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cosplayinamerica · 4 years ago

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Lio from Promare : sleepiboicos // Photo: marlo.louden

My trip to Katsucon almost didn't happen! It was snowing in Chicago and they cancelled my flight, I found out right in the middle of class and my students started to cheer me on to get a new flight. I was supposed to fly out Thursday morning but I ended up flying on Wednesday night, after we got delayed a few times.

Luckily the people I was rooming with were already there, got there right at midnight and was ready to Shoot Lio the next day at noon. That was the last con I have been to since Covid-19, if I had known that would happen, I would have stayed the extra day! So my two pieces of advice is; take that extra day with your long distance friends and even if something is hard, keep trying!

People LOVED Lio at Katsu, I was so happy! I worked really hard on it, they really loved the holographic pieces of my costume. I did end up changing those parts when I returned home, they were falling off left and right. I think the most interesting thing at Katsu was ripping my pants seam in the middle of a photoshoot. I was jumping into Kit's arms for a photo and went a little too hard for how tight my pants were.

A lot of hard work, sweat and tears [went into making the outfit]. I had my friend Tiffany from Holicmode designs helping me figure out how to pattern a custom piece to my measurements, not only that but they gave me a ton of advice for using the materials! One of the hardest things was getting the fabric, it was sold out almost everywhere. I made a mock up and now the actual outfit twice to make adjustments.

My name is Roo and I have been cosplaying for over 8 years now but most of my growth has happened during the past few years. I am a full time middle school teacher. Cosplay has given me much more confidence than I ever thought was possible, it also has led me to meeting the most amazing people. Without cosplay, I probably wouldn't have as many amazing friends in my life.

https://www.instagram.com/sleepiboicos/

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#Lio #Lio cosplay #promare #promare cosplay #katsucon #katsucon cosplay #cosplay #cosplay interview

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inverts · 3 years ago

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late notice, but @yokaiy and I will be at Station Unity this weekend! Yokaiy drew us on this little map so you can find us. We have new prints!

Station Unity is at the same hotel as Katsucon and run by the same people; they will be requiring masks and vaccines (or negative covid-19 tests within the past 72 hours) for all attendees and vendors.

#station unity #station unity 2021 #conventions!

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adorpheus · 4 years ago

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I’m digging into the throwback archives again for #31daysofcosplay day 19. I feel like these pics really represent early 2000s cosplay: the shiny fabric, the shiny wig, my wonky handmade dress, and the fact that I’m cosplaying Anthy from the Utena movie. These pics are from Katsucon I think 2005, and this was the first costume I made that won an award. I think it looks sooo hideous in retrospect but at the time I was proud of it. 🤣 I remember it being one of the first times I ever drafted a pattern for a dress, the first time I worked with paper clay, and the first time I entered a con masquerade. I think my sewing skills have come a long way in the past 15 years!

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#cosplay #adolescence of utena #anthy himemiya #adorpheus

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morethanaprincess-a · 4 years ago

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@galaxybeginnings said: ✨Effervescent

Pretty Word Asks (Please specify if this is for the mun or muse! Otherwise, it’ll be answered by the mun for Munday)

✨Effervescent: What would make you happy right now?

I really had to think about this, but the small things that would make me happy all kind of revolve around a bigger thing: finding a vaccine for COVID-19 and opening up the world again.

I’m not really excited to go back to working in an office (I’m much more productive at home, I’m an extroverted introvert, I’m very blunt when colleagues don’t do things the right/best way), but everything else? I’m really missing right now.

I miss seeing my RL friends, I miss going to conventions and traveling, I miss being able to plan my courthouse wedding with my fiancé (and the honeymoon, which is the real draw besides just being married to each other. Neither of us are wedding people), I miss doing cosplay and fashion photoshoots (especially now that I’m feeling much better, emotionally and physically). But all of those are contingent on a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, really.

