nebulaofwomen:

Nebezial.deviantart.com

I’m a huge fan of Stjepan and have been for years 🙂 His work on Witchbalde with Ron Marz was just a revelation 🙂

I was intrigued by a costume of Wasp a while back (Her armour was chrome finished just…. gah,so gorgeous) and now I am definitely going to have to back read and catch up because that is freaking adorable. Stabby. Not Sting. Also I want to make gauzy wings and not be a pretty fairy… Though pixie also has wings and I have a pink wig…

And can we just appreciate the look on Wonder Woman’s face in that first pic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBeNfSoMqjY

oftheforest:

velvetlovepocket:

“If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe Sexism Exists, Show Them This”
Link here: [x]

This is great, but jeez, some people are just awful.

It’s pretty relentless but there is hope and I’m so glad that people who intervened in public were acknoledged. I have been assaulted in public three times.(Not going to talk about other private interactions.)

Trigger warning- I just feel anger so can write about it.

Once at a high school assembly. Simple grope, mainly butt- an attempt for more stymied by the fact I was walking past and he was sitting. There were people who saw exactly who did it. And not one spoke up. So to this day I still don’t know. But I remember the faces of those on the school benches very well.

Once during New Year’s eve in London. So winter, heavy wool coat on, couldn’t see anything of me from behind aside from long hair and a small waist- and I was literally groped so hard and right under I was lifted of the ground. I didn’t dare turn around because that felt so dangerous and so close to becoming a full on physical assault. Again no one who saw intervened.

Third time was at Wellington Armageddon a few years back and someone tried to but their hand slid off my shiny shiny butt. Again a crowd saw and when I turned around they were literally all lookin in different direcions. No one wanted to dob in their mate. Yes, protect the idiot who assaulted someone ‘cause they are your friend? Is that really a friend you want?

In all cases I wore very different clothes in all cases they were sneak attacks from behind. 

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Progress?

Today I wrote up a proposal for Armageddon cosplay events, kind of nervous even though I have been involved for such a long time. Really hoping we can do this, as it would help everyone. And I do mean everyone!
But I also managed to score some nice make up items:
three wide foundation brushes for all my paint! I love these. Not quite moppy like a round natural fbre and not really as hard edged as a flat. Perfect for loading paint to cover limbs.
One stipple brush for foundation because I really needed a back up. they are easy to clean but I do tend to forget between events. Funnily enough with all the stage work in my past and all the body painting currently i don’t tend to want to wear make up day to day 😉
Foundation in my colour! Pasty pinkish ginga white! I am cool toned so most make up is totally wrong on me. Also it appears to do what it says on the bottle. A bit perfumey for me but it does dissipate fairly quickly.
One liquid eyeliner. It’s a MAC!

Onehunga DressMart is actually pretty good 🙂 The “bling” shop no longer sells elf brushes though 🙁 So my foundation brushes are BYS and they are doing three for the price of two.

I set up and then ignored my scanner for Talon- but tidied the rest of the tatoos enough that I can use basic tools in photoshop to tidy and create white spaces between each piece. I also had antihistamines and then did not go a splashing with resin. But both those will happen this week at some stage. On course for slow turtle paced progress but I am also trying to get that balance of sleep and rest as well.

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meekofitz:

derekhalealpha101:

liberalbutnotpartisan:

wagrobanite:

think-progress:

Members of Congress are living off food stamps for a week to protest Republican cuts. It’s a challenge for them, but GOP cuts would hurt millions of everyday Americans. 

Why does this not have more publicity. This needs it!

Signal boosting this A) because it deserves to be seen by more people, and b) because I appreciate some members of Congress are actually willing to see what it’s like living on food stamps in order to make their point about how horrifying cutting food stamps would be.

News flash, regressives: people on food stamps do not load up on Snickers bars and filet mignon. They’re limited in what they can buy, and oftentimes, it’s not enough to get by on. Go on thinking these are entitlements that let minorities live lives of luxury, comfortable in the knowledge that you’ll never go hungry.

You privileged, elitist pricks.

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Why isn’t this being broadcast to everyone, why am I just finding out about it now? This is WONDERFUL. Get some reality up in there.

