Thursday, May 23, 2013

Excitingness!!

                    So I really should be in bed, but I wanted to post this.  As a lot of you who follow me on twitter already know I was at Port City Pop Con a couple weekends back, ordinarily I would give a rundown of what happened at the convention, but perhaps another time.  Let me simply say that was a very enlightening trip for me and since I've returned I've had some time to think.  And I've decided that I'm gonna throw myself deeper in the costume community and see if I can't...

Monday, May 6, 2013

Marvel Girl and Other Costumes

         It dawned on me after my nice harsh rant in my last post that I completely forgot to post anything on my Marvel Girl costume!  Unfortunately I haven’t been able to snag a new camera (I will have one before DragonCon, hopefully before Metropolis *crosses fingers*) so that said the only couple of pictures I have are either off my phone, or that someone else took.  (To the Deadpool I...

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Cosplay and Consent

I initially wasn’t going to make a comment on the “Cosplay is not consent” movement, but this picture was retweeted by someone and it just sent me over the edge.  Upfront, let me get a few things out of the way: I am female.  I am a cosplayer.  I have been cosplaying for around seven years now, and I have been to a wide range of conventions both anime and comic book and from small hometown cons to 10k+ people in attendance....

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Costume update!

So been working on a couple of new costumes, as always.  Currently I'm trying to get my Marvel Girl finished up in time for a convention next weekend.  I have a couple days off work between then and now so lets cross our fingers.  I think all that's left is some detail work on the belt, a last bit of paint on the soles of the shoes, boot covers, a few seams on the leotard (plus redoing the entire neckline to match hers), and gloves.  And I've never made gloves in my life.  Yea looks like I'm gonna be doing a few late nights....