#they also had the monster ball series and them dolls were not cute. well not as cute some of em were fine

[pcktknife]

I have yet another draculaura

[kirindensetsu]

The Making of Fubuki

((Reposting from Den of Angels workshop thread because I wanted my friends to be able to see~))

After years of pining after dolls I couldn't afford as a broke teenager, my first BJD was a Bobobie Sprite I purchased for my 18th birthday. Unfortunately, she didn't live up to my expectations and I never really bonded with her. Her face was cute enough, but the Bobobie body lacked the grace and posing ability I imagined for the Unseelie faerie I'd been daydreaming of for years. Sueding and wiring didn't help, blushing and tattooing highlighted her blockiness, it was a mess. I packed her away and tried not to think about my disappointment for 12 years. In the meantime I learned to build and paint resin garage kits, inherited one of my sister's dolls, bought some others, took anatomy & physiology in college, and did a couple extensive restorations and full-body modifications. I was sure I had thrown her away at some point as a failed project, but last weekend I found her tucked away in a doll bag I thought was empty. Having just finished substantial mods on a Dollshe body, and awaiting an unfinished Unoa kit for my birthday in September, I decided that I owed it to her to try again. Doll nudity below the cut, looooong post--

My Sprite was originally going to be a pooka with golden eyes and extensive woad tattoos. The golden eyes are incredible, so those are staying, but she's now going to be a blue oni to fit in with the rest of my collection. My plan is to do extensive additive epoxy work, and then to use Krylon Fusion to give everything a unified finish. The goal of the project is to reduce the... idk, STRAIGHTNESS of the old Bobobie body. I was never going to be happy with it, the lines were all far too rigid.

Head: Modified mouth for a wider, smirking smile. Magnets added to headcap (old Bobobie used an S-hook iirc; I did this part back in 2008). Forehead drilled for 3mm brass rod armature, and epoxy used to sculpt horns over rod. Bust: Substantial subtractive modifications to breasts, which involved removal and readdition of nipples. Addition of epoxy clay to back and shoulders to give a more curved body line in profile. Deepening of shoulder sockets with 18mm eye bevel, followed by sanding to make shoulders narrower. Waist: Reshaping of upper torso joint into sphere for smoother range of motion. Subtraction of resin in back and addition of epoxy in front to enhance lumbar curve. Hips: Substantial reshaping of lower waist seam to more naturally follow the pelvic girdle. It reminded me of granny panties before  Added epoxy to butt, again for lumbar curve. Thighs: Suwariko joint mod (cut the thigh and added a PVC insert to enable swivelling at the hip). Added epoxy to make her thighs look less straight. Calves: Removed 1cm of length at the ankles and rebevelled the socket. Removed resin at the ankles to bring them in, and added epoxy at the calves to make them curvier. Feet: Sculpted little claws, which were cute, and then decided the feet needed to be 5mm longer. Cut across, drilled and pinned with brass rod for structural strength, gap filled with epoxy clay. I also modded her feet to have defined arches and balls back when I first got her. Alas, spitting into the ocean. I added S-hooks, but did so by drilling the ankle and inserting brass rod to form the axle for the hook. Arms: The proportions on her upper arms BOTHERED me! they were so SHORT! and I only just figured out that's what I hated about them last week! I added 5mm to the upper arms by cutting them in the middle and using SteelStik to make a structural repair (plumber's epoxy putty has a shorter open time but far greater structural strength than artist's epoxy clay). Sanded the heck out of the wrists to give them a more delicate taper. Hands: Beyond salvage. The hands were my least-favorite part of this sculpt. I tried to bulk them up to look less spidery but it was just too difficult... I've ordered a different pair of MSD hands which will have claws added, and then when everything is painted it'll all match. Thanks for reading this far! Here's a preview of what her golden eyes look like next to Krylon Fusion in Antique Blue.

((first progress post)) I think I'm mostly done adding epoxy clay (at least where it'll show; presumably the wrist sockets will require tweaks to fit the new hands), so now it's time for finish sanding. I start with 60 grit for shaping, then switch to a 120 grit sanding sponge. To check for scratches, pinholes, and inadequately feathered edges, I apply a wash of diluted acrylic paint. Once the paint has dried, I scrub the piece with a nylon scouring pad. Paint remains in the surface irregularities.

All sanded with 220 grit. I don't think I'll be going higher than 400 because I want there to be some tooth for the paint.

Any pitting in the epoxy clay that can't be sanded out is marked with a Sharpie and will be patched with Tamiya spot putty.

