#blaidd cosplay

[blake-nikos]

some raw shots of my eldenring blaidd cosplay  by steam kittens photography  at Adelaide supanova.   it was a fantastic weekend despite the crazy storm  and cooking my self under all that foam and fur

[xtwos]

Elden Ring cosplay photoshoot at Anime North 2024 (Sat. May 25, 2024)

[blaiddfailcam]

I still have no idea what the fuck is going on in this particular shot

[persephonaae]

Elden Ring hyperfixation got me in a chokehold today so I mocked up a little spoof of the Carian crest to turn it into a mock-logo for my partner to wear when they're my handler for my Ranni cosplay at a con XD (to really sell the concept they might wear ears and a badge that says "service animal: do not pet")

[theceolacanther]

Ranni IS canonically trans.

because if she is trans it reframes her entire character arc giving her so much more conviction and depth. my understanding of rannis arc is that shes a demigod, child of renalla who discards her great rune as well as her body and turns her back on the fingers to take control of her own destiny. this makes sense if she is a cis woman, who worships the cosmos instead of the erdtree and wants to usurp the throne and put her own ideologies into power.

HOWEVER if shes a trans woman who is actively working to dismantle the system that oppressed her and refused to let her express her true self, that makes a lot more sense narratively and makes her character arc a lot more satisfying imo. it also creates a parallel to (my understanding) of mohg and morgotts character arcs, about being outcasts and denied the light of the erdtree. however mohg and morgott were actively denied the light of the erdtree, but Ranni was told that she could have as long as she wasnt trans. so instead of hiding who she is, she discards her body and great rune divorcing herself from who she was and actively turning her back on the erdtree and marikas rule stating "i am a woman. i will always be a woman. and if you will deny me my birthrite because of that then i do not want it".

This also means that when ranni gives you the key to scale the tower of liurnia and collect her great rune it means SO much. she is trusting you with who she was, letting you take the power that she discarded and trusting you with the knowledge of who she is (im not saying that being trans is a terrible secret, or that people who are trans are cosplaying, just that after facing a life of discrimination of course she would want to keep the fact that shes trans close to her chest). when you find her body as well its a dried out corpse, the only defining feature is the dress that its wearing. the one thing that ranni left with that body is its feminity, refusing even after she discards it to let it be masculine or androgenous. she makes an active choice to keep her old body feminine even after she discards it.

you can also see her transness reflected directly in her dialogue aswell, as when you have the final conversation with her before the ending, where she is telling you what she wants this is what she says:

I take it thou'st noticed? I shouldn't be surprised. I thought I might expound a little further... Upon the order I envision.

Mine will be an order not of gold, but the stars and moon of the chill night. I would keep them far from the earth beneath our feet. As it is now, life, and souls, and order are bound tightly together, but I would have them at great remove.

And have the certainties of sight, emotion, faith, and touch... All become impossibilities. Which is why I would abandon this soil, with mine order. Wouldst thou come to me, even now, my one and only lord?

the line "life, souls and order are bound tightly together but i would have them at great remove" is saying that she wants to allow people the freedom to do what they want with their bodies. because under the reign marika the body is a gift given by the erdtree, so to change it would be heresy. and i wonder why she would want to unbind life, soul and order. the line "wouldst thou come to me, even now, my one and only lord?" is her asking if you accept her for who she is. shes laid her soul bare and shes asking to be accepted by you, and then you do!

ranni being a trans woman also greatly deepens her bond with iji and blaid. the two were gifted to her as consorts, made by the fingers. however when ranni wishes to turn her back on marikas order, on her great rune and on the fingers, blaidd and iji follow her. if she was cis, this would be sweet, like they love her so much that theyre willing to turn against their creators to follow her and try and help her instate her religion. however if shes trans this changes everything. theyre no longer following her because just because theyre loyal to her, they're also saying "i accept you". theyre seeing the injustices that shes facing, and theyre standing up for her. they see how shes been persecuted for being trans, and theyre saying this isnt right. they believe that it isnt right so strongly that they turn on the beings that created them! that wrote their personalities and constructed their bodies. thats how much they care for ranni. theyre willing to burn the world down because of how its treated their maiden, and i love that so much.

