happy groundhog eve, everyone
Baby, the Stars Shine Bright: Ribbon Milky JSK & Head Bow Set bust: 68-120cm waist: 66-110cm Shirring Princess JSK (2011) bust: 70-125cm waist: 58-120cm Tartan Check JSK & Head Bow Set bust: 83-130cm waist: 70-118cm Angelic Pretty: Cosmic Sailor JSK (2014 2nd Release) bust: 100cm waist: “free” Toy Parade Salopette (2012) bust: 100-115cm waist: 90-105cm Dramatic Rose JSK bust: 87.5-105.5cm waist: 73-91cm Alice and the Pirates: Beauty & the Rose Promise JSK bust: 90-100cm waist: 80-90cm Innocent World: Waist Mark Ribbon A-line Cutsew OP bust: 120cm Metamorphose Temps de Fille: Marguerite Wreath Mini Skirt waist: 60-90cm More plus size brand
Baby, the Stars Shine Bright: My Little Red Riding Hood Gingham Skirt waist: 60-97cm Heart Marble Chocolate and Sugar Coated Cookies Skirt waist: 58-100cm Frilled Petticoat waist: 56-100cm Angelic Pretty: Shadow Dream Carnival Highwaist JSK bust: 88-110cm waist: “free” Airy Star Gate JSK bust: 88-110cm waist: 78-104cm Gelato Jsk (2015) bust: 88-120cm waist: 94cm Alice and the Pirates: Joker’s Cards Party JSK II bust: 85-102cm Innocent World: Rose Damascene OP bust: 84-118cm waist: 67.5-106.5cm Metamorphose Temps de Fille: Musical Cat Mini Skirt waist: 60-110cm
Baby the Stars Shine Bright Bambi de la forêt secrete JSK II Bust: 79~108 cm Waist: 70~98 cm
Angelic Pretty Luminous Sanctuary JSK Bust: 88~110 cm Waist: 74~102cm
Metamorphose Dark Night Guardian Official Measurements: 60cm min Owner measurements: 100cm max
Alice and the Pirates Sleeping Chiffon OP Bust: 73~118 cm Waist: 58~111 cm
Angelic Pretty Melty Berry Princess Bust: 83~130cm Waist: 66~125cm
Some tips for tights painting
Alright so apparently there are people who have no idea how to paint tights without getting paint all over everything and themselves so I’m gonna shoot out what I do and hope people listen if they want.
First thing to do: Make a fake leg. It should look like this:
Mine has obviously been through hell and back since I have used it so many fucking times for so many cosplays (Mostly Vanellope remakes)
How the fuck do I make a fake leg Hanari? Glad you asked.
First you get a pair of tights and put them on. Then you WRAP YOUR ENTIRE LEG IN DUCT TAPE, over the tights, and cut them off of you. Don’t wrap tight enough to stop your circulation or anything just wrap your leg enough.
After you cut the duct tape off tape it back together at the seam and stuff it full of cotton or extra fabric or whatever you want i don’t give a fuck. Fill it with whipped cream if it’ll keep the shape (Spoiler alert it won’t)
And then VIOLA you have a fake leg that you can use to paint your tights on. I used the other side of the tights to wrap it and make it look like a giant hanging piece of meat which freaks out my dad sometimes,but you can do virtually whatever you want to it. You’re gonna be destroying it whichever way so you might as well have fun right?
So go out and paint your own tights without getting paint all over your damn leg. If you want to make fancy stripes and lines and shit like I did then use Duct Tape or Painters Tape for smooth edges.
