Prognostication in Obscurity

Thirty-something, dealing with BiPolar II and ADHD one day at a time. Currently majoring in US History & aware of my chances of living in a cardboard box after graduation. My love for Niall Horan, cats, & 1D knows no bounds. INSTAGRAM: @leighta

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[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

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The flight suit in question:

[djotime]

joe keery via caitytakesphotos

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[acecroft]

LEWIS PULLMAN as Cameron Cassmore in Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026)

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Arsenic and Old Lace 1944, dir. Frank Capra

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[elvisqueso]

Motivational Sebastian Stan for all the artists out there [ x ]

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Anna Akhmatova, The Fifth

[morabbots]

COMMUNITY 1.08 "Home Economics"

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LEWIS PULLMAN The Kelly Clarkson Show — May 07, 2026

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Lewis on Loneliness

Wise words

[rhettroblues]

There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. I'm aware. You've said that like 600 times. Didn't your mother ever teach you any of these things? No, she didn't stick around long enough to teach me anything.

LEWIS PULLMAN as Cameron Cassmore REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES (2026) — dir. Olivia Newman

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Remarkably Bright Creatures dir. Olivia Newman | 2026

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Remarkably Bright Creatures dir. Olivia Newman | 2026

“Secrets are everywhere. Some humans are crammed full of them. How do they not explode? It seems to be a hallmark of the human species: abysmal communication skills.” ― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures