#doll updates

[antlersofthevoid]

I put Doll in her cage for bed and so I can start working on the chapter and apparently that is a crime to bunnykind because she stamped her legs at me and flipped one of her toys in my direction

[boykiitty]

Today was a good mail day for the dolls. I got my second lucywen body, a mint one!!! My heart is soaring for this resin. It’s super hard to capture its vibrancy on camera but this pastel mint green is too good. It’ll be going to my Nanuri 192, I had also found these beautifully made little boots on Etsy. Perfect for minifee / 5.5cm feet. (Etsy shop: AmyDollClothes)

[corvus-pica-pica]

Request for BJD Help!!!

Hey everyone!! I have put a Artifex Kindred / Twigling Elbe on order back in December [my christmas present from @thebastardofgloucester was his help in putting the layaway down ; ^ ; Thank you Martinus!!], to be my beloved D-Z!! [I also weighed @glyndarling‘s advice re:Gabriel from several months ago, but applied it to D-Z. When the preorder was announced, I realized that Elbe was the best match, not the Impldoll Aurora I had planned. A brief shoutout for hella useful advice--thank you!!] SO I am getting HELLA stir crazy waiting for her to come [yes I know it will be forever--I knew that when I signed up for Artifex Kindred preorder] and also nervous because finding clothes that will fit her that also match her style is...challenging. I have a number of doll projects in the hopper to keep me busy along with my PhD, but I can’t keep my mind off my incoming girl...

<b>So here’s my request: Do you have a Small Bust/Long Hip Artifex Kindred Body? If so, would you be willing to make me a tap form?</b> This would be an immense help and I will gladly pay postage [maybe even materials if you’re really strapped for cash] for such a kindness.  If you do not have this body combo, please reblog!! Thank you all in advanced for taking a second to read this!

[corvus-pica-pica]

*breathes fire*

BJD followers--I have a problem.  I have, as posted earlier, very carefully articulated doll plans for one of my oldest characters. I have also been working on another character whose story, oddly enough, is related to my PhD research.  And I have now begun the sifting through DoA to make sure that, prior to ordering D-Z, for the carefully articulated doll plans, that there does not already exist a doll that fits the specifications I have for her doll form. Aaaaand because I suck, I stumbled across a few listings in the custom color needed and the limited mold desired for the other character, Gabriel.  So, dear followers. Do you have any advice for me? 

[corvus-pica-pica]

A DOLL UPDATE. WHUT.

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.]

Now the doll stuff: 

+ 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. 

[space-pirate-alex]

Last night after messing with supplies I discovered the best method to apply the clay to the face of my Adam doll. As soon as that clear sealant gets here for the body paint in gonna be working overtime finishing him with the movie soundtrack on repeat while I work

[doll-in-the-walls]

Okay so I just need to reread/edit the next chapter of Charming Eternity (for the nth time) before I can finally post it (sorry it's taken me a month to update that fic.)

I'm almost done with one of the two Lost Boys requests I have. (The other one might take longer because it's smut and I have to be in the right mood/mindset to write that.)

I'm also almost done with the next chapter of Strangely Charming though no one's really shown interest in that one.

However, I won't be home for another few (2-3) hours (but I can do the rereading/editing on my phone). I will do my best to post Charming Eternity's next chapter when I get home.

[doll-in-the-walls]

I'm gonna try to finish the Steve x Plus Size reader oneshot I have and get that up tonight along with chapter 2 of Strangely Charming. Might also be able to get up the other no pairing ST oneshot I have almost done too.