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the more i try to explain gender to cis people the more i understand plato's allegory of a cave

plato: the shadows are like a surface level understanding and coming out of the cave and seeing the actual objects is what being a philosopher is like

me: this is stupid and pretentious

cis person: girl is when pink and flower and boy is when blue and guns

me: oh no theyre still in the cave

melynnwaters

FUCK.

whereserpentswalk

Adding "oh no they're still in the cave" to my vocabulary.

ohicosplay

Cosplay Library - Updated 01/28/2016

The following is a list of e-books (and physical books) created by cosplayers and creators or great reference books overall. Now includes patterns and ready-made props.

[This list will be updated over time. Please click here to see the most recent post.]

Kamui Cosplay book collection

The Book of Armor Making: e-book $5, printed $20

Advanced Armor Making - Helmets and Pauldrons: e-book $5, printed $20

The Book of Prop Making: e-book $5, printed $20

Advanced Prop Making - Guns & Rifles: E-book $5, printed $20

The Book of Cosplay Lights: e-book $5, printed $20

The Book of Cosplay Painting: e-book $5, printed $20

Kamui Cosplay E-Book Collection: All six e-books by Kamui Cosplay for $25

Kamui Cosplay Book collection: All six books by Kamui Cosplay in softcover and signed for $90

Armor Pattern Collection: e-book only, $5

Female Armor Pattern Collection - US/Letter Size

Female Armor Pattern Collection - Europe/DIN-A4

Male Armor Pattern Collection - US/Letter Size

Male Armor Pattern Collection - Europe/DIN-A4

Helmet pattern: Free

Miss Moxxi’s Rubi pattern: Free

Nova (Blizzard) Rifle Pattern: $5

Xena: Warrior Princess Sword and Chakram pattern: $5

Basic Sword Pattern Collection - 15 Swords: $5

Punished Props (Bill Doran) book collection

A Beginner’s Guide to Making Mind Blowing Props: e-book only, $5

Bill Doran’s Convention Prep Kit 2014: Includes the above ebook AND 10 blueprint files for $15

Foam Armorsmithing Vol: 1 – Design, Templating, & Fabrication: e-book only, $5

Foam Armorsmithing Vol: 2 – Finishing & Painting: e-book only, $5

Foam Armorsmithing Vol: 3 – Undersuits, Straps, & Lights: e-book only, $5

Foam Armor Fast: e-book only, $2

The Complete Foamsmith Trilogy: All three foam armorsmithing AND Foam Armor Fast for $12.50

Foamsmith: How to Create Foam Armor Costumes: The Complete foam armosmithing collection in signed book form, $30

Free patterns: Pauldron, Destiny Knife

Prop/weapon blueprints

Armor/props/cosplay guides

Foam Firearm Fabrication by Will Morgan: e-book only, $5

Get in the Robot - Your Guide to Making Plugsuits by Cristina Coppinger: e-book only, $2.50

The Cosplayer’s Prop and Armor Compendium Volume One : Getting Started by Teresa Dietzinger: Paperback book, $43.50, CD for $10

The Cosplayer’s Prop and Armor Compendium : Volume Two - Beginning Armormaking by Teresa Dietzinger: Paperback book, $44.22, CD for $10

The Cosplayer’s Prop and Armor Compendium : Volume Three - Propmaking by Teresa Dietzinger: Paperback book, $44.08, CD for $10

The Cosplayer’s Prop and Armor Compendium Volume Four: Accessories by Teresa Dietzinger: Paperback book, $44.72, CD for $10

Cosplay Tutorial Booklet for Crafty Bitches Vol. 1 - Planning and Design by AmenoKitarou: e-book only, $5.00

Cosplay Tutorial Booklet for Crafty Bitches Vol. 2 - Armour Patterning by AmenoKitarou: e-book only, $5.00

Horns and Headdresses by Lightning Cosplay: English e-book, $6.00; German e-book, 6,00 €, printed book (English or German) 25,00 €

