davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

I never navigate Instagram very well.  The comments seem hard to follow and don't scroll, and I was never keen on the format.  Then the stupid system locked me out and I kind of said "F it."

For more online time-consuming, you could make an FB account and check out "Dolly Kingdom", and I'm sure there are others for Smart Dolls and others in your collection.

I'm taking a break from Insta. There is no logical way to navigate. Once something is seen and scrolled past there's virtually no way to ever find it again. It is literally an "instant" momentary transient ephemeral platform based upon, and encouraging, fleeting attention spans and impermanence.

I'm beginning to think that, after more years than I care to count online, I'm becoming "forum-ed out." In fact, there's a bit about that in the caption to this Photo o' th' Day.

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15 March - A Doll A Day 2025:

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1/6-scale action ffigure striking a sstupid ppose for a "pose emulation" challenge on a Discord toy photography community.

I think I'm about ddone with DDiscord. I mean, it's okay, but quite honestly, my fffotography doesn't mmmeasure up anymore, nor does my tttaste in dddolls and action fffigures conform with what is cccurently fffashionable.

Anyway, this particular figure, a combination of a TBLeague S34 body, a YM Toys YMT-029 head sculpt, and an assortment of 1/6-scale military-style clothing is one of the first Phicen/TBLeague characters I assembled, dating back to 2020. Technically this is the third figure I assembled but it is the first of my early figures that "took hold" and hasn't been disassembled and repurposed in to other characters.

Even though this figure has been "complete" since 2020 it has rarely appeared in photos. I snapped two or three pix in 2020, a couple in 2021, and it made a cameo appearance in 2023. The character, called Nicolette Arkham, was intended to be a regular or at least a recurring character in a series of photo-stories that never materialized.

So what? Who cares? I'm nattering.

Crummy over-processed pic for 15 March - A Doll A Day 2025