So I guess in the short-term, having all of my recent cosplay purchases arrive would be wonderful. I’m waiting on a new ballgown that I’m so eager to embellish for an upcoming con, as well as the corresponding wig, and starting to work out props I can carry as well. My RP hobby crosses over into my cosplay hobby, because why not just write the muse when you can dress as them too? Not that I know when I’m going to wear my upcoming outfits next, but I’ve had cosplay groups for Danganronpa, Castlevania, and Mobile Suit Gundam put on hold for over a year now and that just makes me sad. I’d also be thrilled to finally attend some cons out of my city/area for the first time in years. I love my local events, but in the past I’ve been to Otakon, Anime Central, Anime St. Louis, and some other now-defunct events. I’d like to say I’ve attended Katsucon at least once in my life (and likely have to drive to it, because flying with all of my outfits is near-impossible. So many skirts).

And Christmas cheer. I love Christmas RP threads, terrible Christmas romcom movies (and recycling such plots over here), decorations, music, presents, staying cozy and comfortable.

Instead, I’m just taking advantage of all the weekend sales and trying to ignore the temptation to do IG stories unboxings.

#more-than-a-princess answered #more-than-a-princess musings #galaxybeginnings #(Pretty Word Asks)#(I miss seeing friends in person and cosplay shenanigans and traveling)#(That's the tl;dr)

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cr0wprince · 4 years ago

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Now I’m afraid my name might be brought up though. I did some shitty things with her when we were friends. It’s been five to almost seven years (five since the last time I spoke to her and almost seven since I met her). I was 17-18 in the time I knew her and I’m very easily influenced by the people around me, but I’m ultimately responsible for my actions. I saw another ex-friend of hers brought up (not by name) and now I’m kind of scared.

I’m gonna be a little vague and my memory isn’t the best (I try to block things out as a defense mechanism), but I’m going to try to recount it, just for my own benefit. I’m not even going to name her, but will refer to her as LR. I don’t think anyone cares tbh lmao

I met her in 2014. It was probably February or March, so I was 17. We were both cosplaying Attack on Titan, very big at the time. Someone posted in a con Facebook group that they made a cosplay group for the area/con for Attack on Titan. I only had my jeans, shirt, jacket (that I made), wig, and glasses for Hanji at that time and I posted a picture, “I’m not too confident in how I look, but here’s my cosplay.” and she commented that it was a good cosplay. We went from there, started chatting, and made plans to meet at the con. She was 19 at the time, of it really matters, but we were still age appropriate friends.

The con comes by. I didn’t wear Attack on Titan the first day, felt kind of left out when we started meeting other people from the group. She’s always been a social butterfly (I think it’s an attention thing more than she actually enjoys it tbh, but I might be biased??) and I’ve been really shy about approaching people after being bullied in middle school. The next two days I wore my unfinished SNK cosplay, didn’t have the belts, but had a fun time.

She ran a panel and promised that I could be Hanji in it and let someone else be Hanji as well, and this person got more attention because she was more outgoing, which kind of bummed me out, but at 17, I was a very jealous cosplayer and would get jealous about people cosplaying the same thing as me. Not a healthy mindset, but it is what it is and you grow from it.

She had told me she was in pre-med (I’m going to remind you she’s 19 at this point, not unusual but it’s what she tells me next which is the questionable part) and that she’s going to start on the medical stuff the next year. I’m 17 and naive and don’t question it. I know now pre-med takes four years. This is an example of her lying to me/holding things in.

We continued being friends with the SNK group, had meetups at a local park, and whatever. She lamented to me about not being able to go to Colossalcon because she couldn’t afford it or something and my parents pay for cons, so I talked them into letting her stay with us. I had started cosplaying Ymir to her Christa and I did have a cry privately to LR when another girl cosplayed Ymir to another girl’s Christa because the other Christa felt left out by me being LR’s Ymir. I felt jealous they got more attention, again, not a healthy mindset, but I was 17 and convinced I was going to be a professional cosplayer. I know now it’s a bad mindset. LR took my meltdown the wrong way, which I’ll get to later.

It wasn’t long after, maybe a couple months. She had stopped hanging out with the friend I had met her with at the con, which I realize now is kind of sus, but I didn’t think anything of it at the time. But anyway, a couple months later at most, she makes a post in the Facebook group that she’s been feeling left out of the SNK group. A few people from it got together to talk about it, she finds out, and I get pissed. I make a big post in the group about how they’re purposely leaving her out. I’m loyal to a fault, and sometimes it blinds me. It splits the group, they still keep together, but LR and I separate from them.

