#Nona cosplay

[ami-v-dragnire]

Nona cosplay photo dump from goldnova last weekend and forbidden eraser snacking whilst Cam isn't looking. I adore Nona so much ahhhhhhhhhhh ❤️✨ __ 📷: @ihavethewrongglass

[bloodbonesandmarrow]

Fanime day one

Nona and Pash- @bawdyknocker

[partychickencosplay]

Nona nona nona!!

[nonas1stbirthdayparty]

Nona Cosplay!!!!

I cosplayed Nona a few weeks ago and thought I'd share the pictures here too!!! I'm really happy with the cosplay (one of my new favorite cosplays) and I even got recognized!!! So happy I could cosplay a character with the same energy I have lol!!!

[atalanticbow]

Nona is loved :,(

(This was so on impulse)

[zeldamomoe]

Happy Solar Eclipse Day! We get to watch at work and I'm a bit excited. As a kid I was really into astronomy. Space fascinates me, but it was too much science and math to learn so I stuck with art instead 😂 📸 Pial Visions Photography, edits by me

[kitschycreates]

Clack.

[benegesseritofficial]

The effects of face paint on Harrowhark's psyche

I've now cosplayed Gideon Nav 3 times, with my wife along as Harrow every time. Naturally, this has included full face paint for both of us each time and I have some thoughts.

Let me start by asserting that everything Muir writes in TLT about the face paint is accurate. Rubbing off your lips first, smearing into gray where the black and white meet, the way sweat makes it ooze but not run. I can't say if Muir (a known Homestuck) ever cosplayed as a troll, but I'm positive she tested out the practicality of the skull face paint or otherwise has first hand experience with extensive use of grease paint. Also, the way she describes normal people flinching when they see you is spot on.

I've noticed while putting on the make up that once most of my skin is covered, any flesh tones sticking out start to become unsettling. Specifically, the red/pink of the inner mouth and around the eyes jump out upsettingly. Every time I've done skull paint I find myself meticulously trying to patch over these edges of skin, despite knowing that it's inside skin that Shouldn't Have Make Up On It. Once my face is monochrome, I don't want to be able to see a scrap of real human under there. Smiling, or otherwise opening your mouth wide enough to see the pink, looks UNSETTLING. My own skin causes the uncanny valley effect. You see where this is going. In NtN we learn Harrowhark disassociates often enough that Crux isn't surprised or concerned to see "Harrow" insisting she's someone else. Obviously this is due to her schizophrenia, and perhaps trauma besides. But it doesn't account for every aspect of why Harrow's "like that." On her most lucid days Harrow ignores her body to the point of sweating blood and passing out. She goes entire days without eating. She thinks of herself as a skeleton unfortunately covered in flesh. She sleeps in her paint.

All of which is heinous, but that last one has stuck with me. From age 13-18 I barely glanced down while I showered and whatever I saw I basically blocked out. I wore underwear and a bra under my pajamas to sleep every night. I was going through the wrong puberty, "my body was in open rebellion" as I liked to say at the time, and the only way to cope was to bind it down and pretend it wasn't happening. By Gideon's narration in HtN one gets the impression most nuns of the Ninth are putting their paint on after breakfast and taking it off when they get home. It's not even expected the average person wears it every time they leave the house. But Harrow regularly only takes her paint off in order to redo it. I suspect a combination of being the most brainwashed person in her own cult, knowing how she was conceived, and the regular disassociation make it very difficult for Harrow to conceptualize that she actually lives in a body. If she faced that fact head on she'd have to ask why it so often feels someone else is using her body. She'd have to cope with owning this body, being a part of this body, that was bought with the blood of 200 children who should have been her peers and friends. Instead she pretends it's an object on loan from them. And she does it with 10 layers of black petticoats and so much paint she never has to see her own skin.

Which brings me to the final thing I've noticed wearing full face paint. It dehumanizes you to yourself and everyone around you. I couldn't read my own expressions in a mirror. Even people who understood and were delighted with my cosplay were visibly nervous talking to me. You don't look like a person. Studies have shown that faces wearing heavy make up are ranked as harder to read and perceived as less empathetic. It's a particularly insidious trap of patriarchy that many women find self esteem in wearing make up, while that very act makes everyone around them treat them more callously. And, worst of all, if you stop wearing it once you're used to it, your naked face is shocking. You look sick due to your colors being less bold and the normal small flaws of your face appear unbearably ugly. With all this in mind, Harrow has trapped herself in a feedback loop of not being able to witness her own face and becoming more and more disgusted with the flesh and person underneath whenever she has to glance at it.

[hareblog]

Indubitably, warden!

Myself as Cam, @cafffine as the fantastic Pal.

[poetryincostume]

The Saddest Girl In The World

Edwardian-ish ribbon corset with beading, 2023

Silk ribbon, cotton taffeta ribbon, Czech glass beads

[toughtinkcosplay]

the tiger. she destroyed her cage. yes. YES. the tiger is out.

finally edited a few more alecto pics from way back at metrocon 2023 (i'm about 6 months late oops). maybe now we'll get a cover reveal for alecto the ninth!

sword & photos by @shmaba, cosplay and editing by me.

[ami-v-dragnire]

shenanigans __ Gideon/Kiriona : @ihavethewrongglass

📷: @jragonova

[brookie9001]

Through sin and iniquity, Yes.

It's nearly been a year since I first got to experience the wonder that is the small, slightly rubbish covered, but amazing Dock Beach near the ExCel. @ghostcat-cosplays even braved the water in their Alecto cosplay and of course did some recreating of classical artwork!

[eyes-inthe-dark]

omj just saw a beloved mutual go through the end of nona and remembered i never posted my jod cosplay

here he is! the bastard! the necroslut prime! #1 best worst dad!!

tried my best to embody the awkward "I'm just a guy, haha, i'm so normal" energy

[books]

☠️ One flesh, one end, baby! ☠️

The Locked Tomb NYCC Cosplay 2023

We had the best time at NYCC this year, and the cosplay was truly effervescent (@torbooks we think you'll enjoy this one 🌝)!

With: @featherbreak, @eldritchw1tch, @incandescentorrery, @tenebrari, @tater-pudding, & @maxmaybemaxine. And shoutout to @chillyweirdoinacoffin who couldn't attend!

[notedchampagne]

@thatneoncrisis 's harrow cosplay 1 & 2 + my nona cosplay linked here