BYUL ?!

I have gone over to the dark side, I fear.  Despite my best effort to hate and ignore the byul, this year’s Comic-con exclusive Lilith really wore me down. Her freaky face just seems like the perfect little vampire face.  I preordered one through Pullipstyle and she is supposed to be here end of July with my second Eos (since my first one had stock fail I ordered a second). In the meantime, I really started looking at byul pictures on flickr and noticed that they were not totally wretched when redressed and rewigged. Is it just me or does the name byul sound like a disease ? I came down with a bad case of the byul. The softening up to byul is bad especially since I had a spare dal. I ended up trading someone for a nude byul Siry, after the ensuing drama  she arrived last week. I am still not quite sure what to make of her entirely.
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New DD?!

Here I was thinking that Sakura, would be my 11th dollfie dream little did I realize another would show up and trump her claim to that honor. Earlier in the year I had made a wish list expecting that if I was lucky I might get two or three of the bigger dolls this year and maybe one of the blythes, about six months later and I now have one of the blythes and eight of the other dolls ~ I am still in shock. Of course my new arrival was one of those dolls on the wish list… I never can quite grasp how quickly my dolly family expands although I have actually sat down and done the math before and figured out that I average a new pullip every 3.6 days it is still mindboggling to me.

So who did I get?
What's this a new DD

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365 Doll Project Part 4

Why yes this week’s post is almost a week late, and I have other stuff to blog besides including a very wonderful surprise that arrived earlier in the week but more on that later. As I mentioned recently, I am in the process of ripping my apartment apart again. I think this will be the final attempt at sanity in this apartment, I have beyond outgrown it but the only thing I hate more than being overcrowded is packing this amount of stuff up for a move T_T. The last three days I have been working feverishly at my doll room, pictures should be forthcoming next week-ish.

I decided to make monthly collages for this as well so here are all of June’s dolls…
365 Doll Project- June 2010
The last few weeks have been somewhat interesting doll-wise for me. I did two trades, my Spring Purezza went for an Oren and I traded my second Tweety for a byul. I went a bit nutty buying dolls lately ^^; . Plus three of my dolls are out on loan to one friend, another is going in the mail tomorrow for another friend and I have one of my friend’s dolls here.

I’ve also been toying with playline dolls a bit, I now own two Monster High dolls and a Bitty Buttons. Normally I stalk the toy aisles in hopes of Joker figures or littlest pet shop toys, the actual buying and not just for stripping of dolls is kind of disturbing to me.
Bitty Buttons

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365 Doll Project- Part 3

I am in the midst of a 365 doll project, the basic premise is something like a 365 day project I take a picture each day of a different doll I own. I don’t actually own 365 dolls but my intention is basically to keep going until I run out of dolls. In addition to taking a picture of a different doll every day I am also sharing their profiles which is not something I generally do.
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This week I had a lot of new arrivals and other changes in my overall doll family. I received Eos, Shinku, custom Agony and a Spring Purezza in the mail and I traded my Richt away for another Lala.  Spring Purezza is not staying I just really wanted her stock clothes as after two years of hoping to find her stock for sale I gave up and bought a 2nd one NRFB so I could steal the stock  ($125 shipped in the US if anyone is interested). I am also selling my Arion to make up for other indulgences in the past week. One of my Eos’ wings broke and it is not able to be glued and because she is sold out virtually everywhere in Japan, I kind of panicked and got in the second preorder shipment at Pullipstyle. I also managed to preorder the comic-con limited byul Lilith through Pullipstyle.
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Joker bust get <3

