I think I forgot some people but this is a start...

Dollworld is a very odd place. On the one hand, you have dolls. There are so many different kinds and new ones being added every season (and season is a very open ended timeframe in this instance). You've got ebay for your older doll wants, and tumblr doesn't work quite as well for eliminating the doll world's need to converse with one another, so they continue to use message boards and possibly even mailing lists (I've heard rumors, anyway), not to mention good old LJ and maybe DW? Blogs abound and it's very good for those who like to have something to read AND have very pretty pictures every so often. Youtube has a million tutorials for the oddest things and if you want to lose hours of your life, look up myfroggystuff. (Seriously. You will both thank me and curse me for this, especially if you're a doll person or you've got a kid.)

But dollworld brings out the weirdest people sometimes. I'm aware that all fandoms think this, and that people outside of the fandom think this even louder. But you lurk inside a fandom long enough and some people are bound to drive you batshit.


I think the weirdest thing for me, in general, is how quickly doll people turn on one another. Is it a byproduct of how the rest of the world seems to look at doll collectors as "off", so the moment someone steps out of line in any way, the crazy comes screaming out of other people? And, if so, how is it that this doesn't also work on things that are really flippin' scary to have lurking in fandom? How do I activate the "OUT OF MY FANDOM NOW" button? Is there a batsignal of some sort? How do you trip the spidey sense?


( The names have not been changed because for all I said fandom uses LJ, I'm not all that sure that they see mine. )