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talithakun · 7 years ago
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Missed the first delivery attempt and finally rescued my package from the post office! I am very pleased :) Thanks so much @theforestmori
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talithakun · 7 years ago
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Well. I haven’t used this pen in a loooong time so.
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talithakun · 7 years ago
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Snowy day in Boston
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talithakun · 7 years ago
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it’s the holidays again! that means it’s time for… OMOCAT’S 4TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY four giveaways held through each of the OMOCAT social media accounts!! – RULES: - reblog the OMOCAT HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY 2017 post on the OMOCAT Tumblr page. - one winner will be randomly chosen on December 8th. - if you are chosen, you will be notified using Tumblr Private Message, and must reply back within 24 hours. if you do not reply in time, we will randomly choose another winner. once confirmed, you will be prompted to e-mail us your address and the design/product of your choice! this giveaway is open to all USA and International residents. you do not have to be following OMOCAT on any of the above social media channels to participate in the giveaway, but it would be greatly appreciated! 
entrants may participate in all giveaways, but can only win once.  limit one entry per social media channel. 
thank you all for another amazing year. happy holidays!!
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talithakun · 7 years ago
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Finally cleaned up some keys I got from the antique store. They had mysterious stickiness on them.
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talithakun · 8 years ago
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I saw the new Ghost in the Shell teaser trailers back in September 2016, and immediately gravitated towards the stunning visuals. Over the course of the next few months, as more and more information about the movie was released, I got my hands on the art book published by Weta Workshop. One of the pages was a full page close up of the inner skeleton of the geisha robot, and looking at the level of depth and detail, I knew I wanted to try recreating the character. Rather than go with the iconic red-robed geisha from the trailers, I decided to go with the design of a different geisha background character, because I liked the detail of the kimono better.
The costume was a quick build, started only a week before WonderCon. The mask, made of black Worbla with gears and screws I bought from the hardware store, was patterned via a tape mold made over my own face (oh, the pitfalls of procrastination) and took about two days of working. The headpiece, also made over two days, was created by making a form-fitting helmet and building up the shape of the headpiece with expanding foam. The foam was then carved into shape, and covered with black Worbla. The kimono is a black suiting fabric and a red brocade lining with detailing done in red fabric paint – my sewing experience thus far has only been stretch fabric, and I incorrectly assumed that sewing the kimono would be easy. I won’t be making that assumption again! The standing collar still haunts my dreams… and those details on the kimono and obi took so much longer than I originally anticipated.
They say don’t procrastinate, but I prescribe by the philosophy of go big or go home… so in the six days I took to make the costume, I didn’t sleep for three days straight. I also initially made the headpiece way too big – probably carved away about two cans of expanding foam by the time I was happy with the size. Other fun moments include retouching the details on my kimono the night before the WonderCon masquerade, and bribing my brother into helping me paint my back twice over the course of the weekend.
I was blown away by the response I received during the convention. I actually first wore the costume in its entirety during the WonderCon masquerade (nearly didn’t make it into the contest since I signed up late). Despite the fact that I blacked out about what happened when I was on stage, I was given the Judge’s Choice award, and received so much positive feedback from the judges and other masquerade contestants. Wearing the cosplay the next day also got a lot of excited reactions from fans of the original anime and the new movie. A lot of people told me that they appreciated how I chose to show the skeletal structure of the geisha face rather than the porcelain face version, and that they really appreciated the level of detail that went into the costume.
In all honesty, I spent most of the day trying to act as creepy as possible – I would walk around really slowly and keep eye contact with people who I saw looking at the costume until they moved away. This apparently got even creepier because the eyes of the mask are black reflective lenses, and so people were a bit spooked when I stared at them for a while. The kids were fearless though – I tried the same trick on some children, and they all just smiled at me… or tried to attack me.
I’m relatively new to cosplay - the robot geisha is only my sixth one so far. I’ve actually admired cosplay culture for a long time, but I just never had the courage to dive into it until about three years ago, when I decided to attend New York Comic Con on a whim. The sheer amount of support and acceptance and love that comes from the community is something that I look forward to every time I plan out a new cosplay, and my only regret is not joining sooner!
Getting into cosplay has helped me come to terms with myself. As a child, there was the stigma that fandom-related hobbies were passions to be ashamed of amongst the kids I grew up with, and even within my family. Therefore, my first cosplay for NYCC 2013 was made in secret – and in that weekend, I was stunned by the support and encouragement from people I met during the convention. It made me see the value in being myself rather than trying to define myself by the expectations of my peers or family, and has made me a much happier person.
– Aristargirl Cosplay
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talithakun · 8 years ago
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It’s the holidays again! That means it’s time for… 
OMOCAT’s 3rd-annual HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY EXTRAVAGANZA!
PRIZE: one (1) garment/product from OMOCAT SHOP of your choice (excludes designs by guest artists)! You will be able to choose any original OMOCAT garment from the shop, including ones that are not pictured here.
RULES:
Reblog this post.
One winner will be randomly chosen on December 9th.
If you are the winner, you will be notified using Tumblr Private Message, and must reply in 24 hours in order to be eligible to win the giveaway. If you do not reply in that time frame, we will choose another winner. Once confirmed, you will be prompted to e-mail us your address and the design/product of your choice!
That’s it! Thank you for supporting OMOCAT SHOP this year. I hope you’re all doing well! Let’s hope the best for year 2017!
