Silly doll post (Fortunately, Unfortunately)

[thanate]

Although really I have been doing post-worthy things; I'm just not talking about them at present. Go figure.

So, various people have started talking about going to Dolpa (silly elitist doll event in NYC, June 19) and as usual, I feel that:
+it could be great fun to go up for the weekend and hang out with the few doll people I know,
-but they're going to be running around with all the other doll people I don't know
+who I could meet, and they might turn out to be excellent people
-but I don't do that well in large groups of people, most of whom I don't know
+I'd probably meet a bunch of the people I keep seeing on friend-of-friends lists and contemplating adding to my lj list
-but there's a reason I haven't done so (mainly in the quest of not spending *all* my time on lj)
+adding people who post pretty doll photos could be a good thing
-but not looking at pretty doll photos is one of my major doll-acquisition-containment-measures...

...and so forth. Also, going to the event would involve begging a ticket from someone qualified to buy one, and going to NYC involves both, well, going to NYC, and spending money, and I am a bit wary of the whole spending money thing, as we're looking at things like building an addition on the house, which cost quite a bit of that. Of course, then we turn around and spend money on supplies for garden beds & screening in the porch, and I buy discount linen...

In other trivia, I was delighted to see Domuya get their website back up because while I am vastly impressed with the armor & barding, after seeing the actual horse doll of their Nightmare I find I have no need to own one. (But I will be pestering a certain person to let me play with hers when it arrives...) I find instead that I am far more tempted by the Luts bizarre winged boy (he's even called Thanatos...) although, a) I don't actually need another Puck, even one who's already got the wings I keep not getting around to making for him, and b) I'd be so much more tempted if they had a matched pair. Heck, if they'd done both styles for both wings, I'd be happy to get two sets, but having one wing cyber and one feathered is just odd.

I dreamed a while back that I'd ordered one and when it came it turned out to be the size of a realpuki and wearing the fluffiest white fur wig ever. In the dream I was quite distressed, because I'd been expecting an MSD sized doll, but actually I think I'd be delighted to have such a thing. I keep restraining myself from the puki-creatures, but that might not last. Particularly if the realpukis ever come in non-fullsets. (although I admit, the miniature violin is adorable.)

Comments

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is a silly event, but the fun part is the socialization and there are a lot of people I want to socialize with, so I guess that's how I look at it.

and, uh... NIGHTMARE! I was thinking about that earlier because my Dika Doll jointed hands arrived, and I've been working on slimming them down and making them look less dough-like and heavy. They'd be great for on-horse poses though.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

My quandary is more about expanding my group of doll friends and then feeling the social pressure to go hang out with people and admire their dolls and want to buy more of my own... only not quite like that, either. More like trying to draw a line between resins as possessions and as a lifestyle? I'm not sure that quite makes sense. But I keep wanting to be excited about it as a social thing, and not quite doing so. Possibly also in part because I didn't do a lot of spending time with cool people when I went out to dollectable, and I have the feeling it could have been far more worthy if I were better at making people connections. Or something like that...

Anyway, what do you think of the hands other than clunky shape?

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

See, I wouldn't have enjoyed GogaDoll at all if I hadn't spent it with people and meeting new people. I guess I'm much more of a "Hey we have a similar interest, now let's go hang out! What else do we have in common?" type.

The boy hands are nice. I have one mostly *fixed* It didn't need much. However they will be going to the Saint and not Aston because they match his face and there's no way I can get them Aston-colored without an airbrush. Which is disappointing. I wanted them specifically for Aston. Girl hands are ugly. They need work too.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I would have been happy to spend more time connecting with more new people; I'm just extremely bad at it.

Poor Aston! That is sad.