cosplay life
The weird life of a cosplayer.
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Flickr Thoughts
So, the past couple of months, I’ve been trying to clean up my flickr account. Retagging, resorting, etc. I’ve gotten to where I really hate flickr, and I’d totally move to some other site if it didn’t mean basically killing most of the photos on my website for several months time. It’s not even the annoying yahoo! redesigns I hate,…
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Thoughts on a short year
Last year I only made 6 costumes. That’s the lowest amount since I started this hobby. Even the year we bought a house and we needed to save money I made more costumes (9). The only years lower are 2000 and 1999 – because I only made 1 each of those years. After realizing this and thinking about it, I…
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A bunch of questions
1: What was your first cosplay? Depends on how strict you want to get with the definition. I generally point to my Halloween costume of 1998, when I did a closet costume of Britan from my comic, SunDowner. If you say OCs don’t count, then my 1999 Halloween costume of Quistis which was my first foray into sewing. Or if…
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Pleats
If I EVER say I want to do something with pleats EVER again, please slap me.
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On talking smack
If you’re going to talk smack about someone’s costume, you need to at least be familiar with the thing you’re talking smack about. I made a Sana Kurata costume back in the day, based on the anime/manga “Kodocha.” It’s never been ALL that well-known here, but I very much enjoyed it, had fansubs of the later seasons that were never…
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Personal Opinion Time
I’m really tired of seeing the Rubies Ame-Comi Wonder Woman costume. And while I’m at it, I’m tired of seeing the Rubies version of Clone Wars/Gentle Giant style Leia.
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FAQ Friday: I Would Do Anything for Costumes, But I Won’t Do That
Today’s question is… Some people go all out for costumes, and I was curious, is there something you won’t do? Where’s the line for you? I’m actually pretty lazy. There’s a lot I won’t do, mostly just because of sheer laziness. “What, you mean I have to go out and BUY leather for this? screw that I have some vinyl…
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Random musings
Why is Star Wars costuming so over-sexualized? I’ve noticed it for a while, but tumblr really brought it to my attention recently. So over there on tumblr, I have a handful of tracked tags. I don’t look at them all that often, just if I’m really super bored, usually. Some of the ones I have are: “doctor who cosplay” “lord…
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boy, gee
People saying all kinds of nice things to me today, CosElite included me in their list of Belle village dresses and made my day (PS, CosElite is awesome, go check them out) and then GallifreyDeathZone posted some of my Doctor Who costumes with some very nice comments! My ego is going to get too big for it’s own good at…
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A cosplay meme because I’m bored
When did you start cosplaying? You could either say 1998 or 1999, depending on how strict your definition of “cosplaying” is. See next question…. What was your first cosplay? 1998 I put together a costume based on my own comic book character. It was the first time in a few years I’d actually made an attempt at a Halloween costume…
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Random thoughts
So, pretty much all the time I’m wearing a costume dress or skirt, I’ve probably also got shorts or pants on underneath it. Or, sometimes, for whatever reason, wearing jeans or something over a superhero costume. Exhibit A, B, and C: And for whatever reason, guys tend to want to comment on this in a condescending, snarky way. (I haven’t…
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Halloween is one week away…..
Do I have time to rush-make a complete costume for your Halloween party? You’ve waited til exactly a week before Halloween to ask, and you want it for 1/10 the price of what I would charge even IF I did commissions? Oh, so now you’re asking to borrow one of my costumes? So, overall, the answer is…
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International Cosplay Day
So apparently today is International Cosplay Day? I will be celebrating by working on costumes all day long.
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in reality
I keep trying to put together some kind of dragoncon costume schedule to post, so people can know when I’m wearing what. today I realised that this is really my dragoncon schedule: 1. wear costumes 2. nap 3. wear costumes 4. tequila shots so yeah, im just going to post that when anyone asks
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This week
So here’s a list of costume stuff I’ve gotten done this week: -bought stuff for a costume I wasn’t planning on making – – -unfolded some material – – – – – -made a to-do list
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Do what
One of the questions I get a lot from random people is how do I wear so many costumes at Dragoncon? (On average, I usually wear around 12 costumes at Dragoncon.) Let’s say an “average” non-costumer is at Dragoncon for the same amount of time as we are (4 1/2 days). Each day they wear a different change of clothes.…
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Then & Now: a costume meme
Digging back in my blog archives, I found a costume meme I filled out in July 2002. I decided to add my new 2013 answers to it. 1.Name: 2002: kell 2013: kell (oh i’m so glad I’m still kell.) 2.Cosplay Name: 2002: kell 2013: kelldar (I just expanded.) 3.When did you first start costuming?: 2002: 1998 2013: 1998 (some things…
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When the shipping on your fabric is more expensive than the fabric
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Ms Kim will eat your soul
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Deep Cosplay Thoughts
Chase & I were talking today and the subject of a certain, very large, costuming website came up. He asked it people even still use it; I told him yes, all the time, that’s part of its’ problem. You upload something now and it’s buried as soon as it posts, because there are so many users now. You’re lucky to…
