“THE BIG ONES”
The following are our most popular tutorials, so they get a place of honour up top so that they are easier found :)
Custom thigh highs
Spandex boots
Basic capes
Cupcake “Madoka” skirts
GENERAL SEWING:
What is broadcloth for, anyway?
How do I avoid burning polyester with my iron?
Where do I go to learn to line things?
What is bias tape?
Where do I go to learn to sew?
Why should I use shoulder pads?
Notes on sewing vinyl/pleather
What do you do with retired costumes?
Learning at an advanced level
Why line a petticoat?
Why should I do mock-ups?
What is a knit?
What is horsehair braid?
Painting denim/heavyweights
How do I make my costumes look clean and professional?
Tips for sewing gloves
Washing your costumes
Finishing seams
WHAT FABRIC FOR…
What fabric should I line with?
What fabric for mock-ups?
What fabric for a character who lives in the desert?
What fabric for sailor shirts?
What fabric do I use for a flowy tunic?
What fabric for a schoolgirl jacket?
What fabric for an Assassin novice/period character?
PATTERNING:
How important are pattern blocks?
How do measurements on your tutorials work?
How do different patterns effect the shape of a hood?
What do we draft patterns on?
Keeping patterns clean and organized
Tools for marking patterns/fabric
SEWING MACHINES:
What To Look For
What To Look For 2
What machines do we have?
Stop-And-Start Buttons
Sergers
Vintage Machines
Embroidery Machines
Recommendations
FOOTWEAR:
Painting Boots
Custom Printed Tights
Making Custom Thigh Highs
Stenciled Designs on Tights
High Heel Tips
First Time in High Heels?
Painting Rubber Boots
Making Shoes From Scratch
Paint Colours for Vanellope Tights
NOTES ON PARTICULAR COSTUMES:
Poison Ivy
Captain America
Fire Emblem: Awakening: Lissa’s hoopskirts, Henry/Say’ri’s loincloths, Chrom’s trim, Panne overview
Satsuki and Nonon’s pleated dresses without waist seams
Serah Farron’s belt (Final Fantasy 13)
Ledo’s catsuit (Suisui no Gargantia)
Josephine’s shirt (Dragon Age)
Ruby’s petticoat (RWBY)
STRETCH FABRICS:
Attaching Applique to Spandex
Embroidery and Satin-Stitching on Spandex
Ironing Spandex
Recommendations for Attaching Logos
Fabrics For Catsuits
Crisp Necklines With Knit
Can I alter a one-piece catsuit to be two pieces?
Shortcuts to make bodysuits
CAPES:
Basic Single-Layer Capes
Tips for Safe Capes
Collared Capes
Channeling for Articulated Capes
Cape Closures
Fabric Options
Preventing lined capes from “drifting”
BATGIRLS:
StephBatgirl Cowl
Batgirl Bracers
Easy Belt Pouches
More Notes on Pouches
“Black Bat” Cape
Steph’s “Robin” Leggings
Zentai Suit Sellers
Non-Wholesale Bodysuit Sellers
SUPERGIRLS:
General Tag
Spandex Boots
General Tips
Making the Emblem
Turner Skirt
Turner Cape Pattern
PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA:
Tomoe Mami | Boots | Shirt Pattern | Mami’s Rifle Tag | Rifle Pattern | Installing Horsehair | Links
Akemi Homura | Tights
Kyoko Sakura | Hoodie Source | Prep List | Order of Assembly
Miki Sayaka | Sword Pattern
Madoka Kaname | Petticoat Tutorial | Two-Part Skirts | Cupcake Skirt
Other: Simple Bows | Soul Gem Commission Interest | Attaching Soul Gems
FIRE EMBLEM: AWAKENING:
This section would honestly be massive on its own, so it can be found over on its own masterlist. Even if you’re not cosplaying from FEA, it has some interesting stuff.
SAILOR SCOUTS:
Lining
Material choices
AESTHETICS:
Make-Up Products
Body Wizardry
Faking Large Breasts + Binding Resources
Tips for Defined Waistlines
Hiding Leg Cellulite
Slimming Pants
Tall Cosplayers
Face/Body Paint Brands
Two-Coloured Lips
Breast support for costumes with open fronts
Keeping cool in costume
ARMOR:
What They Don’t Tell You About Worbla
PROPS AND ACCESSORIES:
Wearing Helmets
Wing-Making Resources
How do I prime a plastic?