We move on to different series and start doing cosplay photos. It’s something I wanted to do for a while. She’s a little hesitant, but I hype it up and she eventually gets into it. At Otakon, she asks mentions if I’d be okay with her cosplaying Juvia (a big comfort character of mine, and one I’d failed to finish a cosplay of that con, but I’d gotten Levy done, which still worked with her Lucy) and I’m thrown off guard. I tell her no lmao. I mean really though, what would I do? But it’s important later.

I have big plans. I don’t always finish my big plans. I want to do a ton of different cosplays and she feeds into me. She finishes things while I normally don’t. I realize I shouldn’t have agreed to do so many, but also, the one’s she made aren’t unwearable? She can cosplay without me matching? But it’s something she internalizes.

We book lots of shoots. It’s fun! We don’t get the most expensive photographers (we’re 18 and 20 at the time) but it’s fun. There’s a particular photographer I wanted to work with and she books her since she’s dealing with it at this point since I have a lot of anxiety talking to people. By the time the con rolls around, my costume didn’t work out the way I wanted and my skirt is held up with safety pins. It shows in the photos, so does her back acne. She goes on a tangent on her Facebook cosplay page about how unprofessional the photographer is, how she doesn’t edit photos for anyone but her friends. I, unfortunately, share it. At that time, neither of us have a big following (I still don’t, she doesn’t really either, only 3,700 after she remade, but did have almost 10k at one point), so it doesn’t go far. The photographer and friends stick up for the photographer and it doesn’t go anywhere luckily.

I’m falling deeper into depression at this point. I’m not finishing projects I’m supposed to do with her, messages are spotty on my end. We still do a couple of cons together. The next con of the first we met at comes around, I don’t have anything done, I’m mortified. I skip a whole day. It’s in driving distance so it’s not like I was wasting a whole hotel day. She gets photos solo. It seems fine.

She messages me one day that her parents kicked her out. Something about a fight over her mom saying minimum wage workers don’t work as hard and LR snapping back. Her parents were really nice the couple of times I met them, which isn’t always indicative of how someone really is, but now I feel in my gut that there had to be something more. It feels like petty reason. She moves into her grandparents (and further selfies match that, so it seems like it had to be bad if she never went back). She messages me this and I’m thrown so off guard. Yeah, we called each other best friends. We didn’t talk to many other people as far as I knew at that point, but I had no idea what to say. It’s bad on my part, but I didn’t answer her for a week.

She didn’t message me or anything, didn’t delete me off Facebook, but vague posted me there about being there for people when they won’t be there for you, and people were hyping her up. I realized it might’ve been about me. I called her crying, terrified. Sent her messages. I don’t exactly remember what transpired, but did make up.

There was a point she told me she was dropping pre-med to become an accountant because it took a year and she wanted to focus on cosplay. Again, stupid 18yo me believed that that made sense and was like, “Oh okay!”

We went to a couple more cons, I’m pretty sure she was using me. We make plans for Youmacon, but I don’t message her for like a week in September of 2015. She asks if I’m okay (the only time) I tell her I’m doing really bad. We don’t talk until close to the con. I admit to her that I was thinking of admitting myself to the psych ward it was that bad, but though I didn’t tell her that, it’s ultimately a very hard, very personal choice. (I made it in May and it’s not an easy choice.) She tears me a new one, saying I should’ve went, that I was using her for companionship. She said she had plans to go to another con?? So the way I see it, she cared more about going to a con than anything else. She never checked in on me after I told her I was doing bad, just to take my time.

She has a new bff at this point. This is going to be so cruel, but her new friend isn’t as put together, which is fine! Cosplay is for fun! But I mention this because they get photos together. After my obsession with becoming a professional cosplayer, LR got into that mindset too. I’m so fucking sure that she used this other girl in photos to look better next to. The difference is so obvious in photos.

