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Yugiri's Vampire Cape Pattern - Yugiri315's Ko-fi Shop

A set of digital patterns (PDF) for you to print out and use in making your own cosplay costume. These are digital files and there is no physical pat...

Woohoo, first cosplay pattern for sale!!  

Just in time for spooky season, I’m making my Vampire Cape Pattern available.  Vampire Cape features the pattern for my magnificent flappy capes + pimped out popped collar (i.e. my Alucard cosplay),  comes in floor length & officer length ;-) 

Modeled by Death Himself (all the Zukabeth fans will get it XD).

P.S. I was going to digitize some of my more complicated patterns like the Rococo jacket, the theatre bullfighter bolero, or maybe the three layer hanfu set but the people hath spoken.  You all wanted the cape??  Well, here she is~

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Huh, I’m bad at this.  Boost post.

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MDZS | WangXian 魔道祖師 | 忘羨 Lan Wangji 藍忘機 @yugiri315 Wei Wuxian 魏無羨 5fSa9 (X/Twitter) 📸 aidssdia （IG)

Alcohol is prohibited in Cloud Recesses. 雲深不知处禁酒 ♠︎

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Very fun revue. However, I cannot tell if Yoshimasa just wanted to direct Dark Crystal and couldn’t get the rights or he slapped “crystal” in the title of his gay dinosaur swords and sorcery themed revue to pass it through management. Either way, carry on.

Speaking of dinosaurs, I need to find the otokoyaku who nommed me on the second floor! I'm faceblind and they were wearing dino-hoodies in the number. (Yes I know the number was dragon-themed but I had a laugh) But I doubt she was Ayami Sera. She's too high up to be assigned to second floor duty, surely. But that jawline...

Also, someone in Takarazuka is clearly playing Genshin. Chinatsu looks like Neuvillette, lol.

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Touken Ranbu | Mikazuki Munechika 刀剣乱舞｜三日月宗近 📸 シンリコル (X/Twitter)

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I have so many thoughts about RYOFU but first I wanna add my two cents to the Pursuit of Jade discourse, lol. So how pretty is too pretty for a martial figure? I think people on both sides focus too much on the face. I think that's the wrong place to look, but understandable since we all like to look at a pretty face.

Anyways, let the pretty face be. We all love a pretty face, male or female. It is, in fact, shoulders that maketh man! I know in the past, I've said military braids maketh man but I would like to amend that now that I have once again learned something new from Takarazuka. So I submit for your consideration, their latest show~

Top star Hozuki An was tasked with the role of Lu Bu, who is considered to be a very butch and hypermasculine man in the Chinese & Japanese imagination. As in, he has been historically & presently depicted as a huge dude who's idea of a fair fight is 3 vs 1...where he is the one. And while Takarazuka is filled with actresses who are experts at depicting men, once can argue they are generally more suited to the gentleman or dandy or basically track-and-field kind of guy by virtue of being overworked women. But seeing Hozuki An live I can say I was convinced at her portrayal of a giant military general beast of a man and killing machine. (and believe you me I've watched a ton of Takarazuka) This is also thanks to the costume department, they've upgraded the Chinese armors and I think the bixue or tiger head pauldrons are really doing the heavy lifting in bulking out the ladies. Not only did they give Chinatsu a nice general's silhouette but other generals in the cast as well. The martial side of this show was hella masculine. All the generals like Kazuma Asano as Cao Cao looked great. And you could even contrast them to young Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who looked too skinny as they were in plainer clothes and little armor. There was even a scene where all the generals were lined up and you could compare and see how a much a difference a full suit of armor made. (And before people complain about what they did to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, remember their lord was still broke at this time in history and could not afford nice armors so their depiction is within the realm of possibility) So in summary, if desired look of a general is hypermasculine but actor has pretty face then bulk him up and give him a nice suit of armor.

And don't forget the beastie detailing for that nice military manly man fashion. Cuz yes men like to be fashionable too, its just that their definition of fashionable is different and less "gay" as some people like to put it. Just look at historical pageantry armor, modern suits and watches, etc. It's out there. Men wanna be pretty too.

Gushing about fancy armors aside, I fail to see the problem in casting Zhang Linghe as a military man. Costume department did an admiral job bulking him up and giving him the proper silhouette when he's in armor. Yes he slims down in civilian clothes but even then his shoulders are still broad.

So yeah when portraying masculinity, one should consider the whole silhouette. (and I just wanted to say lots of nice things about the costume design in RYOFU, is all)

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MDZS | WangXian 魔道祖師 | 忘羨 Lan Wangji 藍忘機 @yugiri315 Wei Wuxian 魏無羨 5fSa9 (X/Twitter) 📸 aidssdia （IG)

Careful Weiying, you just might marry that guy you're bothering... 危ないぞ、魏婴くん。君がいじめているあいつと結婚することだってあるかもしれないよ

Who wants to see this ends? 誰か結末がどうなるか見たいですか。

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Honkai Star Rail | Aventurine 崩壊：スターレイル｜アベンチュリ 📸 ヒロ（X/Twitter)

And also possibly maybe Happy Birthday, Aventurine! それに、お誕生日おめでとう、アベンチュリンさんというかな？

