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[phosfate]

Somebody on eBay is offering tiny handmade fairy dolls...each looking trapped and miserable at the bottom of a mason jar.

Equally repulsive are the ultra-realistic Sculpey premature babies. I would like to buy a half-dozen, attach them to a board with large pins, and put them in a glass case in the living room.

Comments

[thornsilver]

Links?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

There were more earlier this week, but this is the only jar thing I can find right now:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48920&item=4167003829&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Go to the category: Dolls & Bears > Dolls > Artist Offerings > OOAK and browse, and you'll see any number of horrific babies in the thumbnails.

[thornsilver]

Cool. But what is OOAK, do you know?

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

I think it's "One Of A Kind."

Just like that, inappropriate capitalization and all.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Every time I see that description (OOAK), I immediately think first of the orangutan librarian in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. "Ook, ook!"

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Oh *hell,* you ruined my theory. ~points down to other comment~

I shall now pout and be needy until you tell me pleasant stories.

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Wait, do you mean the dolls are hand made, or that they're fairy-handmaids? ~is confused~

Also: I'd ask for linkage, but I sense that secretly you are *bidding* on the sculpey preemies and don't want any competition. ~pokes you~

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Aw, fuck. *edits post*

[crickets-lj.livejournal.com]

They look like dead fetal fairies. Disturbing.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

*snort* I liked the "wings are not removable" part -- like the prospective bidder might be contemplating worse torture than fairy imprisonment.

I thought the sculpture was quite nice, however, if the concept was a little creepy. (Better, possibly, though, than those "pressed fairy" spoofs of Victoriana and the Faeries book.)