I make a cosplay that LR cosplayed when we were friends. I’m so proud. I haven’t finished anything in months. I cosplay a couple of things she did, but we were friends at one point, we like the same series, and there are a lot of big series. It’s bound to happen.

She vagues me on Instagram. She continues to stalk me on there (and I did her, not proud of it, but I’ll admit it). She posts things about how an ex friend had a breakdown over her having other friends (when I confided in her my jealousy over the Ymir/Christa duo), how I wouldn’t let her cosplay Juvia lmao (this still gets me. What would I do? Break your arm? You asked me on the spot and I was uncomfortable.). There was one Juvia cosplay post that I mentioned I had lost weight because while my uncle was dying, I wasn’t eating. I was helping with cleaning his house and I just wasn’t fucking eating. She took that as a jab about her because she has self image issues. There was also a big post she made how she KNEW I was cosplaying all the same things as her to make her jealous and to make her insecure, mentioning me by name even. I reported it and it got taken down.

I’d heard things through the grapevine. How she started shit in the Fate community and she was afraid of being beat up at Katsucon’s public photoshoot. How she tried to make a Love Live group, but when two girls couldn’t afford it and they would no longer have all nine, she threw a fit and cancelled the whole group. I’d also heard about her making a fuss over photos she got back when a cosplayer’s grandparent was dying. I stayed away after like a year, but a couple of people who knew me that knew I was friends with her would tell me things.

I wasn’t the best person, either. I’ll take responsibility for that. I wish I could apologize to the people I hurt while friends with her, but I no longer remember their names. I was a dumb teenager. I still get swept up in the people around me and get carried away when the people I are about are hurt. Maybe it’s something I need to work on. But, I ultimately don’t think she’s grown. I don’t think she’s gotten better. I think she’s only gotten worse over the year.

I’m not proofreading. There might be more, but it was a lot to go through, but I wanted to get it out. I hope the read more works, but I’m gonna throw on a long post warning too. If you read this, thank you, by the way. I just felt like I had to get it out.

#rachel’s rambling #long post

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barnowlz · 6 years ago

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Stong as the Mountain- (me as Zarya at Katsucon 19)

I'm really proud this cosplay and so happy with how this photoshoot went and cannot wait. To be Zarya again

#Zarya #overwatch #cosplay #zarya cosplay #overwatch cosplay

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indigowallbreaker · 6 years ago

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Got our badges and are at dinner. Let the Katsu fun begins!

#katsucon 19 #katsucon #con #mine #taz

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katsucon · 5 years ago

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I Survived a Katsucon Game Show! 10 players. 7 challenges. Physical. Mental. Social. Beautiful defeats. Ugly victories. Think you have what it takes? Apply below (Application closes 12/31/19 at Midnight) Form: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Er5mKniHKUCtkXnM97ZR6zH77KyOCvBEhz_q7MpSg3lUMlVDV0dGUjU2NkxWT0E2MkZXS1k1WElJSS4u

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surrealmakeup · 5 years ago

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The Katsucon crunch is real!! I can’t wait to see everyone there! . . . #Repost @scienceofcosplay ・・・ It's only 19 days until KatsuCon! How close are you to getting everything done? Or have you been leaving something til the last minute? I still need to finish Elsa (there's just so many rhinestones!!) and work out which Taako I want to bring to con. It'll probably be a combination of pieces from other Taako's and a new piece - I've been working on some stuff that isn't necessarily cosplay just to keep my brain occupied with fun things. Sometimes it's nice to just make stuff and not have a deadline! Although, my brains only been able to think about cloaks recently. Would anyone want a custom cloak? I might start listing them on my story if people would actually want them. . Wig @ardawigs Glitter @surrealmakeup . #elsa #frozenelsa #frozen2 #frozen #disney #disneyprincess #showyourself https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Hk7L-ne_2/?igshid=1oqkvomhd2wog

#repost #elsa #frozenelsa #frozen2 #frozen #disney #disneyprincess #showyourself

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cosplayinamerica · 4 years ago

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Michael Burnham from Star Trek:Discovery: kijai9y0 // Photo: anexagoras.cosplay

I picked the character because she's a brave badass and risk taker. I don't think a lot of people know this but I also like badass characters that don't care and are strong willed regardless of any obstacle they encounter.

