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Bald Mountain fashion week! Welcome our two beautiful models! Mojmira and… Olena! (Yes, this name won!) As many may know covens and Sabbaths are full of eye catching fashion choices. Full of patterns and flowers. If somebody tells you that witches wear only black and night time make up - well, they’re wrong.

EDIT: Two more models, Jagoda and Milena!

pannan-art

Reblog with an edit!

Japanese quince in bloom, 2020

#nature #plants #quince #chaenomeles japonica

Frostbitten magnolias, 2020.

#nature #magnolia #magnolia soulangeana

Some gritty dusk shots of Tien

Tiende / MNF Lucywen on flat chest Fairyline body Lace teddy by SMPdoll

#bjd #mnf #lucywen #legit bjd

invaderxan

catchymemes

desertfangs

It’s the How I Met Your Mother Effect. If an ending betrays the viewers and the story badly enough, it actively cancels out the cultural influence of the show. It decreases the rewatch value and diminishes the fondness and relatability of earlier seasons.

cluegrrl

Screenwriters take note!

nevver

The Dutch Masters, Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine

behold-my-squees

Daaaaaamn these are good

paulinedorchester

Too good not to reblog (no matter how far off-topic it may be… )

wolseley37

I am enjoying these re-creations of classic paintings and portraits soooo much! People are brilliant!

kangarei

whitepeopletwitter

Veloria Migidoll Yuri on Dollshe26F Wig eclipse21, faceup Paulianne Dolls, sweater Junipa, necklace Silent Visions

#bjd #legitbjd #migidoll #migidollyuri #hybridbjd

dollsahoy

if a doll’s joint has no elastic running through it, it’s not. a. ball. joint.

doesn’t matter is if it’s spherical. doesn’t matter if it’s friction fit, with no hinges or pivots or other attachments (like an old clone doll’s spherical neck knob.) a ball jointed doll has string or elastic holding everything together, and a doll with friction and hinges and pivots and anything but string/elastic is not a ball jointed doll.

This post is brought to you by seeing a picture of dolls with ‘pivot on hinge–that just happens to be spherical in shape–on pivot’ wrists described as ball jointed

dollsahoy

This post got me called a BJD elitist.

queenofsquids

dollsahoy is literally … the least BJD elitist.

for the record I also care about the terms being used correctly cause I want to be able to look up and research specific, different types of dolls without having to wade through a bunch of other types of dolls. same with trying to search vintage Mattel and getting a bunch of newer dolls just cause they say 1976 or whatevs on the body. we’re not mad or elitist! just educators.

specific terminology is helpful for the whole community! especially in a hobby as broad as dolls. and seriously dollsahoy has the broadest taste in dolls and is not an elitist y'all 😂

semi related! the language around these sort of BJD style sculpted but hinged dolls like the Xinyi 1/3 is evolving right now. I think the community is leaning toward hinge doll. looking forward to seeing what we end up doing with them, whether they’ll have their own specific style niche or what.

armeleia

I want things properly classified because different dolls have difference audiences and different customizations. Like if I say it’s safe to wipe your BJD’s face with acetone and someone assumes that includes their ABS joint doll, that’s gonna cause some melty plastic problems. >_< Likewise I routinely heat vinyl toys to soften them for various reasons, but heat needs to be used sparingly with resin because of yellowing.

I also don’t get why people assume that not BJD = lesser than BJD; it seems like people are looking to be offended.

N O O N E C A R E S W H A T

Y O U R D O L L S C O S T.

They’re just different. I think at this point a good portion of us have multiple doll and figure genres… and I definitely have BJD that cost less than my action figures or fashion dolls.

dollsahoy

And I do want to clarify: even though I’m not super ~into~ BJDs, I am still 100% pro artist/anti-recast counterfeit, because I believe in supporting artists, which is an attitude that I know would get me called an elitist, too

necryonics27

It's spring! 🌸

mysticmisfit89-deactivated20140

Meanwhile, in prehistoric Canada…..

stickystigmata-deactivated20190

No no, you don’t understand, moose really do get that big. Take it from a Canadian. I’ve seen that bullshit in person. Scary as all heck.

bioticdisaster

And that’s how people can die if they hit a moose. Seriously, one of our fears when driving in the country is having to deal with this scenario of a moose jumping out in front of the car.

