"You take the roof, you're good on roofs"

The other day I was taking some pictures of Dürrenmatt (like this one:)

and realized that, Dürrenmatt especially is hard to pose. I wanted a body for him that was tall and looked buff, so I put him on an Angel of Dream body, which works great for that purpose, however is far from perfect when it comes to posing.

It's not like that doesn't fit his character. He really is the kind of man who leans back against a wall and watches other people work. Still, maybe I should make more of an effort to go to greater length with his posing. As you can see in this compilation of pictures of him, I might be overdoing it a bit:

Yeah, it's all lounging and leaning. 

Or maybe I'll just cleverly hang a lampshade as Torchwood did in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" when they finally addressed the fact that Capt. Jack Harkness always stands on the tops of Cardiff's tallest buildings - coat flapping behind him in a breeze, eyes gazing into the distance - when Ianto suggests that he will search the topmost floor while Jack takes the roof, saying "You're good on roofs".

Someone like you - The Daydreamer

Phineas is back! Huzzah! Navci matched his skin tone to Souldoll's NS so that he would look good on his Soulkid body and then she gave him a face-up. He looks spectacular, of course.

He's still missing his arms and his headback, so taking these pictures was sort of hard. He kept trying to keel over and none of the wigs would fit right. I like the idea of dreads on him a lot but I'm not happy with this wig. 

With a random green fur wig. I couldn't style it any better as it kept falling off. Still, fur looks good on most boys, no matter what.

A beautiful mohair wig that fades from pink to orange to blonde. It doesn't fit him at all and I had to hold it over his head. The wig itself is too girly but I'm really leaning towards making him a ginger, though. I always wanted a ginger doll and was pretty disappointed when none of them turned out to be one.

And just for the fun of it:

  

I love his grumpiness and how moody and hurt he looks. But trust me, he's not someone you would want to cross...

Mini Dollmeet

I've been in the hobby since December 2009 but I only went to my first dollmeet yesterday. There were only 4 of us but that meant that we had much more time to get top know and like each other. Suffice it to say, it won't be the last time we meet.

The weather was awful but we decided to venture outside with the tinies:

Setting them up in the wind was hard work.

All the tinies! I knew that everyone was going to bring their Soom dolls, so Siltár, my Keny was the one chosen to go along. Taco belongs to Aurelius; Trachy, Yrie and Aloa belong to Sakura-Streifchen and Chinatsu.

Those two bonded at the last minute. While Taco originally belonged to Chinatsu and Sakura-Streifchen, he stayed behind with Aurelius.

Even Silt managed to make friends!

The two incredible pretty girls. Birdie and pony - I couldn't get enough of these two.

Gorgeous custom blushing. Isn't she amazing?

My camera is definately not meant for inside pictures with fading daylight and limited artificial light. Hardly any of the pictures I took turned out at all. 

Aurelius' Chalco-Chrom hybrid with Chinatsu and Sakura-Streifchen's DoD Delphine, Soom Yrie and Aloa.

Shaky close-up of Chalco. He isn't going to keep the blue eyes, but still - wow!

Aurelius' new Taco playing underneath the skirt of Chinatsu and Sakrua-Streifchen's Dream of Doll Delphine.

The MSDs were hanging out together. Aurelius' Nor twins sitting between Santana and Yanír.

Feetsies!!

Tell me everything is gonna be alright

When Ava was little, her mother used to walk up and down the hallway with her baby brother trying to sing him to sleep.

People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one, and we've just begun,
Think I'm gonna have a son.
Even when he was older she sat down on the edge of Micah’s bed every night and sang to him.

He will be like he and me, as free as a dove, conceived in love,
Sun is gonna shine above.
One evening when Ava was nine, she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth, listening through the closed door. Her mother’s voice sounded shaky.

And even though we ain't got money, I'm so in love with ya honey,
And everything will bring a chain of love.
For once Micah didn’t ask for a repeat. He hadn’t spoken all day. When her mother came out of his room there were tears shining in her eyes. That night she disappeared.

And in the morning when I rise, you bring a tear of joy to my eyes,
And tell me everything is gonna be alright.

(Strictly speaking this isn't a real drabble as it contains more than 100 words, but subtract the lyrics and there you go. "Danny's Song" was written by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina who first performed it. Later it was covered by Anne Murray and lots of other talented people.)

Silent

He let his hand run over the white sheet he had hung over the bed. When they were little, Micah and his sister used to build pillow forts, hiding from the world as he was doing now. 

Downstairs he could hear his father making himself tea. He would leave something for Micah, but wouldn’t come looking for him if he didn’t show up. Micah didn’t blame him. A man who used to not believe in the supernatural couldn’t deal with the way his son communicated. Micah saw him flinch whenever he spoke to him.
 
So he chose to remain silent.

Profile -Tint

Name: Tint
Age: came into being 10 years ago, has the mind of an adolescent
Relative: Ava (Mistress)
Hobbies: causing mischief, doing whatever the heck he wants
Powers: can appear anywhere at will (including the realm of fairies), possesses the magick of sprites
Type: Fairyland Pukipuki Pongpong
Face-up: navci
Wig: by me
Eyes: Blue glass eyes in 8mm

Tint is Ava’s Sprite and therefore she should be his Mistress. While sprites are tiny, they are powerful beings, albeit hard to control. Much to Ava’s dismay, Tint is particularly headstrong and refuses to follow her orders unless they are brought forward as a request. Even though they don’t always see eye to eye, Tint loves Ava dearly.

Profile - Ava

Name: Ava Alana Degenhertz
Age: 17
Relatives: Micah (younger brother), Tint (Sprite)
Hobbies: Glipball, collecting and pressing wild flowers
Power: She is the first one to have been admitted to the Edgecombe Academy for the Gifted on account of having a Sprite. Until recently, Sprites were not considered a gift and a person with a Sprite was not considered to be what the public calls a "Glip".
Type: Souldoll Soulkid Ahee
Face-up: navci
Wig: JPop - Kana in rosegold 6-7
Eyes: HGC - Mauve - D400 (low lens) in 14mm

Ava is a strong willed person and can be stubborn at times. Once she has made up her mind, she will rarely change it. Shunned as a child by her peers because of her Sprite (which are considered to be unlucky), she doesn't trust strangers easily. Once she becomes your friend, however, she will lay down her life for you.
She loves competing with other people but is short-tempered when she loses. She is one of the best Glipball players in school but unfortunately doesn’t get along with her house’s captain, Phineas, which tends to cause problems.
She has a deep connection with her brother and feels very protective towards him. However, since Micah isn’t old enough to enroll in Edgecombe Academy for the Gifted, they can only see each other during the holidays.
Unlike Santana, she hasn’t made a lot of progress controlling her powers, as Tint, her sprite, doesn’t like to be controlled.