And that’s really it have fun with your new leg.
cant wait until they turn the entire vatican city into a big museum and you can like sit on the pope’s throne and take selfies and also the catholic church doesn’t exist anymore because it fucking sucks
-Martin Luther, 1517, thesis 35 of his 95 theses
ok so what I have to articulate RIGHT NOW before I see Cats and have my whole life fucking changed is that anyone who says “well they look just as creepy as they did in the stage show” is a liar and is avoiding some hard truths which I will detail below:
The cats in the STAGE MUSICAL Cats are very obviously not meant to look like real life cats. I would argue that some of them don’t even look like people-dressed-up-as-cats. They’re, like, an abstraction. A stylized 80s version of the sexy cat costume. You are meant to recognize them as human dancers wearing very pretty feline makeup and human clothes. The cat part is mostly portrayed through their movements and body language (it’s a ballet, it’s jazz, it’s interpretive dance—literally whatever, but you can tell they’re being cats)
There is no attempt to make their outfits look like extensions of their bodies, and I think this is what’s throwing people off. They don’t have fur all over them, they have patterned bodysuits. They don’t have paws, they have legs warmers. They don’t have tails coming out of their asses, they have cute belts with “tails” on them. Hell, they hardly have EARS, their very human haircuts are stylized to have TUFTS which kind of look like EARS. They don’t move, they don’t twitch, it doesn’t look like they have flesh and blood ears rotating on top of their craniums, it’s all diagetic.
Basically: the stage cats look like people dressed as cats, while the movie looks like cats dressed as humans. I get very strong skinwalker vibes from looking at it because there’s no attempt at makeup or costuming. There’s nothing there. These motherfuckers really went and tried to make them look like the Cat Homunculi that God Forgot when they were supposed to be stylized jazzercise dancers!!!!
above: a woman in a leotard, fashionably dressed for the 90s dance scene with her pixie cut and fingerless gloves
above: demon that eats human skin
You know what? No. No, Hatsune Miku did not write Harry Potter.
J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter. And we need to accept that.
Harry Potter isn’t some pure unproblematic beacon of perfection that we can just choose to erase the scummy author from and enjoy without guilt. Harry Potter is very much rooted in Rowling’s view of the world. The blatant antisemitism in the portrayal of the goblins, the entire race of slave creatures that actually really like being slaves and Hermione’s attempts to free them are largely played off as a joke, the almost complete dearth of canon characters of color (and then when she does put canonical characters of color in, they’re… Nagini…), the complete lack of respect for other cultures (the Japanese wizarding school literally translates to “Magic Place” in Japanese, Cho Chang is not even remotely a proper Chinese name, don’t get me started on her usage of Native American folklore), the almost complete lack of LGBTQ+ characters, the “Dumbledore is gay!” baiting, the lycanthropy-as-HIV metaphor that involves one of the werewolves intentionally infecting as many people as he can, with a preference for targeting children, no less…
These are all very much present in Harry Potter. They’re not things you can just ignore. And they’re there because Rowling wrote them in.
I know you read Harry Potter as a kid and loved it. I know when you read Harry Potter as a kid you probably didn’t even notice how shitty all this stuff was. I certainly didn’t. But you can’t go back to that time. You can’t go back to when you were 10, when you were consuming this media and loving it uncritically without notice or regard for its more problematic elements. You can’t go back to being a kid again.
And that’s okay. It doesn’t mean you’re required to wholeheartedly condemn this important part of your childhood. You can still enjoy these books while acknowledging that they’ve got some really shitty things in them. You can enjoy Harry Potter as a mature adult. You don’t have to be a kid again to like it. And you’re perfectly allowed to hate on Rowling for her shittiness, past and present, while still loving Harry Potter.
So don’t say Harry Potter was written by Hatsune Miku. It wasn’t. It was written by J. K. Rowling, warts and all.
“You Were Meant For Me”
Lore Olympus fan art as per the challenge issued to me by @cat-harman92 :) She got me into this comic, and I can’t get enough of it.
Props to Rachel Smythe (and any color assistants she has) because it is impossible to replicate the feel of her art style XD so I made due with what I’m capable of.
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Give these two the love they deserve!
Since I’m in a weird ‘my scene’ mood can we all just admit that the weakest link of the crew was definitely Barbie. I can’t even think of what her personality or anything was??? Besides somehow being the center of everything???
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Madison had Barbie on a leash tbh
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