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We have a chance. . . . Missing Rebels hours. 📸 @creativemotion |
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Show them you're not the enemy. . . . Hit the Umbara arc on my v slow and spotty TCW rewatch, and OOF. Poor Waxer. Somehow I forgot just how intense it was. Fives is still best boy, tho. 📸 by @jonjamessmith |
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We have hope. Hope that things can get better. . . . Happy #maythe4thbewithyou! I am slowly rekindling my love for the star war after a rough couple of years, right on time for today, and having all sorts of big feels for the ghost crew (and also the ladies of Mandalore.) Stay home, stay safe, hydrate, punch space fascists remotely. 📸 by @aleestudios |
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Slowly working away at Helga. I put together the very extremely-coordinated-goth canvas (only a little bit intentional from a big order I did pre-lockdown), padst**ched the plastron (chest piece) and mounted it into the coat fronts. Bc I don’t want the coat to be too heavy or stiff I used largely medium to light canvases except right on the shoulder roll and lapel where I placed a stiff French canvas for additional structure. The lapel was the padst**ched through the canvas and sh**** which secures the canvas in place. When I attached the facing over the lapel I decided to go in with decorative topst**ching, inspired by this gorgeous late ‘30’s advert. I’m largely drawing from the early to mid ‘30’s, but for Helga they definitely drew on the designs of Adrian and his work with Joan Crawford so nodding to that feels fun and appropriate. (I also think Veronica Lake was a reference, but she was a little later.) (and obviously Portia Di Rossi, but she is much much later.) For the last couple of days I’ve been tweaking with the shape of the coat skirt as it was flaring out more than I wanted. I thiiink I’m happy - I hope I’m happy, I’m tired of tying off topst**ching - so hopefully I can move on! |
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Taking a break and trying to find some focus with my favourite clean lines. . . . Atlantis is allegedly set in 1914 despite Looking Like That, but Helga’s entire design (and character) is straight up 1930’s by way of Portia di Rossi. I genuinely don’t understand why they didn’t set it in the 30’s other than an unwillingness to have any reference to n****s.... the 1930’s is when the trench coat solidified itself as a fas***on garment for both men and women and seemed like a natural starting point for Helga. However, since I went pretty hard on the proto-1900’s militaria last year with Olivier and FMA and Helga’s character design is incredibly vague aside from the shoulder seam, I thought it would be more fun for me to go in another direction: towards the long vertical panels of the fas***onable ‘30’s. Blocked out princess seams w chunky fell seams to find that line between feminine and utilitarian. As well as being a costume piece I need a lightweight coat, so my challenge for this is taking everything I learned last year w olivier’s tailoring and Making It Light since I tend to err towards heavy construction in general. Zelda’s a big on-going beast that I’m aggressively overthinking and fussing over, so it really helps have a more limited and contained project to just focus on (and overthink in a much more directed way.) |
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Don’t think I’ll offer you a chair and cup of tea. . . . Because we’re social isolating, babey. Hope everyone is keeping safe and well. It is difficult to find any focus, but given my industry is completely shut down I am trying to take the time to channel Olivier and get on with some projects and push forward. Maybe I will actually finish a costume in 2020. . . . 📸 @markwills***rephotography |
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It was a simple story. . . . Wild that Rebels ended two years ago. It feels so much longer, but also like we should still be getting new stories. The ghost crew will always have all of my love, however the story ended, and Hera Syndulla will always be the best d**** pilot in the galaxy. Without Hera I wouldn’t have started cosplaying three years ago, wouldn’t have met so many wonderful and important people (and Sugi’s), and would be in a very different place in my life. I’m so glad for this bright show that everyone including me doubted. We need more bright, hopeful, beautiful space shows. 📸 @cosplay_through_a_lens |
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Four years since I picked up a tiny, terrified little bounty hunter. Four years w the love of my life, Sugi. Four years of her being utterly useless defending me from spiders and crickets. And one year that Sugi escapes an anniversary photo bc i am in a terrible post-surgery state. |
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The costs of war can never truly be accounted for. . . . Hope everyone enjoys getting wrekt about clones like it’s 2013 all over again. 📸 @danielalfonzothomas |
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I hope you’re all ready to fight the new year with the strength of 10* Briggs men. . . . My Olivier Armstrong is featured in the new ‘Anime’ issue of @cosplayrealmmagazine with some amazing fma cosplayers, which is a nice affirmation to start the new year. Thank you for a full page, cosplay realm! 💙 . . . 📸 by @MarkWills***rePhotography . . . *1 Briggs person = 10 normal weak cowardly people. Beat 2020 into submission. |
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#2009vs2019challenge making edition as I’ve only been cosplaying for two years. I’ve lost pretty much all of my university work (in no way a tragedy), but this was a ‘70’s inspired nightgown that I made for a grad film that I designed. It was made very quickly with no measures (the actress’s agent ignored all of my requests), so it had to be hemmed to length very quickly during the shoot. Which is to say it was hemmed very badly and I ran in between every take to trim all the straggly b*******s. I think that you can see an early nod to my preoccupation with structure and silhouette, and tendency to work with single colours. Olivier is my best work to date. I’ve had a very weird and discomfiting amount of negativity both online and in person for this costume so it is difficult for me to remember what an accomplishment she is in terms of technical skill and that I won two prizes with her which I’m incredibly proud of. When I remember. I have made a LOT this year, mostly small projects focusing on skills and technique so I haven’t shared much. I’m looking forward to continuing to challenge myself into improving and learning, and continue working towards accepting that what I make I make for me first of all whether or not (emphasis on not) it is accepted by anyone else. No best nine bc it made me sad and is irrelevant to my interests and achievements. Happy Hogmanay, everyone. I have no idea what 2019 was. |
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At Hyperj***an someone asked me for a quote to sum up this costume. The only thing I could think of was, ‘made from 90% Brexit rage.’ I watched FMAB for the first time a little over a year ago and it was the perfect anti-fascist story that I needed. I started the construction of the costume in earnest as we started hurtling towards the original brexit date, staying up all night sewing row after row of padst**ching whilst following the latest news and bulls****. We haven’t had a government that we truly elected since 2015. The tories have been in power since 2010, and hundreds of thousands have died under their governments. When they took over there were a handful of food banks in the uk, now there are thousands. They have crippled the nhs and are poised to break it apart and flog it off to line their own pockets. Benefits have been hacked and slashed, public servicea have been defunded, erased or sold off. And then there is brexit. They have actively lied, cheated, slandered, pulled out every possible dirty play in the lead up to this election, in the lead up to every alleged brexit date. If they win a majority tomorrow then the damage to the uk may we’ll be irreversible. So: vote. Please go out and vote. Urge, hara***, drag everyone you know to go out and vote, and make sure that you vote tactically for your area. Remember that this is not about the perfect party - they don’t exist - but is about pus***ng the best party for right now, for the country and for the future. Vote. It’s what Olivier Mira Armstrong would do. Don’t make me brexit rage another costume. . . . 📸 by @markwills***rephotography |
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