#cosplay: not even once

[osalotte]

my fucking legs, gricko

[always-elias]

My dear friend @toby-jester-emoji fucking cooked and I feel like the world needs to see

[beatcroc]

what kind of frivolity would you engage in, mecha?

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[calamitaswrath]

Okay, so. I have another question about things that are totally not in my "I'll get to it someday and I don't have any concrete plans right now" pile, but. How do you even get into cosplaying? Looking at it from the outside, it just looks like it takes a ton of skills, such hair styling/styling a wig, sewing clothes, crafting accessories and so on. And I don't really have any ideas on how to do any of it, even though I am sort of interested in that hobby.

[voiider]

was thinking about the Danny Phantom x 2010s media event I've been working on this week and it just hit me what THE media of all 2010s was for me,,,

Your name is DANNY FENTON and you DIED.

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

SWORD

ignore my hand again ;-;;

[dont-tell-my-mom-im-here]

I'm politely nodding at the conversation but in my head I'm thinking about how if I buy sunglasses I have everything I need to cosplay Crowley.

[celestialrealms]

I've been thinking about this Asmo chat so much

Anyway, Asmo dressing Diavolo up in pretty dresses and telling him how pretty he is ^_^

[courtmartialme]

i follow you on twt too so i have to say. you LOOK like roy mustang that one time you drew yourself, you BEHAVE like roy mustang when it comes to riza

can you give us one proof that you arent roy mustang? thats right. you can't.

hello roy mustang. i hope you treat riza well.

STOPPPP I ALMOST NAMED MYSELF ROY WHEN I WAS STILL DECIDING ON A NAME the only thing that stopped me is bc it sounds too out of place when you speak portuguese.........

also my self doodles are pretty idealized and my style pretty generic in general so i don't look like him that much LOL i'm not roy but maybe i wish i was!!! i respect him as my wife's seme so i wish i was!!!!!!!! >:(

[riddlerosehearts]

idia/vil is such a sweet and interesting ship to me and does not deserve to be a rarepair i'm serious. this might end up a bit incoherent and disorganized because i'm not great with words, but listen. the thing is that while on a surface level idia shroud and vil schoenheit--a nerdy shut-in with anxiety who likes to game all day and a mega famous celebrity who's strict about self-improvement--might seem completely incompatible, their actual interactions show us that that just isn't true!!

like, for example idia's starsending robes vignette is a big one!! the way that vil sees idia trying to hide when he's supposed to be at the ceremony, and idia says he's terrified that people will make fun of him, that he's not like vil and can't just go out and not care what anyone think the way he does. and then vil... tells him he's wrong, that it's the opposite, that he cares so much what other people think but has enough of a grip on himself that he can ignore it and appear confidently in public. the way vil admits to idia that they are so much more alike that he thinks.

also, the way that (in this fan translation at least, as well as in other TLs i've seen--the localization translates it to have the complete opposite meaning, for whatever reason) idia then says "so in other words, you've got to level up your ignore skill", and instead of getting annoyed at him for translating his advice into video game terms vil just says "isn't that obvious?". he's going out of his way to try and give idia genuine advice and is willing to speak his language to get him to understand it. he even does a similar thing later on in book 6, when he tells idia that it's worth taking chances because after all, the star rogue protagonist took his chances and went from zero to a hero.

and on that note, book 6 is so good for them. book 6 has idia get all excited and carried away while infodumping about star rogue, only to abruptly lose his enthusiasm and start talking quietly and stuttering. and who is it that tells him he shouldn't act so embarrassed and that they weren't judging him? it's none other than vil. vil who also shows an interest in gaming, much to the surprise of idia who believed, in his own words, that a "sparkly, gorgeous supermodel" like vil couldn't possibly like any of the same things as him! but no, vil wanted to try out the games they had and vil expressed a desire for idia to talk about his passions without fear of being judged. vil enjoyed playing star rogue and he was glad to discuss the movie adaptation with idia and ortho.

it's also vil who, when idia expresses his disappointment at the star rogue sequel being canceled and his wish for the original team to get back together and create a sequel that would be made with passion behind it, is the only one to genuinely understand where he's coming from (as opposed to jamil who's like "is it really that complicated?" and leona who suggests that he just throw money at the creators). vil is the one who encourages him to take a chance at doing what he can to make that wish a reality, to let the original team know that there's a passionate and loyal fanbase waiting for a sequel, and tells him that he just generally shouldn't give up on changing his future and achieving his dreams before he's even tried. of course ortho heard this advice too and took it very much the wrong way, but vil showed a surprising amount of understanding and support for idia and i feel like it was exactly the kind of thing he needed to hear.

also. remember the scene in disney's hercules where hercules temporarily gives up his godhood and his youth by diving into the underworld to save megara? because vil literally did the same thing to save idia. yeah, he may say he only did it for plot reasons, but like come on, how am i supposed to just not ship them after they parallel one of my favorite disney couples like that? vil is a world famous actor and model who was terrified of aging, and he still took such an insane risk!! i'm sure idia would have a crush on him after that.

i'm trying to wrap this up now because it's already too long but also idia has actually been said to have great fashion sense as his online persona and shown to enjoy cosplay and dressing up on occasion (for example, he went all out on his pumpkin knight costume and this hasn't made it to EN yet but he liked wearing the masquerade outfit). vil had pretty high praise for his design sense when he saw ortho's burst gear. and vil gets along incredibly well with ortho and is in the film club with him post-book 6, which is something i imagine idia would appreciate a lot. the contrast between them and the things they unexpectedly have in common are just so neat to me.

so, in conclusion,

i love them and i think they should be boyfriends

[parttime-creative]

My personal hightlights from the photo shoot today:

Gideon has happy socks,

Has to check her face paint in an ancient devices called "phone"

and is too small for the door frame pose... (don't tell anyone tho! She gotta keep the cool lesbian facade!!!)

... if too small for the doorframe.... improvise!

[therabbitreaper]

Actually no I have one more out of character thing to say

I SWEAR TO GOD IF BROOK DOESNT GET TO BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF JUDAH-

[project-sekai-facts]

Even with the new unit costumes coming out, do you think the og ones will stay relevant? Most of my cosplays are the old unit outfits and I was hoping to do more of them too- I really hope they don't fall out of style or anything I spend too long on these 😭

I mean the game might not really use them that much anymore but they’ll still be iconic in and out of the fandom so if you’re cosplaying it will be fine!

[thresholdbb]

I'm definitely taking Time and Again as soon as I finish it, which is hopefully within the next few hours

What else? I have:

Janeway nebula jacket and pants combo

Janeway jumpsuit

Evil/corrupt hologram Janeway

Bell Riots/2024 Jadzia

I guess I have regular clothes too

[once-in-a-half-life]

my friend and I have developed a sort of "tradition" or something where we doodle a little G-Man on each other's mirrors whenever we visit each other lol

the first three are mine, the rest is hers (featuring Gordon Freeman in his hev suit that she drew from memory haha)

[magnusbae]

I'm meant to be writing so naturally my brain went into asking the real questions— why don't we have fandom music? We have all forms of expressive art, writing, drawing, editing. The more physical forms of art, sewing outfits, forging swords, acting, even audi narrating fics. So basically all art forms in order to further explore our blobros and yet— no music? Why is it? I am genuinely curious why songwriting and music-making is the one form of art that is not present in the daily fandom life? Yes there's music video edits, even people recreating music from shows on piano etc— but that's not what I mean, I mean honest to god making a real, proper, lyric and music and singing original song for your blobro. Why don't we have that?