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So there I was with Luci in my lap sitting in a gay attorney's huge apartment surrounded by other people ranging from teenagers to old married couples with dolls in their own laps and I start thinking "...dolls, what have you done to me?!"
Because you all really have no idea how strange the ABJD thing still is for me. I was never really into dolls. I mean I had two American Girl dolls and I did play with them a lot but that was when I was a kid and it never went on from there. And to me I always thought of doll people as those older scary women who just collect dolls to have them on a shelf. While with ABJDs, we actively play with them. And it really changes your life a little when you get into them. At least it has for me since I was just never the type of person to play with a doll like this before. XP
Going to doll meets always have that kinda weird feeling to me. I mean, its comforting and I like it. But its also odd when you're around a whole bunch of new people seeing them do the same things. Especially with this meet up I went to considering we had 4 male doll owners (woah!) and it looked like we finally scared away all the kiddies so it was just the more mature owners.
But yes, the meet-up was amazing. Started the day by going on metro and once again we managed to schedule a meet the same day as a Nationals game. x_x;; So baseball fans everywhere! Gah! Luckily when I switched lines, they were going the opposite side so I got to stand on the side with lesser people. And then David showed up out of nowhere and I rode the rest of the way there with him, which was good because neither of us had been there before so I had someone to potentially get lost with. I felt a bit more comforted to have another person with me but then I realized "wait, here we are, a weak little lesbian and a femme little gay asian boy...entering one of the bad towns of DC...yeah..." XP But it was a quick walk from the metro and Dizzi stood outside the door to wave at us when we called her. So we go in and WOAH! I was not expecting such a nice place in such a crappy neighborhood. It was AMAZING! Biggest apartment I have ever been in. And omg his room and bathroom! Holy crap. Too bad there's no door on the bathroom so we had a rule of closing his bedroom doors as a sign we were using it. XP But it was freaking nice!
On the way back, we all migrated as one big group back to metro so that made me feel a bit more safe and one of the ladies was going to my station so rode back with her which was nice. I really do love the DC group of doll people. A lot of them own dolls I'm not interested in or downright dislike but the people are so nice! It is a little weird being the only one that likes certain companies as they are mostly Volks fans but that's ok, I often feel like I'm representing DOD there or something. XP
So yeah, sorry I usually don't write about doll related things in here but had to talk about that experience. XP Pictures will be uploaded onto![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fallen_arcadia shortly.
~Lyn
Because you all really have no idea how strange the ABJD thing still is for me. I was never really into dolls. I mean I had two American Girl dolls and I did play with them a lot but that was when I was a kid and it never went on from there. And to me I always thought of doll people as those older scary women who just collect dolls to have them on a shelf. While with ABJDs, we actively play with them. And it really changes your life a little when you get into them. At least it has for me since I was just never the type of person to play with a doll like this before. XP
Going to doll meets always have that kinda weird feeling to me. I mean, its comforting and I like it. But its also odd when you're around a whole bunch of new people seeing them do the same things. Especially with this meet up I went to considering we had 4 male doll owners (woah!) and it looked like we finally scared away all the kiddies so it was just the more mature owners.
But yes, the meet-up was amazing. Started the day by going on metro and once again we managed to schedule a meet the same day as a Nationals game. x_x;; So baseball fans everywhere! Gah! Luckily when I switched lines, they were going the opposite side so I got to stand on the side with lesser people. And then David showed up out of nowhere and I rode the rest of the way there with him, which was good because neither of us had been there before so I had someone to potentially get lost with. I felt a bit more comforted to have another person with me but then I realized "wait, here we are, a weak little lesbian and a femme little gay asian boy...entering one of the bad towns of DC...yeah..." XP But it was a quick walk from the metro and Dizzi stood outside the door to wave at us when we called her. So we go in and WOAH! I was not expecting such a nice place in such a crappy neighborhood. It was AMAZING! Biggest apartment I have ever been in. And omg his room and bathroom! Holy crap. Too bad there's no door on the bathroom so we had a rule of closing his bedroom doors as a sign we were using it. XP But it was freaking nice!
On the way back, we all migrated as one big group back to metro so that made me feel a bit more safe and one of the ladies was going to my station so rode back with her which was nice. I really do love the DC group of doll people. A lot of them own dolls I'm not interested in or downright dislike but the people are so nice! It is a little weird being the only one that likes certain companies as they are mostly Volks fans but that's ok, I often feel like I'm representing DOD there or something. XP
So yeah, sorry I usually don't write about doll related things in here but had to talk about that experience. XP Pictures will be uploaded onto
fallen_arcadia shortly.~Lyn
