Putting myself in handsewing jail until I learn to use a thimble

The order of operations for the embroidery on this is going to be so cursedi need to like actually do a good job of documenting it because it has taken me so long to puzzle out

I love u Chicago screws, you will not betray me like speed rivets have

"The dying lion, eyes blazing, the king with no kingdom." 📸 Jellography on insta #honkaistarrail #Mydeimos

Remnant of Mydei fabric used for the backing 🎉 i am not ever allowed to use these scissors or i will destroy them

Avoided drinking Celsius for so long but the orange one is good 😔

this is how i sleep in on the weekends

This "break from hand work" time fucking sucks. Phone is only fun when im not allowed to have it and now im just sitting on social media running my mouth like a dumb ass

Cosplaying female characters is the trenches why did I get quizzed so much on honkai lore by men who knew less about it than me when I was cosplaying March 7th as opposed to Mydei

That stupid little plastic nipple

on god i will finish this costume in 2026 #notgodzillawip

Woke up just in time to see them deleting mydei on billibilli its so jover

Thank u to the power of yaoi for pushing me to finish this build

Also if anyone went to closing ceremonies i need to know who won audience choice 🥺

I won a fancy sewing machine too!? which I will definitely use, but mr singer heavy duty is always going to have a place in my work room so I don't have to put craft foam or leather through the Pfaff or Bernette

Kumoricon was so wonderful this year and the cosplay comp was insanely fun. Ty to the world's best two handlers @doegred.bsky.social and @devilcreated.bsky.social who strapped me into this cosplay and babysat me.

Hot gluing my set together in da hotel room :)

Proof that Mydei was on my body. Im putting him back on today as well

Body broken

Omg Raenir whm/pld real now

We lost power for 24hrs during con crunch and I had to boil water to use the steam to style the wig hair in my helmet just like how they styled their kanekalon in the middle ages

I can't say theres no hot glue in the cos because like there's foam work and I will die on the hill that sometimes hot glue is the best glue for the job there, but i haven't started gluing together fabric or trying to use it for structural pieces so like we're in a lot better shape than AX

Im crashing out, im crashing out im crashing out

24 hr power outage during con crunch on my second to last day to work on Mydei is so homophobic

We are so so close

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

Got confirmation that some of my patients love me because they think I'm weird in a fun way. Boomer testimonials

Ber is the grossest eater ever, like full on slurping noises unhinging his jaw and shoveling as much food in his mouth as possible then flinging it everywhere

How hard can working a forge be if men do it?

I have 1 panel left to finish beading on out of 6. Im so close to being free. As a reward if i finish early i will give myself more beading to do

I'm so excited to have free time again and like seeing the ALA judge reveal I'm so glad that's not my circus. I don't want to be perceived like that.

PANTS DEFEATED

Got ye ol body filler bondo and it feels like 2009 again

Made gloves today, if i come in early again tomorrow from prop prison because the garage is cold then the punishment is sewing pants

Being so real and vulnerable right now but how are we attaching foam armor to gloves in the year 2025? I assume hot glue while you're wearing the glove is out of fashion

We didn't get into ALA and I'm actually so relieved about it. Its crown time instead baby, i can do everything i wanted embroidery and leatherworking wise with the 5 whole months ive got now

Realized that my skeleton also has my fucked up nose bridge and i have never wanted to see a skull more in my life

I think i have one of the ugliest cats in the world but only because he's supposed to be very handsome but usually just looks like a gnome

Cursed pattern piece made from the tattoo paper i fucked up on for the concert

Why does he look like this

For the second time in my life the inside of this cosplay is actually going to be so clean, not a raw edge to speak of

New knives design im begging

The way i thought these things were like double the length they actually are, very easy fix but damn all that pointless hammering

A reminder to all my fellow cosplayers if they haven’t figured it out yet: your life will be WAY happier if your reaction to “someone is wearing the same costume as me” is taking the spider-man point picture and screaming at each other about loving the character and the worse points of wearing it

Why am I so afraid of making pants this shit is easy when you have no ass to contend with patterning around

I love that the conversation of why people aren't crafting cosplays as much anymore isn't being turned into 'well gen z and gen a don't have the attention span for it' because i don't believe thats it.

if you don’t reciprocate, don’t expect anything and this goes for many many things in life you have to care about other people’s art, time, writing, ocs — anything — too.

start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people

Ok maybe i now understand why photographers do not give out raws and also watermark photos