Btw it only took a few days of doing this for it to stop entirely. Haven’t had a scam call in weeks. Went from them hanging up 50 seconds in to hanging up 6 seconds in. Never give up. Never surrender.

lmao how do they think any part of this is supposed to work? this is SO DUMB. 3D printers don’t work like this!!!

These EU customs changes are probably going to prompt a zillion more small businesses in North America to stop shipping to the EU. We're pretty small but as far as fandom businesses go, I don't know how individual artists are going to keep legally shipping there.

New! This was a bestseller at Anime North last weekend - Esquie hairclips just like Maelle and Verso can wear. Available as a kit, or as ready to wear pieces. Weeeeeeee! dangerousladies.ca/products/mae...

the song is Wind's Nocturne from Lunar: Silver Star Story btw btw

I love looking up props and whatever to see who else has made it and the only one on the market is missing like 90% of the fine details but has also "inexplicably" included parts no one would print, like leather straps and feather fronds. Uh oh! Someone's selling resurfaced game models~~

This was kind of aggravating to write. No shade whatsoever to prospective new clients who have been asking! It’s good to ask! They don’t know me or my team! But I resent the environment that forces thoughtful people to have to ask artists this at all.

Cosplay people-watching at cons fills me with a crazed need to make costumes and 3D model new things.

Day 39 in a row working. Someone in France is selling prints of my files without credit or permission. I must now attempt to write to them in legible French, a language I have not spoken regularly in 20 years, but theft knows no language. [the world's shakiest thumbs up]

Purchased Uma tails generally look pretty sad and limp to me so I 3D modelled a tail “base”. The commercial tails that come with wigs are made with long wefts wrapped around a piece of mesh, so you can pick it all off and spiral it around the spine instead. This one isn’t styled yet but it’s goin’!

The con I'm going to this weekend periodically forgets to print signage (?????) and in past years I have roved the Artist Alley desperately looking for someone with a table identifying their table number so I could wayfind, so now I'm sticking a map on my table for other lost souls.

Come see me at Momocon at booth WON-0703! I have 3 custom gacha machines set up with hand made toys and charms, wooden cicada magnets, and bird garage kits. Or just come say hi to talk shop!

Our event was so nice, we're doing it twice! FanFest@Home: All Saint's Wake will be a Final Fantasy Halloween celebration on October 30th, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Toronto International Airport Hotel! With DOUBLE the space, we're bringing back familiar attractions- along with new surprises!

I am tabling with @dangerousladies.ca at Anime North this year, so cosplay schedule is light. Friday: casual Saturday: casual Super Creek (Uma Musume) Sunday: Sophie or Sciel in prelude outfit (Expedition 33)

One fully finished costume shipped, the other goes home tomorrow, and then Anime North table all weekend... I am so pleased and I will sleep when I am DEAD!!!!!!! 🤠

So fed up with scam callers that now whenever I get one I just act like I'm interested in their service and then I put the phone under a speaker blaring novelty songs with titles like "No Cock Like Horse Cock"

Fuck it, after I wrap my current projects I’m gonna start Mordred. Game doesn’t even have a release date but I can chip away at it. I’ll just buy myself some time by working on gloves, undersuit and other stuff that’s less visible while waiting for ref.

“Ethical” and “upcycled” and “slow fashion” don’t mean anything anymore lol they’re just words people throw on their businesses for marketing.

3D printer dilemma: do I sacrifice GrayCris to save Murderbot, or Murderbot to save GrayCris?

Is there a job title more soulless sounding than "Independent IP Creator"...

Making a Beauregard Level 10 cosplay! Very slow at posting progress on this, but hoping to have it done this late spring/summer. Venturing into areas I've never done like thigh high boots and side-shave wigs so we'll see how it goes!

I’ve been at the studio every day for a month between work deadlines and personal costume projects and yet I’m get home on a Saturday night, eat dinner, and immediately start another costume part… here’s a waistband for a skirt.

On our second power failure of the day (this has never happened in the 5+ years we've had our studio here) and discord is also down... mfs... we have two major deadlines next week 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

I used these to make 12 belts on Sunday and I love them and will be making them in a million configurations over time, so anyone who buys this listing will get free updates as long as I am making them.