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talithakun · 8 years ago
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This is so relatable, I’m dying.
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talithakun · 8 years ago
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https://instagram.com/p/BMOieXdDVBp/
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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Since joining Tumblr, I’ve met a lot of young queer people. Look, I’m a bisexual man in a gay relationship, and I’m approaching 30. I was still a kid when Matthew Shepard’s story was being covered on the news. I remember thinking, “I better keep my mouth shut about these feelings I’m having.”
And then I met Dominic when I was 12, and people could see how in love we were. And we got the shit beat out of us. The year I met him, some kids in the grade above me held me down against the bleachers in our gym and stomped on my hand until my fingers broke. Instead of sending me to the nurse, the teacher sent me to the assistant principal to explain the situation. She asked why the kids had beat me up. I said, “They were calling me gay.”
Her response was, “Well, are you?”
My, “I don’t know,” earned a call to my parents, and I was outed. Efforts were made to keep me from seeing Dom. Throughout high school, Dom’s stepmother intensified these efforts. He slept in the basement of the house. Although he was an incredibly talented student, he was prohibited from participating in any extracurriculars. He suffered a lot of physical abuse during those years.
The day he turned 18, he packed up everything he had and walked to my house, and we’ve lived together ever since. Things are better, but they’re not perfect. I’ve had trucks pull up next to me at stoplights and, seeing the pride sticker on my car, through old drinks and garbage into my window. I no longer speak to my dad’s side of the family. I haven’t been to see them for Christmas or Thanksgiving in years. One of my uncles had cornered me at Thanksgiving when I was 17 and said, “I’m not going to judge you, but I’d be happy to break your neck so God can do the judging a little sooner.”
I joined a support group for trans and intersex people. When I joined, 40 people attended regularly. Within the year, the group was half the size it had been. Some couldn’t make it anymore, because they were staying at the shelter, where their stay hinged on them agreeing to instead to attend homophobic sermons. Some were put in correctional therapy. Five of them died. Three of those, I didn’t know, but I knew Alex, the 19 year old who was fag-dragged in Kentucky and died a day later in the hospital, and I knew Stephanie, who went home to Alabama to care for her mom in hospice and was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her mom’s boyfriend.
Tumblr is not reality. The dynamic here does not reflect the dynamic out there. Here’s the part where I finally make a point, and it might be extremely unpopular - but guys, value your allies. Value each other. We are met with enough hate in our daily lives to enter an online safe-space and meet more hate from our own, over petty things. Don’t go after one another over every little thing you find problematic.
Learn to see nuance. Maybe the word “queer” bothers you, and you see a gay man using it as an umbrella term. Maybe someone called a trans man a trans woman because they’re confused about terminology, but the post where they did it was voicing support for the trans community. Maybe someone is just asking a question, wanting to learn more. Stop. Attacking. These. People.
Allies are being driven away. Members of our own community are being ostracized. Others are feeling nervous and estranged, and it’s largely because of places like Tumblr, where the social justice movement is quickly becoming violent and radical. I am begging you, stop nitpicking “problematic” things and start directing your efforts to create real change. When it comes to comes to your allies, forget the “social justice warrior” mentality and put down your torch. Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving. And I’m certainly not saying that your anger doesn’t have a good place - when you are met with bigots on the street, congress members who want to pass hateful laws, violent protesters, abusive parents, prejudiced teachers, that is when you need to be a warrior. That’s when it counts. In the real world. When you have the opportunity to protect people from real harm. Attacking your would-be allies via anonymous asks is just going to lose us ground in the long run. And we don’t have time for that, not when trans women of color are being murdered every day, not when states are still fighting against marriage equality, not when there are politicians in office who believe that trans people are possessed by demons, not when we’ve just lost 50 brothers and sisters to one gunman, not when the media won’t even admit that the attack was homophobic.
Please step back. Look at the big picture. Look at where we are, globally. Don’t just log on to your safe space and attack your allies over small missteps. That’s like washing the dishes in a house that’s on fire, kids. Let’s fight on the battlefield, and when we come home to each other, let’s just focus on bandaging up our wounds so we can go out and win the war.
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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Do a little dance!
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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Hey everyone, here is my newest Product, a lenticular 3D pokemon card :D This is the first of many planned and I am having a Limited Time pre-order sale with free shipping for the next two weeks. This item must be seen in real life for the full effect but the pokemon pop out of the card :D 
I am also giving Two of these away on Tumblr and Two more On Instagram. 
Rules~
* This contest is for one of two Lenticular Clefamily cards.
* Every re-blog counts as an entry, please only one re-blog per blog and likes will not count as an entry. You do not have to be following me to enter :)
* I Will use A random number Generator to Determine the winner, who will be chosen on April 20th. I Will Contact this person, who Will Have A week to respond, otherwise I Will Randomly chose Another winner (please feel free to message me if this is a problem)
* You must be 18 or older to enter
* I will only be shipping in the united states
Good Luck~
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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my mom will embroider anything i send her a picture of
i’ve been exclusively sending her surreal drawings i’ve made in class
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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Sports! Shirt
One Door Shirt!
Fabulous Shirt
Decided to relaunch these babies for 5 days.  As a fun added bonus I’ll be giving one away to one random person who reblogs this.  :)
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talithakun · 9 years ago
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French cake decorating.  Feast your eyes
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