Leyla Reshelled

The new version of Leyla. I’ve been putting off getting her painted since getting her head in because there’s a slight chance I might be getting an Iplehouse Freezia head if the seller ever signs back onto DoA to talk to me about it lmao.

If I DO get the Freezia head, then that will be taking over this body and I’ll likely be ordering a new body from Supia for Leyla. Which means I won’t have to get the head color matched on top of being painted. But yeah…if I don’t hear from the seller by January or so, I’ll just have to call it a wash and go ahead and get this gal painted for this body. She gonna look fantastic when she’s done though, I just know it!

Twiggy

Bet y’all can’t guess which model I used as a reference for Nobu’s faceup. xD

Welcome Lilith Beck

Finally we have gotten to my header image girl! Lilith Beck. :)

She used to be a character named Nai Hitomi, whom belonged to my former best friend and roleplay partner, but well…keyword: former. Safe to say I no longer wanted to keep Nai around, however…I still really love the Rheia sculpt! So I got her repainted and a new snazzy wig and she looks like a new lady. Her character reworking has been taking a while since it still lowkey hurts to work with the story and whatnot that my ex-friend and I spent years building. x_x; Having her doll version put together helps a lot though.

Rites of Passage Boys Home

My Rugged Realism Rites of Passage boys arrived yesterday afternoon! Post man managed to be a sneaky ninja and I didn’t realize anything was waiting for me outside the door until my tracking app told me some packages got delivered. xD Yesterday was a pretty busy day for me since my parents bought new furniture for the living room as a Christmas gift to us all to replace our old ratty couch. Spent at least 4 hours taking apart the old sectional, hauling pieces my parents wanted to keep upstairs to their bedroom, and then putting together the new furniture. Gonna be sore tomorrow. x_x;; But yeah, thanks to that, I haven’t had much stamina to really play with and check out my new boys. xD;;

Anyway, I snagged myself a Geneo and Aquilo head (my boys are the 51cm versions, btw). I doubt Helene will run another preorder for these boys, but it’d be really nice to be able to get this body for Aquilo in the future too. I ain’t any good with dealing with dolls that share bodies bahaha…. If that doesn’t happen though…there IS a body from Dolly Planet that I’ve been eyeballing. P:

But yeah, funny story, I originally planned to just get Aquilo (crotch goblin in the picture bahah) since I’ve been oohing and awwing over him since I think probably when Helene first got him 3D printed, but Geneo sucked me in at the last minute when the preorder is coming close to opening. xD; Thankfully, I had the cash for 1 full doll + a head.

So happy to finally have these boys home. I don’t have any concrete plans for the Aquilo sculpt just yet, but I’m definitely making my Geneo into Vergil from the Devil May Cry video game series (not looking forward to trying to find someone to commission for his clothes……).

Jin-ho

Fearsome Foursome

This crew was originally created years ago and I always envisioned them being friends, but due to how mine and the ex-friend’s roleplays went, all four never reall crossed paths with each other in the stories we created. At this point, I’ve come to accept that they’ll never be a fearsome foursome (Sachi is the odd one out since I enjoy her storyline too much as is to mesh it with the other girls), but I’ve been wanting to put together this photo for a while to sit side by side with the drawing I drew of them once upon a time ago. xD;

Tris's New Fit

Tris’ current outfit, though I’m debating taking out the plaid shirt and using something else. P;

Doll Hype & Thunkin'

I’m so hype, I was able to find someone that I’ll be able to commission for Vergil’s outfit. Was worried it might not happen, or at least not as easily since the Rites of Passage boys are at that odd 50cm height that practically nobody makes shit for. XD Buuuut the peeps I messaged about it (Beyond Wonderland; same group that make Kusuriuri’s outfit for me) said it should be something they can put together for my man.

Annnnnd thanks to someone on IG, I was also able to find out that 51 Ath boy clothes from SatoriaJ fit the body perfectly. Be sweet if they release some slim/tight fitting leather pants before I get around to commissioning Vergil’s DMC5 clothes; one less thing to wait around for, ya know? xD;

I’ve also been kind of obsessively looking for a sculpt to possibly make into Hawks from My Hero Academia. Even messaged someone about some Fairyland wings they posted for sale a few months back…but that was on Saturday and they still haven’t replied lmao. That one might be a wash and I’ll have to look elsewhere. D;

Anyway, as for the sculpts I’ve been looking at, I have a Souldoll Joelle head currently that I was thinking might work, but here is also Model Delf Terra from Luts…but I’d only go for that if Luts let me buy just the head, which I don’t know if they allow people to do. xD;

But yeah, gonna have a lot of spendy projects for next year bahaha. OTL I feel kind overwhelmed when I look at my Doll To-do list in my notes app, cause a lot has built up the last few months. xD;;;

That Bitch

Lilith might currently have That Bitch status.

also her bobbies are ridiculous.

Bright Idea

Officially introducing Bright Idea, the band founded by Jin-ho and Naoko. They first started out just the two of them in their final year of high school; Lilith and Kyrie joined up later when they were in search of more members.

Naoko’s the lead singer (and she also plays the piano/keyboard), Lilith is background vocals and guitarist, Kyrie on bass guitar, and Jin-ho handles the drums.

They’re kind of like The Gorillaz and similar groups in that they don’t really stick to any one genre or sound.

Confession Blogs

why do i bother looking at the confession blog? i come out of it feeling braindead every single time.

