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The Urge to Hold...

Mar 8, 2009

    1. Whenever I'm here on DoA, I always get the urges to look over at them on their table.

      Sometimes I even grab them and put them on the desk beside me. : )
       
    2. My dollies used to sit on a metal shelf thing I have in my dorm which is across my room but I would always bring Snug over on my desk to have him near me when i was on my laptop, then I would feel bad becuase my other dolls where so far away.... So I made an MSD sized couch so Moth and the others could sit on my desk and always be near me XD

      It's hard when I'm at home though.. I like to bring them downstairs with me and my family just thinks I'm crazy and make me bring them back upstairs >_>


      I always want to hug and cuddle Moth but she doesn't seem like she appreciated the contact XD which is why I need me an SD boy ;)
       
    3. I got my two first boys today, but neither of them have bodies. I still love them though.
      I do hold them, but I don't cuddle them terribly much (they're only heads.) I think that when they have bodies, I'll cuddle them all the time. Just hold them in my lap when I'm watching a movie or something. But I don't know yet ;)
       
    4. I haven't got pets or anything, but occationally I do want to just hug/cuddle one of my boys- usually if I'm thinking about them (like now). Typically the feeling passes, but I feel the same "need to hug" feeling about my mum sometimes- I've just started college so this is the longest I've ever been away from home before (and I'm the youngest with two older step siblings) so I tend to miss my parents alot, and suddenly get the urge to hug them >.< at times like that, almost nothing will suffice instead, so I just end up hugging my quilt on my bed or one of my pillows from home instead XP
       
    5. i love to hold mine. they dont have tiny weapons in their paws... err... hands, like my cat. lol
       
    6. I do!~

      Whenever I'm on forums or browsing and talking about doll related subjects, I get the urge to grab Razi and cuddle with him. I thought it was just me and that I was just nuts :XD:
       
    7. Oh I always have Melody close by. She's sitting on my CPU at the moment beside me. I have the tendency to take her to work with me to since I work my shifts alone most of the time. Then she sits on the counter next to my registers printer, and watched all the customers come by :3
       
    8. I don't usually feel the urge to grab my dolls when I talk about them, but I'm like that with just about everything. I'm not really a hugger, and I don't really show a lot of physical affection at all. The only time I really like showing affection with my dolls is when they look cute while I'm doing a photoshoot. I feel like all my bonding is done through my camera. When I take them to the fabric store it's for checking the drape or color of fabrics and perhaps the scale of notions, and so if I really need them there, they are rarely in my hands. They sit in the cart so I don't pelt them with a bolt of fabric. If I'm sitting alone listening to music or something and a doll happens to be handy, I'll sit them on my lap, view them as a character and daydream the next photostory around the songs I'm listening too. As cold as it may sound, when I'm actively making a photostory, the dolls are their characters, but as soon as that camera's off and the story is posted, they are just dolls. When I carry them around with me for whatever reason, they are just dolls, and when they are in their sun-shielded "beds" they are called "the dolls." It's just something I've always done to avoid getting too close to anything.
       
    9. I really only have the urge to hold Tobias. The urge only comes over me when I've had a bad day at work and my cat isn't available to cuddle. Tobias seems to be the only one that likes being held, the others seem to either flop defiantly or kick at me :sweat
       
    10. Hee, now it may be my big-dog-background speaking here, but I find them eminently more grabbable and snuggleable than the pocket pooches! Toy-breed dogs, like cats and other smaller animals, just seem so fragile to me; even when petting or cuddling them, I can never forget how small they are, and the necessity for more delicate handling. But a great big dog, now, they're so solid and sturdy that you can give them a good tight hug just like you would with a human, and the sheer mass of them makes for such a wonderfully reassuring presence to cuddle up with if you're feeling sad or lonely.

