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My Hanzo statue arrived today, and it is absolutely beautiful!! It has a really substantial, heavy base,and comes with regular, sonic, and scatter (🕯️) arrows you can change out in his bow. The ponytail & hair ribbon are a separate piece, as is the quiver, and the entire statue can separate from the base. Definitely worth the purchase, I love him so much! 💖
And ofc, nendo Hanzo enjoys being able to be tall, lmao 😘
For Sale: Volks SDGr white skin Tenshi body with rare Origin torso & small bust
Body + extra legs for sale on DoA, price lowered due to medical emergency for my cat, I really need to sell this as fast as I can to help my poor boy. I may be listing some other dolls for sale if his condition doesn’t improve.
I prefer contact on DoA, I’ll get the messages faster. If you contact me here, please tell me your DoA name in your message. Currently can only ship within the US, sorry.
FOR SALE
Volks Lieselotte “In My Closet Room” version on rare tenshi SDGr origin body.
{Click for DoA sale listing}
[EDIT - HEAD IS SOLD ON LAYAWAY, BODY STILL AVAILABLE]
Honestly I don’t want to sell her, but I am desperate for money right now, and I barely touch my dolls at all these days, with the occasional exception for Lulu. My job is stressful and hasn’t increased our pay at all except for two very small state-wide increases over the nearly 7 years I’ve been working it, but of course bills only get more and more expensive. I hate needing money to live, tbh, and poor Bee is seeing the consequences of that.
Beautiful Lieselotte default faceup from the 2013 release, she’s a really gorgeous and photogenic doll. The solid-torso small bust SDGr body is amazing and looks good in everything.
I’d prefer contact on DoA if you’re interested in buying. You can contact me here if you like, but please include your DoA username in your message. I will split the head and body, but full doll or body only are not available for shipping outside of the US. Will ship the head only internationally if doll is split.
Reblogs appreciated! 💖
Two more items for sale, shipping included within US only.
Vier4D Narcissus jacket in Vintage for SD17 boys - $70 [sold]
wimukt / foxybrowny ETC bitter pill Rose Pink dress set for SDGr girls - $40 [sold]
Selling more outfits! I’m in dire need of money for bills, whoops. 😅
Anyway, they’re on DoA, as usual, but you can contact me here if you like! Only shipping in the US rn, but shipping is included in the prices.
Wimukt / foxybrowny “Trace of Lace” dress set - $40 [sold]
Volks SD/SD13/SDGrG Blackberry Bustier set - $50
I’m reposting this pic of April in a dress I sold recently just because I still like the way it came out, and she looks really pretty. ♥ And not at all because I haven’t taken any new pictures in forever. >_>
April - Kanadoll Adrian on Iplehouse SID
1. Pro artist people are not against recasts because of their price. We are against them because they’re a form of art theft. Recasts hurt the companies and artists.
2. Doll companies are not large corporations. Doll companies are very small. These are real individual people that are losing profits, not nameless faces.
3. Several companies and artists have made public statements saying that recasts are harmful to them. Soom, Luts, Fairyland, Iplehouse, Dollzone, Kaye Wiggs, Atelier Momoni, and Lilycat, just to name a few of them.
4. Buying recasts is still harmful to the artists and companies whether or not you do good things like volunteer work or donating to charities.
5. Buying recasts is still harmful to the artists and companies whether or not worse things are happening in the world.
6. Buying recasts is still harmful to the artists and companies whether or not anti recast people do bad things too.
7. A company or artist having long wait times for their products does not justify stealing from them.
8. A company or artist not selling something in the color that you want does not justify stealing from them. Also, Rit Dye exists.
9. A company or artist having poor quality control does not justify stealing from them.
10. A company or artist doing something problematic or wrong does not justify stealing from them.
11. Being excluded for supporting art theft is not comparable to any group of minorities facing violence and discrimination.
12. It’s not elitist to disagree with stealing from doll companies and artists.
13. It’s not elitist to exclude recasts from legit only groups.
14. It’s not bullying to say “supporting recasts is supporting art theft”.
15. It’s not bullying if a faceup artist refuses to work on a recast doll.
16. Pro artist people asking you to tag your recasts is not bullying.
17. If you can afford to buy multiple recast dolls then you can afford to buy at least one legit doll.
18. Less expensive legit dolls exist, there are many wonderful legit bjd sculpts that are less than $300.
19. Most recast dolls go for around $130 or $200. There are plenty of legit dolls that cost the same amount or less.
20. For two recasts that cost $200 each, you could have one legit doll that costs $400 or even two legit dolls that cost $200 each.
21. Dolls are not a necessity. People getting paid for their work is a necessity.
22. You can use legit dolls for coping just as well as you could use a recast for coping.
23. Being mentally or physically ill is not an excuse to support art theft.
24. Being disabled is not an excuse to support art theft.
25. Being poor is not an excuse to support art theft.
Selling a few Iplehouse clothing items! Listings are up on DoA, but you can ask me about them here, too.
Red “Serapina” dress - $80 sold!
Dark red jeans - $45 sold!
Nude wrinkle dress - $20
Black halter dress - $12 sold!
Only shipping to US right now, Paypal only. All items shown on SID glamour bust body.
do you own a doll whose name is "Cloud" a male who is 18 years old with black hair with a strip of red?
Hi there! I do not own (or know of) the doll you’re describing, sorry!
Still have shoes for sale on DoA! Heels & boots for SD16/SDGr girl heel feet from CLS, TwTell, Olivia Chao, and Dollheart.
