davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

Were they derived from MLP?  I know, I could google that...  My first thought was that she looked more like a bug....

Comparison and trying to produce stuff for other people is an invitation to be disappointed.  Look at the BS on Tiktok and FB... this is the state of humanity... is this the society from which you want an audience? Srsly, do what YOU enjoy.  Appreciation of your own creative fun is the reward....

I want to keep Dolly Market alive.  I do look in once or twice a day.  

I, too, want to keep Dolly Market alive, so here I am... for whatever that's worth. Seems like the forums at which I continue to post are the ones that die the fastest. I still post weekly at Figurvore, as an example.  https://milkshakemelody.com/figurvore/

Yes, Equestria Girls was a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic spin-off. The dolls went through several iterations over the course of a few years, ranging from bizarre bug-looking creatures like this one (yes, I agree, it looks like a bug, which is part of why I like it) to more human-cosplay versions.

I'm not on FB or TikTok. I created a new X (formerly Twitter) account several months ago because some of my doll/toy contacts on Instagram were tired of the one-sided political slant (and outright filtering) and the vax-pushing on Insta, and wanted to try to create a "doll community" on X, but then hardly anybody posted doll stuff. It's too easy to get pulled in to the brain-killing political stuff on X, so I stopped looking at it. 

I was looking at Instagram posts and comments again today, and yeah... I don't really want to be part of a toy photography crowd where the action figure dudes all call one another "brother" or "bro," or if they're being dismissive then the term is "bruh." And every comment stream that goes for more than a few posts turns in to a one-sided political rally or promotion of the transgender agenda. Like, WTF, bruh? I guess we can't even post toy photos on Insta anymore unless we're leftist vax-pushing trans activists. Which probably sez more about Instagram than it does about the toy photography hobby; although considering my eksperience at that other forum you allude to, maybe it doesn't.

What you said got me thinking about when I first got in to toy and doll photography; and y'know, my original intent was to do something outside the mainstream. I started out by putting "cute li'l dolls" in "action figure scenarios." I don't take "doll pictures." I don't take "action figure pictures." I eksplore the void between the genres... and it's not a popular position. After coming up on two decades of toy photography, I'm still an outsider. Which, I suppose, means I'm still a rebel! I'm still messing with the boundaries between acceptable genres.

Or my pictures and approach suck and nobody likes 'em.

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3 June - A Doll A Day 2024:

Ever After High Cerise Hood

I found an online resource listing all the Ever After High releases:

www.eahmerch.com/dolls/all/

I suspect this version of Cerise Hood is the 2016 Wave 2 Core Character re-release.