Many of you know that I had the honor of organizing the Owl House photoshoot at DragonCon this year. It was a fantastic experience -- we had easily over a hundred people show up dressed as a whole array of different characters from the show, and everyone was absolutely lovely.

I never got around to sharing our official pictures, so here's a selection of some of my favorite pictures from the photoshoot (and stay tuned for some other silly ones that felt worth posting on their own)

This was absolutely one of the highlights of my 2022; I love this show and so many of its fans so much, and I'm looking forward to organizing more things like this in the coming year!

(Pictures courtesy of Photography by Anne Fry. I was the Hunter leading things; if you're also in some of these photos I'd love for folks to point themselves out!)

Remember, friends! Cosplaying with proper facial coverings isn't a limitation, it's an invitation for your imagination! Try something new, creative, and potentially traumatic to everyone who looks you in the eye

HELLO, GORDON!

The WWDITS cosplay contingent came out strong at DragonCon 2022!

for some reason it took me approx. 2 hundred years to edit these photos of my 2nd star to the right dress taken at dragoncon but here they are! this dress was inspired by pixie dust, tinker bell, and traveling to neverland! ✨✨✨🌈

the beading on the central star and rainbow was done by hand, as was all the gathering on the front and back of the dress. the train is a separate piece which slips into the lace-up back so it can be removed in crowded spaces. this design originally debuted on the sdcc 2022 her universe fashion show runway and also includes a matching night sky coat.

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

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I was not sure how this cosplay was going to be received at Dragoncon. I played it 100% straight, no shenanigans, and folks received it as such, too. Got a lot of great compliments on my costume (and face, ha ha) and a lot of love for both the fictional and historic Valery Legasov.

@prguitarman I was watching the DragonCon 2022 Masquerade costume contest and this happened

vi took these. gay people 😤😤

jinx | lux | vi

🔥 Power Rangers x Wakanda mashup!

Cosplayers: ExpectedAcorn17 and Shawshank.Props

📸: Me

"Ninth... How big ARE your biceps?"

More DragonCon nonsense, cuz Gideon is one of my favorite cosplays ever, even if it is not fancy or involved. I could make it so, but it works for now!

Dana Terrace has seen pictures from the photoshoot I organized?? I might have organized the largest Owl House photoshoot ever because my hubris knows no bounds??

This weekend already felt like a surreal blur. I think I need to lie down.

Aaaallll the Eddie pieces are finally coming together for Dragoncon <3 Lots of aging and weathering, and soon lots of blood :3

Harvey and pals at DragonCon 2022.

fearne calloway, sexy chaos faun extraordinaire 💋

fearne calloway cosplay from critical role @ dragoncon 2022. ears by the little mantis menagerie. photos by @shmaba . outfit, wig, makeup, and editing by me.

The Clone Army in a Democracy

The problem with the clone army in a democracy is that they are completely removed from the population. And so it’s very easy to start a war, it is very easy to continue a war, it is very easy to tolerate massive losses in a war when you don’t really have any kind of connection to the thing that is being lost. If [the Republic] is a democracy at this time, the danger of having a clone army is that the folks in the democracy who are allegedly setting the political agendas to the representatives—the ones who are deciding on more continuation or even more escalation—don’t have any skin in the game. And that’s one of the reasons that we worry about folks knowing military people...because we want to make sure that there is skin in the game, there’s at least some consideration about whether or not I’m going to throw military force at this particular problem. In the Republic, when you have the clone army, that’s no longer a concern. They are just clones. We can make more of them real quick. And so their humanity is lost, and I would argue that it makes it a lot easier for Palpatine to continue his war because there are no protests in the street about saving clones. There are no burning draft cards. There’s none of that kind of democracy-in-action against the war, and I think part of the reason is because it was a clone army.

Transcribed from DragonCon 2022 Panel 1: Clones to Conscripts: Evolution of a Galactic Army

Thought I'd compile my 4 Dragoncon looks.

Sorry they are mostly Hilton bathroom pics, but the lighting here is pretty nice. 😅

((this blaster from yesterday was fucking awesome!!!))