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Hello there!
Nothing much to see here other than whatever my hyper fixation is at the moment
This blog is 18+ MDNI
Masterlist:
Not A Team Player - Logan Howlett x named!mutant!reader
Anyway, thanks for stopping by! 🫶
Dante: Don't worry Abbè. Maybe the real treasure of Monte Cristo is the friend we made along the way.
I'm only on chapter 19 but given what I know of the source material I have to assume that at some point he turns it around and is like actually maybe the real treasure of Monte Cristo is somewhat the friend I made along the way but also REVENGE
On chapter 23, three treasures of Monte Cristo, the friends we made along the way, REVENGE, and also the many many chests full of money and precious jewels
Yes, the ability to switch between Black and White and full Color is well and great for Spider-Noir, but I want to watch in the way it’s TRULY meant to be enjoyed: color but every time Ben is on screen, it switches to black and white like the Bringing Sexyback meme
I love him your honor, he’s so silly
do we think i'm funny yet 1 🍍 2 🍍 3 🍍 4 🍍 5 🍍 6 🍍 7
time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.
by talos this cant be happening
nice blog! have they diagnosed you?
Bridgerton men get told to shut the fuck up for the first time in their lives and start imagining themselves in a wedding dress
In Cars (2006), the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope is surprisingly not filled by the female lead, but the secondary male protagonist, Mater. In this essay, I will-
and not to mention all the playthroughs. The unnecessary feelings reaction compilations never end.
If I had a nickel for every time a random person picked up ace attorney with no expectations and saw wrightworth I would have enough money to buy capcom and make 100% wrightworth canon.
stardust (2007) really has everything. murder. mayhem. witches. gay pirates. unicorns. true love. claire danes. blond henry cavill before blond henry cavill was cool. subtle but wildly inappropriate jokes. a beheading. a lost princess. a running commentary of sarcastic ghosts. and more murder.
A dance that never ends
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Watched the 2004 Phantom of the Opera film for the first time ever, ask me anything
Look yes okay there was an edible involved BUT I don’t think that’s the only reason I spent every fucking minute of that movie enraptured, quaking with joy. It’s so wonderful that this teen girl wet dream of a cinematic masterpiece exists. This movie hit cunt full throttle
What if you were so beautiful and so talented and so tragic, and your eyes were so big and so wet, and then two men whose lives revolve around you fistfight in a pool? What if your good sweet boyfriend who is willing to die to protect you got tied up by a dangerous romantic monster who will kill to have you?? What if everywhere you went was opulent and everything you wore was stunning??? Please god listen, I am grabbing you all by the lapels and shaking, this movie is at every moment one hundred percent committed to being the shameless distillation of the best daydream you’ve ever had in math class.
there was a HORSE in the SEWERS. There was a SEWER HORSE.
#it’s a crushed velvet fever hallucination of paperback romo clinch cover fabio dreamscapes#from the director who brought you the lost boys and nipples on the batsuit#it’s not ‘jupiter ascending’ big but it’s ‘gothic pulp herione flees-from-manor-holding-a-lantern’ big#it’s a ‘make-up change mid-scene with no explanation’ kinda party#for the girlies who run into the cave and twist their ankle and the water sparkles and you look sooo good#and everyone rushes in to tell you how brave and special and pretty you are as you lie there with your twisted ankle#if you get me#phantom of the opera saving @harrietvane tags because sometimes you just need a movie that says Yes! You are the most specialest prettiest talented one to rule them all (all being rich safe pretty boy and hot basement monster)
everybody's got that one homie posting straight from the valley of the shadow of death
So a couple days ago, some folks braved my long-dormant social media accounts to make sure I’d seen this tweet:
And after getting over my initial (rather emotional) response, I wanted to reply properly, and explain just why that hit me so hard.
