#cosplay rambles

[anna-neko]

Welcome to another episode of "let's cosplay an audio-only chara!" because sometimes the brainrot lies dormant for months and suddenly.... (goin to live show needed a new outfit)

Scary Marlowe - the Sophomore Slump album

details and whatnot rambling under cut

basic concept was easy enuff: make another t-shirt. "Shit Garden" needed a break, now its time for this

The font seemed basic enuff to copy out and then I'm sittin here like... how to...draw circles... a wholeass ball? (btw no printer access)

frellin BLESS Terry for pulling out his graphic design skills and making me a fantastic ball stencil! He even did a size readjust after my hasty tests the night before

.......anyway, the black shirt had for over a year. It was supposed to be for a Scorpion Slut logo, but scorpions are impossible to draw/cut-out at this detail (aka my lack of skill lvl)

So! because was terrified would fuck up, did a test run first. T'was most educational, seeing how much seeps out and heat needed frm blowing hot air vs ironing over

Kept peeling off bits, readjusting (negative space be dammed), running back to trace out a failed letter (hey kids, want easiest way to fake a light table? ANY backlight works. window, glow of the monitor...) and try again.... (did "O" so many times, its no longer real letter in my brain)**

**MOST OF THIS WAS HAPPENING IN FRIEND'S BATHROOM

Went OCD as fuck getting everything super blocked-out on the actual shirt once was ready to commit

This shirt wasn't painted, but bleached, and i wanted only the words/logo in and nothing else. Clearest outlines, no stencil far edge outlines, no bleed mess

Yes you can see a pin holding on the "hole" of a letter. When I say wanted crisp outlines, that wasn't a joke

of course - irony be dammed - after this part was done, went back and Very Carefully splattered lil bit with my brush. In a highly controlled way

Also the secondary loose concept is ...well.... the first shirt (Shit Garden) she angrily tore at to be punk and all, but this one.... this one was an old team souvenir... Thus soccer ball on both front and back

For this reason (slightly more 'treasured' if you will), the rips were far less chaotic. The hem is left intact, and the neck a careful trim to show she wasn't blindly goin at it with scissors. Ditto on sleeves

Still freehanding this, but folding stuff in half to at least pretend symmetry, ya know?

there's no "Butthole Ricochet" branding ... snuck in a lil Warlock symbol at sideseam instead

New skirt! It has stars!! ★★☆☆★★ she IS a rock star for her album dammit (and it goes on w/ the stars of the barbwire-and-stars long-sleeved shirt frm before)

Everything else (bracelets, fishnet armwarmers, skelenimal scrunchy, etc...) are frm previous incarnations. Tape-measure continues to live on the hip chain

No jar of horrors daddy magic memories, instead there's a funny lil resin charm Terry made (he also once again helped with safety pins AND contributed a few black and white new ones for the sleeves)

The thigh-highs no longer have purple stripes in them (no purple on this one whatsoever, byeeee Omega Patron poison)

Exact same style have used before with alternating sheer & solid stripes, but fully black! (@sockdreams out there continuing to miraculously have Always what am looking for!)

[ratshells]

it’s like… what… 12 days before con and I literally just realized FROM THE HOLIDAY ART, that vere has way more going on than I thought… LORDDDDD

cosplaying from visual novels is so… like you don’t realize how much a character actually has going on until you have to study them for days on end.

[adridoesstuff]

There is an entire performance plan and choreo in my head for when I make myself a Mayerling dress and dare to compete in it. And it's to Einladung zum Ball from TdV of all things.

[mibkid]

I’ve been gone for a little while: 

the reason? 

I’ve been con-crunching and making a Langa cosplay, and painting reki’s skateboard. It’s been a hectic week. 

Fun thing tho! My langa cosplay is gonna have UV lenses, bc i said why not?

[anna-neko]

honorable mention when furry in the mall (yes it became the Bernie meme)

my favorite genre of photo is cosplayer out in a random place in public. and i’m not talking abt malls or hot topic and shit where you’re already more likely to find cosplayers. i’m talking abt seeing like a junko enoshima cosplayer at a mcdonald’s

[kronoose]

I forgot about this then gave myself a heart attack by half assed looking over

Last year I was like yes yes yes Imma do two cosplays for a con (Tamaki OHSHC and Gunther b Gunderson from ISWM) it was going to be my first con as an adult and I'd gotten whole weekend pass

Then the con got cancelled before I ever got around to styling the wig and since have had 0 motivation to do so

Both lie incomplete Gunther is missing weapons and Tamaki's wig haunts me

[figmentrinzler]

Dress pattern may not be coming at all.

