There's nothing like spending a peaceful fifteen minutes changing a doll's clothes and carefully re-fingerstyling his wig to remind me that, as little as I like the term, there is such a thing as bonding with a doll; it doesn't have to mean thinking I hear his voice in my head or pretending that he bullies me into spoiling him, but only that every ( Read more... )

I didn't want to just bump my sales threads--I find page upon page of hopeful little 'BUMP!' messages to be really depressing. So while I had the Ryushin and the Ryoya up for sale, I decided to write a dumb little serial story in every day's bump posts, until either everything was sold or the story was finished--and, I figured, if the Ryushin hadn' ( Read more... )

Recovering from surgery sucks. I still haven't been able to pull out my Akando to mess with him, and that's partially a physical inability--my right arm is pretty weak at the shoulder and Akando is pretty motherfucking heavy--but hey, I've got him, and in another week or so maybe I can gingerly lug him out ( Read more... )

Iplehouse appears to have sent me a normal-skinned Ryushin, instead of the white-skinned one that I ordered. I say 'appears' because the new resin doesn't match anything in the house, but it's definitely far too pink to be 'white' skin ( Read more... )

Man, but I love memes that let me talk endlessly about myself. Stolen from cynbaby, who stole it from violaine:

I'm going to post - and I'd like you to as well, either in comments or your own LJ post - about how I came to own each of my dolls and any special stories surrounding their acquisition. I realize that a lot of you have tens and tens of dolls, so you ( Read more... )

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I swear Beowulf gets skankier every time I change his clothes just because it makes me laugh so hard. He's already got those skin-tight Mio jeans on and now he's wearing this liiiiiittle belly-baring blue tank top with them; I came within a hair of just leaving the tank top off entirely and letting him show off his REALISTIC MAN-NIPS for a while, ( Read more... )

Long time no post! I'm not dead. Really. I am, however, in Seattle! We finished unpacking the house to the extent that I was able to unbag my dolls and set them back up in their usual place last weekend, and it's been really nice to have them there. A small happy thing ( Read more... )

Today I packed up Jack's old body in its padded carrying bag and mailed it to its new owner. Man, it's a relief to have that transaction over and done with before the move to Seattle really kicks into high gear ( Read more... )

Definitely not the best pictures--I'm still having issues with proper light, goddammit--but I thought I ought to give my new camera a brief trial run, and also get some kind of record of the boys' current outfits. As it so happens, we're moving to Seattle here in a few weeks; I'll have to pack the dolls up in their bags soon, so I'll need the ( Read more... )