Pride month!~

I don't have anything rainbow or pride related for my dolls (even though all four of my dolls are some shade of queer!).

BUT I went to my first ever pride on Friday! It also happened to be my town's first pride! I went to all sorts of shops downtown I'd never been to before, so it was a day of firsts. :P

I also got suckered in to volunteering at the booth for my college's LGBT Resource Center while I was there, but it was fine because the friend I was volunteering with brought his puppy (who napped on my lap for an hour, it was great).

 

I'm immensely proud of my college, it was chosen #1 most lgbt friendly college in my state and is in the top 100 for the country.
In addition to the RC there's a community floor called Spectrum, which provides a safe place for lgbt folks in the dorms (biggest draw is gender inclusive housing, so trans folks aren't forced to room with people of their birth gender), 3 different support groups, and several lgbt related student orgs.

I didn't know any of this when I chose to go there, they just gave me a really good scholarship, but I'm glad I'm there now!

 

My major encompass everything about theater that's not acting. So things like writing, costume/makeup design, scenic design, prop design, lighting and sound. I'm focusing mostly on costume/makeup, lighting, and sound.
Costuming is my ideal career path, but lighting/sound tech is much easier to get into, so it's a good backup plan.

 

Happy Pride month to you, too! In my country the pride will be in July though. I'm gray-a but I think aces are part of LGBT community as well. I'd just bought my first T-shirt

My own design

 

I don't know if I'll actually do anything for pride month, but I'm glad it's here. My partner is basically on the other side of the country right now, so that kind of sucks, but I try not to be too bitter about things. It's nice to meet some other LGBT+ people in the doll community, especially considering some of the not-so-great experiences I had when I was younger. Happy pride!

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Yeah... Plus I'm out in the field for a month, so we only really get to talk in the evenings. But it's only temporary, so that's good.

And man, the doll community used to be super weird for LGBT stuff. I don't like to go into much detail, but it was like...there were straight women with gay male characters who apprently disliked when actual LGBT males didn't fit their expectations of what a gay man should be like? It was really weird. But it seems a lot better these days, so that's good! (Just...FYI @ people in general, yaoi and a bunch of other dramatic media stuff is nothing like the lives of most gay men or any LGBT people. Don't let that stuff influence your idea of what actual LGBT people are like. We're just people, my dudes.) [/endrant]

(Also, that shirt is hilarious. )

 

@ultrapandachan this is a great tee-shirt! I like its humour I had to design my own bc you can't find any ace ones but with Rainbow flag here. Anyhow, I can't wait to wear it!

 

Yeah, like everyone can totally like what they want as long as it doesn't influence how they view the real world too much. And most people in the doll community (especially on DoA) are super cool these days. I haven't had any kind of weird prejudice trouble in years and years.

My partner is a couple hours behind me, but it's not so bad! We're both awake mostly at the same time, though I gave to wait a bit for them to wake up after I do.
Also, thanks so much! Ilya is my baby~ (And LGBT+, coincidentally. All my characters are, 'cause I like making characters I can kind of relate to, and there are enough straight characters out there. Ilya is ace, Aelic and Toshi are gay, and I'm super tempted to make them some stuff for pride month. Maybe if I have time~)

 

@ultrapandachan Yeah, those cupcakes looks so yummy! The T-shirt will arrive at Wednesday. You can make own one, too. You just need a T-shirt and some textile paint.

 

The shelling woes are so real... Every time I make a new character (which is basically all the time), I have to find a doll for it. My wishlist is so huge... I've recently been having a lot of trouble finding a sculpt for Toshi's boyfriend though. I'm sure something will pop up eventually.

And I love Yul! Mostly the romance version. The newest romance centaur was actually the sculpt that got me back into dolls after a several year hiatus, so I was super happy to find the Moonlit Song version on the MP. He's so perfect for Toshi, and Luts faceups are just fantastic.

 

I have some mixed feelings about Pride this year-- I was excited because last year, I'd moved from a town with... like, NOTHING, to a real city, but towards the end of the summer where I'd already missed everything. But... it turns out my new home city holds its Pride event in August, on a weekend where I'll be out at a convention. So it seems like I can't win.

I don't know if I'll be able to get a ride to go enjoy Pride at the next city over, but at least I can enjoy Pride month virtually, through everyone's online posts.