I did a test spray of the Krylon Fusion on the headcap and it's fantastic! Holy cow is it *poisonous* tho, I'm used to working with volatile chemicals but this was something else. Get OUT OF THE AREA between coats and leave it outside until it stops outgassing, not just until it's ready to handle.

This test piece is four light coats sprayed 1 minute apart, allowed to cure for 4 hours, and then wetsanded to remove the spray texture. It's pretty sturdy but I will wait several more days to see how it continues to cure before experimenting with matte sealants. ((progress update 2))

Haven't done much but sand-and-fill-and-sand-and-fill, but my 14mm beveller came in today so I can start deepening her elbow and ankle sockets. Added some epoxy clay to the insides of the eyewells so 14mm eyes will fit with no gap. I need a needle file to clean up the corners of her mouth... Monster feets! Nails on the right came out better than the left, still need to feather-sand everything.

Elbows progress. The early Bobobie elbows are I guess /technically/ double-jointed because the joint is a sphere with two slots, but I thought I could do better than that. You can see epoxy clay spliced in to make the sphere into a peanut: this isn't a structurally sound repair unless you pop it apart and drill/pin/glue-epoxy it back together.

View from the back. By keeping the joint heads spherical with no elbow-shaped detailing, there's some rotation as well as flexion, which I like.

Touching her face with one of her old hands. I hope the new ones come soon!

((progress update 4))

In good news, these parts are all ready for paint! It's really hard to do prepwork with no filler primer, hope I didn't miss any spots...

In less good news, her new hands arrived and they are... very smol ;u; I forgot that the new trend for slim minis means that everyone has TINY LITTLE HANDS.

They are, however, beautifully sculpted and a good 3D reference for what needs fixing and how. Bobobie palm is very short relative to fingers: I made a transverse cut behind the knuckles and added epoxy to lengthen More curved volume across the back of the hand: Not necessarily realistic, but looks a little cuter, plus it makes the transition into the cylinder of the wrist look less stylistically jarring. More defined joint angles: Some of these I did via cut-and-thermoform repositioning, mostly I'm aiming to fake it by building up and carving away at the weird smooth curves. The fingers are just TOO SKINNY: But obviously I'm not going to squish rice-grain-sized blobs of epoxy to the fingers, right? It's too fiddly, it doesn't want to stick. What's the solution? Brace for a truly hideous WIP image--

"AAAAAAGH WHAT IS THAT DARK GRAY MESS" it's JB Weld epoxy! It's like load-bearing, slow-curing modeller's putty! Slathering putty onto an armature and then carving it away to refine the shape is how anime figure artists make hands and detailed hair.  I was thinking about it from a polymer clay technique/perspective so I missed the obvious solution. Hand in the foreground has more layers than the hand in the background, every layer gets the shape a lil closer. ((progress post 5)) Parts set up on sticks so I can handle them without touching...

... and after 4 light coats!

Closeup of the head, lil' glossy because it's still drying. For the deeper areas like the joint slots, mouth, and the crannies of the ears, I'm going to have to decant some of the paint into a jar and apply it with a sacrificial brush.

((progress post 6)) I return from Depression! I finally finished sanding-and-spraying the Krylon Fusion coats, gave her a last polish with microfine to even out the texture, and have started blushing her. I'm using a mixture of Tamiya X-series acrylics applied via airbrush for basic contouring, then I'll go back in with pastel to add warm tones and details.

Fun discovery: in an attempt to cover some accidental overspray, I tried spraying the Fusion directly into the paint cup of the airbrush and using it to "erase" back to the base color. I'm NEVER using this product straight from the can again, it goes on so smooth and gorgeous from the airbrush! No orange peel or bubbles to sand away. I'm seriously tempted to get a can of pink and try blushing with it.

((progress post 7)) Doing a faceup over a spray-painted substrate is HARD I want to CRY. I talked about sanding out the spray texture to get an untextured surface, right? Welp, didn't/couldn't sand well enough in the corners of the mouth and the folds of the eyelids, so it's crusty-looking with pastels over it and now there's nothing I can do about it that doesn't involve stripping down to resin and starting again.

((final post)) Sueded and strung!

I didn't take pictures of the sueding process because I was using Barge Cement and it is messy and time-sensitive. I used masking tape to make templates of her joints, transferred to some thin gray lamb suede I found on eBay, and glued it fuzzy side out. The suede was thicker than real pliver, more like the thickness of silicone KIPS discs, but I think it worked out without too many fit issues. The trim store had 3.5mm elastic in a beautiful slate-blue color that I thought would look nicer in the joint slots, so she's strung throughout with thicker elastic. Some more poses to show off the functional mods~ Suwariko joints let her sit crosslegged, and more mobile wrists let her put her hands into the pose.

