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Sorry for the horrible camera quality! Buuuut, as promised, I finally finished my remade tower dress!

The tower dress has been so challenging for me. It’s such a detailed dress and the first time I made it, I missed some crucial details, as well as the second time around.

But, it seems like the third time’s the charm and I’m so in love with way it looks and fits me! I’ll have a proper photo shoot soon!

((Everything except the necklace and thimble were made by me. This dress took about…16 hours of work and was completed over the course of three weeks.))

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Das me

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Wow look, I actually made something. Now to go and cry over Fables.

#cosplay #ME

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hoW DID I EVEN MISS THIS REMIX

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SOMEONE MADE IT SOUND GOOD

THEY CLEANED UP THE VOCALS AND ADDED A DESCANT TO THE CHORUS ARE YOU SHITTING ME

THIS IS REALLY GOOD

#FUCK

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You look a bit like a younger version of Ruth Ginsburg. :o

Well, after finding some pictures of her as a young lady, I'll take that as a compliment ;)

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Hey guys! So here is my lineup for my next convention! It is Long Beach Comic Con on September 27-28.

So first things first:

Saturday- Alana: Saga. ((Sorry about the pictures, still haven’t gotten a shoot done or finished the wig.)) I am thinking about entering the LBCC masquerade with this costume simply because on how much time I’ve spent on everything. ((Yes, I made the wings that you guys can’t see too))

-Brigid Tenenbaum: Bioshock. Since I’m going to be hosting the Bioshock gathering on Saturday, I’ll be Brigid Tenenbaum! I highly recommend you show up! I’ll be giving out prizes and prints, as well as selling little trinkets!

More info can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/902065519808506/

Sunday- Snow White: Wolf Among Us. I debuted Snow at Long Beach Comic Expo and I just have to wear her to the same event again.

GUYS, I’ll be selling some prints for like $2, so if you’d like one, just come and find me!

PLEASE COME AND SAY HELLO! I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN PEOPLE AT ANIME EXPO DID AND I’D BE SO HAPPY IF PEOPLE DID THE SAME!

Also, if anyone wants to be my Bigby for Sunday, I’m game. My Bigby wants to be someone else instead, so I need one.

SEE YOU ALL THERE!

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So ready for this con. I've been working out all summer for this con. This exact con.

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#me

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he keeps getting stuck in the couch

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this is my dog brian stuck in our couch in case u missed it

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Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was the most amazing woman you’ve never heard of.

A writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist, she was born on February 22, 1876 on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her mother was Sioux and her father, who abandoned the family when she was very young, was European-American.

When she was eight, missionaries came to the res and took Zitkala-Ša along with several other children to the White’s Manual Labor Institute in Wabash, Indiana, one of many such institutions where Native children were forced to assimilate into white American culture. She studied piano and violin and eventually took the place of her teacher when she resigned. When she received her diploma in 1895, she delivered a speech on women’s rights.

She earned a scholarship to Earlham College, where she continued to study music. From 1897-99, she played with the New England Conservatory in Boston and played at the Paris Exposition in 1900. She collaborated with composer William F. Hanson on the world’s first Native American opera, based entirely on Sioux melodies that had previously existed only as oral tradition. She would play the melodies and Hanson transcribed them. The Sun Dance Opera debuted in 1913 to warm reviews, but I can find no recordings of it, and it seems it’s never performed.

Zitkala-Ša also wrote a number of collections of Native American stories and legends. She wrote them in Latin when she was at school and then translated them into English. She was the first Native person to do so in her own words, without a white editor or translator. In addition, she wrote extensively about her schooling and how it left her torn between her Sioux heritage and her assimilation into white culture. Her writings were published in The Atlantic Monthly and in Harper’s and she served as editor for the American Indian Magazine.

Unsurprisingly, most of her writings were political. She was a fierce yet charismatic advocate for Native American rights. Her efforts helped pass the Indian Citizenship Act and the Indian Reorganization Act. Having founded the National Coalition of American Indians, she spent the rest of her life fighting to protect our many indigenous communities from exploitation.

Her accomplishments were incredible- but have you ever heard of her? I had never heard of her either. Just another example of a history-changing woman omitted from the history books.