#also have you seen the cosplay???

[twisted-tales-told]

Every time someone comments “isn’t Annabeth supposed to have blonde hair” the media literacy goddess claws out of the ground under your feet unhinges her jaw and chomps you right in half

[lovinglapislazuli]

To balance things out, we're back to happy Millie shenenigans! Since she is really good at sewing, I like to think she might be or will eventually get into cosplay🥰Priya and Millie are dressed as Cure Sky and Cure Prism because they remind me of them

[vero-valzer]

Warden Ingo from Pokémon Legends: Arceus at Sakura-Con 2024

@vero-valzer as Warden Ingo

@rekkazor.cos (Instagram) as Volo

@palmtop_kitty (Instagram) as Pearl Clan Leader Irida

[rocksanddeadflowers]

MORE MECHS COSPLAYS!!!!! I wanna see more people's mechs cosplays!!!! MORE COSPLAYS ON MY DASH!!!!!!

[a-flickering-soul]

How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Bones: The Harrow Cosplay

Or: I felt like doing a little writeup of the making of my Harrowhark Nonagesimus cosplay because I worked hard on it and this is also basically the first cosplay I actually completed. And I'm also just very proud of it.

I knew from the start I wanted the silhouette to essentially be a triangle, since I deeply believe that Harrow in full vestments is like a little walking cone. This is also deeply influenced by the many years I spent in church choir wearing those dinky little robes.

The first thing I figured out was the headpiece. I knew I wanted the hair to be covered (both in a religious way and also so I wouldn't have to wear a wig), but when it comes to hair coverings, there's a lot of ways it could go. I initially considered mantillas, to go with the whole Catholicism of it all, but unfortunately I was possessed with the spirit of half my ancestors and decided to drape a scarf like a dupatta (I considered making maang tikka to go with it, but had a hard time with the logistics of that). I found a drapy, thin black scarf at a thrift store and held onto it for a while. You can tell from the picture that it's pretty sheer and also a good length.

I szuszed it up by hand-stitching some white lace to it (since I'm very taken with the idea of the Ninth producing lace like all good nunneries did), as well as some seashell beads in a suitable bonelike color and these very cool tiny silver skull beads. These are only on the front of my scarf as a nice little decoration.

For the rest of the jewelry, Sculpey really came through. I used it to make some (outsized) teeth to create a rosary, along with some very cool volcanic rock beads. Individually knotting each bead and tooth was a huge time sink, but definitely worth it visually. Nine teeth for each of the houses.

I also made some bone bangles out of Sculpey (although this was towards the end of things when I was kind of losing steam).

My metamour @benthicbimbo was fucking amazing though and literally?? made thee most beautiful phalanges choker out of Sculpey and velvet ribbon and they're weathered and textured so beautifully and it's such a wonderful piece I genuinely wear it around places quite often.

And because they're incredible they also made these beautiful faux earrings for me that I tragically forgot to wear during Halloween but do look genuinely stunning!!! Like what!!!!!

For the big layers, I genuinely got the best luck at Goodwill in one fell swoop and I have no idea how I got this lucky. The dress is Shein (and once you touch it that fact is very obvious) and the overcoat is a CQ by CQ trench coat someone didn't want anymore (sans belt). These combined with the dupatta really solidified the silhouette and both the pattern of the dress and the brocade on the overcoat really were exactly what I was looking for and it was a sheer stroke of luck that I found both of them in one go.

And now, the big boy: the ribcage corset. I wrestled with this thing for what felt like ages and I'm decently pleased with it, but I definitely have plans for improvement. I started off with a wire frame just to see what kind of shape I wanted-- I took inspiration from the book cover, but slutted it up a little with the titty cups because I felt like having fun. This was made with floral wire and duct tape.

Once I had it to a point where it was reasonably symmetric and fit to my body, I added a very thin layer of quilt batting. The goal of this step was to add bulk without weight or necessarily a gajillion layers of plaster or paper mache. As a friend of mine described it, it looked like low-poly gore.

From here, I added two layers of paper mache since I really wanted it to be rigid-- I did not want this to flex with me as I moved or really flex at all. I wanted to really sell that this was made of bone.

It was at this point I realized I fucked up enormously because the bottom was very asymmetric and I never did a final fit to myself, but it turned out okay anyways, especially combined with the overcoat. I slapped a few layers of acrylic paint over it and used a black ribbon to just tie it around my back-- it was going to be covered by the overcoat anyways so I didn't think too hard about that part.

And that's pretty much it! The black leather gloves are my usual winter gear, and the shoes are my everyday officewear black heels. The face paint design was a mix of the book cover, some fanart I'd seen, and some mockups a friend of mine made for me.

Overall, I had a ton of fun putting together what I feel like is my first con-worthy cosplay, and it was a massive upgrade from last year's cosplay. I'm not 100% satisfied with the ribcage-- I believe I can do better-- but this method was pretty solid (I'd recommend overestimating spaces between ribs though when making the frame). The face paint also wasn't my best work-- thick cream paint is a huge bitch to work with and I didn't have any brushes, but it got the point across. Either way, this cosplay was enormously fun to put together, actually quite comfortable to wear and move around in, and very satisfying to look at. As a reward or perhaps punishment for reading this far, a mandatory couples' cosplay with my beloathed Gideon (my dear @laserlesbians). Happy belated boneday!

