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Here we have some wonderful Seraphim on the Ring cosplays back at Otakon 2024 by @illuxionists

#omg its us!!!#illuxionists #kagamine len #kagamine rin #megurine luka #kaito #meiko #seraphim on the ring #vocaloid #cosplay #vocaloid cosplay #kaito cosplay #meiko cosplay #kagamine rin cosplay #kagamine len cosplay #megurine luka cosplay #mitchie m

blazingvampyr

More Keith pictures…

I was trying to recreate that one screen cap from the first episode where he’s fighting those dudes in the first two

#keith kogane #voltron legendary defender #cosplay

metropolitanfemme

she rose on my versailles til i storm the bastille

#oscar françois de jarjayes #the rose of versailles #cosplay

lttawnymadison

The scrap god

Frequently cosplayed by my progeny, @dazewashere, a few years ago

Hua Cheng cosplayed by a friend

#xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #heaven official's blessing #cosplay

blazingvampyr

Sorry for the jumpscare everyone…

I’ve had this cosplay since 2018, so it was first and oldest cosplay (if we don’t count my Lapis Lazuli Halloween costume from when I didn’t know what cosplay was). I still haven’t everything except for the pants and shoes I originally wore with it, however, I no longer need a wig because my hairstyle is so similar to his now.

I haven’t seen the show since 2018 and admittedly I somehow blocked out the majority of the time from when I had seen it a couple months into 2019 before remembering what had happened. I just had the urge to cosplay him and finally did it again.

#keith kogane #voltron legendary defender #cosplay

blazingvampyr

One more post of this Maraich photoshoot after this one!

I want to wear him again soon, but there are some that I haven’t cosplayed in a while that I would like wear before I wear him again. It’ll be VBS Kaito, Magical Mirai 2019 Kaito (I’m gonna be selling those two soon), and Rei Ayanami. There may be a couple of others but those I haven’t worn in quite a while.

#maraich juschenfe #patalliro #cosplay

vvampart

my g3 rochelle design 🎀

#rochelle goyle #monster high

fabrickind

⌛The star-studded compass of history will spin around and around⏳

Decided to see if I could save any photos from this ancient Eruca shoot that has barely seen the light of day, and I think I did alright with giving this one an old photograph effect

More people need to play Radiant Historia!

📸 me

#eruca #radiant historia #cosplay

lnsynth

my favorite vocaloids are all discontinued. so long and goodnight

(sorry this sounds a bit cacophonous fnkgsjdsfg this was a wip audio)

#oliver #yohioloid #big al #sweet ann #ruby #power fx #vocaloid

chernobog13

Pardon me, but when the heck did Godzilla get so cute?

Cosplayer mewlingtea as Evolved Godzilla.

#Godzilla #cosplay

blazingvampyr

#maraich juschenfe #patalliro #cosplay

sometiktoksarevalid

#cosplay tips #makeup

inferocitas

Rennala progress…

#rennala queen of the full moon #elden ring

theratiogiver

Elden Ring: Dawnbound.

Chapter 1: Arc 1- (continued)

The Shattering.

As the battle rages on, Xenoria paces around the chapel, looking for things to keep him entertained until Jerren comes back for him. As he paces back and forth, he notices a brick sticking out ever so slightly upon the back wall, behind some stacked up chairs and sandbags.

“Well… that’s odd, never thought Castle Redmane would’ve had some… faulty architecture?”

Xenoria reaches out his arm, and attempts to grab the brick, to see if he can’t push it back in place, when suddenly, the brick goes in effortlessly, and a cloud of dust rises from the wall, it was a passageway, unused for years, decades, even. By tell of the dust, it may have been unused since the very creation of Castle Redmane.

Meanwhile… at the Castle Gates.

The March Continues.

As the march continues, 8 Elite Cleanrot Knights veer off the path, and they alone, alongside their Commander, a Rotwinged Drakeslayer. A Specialized Commander that has an extremely high rank in the Cleanrot’s Army. As they press forth, they slaughter 100’s of Redmane Soldiers on the greatbridge, 2 Cleanrots were taken out by the Redmanes arming the explosive ballistas, but by the time the second Cleanrot had fallen, the bridge was unstable, and unable to sustain more ballista attacks.

Before long, the knights arrived at the gate, and begin rotting the metal bars, gaining entry. Most of the high ranking Redmanes have been escorted to the fray in the forest, except for one.

Enter: The Redmane’s Lord.

General Radahn.

“They let you slip through. Did they?”

“A fine challenge for my men… but alas, I am not them.”

The General readies his Greatswords, and strikes at the knights, cleaving one in half, as the rest struggle to get a vantage point on Radahn.

The group finally attains a strike point, as 2 of the knights latch their Halo Scythes into Radahns back, as their commander prepares to strike Radahn’s face, when suddenly-

GRAHHHHH!!!!

The General lets out an enraged roar, sending the knights off his back, and to the ground, as he readies his blades once more.

“You rotten lot have less than 5 minutes left to live.” Radahn puts one of his blades back into the holster, and begins conjuring an Anti-Gravity Well in his hand, sure to kill at least 3 of the knights, or at least, severely wound them. “So I suggest you make your final prayers to your Valkyrie.”

The Cleanrot Knights charge Radahn, only for him to slam the Commander with the blunt side of his greatsword, sending him into a nearby wall, while tossing the other knights with the Gravity Well, directing them in the direction of the Chapel.

“Hmm… Damned stumped… what the hell is up with this here-?”

Before Xenoria could finish his sentence, the wall behind him is broken by the flying bodies of the Cleanrot Knights. He sees his chance, to make a break for it. He throws on some spare armor in the corner next to him from an old expedition- There’s a whole war unfolding below him…

And it’s showtime.

#elden ring

penwiper

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!)

pellaeas

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

manasaysay

Another example of a foundational internet text that millions of people don’t know was so influential.

#cosplay tips #cosplay history

888xiicos

How to Paint Rubber Shoe Soles

Are you a cosplayer? Are you painfully stubborn and tired of every video and tutorial out there about painting shoes telling you not to paint the rubber soles? Me too! So I did it anyway.

Here's a full break down of how I did it complete with suggested materials and pictures!

Apologies to those that use screen readers, Tumblr is NOT letting me add alt text on desktop, so I would greatly appreciate anyone who wants to add an image description in a reblog. I'll try to write one up and add it to the end of this post later, but you are free to beat me to it!