I have had a rough last couple of days, my little one hasn’t been feeling well and it’s just been one thing after the other it seems lately. This morning I head the doorbell ring, it’s a glorious sound I haven’t had many packages lately. I was so excited to get at the package’s sweet, sweet innards I grabbed the first knife handy  and dug in. The first knife I spotted in the kitchen was a butcher knife and in my over-zealousness to get at the figure I inadvertently sliced into one of my boobs ^^; How did I manage this? I’m an E cup and cut towards myself >_< Now it wasn’t that bad or anything and it didn’t even hurt that badly but after what I realized what I had actually done, I was so amused with my zeal to get at the figure I was pretty much doubled over laughing as well it was one of those embarrassing things that seemingly only happen to me.
New arrival <3
Unto the figure, Joker is part of the DC Hero Super Villain Bust line. Apparently at some point there was a similiar scale Harley Quinn bust but it didn’t belong to this line, it came out in 2006 so my chances of finding it are probably pretty slim at this point unfortunately ^^; Maybe they will make a Harley Quinn in this line ::hopes and prays because she doesn’t want to have to pay ebay pricing for the old Harley bust::.
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I was never someone who really saw the appeal of busts in general but I really like this one. While poking around on line I found a previous Joker one bust that also kind of intrigues me. I know my old comic book shop used to have it but it’s been a long while since I was there so it is quite possible it is now long gone.
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I have still yet to work out what angle I like him best from, I guess I will figure it out when I add him to my growing Joker shrine.
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I love the pose of Joker, it strikes me as being very much in character for him to play with a presumably fallen Batman’s cape/cowl.
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The face sculpt isn’t particularly my favorite interpretation of Joker, a bit too much gum for me I think.

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365 Doll Project- continued

I am in the midst of a 365 doll project, the basic premise is something like a 365 day project I take a picture each day of a different doll I own. I don’t actually own 365 dolls but my intention is basically to keep going until I run out of dolls. In addition to taking a picture of a different doll every day I am also sharing their profiles which is not something I generally do.

To answer some of the questions I have already been receiving on flickr, my eventual intention was at one point to do a picfic. Most of these profiles were never really meant to see the light of day, they were just something to amuse myself with that I may eventually turn into a picfic . Unfortunately as I got more and more dolls it became apparent that well they don’t all belong in the same universe as each other (I have vampires, elves, demons, angels, pirates just to name a few) and that doing a single picfic would probably not suffice. I broke the dolls up into smaller self contained clusters, some dolls such as Hollis Heartspark, Cheshire and Nyx move around freely through the clusters (they exist to kind of give a gentle nudge to keep the others going in the right or wrong direction).  Some dolls were conceptualized to be central characters and have really extensive information about them while others are just kind of bit players that fill out the casts.  I have a bit of a warped mind, a twisted sense of humor and I tend to prefer villains so I am kind of putting a disclaimer out there that not all of my dolls are very nice and some of them are downright deplorable .  I am also astutely aware that they are just dolls, the little stories behind them are just for my own amusement.

2/365- Nyx
2/365- Nyx
Doll- Pullip Raphia
Name- Nyx
Mods– Full custom by Requiemart partially based on the pullip on the cover of the first Pullip mook , her lip ring is removable custom wig is also by Requiemart
Bio- Nyx is a mysterious girl, some are not even sure that she really exists. She is an agent of chaos, no one quite knows what her ultimate goal is. She tends to be very mischievous she does sometimes help people, other times she hurts them but most of the time she just leaves them very much confused. She speaks only in riddles and rhymes mostly about nonsense and limes.

3/365- Emma
3/365 Emma
Doll- Pullip Hello Kitty
Name- Emma
Mods- Rewigged with mohair wig by Requiemart
Bio- Emma is an aspiring fashion designer. She considers her personal style to be colorful and eclectic. She doesn’t let the fact that she is actually color blind get in the way when designing clothing although this may explain some of her color choices. She is an endless optimist and doesn’t let anything get her down.

