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kids these days with their favorite character as their lockscreens… when I was a youth you had to carefully arrange all your favorite anime pictures on a word document and print it out to carefully slip inside the plastic sleeve of your three ring binder

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Pocky?

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That earl, frustrated

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That earl, relaxing

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That earl, bitten

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Phantomhive

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Is there anyone else who’s in love with how Sebastian puts his hand around Ciel’s waist?

I mean, I just realized it with the latest official art but–

damn those–

possessive–

vibes!!!

Not to mention those other artwork where Sebastian’s got his hands around Ciel’s midriff–

What perfection.

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Fortunately, or rather unfortunately, you don’t see where Joker’s hand ended up.  I ship it now.

Ciel: Me

Joker: emmy_ichinose

Photo: mimi_imeji

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There be beasts here.

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This is so important. 

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Black Lily

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“Oh, you look lovely!”  Thank you for noticing, yes I do XD  But really though...could I have picked a better outfit?  Blue blue blue!

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It was a beautiful day, perfect for reading to a certain little black mage.

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I’m so happy with how my cosplay turned out!  Every tear of frustration was worth it, haha.

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FFIX Kupocon

Is anyone going to Mind the Pom dressed as someone from Final Fantasy IX?!?  I’m going as Dagger and it’d be nice to see my peeps!

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I love Final Fantasy IX, I really do—it’s probably my most favorite FF game, even though the graphics are nothing compared to the beauty of XIII, which I also really adored (the second and third part not so much…the time trials in XIII-2 made me want to rip my beautiful hair out, but I did love the ‘gotta catch them all’ pokemon theme….who finished ALL the side quests?  This gal) and sometimes I find myself with questions regarding the overall plot , but I’ll never forget how it mesmerized me the first time.  And after Squall and Cloud--bless their troubled souls--who didn’t find Zidane a breath of fresh tantalizing air?

But really, onto the reason I’m writing this and that is to flat-out complain about my cosplaying woe that is Dagger…or rather, her pendant.  I knew there would be some parts of her outfit that I couldn’t make, such as her blouse and jumper, but the rest were challenges I could tackle.  Yes, there are crystal pendants that one can buy, but I’m such a stickler for detail—and there are people who have done it before—so I said, let’s toss this paper clay into the online basket (was that perhaps my first mistake?)!  

I may be a perfectionist, but I’m also still rather new to this, and so sculpting took some time, and while it didn’t look exactly like Dagger’s, it looked close enough for my mind to be at peace.  But this hunk of gluey paper was useless unless I could make a cast of it and so I wavered between molding putty and latex milk; I ended up with the latter because it supposedly picked up fine details better.

Hindsight is 20/20 and now I know that I probably shouldn’t have done it, but at the time, it seemed really reasonable and plausible enough that it could work.  My original sculpture had two holes at the crown tip because I knew I would be attaching a chain through it—and I thought I would incorporate that into the mold so I wouldn’t have to find a way later to drill through hardened resin and somehow end up cracking the whole piece because you know…nightmares.  Of course I had a plan of filling the holes up, by inserting the tiny screwdriver I’d used to make the holes, wrapped in layers of cling wrap—because the resin would naturally have better things to do than tenaciously find a way to undermine my logical way of thinking.  Well, it didn’t, and besides the fact that I noticed there were a few areas that could’ve used a little more latex love, I noticed it looked suspiciously shiny near the holes.  See, I thought the rubber and thickly wedged cling wrap would be enough of a deterrent, but it wasn’t,  Panic was withheld with the comforting thought that the main job of resin was to harden…so, in half an hour it would have essentially plugged the hole itself.  Right?  Yah, no.

Unfortunately this morning, I woke up to find my mold in shallow pool of resin (sugar and more cling wrap as a mother mold anyone?).  My hopes were dashed, to say the least.  I shall graciously allow the process to continue, but I’m not optimistic of the outcome.  I still have the original (which I had sealed with acrylic paint because I read all over that you can do that, but was a pain because when I pulled the rubber off, it pulled the paint off too), which I have now coated in a varnish that will, with any luck, do better than the paint and not somehow mess with the latex…although this venture has already started off subpar because the brush I was using to coat with lost a bunch of little hairs that are now encased in the sealant.

Trying to be efficient was my downfall in this story.  But hey, no reason for tears just yet!  …Just a lot of grumbles and frowny faces.  Oh, and wasted money :,)

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Don’t matter if we’re at the club or the object of our discussion is chilling between us.  You gotta get all up in my space and be enunciating in my ear ‘cause I can’t lipread for shit.