#Cosplay Connection

[nyaa]

[John Fenerov@johnfenerov]

[gwenpools-aesthetic]

Hey you! Yes, you!

Would you like your creation on display in a museum?

Would you like to help a super awesome PhD candidate complete her dissertation?

Would you like a great excuse to further procrastinate that thing you've been procrastinating?

All of these and more are great reasons to participate in Affirmation/Transformation: Fandom Created, an exhibition at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art. (You do NOT need to be an artist, or even someone who creates art to participate!) Write a story, write a song, design a cosplay, create a fancy manicure, make a meme, make a stop-motion video, choreograph a dance, make a SuperWhoLock gif fic, or anything else your heart can dream up.

Your creation must follow only one rule: It must be inspired by a fusion of 1. any fandom of your choice, and 2. one of the featured Haggerty pieces (click the link to see them!)

Completed works are due July 1, 2024. The exhibition will run August 23rd-December 22nd, 2024, and will be available to view in person and online.

To see the Haggerty pieces, and to sign up to receive email reminders about the fan event, visit https://epublications.marquette.edu/fandom/Affirmationtransformation

[anzuhan]

[two-entire-bits]

Thinking about the casual genderqueer-ness in Rogue. Like, it's implied that Rogue is a humanoid alien (he refers to Ruby and Emily as humans, and cosplay as an "ancient earth tradition"), and if not, he's at least a human time traveler, it's never explicitly stated (the Doctor only introduces him as an "outer-space bounty hunter"). But either way, when the Doctor asks about the person he lost, he talks about said person without mentioning any gender until the end, when he says "and at the end of that day...I lost them" and it's such a small line but like. To know there's genderqueer people in either the future or other species that have at least some concept of a gender binary (or maybe they don't, but still) means SO MUCH. Like. Either we're still there, or we're not alone in the vastness of space.

Additionally, the Chuldur make a lot of casual references to shapeshifting to another gender. When the Duchess reveals who she is to Lord Barton, he says "I wanted to be her next". The Duchess goes on and on about how much she'd love to be the doctor, and when she goes 'I want to be the doctor. Who wants to fight for the other one" (Rogue), the Chuldur LARPing as Miss Talbot goes "me, me, me". Later when the Duchess is plotting she says "I can be king". And later, Miss Talbot also says 'I want to be [the Doctor], I want it, I want it!" AND at the end, the Duchess "give[s Emily her] full permission [to] become the Doctor". Obviously they couldn't have the character actually switch gender cos of the actors, but just to casually mention that gender fluidity, and that much is just. So important. Just to so blatantly confirm that aliens can and DO have different perceptions of sex and gender and that it's fluid is just. It's so comforting to see that so casually.

[squeakadeeks]

im going to be a micro ass

as much as i was frustrated with a number of roadblocks over the past few months like my sewing machine breaking and not being able to afford infinite fabric lol- i had to return to illustrative art and that was a really good thing for my psyche. i think i can say that im like...actually genuinely happy with my art now? i dont want to come off as egotistical but i've always struggled with feeling OK about my illustrative stuff. But after the past few crash course months of daily exercises it feels like everything finally clicked. i can draw easier, faster, and when its done its like "oh yeah. thats my guy. there he is fr."

[maskednerd]

Speaking of parallels...

[fodjet]

____________NOT TREE, A FOREST____________

[chloedoesart]

"Dr. Nickolas Juniper, but please, call me Nick."

With all of the Gravity Falls hype, I figured there would be no better time then the present to introduce my Ford Pines expy that I play in Toonkind D&D!

He is an Order of the Awakened Monk with strange hands (that have 5 fingers so that it's not a direct rip-off, I know I know, tragic) that seem to be made of toon ink, despite the rest of him being genetically Reelkind. He has claws can use to defend himself, as well as to write in his journal, since they're made of ink!

His journal often gives him hints about his current situation and seems to almost predict the future, although he isn't quite sure how. His life goal is to investigate the Toonkind race and the unique abilities they possess that make them unlike any other race in the world. Along the way, he finds himself drawn to odd creatures and anomalies at every turn. He has too many PhDs to count and I love him with my whole heart.

[asterparfait]

i love u yves

[awesome-opossum-after-hours]

"came just to judge me, is that it?"🍷🤨✨️

my Drunken Stolas cosplay from ConnectiCon Saturday! (the prop is a washed out and painted Italian dressing bottle... that in that picture contained mini ducks from all the Lucifers I saw)

[itscuntingseason]

i know that wotakoi is a slice of life/episodic-style story but goddd i would've killed for flashbacks/insight on narumi's teen years. what was she like when she first started hiding her otaku identity after her first heartbreak? what were her relationships like?? how did she connect with her boyfriends? what were her friendships like? did she not tell her friends about her hobbies bc she was afraid they'd judge her? or were they just not into it? it would give so much insight on why her relationship with hirotaka and her friendships with koyanagi and kabakura (especially koyanagi) matter so much to her. especially the heartbreak would, maybe, explain why narumi is so hesitant to admit her feelings for hirotaka.

[eman-cosplay]

ARE THERE ANY soul eater fans ?????

[coolyourdools]

pics from days 2 and 3 of ctcon!

my chell boots broke almost immediately 😭 but I was happy to run into another valve cosplayer with an awesome gordon freeman @cowboybarney

literally no one knew who Adina Astra was but I got asked about her anyway which is fun ^^ featuring me playing jubeat to show off the spikes on the back of the wig

[gardengnomehome]

On the topic of modern extension to the domains of gods, I think Dionysus should be considered the god of cosplay.

[preemptive-absoluution]

I think we need 1 out of pocket fictkin here

we got hivemind android shopkeeper, ghost chef/wizard, and the doomed gay one

i put before you. uh. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. homura

[imaloregremlin]

hey so we’re any of y’all walking around on commonwealth ave in Boston last night, October 26 2024, around like, 7:30 pm and dressed in ESMP PearlecentMoon cosplay? because I saw someone dressed like that and I need to meet them your costume was amazing