4/365- Raja
4/365 Raja
Model- Pullip Paja
Name- Raja
Mods- None- minty
Bio- Raja’s parents died when she was fairly young, her eldest sister Autumn raised her as well as her twin sister Paja and their other two sisters Fiona and Natalie. Raja is the proverbial good twin, ever since she was young she has always had a squeeky clean image and everyone always commented her on how nice, kind and polite she was especially when compared with her rebellious twin Paja. Paja grew jealous of all the attention her boring sister got just for being nice so she made her mission to become the bane of Raja’s existance. Raja has remained her perky and wonderful self despite years of Paja’s treachery. She is friendly towards everyone and everyone loves her (well except Paja). Eventually Raja’s love of children and generally being nice paid off when she by chance got an audtion for a new children’s show. She ended up hosting the wildly popular children’s television show called “Nighty Night Raja”. The show basically consists of her reading children’s bedtime stories and nursery rhymes but her good natured and sweet disposition really sold to her audiences. Paja was infuriated with her sister’s sudden fame so she struck back and released an adult film called “Good Night Paja”. The release of “Good Night Paja” almost proved to be the undoing of Raja but her fans (and more importantly their parents) rallied behind her and supported her throughout the embarrassing ordeal. She finally stood up to Paja after years of abuse from her twin sister and said “You know you are not a very nice person” which are very harsh words from someone who is shocked by such as language as oh gosh! and golly gee! .

Despite the fact that her show is a children’s show, Calliope is her biggest fan so much so it almost crossed into stalker-ish territory but Raja doesn’t seemed terribly bothered and remains blissfully unaware of the potential danger. She has a school girl crush on her manager Bill but he is so business oriented he remains oblivious to her feelings.

5/365- Paja
5/365 Paja
Model- Pullip Paja
Name- Paja
Mods- Enhanced eye make up by requiemart, rewigged in a variety of wigs (changes pretty often) and rebodied with a large bust obitsu
Bio- Paja’s parents died when she was young, she as well as her twin sister Raja and her other siblings Natalie and Fiona were raised by their eldest sister Autumn. Paja was always the defiant one even before her parents died, once she was taken in by her eldest sister her doted upon her sweet twin Raja things only got worse. If people thought she was the bad twin well then by God, she was going to do her best to be the worst possible human being possible. Most of her hatred and bile was aimed squarely at her goody-two-shoes twin Raja, why should everyone love her more than Paja just because she is nice to people – please! Despite Paja’s best effort to sabotage her audition that darned Raja managed to get a job hosting a children’s tv show, not to be upstaged by that sickeningly nice sister of hers Paja decided to take things to the next level. She with some help with Hollis made an adult spoof video of her sister’s children show with them being identical twins this caused some issues for her sister. This move turned out to be a double edged sword, everyone rallied around her sister but at the same time it made Paja’s name a household name as well. Paja was able to parlay her fame from appearing in the porn film into a recording contract.

Now that Paja is famous she is leading the good life, she even has a maid and butler to wait on her hand and foot (who cares if she treats them like trash they are just the help!). Of course, now that she is famous she can do whatever she wants. She has her entourage around her at all times and they only add more fuel to fire and encourage her to do more and more outrageous things. One of her misdeeds involve the formerly innocent Nina, Nina was a fan and she was attending the local catholic high school as a senior when Paja met her and liked what she saw. She subsequently seduced Nina and she is now a member of her entourage. She is not exactly loyal to Nina and will regularly sleep with groupies of either gender as well as her manager Hollis on occasion

6/365- Hollis Heartspark
6/365- Hollis Heartspark
Model- Taeyang Maguna
Name- Hollis Heartspark
Mods- Rewigged and rechipped
Bio- Hollis exists in a separate plain of reality, his job much like his sisters’ is to gently nudge people so they get where they need to go. He tends to show up at a time in someone’s life when they are most vulnerable to kind of point them on their way. He is a bit more interested in the human world than his sisters and he has always been kind of intrigued with the silly humans. Hollis’ interest in humans grew exponentially when he discovered a strange but not entirely unpleasant activity called sex. His sense of timing, coupled with his good looks and a knack for saying the right thing at the right time makes him very popular with the ladies (not to mention a few men :O ).

