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Happy Chapter release day, Chapter 251 is released today in Japan.

Please consider supporting the series by buying the Magazine <3

#dgm #d.gray-man #allen walker #mana walker #fanart

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Double Box Opening - Gem of Doll Body & DollyZone Body

Here they are, it was a bit hard to get hold of the parcels as my street isn't reachable rn due a construction site and I had to reroute the parcel to my coworker as FedEx failed to deliver yesterday.

But she brought the parcels with her today and I was able to unbox and turn Kanda and Maple into full dolls.

Finally. Kanda's head arrived in December 2022... it was about time. But the body is really wonderful, I only knew the YoSD bodies from Gem of Doll but the MSD body seems to be equally sturdy and I like the scales of the dolls next to each other.

The DollyZone is just so adorable. I will need some research to figure out what kind of shoes she can wear (my guess would be Blythe sized?), we will see =)

Both need clothes sewn. Kanda has.. boots at least.

#bjd #ball jointed doll #gem of doll #dollyzone #boxopening #poupées de cirque #maple #kanda

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Feature for Darjeeling <3 Mom borrowed me her fancy old can for the pics ;w; I have fancy cups and dishes but no ... can.

Darjeeling truly is a very cute doll, I would love to take photo with her at a real tea party, bet that would look amazing.

#bjd #ball jointed doll #abingbing #empty #poupées de cirque #darjeeling

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Actually I kinda had that happen?

I made a doll of Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul) with a head from Immortality of Soul. And IOS released a Kaneki Doll (official release) a bit later on but I didn't buy it. It looked like the character yes, but it was lacking the personality and my vision of the character. It's more like... a more expensive collectors figure and less like a personal doll project for me.

Mine:

just some photos I did more ofc

IOS Release:

I think you can see the difference. It's different outfits (I'm too lazy to dig up that specific outfit without any additions) but the same character. Especially the mask they included threw me off as it's out of scale for the doll's face.

Genuine question: assuming money is no object, if your favorite doll company made a doll of your absolute FAVORITE character, would you want to buy it because of the character alone?

(This doesn't include original characters created by the same company like a monster high draculaura being made by mattel)

For me, I don't think I would if I didn't also find the doll pretty and accurate to their appearance, but then again none of my fav characters have gotten dolls made of them. I know this is a big point of contention for Dollfie Dream fans feeling like the dolls don't resemble their favs at all, like Frieren and Miku.

Alternatively, would you be willing to buy a doll of a character that you don't know, or even dislike, if you thought it looked good?

I'm interested in seeing what other people think, so feel free to tag or relpy!

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Weekly Photo 17/2024

A long hard battle upon Allen... this time this might be one of the hardest.

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Allen got the honor to be featured at this photospot again, this is where our local Easterfire was burned down, the ashes were still hot, partially burning. No location is more fitting than this one, the ashes of everything that was, destroyed by the flame, by the war... and the Earl arrived.

#dgm #d.gray-man #allen walker #millennium earl #dgrayman #bjd #ball jointed doll #withdoll #ian #earl #poupées de cirque

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Happy Birthday, Hoshino-sensei <3

Take some time to thank this wonderful artist for keep on walking for us to read her story. I can't thank her enough. The series inspires me so much and helped me in the past years more in my teens and creating a bit of fanart is the only way (aside buying the Magazine and Manga) I can do.

#dgm #d.gray-man #allen walker #fanart #traditional art

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WiP - Big Timcampy Plush

After a very frustrating other project (aka the Crown Clown Mask/Glove issue) I decided I wanted to do something for the soul and cut out parts for the big Tim plush.

At first it went quite okay, a bit of trouble when turning parts but that was it.

Until I stuffed the body and it was just... the complete wrong shape. More like a Pumpkin. I tried to fix it but it got worse and worse... until I decided "fuck it" and stuffed the whole thing in a bag and went to bed.

Next day I fixed the shape a bit, it's still not as round as I would have liked but okay enough to continue.