A more ball-and-socked shaped contact surface at her waist lets her slouch at a full range of angles instead of being locked into two.

With longer upper arms, she can reach the ground in this pose! You can also see how the modded waist joint lets her cock her hips.

She could always stand with locked knees. I think she needs some wire in her legs to let the suwariko joints hold their rotation against gravity, but I'll see how the elastic tension settles in first.

A parting shot out the snowy window. We've been having a hard time picking between a few names for her, but I think this settles it. Welcome back, Fubuki~

[makeup-wonder-woman]

12 Days of Holidays Request Lists

Someone asked for all the request fics (and in my haste I might have missed someones, please let me know if that is the case!) Also, my math was a bit off- so we will have 25 fics out durning the last 12 days until christmas!

-The order of these fics will be published determined by random number generator by google.

Marvel (5,?)

Hi! I love your writing and saw you were taking requests, so I was wondering what you think about “Don’t open those till later!”, “You can wait another 24 hours to open presents.”, and "I hate waiting" with Thor? Like maybe trying to teach him about Christmas traditions? Thanks and have a good night! (Family!Thor)

If you're still needing Marvel requests how about "Come out in the snow with me!” and “You’re seriously like a man-child.” with Thor? Idk they feel like they fit him really well and I also love Thor so there's that lol (Romantic Thor)

I don't usually send in more than one request, but I noticed you are trying to get these closed so lol How about #46 (“You have flour on you face.”) and #45 (“Come on! Can I open just one?”) with Matt Murdock? If you don't feel comfortable writing for him, then Bucky Barnes would work as well, but I need some Mattie Christmas fluff in my life so I figured I would ask lol

Can there be a peter parker imagine please, where his grade has to do secret santa, and the person he’s getting a present for turns out to be the new sporty girl that recently joined the academic decathlon team, and who MJ apparently knows from outside of school? Can I have a peter Parker x fem reader where she is tony starks daughter and they get caught making out or something. Love the account!!!- added to- Can there be a peter parker imagine please, where his grade has to do secret santa, and the person he’s getting a present for turns out to be the new sporty girl that recently joined the academic decathlon team, and who MJ apparently knows from outside of school?

Star Wars (4)

For the Christmas prompts: #85 on list three ("let's get wasted and watch Christmas movies") for Rex and Fives from Clone Wars? Love your blog!! The boys interacting with a fem reader, please. ☺️ can they maybe be competing for her affections/showing off a bit 😉 thanks again! I'm so exited!

If you’re still looking for Star Wars you might could do Poe x Reader with something like a first Christmas for her since joining the rebellion after losing her parents in a first order attack? Something a little sad but also super fluffy and adorbs.

Hello I adore you Bars and Bet's little mini series thingy and I love you writing!!! Could I get numbers 126, 78, 129 and 111, with Rex pretty please! And thank you

Can I please request a young Luke skywalker x female reader where she is a pilot or something like that and harbors a crush but she get hurt and then fluff

Voltron (4,?)

Prompt: Can you please do a Pidge x female reader voltron fic with numbers 50 and 74? (List 3)

Can i have a voltron shiro x reader where the reader is hunk’s cousin who ended up going into space with them, and hunk sees their attraction and tries to get them to get together, the rest of team voltron helping as time goes on?

Can I have a voltron request please, with the reader having been with Matt when he and pidge reunited (they were partners on the mission), and when they go to meet up with the rest of team voltron lance is like holy shit she’s badass - and if they end up getting along or whatever is up to you! :)

14 and 1 with Keith for the 12 days of Christmas ? Where they land on a planet that is like a snow planet and the reader has never seen snow before ?? Super fluffy an maybe a snow fight and/or cuddles ?? I know it's kinda vague but that gives you more creative freedom (??)

DC (6)

Prompt: Will you do #4 #12 #21 with the batfam and superfam Referencing 4 12 21 Together list number two

Prompt: Umm can I request 18, 22 and (if I can) 57 with Richard Grayson x Villian!reader 😅

Can you do a fem green lantern x Barry Allen or Wally west please

Can I have prompt 14 from list 1 with older Damian Wayne

Would it be okay to request 14. “Is this the first time you’ve seen snow?” and 101. "You’re cute when you’re freezing.” with Jason? I'm kind of in love with fluffy White Christmas fics, despite the fact that I have never had a White Christmas in my whole life lol Thanks, doll ^.^

Please please pleaseee can you do a young justice imagine where the reader never really celebrated christmas when they were younger, or haven’t done so in a long time? So the team tries to make it a special time for the reader (if you want to pair the reader with anyone, I don’t really mind)

PJO (3)

Can u do a pjo request please, where percy is in his early 20’s, where he meets his newest sister (who is a poc) when she was on the run from a monster, and she’s confused when he says he’s her brother and kinda just goes “...but...you’re white??” Ending and percy’s reaction are up to you!! Thank you so much !! (and I just love this idea, ever since I read Hazel basically thinking it about nico when they 1st met. Tbh it’d be any poc’s first thought bc “do u really expect me to believe that bs?”