ghirahim

moose are actual legit ice age megafauna; theyve been here since the ice age, they are old as fuck. they also are pretty terrifying and ive echoed this before but i went to wiki and “In terms of raw numbers, they attack more people than bears and wolves combined” and “ In the Americas, moose injure more people than any other wild mammal and, worldwide, only hippopotamuses injure more.”

like, fuck off with that

fuzzyfishesandscaleymice-deacti

I was dog sitting a dog once who insisted she had to go out in the middle of the night it was an emergency, so I took her out. Suddenly she starts pointing and barking and I look up and can just make out the outline of a HUGE moose. I’ve been accidentally face to face with a black bear and that scared me less than being up close with a moose. I’m 5 foot so imagine staring up at an animal several feet taller than you that is debating charging the dog who’s leash you are holding. I was terrified as I grabbed the dog by her collar to get better control over her and backed up slowly til I was out of line of sight and bolted for the house at a dead run. Did you know most Canadian lake monster stories come from people seeing moose swimming? They are massive animals.

medie

They are massive and they charge. I get so scared when tourists are all “oh yeah, we got out of the car to get a closer look and, ya’ll have some mighty impressive animals around here.” Yes, yes we do, and they have mighty tired guardian angels because moose can, and do, charge at people.

violent-darts

Someone my mom worked with died hitting a moose on the highway. Their eyes don’t reflect light. In the dark they are literally nothing but a big slightly darker shape in the night. Roughly every year in the town I grew up in, a cow (moose) and her calf will wander through downtown. Maybe once or twice. If she’s aggressive enough, the local Mounties will escort her through to keep idiots away.

harukami

I’ve definitely talked with people who thought moose were deer-sized or maybe horse-sized and I was like NO YOU DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND MOOSE ARE TERRIFYING

Moose are terrifying, you guys.

soulkind-blog

I finally live on a province where moose and deer exist.

I do not drive at night in fear of meeting one. If you hit a moose going 90 on a highway, not only is your car trashed, you are probably trashed. I’ve seen cars that got wrecked and there seems to be a consensus that at least half the time, the giant fucking beastie just shakes itself off and continues gallumphing along the countryside.

warsfeils-deactivated20200620

If you fucking hit a moose with your car and their legs go through your windshield, congratulations, you are dead. Massive hooves kicking you to death? Yeah.

Moose are fucking terrifying. Bull moose won’t fuck with you too much unless you fuck with them, but the time a bull moose casually swaggered his way past 7 year old me when I was sledding literally put me off winter sports for a solid month.

Momma moose and their babies, though? I legitimately had to call in to work to be like “ey yo there is a moose in my driveway and I can’t get out” AND MY MANAGERS UNDERSTOOD.

Moose. MOOSE.

lovedsomuch

I have to admit I thought they were like a Canadian deer before this.

teapotsahoy

The commenter above who claims that moose’s eyes don’t reflect light is only partially correct; if you shine a flashlight in a moose’s eyes it will glow like a cat (and then you will probably get killed to death by an annoyed moose) but the reason they are so dangerous to cars at nights is that they are too tall for the headlights to reach. Think about that.

sputnikcentury

Moose confirmed for actual kaiju.

thisnewdevilry

Kaiju category: Maple.

luadell

Now I kinda want a kaiju movie set in Canada where it’s just a moose. Like a regular moose but more aggressive.

thesuninperigee

@ssalogel

hellenhighwater

For scale, a female african elephant is 7.2-8.5 feet at the shoulder, according to Wikipedia. A moose is 4.6 – 6.9 ft. at the shoulder. So instead of thinking “This animal is a bit bigger than a deer” you can think “This animal is barely smaller than an elephant”

writernotwaiting

And they can run up to 40 miles per hour

dynastylnoire

A 16 wheeler with fur

learningtoacceptchange

They also reside in Alaska too; they love the birch trees.

dedrastarling

When I was a kid, moose were scarce here, now there is quite a lot of them in the woods around. Slowing down while driving through a foresty areas at night is something that kept me from hitting several of these huge things. They really reflect no light and are barely visible when crossing the road in front of you. The last time I met one of them, at first it seemed like there were several small moving spots - I thought foxes or hares - but I stepped on the brake and stopped my car just to let a gracious Moose Lady cross the street in an unhuried manner. It was her moving hooves that I saw before braking hard, not the whole creature.