#Cobb vanth cosplay

[xxhypersomnia]

Motor-City Comic Con 2023

Detroit, MI

[twelvekillstripes]

09/30/2024

[elegantfeatherduster]

Where my DinCobbs at?

Mando is @viciousfrockery Cobb is @elegantfeatherduster Costumes by us Photo by Adoylible

[vvitchering]

Like, yeah, I did make a purple tiefling bard Tav. Who hasn’t. But I also made a slightly mad scientist wizard gnome Tav who very rarely has actual eyebrows because she keeps burning them off and I think that counts for something.

[mandoughryan]

💐 once you receive this lovely bouquet of flowers you have to mention five things you love, publicly, and send it to 10 of your favorite followers if you want. SPREAD POSITIVITY! ⛅️

OOOH thank you for this, @immarocketman 🥰 let's see...

cosplay. actually one of my goals for 2024 is to update my cobb vanth cosplay, including reworking some stuff and upgrading others. i'm very proud of my cosplay as it is (and i've never felt more gender) but i think i can still do better! also, my partner made me consider commissioning 3D-printed boba armor so we can be hella gay together at our next convention 👀

sewing. i'm self-taught and even though sewing can be nerve-wracking sometimes, i really enjoy it. i'd love to make my own clothes in the future!

art museums. they're one of my comfort places. i can spend hours getting lost into artworks, sketching, etc. and i'm super happy to actually be working in my favorite museum in paris 🥹

romantic poetry (more specifically the second generation of the english romantic movement). i made it my main subject of study in college - it may have not been useful in my after-uni life, but i'm still extremely passionate about it. john keats is my favorite poet btw!

linguistics. i studied (english) linguistics my entire uni course but really developed an interest for it during my last year, especially thanks to my terminology professor. i just find it fascinating the way languages and vocabulary evolve, which also makes me a big advocate for my own language (french) to be more non-gendered/inclusive.

[ilikethatwookie27]

Hello,

I’m Luke- I’m a Star Wars obsessive and Cobb Vanth cosplayer from the United Kingdom.

Before I started cosplaying my enjoyment of Star Wars was very solitary and private.

I started cosplaying in October 2021 and through going to cons I have been fortunate enough to make a plethora of incredible and creative friends who unashamedly love what they love in a way that I have adopted that has changed my life.

Now my partner and I are active members of the community and have met other fans from all across the world and shared our love for these silly goofy space wizard stories.

You can follow me on Instagram at…

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[oh-three]

I can honestly say I'm hyped for all of those. Even the cosplay- I can't wait to see how that turns out!

My current projects:

Cobb Vanth P3 Ch11

2. Guard Series Entry 11

Happy Fan-work Friday everyone! What's on your desk today?

Here's a glimpse at my current WIP's:

[xxlumos]

I like to imagine that they attach the beskar to their clothes with a double sided tape

[the-mandawhor1an]

Holy Crap

@zaddymandalorian Look at that, your arch nemesis 👀

Ah… we meet again 💜

[twelvekillstripes]

[elegantfeatherduster]

How about a little detail showcase of the Cobb Vanth build I did in august? 👁👁

[do-you-have-a-flag]

My mum gave me a little scarf thing and the moment I put it on and saw my reflection I was like O FUCK- ACCIDENTAL COBB VANTH CLOSET COSPLAY

[kaijuscientists]

Would you ever cosplay Cobb Vanth? 👀

I want to! I have... definitely purchased some fabric and some accessories.

[emberphantom]

okay wait no usually i hate being in cosplay build groups on FB bc they’re a little elitist and people just post annoying shit that has nothing to do with actually making the cosplay in question. but. 

the Cobb Vanth build group i’m in. there’s a few dudes that post that have an actual resemblance to Cobb/Timothly Olyphant and I’m like....SIR HELLO? 

[marcussour]

BTW, since it’s been already a week and since I guess it’s no longer a spoiler, I think it’s finally time to talk about Ahsoka and why her appearance in The Mandalorian was so disappointing.

First, a visual thing. This is how Ahsoka looks like in Star Wars Rebels (a show set 10 years before the events of The Mandalorian), where we last saw her:

And this is how she looks in The Mandalorian:

Even when taking into account the stylization that animation provides, the whole thing with her montrals (the togruta’s “horns”) is there to show the age and growth of the character. Ahsoka’s 41 y/o during The Mandalorian, which is older than what Shaak Ti was during Episode 3, and Shaak Ti looked like this:

Now, I understand that there’s a whole practicality reason behind the “shortening” of the montrals (apparently it had to do with confort and it’s appearance during action scenes), so you can kinda overlook it, but it still feels weird that Ahsoka in her early 40′s looked younger than when she was in her 30′s in Rebels.

Besides, if Disney has the money to digitally erase the “jeans dude” that they overlooked in the background of a scene 2 episodes ago, I’m pretty sure they could have fixed Ahsoka’s montrals during post-production so they looked better.

But beyond the whole appearance (which, like I said, can somewhat be overlooked), my biggest issues where related to the casting and characterization.

Starting by the casting, I know that Rosario Dawson was always the dreamed fan casting. Heck, it was even an option that I liked a couple of years ago, but all that changed the moment the transphobia allegations appeared and that many people kinda overlooked.

