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To find these words at journey's end fills me with joy

I'm absolutely over the moon. The Meteion cosplay we've been toiling on for months won Best in Show at CVG's masquerade.

The construction of this cosplay was crazy. It uses so many different techniques - gathers, pleats, 2 types of embroidery, hidden hooks, mitered corners, magnets, snaps, latex leggings, Velcro, EVA foam, dry brushing, sculpting, the list goes on. To have it all pay off to the highest degree possible is breathtaking. I can't even begin to communicate how crazy this costume is and how satisfying it was to have that recognized.

We weren't even able to show the judges every little detail with how much there is that goes into making this costume tick. For example, it's all based around flexibility - almost everything, even the armor bigs, is able to bend without ruining the paint job or breaking. Even the wings (which were made of 270 individually hand cut and scored feathers of foam) can get knocked on things without taking damage - magnets hidden beneath the wig keep them in place while keeping them loose enough to get bumped without any issue.

I can post the build book if people are interested, and I'll also have more photos to come. I just need to rest awhile before doing anything else @_@

#cvg2023 #convergence #ffxiv #ff14 #meteion #endwalker #cosplay #endwalker spoilers #ffxiv spoilers

zipsunz

whatever i need myself to be

barusoons

A long day in the liminal pool space

zipsunz

you already had your turn!!! 💢💢

idiasplayertwo

me when first seeing their dynamic, "and you're telling me they aren't dating??" 💙❤️

professorsparklepants

Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON

Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????

Zuko: *speaks*

Katara: nevermind I hate him

brawltogethernow

How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.

professorsparklepants

Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer

brawltogethernow

Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.

professorsparklepants

JDJSHJABDBFJSH

brawltogethernow

Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.

brawltogethernow

Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.

professorsparklepants

I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies

wetwareproblem

My brain, immediately after the “Aang won’t take no for an answer” post:

Aang: I’m gonna ride him! *jumps on Zuko’s shoulders*

wetwareproblem

Actually, I thought a bit more about this: If Aang is “grandpa figure who won’t fucking stop teaching Zuko to be a better and more spiritually fulfilled person,” then what is Iroh doing?

And then it hit me.

Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender. Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.

About half of the B plots are just Iroh finding new ways to feign incompetence and bad luck so that his political watchdog can’t prove that he’s letting Aang - and by extension Zuko - get away.

wetwareproblem

@ray10k

dysperdis

Sometimes Iroh plays paisho with Aang, whose entire disguise during these games consists of a painfully fake mustache.

wetwareproblem

AANG WAS THE OTHER PLAYER IN THAT SCENE OF COURSE IT’S PERFECT (the moustache is just a bit of Appa’s fur tied in a string)

eternalgirlscout

i think about this post all the time and if i may, i would like to suggest keeping the banished royalty angle for zuko.

he was the eldest son of fire lord sozin, who knew the avatar was the greatest threat to the fire nation, but also knew the new one would be a firebender and he couldn’t exactly merc his own people, now could he? but he always planned to order a convenient little assassination on whoever the new avatar turned out to be and in the meantime took out the air temples so that avatar couldn’t learn the next element in the cycle. of course, when it turns out to be his son, sozin, stellar dad that he is, thinks “if you want something done right” and shoots a fire blast at his firstborn.

zuko enters the avatar state, blows up half the palace, etc etc as one does, gets a nasty scar for his trouble, and escapes, hence why he was hanging out far enough south to necessitate katara and sokka cracking open a cold boy a century later.

all this is to say 1. i think it’s a good way to maintain zuko’s background and characterization in an au like this and 2. it leads to a secret second roleswap

because this makes zuko iroh’s uncle.

bisexualbaker

Reblogging again for Katara and Sokka cracking open a cold boy.

malglories

i do feel somewhat ruined forever. but it’s okay we stay silly

frontmansdefender

RIP to the legend

silvermoon424

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

stuffaboutminneapolis

badassdemonsword-deactivated202

jerking off has been mid lately

frankiedotbiz

sirobvious

“You just wrote your medieval fantasy setting to have medieval gender roles and homophobia and prejudice because you secretly fantasize about being able to be sexist and homophobic in a land with no PoC without any pushback! It’s fantasy, there’s dragons and wizards, it doesn’t have to have prejudice unless you, the writer, want it like that! In *my* D&D setting, there’s no sexism or homophobia, so that gay transgender women of all races can be holy knights fighting to protect the good kingdom from the endless hordes of the evil dark race that has threatened its borders for a thousand years!”

mlarayoukai

I dont think that's right

oryou-condred

Could I mayhaps request something you haven’t drawn in quite some time (to my knowledge)?

Pretty PomeCater? 🤩

the prettiest boy in the school with his housewarden boyfriend who has been described as an "aurafarmer"

hotshotriot

its like strippers and the economy to me

rhymingteelookatme

#eorzean proverb: one scion is happenstance two is coincidence three is impending calamity

via @ofdarklands

chryza

The Blessing of Light is something that is intentionally left pretty vague by the story, probably as another way to let the player fill in the gaps with whatever they want, and while sometimes this manifests in the story treating the blessing like a bodysuit of kevlar, I think the much more interesting interpretation is to go full whump with it and establish that the only rule is that the warrior of light cannot die. Aside from the subplot in post-ARR/HW being more interesting with the real threat of death now upon them, it just adds so much sauce. We can magick away the possibility of their head getting chopped off with the superhuman reflexes Hydaelyn hath granted, and so it is very delicious to imagine someone who, rather than being unable to be meaningfully injured, is instead able to just keep going despite catastrophic bodily harm. The warrior of light just keeps fucking going, no matter how much they may wish they were dead. More blood than humanly possible spilling out onto the ground, face pale, hands shaking, still moving with eerie grace and agility, screaming with pain every time they bring another desperate strike down? Thats the good shit.

saanphoenix2

I recall the devs saying that party wipes in a dungeon are just the WoL having Echo visions on what Not to fucking do, implying that they hallucinate their death repeatedly before triumphing.

Which is equally, "That's rough buddy."