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Hmm, I see your point. It is kinda silly how many doll people say stuff like that but I do the same thing. I understand my dolls do not have emotion or have wants or needs but it's fun just to play pretend. Also a back story on a doll is kinda like giving a back story to a character someone made. It's just a drawing, it doesn't have want or needs or emotions but people who make the character who don't even use them or anything gives the a view of them having emotions and all that jazz. I can see where you an argure agent what I said but thats all I can think of.

Also I don't think you'll get flammed, and if so not that bad.

But I tend to say the same thing about my stuff animals I'm not really sure why but it's just fun. It's like playing house the a baby doll when I was younger.

But I still understand what your talking about. If you think about it, it is silly but not harmful unless you get super obsessed.

Wow, I made since for one and people agree. O_o You have no idea how happy that makes me. <3

But yeah, me and my friend role-play which may seem crazy to people too.

I will most likely do the same thing saying my doll don't like this or that but I wont go overborde.. O_o'

I've seen a thread similar to this before on DoA, I remember it going well-- but I don't remember where it is.

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All of my dolls are based on my original characters. I just wanted to make what I had in my head three-dimensional, which for me, isn't necessarily bringing them to 'life' via Frankenstein means. Just means I wanted a physical manifestation of them. Just love character design.

Having them in a physical form doesn't necessarily mean I speak to them of course. I find that pretty odd when others do it. It's more sensible to think that they're talking to the characters behind the dolls, not the dolls themselves if they do at all. So it's less of they're talking to an inanimate object to more of an exploration of that certain, creative part of their mind.

I personally become emotionally attached to anything I work on, mind you, but that doesn't mean I'll start up a conversation with my dolls, or maybe one of my paintings. I don't treat my doll as a human. Let's say, if I find a pair of pants I got for one of them doesn't look right, I don't say it's because he doesn't like them (maybe I'd say it jokingly), it's because I don't like them.

That said, I know I get chatty over inanimate objects when things don't go my way ("Why don't you just stand, goddammit--"), but I've never seen a person that hasn't done that before either, whether it was a doll or something else.

The doll is just the physical thing. You can destroy the physical thing (not that I wouldn't be upset over someone destroying my doll, lawl, what a waste right? My time, my work, my money...), but what's in your mind is still there. The doll's just the shell.

What you make in your head is matters the most. How you choose to project from there is your choice. If that means dishing out $1000 on a nude doll that you're probably going to bring a dremel to, then so be it.


That's the goal as I see it, for many people in this hobby anyway, even if your doll doesn't have a character, the point of the matter is, you're going to be using some creativity to get them to look the way you want them to. Added personas just take it a level further.



Oh and the gay thing. I think it's personal preference for some (myself included, but I only have one gay couple among my dolls) and for others, it's like a trend that never seems to die. Same with cross dressing. Unless there's valid reasoning, I think the owner just... wants to.

.... And then there's the ones that do that then complain their male dolls aren't recognized as males. Lawl.

YES.
And I very much agree with Toya and Everdark . My dolls I am making myself from the ground up and they will in the strange artistic sense be like my children. Its even kinda the same way with a car , you put lots of money and time into something and your bound to love it , but you wont go jumping off a cliff if your transmissions falls out.
So yeah my first or second doll is going to be based on a character I am writing a book about . The next is simply something to embody certain emotions I have , the third to drag with me to conventions to look pretty. Its all about love , you love something and you give it life. And yeah Id have a fit if they all got destroyed (once I make them) and maybe even cry , but nothing more than that (or scream if some one were to do it). Back stories make them worth that much more.

Glad to hear I made sense.

But yeah, I'd say so. My first doll, I was honestly just going to dress up as my characters, he'd change over time or something. He didn't have real clothes or a name for a good 2-3 weeks after I received him. I became attached with him being something of his own instead of some doppelganger.

I'm at the point where it's weird not to have one in the room or just scattered about the house. Not playing with them (lately I've been studying, lawl), but it's nice to look over and see. Just having them around.

I used to smuggle them to school when I was still in high school. I liked taking shoots in different backdrops (besides the damn stairs in my house) or my friends just liked to see them. Mostly the latter.