#but it was fun at least ^-^

[smoliboops]

Almost done catching up on nycc stuff, and so I'm sharing my 14th/15th doctor tardis console cosplay that I wore on Saturday!

Lots of fun to wear, had a lot of pics taken of me (which was so sweet/suprising especially since I went alone on Saturday and almost lost my sanity with making 2 cosplays for the con). Also Jodie!!! Absolutely lovely, pure sunshine who was so excited to sign my hat (she loved the details and said I should be proud which 😭😭😭!!)

First of, this was a lot to do xD. My original concept had a LOT more details I wanted to include that I sadly ran out of time (among them: adding tardis doors to the skirt, adding purple/pink/orange ruffle to the skirt to look like the time vortex from the s14 opening, adding a sutekh plush sticking out of my backpack, incorporating the jukebox in some way, and SO CLOSE TO ADDING LEDS TO THE VEST I MADE SO THAT IT COULD GLOW LIKE THE CONSOLE ROOM WALLS BUT I COULDNT FIX THEM IN TIME 😭) so with all that being said, the reactions to the outfit really cheered me up! 💙 and maybe next time I'll be able to make a 2.0 version of this lol.

Other note, this was made on and off over a few weeks. Skirt from thinkgeek that I got for 5 bucks at a yard sale and that inspired all of this (as well as the mushroom hat cottagecore outfits from tiktok, binging Sarah Spaceman's cosplay videos especially her TLOU cottagecore video and the tardis console dress from @gallifrey208 from 2013).

I sewed the vest with a pattern from KatieSewss on etsy (it's reversible and the inside is a cute pastel space fabric i got at another yard sale for a dollar). Blouse from thiftstore. And hat:

- made from a free hat (yard sale), thick cardboard for structure, covered in 2mm eva foam, primed with plastidip, painted with acrylics (it now glows in the dark too lol). Worked like this: one layer of cardboard, hat brim, another layer of cardboard to sandwich the brim later on the bottom, and the cardboard structures constructed on the top cardboard layer.

- Time rotor/tube made from a translucent binder divider (i spray painted it with clear spray paint to make it more clear), round blue things made with a blue binder divider, the little support beam? things for the round things are zip ties (i cut little slots in each blue thing for each zip tie to pass thru), and a paper straw with mini leds stuffed in the middle

- control panels made out of thinner cardboard (empty tissue box and fig bar box), and buttons/coffee machine/other details made from foam clay, more foam, dollar tree glass squares and pearl beads, and googly eyes 👀. Also added strips of black fabric (yard sale) to quickly cover the inside (floor?) of the panels/hat and filled empty space with copper/gold jewelry wire (more yard sales!)

- also, I did not want this falling apart on me, so the felt part of the hat was glued to the cardboard with tacky glue and I think gorilla wood glue, cardboard to cardboard was with wood glue and hot glue, and foam to foam to cardboard was contact cement, wood glue, and hot glue! So many glues!

If you got this far, here's the few wip bits I got before giving up on recording everything including a clip of me losing my sanity /j (a clip for if I ever do a tutorial vid but I don't think I'll ever get around to that aha 😅)

More rambles on the details/how i made it in the read more ^-^

[astriiformes]

Really says something about the dire state of offerings for men interested in sewing their own clothes that even searching things like "interesting men's clothing patterns" brings up articles with links to four or five whole websites that primarily offer admittedly nice but practically identical patterns for making button-ups and work pants and maybe a varsity/bomber jacket if you're lucky.

(Branching out into historical costuming for everyday wear is like your one shot at variation, and even then, the ratio of men's to women's patterns on every website is frustrating to say the least.)

Patternmakers as a trans man I am begging you. Give me a little more to work with here.

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[paintedcrows]

The Mystery Twins all grown up!! I love them so much. 13 forever, yet always older than me

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Over a 100???? It was just the guy in the photo a couple days ago djsjdjks

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Quite possibly the funniest shit I have ever seen in my life

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[phaoi]

PHUMPKIN ALERT!! 🎃💀🌈

[geezmarty]

anyway I started playing aai

[artist-rat]

fine dining at the blushing mermaid. with the boogieboys

[joshuamj]

Okay, but what if EoW!Zelda had to impersonate Link

[arielluva]

midsummer’s night dream redraw/study/whatever but its utenanthy

original reference under cut

[egophiliac]

(looks at upcoming card releases)

I'm in danger :)

[hinamie]

I'll rip in hands and teeth and take a bite

[kirby-the-gorb]

[swordy-da-goat]

Help, I’m new and the only medic in this team. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh