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Previous thread: >>10897117The Flower Kitten series is releasing this week
>>10910841>The boob ribbons are an interesting design choice thoughthat's because it's popular with chinese lolitas. taobao brands put them on a lot of stuff because it looks like the ribbons on hanfu. i personally don't like the ribbons like that, it'll look better as just bows.
>>10910837They just traced over Vanilla-Chan and made it worse
>>10910847I'm with the Chinese on this one. Titty ribbon a cute.
When is sugar hearts JP MTO shipping? I can't go that far back in the AP news section of the site.
>>10910847>>10911194O i c. I think it looks alright on the jsk but a bit weird on the OP, like there’s too much going on with the yoke. I ended up getting the lavender jsk but where is my matching headbow, AP? Where is my Decoration Ice Cream headbow? Not even enough spare fabric for some barettes?>>10911223June!
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>>10909453This page is a goldmine. I am in heaven.
>>10909453>post has been removedowari da...
>>10909498Seriously? That sucks... I was at work and couldn't enjoy it fully.
>>10909501>>10909498It's still there, you have to log in with an Instagram account tho since they think he has 18+ content
>>10834199holy fuck who is she
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Any base bags with patchwork/quilt desgns?
>>10907571it didn't come from itasha, both came from itai, which means "ouch" in japanese, and is japanese slang for cringe, same thing ita comes from in the lolita comm. anon's distinction is just plain bull and trying to spare her feelings i assume. itabags are supposed to be cringe and off putting, it's part of the charm. side note, cutesy chinese itabags are only cutesy because they think ita means it's lolita related since they don't have context and ita is in the word lolita.
>>10907609The itai in itasha came from ouch/cringe. And then after ita cars their were ita shirts and itabags. Learn cringe history, zoomer.
Does anyone get creative block when working on an itabag? I have the pieces, deco, and the base bag ready to go, but when it's time to lay out all the pieces I draw a complete blank or hate whatever I'm putting down
Maybe a silly question, but has anyone ever taken a bag through TSA? Do they get weird about all the items and pins and whatnot?
Looks suspiciously the previous OP pic but with a new account
>>10910952Nayrt, I don't know which dress she's talking about (I didn't see a reference) but the dress was probably released in multiple sizes.
>>10909142>>10908756i'm gothic not sweet so i know nothing about sweets jewelry quality. what makes them "good" vs "bad"? desu bb&b looks pretty much the same as all the other sweets jewelry i see, but like i said, far from an expert. so just struggling to figure out the difference
>>10910939They didn't even spell it right!
>>10911215it's a replica, did someone actually buy it?
>>10911183Design wise, it’s the same thing that makes squishmallows and western “kawaii” items ugly while plain Japanese cutesy stuff like Rilakkuma are cute. Visually the proportions and style are often off and uglier. Usually there are areas where there’s too much detail/“realisticness” and not enough in others, resulting in an uncanny look. Would you take a shitty Killstar dress me say it’s the same thing as a moitie dress because they’re both black and lacey? Same concept. There are times where Japanese makers make some ugly ass jewelry and Western makers (not BBandB) who have cute work though, but usually the best designs are not made by westerners.Quality wise, BB and B is strongly reminiscent of taobao jewelry that used to be more easily accessible in the early 2010s, with the same cheap pearls and metal findings. The only difference is that those necklaces were $5-20 max. I’m sure people would be fine with the quality though if their works weren’t so fucking ugly and overpriced.
Post cosplays you're working on, plan to work on, or want feeback on, and motivate each other. Let's get back to our roots and away from the softcore porn, or at the very least survive alongside it.
>>10910555Decided I should rip out all manga accurate yellow fabric and go for more anime accurate camel fabric. Or am I trippin?Thermoplastic and drill arrived so I got started working on the armor.
>>10911023The camel fabric
I want to make a mask of Fujita from dorohedoro. The references I've found online are either 3D printed or homemade projects where they just post the end result without showing the process. I figure I can do what one person did and get a tengu mask off Amazon and modify it down to the shape.Pic related for those who don't know
The plastic is thin enough to cut without much trouble; I'll just hollow out the gold in the eyeholes and remove the mouth and forehead sections.I didn't expect the nose to come in two pieces either but it'll probably make thinning the end out easier.
