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Hey guys! Wanted to let you know that we're moving over this next week, so I might be absent for a while. Sorry folks, but I will be starting up on cosplay again just after that! Look forward to pics of Harkonnen Mk II!

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Congraturasins on your face?

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Dude, if you didn't live so far away, we could change that lining in a day! UGH! Can't wait to see how it turns out!

Looks like 12 mk. II is commencing. If I can change the inside lining (it’s black), it would be perfect. Fits and looks like a dream… #TwelfthDoctorCosplay

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my favourite part of Odin Sphere was when Mercedes and Ingway met again and got married and lived happily ever after and nothing bad ever happened to them

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09/01/14

The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald (Part III)

The Doctor: me Clara Oswald: detailtoperfect Photos by roseclear and trulybliss

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all my old zelda otps are coming back to punch me in the face…„

in this case it is my wife and her husband

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yes the legend of zelda is a kid’s game

made just for children

not scary or frightening whatsoever

just a lighthearted kid’s game

rated E for everyone

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09/01/14

The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald (Part III)

The Doctor: me Clara Oswald: detailtoperfect Photos by roseclear and trulybliss

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Captain Marvel & Ms. Marvel cosplay & costuming round-up from DragonCon in Atlanta, including Kelly Sue DeConnick’s surprise visit to the Marvel Universe Costume Gathering! For even more, head over to our Marvel.com DragonCon Gallery here!

Photos by Judy Stephens, Nicole Ciaramella and Pat Loika

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"Tooling" Foam Accessories

Okay kiddos, enough of you asked, so here’s a tutorial. This is primarily for getting an engraved look on your props/accessories/etc, though I’m throwing in basic foam craft technique tips as well. 

Let’s use this bracer as an example:

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How to Make Mitered Corners with Bias Tape

AKA how to make bias tape go around corers without overlapping multiple pieces. I’ve seen other methods, but this is how I’ve always done it.

Tutorials for both inner and outer corners under the cut!

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These were made with mirror vinyl (bought from a Chinese seller) over craft foam held together with various glues.

This is the process / tutorial used.

Use the following chart when adhering materials so they stick well:

Vinyl front to vinyl front: Super Glue / Krazy Glue

Foam to vinyl front: Coat the foam in a very thin layer of hot glue, let it dry, then use Super Glue / Krazy Glue

Foam to vinyl backing: Contact Cement / Contact Spray

Foam to foam: Hot Glue (or your favorite method…this is my preferred)

Others have used contact cement to hold the foam to the vinyl backing but because contact cement smells like death to me, I prefer the contact spray adhesive instead.

Really love using this method as it’s fast, easy, and light. Luckily, my armor did not have any complex curves because if it did, I would have used Worbla instead.

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DNA evidence has uncovered the identity of Jack The Ripper, and it’s none of the romantic suspects – such as the Queen’s surgeon Sir William Gull, or artist Walter Sickert.

The most infamous serial killer in history has been identified as a relatively underwhelming Polish madman called Aaron Kosminski, who was committed to a mental asylum at the height of the Ripper hysteria.

Kosminski was actually a suspect at the time of the murders, even named by Chief Inspector Donald Swanson in notes the policemen made, but as the myth and legend of the murders grew over more than 125 years, so too did the list of more fanciful suspects.

The breakthrough came when a scientist, using cutting-edge technology, matched DNA evidence on a shawl found at one of the crime scenes with descendants of Kosminski.

Dr Jari Louhelainen, a Finnish expert in historic DNA, was brought in to study a shawl found with Catherine Eddowes, the second-last ‘confirmed’ victim of the Ripper, whose body was discovered in Mitre Square on September 30.

Aaron Kosminski was born in the Polish town of Kłodawa, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1865. He emigrated to England with his family in 1881, moving to Whitechapel.

He set himself up as a hairdresser but it is clear that he was suffering psychological problems, with latter-day case notes saying he had been ill from 1885.

The murders attributed to Jack The Ripper began in 1888. Anywhere between five and 11 murders of women in and around the Whitechapel area have been linked to the Ripper.

The five relatively undisputed murders – of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly – happened between August 31 and November 9 1888. The 126th anniversary of Chapman’s murder is on Monday (September 8).

The police file on the murders also point to the mutilation deaths of Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, the ‘Pinchin Street torso’ and Frances Coles – Coles being the last to die in February 1891.

In February 1891, Kosminski was forcibly put in Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and he remained in asylums until his death in 1919, aged 53.

While it can be argued that it is hardly conclusive evidence that Kosminski was the Ripper (the DNA of a Whitechapel resident on the belongings of a known Whitechapel prostitute merely proves Kosminski met Eddowes at some point), it does put Kosminski closer to a Ripper victim than any other suspect in the century-old case.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/07/identity-of-jack-the-ripper-finally-revealed-using-cutting-edge-technology-of-course-4859504/

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/jack-ripper-finally-been-revealed-4178080

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-09-07/has-jack-the-rippers-identity-finally-been-revealed/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746321/Jack-Ripper-unmasked-How-amateur-sleuth-used-DNA-breakthrough-identify-Britains-notorious-criminal-126-years-string-terrible-murders.html

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The Adventures of George Washington (Part 2) by LadyHistory [more] Previously: Part One

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Much fun was had! Can't wait to join you again!

09/01/14

The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald (Part II)

The Doctor: me Clara Oswald: detailtoperfect Photos by roseclear and trulybliss

Thank you to the Doctor Who tumblr for reblogging Part I!