(updated pic with sold pairs)
Selling several pairs of SD16 shoes over on DoA! Twelve pairs total, currently only shipping to the US, but may open up to international sales if they don’t sell within about two weeks.
DoA sales here!
Lulu: still my best girl 💖
Lulu - Volks SDGrG Lorina
Selling several pairs of SD16 shoes over on DoA! Twelve pairs total, currently only shipping to the US, but may open up to international sales if they don’t sell within about two weeks.
DoA sales here!
“Wow, why are you using a really expensive, limited doll to support BJD artists?” Please allow me to explain. I’m not trying to be dickish, and I do agree that classism and socioeconomic issues can be a real problem in the hobby. This year, I was very fortunate to be able to travel to Japan to attend the Tokyo Bay Cruise, where I obtained the fabulous Mr. Williams here. At this event, I was also able to meet the founder of Volks, Mr. Shigeta, and his wife. The company included translators on staff so that my husband and I were able to speak to them and let them know how much we enjoy our dolls, and how pleased we were to be there. Take a moment to think about your job. If you don’t have a job, think about a job you’ve had in the past, or a job that a close family member or friend has. That job is probably difficult. It takes up most of your day, and most of your energy. You probably wouldn’t do it if you didn’t have to. Now, imagine that your job decides not to pay you. You already put in your hours, but that paycheck isn’t coming. That’s what it’s like when you choose to buy a recast instead of a legit doll. You’re taking work that a sculptor already did, and you’re not paying them for it. It’s easy to understand this problem when you see a sculptor like Harucasting, who is obviously just one artist, and who does a great job of showing his process and his personality on social media. It’s a lot more difficult to understand why recasting is a problem when you look at a large company with more opaque internal workings, like Volks, Soom, or Fairyland. Because you don’t know the sculptors at a company personally, it’s easy to assume that they don’t exist, or that they won’t lose money when you buy a recast of their doll instead of a legit. This isn’t true. What’s more, in a larger company, there are other people who are impacted as well. Faceup artists, casting artists, website designers, photographers, and shop employees are all part of BJD companies, too. Their jobs are necessary for the sculptors to be able to release their sculpts and produce enough of them to meet demand. Certainly there are companies in the world whose choices produce predominantly negative impacts in the world (Walton family, looking at you). But BJD companies aren’t really in the same scale. Walmart has $480 billion in revenue each year, while Volks supposedly did $50 million in 2008. That means it would take 9,600 Volkses to make one Walmart. There’s also the argument that ‘recasters need jobs, too.’ Yes, the version of capitalism going on in China right now is pretty fucked up, and yes, those individuals as people deserve the ability to earn an appropriate wage. But stealing intellectual property isn’t the way to do it. The other issue that many people raise in regard to recasts is that the BJD hobby as a whole discriminates against people who are disadvantaged socioeconomically, and that recasts are a way to level the playing field. But this doesn’t make any sense. Why, if you are a person who struggles with money, would you choose to take an action that devalues the work of others? You’re reenacting the abuses of capitalism that you’ve suffered from on another person, a person whose work you claim to admire enough to buy it. I do think that the hobby has taken a turn away from creativity and toward acquisitiveness. It can be really frustrating to watch 'haul’ videos, or see someone getting a new doll that you wanted but couldn’t afford. There isn’t as much emphasis on photography skills, or story writing, or crafting as there used to be. Perhaps this is because of the switch away from forums, where crafting journals or stories are more easy to publish, and toward social media, which is highly visually oriented but without a lot of ability to explain or converse. Another thing to realize is that the hobby has aged. People who were young and new to the hobby when it started are adults now, and generally, adults make more money than teenagers or college students. Eighteen years of putting your spare money toward a collection can yield a collection that seems massive to someone just starting out. I think it’s important for people who are new to the hobby to know that it’s not a competition to have the most dolls, and that it takes time to get together a large dolly family. For me, I don’t post about my dolly plans very often, and it’s not because I don’t have plans or don’t want to talk. It’s because I know I do have a lot of dolls, expensive ones, and I don’t want to be seen as bragging. Over time, and for a variety of reasons, I’ve felt more and more like I’m sitting in the corner with my dollies watching the party happen. Which brings me back around to the doll events I’ve attended, this year and in the past. Online, it can be difficult to talk to others, or to feel like you understand a person’s true motivations. In person, it’s really fun to be able to chit chat with people who share your hobby. I’m lucky that there are pleasant meetups in Boston and events in California, and that I’ve been able to meet collectors in Japan, too, who were super nice to me despite my inability to say more than “kawaii” about their dolls. I think, when people buy recasts, they believe that they’re buying access to the community. Unfortunately, that isn’t true. A recast represents harm to the artists. A budget doll that has been loved by its owner is a far more impressive and beautiful doll than a doll that was stolen. Support the artists. Buy legit!
“I’ve only had them for a day and a half, but if anything happened to them, I would kill everyone in this room, and then myself.”
Lulu, please. ;3
Oh look, pictures, from me? It’s been forever since I’ve taken any, and in fact, I forgot 1) where my camera was, and 2) that I never installed photoshop on my new desktop, hence the weird phone app edits. (That first one probably needs to be viewed expanded to not look all fuzzy. IDK, I just wanted to show off the shoes I bought her at the LA Dolpa.)
Ok, that’s enough for me, time to go back to hiding and playing video games!
Lulu - Volks SDGrG Lorina
Lulu and friends take a dim view of people who support recasting over the artists who created our hobby. Buy legit, always!
Lulu - Volks SDGrG Lorina
Latergram of Sofie and Precious. She was trying to be a real pirate and steal that bear, but Precious had a sword! ;) #bjd #volksdoll #superdollfie
