An Uncomfortable Living Dead Dolls Discussion, Part 1

This blog project is going to be tricky. I will attempt to navigate the social issues as best I can. 

Content warning for scary horror imagery, and discussions and imagery relating to fatphobia, suicide, and true-crime misogynist brutality.

Not everything decays equally well.

MARATHON/MEGA-ROUNDUP Recut Compilation: The Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Project

This is just my previous seven S23 posts all edited together into one long saga with tweaks in prose for flow, and some changes influenced by hindsight coming in. This cut of the project, as a linear marathon, will not be the journey through months of discoveries that the original posts were, so part of this is written with a retrospective lens, as if I had written these reviews and published them all in one go rather than doing them gradually first. If you're curious, take a look at how that's shifted things, because I found it interesting to edit myself. But that's really all there is to this one, so feel no obligation to read again in this form. Just wanted to have the work available in one.

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 2

Time for another LDD roundup...at last! (These are never going to be finished as quickly as I want, are they?) Fortunately, at the start of May, I was finally able to order the last doll I needed to make this a proper roundup of three. I think three dolls (or to stretch things sometimes, three characters) will generally be the size I stick with for these roundup posts. 

This roundup will be long despite the pool being no larger than the group in my previous LDD roundup. Each of these dolls got me more involved and hands-on re: the creative side of things with extravagant photo staging requiring more elaborate props or extended diorama crafting setup, and I made a really outsized number of art pictures here (which I also think include some of my strongest). I think it was all worth it, though, and three is three. I wasn't publishing this at just two dolls. Let's begin!

Picking Bones, Part 1: Skelita's Debut, and Difficult Concerns

This post might be a bit grim. I'm bringing in a character I find very tricky to talk about, but I find it fascinating how complicated she is. She has a lot of good and bad that's worth discussing, but it gets dark on the bad side.

Back Into the Shadows: Twy, Twy Again!

 I'm back for more of this character. Shocker.