#and I am not going anywhere this time

[wishfulsketching]

life-sustaining zaundads. i feel alive. the world is beautiful. thank you for drawing them together ❤️

Toxic old man yaoi renaissance!!!

[xitsensunmoon]

My first ever comic con! And first cosplay too. Of course it's gonna be my boy :] Ramblings about the process are under the cut(Let me know if?? You would want me to elaborate with process images for any of the steps?)

The costume took me forever to make, as I've never done any machine sewing, sculpting, fabric dying or spray painting before but learning all of these was so fucking fun!! I never realised just how many different skills go into making a cosplay but it was so worth it!!!

Almost all of the clothes(except the hat) were purchased first as bases, but all of the detailing was added by me. All of the fabric used was originally just scraps that I was given for free so I needed to learn how to dye and dye all of the stars, they were originally white.

The sewing machine was its own beast that brought me tons of frustration from the lack of skill and knowledge (it was devastating to find out that 95% of fuck ups were my fault and not the machine's lmao). But as a result, a hat sewn from scratch, all of the fur trims, embroidery on the corset, stars and the collar(which is very hard to see on the pictures unfortunately) was all added manually. The stars and the stripes(on the back of the cape) were attached using heat-and-bond adhesive (I WISH I knew about such thing just when I started working on this. It would save me so much time and nerves.)

Then I found out about polymorph(mouldable plastic) and it has become the next thing I wanted to learn, to sculpt the claws and the fangs(yes, they're handmade jfksjs). The claws I then primed and painted in trillion coats because I wasn't satisfied with the colour of the spray paint. The fangs I moulded to my own teeth and then stained with tea to match the colour of my teeth :)c

As for makeup, I used Mehron Paradise water activated paints. At first I wanted to try to save money and bought myself Snazaroo instead, which unfortunately turned out to be a waste. Snazaroo didn't hold on my face for longer than 2 hours, cracking and peeling awfully. Mehron on the other hand survived 11 hours of me smiling, talking, emoting and such and didn't even crease at the smile lines(I'm actually shocked about that). It obviously works like any other makeup which means your skin texture and wrinkles won't go anywhere but Mehron's elasticity pleasantly surprised me. It did obviously smear from sweat and saliva(if you're eating and licking your lips) but if you don't touch the skin it just dries again, self setting. But if it's dry it's fully smear-proof. Highly recommend!

And last but not least, I've decided against painting my hands as it was very risky that I will stain everything I touch at the smallest hint of sweat. So instead I got myself gloves-tights(? Not sure how they're called but it's made from the same fabric as tights) and painted them with normal acrylic paint(did you know you could dye fabric with acrylic paint? I personally didn't), then heat set with an iron and voilà, they're reusable, my hands are not stained after an exhausting day and I don't stain everything I touch. It worked wonderfully which honestly was a surprise as I was really sceptical that acrylic paint will somehow stay in place.

I think this whole thing took me minimum of 6 months with big-big breaks for my school and life in general. But I'm really proud! This project taught me so many new skills and I couldn't have been happier about learning new knowledge, even if it sucked to fail in the meantime.

Everyone at the con was really nice and gave me a large confidence boost even tho it was my first time and I had no idea what I was doing. Taking photos with other people was really awkward/new for me as I hate cameras so I really had no idea how to pose/behave in front of one. But that's okay I think. This whole experience definitely made me want to do this again, so I think that will come with experience. Thank you for reading this far, hope you enjoyed this little summary :)

[suntails]

i want the vanrouges to go on a trip TOGETHER

[adhdandcomics]

i’m very sorry that society has made you feel this way about your fellow disabled people. i hope you can reflect on why you believe that other people with worse symptoms than you are bringing down this community and giving us a bad name.

(especially in the context of a vent post that is not indicative of whether or not we are “actually trying” in real life.)

i am also sorry that society makes you believe that in order for disabled people to be respected we have to consistently be working toward a nebulous goal of self improvement and overcoming of disability as to not be perceived as lazy and inconsiderate by the world.

i hope you can be kinder and more patient with yourself and your disability in the future, too.

[shinesurge]

this fuckin guy

[orb-the-watchman]

maybe I should continue BotSE cause I put my whole Orbass into this panel for nothing otherwise

[harpygon]

Charles‘ jealousy of Monty is so interesting, especially when viewed through a platonic lens. Charles love of Edwin isn‘t romantic, but they are very much each other‘s persons, their best friends, never to be separated. (I mean Charles literally gave up his afterlife for this friendship).

And seeing that someone enter or inch close to another important relationship (especially romantic relationships which are sadly commonly valued as more important) produces such a fear (whether sensible or not) that one is going to lose that person, that important relationship.

Obviously Charles would never have said anything, bc Edwin was happy and willing to try new things for Monty and interacts with things he thought to be humbug (astronomy) (Growth which normally Edwin also just experienced bc of or with Charles), but it must‘ve been so scary and his jealousy is sooo understandable.

[thefinalaeon]

Hey. So.

It's officially getting colder here. And we don't have heat.

I'm. Scared, to put it mildly. This isn't something I've ever dealt with before. We've been trying all year to find assistance in fixing/replacing our furnace, but have hit a wall every single time. We either make too much money collectively (our combined income this year barely hit 30k lol), or places like Habitat for Humanity are so flooded with applications that they've put a hold on services in our area.

So far we are living on heated blankets and space heaters. But we can't have a lot of these going at the same time, because our house is so small that we'd blow a breaker. Fortunately we have a gas oven, but I'm sure you can all figure out why that wouldn't be a good idea to rely on long-term.

We all have medical conditions that make cold weather especially difficult to deal with, and we're already struggling to make our professional and personal commitments. It snows pretty regularly in the winter here. One of our space heaters is going to be allotted to the basement just to keep the pipes from freezing. I genuinely don't know what we're going to do. We are in pure survival mode at this point.

We are looking at starting a gofundme, but in the meantime, if anyone is able to help at all, by donating a dollar or two or just sharing and giving any advice you might have on how we can stay warm, I would genuinely, wholeheartedly appreciate it.

I know there are so many more terrible things happening in the world right now. I know we are all struggling to get by. It truly isn't my nature or preference to ask for help of this scale, but we're out of options. We're looking at at least $5000 for a new furnace.

Please help and share if you can. I love you guys no matter what 💜

Venmo: @wanderingchocobo

Cashapp: $wanderingchocobo

[upsidedownsmore]

very dumb shirt idea drawn quick during prime time based on a joke they made lol

and it got shown same stream :)

[egberts]

"artists don't do that they do this so i can tell if this person is faking/bad/liar by simply looking at how they did this" oh really? did you talk to all artists? and they told you they do it that way?

[itspileofgoodthings]

I don’t even fully know why but “what do I do when I miss you so much?” / “Just wait, and pray desperately” was a knife to my heart in the best way.

[warpstarrie]

uh

[cidandy]

i fear the general public may not deserve her...but you get to see girl cider as a treat because i like her & i can't stop drawing her.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I've said this when Oscar replaced Daniel, when Franco replaced Logan, and when Liam replaced Daniel, and I'll say it again now that it's been officially announced that Liam has the red bull seat:

Drivers are not responsible for the shitty decisions of team principals and the actual decision makers behind the scenes. Don't like the decision? That is absolutely fine, but get mad at the people who actually made the decision. Leave the driver, who took a job, alone.

You'd swear Liam was a freaking cartoon villain right now. I'm pretty sure this who y'all are describing instead of him:

[meowdei]

I can’t believe he let other people breathe the same air as him what a slut

[lith-myathar]

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