!" And she kept sliding Mai closer to Dietre on the table. xD It was cute.