They Stayed True: Bae and the Reader Cosplay

Bae the Bloodless & The ReaderPyreSeptember 2017 I wholeheartedly recommend playing Supergiant Games’s games, Transistor, Pyre and Bastion are all delightful, and though they share artistic elements, they remain distinct games with unique worlds, settings and characters. I love the…

Lady Urbosa Cosplay Turorial

I misjudged this cosplay, some part of me looked at it and thought, “Sure that’s mostly fabric.” I was in fact pretty wrong. Sure, there was some fabric, but a very small amount. Rather I had unwittingly stumbled upon a…

Breath of the Wild Champion Patterns

I needed to make the Vah Naboris Pattern for my Lady Urbosa cosplay, so naturally I decided to try my hand at making the others.  After much learning about illustrator later, enjoy these high res versions of the champions. Full…

Urbosa’s Fury: Lady Urbosa Cosplay

Lady UrbosaLegend of Zelda: Breath of the WildSeptember 2017 I played The Legend of Zelda: Breath if the Wild this summer, and I loved it. It was my first Zelda game that I really got into and didn’t want to…

A Summary and a Look Forwards

In many ways 2017 wasn’t a good or happy year. My ever present anxiety certainly didn’t a rest, the constant fear of the world ending has been pretty strong, and from a political and social stand point I am not…

Accessibility in Tabletop Gaming

As a special education teacher, and a GM I have been muddling over this questions for a while – how do you include all your players at the table? I had the joy of presenting this panel at three conventions…

Evie Frye Cosplay Tutorial

My major summer cosplay project was Evie Frye from Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.  I played the game with my roommate and thoroughly enjoyed the costume, story and character of Evie Frye – plus they final put and female playable character in…

You All Work for Us: Evie Frye Cosplay

Evie FryeAssassin’s Creed: SyndicateAugust 2016 Evie Frye makes my 3rd Assassin’s Creed cosplay, but my first AC cosplay that is based on an actual existing character from the series.  I suppose this is in fact somewhat of a criticism of their…

That Uncomfortable Feeling: Learning

As a special education teacher in my classroom we talk about learning being uncomfortable, that it might be a struggle and it might make them frustrated – and all of that is OK.  For many of my students they would…

The Blackguard from Necropolis Cosplay

BlackguardNecropolisAugust 2016 I’m known for moderation in many things (maybe), but cosplay is definitely not one of them.  The story of creating the Blackguard from Necropolis goes something like this: Summer break is soon, I think I’ll start streaming cosplay/creative…

10 Minutes in the Forest

While I spend most of my costuming effort on cosplay, I am always excited to create a piece or two for the theater, which is why I nominated (essentially told) Casey that I was going to make the costumes for…

Crest of Love: Sora the Digidestend Cosplay

SoraDigimon AdventuresMarch 2016 Digimon is an amazing anime and anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong.  That being said, if you were not a fan of the show as a kid don’t go watch it, adult appreciation requires some significant…

Lion Cosplay: Making a giant fluffy mane

It probably won’t surprise you to hear that I am a big fan of Steven Universe. Generally speaking there is a correlation between characters I cosplay and the media I am a fan of, in this case I might go…

I Love Dogs: Jupiter Ascending Cosplay

Caine WiseJupiter AscendingOctober 2015 If you want yo make your own check out my other posts: I also want to take a moment to explain why the movie Jupiter Ascending was awesome, and why I was incredibly excited to put…

Balem Abrasax Cosplay: Tutorial

I talked one of my friends into being shirtless Balem Abrasax with me at Geek Girl Con. I’m not sure quite how I managed this, but I think a lot of it was related to shouting “I create life!” at…