davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

Maybe you just need to participate with some more people. Like that other place where you took that thing so personally.  It’s a few more people there…

I thought I might get drawn into Ever After High… But then Rainbow High came along…!

Yeah, there was no way you were gonna resist a Monarch Butterfly themed "affordable" playline doll! 

I was surprised that Ever After High ended, and rather abuptly at that, after the 2018 releases. I think that the Disney Descendants line killed them off. Fairy Tale characters are fun, but kids (or, their unimaginative parents) love Disney fairy tale characters more.

Mostly the EAH dolls were too "girly" for me (this coming from someone who probably had a hundred Monster High at one point)   , but I liked the "Dragon Games" line because they wore armor and looked kinda kick-*ass Medieval-ish. But they didn't include swords or weapons, so I had to enhance their armament with cocktail skewers. At one point I think I had all but one of the "Dragon Games" line. I ended up selling most of them (one or two appreciated dramatically in price, so I actually made back some of the money I'd spent), but I kept my two favorites, plus one other non-DG EAH figure.

(While researching this post, I discovered a simple yet thorough website documenting all 217 official EAH releases:  https://www.eahmerch.com/dolls/all/ 
I appreciate when people take the time and put in the effort to maintain informative web pages like this.)

As for participation, there are plenty of people on Instagram and Flickr; I even leave comments on a variety of accounts. Yet my pix are largely overlooked. Instagram bugs me because I just can't figure out what that audience wants. Today I was looking at some dude's account. He has only posted like 60 or 70 images, mostly little "Star Wars" toys standing in the lawn in his back yard, yet he has over a thousand followers already. Other action figure and doll photographers also have thousands of followers, and they get dozens or sometimes hundreds of comments, although the comments are usually pretty repetitive and dull, like, "great shot." I'd rather have fewer interactions but with greater substance. As for that other forum, yeah, well, I don't wanna risk interacting with anyone I shouldn't interact with because their "significant other" might blow a gasket. Plus, I don't take enough Dal photos. And my Doll a Day pix were often of little interest over there as well; except, you were usually kind enough to comment. No point in posting twice and having you feel obligated to comment twice. Speaking of which, I hope you don't feel obligated to comment every day here at DMF. I appreciate it, but I don't want you to feel like it is a chore. I know I've come close to abandoning ship here at DMF, but I'll probably keep plugging along until the site sinks slowly in the west.

TL;DNR - sorry.

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2 June - A Doll A Day 2024:

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