fuckyeahmercury:

_{22 years without Freddie Mercury 
5th September 1946 – 24th November 1991}

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What is your corset size?

littlemissmetamorph:

meagan-marie:

Portraits of a Khaleesi

I recently had the chance to shoot with I Must be Dead Photography (mature content warning) when he made a brief stop up in San Francisco for a gig. We’d been trying to find a time to collaborate, so decided to make the most out of the opportunity even if it meant shooting on the fly at his hotel. As we’re both fans of A Song of Ice and Fire, Daenerys was the natural fit.

We chose to focus mostly on portraits due to the limited time and space, but I was actually quite happy with the prospect. I’m a huge fan of his raw approach to photography – sharp, high contrast photos with little retouching done on the model. Imperfections lend authenticity and intrigue to his work. 

Drawing from Daenerys’ experiences in the House of The Undying, I tried to express an array of emotions from fear to sadness and determination. These are incredibly unique images in my cosplay portfolio, and I’m madly in love with the end result.  

Build notes for this costume are coming, but in case anyone is curious my eyes are indeed purple! I picked up contacts from eyesbright.com. 🙂

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Gorgeous portraits!

It’s been a long time since I’ve felt comfortable enough to actually show emotion in photos. I can still act for stage but I’ve been really ripped apart for being “old” and “ugly” for you know, actually looking like I’m in the middle of battle in cosplay photos! 

These are glorious and I’m so glad you and the photographer caught these haunting images 🙂

caderyn:

Truth.

Cheno got the best lines in this show. Actually these two had wonderful chemistry full stop. And they played well on her singing 🙂 Especially being constantly interrupted when singing full voice. One of the few non-irritating unrequited love stories of modern times 😉 

“That wasn’t the truth bus; that was the bitchy cross town express.”

Christian Dior Haute Couture – Spring/Summer 2011 – Details

I’m in love with this collection. It’s the one with the red and black dress right? The collection with circles on circles and sheer over solid? Many many noms and so incredible to know how much was done by hand and straight stitch machines. And big shears….

Yup!

http://www.vogue.com/fashion-week/spring-2011-couture/christian-dior/review/#/collection/runway/spring-2011-couture/christian-dior/1/

So if any costuming nutters wants to join me in working on this collection, maybe with a theme, I snaggles “look 5” and maybe in green and black for a Poison Ivy couture 😉

That said I have 9m of crepey almost aqua chiffon like the above. But I would estimate about 3 times that as that skirt is well over a cull circle.

fuckyeahmercury:

_{22 years without Freddie Mercury 
5th September 1946 – 24th November 1991}

_{Freddie, you changed the face of music and brought happiness into our lives with your incredible talent. We miss you and remember you every day, thank you for everything.}

Vale.

sheliesshattered:

sparkly-bandaid:

hyperscraps:

vashito:

I don’t have chronic pain but this artwork is so nice to look at *^*

Just because we’re not writhing on the floor doesn’t mean we’re not hurting. We’ve just gotten really good at hiding it and functioning with it, otherwise we’d literally starve in our beds.

🙁

I don’t think I’ve had a day even that good in at least seven years.  A day like that with chronic pain is a real achievement.

Also, pain receptors can get a little confused.

I wound up in hospital and was asked to do the pain score. I literally couldn’t answer because I was beyond pain and mainly aware of the other symptons pain creates- nausea and inability to think and general disembodied feeling. So while I knew my body was in serious trouble I wasn’t using pain to rate it.

But it’s a good day today because I am sitting up and able to type 🙂 So the above would be a totally awesome day to celebrate because my pain levels match levels of disability. Usually.

Pain is “just” one symptom. It’s a result of ongoing processes that are sometimes understood sometimes not and sometimes partially understood even by the medical community.

In my case pain can be a sign of physical stress (on joints already damaged) or of disease activity (self targeting antibodies). The former is difficult and debilitating the latter is terrifying because of the systemic effects and the treatment is extremely aggressive (most overlap with treatment for cancer) when activity is regular.

Anyway, yeah sometimes it’s easy to see the pain, sometimes it’s not, sometimes the pain is an understood symptom of a disease you can see, sometimes it’s part of a misunderstood disease you can’t see. And everyone is different, and should not be used to put down others who either seem to be coping “too well” or “not well enough.”

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