Electronics

LEDs for Beginners by Mario and Dino Roy: e-book only, $5

Cosplay Lighting with LEDs: A Beginner’s Guide by Cosplay4UsAll: e-book $5

Painting

Professional Paint Jobs by Will Morgan: e-book only, $5

Painting and Weathering for Props and Replicas by Harrison Krix: e-book only, $8

Resin Casting

Odin’s Resin Tutorial Encyclopedia: PDF only, $15

Motivation

Just Make It: A Simple Guide to Help Make Making Easier by Thom Wall: e-book only, 1.99 GBP

Patterns, Resin kits, and More

Allen Amis Creations: Resin kits (Dragon Age, Fallout)

Ammnra Creations: Props (Bioware, Destiny, Dredd)

Ammnra Creations (Shapeways): 3D Printed props (finishing required)

Anatomy of Cosplay: Asari Commando and Batgirl pattern

Artyom Props: Daft Punk helmets

Battosai Props: Resin kits (Destiny, Skyrim)

Blind Squirrel Props: Resin kits (Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones)

Catzia: Sailor Moon

Chompworks: 3D printed props (Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Mario)

Coregeek Creations: Lady Sif sword, Tauriel daggers

Cosplay4UsAll: Props (Halo, Borderlands)

Dangerous Ladies: Resin kits (Fire Emblem, Sailor Moon) and costumes

Evil Ted Smith: Armor patterns, horns

Fev Studios: Props and weapons (Assassin’s Creed, Final Fantasy VIII)

God Save the Queen Fashions: Sewing patterns and masks

Hamster Parade (Hamster Cosplay): Steven Universe gems

Henchmen Props: Resin kits (Borderlands, Overwatch, Marvel, DC)

Hoku Props: Resin kits (Marvel, Chobits, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Jarman Props: Resin kits (Skryim, Mass Effect)

Just Curious Things: Steven Universe gems

Kinetic Cosplay: Custom armsocks

Korov Creations: 3D printed props (Steven Universe, Sailor Moon, Marvel)

Nerdy Wares (Rufflebutt Cosplay): Bunny suit pattern

Propped Up Creations: Masks, props, and prothestics

Rapture Costumiers: Dress patterns, lolita style

Red Nebula Studios Resin mask kits (Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, Star Wars)

RocketManProps: Steven Universe gems

Sorenzo Props: Resin Kits, patterns (Daft Punk, Mass Effect, Marvel)

Steven K Smith Props: Finished props (Borderlands, Destiny, Dragon Age, HTTYD)

Unique Cosplay Props: Resin casts and props (Sailor Moon primarily)

Volpin Props: Weapons, props, and armor

WM Armory: Patterns and props (Destiny, Mass Effect)

Free Patterns

Angelic Artisan: Masks

Armour Archive: Various patterns for armor

Historical Costume Patterns

(Cosplay) Photography

1,000 Incredible Costume and Cosplay Ideas: A Showcase of Creative Characters from Anime, Manga, Video Games, Movies, Comics, and More by Yaya Han, Allison DeBlasio, and Joey Marsocci

Cosplay World by Brian Ashcraft and Luke Plunkett

Breaking All the Rules: Cosplay and the Art of Self Expression

Project: Bazooka by BigWhiteBazooka Photography

Cosplay in America v2 by Ejen Chuang

Sewing

The Costume Technician’s Handbook 3/e by Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey

More Fabric Savvy: A Quick Resource Guide to Selecting and Sewing Fabric by Sandra Betzina

The Sewing Book: An Encyclopedic Resource of Step-by-Step Techniques by Alison Smith

Spandex Simplified: A book series on how to sew with spandex

Colette’s Guide to Sewing Hems: by Colette, FREE e-book

#cosplay

marscosplayref

GENERAL WIG TUTORIALS

Drill Tails

Two-Toned Wigs

Restoring Wigs and Detangling Wigs

Gradients

Ahoges

Adding Hair/Extentions

“Cheater’s Guide to Pigtails”

