Cool snippet of Inquisitor Oriza from the Warhammer 40k shoot at Dragon Con ☺️🙌❤️ #warhammer40k #cosplay #wh40k #dragoncon #gamesworkshop www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SDNJuh/

The Madame Mantis costume is almost right. Photos from Dragon Con indicate she’d look better with the gold filigree carapace (insect anatomy) carried down through her legs. I’ve got a few months to thrift something that’ll work 😄👍 #cosplay #mantis #dragoncon #insect #costume #stainedglass

Inquisitor Oriza is a harder wear as I age, but damn what fun cosplay to inhabit. #warhammer40k #dragoncon #cosplay #inquisitor (Photo by Thomas Spanos, 2025)

And just like that … My Etsy shopping budget for 2025 has tripled. #etsywitches #takemymoney

The projection is off the charts here

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

For my friends who knew this would happen under Project 2025 and did all they could to stop it - I’m so sorry for the suffering ahead. For those who voted for the GOP and these predictable promised outcomes - Take your medicine. Sleep in the bed you made. And Fuck your upcoming GoFundMe.

Transforming our century-old pump organ into a usable desk gives us another 100 years with this beauty ❤️. Irreparable as an instrument but important as family heirloom, making her an active part of our lives again with this update feels great! #pumporgan #antique #diy #renovation #transformation

We are all pennies. Marked with Liberty and E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One), a Penny is the individual American currency that all larger sums are built from. You can’t have a dollar without 100 pennies. Pennies, altogether, are powerful. We are all pennies. #epluribusunum #penny

Built over 30 days from a shower curtain, thrifted clothes and decor with sharp scissors, zip ties and fabric glue ‘Baba Divina’ wandered @wildwestcon.bsky.social in 2020. Photo by @melissawambolt.bsky.social #tarot #fortuneteller #costume #diy #cosplay #magic #headpiece #mask #tarotcard #skirt

Recommended follow @nakedpastor.bsky.social Every bit of his Art hits home. ❤️

As a tech-clumsy old lady with an iPhone, I prob make things harder than they have to be, when trying to protect my privacy from Apple, Google and their ilk. So anyway, I just went app-by-app in Settings to reduce access from Siri’s nosey ass. Learn elsewhere.

1) Devastate the US population economically. 2) Demoralize the US population and sow division. 3) Test population’s resolve to protect freedom with attacks on minorities. 4) Invite external assault (911-esque) to allow for US martial law. This is the plan. #project2026 #oligarchy #gaza

Santa got the surreal horror treatment in this thrift store masterpiece. (Even background Santa is concerned 👀). #thrift #art #christmas #horror #santa

Resistance was futile when John F. Goddamn Strangeway badgered me into throwing together Ackmena from the 1978 Star Wars Christmas Special. I did it for Bea Arthur. #starwars #Christmas #ackmena #cosplay #pestered #beaarthur #closetcosplay @strangeway.bsky.social @brettkingsteam.bsky.social

Salvaged a t-shirt graphic I liked and used Aleene’s Fabric Fusion to glue it onto a thrifted cap. It’s a little scrubby on the bill, but I can still wear it 😊👍 #thrifted #cap #diy #salvaged #tshirt #tequila #aleenes

Yesterday, on my late mother’s bday, I found this photo in the organ project, tucked away in a compartment. This was her organ. She learned to play on it, and spent the following decades playing each next modern interaction of organ at various churches. This is the photo I’ll keep with organ desk😊❤️

Captured by @dimhorizonstudio.bsky.social under Sloss Furnace in scorching Alabama July temps. This is what heat exhaustion in a latex costume looks like. Exquisite art 😊🙌. Alas, the costume is no more. #alien #hrgiger #aliens #cosplay #latex #costume #xenomorph

‘Madame Mantis’ was an extra beta project in 2019. Test photo by Subversively, had amazing shadows on the ground. She’s been seriously reworked. I just need to take her out again. #cosplay #mantis #stainedglass #diy #costume @dragoncon

Absolute favorite video of Inquisitor Oriza by Legend of Micah @dragoncon.org #warhammer40k #cosplay #sisterofbattle #costume #armor #gamesworkshop

Finally committed to reconfiguring our 1910 Weaver pump organ into a desk, transforming a family relic into functional furniture for daily use. Will share a link soon with the journey. Here’s a bouquet of reed stops that will remind us of her old life as she moves into her new one. #organ #desk

This stupid DOORMAT in an Alabama thrift store. #idiots

Thrifted this big, old doll and discovered that “Follow Me!” Eyes were a thing for a time. 😮 Her name is now Ebaybee. She’s my office mgr, sits on my desk with motivational ‘get to work’ quotes. CON: I can’t escape her gaze PRO: Judgy staring apparently ups my productivity. #vintagedoll #bossbaby

Tried my hand at visible mending a son’s favorite pants. Telling myself it’s supposed to be messy 😂. Also, bees.🐝 #visiblemending #sewing #beginner #bees

Lu in his “missing his favorite person” heated blanket. #spoiled #saddog

More amazing folks at #Krampuslauf in Birmingham at #CahabaBrewingCompany - #krampus #yule #costume #masker

Some amazing presenters at #Krampuslauf in Birmingham at #CahabaBrewingCompany - #krampus #yule #costume #masker

What middle-aged woman wouldn’t welcome being wrangled into an ancient grail knight #cosplay from #indianajones #thelastcrusade - KittyBear @strangeway collected everything I wore to help me “Choose wisely”. Most @dragoncon fun ever. I only had to be old and irritated 😂 Thousand year old cake 👍

Re: UHC investigation, from the police chief: ‘“An incident like this happens, we don’t spare any expense,” Chief Maddrey said.’ In case anyone needed to see it stated out loud that with police investigations, just like insurance-based healthcare, outcomes are proportionate to incomes

In 2018, I made a costume so bad that I only wore it for an hour. No photos (probably), no notes. For some reason, I thought fake icicles would make cool teeth (ah, a pun). They did not. But, I DID wear something @dragoncon 2018 (other folks stuff) that was astoundingly stupid fun. #kittybear

Finally got around to futzing with the #Russian #kokoshnik silhouette in 2017 for ‘Seraphina’. Never got the skirting colors quite right (thrifted fabrics just do what they want 😩) but love her from the waist up. #cosplay #costume #diy #originaldesign #stainedglass #headpiece #mask #fauxfur

A little #transawareness joy ❤️ Discovering the @vicenews.bsky.social videographer had skate chops, grabbing top speed reel of trans kids skateboarding at sunset. Great day, awesome journalism 😊🙌🛹! #transrightsarehumanrights #transawarenessweek #skatersnothaters

MCGOVERN: “Republicans want to blame trans people - trans people aren’t the one raising their grocery prices. Big corporations are… immigrants aren’t the ones denying health insurance claims — it’s the billion-dollar insurance companies.”

Leaned harder into #Warhammer40k with Inquisitor Oriza (2016). Thrifted sporting goods & fabrics, coloring books, vintage decor - she’s heavy as hell. And STILL an absolute fave to wear. Clanks when she walks 😄. #warhammer #cosplay #inquisitor #costume #sisterofbattle #wh40k #stainedglass #cherubim

Taking inspiration from the late Alexander McQueen’s mastery of texture, Merry McQueen (2015) was a crusty compilation of Xmas decor & ornaments plus thrift oddities. Lots of movement = grinding headache to wear 😩 #cosplay #couture #AlexanderMcQueen #costume #glampunk #glitz #headpiece #mask

The far right after we leave Twitter.

This snippet of Abbey was captured by Micah Moore at MomoCon. Found its way to Reddit where 51% of readers confirmed I did not exist and was, in fact, CGI. Me, in the threads, alive and with bona fides, did not change all minds. #foreshadowing #subreddit

Taking inspiration from #Warhammer40k and a pile of thrifted coloring books, ABBEY assembled in 2014 from thrifted home decor, literal roadside salvage and a prom dress. Tons of coloring work, but a joy to wear. #wh40k #stainedglass #costume #gothic #cosplay #steampunk #thrifted #sharpie #original

‘Siri’ assembled in 2013 with the last dusty inventory from a closing radio electronics shop. Discovered the absolute versatility of zip ties. The working rotary phone dial still befuddles teens. #telephone #dieselpunk #cosplay #recycled #costume #ziptie #mohawk #western #photography #dimhorizon

Got serious about the craft in 2012 w ‘Ava Fortuna’, aggressively repurposing & learning about wet leather. Ended up w a Gothic Steampunk Raven. Foreshadowing #TheCrowening 👀 #steampunk #cosplay #thrift #raven #crow #headpiece #feathers #costume

The next four years will be the longest one-hundred years of my life. #fuckthistimeline

Invited in 2012 to join a group cosplay of Trollocs from the Wheel of Time at JordanCon. As the least talented builder in the group, this costume looked great (as long as I kept moving 😂). Brilliant fun to wear! It fully disintegrated after two outings. Lol #wheeloftime #trolloc #cosplay #jordancon

Constructed with debris from the 2011 tornados that swept through central Alabama (salvage was invited by the property owner who hoped art might emerge from the chaos). This is ‘Tornado Jane’ after some of her pieces were stolen while on exhibit in AZ. What weird theft. #Steampunk #tornado #costume

Aiel Maiden of the Spear (2010) from Robert Jordan’ Wheel of Time. I LOVE inhabiting this cosplay. Be warned that I will be insufferably posting various images of her along the way because I have them. And I can. So many. #wheeloftime #aiel #wotonprime #robertjordan #spearsister #wot #cosplay

The Fortune Teller Automaton (2010) benefited from tech expertise by @smeeon.bsky.social who made the Ouija planchette move via hidden magnets (with simple gestures from me). Scary as shit. Made folks cry. Retired her as she exceeded spooky limits. RIP FTA ❤️ #steampunk #cosplay #ouija #automaton

Built for my gigantor son in 2008, this Darth Nihilus cosplay leaned on every kind of thrifted garment. I think I’ve worn this more than he did. #starwars #kotor #cosplay #darthnihilus

The Tooth Fairy emerged in 2009, inspired by a cache of vintage dental tools and sample dentures. Kind of a nightmare. With teeth. Photo by Dim Horizon Studios.

What a long road it’s been. The Steampunk Nanny was a first fumbling convention cosplay in 2008. She opened the door and pointed out the path.

Leaving the Metaverse, hoping for a Betterverse. Excuse the feed fire hose as I move content from the landfill to higher ground.