MiaDulce Cosplay

Cosplay Blog of a 30+nerd

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Hi! I am Mia Dulceaphel, a hobby cosplayer that got started in 2008. I have been on Tumblr since 2014 and recently decided to make a digital portfolio of my work. After engaging with this hobby for 15 years, the process of making costumes, troubleshooting patterns and exploring different creative techniques keeps me engaged with this craft.I am in my 30's and want to change my approach to social media and cosplaying- while decentralizing Meta platforms. I am in the process of moving my cosplays from instagram to Tumblr. My posts won't be in any order as I am going through old files and posting what I can find.

Updates Every 23rd of the month~ until I run out of old cosplays to post haha! Follow along feel free to ask questions, comment on posts, this is a community centered hobby.

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Novel|Manga|Anime No.6 worn: 2012 Photographer: Eve (lost contact) Nezumi: me! Shion: Xhiero

This is mostly a closet cosplay, all items were clothes we already had or things we thrifted and altered, except the wigs.

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For the past year I have been testing out different ways to format information on cosplay posts.

I think most of the time everyone posts and adds some details of their work in the comments which is fine, but after taking so many art history classes I got attached to the idea of having a standard set of information of your work easily available. I feel like most people have some variation of this information already available and some have even more information on their posts, but I feel like this is a nice middle ground for information on a cosplay photoshoot that can leave room for people to ask questions if there are any more.

Media (Novel, Play, Film,Series, Game, Anime, (original)) Title of the Media Date Worn Event/Location Seamstress/Retailer/Propmaker (if not Cosplayer made) Photographer (name/links if allowed) Character names/cosplayers in the photo shoot set, (names/links if allowed)

Feel free to use this format😋

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Manga | Anime Mawaru Penguin Drum, Summer 2012 Himari Takakura: Me! Photographer: Ashley ? (lost contact)

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Manga|Anime Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, Art Book Variation, Summer 2011 Tsubasa Sakura Hime: me Photographer: Xhiero

Xhi was taking a photography class so they invited me to collaborate with them for their assignments.

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Manga|Anime Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, Summer 2011 Tsubasa Sakura Hime: me Fai: unknown, someone I ran into at the con and we just ran off to take pictures that is how it was back then. (ooph) Photographer: unknown (ooph)

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Anime| Manga D Gray Man, fall 2014 Linalee: Xhiero Allen: F.S Komui: Craze Miranda: Hoshi Timcampy: timcampy Lavi: me!

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 500 likes! 😭💕💕💕

I think its cumulative lmfao bc i don't know from where but wow thanks

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Game|Manga|OVA

Tales of Vesperia, Estelle Sidos, winter 2012|Flynn Scifo, spring2013.

Yuri Lowell: Xiero 12, Estelle Sidos: Myself 12'

Yuri Lowell: C.T 13' Estelle Sidos: Xiero 13' Flynn Scifo: Myself 13'

The group cosplay was impromptu and we didn't exchange information only took a bunch of photos with each other haha.

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slide show format-vlog

Genshin Impact| Furina s coat(WIP)- started January 2024-still working on it when I have down time.

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🤣🥳 hurrah! 25 posts!

I am still working on getting access to my old deviant account 🙈

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Fall semester has started so I wont be posting anything until probably mid December! This account isn't dead, I am using it as my main cosplay account ~ If I can get access to-and download my old deviant art cosplays I will add them to this account too~ until then I might upload some reels on YouTube, of works in progress but nothing fancy. I am but a humble nerd aunty who is lowkey not good at engaging people, just throwing things at the internet like an offering and run away.

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Game|Manga|Anime. Togainu No Chi, Keisuke. Fall 2010 Akira: Xhiero Shiki: Craze Keisuke: me Arbitro: Imari (lost contact) Photographer: Eve (lost contact)

This photoshoot was done on location, picture us running around your local university parking structure shamelessly lol. This was more of a closet cosplay, we all pulled our resources to buy thrift store clothes and alter them, in combination with what ever we had already in our closet.

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Manga|Anime. DeadManWonderland, Shiro. Worn Summer 2012 Photographer: Eve (lost contact)

At the time, this one was out of my comfort zone. I convinced my cousin to wear the leotard so I could paint it. I didn't know fabric paint existed and just layered on acrylic. it was my first time using foam and had no idea how to shape it, there were a few cosplay tutorials on painting foam by adding a layer of glue. I didn't style the wig just put it on lol, it was a lot of "firsts."

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Cucumber Quest, worn summer 2016

If you haven't read Cucumber Quest I really recommend it! it is a web comic and has great story and fun humor. I only wore this cosplay once, mostly because we overheard other fans talking about how the author didn't want people to cosplay from it(?), rumor or not my friend and I retired the cosplay to avoid any issues.

Myself as- peridot

Craze as- Almond

Photographer- Our friend

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these are lovely cosplays. thank you for making them. the rumor is untrue and i have absolutely no idea where it came from. it makes me incredibly sad to think that other people might also have been discouraged from cosplaying my characters based on false information. i cherish every cq cosplay i ever had the privilege of seeing, including these.

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Cucumber Quest, worn summer 2016

If you haven't read Cucumber Quest I really recommend it! it is a web comic and has great story and fun humor. I only wore this cosplay once, mostly because we overheard other fans talking about how the author didn't want people to cosplay from it(?), rumor or not my friend and I retired the cosplay to avoid any issues.

Update: it was in fact a rumor and the author has addressed this matter.

Myself as- peridot

Craze as- Almond

Photographer- Our friend

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Tumblr deleted my account and but it's back now~ *shakes fist at it*

get it together!