How about a Percy dating a daughter of Hephaestus please???

Can I get a Leo Valdez x reader where she is Jason’s sister and they were dating in secret for a while and the rest of the 7 find out

Leverage (3)

I'm still really pissed that they took Leverage off of Netflix, could you do me a solid and cheer me up with a reader who's been on the Leverage crew since the beginning w/Family!leverage-2 86. "It’s too cold to do anything!” 31. “You’re as red as Rudolph!”

Squuueeee, You write for Leverage!!! Awesome! I would love an Eliot X reader Fic that had to do with number 46. “You have flour on you face.”

eliot/alec/parker-4- 39. “Let’s see who can catch the most snowflakes with their tongue!”, 37. “Isn’t the snow just amazing?” 89. “Snow ball fight!!!”42. “You look cute when you’re cold.”

[papermoonloveslucy]

LUCY AND THE BOGIE AFFAIR

S2;E13 ~ December 15, 1969

Directed by Herbert Kenwith ~ Written by Pat McCormick and Jim McGinn

Synopsis

When Kim and Craig find a stray dog in the rain, they take it home and name it Bogie.  Next morning, it gives birth to a litter of puppies!  Just as they've managed to give away all the puppies to good homes, Harry hears that there's a reward and they have to retrieve them again!  

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harrison Otis Carter), Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Craig Carter)

Guest Cast

Lord Nelson (Bogie) makes his fourth appearance with Lucille Ball after playing Nelson, Mr. Mooney's dog in three episodes of “The Lucy Show.”  

Jack LaLanne (Himself) was a nationally known exercise guru who owned a chain of health clubs and hosted a long-running television show from 1952 to 1983.  

Happy (Himself) is Jack LaLanne's dog.  He appeared with LaLanne on many of his television shows.

Eugene Molnar (Jack's Cameraman) appeared on four episodes of the series. These are his only screen credits.

Sherry Alberoni (Candy) was a second-season replacement Mousketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” (1955).  She also dubbed Patty Duke's vocals in the film Valley of the Dolls (1967).  This is her only appearance with Lucille Ball. 

Steve March (Steve) is the son of Mel Torme and the adopted son of the Arnaz family's friend, Hal March. Mel Torme appeared several times on “The Lucy Show.”  Hal March appeared on “I Love Lucy.”  Steve March will appear in one more episode starring Sammy Davis Jr. and will write a song for an episode starring Ann-Margret.  

Debbie Westcott (Debbie Westcott) was the daughter of Desilu Prop Master Kenneth Westcott.  This is her only screen credit.

Irwin Charone (Mr. Farnsworth) made five appearances on “The Lucy Show.” The expressive character actor also did an equal number of “Here’s Lucy” episodes. He died in January 2016 in Maplewood, New Jersey, at the age of 93.

This is the first of 14 episodes directed by Herbert Kenwith. Born in New Jersey, Kenwith started out as an actor on Broadway, and then produced 65 productions at Princeton's McCarter Theatre. One of these starred a young Lucille Ball, in a show headed to Broadway but never made it due to the serious illness of its leading man. He died in 2008 at the age of 90.  

This is the first and only episode of the series written by comedian turned writer Pat McCormick. McCormick previously wrote “Lucy in London” in 1966.  This is the only episode written by Jim McGinn as well as his only collaboration with McCormick.  

Lucille Ball was a dog lover and owned many dogs during her life.  

Kim and Craig name the dog they find Bogie because it had the same sad look standing in the rain as Humphrey Bogart does at the end of 1942's Casablanca.

When Kim effusively hugs her mother when she comes home, Lucy reminds her she was “just at work, not walking on the moon!” The moon walk of John Glenn and Buzz Aldrin occurred on July 20, 1969 just after this episode went before the cameras.  

Coming home in a thunderstorm, Lucy unwittingly says “It's not a fit night out for man, nor beast!” not knowing the kids have hidden Bogie in the kitchen. Lucy initially attributes the quote to Shakespeare (wrong!) and then to W.C. Fields (right!). The line was spoken by Fields in the 1933 film The Fatal Glass of Beer.  The quote was also spoken by Gale Gordon in “Lucy and the Monsters” (TLS S3;E18). 