He was involved in the Paja’s plan to take down Raja, he was ideally supposed to take a much more passive role but the reckless Paja intrigued him so much he has adopted the role of her manager. He doesn’t exactly understand what this thing called monogamy means but he can handle Paja on Mondays, Collision on Tuesdays etc. there is no reason to get upset ladies he has plenty of time open in his schedule for all of you. A talent manager in the human world turned out to be a good fit for someone with his interests especially with all the beautiful young starlets desperate to get discovered throwing themselves at him.
(Pullips’ eyes have been covered to protect the innocent and the not so innocent)

7/365- Blitz
7/365- Blitz
Model- Dal Lucia
Name- Blitz
Mods- None, straight out of the box today!
Bio- Blitz’s real name is London, despite her petite size she works as a guard at an asylum for the criminally insane. Due to her petite size many people believe she is much younger than she actually is, most people are surprised to learn that she is very no nonsense and focused on her job. She has received years of martial arts training, which comes in handy when dealing with the violent patients she is in charge of.

One of the madmen she is charged with watching gave her nickname, it was so random and seemingly pulled out of the air that she actually giggled for the first time in years and subsequently adopted it as her nickname. When she isn’t working she spends most of her free time reading dystopian literature, she also enjoys hanging out without fellow guard Ilsa even though she is a bit of a floozy.

8/365- Kitka
8/365- Kitka
Model- Pullip Moon
Name- Kitka
Mods- None
Bio- Kitka is a member of Paja’s entourage but only sometimes, other times she hangs around Anarchy’s circle. Where she is somewhat considered to be the bad influence in Paja’s crew she is somewhat seen as a lightweight in Anarchy’s circle of friends, she reportedly only goes to see Anarchy when she is need of inspiration. She has a very dominant personality she is also very vain, she wants to be the center of attention at all times. She tends to be bad influence to those around her as she likes to encourage the people around to go to new extremes just to amuse her. She works as a dominatrix, a job well suited to her dominant personality.

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Oh that’s right I collect anime figures, I kind of forgot..

My thoughts have been too sporadic lately, I haven’t really been able to focus on blogging here. My desktop computer is aching for a rebuild and my darling zilla has figured out to get over the baby gates so I have been very busy trying to make sure she doesn’t live up to her namesake and play Godzilla with all the figures/dolls. I have a plan to alleviate the zilla issues (basically I move her bedroom downstairs and move as many of the dolls/figures as possible into where her room is now) but I can not implement until I get some help which won’t be for a few weeks still until then it is damage control…

I got my first new proper anime figure in ages today, I haven’t buying them as much lately just occasionally picking up figmas and nendoroids  at random. I’m basically out of space and pretty burnt out on them after collecting them for so long. I do have some pending preorders still, not to mention a truly asinine amount of them already in my collection so don’t feel too bad for me I am just being very selective about what comes in these days. Today’s new arrival arrived via EMS this morning, I had preordered her from hobbysearch. She was delayed so long I was starting to fear I would never be able to hold her in my hands..
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It’s Black Rock Shooter.. I have to say she was worth the wait, she is  gorgeous.
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I love everything about this figure ❤
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Her bikini is kind of tiny ^^;
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I prefer her with the “flame eye” for lack of a better term but she is not without her charms in her normal form either.
Black Rock Shooter
I really loved the back view on this figure.

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The descent into madness introducing the 365 doll project

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have decided to start a 365 doll project. The basic premise is I will photograph a different doll each day until well I run out of dolls or reach 365 which ever happens first. I will also be posting up information/bios about said doll when I post their picture so people can get to know my dolls and their various quirks a little bit better. As to avoid burning everyone out with a daily doll post, I will be making one weekly post on Saturdays with all of that respective week’s dolls pics and bios. About the bios, not all of my dolls are well likable some of them are downright villainous, I have a dal for instance with a hate so extreme for the blythes that it borders on nazi-ish territory (the blythes should all be exterminated sold to fund/make room for more dals).

