Yeah, I know, it’s been almost a year since I had a proper doll update! Master’s dissertations and PhD applications abound, which means Garth has been a silent companion that moves around my desk and holds my edits for my drafts as I work.
First, a background update: I AM DOING A PHD AT YORK AND I START IN NEXT WEEK WHAT THE FUCK. It will be in Medieval Art History, specifically Anglo-Saxon angels. So that’s gonna be cool. [Dissertation for the MA is Satan and his angels in Genesis B! It’s DONE PRAISE BE.] My awesome human @thebastardofgloucester and I have moved house, so we’ve been doing housing stuff, which is exciting. Our house has so much nerdy stuff in it, I love it. [Garth lives in the living room on a bookshelf with Martinus’s norman helmet, because the nerdiest gear needs a prominent home where EVERYONE CAN SEE IT.]
+ Dantes is now a floating head [ ; __ ; Only for a short while, I hope. Planning a DT 17rs body for him some time after March...]
+ Wee Clove is going to go live with @dalektable10 in December. [This is a happy thing though, so I’m pretty pleased she’ll have a new home.]
+ Garth is getting a new wig and possibly new shoes. I may also actually finish [!] his vest.
+ Iris continues to V E X me and I will figure her out later.
+ I’m building an order for my second-oldest character, D-Z. [She’s the surly looking one in the drawing] She’ll be coming to live with me as my PhD project, much like Garth was supposed to be my MA project but he was mostly finished when I brought him with me [except the buttons/snaps on his vest *cough*], so he mostly sat and held papers and stuff while I wrote. [Which was a much-needed position while writing all the papers and starting my dissertation!]
Anyway, D-Z is one of my faces of death from my novel [basically there are three living people that inhabit the role of death], and she’s sort of been my protector in the face of anxiety and doubt [Garth is the one that keeps me from sliding backwards and keeps me from curling up and dying], and she’s also going to be a big customizing project as well. She’s slated to be an Impldoll Aurora on a Star Muscular body in a custom resin color like her skin in the drawing. She’ll need:
- a midnight blue wig styled in an undercut [shaved on both sides]
- both her arms made into mechanical limbs [will be ordered in a custom resin color to be the base for whatever I paint them with. That’s the second Patone card.]
- scar mods [chest/neck, shoulder, belly. She’s a tank of a fighter.]
- all of her specific gear [armor, long tunic, boots, helmet, maybe chainmail, scythe], which will be a sort of dystopian cyberpunk/medieval-inspired alien gear. So lots of pleather and studs with weird textures.
- horns [I reaaally want these to be a pair of horns by blueotterparadise, but they tend to be sporadic with stock and things, so these will sort of happen whenever the stars align and I have funds for horns and there’s stock in a color that works for her. They’re my grail accessory for D-Z <3]
So yeah. New doll will be coming to join me at some point at the end of 2017 / beginning of 2018! Once the order is put in, I will more seriously start planning her bits and bobs. Already ordered a shitton of unprocessed alpaca [which has had many many washes so far, and still looks kinda sad. More work is needed.], and I have to do some dye tests before I can actually finish prepping her fiber.
FUCK MY PHD STARTS NEXT WEEK WHAT THE FUCK.
