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Hello, this is Sea Hedgehog, and you're here again on

my channel, A Jest in Sober Earnest, and I thought I

would finally get around to doing some of the BJD

Addicts Prompts. They're not exactly tags because

they're not really multiple questions, but it's sort of a

down period right now, while I'm waiting for some

things, so, this seemed like as good of an opportunity as

any and I'm curious as well to see other people's

responses [if they haven't done them yet] and I have

enjoyed, in the past, listening to other people's video

responses to these prompts.

So here's my contribution. Before we start, I guess I

have…the progress that has happened in my apartment

is not doll related. So I finally managed to put together

the cat scratcher that is an attempt at appeasing the

mercurial cat gods that run my apartment while I'm

gone and try to pull up the carpet in the corners. And it

looks like it's actually been working out pretty well.

The little black cat that's been causing the most trouble,

Lucy, seems to really like this. The 1st thing that she did

when I put it together was climb up the sides and then

bite it, once, and then walk away. I'm not sure what that

means, maybe it's like, if you lick it, it's yours, kind of like

when you're trying to deter a sibling from playing with

your toy and eating your food. It's unclear.

Reedy, my orange cat, down here, beside me, does not

seem particularly deterred from using the cat scratcher,

even though the other cat has licked it, so I guess it was

ineffective if that was the point.

So I think I've already done the Intro Tag, introduced

kind of how I was exposed to the hobby, when I started,

my experience with buying dolls, etc. and that is maybe

the 1st video that I posted here.

So the next video prompt is related to hobby fears, and I

thought that would be a good 1 to do because there's

actually been a series of robberies in my apartment

complex, which is sort of terrifying. I think it's people

breaking in through the windows, and I'm on one of the

top floors, so that's probably less likely. That would be

an impressive window-scaling if they did.

But either way, that is a little bit scary. So that possibility

is something that I've been considering when these

dolls are rather expensive in my apartment. That would

be a problem. I think though, I've seen this meme go

around a couple times on the BJD Addicts Facebook

group.

It's some post that's like, "I live in constant fear that I'll

die and my significant other will sell my dolls for the

price that I told him or her/them that they cost." So I do

think that it is true that because this is such an insular

hobby, there less of a likelihood that people know the

actual value of these dolls, which is perhaps

encouraging and also perhaps not encouraging because

it means that someone might trash it without knowing

that they just ruined something that's rather expensive.

But I would say my fears are not predominantly worrying

about stealing my dolls. In the initial prompt video he

talked about like, "Are you worrying about whether you

are faceupping your dolls?" probably modding would be

considered in there as well.

I am now attached to my cat. It's OK!

Modding would be considered in there as well, probably

dyeing, although that wasn't as common, I don't think,

when this video was initially posted in 2010 because the

disperse dyes weren't as available for the everyday

consumer. I think they were more of an industrial dye

technology. But regardless, I think that probably fits

under the same umbrella.

And I think—and I've mentioned this in some other

videos, but I think predominantly the reason that I'm not

as afraid of modding dolls and of altering dolls through

dyeing or faceupping or whatever is just because

Perhaps I am an idiot—Yeah, so perhaps I'm not naïve,

but I am kind of blasé in my approach to customizing

these dolls, and I think part of it is just having prior

experience with these particular things going wrong,

and it didn't end up being that bad. I actually don't have

anything to illustrate some of these examples,

In terms of faceups, I've definitely screwed up faceups

before, although I've never used anything that would

stain a doll, but I've definitely made ugly faceups.

This 1 in particular, I can't alter without removing the

face paint/skin color [JunPlanning Dal Doll Melize]

which is not something I'm particularly keen to do,

which is also probably why I dye my dolls instead of

spraypainting or airbrushing their faces because I would

like to be able to use something to remove the faceup

and not the skin color.

But I've done things like, boil a doll. In particular, you

might have seen the video where I dye her body, but not

her head and the reason I didn't dye her head and

thankfully this isn't a problem with BJDs, but with some

ABS plastic dolls, not Hujoo, thankfully the plastic is

thick enough or higher grade ABS, I don't actually know.

ABS can deform. So I actually did damage a doll. I

warped, I melted the whole back of a Pullip Isul or

Junplanning Isul's head from an Isul Make It Own Kit. So

done that, I guess, check! Damaged a doll via dyeing.

I did mention I haven't stained a doll by a faceup. With

modding, it's sort of, I don't know if I've ever damaged a

doll. I do think a lot of the things that I do would be

something that would be considered to interfere with or

damage a doll's resale value, so that's why I have this

doll up here.

This is my 5th Motif Venitu. But this doll has definitely

been altered. So I did a genital mod on this doll. And

then I'm also planning—you can't really see it, and this

dress is actually pinned in the back, so I don't really

want to get rid of it. But I added magnets to the back

of the chest part, so this doll will have a bust/breast

tissue.

So I guess it's just sort of an example of I'm not terribly

afraid to mod a doll. And I think an aspect of that is just

that modification is actually a very slow process with

BJDs.

With BJDs, the resin is so hard that any alteration that

you make, it's very hard to do anything rapidly. If you're

using a Dremel, you can kind of like skate off something

that you weren't supposed to and leave a little dent, but

that can be sanded off.

So I guess, part of the reason I'm less afraid of altering

these dolls is because it's such a slow process to mod

them that usually you can tell that something's going

horribly wrong before you've reached the point of no

return, and you can kind of fix it, halfway through.

So I guess I've said why certain things are not my fears,

but I think the things that scare me regarding BJDs is—

and this sort of is a feedback loop with my slowness.

So I'm in school right now, and so I am very busy and I

don't get to work on my dolls a lot, and yet I'm a crafty

person and insist on making things for my dolls only so

this adds into this [positive] feedback loop, but there's

another component where I don't want to proceed with

a doll until the doll perfectly exemplifies the character.

So I'm running into this issue, and that's why I brought

this doll here. So this is an OrDoll Anderl on a SupiaDoll

body, and as you can see, the head is entirely too big for

the body. So I thought I found my perfect match

because actually, this is 1 of my grail heads, this Anderl

head, and I always pictured it as this character, but I like

this body now, so much, that I need to find an

alternative.

So I have in the mail, and we'll see whether it works, a

Soom Morga head, which has very similar aesthetics,

these slanted eyes, very angular features, and so I'm

going to see if I can make this doll, but with a smaller

headsculpt, and then this head will become another

character.

But that's sort of, I think that is probably more my fear,

the combination of proceeding and customizing a doll

that I don't feel is quite right and then also ending up

with a whole bunch of dolls that I thought were going to

work for a character and then don't and then having to

sell them on, move them on, whatever.

I did though, so this doll was actually shelled, before I

got ahold of an Anderl as a Soom Dia, and so I did finally

move that head on, thankfully, but this character in

particular has been a process.

So I think that's my answer to this prompt. So I think I'm

going to do another 1. I don't know if this will be

published in a series, or what, but bye!