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Since I have only sporadically posted here the last few years here’s just a who I am and things I might post about post:

I’m Sam (She/They), I’m a 30 year old NYC-based queer cosplayer. I really started cosplaying in 2019 and then there was a pandemic, so I obviously lost my mind about it. Above are some of my most recent highlights and big builds. I love to find fun new ways to interpret character designs and am very much a trust the process builder. I am also a DnD player currently playing in a Curse of Strahd Campaign and DMing a homebrew adventure.

Currently thinking I’ll use this space to post build updates, maybe some updates on my DnD campaigns, and just other general nonsense. I haven’t been active here since college so a lot of re-learning how curate the space.

If you want to find me on other platforms, I’m really only active on Instagram (and the bird app as long as that still exists) as samharveydesign

Photos Top left: Chef from Super Giant Game’s Hades shot by Chezphoto (instagram); Top right: Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb Book Series shot by adoyible (instagram); Bottom left: Orthax from Critial Role’s Vox Machina Campaign shot by bijutsu.photos on instagram; Bottom right: Caduceus Clay from Critical Role’s Mighty Nein Campagn shot by thepicwitch (instagram).

#cosplay #cosplayer #critical role cosplay #the locked tomb cosplay #hades game

minusboy

a neutral reminder that while being a hater can be a fun indulgence you can never find long term happiness by spending your time constantly hating on things and you can’t make long term friends if the only thing you have in common is something you both dislike; you need to love and be passionate about things. being petty gets old. you need to be a lover too

mgposani

Merch for a The Locked Tomb trilogy-inspired epic metal band, The Reverend Daughters. Part 3. Best-of album, maybe?

You can always grab tees on my shop

mrn0093

#falin dungeon meshi #delicous in dungeon #dungeon meshi #falin

someone-will-remember-us-i-say

I will be coming back to this concept. We're not done here

#hamlet #shakespeare

fateschains

pearlescent beadwoven ribcage harness inspired by the iconic harrowhark nonagesimus! fun fact: this thing weighs something like 3 and a half pounds

#for future reference #for future use #i have been doing more jewelry work and this seems like a fun project

Being demiromantic is dumb. Cause i’ve spent 99% of my life just wanting people (sexual partners, friends, coworkers) to communicate expectations and needs in clear, normal ways. And then there’s been 2 people that I’m just like “so what do you want me to light on fire? Cause i’ll do it. I’ll burn this whole ass building down if you want that. Don’t even need a reason, just say you want it and i will”

#demiromantic

andhumanslovedstories

I’ve reached that stage of insomnia where you start trying the weird poses. Maybe lying facedown and diagonally with blanket only covering left leg will be the secret to sleep

#feeling personally attacked #i tried moving to lay sideways last night

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

personally I think that if we make something legal, everyone who's in jail for breaking the previous law should be released. I can't believe that's not a common sense belief.

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

why? because we've clearly decided that what they did is fine, since we just made it legal.

but they still committed a crime! it was illegal then, and they broke the law! except "breaking the law" isn't the bad action. the bad action is the thing that's illegal. if "breaking the law" was the issue, then all crimes would be equal.

we don't punish people for breaking the law. we punish them for doing something bad. if we as a society have declared something that used to be illegal now legal, then we've decided it's not a bad thing. so we should stop punishing people for it.

it's fucking ridiculous (and yes this is about weed)

#tear down the prison industrial complex

boeing747

When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

fanyeline

#I can tell you’ve been practicing hard and working to build your stamina #how did it feel to last longer? did it feel good? I’m so glad to hear that

asstrongasyouthink

lifetime sub who's an experienced dog trainer & teacher trying to encourage a newbie dom w a master's in education: i know iT'S BAD PEDAGOGYYY. JUST PUNISH MEEEeeee please before i die

#i’m in this post and i don’t like it

ms-demeanor

I adore twin peaks because people talk about how opaque it is but like windom earle asked major briggs his greatest fear and the answer was "the possibility that love is not enough" and that's it that's the show. Love wasn't enough.

Not only that love wasn't enough, but that it was what fed the darkness in the woods.

Love is not enough, you have to break the cycle. Fix your hearts or die.

Twin Peaks is a show that tells you exactly what it's about like every three episodes but people don't see it because there's a horse in the living room.

ms-demeanor

Twin Peaks is a show that features the main dead character dead-eyed in the afterlife screaming the world "doppelganger" and features her identical cousin dying an identical death at the hands of the same killer; the dead main character's two boyfriends have two different girlfriends, one of whom is perfect and prim and has a family with a dark secret at the center of it that has been kept quiet and is slowly poisoning the relationships in the house, and one whose husband has isolated her in the woods where she's kept in line with the constant threat of (sexual)violence and people look at this and go "what is that show even about there's a weird giant, it's impenetrable."

ms-demeanor

Twin Peaks is a show about the toxicity and continual inward pull of domestic violence but because it's presented like a soap opera with a jazz soundtrack and has a cast of exclusively the most beautiful people alive in 1991 that gets overlooked in favor of the drama of which of the extremely beautiful people are going to end up abusing one another.

ms-demeanor

What if the town of Twin Peaks dehumanized Laura. What if it made her the perfect blonde homecoming queen, who helped people through meals on wheels and was sharp in all her classes and beloved by all, admired for how pretty and kind she was in between shifts at the department store and time spent helping the disabled. What if Laura had a boyfriend who was *so nice* that she didn't know what to do with him.

What if the town of Twin Peaks dehumanized Laura. What if it made her a sex worker, using - and selling - drugs after school and driving down to roadhouse bars on weekends to get fucked by big strong men. What if Laura had a boyfriend who loved to be high with her and loved her body and the loud sound of fear she woke up inside of him.

What if Laura's *nice* boyfriend then dated the straight-a daughter of the town doctor, destined for a private college and pink cardigans and pearls. What if Laura's scummy boyfriend dated the high-school dropout waitress who was married to the guy running drugs.

What if the *nice* boy came from a broken home and started dating a girl from a good family. What if the scummy guy came from a picture-perfect family and started dating a girl in an abusive family.

What if everybody in town is laura and killed laura and loved laura and watched as she burned herself out because they didn't know the big secret, but they knew something was wrong and weren't able to act because they were so busy keeping up appearances.

laura ran away from help. laura was begging for help. laura was a sacrificial lamb. laura was the agent of rot. laura was a madonna. laura was a whore.

laura needed sanctuary. she needed protection that she was too hurt to ask for, she needed a place to go where she wouldn't get hurt worse.

What laura got was love (donna loved her, james loved her, bobby loved her, maddie loved her, sarah loved her, and even leland loved her) and love was not enough.

#twin peaks #a+ analysis