So, how to I whittle the nose bump down to a point? It's going to have to come off no matter what, but them how to build off it? I'm thinking epoxy over something
barely anyone does military cosplays nowadays, and most of them are considered larping anyway. good news is that the market isn't saturated and ripe for the takinglong story short if you Google csgo cosplay you'd probably find me on the first result
>>10911053the con shooting is taking too long, hurry up faggots
>>10911122>shooting up a place full of magical girls and narutosyeah thats not going well
>>10911129>girls Gross
>>10911129Unless the magical girls are trained in military tactics it'll prolly work well enough. On the other hand...>Yea call in an artillery strike to delete the grid the magical girls are in.What was the name of the short story written by an actual published science fiction author where some magical girls absolutely wipe out a military unit (as in, wipe out a mechanized regiment)
>>10911206>military >tactics Only thing they know how to do right is an air strike. Everything else is pretty lame
>107 days until Fanime>No vaccines but still have mask mandate in placeDid you get the hotel you wanted?What are your cosplay plans?How are we feeling about this year?
>>10910043There is no way in hell that ball pit thing was meant as anything less than a spiteful middle finger at the people leaving them.I wonder if any staff are leaving for Anime Expo. I know they're going to Mag-West and Baycon.
>>10910925How do people who are this frail survive their existence? Its probably scared of breathing for fucks sake.
>>10910943the bulk of people are from gaming and cosplay departments, both of which i don't think AX has a specific need for. also they're going to find that the AX machine is retarded too, but maybe with less "sexual assault"
>>10910946i've heard it's way more retarded and filled with infighting, especially more so when AX has industry contacts
>>10910943Oh it absolutely had to be a fuck you to everyone that left.Also seems they had a pedo in charge at one point.DESU with the way they keep shell gaming shit they're probably still on staff too.
Popular female cosplayers seems to of become more of dressing slutty for attention than putting together a well made costume for a hobby
>>10889865she meant to say that they have no firm beliefs of their own, they can't stand up for themselves so they would never be able to stand up for her. Basically they are not masculine enough and don't set boundaries in a way that is attractive to women. Being a "nice guy" or a pushover causes women to take advantage of you, which means they are interacting BUT they will forever view you as beneath them so you'll never be considered for a relationship or they will only be in it reluctantly
>>10854442>Popular female cosplayersI don't even know who the popular female cosplayers are anymore. I can name Yaya Han and Jessica Nigri but they were big 10 years ago. I guess Amouranth is a modern example but her main hustle is streaming, I don't even know if she still does cosplay.
>>10854934>>10854942>It seems to me that most people have stopped cosplayingwent to a con last weekend and there was plenty of cosplayers there, works on my machine
>>10908950The days of cosplay celebrity are gone/cgl/ used to be full of all the gossip of the big cosplayers back in the day
>>10908951These posts are almost a year old, but I'm pretty sure the second one is me. If it is, maybe focus more on reading comprehension and less on gloating. There's no end of cons with high cosplayer turnout, from the biggest to the smallest. The real problem is if it's "an expo" or some generic multimedia event, in which case you're gonna be flooded with boomers, kiddies and normalfags
What's the best community? If you could just magically wake up already living in the city with the comm of your choice, where would it be and why?Are there any comms that you feel are too far gone and better left given up on to dissolve by their own internal squabbling?
>>10911098I saw a huge rise in this in weeb fandom - people suddenly "growing up and quitting anime (often moving on to obsessing over US cartoons)" - back when LiveJournal died and everyone moved to Tumblr. Literally, within the span of a few months to a year or two of someone moving to Tumblr their personality and hobbies would completely change and they would deny the previous them.
