Thanks to kochan I found that frickart claims the Sep 09 Tae and Dal releases – “on popular demand” – will be the second Kuroshitsuji set seen on a couple of doll shows. This would mean cross-dressing Ciel and tutor Sebastian, with eyes even more evil than before. I am happy to be cured for my Kuroshitsuji craze, there’s no way I would let that Tae inside my house..! *spooked out* The Dal is cute, but I am not convinced. Too heavily into BJDs right now, any new Pullip related purchases would have to be _must-haves_..!

Gah, I have just left the Kuroshitsuji LJ comm. I just couldn’t take the amazing ignorance shown by so many members anymore. “Wow, did you know that there was actually a man called Sebastien Michaelis? Who was into demons and such?” “Wow, how cool of Ciel to name him after that man!” Err.. I believe Ciel named Sebastian after his cat – however, the _manga-ka_ may have heard about the real Michaelis before… Ignorance, ignorance, ignorance – as was the case with some fans’ bright moment on the Jack the Ripper ark, previously blogged here.. Combine this stupidity with a constant wank over the anime from the “hardcore” fans – who all are reading the manga, mind you, and really detest the anime (mainly, from what I understand, because it’s got fillers, oh noes, and deviates from the manga storyline..!), and you’ve got a really weird (and immature!) fandom community. Says I.

Today, these two arrived!

My youngest, the 6 y/o, is the vinyl toy collector extraordinaire of the family, and promptly demanded to get all the Prop Plus Petit figurines – three Sebastians, three Ciels, a Grell, a William and a Lau..! We’ll see, I might get a full box, but chances are bigger I won’t. ;) Funny fact: my son is also named Sebastian, he became rather thoughtful when I told him that they share the name (right after I’d told him that butler Sebastian wasn’t really a human, hehe..).

For other Black Butler fans: there’s now a flickr group, created by yours truly! Please join Kuroshitsuji – Black Butler if you’ve got pictures of merchandise, or cosplay, or want to share your fan art. Original art and screen caps will be deleted!

The last couple of weeks have been extremely boring, I’ve been sick most of the time, with fever, body pain, coughing, airway infections – you name it. I have been home from work since last Monday, but tomorrow I will give it a try (even though I still have two days left of my sick permit and I actually spent all day today sleeping..). I’ve not even had much energy to be online, or spending time with the dollies – poor Arion probably dreamed of a warmer welcome (luckily the rest of the gang seem to be taking good care of him, in the absence of his “mom”). I have spent _some_ time with the dolls, though, for instance by swapping eyes on my custom Nomado head (it weighs a ton now, with all the blue tack holding her acrylic eyes in place.. will have to look into the working-acrylics-eyemech tutorial). She’s also been given a light faceup, but I discovered that it will have to be slightly exaggerated irl in order to look ok in photos – she looks like she doesn’t have any makeup on at all now.

I also need to look into acrylic paint and gloss, both for her sake and for my smallest bjd, which still is faceless…

So, over at kuroshitsuji there’s a huge wow!OMG! thing going on right now over an article someone dug out about some real life facts of the Jack The Ripper case. Am I the only one who actually google/read/research/investigate about any new fandoms I get into? And is the JtR case _really_ such an unknown thing among youth today? *feels old and actually quite baffled*