#bjd ramble

[eponadolls]

Doll Musings and Rambles

So... I got the notification a few days ago that my 1/4 DFH girl body shipped! So I should be getting the body for my Souldoll Aehael soon! It's been about six months, and the body is a custom resin match to Switch Milktea Rose.

I'd like to get a body for one of my other floating heads, too, and I am heavily considering the 1/4 Sprouting Dragon girl body. Rambles photos etc further under the cut.

I wish I had some larger, high-res images offhand, but I don't. It's been hard finding references on instagram (thanks insta for killing tags, makes your platform so useful), but I think this body might be a good fit for my Souldoll Junia or Logandolls Peregrine. What I do know is that Jane's Doll Land is a US-based dealer for a lot Chinese companies, though, and I can get the body in light tan (soom tawny) for $121/$141 shipped from her, so naturally my interest has been piqued. According to Jane's, the neck is ~6.7cm, so I think it should work well for Junia or Peregrine. Both have pretty small necks; Peregrine was sculpted with a minifee body in mind, I believe? I was previously considering a Loongsoul body for Peregrine but unfortunately Loongsoul seems to offer tan very infrequently, and I'm not interested in dyeing a bjd body unless it's the absolute last choice.

Either 1/4 Huajing girl bodies are still in consideration for Peregrine and Junia, but the Magnolia body (or Luts model delf) may ultimately go to my Souldoll Calia... we will have to wait and see. Honestly I am anxious what might go on in regards to the impeding discussion about US tariffs with our trade partners, so I'm not exactly excited at the prospect of ordering much else overseas right now, especially since some of these companies are easily a 5-6 month wait time.

Regarding the last point, I've also been trying to decide what I want to do in regards to Xagadoll's Mizzle.

Mizzle has... kind of sort of been a grail doll of sorts? I remember first seeing her on Mint on Card but I wasn't sure who she was. :v Things never quite panned out when I have wanted to order her in the past, so she simply... just never got here. If it wasn't for the fact she would take months before getting here via preorder and me being impatient, I could have seen Mizzle as being a contender of being my first ball jointed doll. I'm not exactly sure what is the estimated wait time of Xagadoll/Asleep Eidolon is right now, but I imagine it's in the 5-6 month range.

One doll I think might well be a very, very strong contender for my first 2025 BJD purchase though, is Logandolls' curvy elf girl!

Photo from Logan’s instagram! It’s showing off the new hips he sculpted, just in a far smaller scale. She’s absolutely adorable and I think she would be the absolute cutest doll ever. I wouldn't mind adding a tan Logandolls Lark to the crew, either.

But... Unless something big happens like Legranddoll or Summerbird making a come back, or I finally find some of the souldoll heads I am looking for (clodia, please come to me), I think this is a sold, though probably a bit overzealous, “2025 bjd goals/wishlist” of sorts. Besides maybe the sprouting dragon body - I may submit that order still in 2024 😂 Otherwise my other bjd goals are the same they are every year: get more clothes, shoes, eyes, wigs, and faceups done lmao. It would be nice to fit a smartdoll pear girl in there somewhere, although since she would warrant a new wardrobe due to being a new size, I... don't know if I will be fitting her in 2025, but I do hope to (eventually!) get her. Maybe I can justify her if I can get some more sales moved. Who knows, we shall see.

That said, I think my only 2024 purchases are the after-mentioned Doll Family H body (bought ~5 months ago), my almost paid off Littlefee Chloe + tan Vampire Minifee Chloe head, my Magic Mirror Sinead (old promo model, bought from Nanyalin's personal collection), as well as two outfits from Cloversinging from independent artists, and... random clothing bits and bobs from Aliexpress/Ebay/Etsy/etc. I traded for my Calia head from a friend and I bought my Junia head secondhand. Definitely a good amount of things but (probably?) significantly down from 2023 and earlier...

Granted, I did sell a bit of my collection to lessen the financial burden of some pretty big things (ie, wisdom tooth removal, car repairs and ultimately getting a new car), but it's been nice outfitting dolls I already have. The decrease probably has a lot to do with instagram removing recent tags and when facebook sales groups were easily navigable. Truthfully when it comes down to it, though, I think my biggest "bjd-adjacent" dolls is probably getting a nice set up to actually display them. 99% of my bjd-related stuff honestly chills in a box when not getting photos. I kind of want something like an IKEA Billy Bookcase with doors but my house is honestly quite small so I am not sure where a new piece of furniture like that would go right now.

[eponadolls]

Dolly Ramble: Shelling Rhys

I've considering shelling Rhys for a very long time. She was one of my character's in a "mini campaign" (of our much larger D&D campaign) where she served as a shadar-kai (shadow elf) private investigator, investigating a cult that was up to no-good. She also drove the squad's car into a "god's" newly-born avatar.