I won’t get too political, but we had a different yet similar situation here. Everyone moans about how much money is spent on Auckland transport. But I live in an area that has a general low level of income and the train station is a vital part of our lives here. It is how hundreds get to work, we aren’t talking a scenic route through the suburbs or a fun shopping trip this is a straight to the CBD and back line. 

The lines are at street level which means there are level crossings the full length and especially here where the line crossed over a major road and even through a five point roundabout! Seriously right through it! 

A large amount of money was needed to dig a trench so the trains could go under the road and allow the bus station above (yes really as well) to be modernised and have proper shelters etc.

This was going to be cut. As in the project was half way through and the government was going to scrap it. Exactly to what degree, I don’t know but it was going to cause even more chaos.

That was until some of the politicians got to visit (they had never been) and could see the huge safety issues as well as huge mess it was. And so the project was finished and we now have trains every 20 minutes or so vs up to an hour apart.

Sadly there are now traffic lights instead of roundabouts which actually work better for Auckland traffic which tends to see “stop” signs as “give way” and “give way” as push to sneak through by ignoring everything on the right. So the traffic is as bad as before but it is a lot safer and there is more public transport so it did have a very good positive outcome.

And this was because there was a willingness to actually see what the issue was rather than just brush it off.

Apparently those skills I learnt back in er, well before the new millenium 😉 Have failed and I can’t make a working path to save me!I know there is an easier way and I could probably update photoshop at that. I’m trying to smooth and fix my tattoos which are pretty complex and the good old gaussian blur/levels trick is not enough to fix a few wobbly lines. So I tried paths but all my anchor points remain fixed and not able to slide along or move the section of the path. So I have just purchased some nice pens so I can print the most updated files and rescan those. Sigh. But then I can also use PS to get the gaps between each piece more even and so it will be worth it in the end.

So I’m going to have to take a break. The sky has decided to just dump rain though. Dump yes, it’s not trickly, it’s not driving it’s just falling. And flooding. So I am not all that keen to brave the walk to the workroom to try somehting else. It’s also just too heavy to go out in so no walking for me. Well… I could if I make sure to have a change of clothes ready for me when I get back. (edit: I did and I had to walk through ankle deep water so yeah it was a bit wet.)

Trying to assess what I can and can’t do in the near and semi-near future. Costume wise. I try not to think about the wider picture too much. And I do have the urge to sculpt Vastra so I have just taken some antihistamine and will back fill my headcast so I can then fill the inside with foam and sand the outer and actually have a base to work from. I made the cast when I was 10kg heavier and it shows so I may have to do a bit of creative fixing of the features to make them work now. bu the nose and mouth and brow ridge looks about right.

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Apparently those skills I learnt back in er, well before the new millenium Have failed and I…

Apparently those skills I learnt back in er, well before the new millenium ;)Have failed and I can’t make a working path to save me!I know there is an easier way and I could probably update photoshop at that. I’m trying to smooth and fix my tattoos which…

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You know you might have a few big files when…

Your lovely new computer capable of playing games on the highest graphics settings but your scans in b/w cause your comp to crash to desktop…. Yeah. But I managed to hit that magical “export as pdf” button in OO and now I have ten pages of tattooy goodness to test. Much easier to test as a pdf than 10 individual tif files. Yeah, might be a bit OTT with the resolution of my initial scans but I figure better to start too high and have room to cut back than try and increase resolution. Will test now I think and compare to the previous prints.

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Thanks RA….

Autoimmune diseases suck. And they suck in ridiculous ways and especially in complicated and compound ways.

In other words yes I had multiple rather than a single stubborn sinus infection. And guess what is back.

So current plans do not include making anything for a while. Antibiotics got, but not sure if they will work, have to wait out 48 hours to see.

However I have managed to redraw and started to colour in my new tattoos. All 10 pages of space is now taken up. Ack. Pretty big investment but I do like the paper and the more sheets you buy the cheaper they are per sheet. If I can find a way to make them last two days over paint I will, but skin dries out under the paint and day two of paint is not as nice as first day.