Heartstrings & Valentines
Janus & Ilium
NWS for minor silly sauciness!


( An on-time holiday doll post from me? The world must be ending! )

I picked a bad time to start the doll pic of the day, as the holidays derailed me. :p I have tons of things I ought to do pictures of, like the fantastic new kitchen Diderot got for Christmas, and the contents of our Wicked Stitchery bags.

For a start, Ilium wound up with a t-shirt, hoodie, and scarf & cap set (though the cap's a bit big on his pin-head), and today I sat on our front stoop in the fresh snow taking pictures of him until my fingertips went numb. Which happened very fast. I know he needs new eyes and his body isn't one of the fancy-pantsy new DoD ones, but damn I love this boy.

( just three pics! )

Although, speaking of new DoTs, that Code 02 guy of theirs certainly fits the bill for Verlaine, an H&H character we came up with as a joke only to have DoD release the perfect shell for him like the next day. :p phew.

He'll have to get in line behind that little Illusion Spirit boy I want, though, the one that goes with the pretty thing that J got for Christmas. More about him (and pictures) will pop up once we manage to get him the proper wig. :D I'm really impressed with Ringdoll's product, I just wish they'd wrapped him better so his eyelashes didn't get crushed. And Denverdoll should have posted his wig size! Because the ones we got were way too big. Just as well Amandine looks great in lavender hair. :p

Moar pictures! Lots of them, and big ones.

Nikolin, Tzeitel, Ilium, and Zuzu. ♥

( family photos )

Our exhausting, 105-day wait for Tzeitel culminated today in an unexpected package notice, a post-office scramble, and the arrival of a doll we didn't even know had shipped. O_O I had gotten some craptastic news on a more creative/jobthing front today, so her sudden, unexpected arrival was just the thing to cheer me up, and take my focus away from unpleasant other things.

That and the fact that she is a stone. fox.

( 12 pictures! )

We ordered a DoD Shall on December 16th. To spare you the math, that was 103 days ago. Fifteen weeks. DoD said last week that they would send her; they still haven't. We're not the only ones getting impatient.

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We've been doing a lot with the dolls over here, but sadly, not a lot of photography has been going on! Or rather, I've been taking pictures, but none of them have come out too well. Nevertheless, in the poll I did there was a request for some introductions! While Nikolin (usually Nick, not to be confused with Nicodemus, who is Nico, sheesh) was introduced in the last episode of Highwater & Holtsclaw, nobody really knows about Zuzu except for those who helped make him a reality.

I'd planned to just have him appear in good time in H&H, without explanation, but with the speed I'm going on that it'd take forever. (I have the next episode photographed--it was done in July, and I've never gotten around to the scripting. sad.) And that's not really fair to little Zuzu. I mean, he's been here since late august, and no pictures shared! which is too bad, because he's so cute. If perhaps a little shy.

NB: we haven't seen the sun here in two weeks. ;_; So these are really dark since my unnatural lighting is limited. Also, I don't usually do the talking in any photostory, because I'm happy with the dolls inhabiting their own private universe, but that's hard to do in intro posts. ^^; thirdly, odd though he is, Zuzu is the only doll we have who is actually a child, so that's something I can't help playing with.

( Zubenel! 13 pics )

chapter 1::chapter 2

Images are large. Please give them time to load. Also it's been a long time since I did these, so I basically had to relearn everything. There may be some discrepancies with text size, etc. I hope they don't detract from the story. In the works is a webcomic-style page which will make it easier to read the episodes in order. Also, that splash page image is not Ilium. :D :D :D

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Highwater & Holtsclaw

episode 1
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also on DoA:
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186632

EDITEDIT: images have been moved to the comments to avoid killing people on the LJ feed. ^__^