My newly deboxed Shan-ria was this week’s first and only victim..
1/365- Vintage
Doll- Pullip Shan-ria
Name- Vintage
Mods- None fresh out of the box today !
Bio- Vintage’s real name is Vivien, Vintage is her nickname due to her perchance for wearing vintage clothes and her love of old Hollywood. She comes form a privileged family, her family is over indulgent towards her and lets her live off the family fortune. She has never worked a day in her life, she has no social conscious (fur isn’t murder, but paying for it sure is!) and spends all of time shopping for vintage clothing. She also enjoys old Hollywood style glamour and has a large collection of  memorabilia from classic films. She once lost an auction for a stunning vintage Coco Chanel suit to Karen, which has started an intense rivalry between her and Karen that Karen is largely unaware of.

As I said before, not all of my dolls are very likable. Vintage is rather self centered and doesn’t really care about anything but shopping in her defense, her parents kind of fostered the attitude that she never did have to work and everything would in fact just be handed to her. Groove Inc and Jun Planning before it occasionally used/uses in pullip stock, it is not a trend I am particularly a fan of I am not a fan of fur in general but to use it on dolls just seems to add insult to injury and is too excessive in my opinion.

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Ramble, ramble..

Well hello there blog readers, sorry about my absence as of late. I got back from down South earlier in the week, a bit worse for wear. My laptop inexplicably blue screened during my trip, despite my best efforts I can not fix it so I am in the process of mailing it off to a friend of mine who is like a computer genius who will hopefully fix it as my love my little netbook so. I am very dependent on my laptop  for transferring pictures off of my camera, my camera does not like to “speak” to my desktop it will eventually but normally there are uncomfortable silences lasting a few hours or so first. I kind of gave up my 365 day project as I knew how grueling the entire photo posting process was about to become ^^; Please enjoy some pictures of Clementine I took in Georgia inter spliced with my various ramblings..
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Once I did get home I had a bevy of packages waiting for me. My Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha Fate plush, Shan-ria pullip, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance LE, some wigs and much to my surprise a new bjd arrived. I have to say, I never expected or anticipated finding a blank/wigless/eyeless/nude Volks MSD F-01 in that particular package. She is actually really cute, and has a lot of potential once she actually has a face up and clothes. I will say that she poses beautifully the best of probably all of my non-tiny bjds. She was apparently bought with the intention that she be the shell for one of the anime characters I eventually want to make in doll form.
Which wig?
I mentioned wigs, I was indecisive while wig shopping so I bought two different wigs for my 12th Papin Glenda. I find I prefer the orange/yellow one myself but I already have two orange haired Papins so I am kind of torn several people have commented on flickr on my little dilemma some even suggested making myself unlucky and getting a 13th Papin. I do really love both wigs but Glenda was made with the intention of being a tomboy so I really feel like the orange/yellow fits in more with that ideal.. she will eventually have a somewhat girly brother so she needs to be able to balance him out a bit.
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I decided to start a new project starting today, the 365 doll project. It’s a bit off because I do not yet own 365 dolls (I might I just really don’t want to do the math) but my plan is to photograph a different doll each day basically until I run out of doll. This won’t just be a photography project either, I will be writing up some small bios for the dolls while they get their moment in the limelight so to speak. I plan to start with my newly acquired Shan-ria Vintage.. On a related note, I decided my new goal is to do five blog posts a week two doll related (I am going to do a once a week cumulative post for the 365 doll project ), two figure related and one other post probably comics or video game related but could really be about anything. I realize I am a bit too much focused on the dolls here as of late and well I strive to maintain a balance.
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Unto comics, I was busy at work when my phone started ringing so one of workmates picked up my cell and answered it I got a very confused look as he gave me the phone saying something like “Arkham Asylum called they said Harley Quinn is busting out” umm yeah. I took the phone and realized it was indeed Arkham Asylum- the comic book shop wanting to know if I wanted the new Joker’s Asylum Harley Quinn that is coming out put in my hold box as well as my monthly comics. Of course I did, I think I may pick up all of the Joker’s Asylum comics as I had really liked the first batch. Interestingly, last night a friend of mine contacted me out of the blue the artist that did Joker Asylum’s Harley Quinn– Joe Quinones will be at their local comic book shop next week signing autographs and wondered if I knew who they were and they should try and get me an autograph on something. I took my friend up on their gracious offer and hoping to get a get a copy of Joker Asylum’s Harley Quinn autographed as I think it would be kind of cool to have in my collection. I ended up stopping at Arkham yesterday and picking up the latest Gotham City Sirens and a few other things, I am unfortunately focusing in on comics again  probably another result of the trip to Georgia as on the way back all I had was lego Batman on my psp and a copy of No Man’s Land novelization. A couple of Joker figures shipped from BBTS and I think some more stuff is shipping soon, I get so excited for new Joker or Harley Quinn stuff… I had the insane idea while playing Arkham Asylum this morning around 3am or so that all of my eventual rouge’s gallery pullips will need an Arkham Asylum of their own, I apparently spent a fair amount of time on this in the early morning as I started drawing up schematics with the light of dawn coming in I realized it was not really feasible at least not right yet..

