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Apparently Rin sneaked in

Happy slightly belated birthday to these two

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some dumb social media complaints

and also why i need to use less social media and a complete contradiction to a draft i wrote about people getting too involved in social media so i know im not immune to social media propaganda

but this is my personal tumblr and its not associated with everything so i can complain all i want

currently in my local cosplay community, acquaintances of acquaintances of my friends are involved in a youtuber who made videos about some conventions.

the stuff the youtuber did was wrong, but some adjacent topics got brought up and THAT is the thing that is making rounds amongst my local community, more specifically amongst competitive cosplayers & judges. and there are 2 of the topics that i PARTIALLY disagree with.

crafting a cosplay to tell stories. yes costumes can tell stories! however the examples that EVERYONE is using is stuff like "i used real metal to make this accurate to the character! i used this historical method to be accurate & add extra deep meaning! i used expensive lace trim! i use this niche embroidery skill to add more super duper deep meaning!!!" Well not everyone has the skillset or the money to be able to do that! I actually have SEVERAL cosplays where the storytelling is vital to the design... however, i cant do it "accurately" or with the detail that these competitive cosplayers tout as the ideal standard, because I make do with what supplies i already have and with the low budget crafting tools/supplies i have. I have a couple characters that wear eye patches because of a curse or an injury. I have a couple characters with battle damage clothing. I have 1 historical fiction character whose entire costume has a lot of story. But my clothes aren't using period accurate patterns, embellishments, or trim, because I can't afford them. They just look close enough. By the way, that historically inaccurate cosplay, did technically win a judges choice award (although my award was for my prop, not the clothes).

Makeup as a requirement for cosplay contests. now in that very video, the youtuber emphasized that makeup CAN be an important part of cosplay, that makeup is a complicated skill, and that some types of makeup can be involved with craftmanship judging. In fact, said youtuber has also made several complex makeup tutorials that are vital to said character. And the nature of social media telephone game is wildly misconstruing this topic about cosplay and makeup. So i absolutely LOVE the idea of makeup and I wish i could do more often! Including prosthetics. I used to watch a lot of makeup tutorials and was always impressed. Makeup is a complex skill and that is why award ceremonies and film productions have completely separate categories for makeup. However, i have skin problems that make it difficult to wear makeup frequently, so I can't! Let me give another fun example. I have 2 characters I cosplay that have full arm tattoo sleeves and 1 of them also has neck tattoos as well as highly stylized makeup on other parts of their body. I personally already have real life arm and neck tattoos. And the tattoos & makeup are very important to both characters! However, i would not fault someone else for *not* wearing that makeup or *not* having those tattoos, because body paint can be very annoying! Nor should you spend thousands of dollars getting that characters' tattoos in real life. I just already happen to have my own tattoos.

Lastly, 1 other thing most of these people are missing is that in the very video and in previous videos and this livestream, this youtuber has said they are ok with rage bait and getting rage comments. They are also aware that they are burning bridges with the most recent video. So... you're kinda playing into EXACTLY what the youtuber wants??? So just don't give them anymore attention??? I'm annoyed that it has leaked into my personal circle. And I can't complain about it to my friends, because they're connected with these acquaintances.

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by the by, I was reminded this image existed, I'm sure I've been reminded a couple of times only to forget again :') but it's a huge reference to Blade's anatomy (or what past models looked like).

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okay-vine

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Happy Birthday Eiden!

Full rainbow under:

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Posting Eiden's birthday live in case it disappears after the event (?) Idk, I just wanna have it in an archive somewhere so I'm using my account as an archive haha

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*Ex: Developing a rape kink after experiencing sexual abuse.

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they end up at a carnival, somehow. blade wants to win dante cute prizes because he's cute, which ends with dante getting into a one-sided prize winning competition. he loses

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Not immune to pretty Eiden in a dress I’m afraid😩🩷

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rin can be yandere for two people, as a treat

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fairy boiz!!!!! these two will be individual charms I’ll have at flamecon in august!

come drop by to see the full rob00ty~

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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The urge to say, "oh, but it's easy!" is why IMO teachers below the college level shouldn't teach their best subject. Honestly, college teachers should ALSO be teaching some of their less-good subjects, the things they had to work to learn.

I'm very good at English, and that is why I shouldn't be an English teacher, especially at the level of teaching people to read but also just...in general. Because I learned to read before I have conscious memories. Because my family was reading Shakespeare out loud to me and taking me to performances before school thought it time to touch the stuff.

Which means I don't know how to struggle with these things. I don't know how to learn to read on purpose; I was read to every day of my little life, is how it happened for me. That's not a method you can duplicate in the classroom. It's, you know, great that it's obvious to me, but the whole point of teaching is to provide something to people for whom it is not obvious! I didn't need an English teacher - not that I never benefited from one (thank you Mrs. Hartmann for teaching us about subject/object pronouns and sentence diagrams), but that I would have reached a high level of literacy without one. So English teachers shouldn't be focused on students like me, should they?

My high school chemistry teacher was an excellent chemist, definitely overqualified for the job on paper. But my god she could not teach. If you couldn't understand from the book, or from the one way she was able to explain it, you were out of luck. Because it was easy.

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No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

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this happened. by the way