When Lucy sees Bogie in the kitchen, she jokes that he's a shaggy horse and calls him “Matt Dillon's last mount!” Matt Dillon was a character played by James Arness (above) on “Gunsmoke,” the long-running western that was “Here's Lucy's” lead-in on CBS.

After Lucy agrees to let Bogie stay, she says “If you want anything, just whistle” paraphrasing Lauren Bacall's famous line to Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not (1944).

The nine puppies go to:

Stevie – Craig's girl crazy classmate

Blanche – Lucy's lonely friend from New Orleans

Candy – Kim's friend looking for the latest trend

Pauline Lopus – Lucy's friend looking for a watchdog

Debbie Westcott – Craig's classmate who takes a puppy in exchange for going steady with Craig  

Natalie Schwartz (unseen) – a friend of Craig's

Freddy Dawson (unseen) – a friend of Kim's

Lucy tries to give one to Jack LaLanne but he ends up giving her one of his dog Happy's pups instead.  Including the one she was intending to give LaLanne, this still leaves one puppy unaccounted for by the script.

Lucy's telephone call with an unseen Blanche from New Orleans is likely a nod to Tennessee Williams' 1947 play and 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire, whose principal character Blanche Dubois lives in New Orleans.

To convince Candy that owning old English Sheepdog puppies is the newest fad, Kim crops photos of the pups with music celebrities Barbra Streisand and Herb Alpert and tapes the photos to the inside of her locker.  In 1969 singer Streisand won an Oscar for her performance in the film Funny Girl. Herb Albert was a trumpeter who performed with his group the Tijuana Brass.  In 1969 they released the album Warm.

Lucy's telephone call with the unseen Pauline Lopus is a tribute to her childhood friend Flo Pauline Lopus, whose name used on many Lucille Ball sitcoms.  

Harry has been diagnosed with an allergy to dog fur.  In “Lucy and Harry's Tonsils” (S2;E5) we learn that Harry is also allergic to flowers.  

Harry dictates a letter to Rylander, Mosier and Tebbit. These names are Gale Gordon's go-to addressees for dictation, having been used on both “Here's Lucy” and on “The Lucy Show.”  

Craig says he is now going steady with both Debbie Westcott and Natalie Schwartz. Kim has to go the prom and the spring formal with Freddy Dawson (who she calls “The Creature from the Black Lagoon”). Both Natalie and Freddy don't appear on camera. In real life, Natalie Schwartz was a wealthy friend of Lucille Ball's from Rancho Mirage.  Her husband Danny was the owner of Elmhurst Dairies in Queens, NY.  

Trying to get the reward for Bogie and the nine pups, Harry appoints himself banker of the group. This is ironic since Gale Gordon's previous character with Lucille Ball was banker Theodore J. Mooney.  

In the high school scenes, Craig wears his letter sweater with the large “A” on the chest. It was mentioned in “Lucy and Carol Burnett” (S1;E17, above) that Kim and Craig attend Angeles High School. In that episode, many of these sweaters were worn by the boys in the chorus of the musical fundraiser.  

Humphrey Bogart never appeared on screen with Lucille Ball. However, in “Ricky's Movie Offer” (ILL S4;E5) Desi Arnaz does an impression of Bogart.  

In “Lucy and the Andrews Sisters” (S2;E6) Lucy blows a kiss to a large poster of Bogart from the movie Casablanca. Coincidentally, a poster of W.C. Fields - who Lucy quotes in the episode - is hung next to Bogart!

Lucy's children bring home a dog against their mother's wishes, just like Little Ricky did in “Little Ricky Gets a Dog” (ILL S6;E14).  

The only other “Lucy” show to feature more dogs was “Lucy and Viv Learn Judo” (TLS S1;E22) in 1963.

Shut the Door!  When Harry comes in to share the news about the reward, he leaves the front door open – in a house with unleashed dogs!  

Where the Floor Ends!  In Jack LaLanne's studio and in the Carter home, the camera pulls back too far and reveals the cement stage floor.  This is a weekly occurrence.  

“Lucy and the Bogie Affair” rates 3 Paper Hearts out of 5 

This episode is for dog lovers!  The cute puppies and shaggy Bogie are the best parts.  There is some attempt at a funny montage of getting rid of the dogs to various owners, but it lacks comic rhythm.  Jack LaLanne was a better fitness coach than an actor!  Unusually, the comic finale of the episode happens off-screen!