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It’s been 72 hrs since the fire department got the fire mostly out and there’s still a slow and steady trickle of water coming out of the building. Fires are so fucking scary.

Lmfao if I wasn't, you know, suspended on Etsy and also opposed to the entirety of their business model and practice as a company, I would consider selling on Etsy again just for having the balls to tell sellers that their digital files MUST have a photo of the resulting product.

"It would cost money and time to test print/sew all of this" Uhhhh you are asking for people to spend money on your work. You can ask them to be forgiving of a human error or two, but how could you ask them to take a gamble on something you yourself have no idea about.

Lmfao if I wasn't, you know, suspended on Etsy and also opposed to the entirety of their business model and practice as a company, I would consider selling on Etsy again just for having the balls to tell sellers that their digital files MUST have a photo of the resulting product.

Does it suck for sellers to have to go back through listings to add images, sure, but you'd think it would increase sales to prove it's a functioning file!

Lmfao if I wasn't, you know, suspended on Etsy and also opposed to the entirety of their business model and practice as a company, I would consider selling on Etsy again just for having the balls to tell sellers that their digital files MUST have a photo of the resulting product.

Sorry not sorry random rant but sometimes when people are like “cosplay is just toxic drama and popularity contests” I’m like… if you sincerely want to love cosplay again, you need to unchain yourself from that mentality to preserve this thing you love.

Community means community effort!! Giving into cynicism and deciding it’s all fucked and unfixable and toxic is just speeding up the process of losing community.

Sorry not sorry random rant but sometimes when people are like “cosplay is just toxic drama and popularity contests” I’m like… if you sincerely want to love cosplay again, you need to unchain yourself from that mentality to preserve this thing you love.

There’s obvs some economic shit going on with affordability, esp with cons, but like… if you find yourself thinking “everything here sucks”… please… join a few discords where conversation happens. Invite a friend over to craft. Take a class. Go to a meet-up. Look another cosplayer in the eye.

Sorry not sorry random rant but sometimes when people are like “cosplay is just toxic drama and popularity contests” I’m like… if you sincerely want to love cosplay again, you need to unchain yourself from that mentality to preserve this thing you love.

Generally speaking if you experience the cosplay community mostly through algorithmic social media or experience conventions as some sort of social outing to make content, yeah, you are going to see the “toxicity” more because you are seeing the most capitalistic form of it.

Sorry not sorry random rant but sometimes when people are like “cosplay is just toxic drama and popularity contests” I’m like… if you sincerely want to love cosplay again, you need to unchain yourself from that mentality to preserve this thing you love.

The majority of people are super positive about meeting people cosplaying the same characters as them. Lots of cosplay groups form with or without doubles with no fanfare. Very few people care if groups have obvious skill differences.

Sorry not sorry random rant but sometimes when people are like “cosplay is just toxic drama and popularity contests” I’m like… if you sincerely want to love cosplay again, you need to unchain yourself from that mentality to preserve this thing you love.

Tons of people compete in contests and have fun and have perfectly reasonable “aww shucks better luck next time” reactions to not getting prizes, and have fun with the experience anyway.

Sorry not sorry random rant but sometimes when people are like “cosplay is just toxic drama and popularity contests” I’m like… if you sincerely want to love cosplay again, you need to unchain yourself from that mentality to preserve this thing you love.

Tons of people make costumes; not more than buying, but definitely a lot. It’s far more common to see people vagueposting about drama than the actual drama. Hot takes are rare. Egirl hotties with onlyfans are just a handful of people in a huge crowd.

I was supposed to see a movie last night but instead I was removing costumes and equipment from the building as firefighters doused it, and it just felt like adding insult to injury for Cineplex to be like "no refunds :)" on their app but I called today and they made an exception. Wow... humanity...

(My alt text died... the image is an MS paint reaction meme of a man getting injected with a giant syringe that says "HOPE")

Our neighbour’s antique shop went up in flames tonight. It took 30 fire response vehicles four hours to bat the fire down. We were evacuated, as our buildings are connected. No fatalities thank god but very very stressful evening.

And a huge thanks to the firefighters who obviously risked their lives battling the fire… that was terrifying. I’m going to be hearing their life support alarms going off in my dreams.

Our neighbour’s antique shop went up in flames tonight. It took 30 fire response vehicles four hours to bat the fire down. We were evacuated, as our buildings are connected. No fatalities thank god but very very stressful evening.

Making a 7 of 9 cosplay for a client and laughing because I can't see the side of her face with the little star shaped prosthetic because she's always serving cut looking slightly to the right. LET ME SEE THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR FACE!!!!

Making a 7 of 9 cosplay for a client and laughing because I can't see the side of her face with the little star shaped prosthetic because she's always serving cut looking slightly to the right. LET ME SEE THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR FACE!!!!

There isn't a commissioner on the planet who doesn't sit up straighter whenever they see a familiar name come in. I've never met most of them, and yet I love them.

Jules and I both often end up in conversations with people who have no idea why we wouldn't want to use AI in business, and we actively get services we use to disable AI on our accounts where possible.

And businesses are learning that as they lose customers by forcing them to interact with AI chatbots, or AI screws over their website's back end, or AI cheapens their products.

Jules and I both often end up in conversations with people who have no idea why we wouldn't want to use AI in business, and we actively get services we use to disable AI on our accounts where possible.

They are also inquisitive and new buyers sometimes ASK and it means something to me to be able to say NO, we do not use AI, and that's how it will always be.

Jules and I both often end up in conversations with people who have no idea why we wouldn't want to use AI in business, and we actively get services we use to disable AI on our accounts where possible.

Sometimes they do not take us seriously UNTIL we specify that we would lose business if we used AI. Our clients are based and care about real, living, breathing human artists. (And some deceased ones too, surely, but definitely humans.) We value integrity + clients who share in that.