What are our moulds made of?
WIGS:
Anchoring Ponytail Wigs
Maintaining Long Wigs
Wig Sources with Fast Shipping
Where to Get Inexpensive but Good Wigs
Tips for Curly Wigs
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Flight Illusions
SHOPPING:
Where did you get your pale dance tights?
On Milanoo and wholesale
More on Milanoo and wholesale
COMMUNITY:
Talking To Your Parents
Cosplay Group Etiquette
Financial Tips
Being Body Positive
On Criticizing Concept Artists
Staying Motivated
How to Get Started
Why Don’t We Do Commissions?
Our Approach to Group Cosplay
Do We Work Out?
RECIPES:
Banana Bread
I don’t quite know, how to say, how I feel.
Snow Patrol, “Chasing Cars” (via wordsnquotes)
Bucky Barnes X Reader
A/N: This is for @shitty-imagines-95 2K writing challenge!
(Takes place sometime after civil war, with Bucky’s new vibranium arm from Shuri, but no Infinity War!)
Soulmate AU -> Words that have significant meaning in their soulmate’s life appear on the skin at birth.
Warnings: Violence, swearing, etc.
Word count: 5900 LOL
Main Masterlist
желание
ржaвый
Семнадцать
Рассвет
Печь
Девять
добросердечный
возвращение на родину
Один
грузовой вагон
These were the words that were tattooed on your left arm.
The writing was small, only covering your inner arm from your wrist to halfway to your elbow. The miniscule writing, that had been there since you were born, was something that had significant meaning in your soulmate’s life.
Every time you looked at the words, you had this wave of anxiety run through your chest. You weren’t sure about it, since soulmates weren’t as common as they used to be, but you felt a sense of unease as you looked at the foreign words. You knew they were Russian, from a friend in high school who asked about them, but you couldn’t bring yourself to translate the words.
Your parents hadn’t paid much mind to your aversion on the writing. They knew that you would do it, in due time. Everyone did. Everyone met their soulmate, eventually.
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A children’s spinning top, as small as you like.
A pink or green scarf.
When you get home and can’t relax
Start the top spinning faster and faster, saying, “Whirling and spinning, I am not winning in clearing my mind; it is unkind. Thoughts haunt and taunt me with matters unfinished and tasks undiminished.”
Slow down the top with you hand, saying, “Slowing your spinning, at least I am winning. Slowing my mind and soon i will find the whirling will stop and i can get off.”
When the top has stopped spinning, wrap it in the scarf, knot the scarf ends three times, and say, “Out of sight, out of mind, life unwinds and softly binds me into stillness, calm, and peace, the day has ceased.”
Put the top away in a cupboard until you need to do the spell again.
“1001 Spells: The Complete Book of Spells For Every Purpose,” by Casandra Eason
@sophia-the-weird
Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found
Here are some fun sites
Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics
Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli
Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies
*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*
You’ll be okay, friend <3
“An anguished question from a Trump supporter: “Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?” The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don’t… That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.” That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.” That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.” That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.” That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.” That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!” That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?” That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.” That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!” That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!” That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!” That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.” That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!” That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!” That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.” That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!” That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids. has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “well, ok then.” That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. What you don’t get, Trump supporters in 2018, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also…hear me…charitable. Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are *less* flattering.”
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Adam-Troy Castro (via darkarfs)
There is a version of this going around that is stolen and edited. I think this is the correct version, as written by the actual author. It first appeared on his Facebook page here.
(via thisdancingheart)
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I made friends at school and was never bullied, and yet I was never fulfilled. On silent nights or on my way home, it would hit me. LONELY. I’m just so lonely, even though I’m loved, so why, why do I feel so lonely?
I can be social, but I like being social on my own terms. I don’t like being prodded into unwanted interactions.
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WEAR. A. MASK.
at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents
I'm An Introvert That'd Rather Be At Home Than Most Anything Else. INFP. I Like Lots Of Different Things.
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