My Favorite Boy ❤️❤️❤️

One of the colors I chose. I'm so excited.

A mini Key kit! First photos of this color all finished.

My printers have been sad about the colder weather these past few days, so not all of the faces have printed yet, but I should be back in business later this week. Any suggestions to keep my printers warm other than the space blankets I've been using? ^^

Next color up is Halloween. Can't wait to get some bright oranges going!

(if you want to learn more about my Muriel ball-jointed dolls, you can see the campaign page here and also pre-order one if you'd like!)

That red coat

Space Invasion☆

It's happening! TOMORROW AT NOON! I will be posting some color mock-ups (there are four options) and more info soon! Mostly tomorrow, though. I will infodump you tomorrow. I need to make some more graphics and get the form ready (lmao help).

I don't love when people solicit shares BUT shares would help in this situation lmao. I kind of don't know what to expect. People like Harold, but idk if it is enough? My Muriel project was unexpectedly successful, but I recognize I'm not entitled to success and have no idea what will happen. I need a minimum of 12 to make the casting actually happen, so I hope you all can help me with that! Honestly I feel like I'm at a turning point here and would love to do dollmaking as my main "art" rather than begging the internet to do illustrations, so any interactions and stuff really help!

Anyway! TL;DR HAROLD HAPPENING TOMORROW AAAAAAAAAA

My beautiful free spirited Nora with her new face up by Sour_Dotz on Den of Angels.

Nora is a Granny Mouse by Walloya Morring.

✨️🖤✨️

Eirwyn

Comparison with the old Dollzone body.

Oh, I just can't. I printed this boy in 1/4 size and I'm in love. I immediately came up with a name for him. I feel like returning to the hobby I left in 2019. I doubt people will be as interested in him as they are in unusual dolls like my turtles or mice. But I am very pleased with how he turned out. My real MSD doll that looks decent next to the company dolls.

“Kill shelters” are the shelters you need to donate to.

“But shrimp!! Kill shelters are evil!!”

No, shut up, listen to me for a second.

“Kill shelter” is a colloquial term used primarily for Town/City (aka municipal) shelters that rely on incredibly limited government grant funding to operate.

These shelters, by the very nature of their existence, DO NOT HAVE the funds to operate like private rescues do.

On top of this, they’re also *legally required* to take in ANY animal that comes to them. Even if they’re full. Or they’ll lose all of their funding.

This is what leads them to needing to euthanize for space. Is euthanizing for space sad? Yes. But due to the current crisis, it’s also NECESSARY.

These shelters are constantly overfull. They’re STRUGGLING. They don’t have the funds to operate properly. And yet these municipal, government funded, struggling shelters are the same ones that are most likely to be providing care for owned animals in the community

Municipal (“kill”) shelters are the ones hosting low cost spay and neuter clinics. They’re the ones discounting vaccination appointments and microchipping. They’re the ones that have pet food banks so struggling pet owners can feed their pets that week.

These shelters are not evil. They’re doing the absolute best they can with the bare minimum funding they get.

These people are incredibly resourceful and care very deeply about the animals in their care. It breaks their heart every time they have to euthanize an animal that couldn’t get adopted.

These underfunded shelters need your money significantly more than that fancy private rescue you see on TikTok or instagram that has a beautiful facility and has never had to euthanize an animal ever.

Support your local shelters and they will give back to the community thousand fold.

Sincerely, an animal welfare student who’s tired of seeing the hardest working professionals shat on because of circumstances they can’t control.

Everytime you feel too old to wear frilly styles, remember there is Candy Milky who runs the Candy Candy museum in Tokyo and still slays wearing lolita and girly fashion with age 71 (at the time of this post in 2023).

Not sure about other socials, but Candy is mainly active on Facebook if you are interested in following.