#the hobby

[pantmonger]

'Hob' the Hobby Goblin, getting their tourist on!

#Warhammer Community #Wargames #Minitures #The hobby

[betasportscards]

How the Super Bowl Influences the Sports Card Hobby.

The Super Bowl is the pinnacle of the NFL season. There is no doubt that the Super Bowl influences the sports card hobby. Its a monumental event that ripples through various facets of the sports world. In the realm of sports card collecting, the Super Bowl has a distinct impact, influencing market trends, player values, and collector interest. Lets review the NFL’s grand finale can affect the…

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#Card Collecting #Collecting #Football #Football Cards #NFL #Super Bowl #The Hobby

[kage-gfx]

Vince McMahon PRIZM

I heard a rumour that Vince doesn't have a Panini WWE Prizm card.

#wwe #wwf #world wrestling federation #world wrestling entertainment #vince mcmahon #ecw #extreme championship wrestling #ecw champion #panini prizm #the hobby #who do you collect #whodoyoucollect #titan towers

[the-bjd-community-confess]

I don’t know what you could be high on but jeez 

A flat shoe and a kitten heel are both shoes but a flat shoe can never be a heeled shoe???? Both are SHOES. No one suggested that a flat shoe is heeled.

Recasts and legits are literally the same sculpts and parts and therefore are both bjds by definition. Also idk if you don’t have any reading comprehension or understanding of how words are defined but the post is very clear. A community and a hobby are two very different things. The bjd community is a community based off of many people who all have the same hobby: collecting/customizing bjds- specifically legit bjds as that is the preference and designation of the COMMUNITY not the HOBBY.

The recast community is the exact same thing except that the community preference or acceptance is for recast bjds, BUT the recast community is still based out of a collection of people who all have the same hobby which is collecting and or customizing bjds. It is just in this case that this COMMUNITY does not have scruples regarding the dubious nature of the origin of the bjd, the only requirement is that the doll is by definition a bjd which is a doll with ball joints (usually referring specifically to ball jointed dolls originating from Asian designers which a specific style but also extends to western designers that still fall in the same basic construction and characteristics).

A hobby is literally just something that you enjoy doing but isn’t your job. A hobby does not have to be shared or known and it in no way involves who you patronize or care about UNLESS your hobby is specifically the patronizing of a specific retailer or artist.

I collect and customize bjds. That is my hobby. I might buy my bjds from DDE, but my hobby is not buying bjds from DDE specifically that would be a different hobby. A hobby can be anything. Clipping your fingernails and making mosaics with them CAN be your hobby, but odds are no one else does that so there is no COMMUNITY, but it’s still your hobby. Hate recasts all you want but the term hobby and community are not synonymous. One is an activity you can do alone or with others, the other is a place or a group that has something in common.

I really hate the people in the bjd community, I’ve yet to meet someone who is worth being friends with but hey I’m antisocial, so I don’t consider myself a part of the “bjd community” and I don’t post any of my dolls or doll projects I only really frequent this blog from time to time, so I have no interest or ties to this COMMUNITY. However I love dolls, especially the ball jointed variety, so I collect them and paint them and sculpt them and as I do not make a living from these things and I spend a lot of time doing them, this is my hobby. I don’t give a shit about any of the artists or companies or retailers any more than any other business I frequent for the purposes of purchasing materials for a hobby or just to live my life, but that doesn’t invalidate my hobby just as not caring who supplies the materials for my business beyond requirements doesn’t invalidate that I own and operate a business.

One more time for y’all in the back: the “bjd hobby” is an activity regarding the collection or customization of dolls with ball joints that can be practiced alone or with others, and the “bjd community” is a group of people with similar likes and values specifically related to the fact that all participants happen to have collecting or customizing bjds as a HOBBY. They do not have to go together. Bjds can be your hobby even if you live alone at the top of a mountain and you never tell a soul that you collect bjds. The community is defined by their mutual hatred and rejection of recasts and the desire to prioritize and uplift the artists that make dolls and their accessories all while enjoying collecting dolls and sharing pictures and information. If you don’t agree with the “bjd community”’s values, you can join the “recast bjd community” or a general doll hobby community that has no issues with counterfeits because then they would share your values which are different from the fact that you collect bjds as a hobby. The only time collecting recasts becomes it’s own hobby is if you specifically only desire to collect counterfeits because that’s what you prefer, otherwise you collect bjds, but just for whatever reason you can only afford counterfeits or they are what you find most accessible or you happened to buy one/get gifted one by mistake. No one can tell you that you don’t have a hobby because if you partake in the hobby- it is your hobby. You can however be barred or rejected from a community.