This is my long-standing, multi-year D&D online campaign, and this was the art I used for represent her. I found out afterwards it was a fan edit of Pillars of Eternity's Ydwen, but I was really happy how closely it matched my mental image of Rhys! Finding a BJD sculpt for her has been kind of elusive, though.

I've long considering a Minifee Nanuri 17 head for her. However, something about it has always felt a little... off for me, and I don't love the sculpt - which is always the goal for my dolls. I've also considered a minifee juri 2020 and a minifee klaus, both of which I really like, but the stars just haven't really aligned on it. I guess I'm a little hesitant because, while I do love my minifees, I don't love how bobbleheaded they are compared to my other msds, whose heads tend to be at least half an inch smaller.

I do think both of them have quite a bit of potential to be Rhys still. I've also considered Klaus for my elven rogue who lost something quite dear to her in a horrific ritual, but the consideration for Rhys still stands.

For some of the less melon-headed options (lol), I do really love Withdolls. I have considered a few different ones, namely Angela and Kyle.

I really like both, but I am hesitant to use Kyle for Rhys because there's so few male sculpts I like that are msds that fit with the majority of my crew and I would like to eventually get a Kyle and Aiden for additional boys to... make a futile attempt to slightly "balance" out my crew.

I love Angela but I would have to modify her mouth since something about it has always bothered me - I think it's the lack of a sculpted cupid's bow, which is probably one of my favorite parts of lip anatomy.

Withdoll Nana has been up for heavy consideration, though - I think she's sculpted from the same base as Angela (which is probably the same as Luna, Rachel, and Cynthia), but she has a really nicely sculpted mouth and I really like her more defined nose shape around the nostrils, compared to Angela's.

While her head is up to debate, though, I'm fairly certain I know what body I'd like for her: the "no gender" body from Fatemoons.

Most female BJD bodies are quite... well-endowed in certain assets, as either wasp-waited hourglasses or bottom-heavy pears, and my mental image of Rhys' body was tall, lanky, and athletic but not particularly muscular - long muscles, rather than bulky and show-y. My mental image would probably put her as a "rectangle/banana" body type which, while underrepresented in most doll lines, is actually the body type of the majority of women! I don't care about my dolls being anatomically correct (and sometimes I really wish they weren't), so the body being "no gender" is a benefit too, if anything.

Unfortunately it seems like Fate Moon's dolls are almost always only available in "milk/white" resin so I am waiting to see if a very pale pinkish color becomes an option. I know I can always dye a body and white is technically closer to how Shadar-kai are typically depicted (as white or grey), but white resin is my least favorite fantasy skin color... I kind of hate how it photographs outside - pale flesh resins can reflect in the sun really badly as it is, sometimes making their noses barely visible, and since Rhys is alive, I prefer something that implies some blood circulation. I've already asked Denverdoll about it, so I am just waiting to hear back. If I do with a Withdoll head for Rhys, I would probably get it in rose white or cream white resin - pale but not paper/snow white.

I am probably going to be shelling some other characters before Rhys regardless, but shelling her always comes back into mind. Her and her companion's mini campaign was fun (and very Call of Cthulhu inspired...), though unfortunately we "failed" the mission lol. We solved the bigger crisis at hand with the "main party" at least, though! Rhys and her companions/coworkers survived the destruction of the city and aided as much as they could in the recovery effort, and I like to wonder what else they might have gotten up to.

[teaandteal]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNdMU1b1c0)

I made a thing! I needed someone to talk dolls to, and I chose you!

[boringcatdolls]

I’ve been having the urge to sell all my dolls lately. Every single one, even ones that mean a lot to me. I don’t know why, I guess I just feel disconnected from them, like I have been feeling towards most things lately.

But for now, at least, I’ll be keeping them. I don’t know for how long, since at the moment I have Denark, my MNF Miyu A-line, is for sale, and I never thought I’d be selling her...

[kimdollz]

I hate that my best friend is insensitive when it comes to my hobby. He keeps saying my dolls are creepy and always says things that could hurt my feelings…. =____= I hate it. And he sometimes just can’t seem to feel the atmosphere whenever I am already offended. WHY CANT HE JUST TAKE THE HINT. Oh and I literally went silent for 1 and a half hour on skype during our calls and he still thinks I am not mad at him :/

[star-valo]

I need the weather to pick up Which won't happen I need it to warm up so I can faceup and blush my dollies. Tim's big boy Azreal needs his human head re-doing and Tim wants me to blush his body to match him feet (which I'm so proud of, btw) My sassy unicorn needs his face and hooves done too. Our little foxes, Shadow and Kulta, need face ups, fantasy parts and a full body blush. And we have just ordered two little alicorn centaurs that will need doing up as our pony-sonas And guess who is gonna do it all? Me. I also need to look into other sealants, and try to find a nice, easy accessible, not too expensive, gloss sealant. For lips and things, I think I need it to just bring out the faceup more. And hooves. Oh and I think Mika needs a re-do :P