Things about this hobby that you find hilarious?

@Elomina showed me a photo of their 1/4 doll sitting in a card catalogue drawer. I immediately felt a burning desire to do the same thing.

Elomina's doll in a drawer was terribly cute; I don't know if mine are cute, but they sure are hilarious. I laughed way too hard taking the photos, and looking at them still makes me burst out laughing.



Hmmm I think a drawer makes for a splendid doll jail...

 

@aihre OMG, they are SOOOO adorable!

And, as far as dolly jails go, I think I want something that looks like a bird cage.

 

@tinyflame Hehe, thanks.
You ever sit down in a very soft sofa or beanbag, where you sink so deep into the seat and have to flail your arms and legs to get up again? I think of that for a drawer dolly jail. Maybe it's a comfy jail but they can't get out XD

 

They look a bit like the possum who sneaked into a bakery, ate too many jam donuts and got stuck in the box I wonder what the bjd equivalent would be... "went to look for all those new, just ordered clothes while the owner was away, got stuck, spent a night sleeping in the drawer"?

 

Some privacy, please?

 

I do. And, when you bring a friend, it becomes the perfect excuse for an extra long cuddle. TeeHee.

 

I saw this today on legenddoll, and the thought how someone outside of this hobby would react to a box full of meticolously sorted and tucked away heads, made me giggle.



The Image is somehow not working, so here is the link instead:

BJD Head Package Box Ball Jointed Doll - Legenddoll

 

Not gonna lie, that looks very comfortable.

Also somehow the image works in the preview but not the actual post, what the hecky XD

 

Just the old image bug acting up. Probably the image is just to big to be forum appropriate.
In the reply box the image will show up smaller if quoted, and so it is visible there.

 

Always love explaining to people how the wigs/clothes/shoes are usually around the same price as the human sized version. People usually think smaller item=lower price, but intricate items that are doll sized are understandably priced at a higher cost than doll accessories at something like a Walmart or Target.

 

True! I used to think that it is not fair that dorrie clothes are more expensive than human clothes of the same material/style. But trying my hand at handsewing one......yeah, the effort because it is so small that the margin of error is too narrow.

 

haha when I first got into the hobby, that's what I thought too! The wig costs as well blew my mind, but now trying to sew and even style a wig, I can see it's an art that takes practice.

 

I've been taking my dolls out on photoshoots and honestly we get gigantically noticed wherever we go.

Thankfully people are overwhelmingly positive/curious.

Here's Ciel at La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Yes I did get asked what I was doing with a 58cm doll in public. I usually get asked every single time I leave the house with somebody.

 

Keep him.

 

I read your post for the first time and my eyes actually got a little damp from mirth.

 

Anatomically correct dolls and body blushing. I get it that a female doll depicting a teen or woman needs breasts, but nipples and the detailed male and female genitals puzzle me. Plus the need to paint any of them makes me want to snort and snicker. I mean why?...I read that Charlotte Johnson, Barbie's first clothing designer argued that Ken needed some molding in the crouch area so that his cloths would fit properly. I wonder if something like that was part of the reasoning with BJDs.

It could also be an Asian esthetic preference that comes across as strange in the west. I also read that the original Barbie dolls were made in Japan, and the Japanese factory engineers automatically put nipples on them. It wasn't until a guy from Mattel used the file from his swiss army knave to shave them off that the Americans were able to communicate that they didn't want the doll to have nipples. So I wonder a little, but seeing the posts about male dolls who have multiple penis options or ones that make holes in clothing makes me think it's an esthetic thing.

 

Anatomical correctness that isn't sexualized -honestly, this was one of the qualities of BJDs that drew me to them in the first place, back in the mid 00s. I loved that they were realistically sculpted all over including their privates, which is indeed something that one doesn't really find in Western dolls.

Well, I discovered Asian BJDs 20 years ago, and back then, by and large, male penises were sculpted on and not detachable, and silicone boobs and parts were kind of the exception instead of the norm for resin BJDs. Then I took a long hiatus from BJD hobby, and when I came back, I was frankly kind of astounded to find option penis parts including erections to be more normalised. And you can get resin bjds that have silicone breasts built into the chest part. I'm not objecting to these developments but that's not what I'm used to, haha. However, I am rather frustrated that a recent censorship wave has hit Chinese dollmakers, and some companies are releasing male bodies without genital definition at all, sculpted on or detachable. I don't object to 'angel'/sexless bodies but not at the expense of males? I want uncensored anatomical correctness in my male (and female) BJDs, dang it - the rest of their bodies are so nicely sculpted, I feel that it's not right to have no definition in their privates at all. Where else, indeed, can I get non-sexualized realism in my dolls, if not in BJDs? /rant over

 

I don’t think this is laugh out loud, ha-ha funny, but I think this fits.

A couple of weeks ago, I went down a wig making rabbit hole. Much to both my mild frustration and amusement, I noticed that every tutorial I found contradicted each other. While the basic technique was the same, the suggested materials were always different. For example, one tutorial instructor would say that they like to use human hair dye to color the mohair/alpaca hair, while another would say that human hair dye is awful and that only fabric dye should be used. In fact, the only consistent recommendation I found was that it’s best to use either mohair or alpaca hair for the wigs, though I remember a couple suggesting to start with synthetic fibers first. I guess it goes to show how subjective the wig making process is.

But seriously, thank you to anyone who decided to post their wig making methods to this website. They are very helpful, and made the very idea of making a wig more doable.