so like. ranni is trans. it deepens her convictions and relationships and also shows that marikas reign is one that has to change.

this post started because i was like "hehe ranni is trans because she discards her body and literally becomes a doll" and then i thought about it for 1 more second and was like. wait a sec. also im not super in the elden ring fandom so idk if this is like. common knowledge and im just late to the party

if a terf interacts with this post i will use their vertebrae to play air hockey 👍

[42wv]

Blaidd Cosplay project I worked on during May 2022

Elden Ring was the hype, I wanted to be a good turtle. I originally wanted to get this cosplay ready by Otakuthon 2022, but I never did finish it. I do want to finish this cosplay one day!

Now let ramble about my progress on it! :readmore:

When it comes to video game cosplay, I take the easier route and rip models from the game, then modify them for cosplay. I 3D modelled a few Kamen Rider suits before and all that was a pain in general. For my sanity's sake, I plan to model as little as possible for future cosplays.

Lucky, the in-game model was well made, so I didn't have to make a lot of modifications. I had to separate some pieces, subdivide and give it some volume.

The head was given a lot of holes, so it would be lighter to wear. I had to separate the teeth and the gums because I will paint them individually.

I let my 3D printer work. Meanwhile....

Eyeballs! Molded with moldable plastic pellets. The iris part of the eye hollows inwards for a bit of that 3D look. The whole thing then got covered in 2-part epoxy to fill the cavity and make the eye shiny.

There's usually a few steps involved when it comes to painting. That is priming and then taking your time to paint something with the medium of your choice. Well, I skipped all that and decided to draw on the eye with sharpie and markers. Results were... satisfactory enough.

Time to work on the gummy teethies! I've been saving up for years on an airbrush set and I got really excited to try them for the first time.

FDM 3D prints don't come out perfect usually, so I brushed some XTC-3D (fancier 2-part epoxy) on them, and let it cure first.

With a bit of filler primer and airbrushing magic...

Teeth! Dentists in the Lands Between will make a KILLING if they ever move there.

Pretty happy with the process! I didn't bother to shade the gums because we won't see a lot of that anyway.

Did I ever tell you sewing is my least favorite part of cosplay? My specialty is more on props and armor. This image should've been flipped upside-down!

I tried to sew gloves using a free-to-use pattern I found on the internet (forgot where I got them). First one was too tight, second on was better, but still feel weird to wear. I will get these right one day!!

I bought some FUR! I shopped for a WHOLE hour at the fabric store for the right faux fur, and none of them felt like a match to Blaidd's fur. His fur was darker (than the fur in the picture, left side), with a hint of blue.

I tried to dye the fur a little bit to darken it, but not too much because I didn't want the white part of the fur to turn too dark. I used a dye for synthetic fibers. Right side of the image the the fur after soaking in hot dye solution for a few minutes (still wet)

Results? I there was only a subtle difference between then non-dyed and dyed furs! I either didn't let it bathe in the solution long enough, or I did not put enough dye in the solution.

ANYWAY I decided to just used the furs as is and airbrush the details at the end.

Now for the cloak? I was planning on tying some crochet threads together, then separate the ends with a fur brush, resulting in some fluffy ends the add on to the cape.

However, after re-examining Blaidd's cloak, I'm considering on scrapping this process because I feel like there's better materials to give out the look I want.

After assembling the mouth parts/eyes/nose, adding the lips with black moldable plastic and adding the hinge (to make the mouth movable), it's off to furring the head!

With the help of masking tape and sharpie, I went to pattern the fur. I then cut the appropriate shapes to sew.

