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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!!

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Seattle area cosplayer, genre fiction fan, and cat enjoyer. Kappei Yamaguchi once teased me for liking old anime so you know it’s true. 30+, account is sfw but minors are warned. Always drowning in wig hair. 💖 @fabrickind.bsky.social

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · Mar 12

Four Murasame (Zeta Gundam)!

new favorite costume unlocked I never want to take this off

Photo: @fabrickind.bsky.social
Costume, wig, edit, model: me
Location: USS Hornet Museum

#cosplay #cosplaymakers #gundam #zetagundam #ガンダム #Zガンダム

Me as Four Murasame, in a purple off the shoulder dress worn over black tank top and leggings and wrist bands, with a short teal wig and purple lipstick, sitting on a trunk and looking up to the ceiling in the bowels of an aircraft carrier. The hatch behind me has a Z printed on it.

Me as Four Murasame, in a purple off the shoulder dress worn over black tank top and leggings and wrist bands, wearing matching purple socks and black flats with a short teal wig and purple lipstick, standing next to a giant 1943 anti aircraft rifle. One hand resting on the big gun and the other is near my face.

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 11h

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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kishi @kishisdoujincorner.bsky.social · 5d

Day 2: Julian and Admiral

Julian in a light purple shirt and white apron. He's holding Admiral (his cat with white and dark brown markings) and smiling with his eyes closed. Admiral is nuzzling his face happily.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 11h

Trying this once more:

In 2004, Save Our Sailors member Fernando Gonzalez posted the group's "Manifesto" to his personal website, which outlined all of the group's goals and planned means of achieving them

That site's long gone, never archived; I just have excerpts. Does anyone have a copy?

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fabrickind @fabrickind.com · 12h

🌙Thank you for taking me to the moon🌙

This is one of my favorite cosplay photos of all time, even if it barely shows the cosplay and I was absolutely freezing. Worth it for an incredibly evocative shot, though! I love Cairngorm and should do more of him

📸 me

A cosplayer in a sheer white gown and short white wig stands looking out to a turbulent sea on a grey day

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Sean | zimmerit.moe @sean.zimmerit.moe · 13h

Long time reader and friend of Zimmeri @austin.karageko.com translated a contemporary convention report about Daicon IV and allowed us to publish it.

Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-tr...

Comic Margarita’s Daicon IV Travelogue

A translation of a Daicon IV convention report originally published in the pages of the short-lived Comic Margarita.

www.zimmerit.moe

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 11h

oh no that’s the worst! i am so sorry

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 12h

Hell yes!!! Oh man I just went and looked up the whole cast and WOW they did some great choices

Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

Inuyasha really did punch waaaaay above its weight re: good OP and ED picks, didn’t it

it’s not my favorite either and yet so many songs from it remain on my playlist

Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

not even in your profession but I just winced

Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

I also extremely do not buy from E anymore even if their warehouse is in California because HOOBOY did those owners do a racism and ableism and I can’t support that

I’ve been having to buy from the evil river site if I can’t get Five Wits and that makes me feel Not Great

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

That said, a few cosplay sites that aren’t entirely trash DO have US warehouses. Dokidoki, MicCostumes, and “literally whatever is on the evil marketplace with prime delivery” are your best options

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

If you’re in the USA it is going to be a lot harder right now with the current nonsense… you’re stuck with either DIY or stuff that’s already in the USA, and that’s also going to be complicated by most of what’s in the USA being adult size 😭 I hate giving bad news or “hope it’s on Amazon”!!

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

if you’re using one of the wig brands with stock issues and you run out of wefts, you’re toast. goodbye. adios sayonara fuck you

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

Applicable to hobbyists and several other jobs but for my current? “Rush order, backordered color”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

Congratulations!!!!!

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Nakayama Festa Tgirl Swag @tk-asher.bsky.social · 1d

Driving down I-5 be like

🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 1d

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory (1991)
Episode 4 - Attack and Retreat on the Burning Sand
23:53.620

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

you ever get insomnia so bad that you have to go banish yourself to the couch for a few nights so your brain stops thinking the bed is the bad place

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

last week I found every supply I would ideally want for a commission…… in stock in a popular color

I think I used up my week of luck lmao

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about that guy in hunter x hunter who used nen for making websites. cuz i do. i imagine the kind of hassle it must be to try to reconfigure your nen because flash got deprecated and HTML standards changed again. fucking around with nen infused javascript and getting mad at themselves

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⚡Bubblegum Midlife Crisis⚡ @bunnycartoon.bsky.social · 1d

🥲🥲🥲

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

Satoshi Kon would have turned 62 today ;_;
Fanart by Jinou (x.com/Jinou_rakugaki)

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · May 12

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

I had really bad insomnia last night so my brain has been in soup mode all day and I’m straight up fantasizing about taking a sledgehammer to my crimper

Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

staring at this wig and wishing it would finish itself because I’ve been at it for days and have hit the point where I thoroughly want to throw it out the window so 27 cars can run over it. who is a crafter and can relate.

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

YEP. and then you can’t even manage to buy medium quality not fast fashion anymore because you go into a department store and it’s the same shit from the same factories with the same garbage fabric and construction as SHEIN but now it’s $150 and I doubt the workers get paid more…

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

I don’t even speak Chinese and yet half the time the tutorials I can stumble onto for free on xhs kick everything I can find in English’s ass