So back around twenty years ago, the internet cosplay and costuming scene was very different from today. The older generation of sci-fi convention costumers was made up of experienced, dedicated individuals who had been honing their craft for years. These were people who took masquerade competitions seriously, and earning your journeyman or master costuming badge was an important thing. They had a lot of knowledge, but – here’s the important bit – a lot of them didn’t share it. It’s not just that they weren’t internet-savvy enough to share it, or didn’t have the time to write up tutorials – no, literally if you asked how they did something or what material they used, they would refuse to tell you. Some of them came from professional backgrounds where this knowledge literally was a trade secret, others just wanted to decrease the chances of their rivals in competitions, but for whatever reason it was like getting a door slammed in your face. Now, that’s a generalization – there were definitely some lovely and kind and helpful old-school costumers – but they tended to advise more one-on-one, and the idea of just putting detailed knowledge out there for random strangers to use wasn’t much of a thing. And then what information did get out there was coming from people with the freedom and budget to do things like invest in all the tools and materials to create authentic leather hauberks, or build a vac-form setup to make stormtrooper armor, etc. NOT beginner friendly, is what I’m saying.
Then, around 2000 or so, two particular things happened: anime and manga began to be widely accessible in resulting in a boom in anime conventions and cosplay culture, and a new wave of costume-filled franchises (notably the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings movies) hit the theatres. What those brought into the convention and costuming arena was a new wave of enthusiastic fans who wanted to make costumes, and though a lot of the anime fans were much younger, some of them, and a lot of the movie franchise fans, were in their 20s and 30s, young enough to use the internet to its (then) full potential, old enough to have autonomy and a little money, and above all, overwhelmingly female. I think that latter is particularly important because that meant they had a lifetime of dealing with gatekeepers under our belts, and we weren’t inclined to deal with yet another one. They looked at the old dragons carefully hoarding their knowledge, keeping out anyone who might be unworthy, or (even worse) competition, and they said NO. If secrets were going to be kept, they were going to figure things out for ourselves, and then they were going to share it with everyone. Those old-school costumers may have done us a favor in the long run, because not knowing those old secrets meant that we had to find new methods, and we were trying – and succeeding with – materials that “serious” costumers would never have considered. I was one of those costumers, but there were many more – I was more on the movie side of things, so JediElfQueen and PadawansGuide immediately spring to mind, but there were so many others, on YahooGroups and Livejournal and our own hand-coded webpages, analyzing and testing and experimenting and swapping ideas and sharing, sharing, sharing.
I’m not saying that to make it sound like we were the noble knights of cosplay, riding in heroically with tutorials for all. I’m saying that a group of people, individually and as a collective, made the conscious decision that sharing was a Good Things that would improve the community as a whole. That wasn’t necessarily an easy decision to make, either. I know I thought long and hard before I posted that tutorial; the reaction I had gotten when I wore that armor to a con told me that I had hit on something new, something that gave me an edge, and if I didn’t share that info I could probably hang on to that edge for a year, or two, or three. And I thought about it, and I was briefly tempted, but again, there were all of these others around me sharing what they knew, and I had seen for myself what I could do when I borrowed and adapted some of their ideas, and I felt the power of what could happen when a group of people came together and gave their creativity to the world.
And it changed the face of costuming. People who had been intimidated by the sci-fi competition circuit suddenly found the confidence to try it themselves, and brought in their own ideas and discoveries. And then the next wave of younger costumers took those ideas and ran, and built on them, and branched out off of them, and the wave after that had their own innovations, and suddenly here we are, with Youtube videos and Tumblr tutorials and Etsy patterns and step-by-step how-to books, and I am just so, so proud.
So yeah, seeing appreciation for a 17-year-old technique I figured out on my dining-room table (and bless it, doesn’t that page just scream “I learned how to code on Geocities!”), and having it embraced as a springboard for newer and better things warms this fandom-old’s heart. This is our legacy, and a legacy the current group of cosplayers is still creating, and it’s a good one.
(Oh, and for anyone wondering: yes, I’m over 40 now, and yes, I’m still making costumes. And that armor is still in great shape after 17 years in a hot attic!)
Hang on a minute. I recognize the name “penwiper”. Let me check– Ok, yeah, I’ve heard of this person.
OP also invented armsocks.
Y'all might have noticed that your friendly community moderator has been slacking a bit lately. No updates. No organizing. What the heck was
OP I have been thinking about YOUR IMPACT since 2011. Do you know what you did for Homestuck lmao
Another example of a foundational internet text that millions of people don’t know was so influential.