My favorite shirts I've seen... There was a set of tank tops, one of them was 'Asexual Pirates Aren't Interested in Your Booty' and the other was 'Pansexual Pirates Want All The Booty', and then my other favorite was a star striped with the ace flag that said SPACE ACE.

 

I like how South Park put basically that Yaoi is for girls by girls, my armchair studies in to gender for my real life work also say it's a phase many young women go through and get out of, like fan fiction.

I'm rather dark grey heading for black.


(face palm the chain is upside down) These are Chain Maile aluminum links from JoAnn and work for people and dolls.

 

Pride is in July here. I've been to Pride events in my old city several years running (even though I'm straight). Not sure if I'm going to take in any of the festivities here this year or not, but i will get to see stuff at least, as I work downtown.

 

No fun dolly stuff (yet), But I'm getting into the spirit with a few human bracelets

IMG_20170607_170340 by Allouetta, on Flickr

 

Oh, those bracelets are so cute!! I love the far left one. The flowers look like little succulents.

 

The socks!

Which reminds me I need to order some good Pride socks from Sock Dreams, even if I can't go to the local big event...

 

Jumping in with yet another of my stupid questions ... I really do live under a rock sometimes, what does the grey and black mean?

 

@Jany The purple-black-grey-white flag is for asexual pride. Asexuality - Wikipedia

Personally I am not interested in physical relations with other people and that has grown stronger as I have gotten older.

 

Oooooh I see! Thank you for educating me (What does each colour stand for, if you don't mind me asking?)

 

@Jany From Wikipedia- The black stripe represents asexuality, the grey stripe representing the grey-area between sexual and asexual, the white stripe sexuality, and the purple stripe community.

Purple is bisexuality in a different flag.

 

We had a massive Pride festival here just this past weekend; I need to learn to plan better so I can go to the actual festival next year. I'm part of an organization that walks in the parade, and because you're just so on the whole time you're in that parade, by the time I reach the end I'm exhausted, so my best laid plans of "go play in the park" always turn into "go get food and pass out" instead.

From the walking side of the parade, though, I really love seeing how so many different people can come together and celebrate community and inclusiveness like they do, and it's fantastic seeing how many people of all walks of life are there to support everyone else. (We were entry #111 this year, and we weren't the last entry by a long shot.) The people on the sidelines may get to see the whole parade, but I get to see the whole crowd (and even hug a few people!), and it's a beautiful thing.

As for the doll side, I do have a few gay, bi and ace dolls here. I'm straight, myself, but I do my best to be respectful with the characterizations of those dolls.

 

Thanks, guys! I think I can remember that *joins @DollyKim in the grey-bordering-on-black area*

 

@DollyKim @Jany Ah, me too! Growing up without having a word for it or knowing that it was a thing, like... I always assumed that NOBODY was really all that interested in sex, at least not as much as they claimed, but that maybe after you got married you would suddenly like it, and that other people my age just... liked to say they were interested in it to sound grown up. I do remember asking as a child if I had to be Catholic to become a nun, because as far as I could tell, nuns were the one group of adult women who did not have to have babies. And really, learning how babies happen only strengthened that determination, though thankfully I was told I did not have to be a nun to avoid having sex/children.


I wish I had been able to get Ace pride striped socks, especially since purple/black/silver-or-grey is one of my favorite color combinations anyway, but they were sold out, so I just have the Genderfluid-striped ones.

 

Purple and shades of black and grey striped sox seems like the sort of thing Hot Topic would carry. At least they're easy colors to come upon in stuff.

I knew early I wasn't going to have human children, fur babies and dolls are enough. There have been many factors in my life to reach my 10% grey. There's still a chance I'll cross paths with ____ and something could happen but generally it's not gonna.

 

I'm a little late to this party but happy pride!! I brought my MH to the march in Toronto, and decked her out in pride gear. :3

 

Thank you! I repainted a pair of... uh, I think they were whoever the venus fly trap girl is, from her cheerleader uniform.

 

Thank you! I got them from a mixed bag of toys at a thrift shop! If you have any second-hand stores near you, check them occasionally. You might find MH dolls still in their outfits and accessories that you can buy for cheap.

September eh? It would be fun to tour all the different prides. And for us queer folks, pride month is every month, year round lmao