#why do i do this to myself lmaoi need to stop checking it for real ffffs #bad enough the posts are often so dumb most of the time #but then the replies are even worse #maybe that ol’ new years resolution should be stop looking at the confession blog bahaha

Doll Thunkin' Again

oh yeah so last night i ordered a pile of wigs off etsy for vergil, hawks, and ken. hoping the ones for vergil and hawks work out well. they’re not perfect, but hopefully they’ll handle restyling well.

need to get hawks eyes too, but i need ones with small irises. was thinking 12mm eyes with either 5 or 6mm irises. i’ll probably snag a pair next time ashuradarkeyes on etsy is taking on custom orders. P; hawks will have to live with a pair of gold glass eyes i have that’ll give him big doe eyes until then bahaha.

speaking of hawks, bought a secondhand minifee body for him, annnnnnd i still haven’t heard anything from the person that had a post about minifee centuar wings they had for sale. ended up sending them another message as well as posting a paging thread just in case they might not be getting my messages due to a forum glitch or something. wouldn’t be surprised considering i haven’t gotten emails about private messages coming into my account for a few years now and never messed with my settings for notifications prior to that. Px if i don’t hear back from them by this coming saturday then i guess i’ll be bugging fairyland to ask if they’ll do any more preorders for the wings in the future ooooorrrrr message synthetic ephemera and see if they could sculpt and print me some poseable wings. xD; i gotta message them anyway for a quote on getting vergil’s sword (and a sword for hiei too honestly) made. wanna know how much money i’m gonna be burning next year jfdklajfdla.

Ignored & Wings

So the seller on DoA never bothered to get back to me; I even made a paging thread just in case they might have never gotten my messages or something, but that has gone ignored by the seller and no mod has responded to the thread to page them since posting it about a week ago so……..

Emailed Fairyland to ask if they have any plans in the future to hold another preorder for the pegasus doll parts, but was told that they don’t plan to do anything with that any time soon (which I’m just gonna take as a flat no). Soooo…gonna have to figure some measurements out and then see if anyone can 3D sculpt + print me some poseable wings for Hawks. I imagine if someone can, it’s gonna cost quite a lot bahahaha. RIP to my bank account next year.

I was thinking of maybe trying to have a similar design as the wings on the Amazing Yamaguchi Hawks figure that’s set to release at some point next year…but yeah there’s only pictures to guesstimate how those work right now. xP I’ll need to see if there have been any other winged characters they’ve done in the past and see if there’s any videos of them being handled. Really want my Hawks doll to have wings I can pose rather than have static ones.

Revamping Hiei

Finally gave Hiei some love the other night. His wig got chopped into again to make the back of it look a little cleaner along the hairline, found some gauze that wasn’t going to be used and cut it in strips to wrap his arm up, and got some clothes on him after he’s been sitting in his underwear on my couch for a week. xD I also made some additions to his necklace, but it wasn’t draping right over the tank top so y’all don’t get to see it for the time being. ;B

I’m thinking I’ll likely make more adjustments to his wig for fit (I’d honestly like to have a new wig made for him, but meh…other dolls got priority over him right now) and I’m hoping to commission someone for a few of his character outfits next year. Also found a great cosplay tutorial on YouTube the other night about making faux bandage wraps that I’ll likely try out to make a more permanent set up for his arm.

But yeah, he’s looking significantly nicer than he has in years. xD; My poor little gremlin man is so neglected in my doll crew.

Outfit Change for Riyo

Since I was changing up Hiei’s look, figured I’d do the same for Riyo; been wanting to coordinate an outfit around this skirt for a while anyway.

Riyo’s one of those characters of mine that dresses in a way that contrasts quite a bit with her personality. xD Like she dresses cute most of the time, but she’s closer in personality to Yusuke (dirty mind, foul-mouthed, and a hoe lmao). Having a character’s design be a polar opposite of their personality is definitely one of my favorite tropes.

The OTP

The OTP to end all my OTPs. No matter what, I always go back to fawning over them.

I’m constantly tempted to write up the fanfic that’s been marinating in my head about thee two for years, but ffffs writing is ass and I still don’t have a clear idea of what to do with the Three Kings arc.

Faceup Progress

buuuuuh. i got 4 dolls that for sure need faceups and i’m not looking forward to how much that is going to cost me lmao (especially since two of them need coloring matching). the ones that need painting are vergil, hawks, and leyla. qianna also needs to be repainted to look how i want her (she came with the faceup she currently has). i’ll probably get the three blank heads set to be sent out when komorebi dolls reopens her slots next month and get qiqi repainted later on next year.

anywho, speaking of faceups, ken and shuu are halfway done! got these progress shots from kira yesterday. c:

can’t wait to see them finished. i only just last night ordered a wig for shuu as well as eyes ahaha… xD;; been putting it off for a minute.

Happy New Year!

Each year since about 2019, I’ve gathered up all my full dolls to take a photo of them before the new year begins. Basically tradition for me at this point bahaha.

If you ever want to truly appreciate how big your collection is, try posing and standing them up all together for a group photo in a space too small for most of them to use stands. xD

Anyway, here is the crew as of the end of 2022 (minus Ken and Shuu whom are still out with Komorebi Dolls getting painted, Hawks who is just a head still waiting on his Minifee body to come in the mail fffs, and my Aquilo head whom I still don’t have solid plans for as of now).

But yeah…2022 felt essentially like mostly a net negative for me personally, but here’s to hoping shit is better next year. I at least know I have a whole pile of doll shit on the to-do list for 2023, so at least I’ll be busy organizing that shit.