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pineislandI finally got an OK photo of Kohaku with her Lafufu (Dada, Have a Seat series). She wasn't cooperating when I posted Ichīro with his Lafufu the other day.
I picked Ichīro's Sisi because that's my favorite but I picked Kohaku's Dada because her favorite color is pink.
The characters I imagine for Ichīro and Kohaku are both neurodivergent - e.g., Ichī always wears that hat and Kohaku is often posed fiddling with her hair or holding it up by her mouth. (When I was a little younger than their characters (11), I used to chew on my hair as a stim.) This wasn't intentional because I don't "shell" dolls but, for example with Kohaku, I like posing her in ways where her hands are really visible (e.g., [1], [2], [3]) because I think she has cute hands. Then, by repetition, it became part of her character.
The first shot I got today that I thought was good enough to edit, I wouldn't've normally uploaded - it just looks off in a way I didn't notice while I was taking pictures but became obvious while I edited the exposure and contrast. I'm not the best at posing my dolls but I try to make it look nice. Her wrist looks twisted around uncomfortably and she's just not in character in this picture, so I didn't want to use it for this post. (I uploaded it to Flickr so I could explain this.)
I tried again, thinking about the character. She's shy and she plays with her hair to stim. Remembering to pose my dolls in-character - and thinking of different poses for different dolls! - is more involved than just making sure that Ichī has his hat (and I wasn't even consistent with that until recently).
I have poor proprioception and terrible posture and I really struggled when I cosplayed because of it. I looked awful and I felt awkward trying to imitate the character's poses. The best pictures of me cosplaying are 1) mid-jump, when you don't really have time to be uncomfortable, 2) while I was putting my boots back on and not really thinking about being photographed, and 3) fixing Koji's hair and not knowing someone was taking a picture. Which is to say… sometimes it's hard to pose my dolls but some of that comes from the strengths/weaknesses of the design and sometimes it just… happens. I never pose Nene playing with her hair, her poses are open and expansive and that builds her character (e.g., [1], [2], [3]): tour guide Nene is here to show you around Tokyo!
I originally planned to post this tomatsushima but I thought it could go here on pineisland as a process notes post. This is supposed to be my (public) junk drawer, not just for fanfic and annotations.
Recommended Reading Saikia, A. (2024). Death, reincarnation and rebirth of BJDs. Religions, 15(9), 1072. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091072
There are more readings about dolls in my resource bookmarks. Click the "Topics" filter and find the "Dolls" tag. I wrote about my doll reading for HUM 6210-8: Portal Survey Course (self designed) here.
This post is process-based research for that project.
P.S. Future me, you crossposted this photo tomatsushima here.
I picked Ichīro's Sisi because that's my favorite but I picked Kohaku's Dada because her favorite color is pink.
The characters I imagine for Ichīro and Kohaku are both neurodivergent - e.g., Ichī always wears that hat and Kohaku is often posed fiddling with her hair or holding it up by her mouth. (When I was a little younger than their characters (11), I used to chew on my hair as a stim.) This wasn't intentional because I don't "shell" dolls but, for example with Kohaku, I like posing her in ways where her hands are really visible (e.g., [1], [2], [3]) because I think she has cute hands. Then, by repetition, it became part of her character.
The first shot I got today that I thought was good enough to edit, I wouldn't've normally uploaded - it just looks off in a way I didn't notice while I was taking pictures but became obvious while I edited the exposure and contrast. I'm not the best at posing my dolls but I try to make it look nice. Her wrist looks twisted around uncomfortably and she's just not in character in this picture, so I didn't want to use it for this post. (I uploaded it to Flickr so I could explain this.)
I tried again, thinking about the character. She's shy and she plays with her hair to stim. Remembering to pose my dolls in-character - and thinking of different poses for different dolls! - is more involved than just making sure that Ichī has his hat (and I wasn't even consistent with that until recently).
I have poor proprioception and terrible posture and I really struggled when I cosplayed because of it. I looked awful and I felt awkward trying to imitate the character's poses. The best pictures of me cosplaying are 1) mid-jump, when you don't really have time to be uncomfortable, 2) while I was putting my boots back on and not really thinking about being photographed, and 3) fixing Koji's hair and not knowing someone was taking a picture. Which is to say… sometimes it's hard to pose my dolls but some of that comes from the strengths/weaknesses of the design and sometimes it just… happens. I never pose Nene playing with her hair, her poses are open and expansive and that builds her character (e.g., [1], [2], [3]): tour guide Nene is here to show you around Tokyo!
I originally planned to post this to
matsushima but I thought it could go here on pineisland as a process notes post. This is supposed to be my (public) junk drawer, not just for fanfic and annotations. There are more readings about dolls in my resource bookmarks. Click the "Topics" filter and find the "Dolls" tag. I wrote about my doll reading for HUM 6210-8: Portal Survey Course (self designed) here.
This post is process-based research for that project.
P.S. Future me, you crossposted this photo to
matsushima here.
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Date: 2025-09-28 09:43 pm (UTC)