[stereotypical-jew]

okay. so. i did not vibe with the latest doctor who episode a lot? and idk why exactly. i did still enjoy it for the most part! do love that we're getting more explicit queer romance on the show, but idk it didn't feel...genuine? especially with the doctor saying that ruby's his best friend but then abandoning her to aliens for most of the episode. i'm like really feeling that the overarching plot must be about storytelling. like especially all the blatant references to bridgerton INCLUDING the bad guys and poker face covers. and the teaser line about it being the doctor's life they're playing out. i'm hoping that the arc is kind of about how something (pantheon character?) is kind of controlling the doctor/ruby's story to hit the beats it's supposed to bc its tv but is doing so in a non-organic way which is why the season feels so disjointed and very telling-not-showing. also the weird 6 month time jump between Space Babies and Boom. otherwise i'mgonna feel like it was just kind of poorly written. like! to be clear! i am still enjoying the show! but not as much as i have other seasons

[ectonurites]

It’s probably not the last time I saw you—because there was school, even though we were in different grades I’d still see you around—but it was the last time we actually hung out before you *left* school, before everything happened. It was the last time we were doing something with our friends and laughing and having fun, at Conbust 2014. In late March, so just a few weeks after your 15th birthday. You were dressed up like this, like David Bowie as Jareth The Goblin King in Labyrinth. When I picture you in my mind, happy and smiling the way I want to remember you, I often think of you in this wig and makeup, running around that building on the Smith College campus. I can’t believe it’s now been ten years, a whole decade, since you’ve been with us. So much in the world and all our lives has changed in that time, but we’ve never forgotten you. We miss you, Alaska

[silverselfshippingchaos]

hello gamers. check out some of the cool characters I met at a con!

[hannahhasafact]

Thinkin about cosplay tonight

Just thinking about how I’m constantly frustrated about how my cosplays come out and it’s not (necessarily) because I can’t sew. It’s because I constantly size up because I’m worried about making my cosplay too small and then I can’t fit in it

Like an example:

Here’s my princess peach jumpsuit from two years ago. For my first time making pants, I think I did a pretty good job. But even with the belt pulled super tight (which it is) you can tell it’s immensely baggy.

And here’s my Imelda from last year:

Doesn’t look too bad in this pic but here’s a pic from the con itself:

(Ignore that I had the sleeve pointed in the wrong direction WHOOPS) but like. This is absolutely not flattering. And it’s not the photographer’s fault, it’s because it’s not well fitted to my body.

And this isn’t me being weird because of my body. I’m not small, I’m pretty much the average for an American woman. Because I CAN look flattering in my own cosplay (in my own opinion):

Yes she’s a lil lumpy and bumpy even with the spanx but it’s a LOT more flattering. Because it actually fits my body????

I think for a lot of my life I’ve been so used to getting clothes that are big for me I’m always nervous to fit to my actual body because what if I get bigger??? And then I can’t wear it??? Which technically has happened for cosplays of mine. But like… a cosplay that doesn’t fit right isn’t going to make me feel good.

So I guess what I’m saying is next big cosplay I’m going to not worry as much about it being too tight???? I dunno. Cosplay is hard, sewing is hard, but I guess I can’t stop so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bonus cosplays/halloween costumes that I didn’t sew the garments but I added things to/etc:

[pardalidae]

asphalt princess & sex clown 🌸🌹

adam's suit 🌹: made by @az.dantesca (Instagram)

[xamaxenta]

Finished!! This was the best pic I got so far, hope this soothes the horrors :3

Holy shit you look so cool dude what the heck

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

you know, the job last year where i had 2 interviews and spoke with the like. CEO. And then they ghosted me? The interviews where I dressed professionally (partially because my family would murder me if I dressed casually for an interview) and the interviewers were wearing casual clothes.

I doubt this has anything to do with anything but it's amusing to me that the last question I was asked was about what languages I speak (partially brought up because of my linguistics minor, at least I think though I wouldn't be surprised if it was because of how I speak) and I was very excited and talked about how you know I grew up speaking Spanish alongside English, and I've picked up a bit of ASL and Korean, and I'm currently learning Arabic because I only knew enough to pray and I'd like to be somewhat fluent, and how I'm actually also trying to learn more Nahuatl because that's important to me.

And that interviewer said something generic like hm that's interesting, I only know English, anyways it was nice talking with you--

And then no one in that company ever spoke to me again.

[a-sweeter-solarsystem]

daily reminder that I block (and usually report) people who I think are bots so for those that are new here if you've recently interacted with me and later find you're blocked that's probably why

90% of the newer follows ive been getting im pretty sure are either bots or peeps who dont understand that making your blog look normal is suspicious as all hell

[pixelkip]

It is just past the middle of July and I am already trying to decide if I wanna go as a touhou or owl house character for halloween

The hyperfixations are fighting

[lionblaze03-2]

you SHOULD watch fight club movie of all time <333 tyler and narrator have a similar "mentor guy who helps main character for a while but then starts to get too malicious with it" thing going on like the squip and jeremy also thats so cool you got to go see it omgg ^__^

I will give it a watch sometime soon… just 4 u ✨

[mx-paint]

It does get really annoying when people misunderstand the message of a game and it's storyline but sometimes we have to also understand that sometimes it's the fault of how it's being told