I've been neglecting writing out my convention blogs this year, even though yes, I have only attended two more since GAnime back in January, but I thought I'd do a quick write up about CAPE and FanaticCon Brockville to give some extra insight about my days at those two events.
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Normally I try to do this before the end of the year, but things got crazy busy in my personal life in the last couple of weeks so I didn't have much opportunity until now! This year was more relaxed in the costume area, and definitely busier when it came to conventions since I was able to go to them again!
Anyone who has known my work pre-COVID knows that my usual for cosplay is to spend basically from October/November until August working on costumes almost continuously. Since COVID however that has drastically changed, to the point that I have done very little sewing and crafting since May 2020.
Some of the reasoning was not having any conventions or events to go to over the course of the pandemic (until November 2021). Once I finished Lucifer's official costume however, I felt the return of my motivation bit by bit, so I tried to do little things to help push and improve it. There were other things at play that had made me not want to craft though... This year was crazy in it's own way. It was busy in some ways, and slow in others. I experienced a lot of ups and downs, and I'm so excited to get into this year. As 2021 comes to a close it's time for my usual recap blog. I managed to get back to my favourite thing of actually sewing my cosplays instead of using things from my closet - which I still did a lot of. Most of what I did was also for TikTok, which became a great outsource for my built up energy. Yes, I'm still going pretty strong with TikTok and enjoying using the platform - though I'll not deny that there have been some frustrations with it, but that seems to be a given with any social media platform. It's pretty obvious what my pride and joy of the year is though *cough*Lucifer*cough*. I know that basically every cosplayer has frustrations with the TikTok app in some way shape or form, mostly in it being the continuous shadowbans of cosplayer content for ridiculous false reporting. I've seen videos where the person is fully covered be reported for "sexual activity and/or nudity". Yet the basic user can upload content in their underwear it's fine... My issues lie a bit beyond this.
Since long before I started cosplaying I had an actual fear of something that is so widely used by costumers, actors, and everyday persons alike. It's something so small, and fits on the end of your finger. I've been iffy on it as well because of cost but, thankfully, this fear is now overcome - at least, partly.
What is this fear? Contact lenses. There's one thing that everyone can agree on (whether you're a cosplayer, general con-goer, artist, average Joe/Jane/whatever, etc), it's that 2020 was a year none of us will ever forget. And it is certainly one that is going to stand out when we say "things were very different". 2020 had a lot of HUGE downs, most of them due to COVID-19, but there were also some big ups for a lot of people.
This year I struggled a lot with things towards the end of the year, but I also had some major ups and had a few things that surprised me! Hello lovelies! So recently I realized something about myself that I was kind of denying for pretty much the entire time I have been into cosplay. I used to be vehemently against people doing purely sexy things with cosplay, then eventually accepting that that was what people wanted to do, and if I didn't like it, just don't look. Which honestly is the best way to go about things, don't like it you just don't look. Since I did the initial makeup test for Lucifer from Hazbin Hotel, something... sparked inside and made me realize something.
I normally never write about my makeup tests, since they are usually just simple things, try it out, and be done with it. This one was very different from that. Instead, I felt things about myself that I don't normally feel and I haven't really been able to stop looking at the selfies.
Anyone that's seen my costumes enough will know by now that I love Kuja from Final Fantasy IX. I've since 2012, made his Dissidia version, Battle Damaged, Amano, and a swimsuit version. I still have his Cloaked Anchorite version from Dissidia NT as an ongoing work in progress. And now, I'm nearly finished making the one I've wanted as long as Amano - Trance.
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