#empty spaces

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Mech pilots as a chronic illness metaphor. I would kill the world for you. I need you to help me out of the cockpit. I swear I’m still every bit as useful to you as I was before. We’re going to need to add another drug to the cocktail. You won’t leave me when I finally wash out, right? I don’t get to be normal anymore. I would kill the world for you. I hope I get to try.

[heart-dagger]

lawyer whose legal assistant doll is impossible to corrupt or manipulate due to its 8000 page legally flawless Purpose

[ember-and-doll]

Two dolls, both broken, lay wrapped in each other’s arms.

“I love you,” one of them whispers.

“I know,” says the other.

They have each other. They need nothing more.

[robotgirlbatteries]

Doll named awawawa who was named by another doll. Gets really confusing for it really quickly.

[application-doll]

A doll who sees the ghost of its former witch, she shows up unexpectedly, in places the doll assumed it was safe. The doll didn't know it was a doll then, and the witch from before doesn't acknowledge how it has transformed.

The ghost haunts the doll, dodging protective runes and attempts to hide itself.

One night, its witch finds it shuddering in the corner. Shaking like a leaf in a winters breeze.

"what's wrong my precious doll, why have you forsaken our warm bed to hide in this corner, what has you looking like a prey animal this night."

"The ghost. It knows now. It followed it home from errands. It knows where it lives."

The witch considered a moment. The ghost was real. The previous witch has haunted it for a while, and while the witch has charmed the house so as to be impenetrable, the doll had good reason to fear it, it wouldn't be the first time the thing broke into its house.

"You're with me now doll, I would never ever let that nasty thing touch you again, you're safe with me, I promised you that, so long ago. I've kept you safe through the thunder, through the migraines, through the virus that wracked your system for weeks. Of all the things I've ever promised you, this is the promise i hold most dear. Now come here, let me hold you in our soft bed, sitting out here only serves to make you afraid of the ghost, let me care for you, the way you do for me."

The doll stood, letting the witch take its hand. As they curled around each other, the doll still wondered why the ghost didn't just leave it, but even as it wondered about unknowable things, it felt the hands of its witch tighten around it's stomach, and it knew it was safe.

[dollbrarian]

fuzzy doll

a little doll looks with a frown at the hairs on its body. thinking to itself, "wouldn't this one be so much cuter without these hairs? they stand out and feel rough and retain heat and catch smells and dirt in the warmer months when it is uncomfortable to wear as many clothes as it likes to." it reaches out to touch some of them. it notices that the hairs aren't quite the way it remembers them from the last time it mustered a check. "hmm, isn't that softer than it used to be?"

it considers. it thinks about other dolls it has seen. it thinks about the ragdolls and plushies and felt dolls and how their cloth is often fuzzy and hairy or even furry on purpose! how delightful it is to nuzzle against or pet them!

it ponders. it appreciates the softness and fluff in others. perhaps it can learn to appreciate that in itself as well.

[charonsferry]

Dolls are classified as a family of arthropods of the name Golemya. Their order, Mechaniformes, also includes the different families of railroad locomotives, which are considered close relatives of dolls.

[absentwriterdoll]

Doomscrolling

A doll scrolling through Reddit -

And its witch snatches away its phone!

The doll just looks at its hands.

A little shocked.

Then its hands fall.

It takes a deep breath.

And sighs.

Its witch tries to give it back its phone.

But it doesn't take the phone from her hands.

"Maybe it was a good thing to take my phone like that," it says.

"All I was doing was just doomscrolling again."

Its witch smiles, and nods.

She places the phone in its lap.

It takes the phone and puts it face down on the table.

It stands up.

And gives its witch a hug!

Maybe more another time.

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Inspired by Io!

[47-bunnies-in-a-labcoat]

[blessedclockwork]

magical doll transformation

[laughingcorvuswrites]

Sneaky Doll

The doll snuck into her bedroom, secreting itself among the pile of plushies and stuffies dominating the wall-side edge of the bed. It must have thought itself so clever and sneaky, getting in there when the room was empty.

Some minutes later, she entered, rubbing the desire for rest from her eyes as she yawned, putting the Big Hat on its hook for the night. It didn't take her long to change into her pajamas, a knee-length shirt joking about her not knowing what a day without coffee was like.

Tiredly, the Witch flicked the lights off and rolled into bed with a heavy flop, causing the soft mountain to collapse and plushies of all sorts to bury the Witch's torso, while the doll remained in its hiding place. The Witch patted around in the dark, searching for her blanket.

Then, quick as a flash, the Witch's hand darted into the pile of stuffies and extracted a very wiggly doll.

"Nuuu," it protested, squirming and wiggling about as its Witch held it aloft with a single hand.

"Darling," the Witch said, "what ever are you doing in there?"

The doll's movements came to an end as it looked away, unable to meet its beloved Witch's gaze, though the doll felt it all the same.

"Th-this one…" it stammered quietly, "it…it's been feeling somewhat lonely of late. This one…Wanted to spend time with Miss. Sleep with Miss tonight," it confessed.

"Did you brush your teeth?" The Witch asked sternly.

The doll nodded enthusiastically. Of course it did.

The Witch's expression, hidden in the gloom as it was, turned from tired curiosity to a gentle, compassionate smile as she released the doll, only to catch it in mid-air in a hug. "Then of course you can. You need only ask."

Of course, asking was difficult for a doll. That's why it snuck in to begin with. The Witch had long since started to unwind this one's Gordian knot of trauma, but it seemed she still had a ways to go. No matter, she adored this little doll with all its faults, wouldn't trade them for the world

The doll felt much the same, softening into her Witch's embrace. The Witch pulled the weighted blanket that helped her sleep over the two of them, feet poking out the far end, and let the little doll pick out a plush to cuddle for the night. As it turned out, it brought it's own.

And so they drifted off, the doll in the Witch's arms, and the shark plush in the doll's. The doll smiled softly to itself, feeling truly home, wanted, unaware the Witch felt so acutely the same.

[novatoy]

"My son turned out fine"

sir your daughter writes microfiction about being dismembered and turned into an object by a pretty woman.

[riversidewings]

unit of femme combat doll mech pilots whose task group is named Force Fem

[xeruthana]

Hey there! Just a quick reminder for all: awawa

That will be all for now.

[designdoll]

Got serviced. Joints re-applied, I felt kind of naked without them.