Adding details here.

Tim. And Tim. And Tim. The Tim-Tower.

He's not as perfect as the official one but cuddly and still friend shaped.

#dgm #d.gray-man #timcampy #sewing #plush #plushy #wip

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Bookfair.

Whatever we will learn in the future we all currently agree past!Allen loves to read and inhales books, right? Therefore perfect for him.

My plan was to revisit that convention bookstore for Good Omens (Ein gutes Omen) but somehow I didn't manage, the time passed too fast.

photos by @adragonstale :3

#dgm #d.gray-man #allen walker #past!allen walker #cosplay

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Chapters: 224/? Fandom: D.Gray-man Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Summary:

During the attack on the North American Branch Allen is invited to join the Noah Family. What would have happened if he decided to take the invitation?

Main Storyline is up, Bonus chapters to follow.

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The 3th Bonus Chapter is now online :) 10k words this time.

#warmth #my writing #fanfic

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New art <3

The top pic is very wip, it will maybe become the final piece for my arm tattoo, I'm currently working on refining it on a bigger canvas.

Then some more little doodles I made when I had paper at hand and more redraws. Seriously some faces are giving me a hard time q_q

#dgm #d.gray-man #dgrayman #allen walker #mana walker #millennium earl #wisely kamelot #traditional art #fanart #alma karma

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Incomings update!

Iza just got her Impldoll Order in, including the head for my Lvl 4 Akuma Project.

And I got my shipping notice for the DollyZone/Gem of Doll Order which means the bodies for Maple AND Kanda(!!!) are finally on their way home.

... no movement for months and now 3 parts are shipped again. wow.

#incomings

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You maybe remember the bowl I got at the bookfair and dropped after 2 minutes.... I took the shards home but it looked pretty bad.

I got one of those gold repair kits but oh boy.... I'm either super unskilled or whatever.

You can see the outcome and I am now using the bowl to display dolls (might change that later on) but the whole procedure was anything but easy. The mixture didn't stick and took forever to dry, you were supposed to wipe off any excess but if you did you weren't able to stick the pieces together to glue them or the mixure was already hardened and you weren't able to wipe it, if yes you smeared it EVERYWHERE and everything was golden q_q

In the end I carefully scraped off the golden "noses" on the outside with a knife to make it somewhat okay looking. It took me overall 3 hours and almost a mental breakdown in which I questioned my whole existence as an artist. I just continued because I had spend the money and throwing it away was like throwing money out of the window q_q;

#repair #wip #display #doll display #kintsugi

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Con Line up for HanaCon (Hanover) next month.

Say hello if you see me <3

#con line up #dgm #allen walker #cosplay

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WiP - Bag for bby!Allen - Part 2

Took me a while until I picked that project up again as I needed to wait for the buckles to arrive.

The first I did was making some of the straps and then adjusting the cover. This was a task for a brain afk afternoon during a super stressful week.

It took me until the next week to finally add the last buttons, fixing some straps and the bag was done by then C:

Better photos to come somehow it's always dark when I have time for photos q_q;

Edit:

FInally time for daylight photos :D

#wip #sewing #bby!allen #bjd #ball jointed doll #gem of doll #abner

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Weekly Photo 16/2024

What would be spring without the Storyteller? Right. Not spring. He is secretly still the head of the family and when spring arrives he will stroll around and enjoy the colors, the blossoms and the insects buzzing around.

#bjd #ball jointed doll #doll chateau #alva #elf #spring #poupées de cirque #sei #the storyteller #storyteller

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Posting by Queue, or: why I need some distance from my crafts

It has been some time since my last hobby meta blog entry, it had different reasons and one is that I need distance. Like, yes I of course enjoy crafting and sometimes I am like a little child that runs everywhere to show off things.

But it got ... less intense. And I learned I do better when I keep projects or at least details to myself to sit on them for longer. That the first euphoria is purely mine and not to be shared.