I knew I had to cut the fabrics a bit bigger to make things fit and all, so I did that. My mistake? I realized after finishing the snout part, that I've cut the shapes TOO BIG! It did not fit the print!

So that's another thing I have to redo. Sewing is my passion (sarcasm).

This concludes part 1 of my Blaidd cosplay journal. Will there be a part 2? I don't know. It started snowing a few days ago and Winter is generally not a good time for cosplay-making. I'll have to see about this when Spring/Summer comes!

[miv98]

Hunter Cosplaying Blaidd

Little experiment I did of my OC Hunter cosplaying as Blaidd form Elden Ring

[mercurialmalcontent]

Very quick Gpose before I have to run an errand -- cosplay of Blaidd the half-wolf from Elden Ring!

[cellarspider]

Whatcha reading? tagged by @brighteyedbadwolf​

Last Book:

Uhhh I read two concurrently

The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan (1999). Overall a decent book, but has some blind spots. It tries to provide a comprehensive history of human understanding of zero, including its use as a placeholder that makes it extremely useful for more complex calculations. It includes Babylonian use of zero, but fails to include then-current scholarship on Egyptian use of zero in accounting and architectural diagrams.

It provides decent explanations of most of its content... up until math from within the past two hundred years enters the picture. Then I think the author falls down a bit on reaching a lay audience, which it seems to have been geared towards. The last section of the book wanders off into the use of zero and nothing in literature and philosophy, which I feel falls into the trap of presenting the personally important as universally meaningful.

The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C. Baker (2001). I had somehow remained agnostic about Chomskyist linguistics up until reading this book. Halfway through, I wanted to fight Noam behind a Dennys.

I can and will rant about this book if anybody's interested. I have loud feelings about this book and its subject matter.

Last Song:

Two again:

Moonlight Blue by Miracle of Sound. For those who don't know what it's about, it feels like a song that would've gone over a fantastic, tragic AMV back when that was more of a thing. For those who know Elden Ring: It's Ranni and Blaidd. And it's really good.

Nikkal, by Heilung. It's their version of an excerpt from the oldest songs we know how to sing, an Ugaritic hymn to the titular goddess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs The tablet it was found on has some missing sections, but it includes musical notation that people have been able to reconstruct. It's 3400 years old. HOW HECKING COOL IS THAT.

Last Movie:

Prometheus, with a friend who knew that I had Loud Opinions about it.

In brief, the movie has beautiful cinematography and visual design, and I have a minor obsession with the Engineers from this movie. The pace of the movie's editing is ever so slightly off in a way that would help increase tension if the rest of the movie wasn't Prometheus.

For context: I have a background in history and archaeology, then switched to genetics. I have a hobbyist passion for linguistics.

This movie is specifically designed to drive me insane. Again, I can and will rant about this if anybody pokes me to do so.

Currently Working On:

A materials test for what's either going to be a cosplay or just a really weird artifact in my possession.

Tagging:

@zeekist​, @apocalypse-angel​, anybody else who wants to, I guess?? No pressure.

[jeza-red]

I posted 23,188 times in 2022

That's 1,993 more posts than 2021!

126 posts created (1%)

23,062 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@kyuuley

@daddymus-papatron

@herecomesnaya

@nonbinary-octopus

@septemberlikestea

I tagged 163 of my posts in 2022

#elden ring - 26 posts

#plants - 17 posts

#life woes - 14 posts

#bloodborne - 7 posts

#lol - 7 posts

#blaidd the half wolf - 5 posts

#xd - 5 posts

#houseplants - 5 posts

#hoya - 5 posts

#writing - 5 posts

Longest Tag: 110 characters

#every time i see a post like that it's almost 100% by a person who never experienced a minute in their lifexd

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

So, uh, meeting my boss’s wife got me thinking back to my old manager. Both found veganism like the light in the dark, religious-like. That got me thinking about the vocal vegans I came across in my life and there seems to be a common thread between them that always rubbed me wrong. 

