Went to Boskone instead of Katsucon, came home with a stack of new books to read plus this tote bag. Truly a 10/10 composition, including the comic sans, and I WILL be bringing it to C2E2 to carry the books I’m certain to acquire there.

Week two of working on #Arcane season 1 #Viktor, and I’ve finished all the vest trim minus the hems and collar. I’ll be taking a break this week as I’m at Boskone this weekend and to get more work done on Firesong before the Central Crown finals at #C2E2!

This week’s progress on my #Viktor vest from #Arcane season 1

I designed this to be a combo of piecing and appliqué and two layered trims to evoke the beautiful mesh of sci-fi/fantasy in the show’s costume design

“It’s amazing now that I can wear so many masks here without any of them being a mask…”

Photography and editing by @onebigboss.bsky.social

Firesong cosplay designed and made by me based on the “Valdemar” novels by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Picked up some trimmings today for Firesong and Viktor

Btw in-store fabric prices at Mood have gone up $10-20 nearly across the board since last month, so that’s cool.

“At first all his pleasure in the art-magic was childlike, the power it gave him over bird and beast, and the knowledge of these. And indeed that pleasure stayed with him all his life”
I’m using the patterns I drafted for Gale to make new drafts for Viktor 👀
Photography/editing by Tatiana Dorokhova

Trying to remember to post things on Bluesky. Anyway, I debuted my second version of Firesong at Arisia last weekend as my stage cosplay while judging their cosplay contest. This was a proof-of-concept of the new competition mask I’m making for competition at C2E2 in a few months. More on it later.

#Raistlin passed through the gates without a glance at the hand or the pale visage that was lowered in reverence. As he entered, all the black and shapeless, dark and shadowy things dwelling within the Tower bowed in homage.

Photography + editing by Tatiana Dorokhova
Costume designed and made by me

My sympathies to those of you who just finished #Arcane

I’ve been savoring the series and just watched episode 6

Send help

Slow progress over the last few days to clean up the main room of my apartment that is also my costuming work space. I am no longer convinced that he who dies with the most fabric wins.

One week of beading on my #MercedesLackey #Firesong surcoat done, left front and most of the upper back complete. He’s worth it.

Somehow it has already been a month since the Central Crown Qualifier!

“No stranger to pain and loss, then, so the masks may be more than a courtesy to others. A masked face doesn’t require conscious efforts to hide feelings.”
-Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon, “Gryphon in Light”

Photography and editing by @codyjabroni.bsky.social for New York Comic Con

New #Firesong design in progress, using some prized stash fabric I got in Valencia, Spain, ten years ago, as well as more Delica seed beads

Starting off strong keeping every seller sold out of Delica DB115 beads for another year

I still don’t have the words to describe the relief of debuting such a massive project as #Firesong, and, more than that, taking home first place at the NYCC Central Crown Qualifier.

Character: Firesong K’Treva
Series: Darian’s Tale/Kelvren’s Tale by Mercedes Lackey
Costume designed and made by me