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On the road again…various updates

I have safely arrived in Georgia. I am feeling a bit shagged, fagged and fashed at the moment. I ensured the cooperation of the little one through a portable dvd player and a big ol’ box of Spongebob coincidentally if after this trip I never have to watch Spongebob again I will die happy.
Arc in Pennsylvania
I had hoped to take lots of pictures while on the road but due to the nature of this little road trip that didn’t really happen. I didn’t bring that much stuff with me for photography purposes just two pullips and a pinky street. There used to be a shop that sold anime stuff around where the hotel is, I need to go see if they still exist.

Pullip Shan-ria was supposed to arrive in time for my trip, unfortunately my mailman got a bit mixed up on the mail hold days and started it a day early for packages but still delivered me various junk mail. I had intended to take her with me on the trip but since she didn’t I decided to bust out my emergency Papin, Glenda had actually been here for a few weeks, since my last meet with Requiemart but I was kind of waiting for the right moment to open her. Not counting the dal Papin, I now have a dirty dozen members of the rainbow mafia. Glenda is kind of an odd name considering how abstractly named most of the other Papins are named (Clementine, Tangent, Eureka, etc.)  but there has been some talk of an eventual male Papin (Papang?) and if such a being was ever to exist  he would be named Glen. I would have a delicious Ed Wood in-joke that well frankly very few people would get but would be hilarious to me. If you have not seen it already I highly recommend watching the  actual film Ed Wood it has Johnny Depp doing a belly dance in drag….
Glenda
I ended up ordering her two wigs because well I was a bit indecisive and couldn’t decide which one I wanted for her. I knew I want her to be somewhat of a punk tomboy so I decided she would need a fur wig but I couldn’t decide between this purple or yellow/orange.

Shan-ria isn’t the only doll that will be waiting for me on my return, one of my grail customs unexpectedly popped up for sale. I love pullips and I love horror movies/scary stuff so as soon as I first seen pictures of this girl Agony I fell head over heels in love. She was customized by the Dutch pullip collector/customizer Yukittie. I never expected to see her for sale so I pounced the second I seen the sales post as I did not want to risk losing her. I know she will not be everyone’s taste but well that is why I love her, I have lots of pretty dolls and very few that creep that bejesus out of people.

Of course, as soon as I am on the road Fairyland has to pull out the big stops and announce my next bjd. Littlefee Ante is one of my favorite bjds, I just adore her completely and well they announced a mini pukipuki sized Ante recently and well I kind of caved on the no more pukipuki rule ^^;
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