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Sharing my doll photos, reblogs of quotes and art I like

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Wanted to incorporate Alfie and Tones' backstories into an ASMR video :}

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In light, my shadow and I are one

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Gabby

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^ what it says on the title lol

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red eye

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see

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So uhm. Denofangels is closing in Aug. Not sure what I feel about that.

I joined doa back in 2008. Which I guess means I've been there for almost 18 years. Not actively all the time, but it's always been in the background I suppose. And I guess I never really thought about how it might not be that way for... forever? I don't think I've really considered that doa might disappear, interestingly, maybe because it basically hasn't since I started using it. That is actually somewhat against the odds, because so many other sites I've been on for the doll hobby have faded from use - like a local forum, livejournal, deviantart (and flickr though I was not really using that much), even instagram to some extent.

There is, of course, still a chance that doa might be resuscitated in time, but I don't really want to think too hard about that I suppose. I'll rather prepare for it closing and have it turn out that it won't, rather than not prepare for it closing in hopes that it might be saved in time and for that to turn out to not be the case. Perhaps a pessimistic view but well. I know how I tend to think.

...I suppose that's all I have for now.

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White text = me (aka you, in this POV)

While making this, I wasn't sure if I wanted to put Sion's thoughts in text but I ended up going without his thoughts, so feel free to imagine what he's thinking ^_^

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baby blue

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Danny

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If you didn't know, I have some doll stuff for sale over on instagram!

Clearing some stuff so I can get them other clothes hah xD

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Over the years I've spent doing BJD faceups, I found that instead of being too uptight or perfectionist about every step along the way, a more comfortable and free way to enjoy the creation process is knowing how to undo or fix mistakes as I go, rather than avoid them as much as I can. I figured out these tips on undoing mistakes along my journey, and because I use them in almost all my faceups, I thought it might be helpful to share them with you guys :)

I do want to make a disclaimer here that this video might be a bit chaotic and not super smooth as a "tutorial". I originally recorded the audio meaning for it to be more like a "how-to" type of video, but then I realise footage of what I referred to would be hard to record, because I hate doing faceups when I'm being observed as it messes up what I'm doing on the doll. As such, the video footage seem to run on a separate line of thought than the audio, which can make this hard to watch in 1 sitting. I considered not making this video at all, or doing it as audio only, but I still think the footage is useful for people like me who like to observe and learn by example, so I left it in. In the end, I figured a bad video is better than no video at all, so this is kind of a chaotic log, more than a polished how-to video.

Still, I hope it is useful. If you find it too chaotic, I suggest listening to the audio only on your first sitting, then watching it with the video and see if any of what I do in the footage answers any questions you may have about what I've said. Feel free to ask if you want to know more about anything I said or did!

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more video experiments with moving camera + coloured lights

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Gabby

back to the '90s

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After Gorillaz, I searched up the lead singer and got into Blur lol. I can't stop wanting to dress like the band in the '90s so here's Gab fulfilling my dream because it's easier to find clothes for him than it is for me (my dolls have a bigger wardrobe than I do to begin with oops).

Fun fact: Gabby is in fact, British, in the very forgotten origin story of his. I had no real reason why he had to be British other than because I fancied it when I created this character at 15 years old, which is why I have never mentioned it but it felt somewhat relevant today, so uh, fun fact, am I right? xD

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Sion being emo is always a mood