When I started to wear my Michael Burnham cosplay I was just walking around minding my own business and having a good time Katsucon with a group of friends I used to hangout with. In addition, I also had a photo shoot planned that day too. Until, I got approached by an Aizawa cosplayer which was unexpected and surprising because no one usually approaches me at all despite becoming so adapted to being alone for a long time by it came to a point where I suppressed my emotions and felt nothing due to personal issues I had faced.

My favorite part of cosplaying would be finishing the final pieces to the cosplay because not only you get to wear it but also accomplish and have fun into the costume too. During Covid-19 I managed to cosplay indoors to take costests before going in the costume process. I think I'll return to conventions once I'm fully vaccinated and a certain percentage in the country in the U.S gets the vaccine. I believe the issues the cosplay community are facing right now are accountability, performative activism, and racism.

https://beacons.page/kijai9y0

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tenacityblitz · 5 years ago

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all the numbers u haven't done

roleplaying habits questions.

1. what’s a grammar rule you find yourself breaking or ignoring a lot?

Offhand I can’t really think of anything?? English is my first language so I don’t knowingly break any grammar rules anyway. Unless possible excessive use of commas counts bc I use commas a lot.

2. are there any languages besides english in which you think you could comfortably roleplay?

Unless Gibberish counts bc I learned that stupid crack language back when I was a kid but good lord I would not have the patience to actually type out a reply like that.

3. how often do you reach for a synonym dictionary when writing? how about mentally?

Sometimes but not too frequently. Depends on how flowery I’m trying to write something or if I’m thinking of a word but I don’t like the first descriptive word that came to mind for what I’m trying to express.

4. how often do you need to translate your own or the other’s writing with a dictionary or google when writing and reading replies?

Never tbh. Especially since I don’t RP in any other languages, all my RP partners have a good enough grasp on English that I can always tell what they were at least trying to say in their reply.

5. do you listen to music while your write?

I used to need music playing in the background to help me focus on doing drafts, but nowadays I need more silence than anything to help focus and produce what I think is a quality response to a longer thread. Short one or two liner things idc what’s in the background.

6. do you have ideal writing circumstances when you can do a lot of drafts or tackle really long ones very easily?

I can fluctuate with when I best write. Typically I write better at night when the house is quiet and any noise happening in the house is a noise I make, but I’ve had writing inspiration hit me at any time of the day before.

7. are you a morning, day, evening, or night writer?

Bold of you to assume I’m awake during morning hours that don’t include 5 AM bc I’m still awake haha. When I’m not swamped with commissions to do I typically write better during the day or at night when I’m the only person awake in the house and I don’t have any outside distractions from a person IRL.

8. how does tiredness affect your writing?

Not overly so sometimes, I know there’ve been times in the past where I powered through replies even though I wanted to go to bed just because I was riding the motivation train and I didn’t want to lose it and not get to those last replies for who knows how long. But on Discord at least I often have reply to Discord threads be one of the last things I do before I go to sleep so I go to bed knowing I don’t owe anyone a reply on there.

9. have you ever written a serious reply intoxicated?

Not a serious reply anyway. I’ve been on the dashboard before while intoxicated (ColossalCon East was a prime example haha) but I’ve never really RP’d while that intoxicated

10. how much do you proof-read as you are writing vs. proof-read at the end?

I’ll proof read as I go but also give it one last read before I actually hit publish.

11. when you are writing a reply, how much ahead in the thread do you plan?

Entirely depends on the thread. I could write it on the fly or I could have days to think about it from external factors keeping me from getting to the reply as soon as it comes back to me.

12. is there ever been a time when you’ve had to drop a roleplaying partner because you’ve found their writing style exhausting?

