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syrimoon:

leucrotta:

syrimoon:

sunimoon:

leucrotta:

When you get into the BJD hobby and you want advice, everyone always says “go to Den of Angels, it’s the best for information,” but then it’s INVITE ONLY so you can’t really go there.

It’s just a vicious cycle of me still not knowing the answers to my questions.

why is life hard

Finding a face up artist isn’t that hard. You’re talking to two of them right now. The trouble can be, though, finding slots available in the marketplace…you know, after you’ve been there long enough to post in the market. But there are PLENTY of beautifully talented face-up artists with good prices and good feedback :3

You guys have been super friendly and helpful, omg. I’ve realized that DOA is probably overrated just by reading complaints here on tumblr, but I guess I’m just willing to give it a shot. Still, just judging from the responses I’ve gotten to this post, tumblr seems like a nicer community.

I really think it is. My advice? Let Suni send you an invite. DoA DOES have it’s uses! And not EVERYONES bad…but no matter how peopel deny it, there IS a bad air about it. Like in Gen Discussion…there’s no discussion. Just people answering the same questions in the same threads over. and over. and over. And there’s never a guarentee your questions will be answered. Still, it’s had its moments

I will take this advice. It seems like a good place to start, at any rate. We’ll see what happens. In the meantime, you guys are awesome. c:

syrimoon:

sunimoon:

leucrotta:

When you get into the BJD hobby and you want advice, everyone always says “go to Den of Angels, it’s the best for information,” but then it’s INVITE ONLY so you can’t really go there.

It’s just a vicious cycle of me still not knowing the answers to my questions.

why is life hard

Finding a face up artist isn’t that hard. You’re talking to two of them right now. The trouble can be, though, finding slots available in the marketplace…you know, after you’ve been there long enough to post in the market. But there are PLENTY of beautifully talented face-up artists with good prices and good feedback :3

You guys have been super friendly and helpful, omg. I’ve realized that DOA is probably overrated just by reading complaints here on tumblr, but I guess I’m just willing to give it a shot. Still, just judging from the responses I’ve gotten to this post, tumblr seems like a nicer community.

sunimoon:

sunimoon:

leucrotta:

When you get into the BJD hobby and you want advice, everyone always says “go to Den of Angels, it’s the best for information,” but then it’s INVITE ONLY so you can’t really go there.

It’s just a vicious cycle of me still not knowing the answers to my questions.

why is life hard

Ahhh, in that case, I won’t be able to help much.
Although I am a reputable face-up artist… But seeing as I just opened my shop, there isn’t a lot of proof to support that yet. xD

Well, I could drop you an invite if you need one.
It is fairly hard to get resin match info on there, but it’s the best bet you have.

WELL okay I guess when I need faceups done (it won’t be for a while yet, I have to wait for the body to get here, because there will prooobably be some skin tone matching involved), I guess I can use tumblr.

If it’s hard to get info like that on DOA, then maybe I’m out of luck! Perhaps I’ll just have to wing it.

It wouldn’t hurt though? An invite would be awesome!

cherryminttea:

leucrotta:

themightyriah:

leucrotta:

Wow Okay so I was reading the “God awful roleplay” blog and I saw that most of the posts there seem to be from subeta… and it’s just super weird to me to think that subeta is still, like, a thing?

After leaving Neopets when I was like 15, I moved over to that website and had a ball with their pet…

Actually I find that most people I’ve run into are in their early to late 20’s, and most of them are friendly. I think it’s the just general idea that everyone on there is a whiney 12 year old, but that’s not true. Just try and be the positive thinker. Either way I enjoy the site very much so.

Always good to get a second opinion I guess. Good to hear that not everyone is a douchecanoe.

… Still not going back though sorry. >__>

It’s your choice to go back or not to go back and I’m not in any way telling you that you should, but subeta has changed. It’s always evolving and moving forward. And yes, you can have way more than 20 pets. The price of pet slots has halved, and with loyalty totems, you have the option of getting a free pet slot for every year you have your account. I know users with 30+ ^^ And while subeta used to purge accounts regularly, they stopped doing that last year. The most that will happen is now your account will become inactive (all your items, currency etc will still be there).

Ahahahahahaha

Are you kidding me?

They don’t delete accounts anymore. AFTER they already deleted mine. Awesome.

But yeah I just don’t have the energy for getting obsessed with a pet site again. I have too many obligations as it is @__@

gravitationaltimothy:

leucrotta:

gravitationaltimothy:

Hmph, I was writing a really long essay about my thoughts on my own bias surrounding gay and female characters in my stories, but I kept rambling and couldn’t find a way to word it well, but I guess it boils down to whether you should strive against creating a large gay cast, or if you should…

I guess my thoughts on this matter have always been “you shoudln’t diversify your cast JUST to have done so”. Like don’t throw in a token gay/straight/black/female/etc. character just because you feel like you don’t have enough and don’t want to be seen as racist/sexist/a writer who only has one type of character.

But I also believe that creators should keep an open mind. Think about a story’s cast: do they all HAVE to be the same sort of person? Would the story work in a completely different way if one of the characters were another gender/sexuality/race/religion? And if it would, would that be a bad thing, or would it actually be more fun to write?

