Brown Manticore Cosplay

It would limit my access to tutorials and methods I've saved as well. I guess it may be time to screenshot everything lol.

Apologies for the journal of grouchiness today. Been on my mind for a while and I just need to -splat motion- this out.

But I also hate social media right now. I hate how slow it makes me feel, how unaccomplished. Maybe taking a year and just focusing on building without this frustration would help. Take pics on my own, or try to. Keep photographers in mind if possible.

Giving serious thought to taking a year off from social media. It would kinda break my heart because I love seeing my mutuals and their work. Some folks I would miss talking to, celebrating for, etc. Not having access to photographer and con updates would also be a little tough.

I find it hard to do shoots in general on our own because of where we live. You want some hills or scrub oak? Sure. You want literally anything else? Good luck, you must travel a minimum of 2-4 hours.

How do people do this part of the hobby lol.

I'm bummed out, had to cancel a shoot with the fall leaves in Portland.

Our area is just kinda... scrub trees? They don't really change color. So finding a place to shoot fall themes that's actually pretty is tough.

Yay. Just ribbon left now.

Weathering eva foam with oil paint to look like old paper

Weathering~

Almost done! Just page painting and weathering left.

Tomorrow there's a semi-local event and another on Sunday. I'm really excited to be in costume for two days lol.

At this point it's mostly funny. Stings for half a second followed immediately by "PFFFFT-"

Something something jealousy something something sad something something...

When someone says "why don't you show me your projects?!" and when you do they go, "oh... that's nice," in *that* specific tone of voice.

That is why lol.

It was so well done and so dang funny. Husbandit died once or twice because we were too busy giggling or listening to the song.

Everything dealing with Mr Door so far is funny anyway but this was just a treasure.

Alan Wake 2.

The musical scene.

That is all.

Satori from BOTW/TOTK

How would you tackle Satori's color changing markings? Especially if you planned to compete with the costume?

I had a plan but I'm curious.

#cosplayhelp #cosplay

The truth about cosplay is that sometimes it takes all day to -checks notes- design two pages for a spellbook.

#bncmismagius

I have seen this in folks of all ages. And their friends who also think winning is the only goal.

I agree that it feels very unnecessary to even have to cover it in such a basic way but unfortunately I think a lot of people lack that emotional intelligence and maturity and need it spelled out.

Ex. My mom watched me at a comp and actually recorded herself booing the guy who won Best in Show. Because she has that "winning is the goal" mentality. "You should have won! He sucked!" (He did not, his cosplay was beautiful and he had stage presence).

I no longer share recordings with her.

Unfortunately I think this has to do with cosplays rise in popularity, in all ages of newcomers. A lot of people coming in don't understand that we should do it for the love of sharing our work and making friends. A lot of folks are raised with the mentality that winning is the goal.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be better/back to a normal capacity. I understand the guilt and frustration, I feel that way about certain facets of my life where I feel I shouldn't. But it's okay to want more.

I'm very glad to hear how well your diagnosis is. And I hope that continues.

Those are the people I always suspect want something from you but they didn't get it, or their "real" friends weren't available. Either way they aren't worth it. My mother called them "fair-weather friends" and she wasn't wrong.

Sorry you're having to deal with that. Shit gets old quick.

LF cosplay photographers in California, Oregon and Washington as well as surrounding states.

Names, UN or links much appreciated!

Man I get why people are like “make your own independent website” but like, I want to socialize with other weirdo kinksters and connect over art. I want to talk to people. I like the “social” part of social media and I would rather not have every single option for that destroyed.

if anyone tells you youre too old for something theyre just boring and lack whimsy

FromSoft makes games I live in emotionally to a wild level lol. I love those worlds.

We played a ton of Nightreign this week. Trying to lore farm for everyone. We've been beating bosses easily lately.

I have a lot of feelings about the rememberances. I also have a lot of feelings about Revenant and her summons. Girl really named her summons Helen, Sebastian and Frederick.

Throwback to ECCC 2023 and my swooshy cloak.

Need to get Eileen out for a shoot! I want more Bloodborne pics so badly lol.

#cosplay #bloodborne #bmceileen

Lady death cosplay with giant scythe in cemetery

✨🖤Lady Death🖤✨
Getting new pics of this was so worth the effort! Huge thanks to Rob Somers for the shoot!!

I don’t think ppl understand the whole “who cares if nobody likes it! make content for yourself” is extremely dismissive
Bc we ARE making the content for ourselves but it feels /bad/ when people don’t engage or show interest. You can care about both at the same time

This was harder to film lol. Learning and playing.

Adding texture via rotary. Wanted this to go with my hat and give off uncanny vibes. Is it leather? Wood? Human flesh? Who knows!

Sorry I didn't respond to folks yesterday. I didn't have the bandwidth tbh. Sad that we all can end up in this headspace.

Guess my contribution to this is let the craft rest and go do something else. I cleaned the room and then rode horses for three hours instead, had a great time.