today's lessons:

[thanate]

*attempting to decant brains late into the night is often counter-productive, and may lead to sleeping fitfully in the midst of fragmentary dreams from which one wakes just enough to make mental notes not to remember or continue them.

*do not allow stupid dealership service people to talk you into changing extra fluids in the car when they call to say everything else is fine. Or they will charge you an extra $250 for doing things that the manual says NEVER NEED TO BE DONE. (bah. and being sleep-deprived, I remembered this some time *after* I'd given the authorization.)

*office store copy services DO NOT wish you to know how much printing and binding your document will cost. And their websites are cleverly designed so that no price listing exists; instead you must attempt to load the document, which will fail to work properly, give you wildly inaccurate numbers, and not allow you to go on to work out the details. Or it'll ask you for an account login (which I fail to have) before proceeding.

*the internet is evil, and I cannot find any of the information I am looking for on it. (doll people-- how tall are the Volks SD17 bodies? And how are they different from SD16? I feel that I should be able to locate this info somewhere, but it is eluding me...)

Car should be ready by about 2, so I am going back to sleep until then.

Comments

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

SD17 bodies are svelte. SD16 bodies are beefy. Jeremiah has HYOOJ arms... I think they're about the same height though. uhm. I don't know anyone around here with an SD17 though.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

zagzagael just got one from somebody, I think, and there were a few wandering around dollectable. I'm just frustrated that the Volks USA site won't admit they exist at the moment, and doesn't have measurements for anything anyway, and I'm completely incapable of getting useful information of this sort out of the DOA search forms. Maybe everyone is just supposed to know, and it isn't there, but given the number of other esoteric-to-basic-to-innane questions up there somewhere one would think somebody would have asked that already...

So is JJ at 65 cm now? I actually don't think I've seen him since he swapped bodies.

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

I meant someone in our immediate geographic area. :P I like the SD17 body. Dunno what I'd do with one, but I do like it. They're easier to come by than the SD16 bod too. Oh and the SD17 has nicer abs.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

The one I found lurking at the back of the for sale boards actually came from our area. Not that I know who the ex-owner is in person, but I suspect it's someone I've met.

I'm a little skeptical about the rounded shoulder thing-- the shoulder sockets are actually set forward slightly so he looks perpetually slumped. But otherwise ok. I don't know... I guess my quandry is that I want minions-- at least a Thomas and Janet to go with Lady, but nobody taller than she is (and I don't really like the mecha-angel boy weird proportions, anyway) and nobody so short or skinny they look odd with Waif. He's too young. If he were twelve or fifteen, he could work with a 70 cm adult, but in my head he's eight or ten, and too wide to look quite right with the skinny dollshe/model doll sized boys anyway.

So I think at some point I want a large-size Narae to be about Waif's age (although I'm trying to hold off until some of the matte resin ones start turning up where I can look at them, since in the website pictures they look *absolutely ghastly*... but I'm not sure if that's b/c they're matte, or because french resin just makes non-matte look bad in the wrong lighting or something.) and I think Janet can get away with being small, since she's female, but I don't know what I actually want to do about a Thomas...

And really, I don't want more dolls. I don't want more dolls because I want hordes of them (fifteen? twenty? more than I can appreciate) and being me, I would never resell any of them that I actually bought, and then it would just be me and my dolls and no space for anyone else because they would take over the world. I can totally see myself turning into a crazy cat lady here, only resins don't die off. (and I was totally going to make this an actual post at some point, along with all the other things I was going to post actual things about that I don't even remember what they were anymore. sigh.)

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

You just wrote me a novel.

I want a 43cm Narin. Ho hum, bad. I just paid off my Sard and I want another doll. I don't need this many either. Not to mention the cost of clothing a Narin for someone who has one nekkid Machina about that size.

WHile Aston wears enough clothes to give him bulk, I've struggled continually with Martel. (and then there's Duke, and that's a conpletely different clothing issue) Martel always looks so anorexic to me. I should dress him in up as a medieval monk and let him loose in the wilds to live as an ascetic hermit or something. He's that sort of skeletal in my mind and difficult to get away from that mental image. I hoe the Sard will have better proportions than the Sabik. I like X, but he's so unwieldly and oddly proportioned - makes it harder to enjoy him and impossible to photograph him the way he is.

On the other hand, since I removed the Asrae from the rest of them, I've been okay with their numbers. Odd sometimes how one doll throws off the balance.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

You know how you think about something for weeks and weeks and don't actually ever get around to discussing it with anyone? It's like that...

I like the idea of Martel as an ascetic hermit camping out in the wilds of the living room, or perhaps meditating in the closet by the staircase (that's almost like a tower, right?)... It might not go so well with the elvis/batman wig, though...

SuperGem girls are pretty decently proportioned-- I didn't actually see a boy that I noticed particularly but I was astonished by how big the satyr feet on the Beryls were. They also add a bunch to her height, and stand really well.