The issue I have with some  militant vegans is that they rarely consider the environmental cost of a 100% plant-based diet. Very often, abstaining from eating meat/diary is understood as this amazing thing one can do for their environment and the planet in general, and some such.... because plants imported from halfway across the world can fill dietary holes left by animal-based protein and lack of variety it poses - avocado, bananas, chia and quinoa, citrus and so on. All easily available.

In general, being vegan is not in any way anymore environmentally friendly than not-being one (vegan leather, etc). A vegan milkshake form nestle is in no way 'friendlier' to the nature than the milkshake standing next to it. Same with vegan cheese. Vegan burgers. Nut milks. Every 'vegan' product pumped out by a company halfway-across the world.

It's a moral choice and should be recognised and respected as such. The only genuinely environmentally-friendly diet is local - and thus limited to seasonality of greens and fruit. It's a diet that usually contains meat by the sheer force of the lack of options.

And modern humans hate not having options. The ideal weekly menu serves something else every couple days at least. The ideal diet is ‘varied’ and ‘full’ and ‘providing all vitamins and micro-elements we need’ and that means all the vegetables and fruit all the time. We are convinced that we need everything and get used to having everything available at all times, fresh and clean and beautiful. It’s hard to give it up.   

59 notes - Posted March 18, 2022

#4

Why is the Rings of Power so uglyTT

Why is a show supposedly so expensive looking so drab?

Why are the elves looking like people I see at ASDA during my weekly shop?

They're doing their best, bless them, these poor actors, but they got no help from the makeup, costumes, scenography depts and even goddamn wig makersTT

I've seen better looking, more believable cosplays.

65 notes - Posted October 16, 2022

#3

Regardless of my gripes Elden Ring is still a super fun game.

However, nothing in it as of far.

Nothing.

Came even close to making the impression that fucker made on me in Bloodborne

FROMs monster design peaked with these absolutely horrifying assholes and nothing so far matched themxD

115 notes - Posted November 5, 2022

#2

I would actually ask everyone to reblog this one - it's about the danger of a popular Fractal Woodburning hack that can kill you before you hit the ground.

134 notes - Posted June 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Started feeling towards Ranni recently.

How lonely she is. How her family fell apart and now all she has is her scheming and 3 companions. Out of which she knows one has no loyalty. How she knows that her protector will stand against her and how inevitable it is - she knows the end of her plan will result in losing Blaidd, the one person left to her.

How both of her brothers and mother fell to madness and how her own mission sometimes seems just as mad. How she wants revenge on those responsible, but those turn out to be further from her grasp than Queen Marika.

How did she feel discovering that her family was destroyed as a collateral of someone else's bid for freedom? That all the misery that befell them turned out unimportant? That her father is the key to revenge - a puppet in the hands of Others.

What sort of anger carried her through the ages on her impossible mission?

185 notes - Posted October 6, 2022

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[blaiddfailcam]

I platinumed AC6 :')

[blake-nikos]

sorry to all my followers here on tumbler that like my cosplay stuff, ove really been neglecting this site for a while but,    this is what ive been working on for the past few months  blaidd from eldenring.    i the full build  up  on my  instagram   https://www.instagram.com/blakes.cosplay/

[st-rx]

Ayooo met fuckin Blaidd at the con today lessgo

[heartoferebor]

In case anybody was wondering where the fuck I disappeared to over the last two weeks and why I haven’t written any fic in a while: it’s cause i went into hardcore cosplay mode and made this:

I am at least a little back amongst the living now though, hooray!

[sunny-day-dream]

Conventions are creeping up on me again, so I’m making my furry husband from Elden Ring

He’s still a very big work in progress, but I’m so excited to try something like this! Next step is detailing the chest plate properly- smoothing everything out and adding in the finer details~

[colourofthekites]

blaidd... is dead... and I am so bloody depressed