🌌 STEVE GETS EVERYTHING’D EVERYWHERE’D ALL AT ONCE’D 🌌
(or: STEVE unlocks a Shenanigans Steve state and gets the TOH adults to dab)
Last day of Anime Los Angeles was truly “I want to be comfy and silly and not wear a wig” and who better to enable that but STEEEEEVE.
Photos by David Harris; rambling under the cut.
Thrifted:
$5 for the yellow “Dog Mama” t-shirt (”Dog Mama” got appliquéd over with red vinyl, which was apparently the only suitable red fabric I had on hand for colour-matching the STEVE logo)
$10 for the black pleather jacket (added cuffs, elbow pads, painted pocket details, and reused the STEVE stencil I made ...for painting another STEVE on the back)
Made (in the span of a very focused week and entirely from stash fabric, s o m e h o w):
Appliqué for the yellow shirt, with cutouts in the red vinyl to have inset white STEVE letters.
White hood dickie.
Edits to the black pleather jacket.
Black velvet jester pants with grey sateen insets + the peeking-out tunic.
Horn prosthetic.
Synergy in the Emperor’s Coven — grabbed a soupy romance novel from the Little Free Library (that I have previously made deposits to) and gave it a ~ new life ~
thinking about suyin beifong and how she decided to build a family (and a clan of metalbenders; and a gleaming highbrow society of philosphers; and a walled city to protect everyone within) of her own
So, The Adventure Zone: Amnesty arc may be the reason I start cosplaying again. We’ll see. A little lady with a flame is kind of the best thing right now.
I found a ballpit at Anime Magic, and that was pretty funny in it's own right (it had a sign with a picture of the DashCon ball pit and text that said "Never Forget"), and I sat in it like the Tumblr trash I am,
but none of that is important, because this photo may contain the best face I've ever made.
I did an Anathema cosplay for a day at SDCC 2019! I saw so many amazing Crowleys & Aziraphales, and I’m sooo glad that Good Omens is this popular that so many people are cosplay them, and people recognizing Anathema from my costume 😇😇
Ryleigh and I were very excited to see Into the Spider-Verse in theaters and actually went twice and feel in love with it. With the costumes, I slowly put things together over time, bout pieces of clothing and the costumes throughout the year. I did my best to make things as screen accurate as I could. I bought and returned about 6 pair of sweatpants to get it right. Cosplay has given us something else to be excited about and to look forward to throughout the year. We love having something else to bond over.
As for suggestions for parents thinking of taking their children to Dragoncon, just go for it! If you and your child have similar geeky interests, start there. If not, start with the Dragon Con parade and see what makes their face light up. Also, it can be very exhausting and overwhelming for a child, so to give them plenty of rest and time to decompress.
Yasha is the first character/cosplay i’ve ever put so much effort into and it felt really good to run around with my friends and take pictures in her.
I definitely have things I want to remake/revise but I LOVED being her and i’m excited to work on her again in the future 💕 Hopefully next time without a sprained ankle so I can do some fullbody shots with the boots haha.
thanks @cronassamporna for taking the pics