Fluffy fringe/bangs

High bangs/Bang poof

Thickening Wigs

Curling Wigs

Remove Shine

General Care

Brushing Curly Wigs

Cutting Short Wigs/Hair (Video) [English] [Spanish]

More Wig Cutting [1] [2 (french)] [3]

RECOMMENDED/POPULAR STORES

Arda (Does promotional bulk order sales)

Uniqso

Lucaille (also available on EZCosplay.com)

#cosplay

loveletter2you

this has been said before but I feel like it is very important to view being kind as something you do rather than something that you are because all people have the capacity for meanness and cruelty and often use it inadvertently but the point is to change your behavior and your attitude and practice paying attention and being selfless and sincere and vulnerable and putting kindness and warmth into your actions and words instead of being like oh I value kindness and thus I am such a good person. like it’s about the attempt

#healthy bitches only

theconcealedweapon

#discourse

yepperoni

Could Discord be moving to the home of Xbox?

cereal-from-the-film-hackers

#anarchosocialism

funshinebf

there is so much fucking happening here

pronouncingitwang

[Video description: A three-minute TikTok from @/teageatty. Chris Fleming talks to the camera and says, gesticulating:

I’m not too eager to go back out to the bars just yet. And I think it’s because the way men interact with me.

One of the most recent times that I went out I was with my friend Brian, who’s an absolute C-section, totally harmless. And then my friend Tommy, who’s more like a non-neutered dog at a dog park. The kind of dog that when he shows up, all the huskies are like “hm… let’s kill this guy!” He’s just got those rock-climbing hormones that he can’t manage, and so men and libertarians, they really- they take issue with him. Meanwhile, [he zooms out slightly] I’m like an American Girl Doll that got left out in the rain. I’m lovely. Men wanna protect me. They wanna be chivalrous to me. I’m 6 foot 2 but I can dry myself off with a hand towel if I must. I wear lavender deodorant. I smell like a Miyazaki film. Men wanna quiz me before they even know me.

[imitating men at bars] “Young man!” [laughs] “What are the two most dangerous predators on earth?”

[back to normal voice] I don’t know. Owls and ferrets?

Anyway, so, if I’m like at a restaurant, it’ll go- with- with a group, it’ll go- the waiter will order, will ask- will ask the women, me, children, then men. That’s- that’s the order of operations, t-to get a sense of my vibe. I got a Gaia thing going on. Mother goose energy.

And so, um, we’re at this- at this bar, and this… middle-aged libertarian man, uh, and Tommy almost immediately get into a physical altercation. I defuse it with- I- a little of my Joni Mitchell- um- charm, and, uh, he then immediately starts, uh, giving me a hard time for drinking from the Mike’s Hard catalog. Just torrentially nagging me. And I tell him that I think that three Mike’s Hard Lemonades are stronger than any psychedelic you can buy and that while he’s drinking whatever he’s drinking, um, I will be- and he’ll be capable of doing email and everything while I will be healing generational trauma. I will be aerating the soil during the Potato Famine.

He starts ordering me more Mike’s Hard Lemonades, starts ordering me- and him! more Mike’s Hard Lemonades as a joke first, then he starts teaching me pool, like Ghost style- like Swayze over my back. At one point I think he starts crying? And then at the end of the night, he does ask me if he can move in with me.

So, I ultimately have to give him my friend Blaine’s phone number, uh, which is something I do- and this is not an uncommon occurrence, folks. This is… I come from New England, so, th-that is a region that is densely populated with closeted alcoholics. And during the summer months, I need to put my phone on airplane mode come 8 PM otherwise I will be up all night from all the Mikes and Johns in my neighborhood that are trying to start a summer tryst. Which- how dare you? What is this, Greece? Talk to me in the dead of winter, okay? Don’t be a coward!

Also, drunk text? No. Give me a caffeine text. That’s- let’s be French. Let’s- let’s turn this nation around. That’s the fu- [he gets cut off]

/end description]