With independence of the rumors before this season regarding her apperance and casting, I was shocked to the mere idea that one of my favourite characters was going to be played by someone who had that cloud over them with allegations of physical and psychological violence related to transphobia.

Now, the fact that the person who made the allegations withdrew 18 of the 20 charges (without settlement), including all of those that are related to transphobic violence, changes the panorama somewhat, but the shroud of doubts will always remain (especially when we’re talking about accusations directed to a celebrity who happens to be dating an US senator) and that was always going to affect my reaction towards the episode.

Especially knowing that the social media vocal fan casting was the main reason why Dawson’s was given the role according to Dave Filoni. Because I guess people always assumed that Ashley Eckstein couldn’t play the character in live action, which I think is silly because look at this:

That’s Ashley cosplaying as Ahsoka and doing a magnificent job about it. If she could achieve this with only (expensive I asume) cosplay, imagine what LucasFilm could’ve done with the budget they have for the show. 

Especially because you not only prevent the issues regarding the casting, but also because Ashley’s already inside the mind of the character having played it for 12 years; and also because her voice for the character is really special.

Even if she was Anakin’s padawan, in a way she’s also like the daughter or little sister of Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme. She’s learned and absorbed things from the 3 of them and her voice, especially in Rebels, reflects that. There’s a calm born from experience, and a special type of solemnity and gravitas, and there’s this hint of pride and arrogance (like Maul’s told her during their fight during the siege of Mandalore in Clone Wars).

And, with exception of the scenes where Ahsoka was testing Grogu Baby Yoda and helping Din connect with him, I never felt that in any other part of the episode. And that’s something that goes hand in hand with the characterization problems.

Sure, the show gives you the idea that she’s been for quite some time trying to liberate Corvus, and you can understand that they did things the way they did during their introduction to awe the audience (especially the one that never saw the animated shows), but it’s hard to reconcile her introduction with the Ahsoka we knew beforehand.

In fact, to me the “real” Ahsoka doesn’t appear until the scene where Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth threatens her with the amount of innocent people she’s going to kill in case Ahsoka kept opposing her. Because that’s Ahsoka to me, the one that puts the safety and well being of others above her own all the time. The Ahsoka that, even when she was in dire danger during order 66, never stopped caring and thinking about the wellbeing of the clones that, beyond being her subordinates, she saw them as her brothers. That’s her character’s essence, and while we saw some of it, it just wasn’t enough.

The other big problem I think with her characterization is her refusal to train Baby Yoda considering his attachment towards Mando and how that can end badly, because she saw it first hand with regards to Anakin (yes, it was one heck of a scene I’ll admit, but in the great context it feels weird).

Obviously there’s a practic reason why they won’t do it (of course the show is not going to get rid of Baby Yoda), but it feels weird when Ahsoka is supposedly in the middle of the search for Ezra and Thrawn (I know that there’s been some talk or rumors of a retcon where the Rebels epilogue, that happened before the events of the Mandalorian, is supposedly going to be placed further down the line, in order to have a new show where Ahsoka and Sabine are looking for Ezra, but that hasn’t been confirmed). 

Yes, I know that it was part of Baby Yoda’s journey and whether he ends up on the light or dark side, but the whole talk about attachment feels like something the padawan Ahsoka from the first seasons of Clone Wars would say, not the Ahsoka that left the jedi order, that saw how the rest of the galaxy lived and thought of the jedi, and that knew that, despite Palpatine’s work, the jedi had a lot to blame regarding being architects of their own demise. There are plenty of similarities between Ahsoka’s and Luke’s thoughts in The Last Jedi, in regards of the jedi and the conceptual failures in their reasoning before order 66.

So to see Ahsoka in The Mandalorian being so “binary” in her way of thinking, so black and white, so “jedi”, felt like a regression of her character development. Of course, something could’ve happened to her after Ezra saved her through the World between Worlds, and then after the Rebels epilogue, but until we don’t know for sure, it felt like a step back for her growth, especially considering how many people where introduced to her through The Mandalorian, it’s kinda of a disservice to the character (here’s hoping that enough people check Clone Wars and Rebels to see the real character journey that she went through).

So, that’s it. I’ve been wanting to write this down for days. Because even though the episode was really good, there were enough reasons and things that made it impossible for me to enjoy it as much as I would’ve like in other circumstances. Yes, there were some things that I’ve been able to rationalize and understand after the episode aired, but I’m never getting my first impression back. 

Ahsoka is one of my favourite characters of everything (I’m pretty sure that, if it weren’t for the childhood nostalgia regarding having seen the OT when I was a child -and being obsessed with SW ever since- she would probably be above Luke in my list of favourite characters), and Clone Wars was a really important show for me (after Empire Strikes Back, is my favourite Star Wars anything).

And I can’t just conform or be happy with her appearance in this episode. The whole “just being there” is not enough, especially when you see how characters like Bo-Katan, Cobb Vanth or Boba Fett were all given their due and well portrayed in a great light, but you can’t say the same about a character that’s more important, and who sadly had this whole cloud surrounding it since the first casting rumours appeared.

Ahsoka is a character that represents the best of Star Wars, so it’s sad to see that her appearance and portrayal not only was dissapointing, but it ended up hurting so many people in the LGBTQA+ community, and especially in the trans community, many of whom are Star Wars fans that have the same passion and love for Ahsoka. And like I said the other day, the trans community concerns must be front and center and must be listened by everyone.

[twelvekillstripes]