A cosplay compilation ✨️ this isn't everything that I've done over the last two years, just a few highlights! I'm still very much at the beginning of my cosplay journey, but I have big plans for the next year!
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If you don't know I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user, a cane and forearm crutch user. I am also a passionate cosplayer, the cosplayer ambassador for a 3rd printer, a panelist, and convention volunteer. But most of all I'm against abled bodied cosplayers buying mobility aids for cosplay.
Another wheelchair user I know ran into a cosplayer who bought a very nice used wheelchair just for a cosplay. One that someone like me could be using instead. I went to a con in my wheelchair a few months ago, and there was an able bodied cosplayer, using a wheelchair as a prop. It looked nothing like an actual usable chair. I was to say to say anything, but got asked throughout the day if my wheelchair was a prop.
Don't cosplay a disabled character, and buy mobility aids that people who need could use. It's not funny, it makes you look like an asshole. There's a lot of passionate disabled cosplayers who gev told they aren't in character due to their mobility aids.
Had a great time at Metrocon on Saturday, despite running on zero sleep. I had so much more planned for my “bone throne” for the last minute fem!Sukuna from JJK that I threw together as fast as possible, but sadly, like 70% of what I made didn’t even get implemented into this first run. Regardless that I was feeling bummed about having to settle for the very unfinished version of my initial vision, the response I got from others was frankly surprisingly positive. All day I had people complementing my costume & makeup, but I was also repeatedly *specifically* praised for incorporating my wheelchair as a throne for the “[Queen] of Curses”.
It’s Disability Pride Month, so I felt like it was the perfect time to FINALLY start incorporating my chair into my cosplays. I just wish I’d been able to actually complete the vision I had in mind. I *will* be finishing it up and breaking this costume out again (with my hubby joining me as my Itadori), with all the literal HUNDREDS of plastic bones I hand painted for this project included, which are still sitting in a pile of my craft mess as of right now 🫠
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Let’s bring back staves as mobility aids.
I’d been a cane user (mainly for chronic leg pain) with a certain need for more support and with shoulder issues. Ideally I’ve dreamt of a powerchair, but while I can’t have that I’d been planning to get forearm crutches.
Then I began making a staff for cosplay, and found out that it is actually much better for me than a cane.
I am still planning to try forearm crutches, but it’s in less priority for me now.
The staff both gives me more support than the cane and puts much less pressure on my shoulders.
I wish I could use it outside of home too. Perhaps I will once it’s fully done, of course ideally I should not care about people’s reactions to me carrying a bigger stick than is conventional but, yeah.
Characteristics:
My staff’s base is a metal pipe, wrapped in some kind of plastic, from a drape runner. It’s 25 mm in diameter and 180 cm in height. A cane tip is pushed into the bottom. (Later it will be decorated: a foam clay dragon claw at the top holding a ball with an LED light, and painted)
I am 155 cm tall. I am most comfortable holding it on the height around the shoulder level. Sometimes I hold it with both hands. I am uncomfortable holding it at around waist level.
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Let’s bring back staves as mobility aids.
I’d been a cane user (mainly for chronic leg pain) with a certain need for more support and with shoulder issues. Ideally I’ve dreamt of a powerchair, but while I can’t have that I’d been planning to get forearm crutches.
Then I began making a staff for cosplay, and found out that it is actually much better for me than a cane.
I am still planning to try forearm crutches, but it’s in less priority for me now.
The staff both gives me more support than the cane and puts *much* less pressure on my shoulders.
I wish I could use it outside of home too. Perhaps I will once it’s fully done, of course ideally I should not care about people’s reactions to me carrying a bigger stick than is conventional but, yeah.
Characteristics:
My staff’s base is a metal pipe from a drape runner, wrapped in some kind of plastic. It’s 25 mm in diameter and 180 cm in height. A cane tip is pushed into the bottom. (Later it will be decorated: a foam clay dragon claw at the top holding a ball with an LED light, and painted)
I am 155 cm tall. I am most comfortable holding it on the height around the shoulder level. Sometimes I hold it with both hands. I am uncomfortable holding it at around waist level.
I truly believe this topic needs to be talked about (the well-being and respect of wheelchair users and other disabled people)
I have had enough how some treat me and other disabled people who use some form of aid may it be a wheelchair, a walker or a service animal etc etc.
We are people too and we also want to be treated with respect and care.
I truly wish I could do something more for those who feel they are treated like trash 🗑 cus that's how I often feel at cons.
I added the text of my post of the usagi yojimbo Facebook group in the photos since that text won't fot in here.
I truly hope that one day things in prove, I would also love to talk to you and have fun conversations with you.
Same goes for photos I would love to.
But what I see all the time is photographer looks at me and quickly walks off.
Or that people only talk to my friends but never a word to me even when it is about me..
Incase you are just worried that I don't want contact etc, don't worry I would always love to same goes for questions 💖 😊
Remember you are loved, you are a beautiful person 💜
Cosplay: Tomoe Ame from Usagi Yojimbo
Cosplayer : Yvet Arlar, Me :)
Photographer: @dubbledutchdragon
I've been meaning to share some of the new cosplay photos I got this year at C2E2 so here's my Blake! I have more of Yang and Penny too and hopefully I'll get some of Nora and Neo next weekend at ACEN!
Photos taken by yoyo.cosplay on Instagram.
If you want to see more of my cosplay you can find me on TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter.
Here are some fantastic photos from the photoshoot my Christine and I had back in May. This trip has easily become one of the major highlights of my year, nay, my life. It truly was a wonderful experience, and Jasper tolerated my drunk ass while watching Les Miserables. Hope I didn’t come off as too annoying. 😅
After 5 days of struggling, I have finally figured out the fur I have Ears and a pair of Plantigrade legs for my Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cosplay
I still need to complete the foam structures that will go underneath the fur to give the round shape of the hips and then also the feet which will also be paws
I also got Mickeys ears started, as eventually I will do a cosplay for him.