Admin Post: Check-in #8!

[kate]

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Here we go!

✓Team Podfic: ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓mergatrude, ✓nagasvoice, ✓omens
✓Team Hyperborean: ✓amethystina, ✓cleo69, ✓jujitsuelf
✓Team Losers Tarot: ✓mific, ✓maharetr, ✓cleo69, ✓nagasvoice, ✓sperrywink
✓Team Lotsa Bunnies: ✓cleo69, ✓maharetr, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team Cosplay in Resin: ✓nagasvoice, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin
✓Team Sniperknife!: ✓lunesque, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lady_krysis, nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Gym Rat: ✓scheherezhad, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lunesque, ✓spurious_sanity, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team AU Movie: ✓charybdis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team FULL ADORABLE: ✓omens, ✓maharetr, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Push-Café: ✓spurious_sanity, ✓azurian_defiant, ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓nagasvoice

Comments

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[nagasvoice]

Interestingly enough, I don't find them creepy without the eyes--it just looks like shadowy or dark eyes at a quick glance, so their faces still look like human faces. (For some folks that level of realism is what puts them into the Uncanny Valley effect.) What I find tweaks my back-brain nastily is if the owner does have the eyes in, but they just don't look right. If the owner puts in the wrong kind of eyes, the wrong size, doesn't center the two together correctly, or just gets it all sloppy wrong, that will bug me. Also, many antique dolls and older baby dolls are... how to put this... crude to start with, and then battered pretty savagely to the point you wonder what on earth happened to the poor thing.
This is entirely aside from my discomfort with horror dolls deliberately made to look freakazoid, of which there are plenty among the teenage crowd, no huge surprise. I can admire a modification job very well-done, and still really dislike the *idea* they were trying to present. My humble opinion, for what it's worth, is that art that's deliberately ugly and disturbing is not automatically great art just because the image or the backstory will bug people.
It's possible that some folks don't like dolls as a class when they have never seen anything but the badly done and mindbogglingly *wrong* kinds.
It's also possible that most dolls just hit badly on where a person's preferences fall on the Uncanny Valley (for dolls, automata, robots, animations, masks, puppets, etc.) Some folks like more abstract humanoids and others prefer more realistic proportions, different apparent "ages," etc. Big anime eyes and tiny chins and beyond-Disney neoteny-proportions are a style some folks really like... it's really interesting to see the differences in what strikes doll collectors themselves as okay or what doesn't work for them.