      I don't have a lot of doll experience to go by yet, but while I enjoy handling and fussing over my new tiny, and am looking forward to more of the same with my SD girl, it's tempered with that same sort of "be careful and gentle, this is something small and delicate and fragile" feeling that I get when petting tiny animals, or handling anything breakable and precious. And while the resin in particular is so much more pleasant to touch than I'd have ever expected, aside from the fragility and damage issues these dolls are hard, which makes them less cuddly to me than something soft and squishy like a plush toy. So if I were alone and wanting something to hug for comfort, I'd probably reach for a favorite larger plushie, or more likely just pounce on my dog -- she absolutely lives for cuddling and is especially snuggly and sweet when I'm not feeling well. (My cat can be quite the snuggler herself, but it has to be on her own schedule -- when she wants petting and cuddles she's relentless about getting up on your lap, but she has no tolerance for being picked up.)
       
    11. No, I don't generally feel the urge to hold my dolls just when talking about them or even for comfort. I do pick up Faelyn sometimes & give a her hug since she just looks so depressed. When I want to cozy up with something, I much prefer my cats. They're soft & warm & make the sweetest sounds.
       
    12. I also tend to want to hold them whenever I talk about them...I think it's just that I am really cuddly with my dolls, and just thinking about them means I have to be showing them affection ^^;
       
    13. you know, I'm like this with my cats more than anything.
      whenever I'm at the doctor's, I just wish my little Loki was there watching over me like he does when I'm home. sometimes I want to go home and get my kitten, Griffin, just so I have something to cuddle. and I've walked miles to get my 10 year old cat Merlyn back home safe with me<3

      I mean, yes, I love my doll, but she's not alive. she can't love me back, by any means. my cats love me so much it's crazy.
      I like having my doll near me so I can just see her with me, but I don't cuddle her anything. partly due to paranoia of ruining her face up, and partly because I could just find a kitty and cuddle him ^.^
       
    14. Makes perfect sense to me. I know when I was little, I couldn't go anywhere without my favourite stuffed cat. Particularly stressful doctors visits sometimes required two plush friends (I think for one blood draw I brought three along with me-- I needed all the moral support I could get!).

      Maybe needing to hold onto something like that isn't very 'adult', but in the words of (I think) Dr. Seuss, 'adults are just defective children, and to hell with them'. I say huggle those dollies!

      =^__^=
      Anneko
       
    15. sounds like you love your dolls very much LOL
      when I and my friends (whom also have dolls) talking in the campus, we do sometimes have a urge to have a doll party immediately...but of course we cant LOL
       
    16. I don't hold my small dolls very much, but I find my Dollfie Dream doll to be the perfect size for holding and cuddling. There's something about the larger size that is so much more comforting to hold.

      I love holding my DD Yukino and sitting her on my lap while watching TV or browsing the internet. We snuggle and have a wonderful time :)
       
    17. Hm.. I'm not sure if it's because I'm still not that close to my doll to actually feel the urge to hold her or is it because I already have her picture in my phone so I can gaze at it when I'm missing her but.. yea.. I don't really have the urge to hold her. Butbutbut. When I see her, the hard solid resin form, I will have the urge to carry her in my arms. XDD
       
    18. I love holding them but don't get much of a chance because I'm usually under one or the other of the cats. (Seriously, Strudel is like a sticky note.)

      I really wasn't sure about full-sized dolls at first, wondered if I'd made a mistake. Then I picked up Kenshin and got the same kind of "ooooo!" feeling that I get holding a kitty or my girls (the real ones) when they were babies. I don't know why, they're not warm or cuddly in and of themselves, but... There you have it. :)
       
    19. Oh, yes. When I first got into dolls, I was working a job with lots of down time, so I spent hours a week on DoA. I would be posting and thinking about BJDs so much during the day I'd start missing my own and wanting to rush home to hold them! I don't get any down time on this assignment, but this job's terribly boring, so I end up thinking about and missing them, without even DoA for pretty pictures to console me.
       
    20. Sometimes, my Sophie will sit on my lap but usually she's just beside me, peering at whatever I'm doing. I don't have kids, but I am separated from all my pets...I'm away at college and the 4 cats and 2 dogs are back home. :( I miss the little buggers... I started buying dolls when I was in an "I-want-a-pet" mood and now, here I am, a crazy doll lady. :)