21 | Irish | ♌ | † | ESFJ Hiya! I'm Reii, from Ireland :) I'm studying German and Japanese in college. I like cartoons. Billy Joe Cobra is my role model. (๑ↀᆺↀ๑)✧ *hears Jojo fans in the background*
So I’m looking at making my academy ahri cosplay and trying to find the bes solution.. General chatter in the read more!
Firstly the aim:
I want tails that look natural.
(TomieSteam)
These are examples. A less natural but still nice one would be:
It’s pretty common for them to just stand up. Some common solutions are:
-Bendy and strong welding wire/general wire with some stuffing (either wrapping paper or plushie or sometimes none) covered in fur (Axvnt & others)
-TomieSteam’s: Less sturdy pipes (used around washing machines?) which are bendy, bent how she wants them, covered in foam. Then she put the fabric on top (see Popstar/pink ahri above)
-PVP Piping that makes them stand directly up with harnesses around waist/chest
Tomie’s is a nice solution, but probably really hard to move around with since they’re set into certain shapes. The wire lets you pose them, or pull them close to you when moving through tight spaces. In the end I think the wire solution seems best.
So Vongo wrote about Avnxt’s solution, which uses wire. That’s great. However I want to mostly talk about the harness situation. She suggests two pieces of wood aligned in a T shape. The top half of the T faces down and has the wire for each tail around it. The I part of the T brings the weight upwards, and is secured with a harness under the boobs area. This should disperse the weight nicely.
But there’s some things I don’t like:
1. Wood is not comfy! Even with foam on the back this is probably awkward
2. This places a lot of distress on your lower back which is super bad for reasons I’ll later go into
3. On academy ahri (and many ahri’s!) this is hard to hide.
To expand on 3 for a second, academy ahri has space allowed for the tails for cosplayers.
In the 2-3rd model you can see the base of the shirt. It makes no design sense why there’s suddenly frills on the shirt, except for cosplayers. (It kind of plays off the front of her skirt, but otherwise it doesn’t reference any anime I know, or is a common ‘school uniform’ design.) IMO this is a little helper for cosplayers to get the tails on their bodies? Obvs we can’t make them go through her skirt as you see in model 2...
So I’m thinking about a one-plank solution that moves the weight upwards.
Oh let’s briefly go into reason 2. Vertebrae don’t have nerves. If they did every jump you make would hurt. There’s squishy stuff between the bones that lets them move and take weight. Every time you lift heavy things you risk putting pressure on the squishy stuff. If you do this often by the time you’re 50+ it’ll wear away and then it’ll hurt.
The bones grind against each other since there’s no more squishy stuff and it’ll hurt like a mofo. So I’d like to avoid making my lower back be super reasonable for the weight of 9 tails over 3 days.. it won’t hurt much on the weekend, but idk how much long term dmg could happen.
So finally the concept. A backpack style harness.
It would fit around your upper body and using foam and elastic and fabric be a harness around your shoulders -hopefully moving the weight to your shoulders. Then it needs some more fabric or rope or something to attach onto the piece of wood and drag the weight upwards.. also probably one more ribbon to bring the fabric/rope close to your body...
I just wanted to write a long post and post pictures of foxgirls.
I’m pretty happy with the shirt so far. I got the collar on this afternoon an I’m working on the sleeves in a mo. I suddenly realized that her cuffs are a french-style and not the style my pattern came with.. so there’s a sudden change of plan. Probably the buttons will be decore only lel. I’m super nervous about sleeves tbh. They’re so tricky to attach and everything OTL
I think I’ll be changing it later to fix the piping though. It’s okayish but it’s pretty clumsy and I need to find a better way. But I won’t have time before GLAN so I’ll probs fix it for AnimeDublin or some other event.
But after that it’s just final pieces! It’s currently wayy too long so I’ll be changing that and hemming the bottom. And according to UPS the fur I ordered on Thursday is supposedly going to arrive on Monday.. like 5 days travel? Hopefully it’s as soft and fluffy as it looked online o.o
Lastly, I need to sort out some forms for AUpair in Germany .-. I’m not really looking forward to it, but what I hope for is:
-Keep my nice but part-time job until Mayish
-Go on Aupair in May for 6 months
-Try to come back to Ireland and get nice full time job (Novemberish)
-Do Eirtakon! :D
-From September I’d have been job hunting in Ireland & Germany
-Also try to find a nice proper job in Germany and keep that for 6-12 months.
After that I should have been there a solid year either way and hopefully at least 6 months of it with a job with actual nice pay. AUpair is easy to organize when trying to move abroad, but the pay isn’t great for the number of hours -and that the parents will defos try to get you to do extra evenings and afternoons and you’ll end up doing more than the 30 hours/week in the contract. Plus it doesn’t offer great skill-learning for future jobs.
I don’t really want to go abroad though. It makes me sad I studied languages (though I love them), and makes me sad there isn’t more jobs in Ireland.
Though I’m also excited to feel like starting somewhere new. In a few areas I’d like to feel like I’m new and not get old questions or feel like people know lots about me. No real huge reason why, but I just feel like being somewhere new and fresh. I’d feel like I can start over with friendships and such when I get back to Ireland then, and that sounds nice.
