Beard and Thunder do Cosplay

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Oh man. Another one of our cosplays we did two runs of. The first few photos are from 2010 and 2012.

The first three are 2010, and they were fun. Although the mask and hat on Beard got really warm. But just being so damn fancy was really cool. It was more of a ballroom/masque thing.

The last three photos are some of the best photography we have ever seen of our costumes. AbashedThunder had the awesome idea of doing almost something out of Carnivale for her outfit and some minor adjustments to CounterBears, and a new cape which sadly we never got a shot of.

The angles and poses are just amazing. We practice posing. But have no idea how we look until we actually see a photos. We really like the angles in the second version where our eyes are just peaking out of the mask. Sort of a creepy cool vibe.

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SO uh. Hi.

I guess this post should have come first. But I had to scour the internet of photos of our cosplays. Had to.

We are Abashed Thunder and CounterBeard, amateur cosplayers . We mostly hit up AX for four days of craziness. 

We haven't ever really gone to any other cons for cosplay, but we have gone to ComicCon San Diego the last two years, we don't cosplay when we go, which has been a blast for other reasons. We have played around with the idea of going to ALA but never really get off our butts to do so. 

So this is our cosplay tumblr now. so, yeah.

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Deer god. Cosplay pic explosion. Our...Third? No Second. I'll call it second major cosplay.

Also I always laugh at how in most of these pictures we are totally looking at different spots.

Just like we both saw something else that was equally as surprising. 

We actually did this cosplay twice. The first was in 2011 and we were way too ambitions. We had stilts. Backjointed monster stilts. You can see AbashedThunder looking pretty snazzy in hers. Sadly though we did not fully test these stilts out. CounterBeard still has scars from his. So we eventually dropped them. Our feet and flesh thanked us.

You'll notice the difference in antler types, the thinner antlers on Beard are from 2011 while the thicker antlers are form 2013. We had to do a full remake after a little bit of, uh, breakage. Initially we meant to make them smaller too. That sure happened.

This was a really fun one to do, minus the mild headaches we got from wearing the wigs and antlers. And they have attached one of our favorite memories of cosplaying.

We had a group of Asian tourists stop us for a picture about four to six of them. I don't think they knew what we were but we looked interesting. As soon as we did the deer in the headlights look one of the women with them said "Oh, kawaii!" so that was neat.

OH! And in the second run, we were for some reason on that super campy "Heroes of Cosplay" show on scifi. Well. We were in the opening anyway. Super vindicating.