~Anonymous

#BJD #ABJD #BJD Confessions #Community Counterfeits #The Hobby #BJD Community

[angelicgarnet]

the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right

#woof #like self diagnosis is one thing #but saying someone is autistic because they talk about a specific hobby a lot is weird (and waters down the actual definition of autism) #and its no different than saying someone has ocd bc they organize their books alpabetically #or saying someone has ADHD because they got distracted by something #and people who aren't even autistic are honestly getting way too comfortable with autism jokes

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

#Mom can you pick me up I'm scared #That siren song is playing again #But wouldn't it be neat to dye spin weave sew knit crochet tat #OMG save me #Hobbies #Textile Arts #Crochet #Knitting #Weaving #Spinning yarn #Cross Stitch #Quilting #Never has Grandma Iris' voice been so loud in my head #(Miss you forever Grandma Iris)

[substitious-bastard]

stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to handmake lace so all is well

#time loop #hobbies #anti capitalism #idk i think i'm funny #the bastards bullshit #time loop posting

[junglejim4322]

I can’t believe “fake gamer girl” was an actual concept guys thought existed literally the most unfuckable guys who have ever lived were convinced girls were faking being interested in loser nerd hobbies to impress them

#I’m a gamer (derogatory) don’t take me calling gaming (derogatory) a loser nerd hobby personally

[mysticdragon3md3]

Ngl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.

#hobbies #fountain pens #ink #colors #lamy #fandomfrictionfracas #articles #I'm so glad I'm still new to fountain pens and primarily buy Noodler's Ink & Monteverde ink #purple #violet

[willowcrowned]

incredible how much housework you can get done if you take a chance and believe in yourself and also have fifteen other much more pressing responsibilities

#if i ignore the writing (non-hobby) i have to do for long enough i may even finally vacuum #willow's wastebin tagxon #willow's greatest hits

[specialagentartemis]

ngl I keep forgetting that Hobby Lobby is a real store that people go to. That people actually think of it as a craft store and not as a crazy Christian mass artifact smuggler. I google "Hobby Lobby" and get a page full of results that make me go "wtf is this craft supplies and operating hours shit, I thought we all knew this place for smuggling looted cuneiform tablets out of Iraq"

#Hobby Lobby #they are known for ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY. to me

[mywitchcultblr]

This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email/DM from Wattpad is so condescending. Imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also, the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

#wattpad #ao3 #fanfic #fandom #writing #writer #archive of our own #twitter #the capitalization of fandom is a sin #capitalism strikes again #capitalism #late stage capitalism #when your hobby is used for the profit of a corporation

[j-a-nuary]

Alright y'all... I'm caught up with all my podcasts that I usually listen to during the commute/at work so I uh...

#i would like to announce that i am once again on my bullshit #nerd shit #the hobby #w40k #off topic

[the-bjd-community-confess]

I just want to say that recast owners are still part of the bjd hobby as even a counterfeit doll still has ball joints, is strung with elastic, etc etc. They may not be part of the community but you can’t say that they aren’t in the hobby or that they don’t own a bjd as the only criteria to have this as a hobby is to own and collect ball jointed dolls and the only criteria for a ball jointed doll is to be a doll with ball joints - if you want to nitpick then I suppose the doll must be strung with elastic and have removable eyes maybe but realistically if you collect dolls that are specifically made with ball joints as the main jointing mechanism that doll is a ball jointed doll.

Ethics aside and whatever DOA thinks it has an authority over what the definition of bjd is, a bjd is what it says on the tin regardless of origin and you absolutely don’t have to have anything to do with the community associated with a hobby in order to participate or hold that as your hobby. For instance, embroidery is a hobby of mine, but I am not part of any embroidery based clubs or communities, I don’t share my work in any way, and I don’t actively patronize any specifically embroidery retailers, but embroidery is still a hobby of mine as I enjoy it and partake in it with some regularity.

This is not me justifying recasts or their owners/producers, I’m just saying that a recasted ball jointed doll is still a ball jointed doll and if someone bars themselves from the self professed bjd community by owning one that does not mean that collecting this specific style of doll is any less of a hobby for them in the same way that if someone only owns a bjd that they crudely sculpted themselves, only owns a western style antique bjd, or only owns bjds that DOA deems as “off topic” for example. A hobby is not defined by the community that brandishes itself an authority on the subject, a hobby is a thing that you do for pleasure with some regularity that does not contribute to your general income. In the same vein, someone who collects on-topic legitimate bjds but does not interact with the community in any way is still “in the hobby” as that person collects bjds as a hobby.

~Anonymous

#BJD #ABJD #BJD Confessions #Community Counterfeits #The Hobby

[gideonisms]

I LOVE being alive so I can be mediocre at SO many different hobbies

#this isn't sarcasm at all i love to try different tasks i get mediocre at a new thing every year #i love to learn about other people's hobbies!! #i am having a great time #there are so many things to do who can blame me for getting distracted from life tasks that are boring when there are all these fun ones

[cryptocollectibles]

A McDonald’s Happy Meal shortage. A security guard escort. Guns pulled in a Target parking lot. All of these are caused by a common factor: trading cards. In 2020, a new BOOM began. For the first time, large hedge funds, celebrities like Logan Paul and Steve Aoki, nostalgic millennials, entrepreneurs like Josh Luber, and billionaires scrambled to add sports, Pokémon, and other hot item

#The Hobby #Movie Trailer #Trading Cards #Cards #Hobby #Trailers #Movies #Documentary #Youtube