>>10911118if we're talking about the past, in the online lolita community during the LJ days it was considered cringe and bad to like anime and manga so people tended to hide it and only talk to people about it if they knew they were okay with it. It was believed that people into anime didn't know the difference between cosplay and lolita, or didn't know the difference between lolita and lolita-adjacent fashion in anime, or that it brought you close to being an ita, who were stereotyped as being crazy about anime and manga and wanted to shoehorn anime and otaku culture items into their outfits (often anime t-shirts, maid cosplay, cat ears, tail, choker with a bell, etc). Anime in the 2000s also had a bad reputation (compared to now) because people were still associating anime with the anime that made its way to the US in the 90s which were often full of gore and sex. Anime in the 2000s itself was also often very fanservice-y low brow entertainment, some belonged to the harem genre or had very icky themes (go check out Loveless, or rather don't). Admitting to liking anime made people assume you were probably a degenerate or an edgelord. With some exceptions of course, some 2000s anime was great.
>>10911118>I'm grown up now because I watch different cartoons than I used to!I have no words
>>10911127> Anime in the 2000s itself was also often very fanservice-y low brow entertainment, some belonged to the harem genre or had very icky themes (go check out Loveless, or rather don't).man, shut up
>>10911193You like Love Hina don't you.
Gratuitous use of religious iconography
Lolita coords with cardigans
>>10910377anyone have an ID on that cardigan
>>10910439it might be axes femme
>>10908501>>10908523>>10908746nice vendetta
I figured I'd make one. I only ever come back for cons I'm going to. Any of you men going? Yeah I know it's expensive. And mostly drunk. But I enjoy the atmosphere and laying by the pool during the day. I've been serious on the diet and exercise train. Should be looking good enough for my Krauser cosplay in a month.
>>10910944Dunno who this is and don't care. Aging ugly e-whores will say anything to get views for their OF.
I hope you're all braced for the endless string of terrible "Bruh...only in Ohio :skull" jokes. If you've ever been to CC even once, you know they're exactly the types to do it>>109110782021 had quite a few normies, 22 had some and last year I remember almost none. Preferably, it stays that way desu
I'll be there this year, I remember years ago when stray bikers would wonder in an just look confused as fuck. But at this point I doubt they would give a fuck to fight the traffic coming in. if you see a group of Carl's come say high and we'll give you a free necklace.
I'll be going; I've been working out since January to tone my body for my Simon cosplay along with a few other Gainax/Trigger costumes. Barring abs, I've been doing pretty good on the grind so far.
>>10910912I’d becoming back from Momocon that same week, but I might drive up for a day just to feel a sense of nostalgia.
I've only seen one thread on this in the past, but it's getting into the peak time of year soon so why not see if there's any interest.>favorite designs/tailmakers (fin fun, mertailor, fin folk)>fabric tails vs silicone>the actual exercise component of swimming with a monofinI know there are mers on here and I'm trying to actually take the plunge and get a tail this year.
Do older finfolks ever get cycled through again or is every single month a one-time deal?
>>10904826Most of the time, the tail-of-the-months are scuba knit ("new fabric") rereleases of older tails. Esspecially designs that were only released in the original neoprene ("old fabric"), or the early scuba knit ones that didn't have extra fin options. However this past year since the summer and fall sales were all Merbella collab tails, they broke away from that trend and have been releasing a lot more new/original designs as tails of the month, i assume so they can still have their "own" designs from this year. Plus they have the time to make new ones since Raven took on the silicone sculpting/painting for summer/fall. I suspect that once this collab ends they will return to more rereleases instead of new designs for tails of the month. I know they also use it as a chance to color-correct some of the original neoprene designs where the colors were less saturated or off what they intended (see original vs rerelease dragonheart). Older designs that have had rereleases (some even rerelased twice, as scuba knit without fins and later with fins) are: Classic Cleo, Eternal Ember, Sea Sapphire, Shoal Green, Dragonheart, Starcrossed Silver, Glaucus Atlanticus, Madison, All Hallow's Eve, Oracle... actually it'd be a lot faster to list the ones that HAVEN'T had rereleases yet honestly. Though they do prioritize designs and colors that people request most often.I will note they have said they won't rerelase collaboration tails after the collabs have ended though. So for instance they won't rerelease the Kariel collab tails again, because they're no longer in a partnership with her and she has her own business selling tails. Not that they parted on bad terms it just would be weird contract/copyrights wise I think.
my merman tail is probably very dusty now
>>10904973Really wish I could have gotten one of the merbella ones. Sigh.