Got a message from the seller that she can't find it and asked if we could cancel the order and if she finds it she'll send it to me free.

But who knows if that will happen.

Guess I gotta look for another one...

[tariah23]

Crying….

[oneknightlight]

I’ve got like 5 film ideas that would completely blow my followers ass cheeks off the bone but I’ve been wrestling my green screen in a 1 v 1 match for a week now, and my tailcoat is shedding sequins. It’s like the Wild West out here.

[ashartstuff]

I’m sorry, let me get this straight:

You mean to tell me that “Pacifica” being called “Paz” is CANON, Bill tried to make A DEAL WITH HER TO START WEIRDMAGEDDON and she said NO, she thinks constantly of Mabel offering her a car taco, she kept Dipper’s (the mystery shack’s) number close after he gave it to her, and she fell asleep better than she ever had before knowing that SHE IS CAPABLE OF CHANGE!!!

AND IM SUPPOSED TO BE OKAY?????? IMNOTOK!!!!! IM NOTOK!!!!

[anna-neko]

la la la its October! .... what do you mean my Scary Marlowe cosplay shenanigans/brain-rot has been goin a full year now

well anyway... the cosplays ~ due to their time-eating nature ~ always hella hella lag behind the episodes, but have accumulated a bunch of diff looks in all this time

Any photos that ain't frm my phone are by whatChuLookingAt.com

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Outfit the First aka The Pilot Design Ya know, when the chara look is technically all there, but its the very first ep so it looks a lil bit off when compared to rest of show

Getting to audibly eyeroll at a Terry Jr remains greatest moment

First Story Arc (pre Doodler Summon) - ep1 to ep 18~ish because Willy's influence is seeping in (all of 2 purple things), but also that first fireball! (really frellin luv the memory syringe. Best moment of synchronized nerds/mutual egging on for middle of night photos)

The Default - if this was a cartoon, this is the outfit you see all the damn time! It's on ALL the promo things, plus in opening theme... u cannot escape it

First arc special - the School Dance! - ep5 & 6 the slightly changed-up look while talking to potential dates but also Beth May just had to say her dress was gorgeous and black

Debate in School/Amongus - ep9-12 Obv can't invade a school and arcades no longer exist.... so library will do!

The Black Parade - ep 19/20

frm Erin's forest/Contact Other Plane - ep21 to 24 my girl ain't gonna keep wearing pizza-grease soaked clothes still, of course she changed in the City pitstop

Deep under Willy's Influence (drowning in da sauce) - until ep31 or so much purple, it all came together so nicely

Terri

Second Story Arc - ep 32~ish onwards no longer in da willy sauce, rapidly losing all the ✧˖°. Purple ˖°.✧

Church of the Doodler ~And as your butt hits the seat… …you see the shape of the universe~

[ratshells]

I am in the middle of making Marcille’s prop and MY GOD… am i autistic or is the smell of duct tape actually nauseating.

[lazylittledragon]

mini mcm dump 🖤

only 24 hours out and i already want to go back

(puppetstarion was made by bokkicat!!)

[rauchendesgnu]

Okay so here's the thing: I'm growing my hair out and I'm waiting for testosterone to do the changing so I can comfortably cosplay characters. Which also means that my Elias Bouchard will have to have long hair...or I'll have to cosplay @occudo's Magus AU Elias

[featherbreak]

USE ME. (a cinematic Camilla Hect cosplay music video)

notes & TWs:

TW for fake blood. heart crimes abound. I filmed all of this during 3 days of intense hyperfixation in October/November 2023, and after much Life Happened, edited it all together in June/July 2024. it is a labor of love, an embarrassing love letter to the more-unhinged-than-she-lets-on codependent cavalier exemplar that is Camilla Hect, and an intense appreciation for the "psychosexual mess of roleplaying and bad meals" that is Nona the Ninth.

i hope you enjoy it. i have more thoughts & stills to share, but i need to fling this into the internet before i continue to overthink it and utterly lose my nERVE AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS AAJFSkdhgfdhg

[yyuuraii]

my c!Technoblade cosplay :] I won best costume category in a convention yesterday yippee!