When I was younger I wrote like, exclusively straight white females who were strong and independent and don’t need no man. Then one day I realized it would be okay if some of these characters were male… and if some of them weren’t so strong. Of course now I kind of have the opposite problem (too many dudes hahaha my writing is a sausagefest), but at least I’m writing some characters who aren’t straight, aren’t white, aren’t all the same personality type. Heck I’m even writing people who aren’t even remotely human, something I never would have done ten years ago. (And I mean like, not even human shaped.)

I guess what I’m trying to say is, don’t feel like you HAVE TO and then force it and then either offend people by doing it wrong or make yourself miserable by doing it without any passion. You shouldn’t FORCE YOURSELF to write characters, or you’ll probably hate them and that will end just as badly. You aren’t a bad person for writing the characters you do. I don’t write about Japanese people and it doesn’t mean I hate Japanese people. I just… don’t happen to write about them. You can’t include everyone, and you can’t please everyone.

But don’t shut other character types out, either. Don’t use “you can’t include everyone” as an excuse to include NO ONE. Experiment, try to create a character that’s half your usual type, and half something new. Hybridize, play around, again, keep an open mind. Who knows? You might like it even more.

Wow that ended up a lot longer than I intended oops. I just have some strong feelings on the subject, I guess.

Yeah, think this is what i was trying to get around to… when we’re young we don’t even give a second thought to our biases, then as we discover them we start to get self-conscious, and sometimes run over to the opposite. I was similar, in that I drew a lot of fem looking guys all the time, and then for a while I insisted that all my characters be gender typical (if that’s even a thing) and het, which wasn’t very productive. 

As with most things it boils down to finding a harmony in between the extremes. I certainly don’t shirk away from diversifying my cast, but there is a part of me that feels like I have to apologize for having a lot of gay characters, even though I have plenty of het, asexual, bi etc characters as well. I remember a time in my youth when I would painstakingly diversify my stories. The more facepalming being a fantasy story whose main and secondary cast, as well as the guardians/mythical rulers were 50/50 male and female. Another time I created a bunch of characters and gave them quirks based on a randomly assigned number, so i wouldn’t be tempted to give them quirks based on their appearance. 

But like you suggested, those stories rarely ever went anywhere, it was only when i really loved the characters and the story that I had any motivation to see them through. I think someone could go through my stuff and call me out on drawing mostly middle aged white gay men in good physical condition, but I don’t think I have enough of a bias to be seriously concerned.

I’m especially excited about the cast of Astron, which has lesbian, bi, genderqueer, gay, het characters, and a few religions I haven’t delved into before, to name a few things. Most of the distinctions came about after the character had been fleshed out a bit in my mind, not as their main identity. Also I believe it’s a mostly female cast by a small fraction, so that’s exciting too. But I surely didn’t set out trying to make something different, I think the drama/action story just facilitates a more diverse cast than my preferred slice-of-life type story, which usually focusses on three characters at most.

Hope I didn’t ramble too much. Here, have a picture of a strong female character:

Strong female character aww yiss

Man, I know what you mean about the “feel like you need to apologize” bit. I often feel like I should say “SORRY” for having so many male characters, but the truth is I have plenty of girls too… they just don’t end up in public/online things like OCTs or whatnot, so I guess I end up presenting only the dudes. Oh well, in my own mind, I know I’m not a one-trick pony. And I guess that’s what matters.

GOOD TALK, BRO.

gravitationaltimothy:

Hmph, I was writing a really long essay about my thoughts on my own bias surrounding gay and female characters in my stories, but I kept rambling and couldn’t find a way to word it well, but I guess it boils down to whether you should strive against creating a large gay cast, or if you should…

I guess my thoughts on this matter have always been “you shoudln’t diversify your cast JUST to have done so”. Like don’t throw in a token gay/straight/black/female/etc. character just because you feel like you don’t have enough and don’t want to be seen as racist/sexist/a writer who only has one type of character.

But I also believe that creators should keep an open mind. Think about a story’s cast: do they all HAVE to be the same sort of person? Would the story work in a completely different way if one of the characters were another gender/sexuality/race/religion? And if it would, would that be a bad thing, or would it actually be more fun to write?

When I was younger I wrote like, exclusively straight white females who were strong and independent and don’t need no man. Then one day I realized it would be okay if some of these characters were male… and if some of them weren’t so strong. Of course now I kind of have the opposite problem (too many dudes hahaha my writing is a sausagefest), but at least I’m writing some characters who aren’t straight, aren’t white, aren’t all the same personality type. Heck I’m even writing people who aren’t even remotely human, something I never would have done ten years ago. (And I mean like, not even human shaped.)

I guess what I’m trying to say is, don’t feel like you HAVE TO and then force it and then either offend people by doing it wrong or make yourself miserable by doing it without any passion. You shouldn’t FORCE YOURSELF to write characters, or you’ll probably hate them and that will end just as badly. You aren’t a bad person for writing the characters you do. I don’t write about Japanese people and it doesn’t mean I hate Japanese people. I just… don’t happen to write about them. You can’t include everyone, and you can’t please everyone.

But don’t shut other character types out, either. Don’t use “you can’t include everyone” as an excuse to include NO ONE. Experiment, try to create a character that’s half your usual type, and half something new. Hybridize, play around, again, keep an open mind. Who knows? You might like it even more.

Wow that ended up a lot longer than I intended oops. I just have some strong feelings on the subject, I guess.