A secret advance warning for cosplayers on this timeline who are in Toronto (or want to visit) in June... we are going to be doing a "come pick up free stuff" day at DL at some point.

At OishiUplink. I glance at my fellow cosplay contest judges. Minto is here. I walk into the hall. A sea of mint jackets. I walk down the hall and see Minto talking to Minto. I sit down in the lobby. I am sitting across from Minto. Someone bumps into me with a large ghost backpack. It’s Minto.

I think by end of summer I will surpass 400GB worth of cosplay assets. Over 2000 different file sets for character accessories, props, armour, and miscellanea... my magnum opus... sometimes I just need to look at it and just be like... Yes, I did that!!!!!!

For the first time in a while I have no real cosplay plans after my current round is done... everything I have thoughts about is either "wait to see if you like the game" or "fun but do you really want to invest the hours" :(

We've been using a lot of gold foil pigskin on projects at work lately and pairing it with this gold lurex ribbon... the colour/texture match does such good things to my brain, I now buy it in bulk because it's the only gold ribbon I've found that reads as gold.

Maelle's Clair armour... just the collar left to go.

I could do Evermore Park right. It would still lose money probably because I don’t have the evil capitalism gene required to be that profit motivated but I believe in my ability to make an immersive experience.

Secret dealings.

Update: these killed me and @quicksparrows.bsky.social when we tried them a couple of weeks ago. Except Jenn is stronger than me and ate like 7 and I had 1 (ONE)!!! I’ve let my people down… 😔

Was gifted a FF Tactics shirt today… looked at the label… Squaresoft has been defunct for 23 years. CRAZY!!!!

Me, in a fantasy world where I am stupid rich and spend all my time on weird art projects: me and my merry crew make an rpg hunter's market stall. It is designed like an immersive set. It sells "real" hunting spoils from fantasy creatures, like Nutkin pelts, chocobo claws and whatever.

Praying Tides of Annihilation is good because I want to cosplay Mordred so bad.

Dicking around making artist alley displays... Still working on a bunch of different variants. I might throw these on the store for a pittance because tabling is not and will never be my business's focus, so maybe someone out there would get more use out of them.

I love having my lil gripes about Fusion, but whenever I step in ZBrush I'm like... actually, THIS app was designed by demons to torture me. But I'm slowly getting better at it lol. Simoso from Expedition 33:

My spriggan son made it into the finalists! If you love seeing his face and he brightens your day - please send a vote his way! 😌 It's an absolutely incredible spread of talent and artistic vision across all the categories. Please take the time to admire all of the wonderful submissions! ❤️

Do I know anyone who plays bass guitar? An industry client is asking. (I don’t know what for.)

Ridiculous to me that misrepresentation of goods is so rampant now that Unique Vintage, a company with official Disney licenses, advertises knock-off dresses using stolen images that aren’t even of the same dress. Like, if you order you’re getting the last one lol.

The almost finished skirt! Jenn assembled and I gathered ruffles. I have to do more ruffles on the long detachable skirt. Horsehair (lol) will be sewn in the hem to give it a lovely shape. I love how eleguannnt it looks

I ate 5 buldak carbonara mandu at dinner and they tasted soooo good but my tongue still feels sparkly 90 mins later. They should make a version for people that only use 1/8th of the spicy package.

A peek at our metal sciel chokers. This, along with Maelle's brooch and Lune's necklace should be ready later this spring, (and we're aiming to have them at our anime north booth)! Preorders are here: dangerousladies.ca/collections/...

If you wanna be an astronaut you don’t just have to be super smart, well-liked, educated, fit, patient and brave, you also have to be able to take really nice photos.

Don't go into business bc then you have to be like "time to spend another $150 on glue" periodically

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

every single person in Toronto in unison: Ha ha ha so they can get messages with a 4 second delay from 400km away, but I can't get service on the subway?

Interesting boots covers… gonna have to figure out a new closure bc that zipper is gonna get sealed in lol