I’ve bumbled a few of them again I think.
Today we cleaned out the front room and are making it into a nice creative space/office. It’s a pretty big room, and it’s nice to see it finally being used again. I’m using it for my sewing projects for now. I’m hoping to finish it for Akumakon -even though I’m not sure if I could even afford to go ^^’’ I’m pretty excited to try and finish a bigger project though..
I’m also really happy about how Eirtakon went! So far I’ve only seen one complaint about Artists’ Alley (from an Attendee), and other people I asked said it was the opposite of a problem. So IDK. I’m considoring what they said seriously, and they’re kinda right, but there wasn’t much I could do.
I hope all the artists did really well from the weekend. They were all super nice, and when they had downtime, nice to chat to. Though I try not to bug them much when there’s customers about. I liked the size it was at, but maybe bigger would be nice next year, though things like that aren’t full in my own control. And I don’t even know if I’ll be Artists’ Liasion again in 2016. I’d like to be though.
I also like my part time -job. Everyone is really nice, and it’s something I care about. I don’t directly use my languages very much, but I think that’s okay. I’m still not sure about where to go in the next few years... but maybe I should look into jobs that don’t use my languages drectly if I don’t actually want to move abroad vry much. And by jobs, I mean careers. Like good ones.
I also like my weekly routine. I help out at the BF’s house -pick up his kid sister from school and do homework. We try and train the dog to be good. Though he’s getting kinda aggro. On the other hand it’s a bishon so he’s 90% adorable even when he’d chewing on my hand while I say ‘no don’t do that’.
It makes me pretty sad though to be getting diconnected from people I really liked. I’m not making the effort to hang out with them -and I’m starting to feel worse and worse about it.
Maybe I should accept the feeling and know that it’s chill. There’s some people I really enjoy my ‘every con’ meet up with. I don’t feel the need to see them all the time -though I’d be pretty chill if that happened, and we have a good time when we do meet up. I wish I could feel more that way with other people. Though the people I don’t fee that way about are largely people who I don’t see IRL. But I enjoy doing my usual things each evening -and chatting online isn’t really one of them anymore.
Maybe I’ll start doing something about it though.
PS. it’s not like I feel nervous. Or anxios. Just sometimes really really sad. More so with people who’s emails and such I don’t have and I spent a lot of time online with. People I can still talk to area little different.
Anyway. I got some pencils at Eirtakon, so I want to start drawing more. I defos want myself to believe more that it’s okay for things to not be perf, that wwhat matters is having fun drawing and colour. And to feel that way. Of course, enjoying the final product is also good. I might give up on the cutting and gluing for tonight and go sketch.
I’m also really enjoying league. and also feeling shit about it.
So I like the game. But I don’t like talking about it much. it often turns into talking about either: Talking about experiences/plays you made/had, which aren’t very engaging. I wan’t there? I don’t know how great it was. It’s very second-hand feeling. Or talking about match-ups, strats, OP characters.. and it’s fine so long as you agree, but most often it feels I don’t. And often I feel t goes into the, ‘well my experience is in this league. you’ve taken that from your higher one/people in much higher ones. it may be true, but I’m not sure it applies here’.
Like: Soraka is OP and bana(na)ble.
I’ve never seen anyone think to ban soraka in silver. No one even plays here. I used to main her, but I have no idea what makes her OP now. lul what.
IDk. It makes me feel like I’d have a hard time making buddies in the game and talking to them IRL.
But I’ve been enjoying playing. I started to learn mid, and I accept I might make mistaes. I played a good vfew on my smurf to get the hang of it, and now I can beat lazy mid laners. anyone good is hard, and melee mids are scary, but I can hold my own in some match ups. And 60% of the time, regardless of poke, I can cs pretty okay. It’s really nice starting to have another lane I can considor taking. Even if I have to fight tooth and nail to get the lane.
Lastly, I’m gratful I have a sweetie BF who puts up with all my shit. Like when I got sad about my feet hurting after saturday at Eirtakon and it was raining and stormy and the buses were late and the stops were far from croker and started crying because it was lame. [on which note i seem to cry more easily laely. which doesn’t stress me out, but I think it worries/upsets people around me a lot so idk]. Anyway, he’s great.
Last, lastly, I still really want to own a dog. Like my own dog. Benji is close, but not the same. I want a dog of my own. Benji gets gven out to a lot for dumb rasons. I want my own dog so I can be liek, ‘biaatch no u don’t.’ ad can be responsible for making it a good dog.
I hope its not a pain, but I need to get all this info and confirmations in very soon for Artists Alley so I’m messaging people on FB/Tumblr. My page isn’t really very professional-looking since I only use it occasionally for this stuff.
;_____; The minute one place is like, 'we can give you work' another place is like, 'we have /full time/ work plz come for interview' (icing on the cake: They tell me this one day before the interviews are happening :T)
what even do I knew this would happen (almost hope I fail the other interview now??)
on the upside: I have 12 hrs work with a language group doing admin stuff which is pretty cool i’m excited and also feeling loyal to them already :T
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