Like for my photos I have a buffer of several weeks now. Yes, I know past-me would have kind of hated that. But I learned I do better when I have a time buffer. I do take photos weekly but sometimes they don't feel special enough to get the weekly photo feature?

Friday & yesterday I went out for photos and while I like the ones from yesterday way more than the ones from friday I am not sure if the set from yesterday will get the feature or not as it's only a hand full of photos giving me that certain spark.

Other than that I am a very emotional artist, I sometimes really fuck up my art and hate it at the moment I worked on it, but then, sometimes, after a few days or weeks I can look at it and just wonder about what was my problem the day I made it.

Another thing is that I, myself, enjoy my art. The process of it. And I like to see my blog updating, sometimes I forget what post will go online and then I check the blog and think "ah yes, this was that thing!", and it reminds me why I made the blog overall, to show myself I had progress and that every tiny step counts.

Which leads to another reason why I hold back in regards of posting. Yes, I do share some snippets in my stories over on insta but not always and not all. I sit on over 300 drawings from the last two years alone nobody ever will see, I enjoyed drawing but it's nothing for the public eye. I will maybe go back and redraw some and share the redraws then, who knows?

But wait, there is actually more reasons.

The biggest or main reason is ... i sometimes go really wild on projects. In January I finished so many dolls it was insane, I worked on Cosplays and other crafts in an incredible speed, I have literally no idea where I found the time but I somehow did and doll parts arriving every week did the rest.

I keep the blog running with partially 2 month old stuff but .... to be honest I don't have doll stuff aside photos to do anymore. All I can do is wait for bodies to be shipped (or dolls even) and arrive. There has been no movement since January. Aside Iza getting the shipping notice for our Split, might take a while until its at her place and I can't really start on the Akuma until I got the body (which I at least have finally ordered this month) as colors need to be matched and mods to be made.

I am truly itchy to do something else than sewing all the time, I do enjoy cosplay but you know how much I like sewing (hint: not at all). So to remind myself of the fun I had in the past weeks I have mixed my blog to bless me with some progress I had which was maybe not sewing all the time. And well, the Cosplays have deadlines and I do get some ideas aside purely sewing while doing them, so that keeps me going for now.

Yes, I could start redoing dolls like Alastor or Erwin. But you know what? IT'S ALMOST ALL SEWING. Urgh.

Aside that real life is pretty good at eating me up and I just want to enjoy crafting. Right now drawing feels like stress relief but I hate the results and just scan the pieces and put them away to never look at them again, I have a bunch of posts queued up without any captions, a wip entry of a current project only has two photos but I lack the spoons to actually get them done. But since those posts are so far back it's fine (yes I know drafts are a thing).

In general I enjoy having my art to myself to get used to it before I put it out into the wild as I just recently got reminded I do bad with direct comparisons still and it hits some triggerpoints from the past and makes everything harder, I don't need that.

I literally have no idea if this blog makes sense even, lol. I just am tired of sewing and stopped working on my current project around lunch time and have drawn so much today and I walked way too much the whole week my friends urged me to stay the ef home and at least try to relax. But I'm restless as my body is too stressed (I know it all I'm a certified relaxation trainer so eh), so, have an over the place blog entry.

#blog #hobby meta #or something like that #idk

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Bookman is incredible proud of his hair, what if ... when past!Allen was a Bookman he was also proud of his hair?

It's a small head canon I have that this is one of the very small traits they actually share, loving their hair.

.... for the majority of my life my hair was the only thing I liked about myself.

Oh and the last photos were taken at the booth of D.Gray-man's german publisher but they didn't have any of the volumes on sale this convention :/ they treat the series super poorly. A shame. Especially when you consider they were the only publisher so far who got Hoshino to sign outside of Japan back in the day (and I will be forever miffed they switched to another system back then and I wasn't able to get an autograph despite my friend trying to get me one T_T ).

photos by @adragonstale <3

#dgm #d.gray-man #allen walker #past!allen walker #cosplay