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owner of this blog

name: Eli

autistic + ZMIZ1-Syndrome (hypermobility + eye condition)

pronouns: he/they

birthday: october 8; is over 21 y/o

relationship status: taken

Nonbinary/Genderqueer, bisexual-ish, aromantic-ish polyam.

you can always come and talk to me

Edit before was on 5 March 2025

Latest edit was on 15 September 2025

#about void #void.txt

patheticspineless

the best thing about being alive on earth is that sometimes there is a kitty

remanence-of-love

heavendollie

retropopcult

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

foone

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

silencedrowns

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

meeedeee

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

durnesque-esque

The flight suit in question:

nonexistent-triangle

the irredeemable pervert is generally well regarded among their friends for their insightful thoughts and all around pleasant demeanour

bunniope

i say yay and yippee a lot but i mean it. i always mean it. *looks into the distance pensively*

homunculus-argument

A three-circle venn-diagram where the circles are "sex workers", "the furry community", and "people working in morgues". I don't know what the overlap parts are.