May the Mother Goddess thrice close her eyes for you, keeping your blood eternally pulsing. May your journey be forever peaceful and your schemes forever concealed 地母神が三度目を閉じますように その血が永遠に巡りますように 旅がいつまでも平穏でありますように。 …計略が決して露見しませんように。

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some BTS

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Honkai Star Rail | Aventurine 崩壊：スターレイル｜アベンチュリ 📸 zeon（X/Twitter)

Since the Earth equivalent festival Aventurine's theoretical birthday falls on is a 2-day affair, the celebration continues lol. アベンチュリンの誕生日に開催されるお祭りは2日間続くので、本来の誕生日がいつなのかは分かりません。今日も可能性ありますね。www

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Honkai Star Rail | Aventurine 崩壊：スターレイル｜アベンチュリ 📸 ヒロ（X/Twitter)

And also possibly maybe Happy Birthday, Aventurine! それに、お誕生日おめでとう、アベンチュリンさんというかな？

May the Mother Goddess thrice close her eyes for you, keeping your blood eternally pulsing. May your journey be forever peaceful and your schemes forever concealed 地母神が三度目を閉じますように その血が永遠に巡りますように 旅がいつまでも平穏でありますように。 …計略が決して露見しませんように。

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Honkai Star Rail | Aventurine 崩壊：スターレイル | アベンチュリン 📸COSPASHA7 (X/Twitter)

This shoot turned out HOT! I love it and can't wait to show you the rest~

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And of course to celebrate the 3yr anniversary of HSR, I must shamelessly repost my favorite set~

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Honkai Star Rail | Aventurine 崩壊：スターレイル｜アベンチュリ 📸 ヒロ（X/Twitter)

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Honkai Star Rail スターレイル３周年おめでとう

There is, er, symbolism in here! Surely I don't need to explain myself? まさか説明は必要なんてないだろう？ ♤

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MDZS | Lan Wangji 魔道祖師｜藍忘機 📸 hk_netwk (X/Twitter)

Sakura shoot 桜撮影 ♠︎

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Attack on Titan｜Levi 進撃の巨人｜リヴァイ 📸@alferphotography (IG)

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MDZS | Lan Wangji 魔道祖師｜藍忘機 📸 @hirosi_co/@hirosi_ppp

The month of Lan Wangji continues! I got the honor to shoot at TOEI Kyoto Studio Park. So many legit period dramas and movies were filmed there. Core memory unlocked!

藍忘機万斉の月続きましょう。(笑)　東映太秦映画村に撮影したことがありますよ～カメラマンは自分で自作衣装の細かいことを気が嬉しかったです。 ♠︎

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Some behind the scenes. Still wondering if I should bother with these pseudo-tutorial videos. I know they would be helpful when I was learning and for some it is fun to watch but for some it is like seeing behind the curtain and they rather not. What do you think?

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MDZS | Lan Wangji 魔道祖師｜藍忘機 📸 hirosi_co/hirosi_ppp (X/Twitter)

Part of same series but this time I attempted the same edit & SFX on Affinity. 同じシリーズの一部だけど、写真の一枚をAffinityに編集してみようと思いました。 ♠︎

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MDZS | WangXian 魔道祖師 | 忘羨 Lan Wangji 藍忘機 @yugiri315 Wei Wuxian 魏無羨 5fSa9 (X/Twitter) 📸 aidssdia （IG)

A little sneak peak from the epic sakura shoot. This happened entirely by accident. Just 2 fans who bumped into each other and decided to abandon their friends for a 3hr shoot. And then more ppl just started to abandon their friends for WangXian. Then security had to come to make sure we all kept our clothes on or something. We cooked.

予告。今年の桜撮影が結構贅沢になりました。…いっぱい美しい写真を加工しなきゃって大変ですね😅頑張ります。 ♠︎

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Touken Ranbu | Mikazuki Munechika 刀剣乱舞｜三日月宗近 📸 edamame_piyocos (X/Twitter) Assist: ayupikumin_ (X/Twitter)

It's been a long time since I've worn this cosplay. このコスプレをするのは久しぶりですね。

Hot damn, the photographers were amazing Fullmetal Alchemist cosplayers. So you can say we cooked up some photoshoot alchemy here lol. And of course the Takarazuka nerd in me had to try to edit the photos in the style of the Touken Ranbu musical starring a bunch of OGs. やばい♡こんな撮影の錬金術ですよ。やっぱり、宝塚オタクの私は写真を『刀剣乱舞』伝 矛盾源氏物語らしいに編集してみたいです。 ♠︎

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Innocent | Marie Joseph Sanson イノセン｜マリージョセフ・サンソン 📸 くっすいー (X/Twitter)

Entirely handmade cosplay! I know it's bad practice to focus so much on the back when your brand is the face but I'm an old-fashioned coser. I can't help it! Look at my cuffs, my back, the waistcoat! THE TAILCOAT! The damn pockets! The mood lighting.

全ての衣装を手作りました。ブランドは顔に依存していて分かっているんだけど、じじいレイヤーさんの僕として古くからの習慣は、なかなか変えられない。自作衣装でご覧ください!! ♠︎