Yes actually, gather round for RP horror storytime haha. Flash back to 2013 while I was still in the Black Butler fandom. I stupidly decided to give writing Sebastian a try at the request of a Ciel I’d made friends with (probably through my old Alois or Lizzie blog). She was a nice enough girl, close enough to my age so she seemed plenty mature, and had been what I thought was a good enough writer to warrant trying my hand at a muse I wouldn’t have otherwise thought to try. Legit within days of me making the Sebastian blog she was getting super clingy in her IC posts making Ciel a whiny baby missing Sebastian, would try and guilt me in IC posts to get on and write with her, and I dealt with it for about two weeks before I deleted Sebastian’s blog without warning and deleted the girl off Skype. To this day it’s the only blog I think I’ve ever consciously deleted.

13. does writing roleplay things in public spaces make you uncomfortable?

Not really? I wouldn’t be crazy about a stranger reading over my shoulder while I was writing bc that’s just weird, but I’ve gone to Starbucks or one of the local malls before on my off days (back when I was still at my last job) and I’d do RP stuff there just to get out of the house.

14. how often do you need to change the icon in your reply while or after writing the reply?

Typically I don’t put in icons until I’m done writing the reply unless I go into the reply knowing exactly which one I want to use, or think of a good one while I’m writing it out.

15. do you first get in the “zone” when writing, or do you start writing and “enter” it that way?

Nowadays I just start writing and then get into the zone after I get the first reply done. Discord replies I can chug out any time of day without difficulty, but for whatever reason Tumblr I have to be in the right mindset for.

16. what is your biggest obstacle to writing every day, if time doesn’t count?

Back when I was at my last job, it would be getting a lot of writing muse while I was busy at work and unable to get on my own laptop or sneak onto Tumblr on an office computer and at least type out the bulk of a reply (yes I was employee of the month many times haha), and by the time I was able to get to my own computer or be safe enough to get on a work computer, that writing muse would be gone.

17. what’s your inbox count currently? what did you do to get it so high/low?

Right now I have 15 IC asks. I won’t lie, two of them are from last years Valentine’s Day bc I was away at Katsucon at the time of receiving them and by the time I got home I still just never got around to answering the asks, but I didn’t want to delete them either so I just kept them for posterity. Some are from this past Christmas that I was terrible and haven’t answered yet bc I’ve been so swamped with commissions, some are from other random meme’s I’ve reblogged and gotten an ask or two for and also just never got around to. I’m horrible at replying to asks most of the time and I know it but I always appreciate whenever people take the time to send me an IC one.

18. how many drafts is a paralysing amount?

I’d guess I’d say over 15 like para thread replies would make me be like -insert meme song- ‘how could this happen to meeeee’. I’m not quite at that point yet but I’ll get there eventually if I’m not careful lol.

19. if you are writing a wrong reply that’s not working out, do you save what you have to be continued at another date, or do you scrap it and rewrite?

Usually I would just draft what I have and go back to it. I can’t remember the last time I scrapepd an unfinished draft and completely rewrote it.

20. longest reply you’ve ever writen on mobile?

N/A because I don’t do replies on mobile. I’ll send asks on mobile but I never reply to actual IC things while on my phone unless it’s something stupid and cracky or one-liner-ish.

21. does the total amount of threads you have going on matter to you, or just how many you owe?

Doesn’t really matter. I can have one thread with one person, I could have five threads with one person. @shinvcho is an example of the latter lol

22. what’s your thought process when you format? any unspoken rules you follow?

I’ve kept to the same formatting for years and years tbh. I’m too lazy to do excessive formatting beyond italicizing and/or bolding specific words for emphasis and spacing out the start of a new paragraph. Anything more than that to me is just tedious and unnecessary; I don’t want to make it difficult for my partners to read.

23. how does your follower count affect your mood?

Anyone who says they don’t appreciate or enjoy even a small spike in followers is a liar, because we live in an age where validation is held in high regard and it feels good to get the validation of seeing more people enjoy what we do on our blogs enough to put us on their dashboards. But it also doesn’t really matter to me when I lose followers because I have a mutual checker so I can unfollow a mutual back if they did so first so I don’t feel uncomfy still following someone who no longer wanted me on their dash lol.

#ooc #THIS IS WHY I QUESTIONED HOW MUCH U ACTUALLY LOVE ME I HAD TO DO BASICALLY ALL OF THEM LOL #creturae

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