I feel kind of weird about updating since I haven’t been keeping up with any of y’all, b

I feel kind of weird about updating since I haven’t been keeping up with any of y’all, but on the other hand I always hated when people would just disappear off Tumblr and I never knew what happened. So here I am. I honestly don’t know when/if I’m ever going to come back in the capacity I once was. Tumblr just sucks up so much time and I’m a lot busier now than I used to be. This past summer was especially packed, between raising all those caterpillars/butterflies (over 60 successful releases by the end, as well as a pet I kept for 5 weeks because she couldn’t fly) and working on all my cosplay stuff for Dragon Con, which was last weekend.As you can see above, I had two new costumes this year! For the first time ever! I’m super proud of both of them — Nathan Drake has been a dream costume of mine for years (since I first played Uncharted 2) and in addition to putting the outfit together (including dyeing and modifying the shirt and weathering everything) I also made the belt buckle, watch cuff, and holster from scratch. Nobody could believe the holster wasn’t leather (it’s craft foam) so seeing people’s reactions to that was pretty amusing. It was also my first time cosplaying a male character and um I LOVED IT. Like a lot. I feel 384789347 times better about myself in a binder, omg. But that’s a story for another day.My other costume was Eleven from Stranger Things, and OH MY GOD people FREAKED OUT. People are still freaking out. People are still commenting on Facebook (on other people’s pictures of me!) to tell me how perfect I was. All weekend long people were stopping me in the hallways (even when I wasn’t wearing it!) to compliment me. It’s a little bizarre to me because, while I am very proud of the costume (my mom and I made the dress from scratch, modifying almost every single piece of a vintage pattern I found) there were a lot of other great Elevens there too so I don’t 100% understand why I seem to be getting all the attention. Not complaining, mind you it’s just strange and makes me feel a little guilty! Although I think it’s probably because deep inside part of me will always remain a wounded, angry, protective 12-year-old girl and so that made her really easy to embody beyond just the outfit (and is the same reason she resonated sooooooooooo much with me). Anyway, two of the best reactions I got were Chris Gore taking a picture of me and posting it to his Instagram, then stopping me again the next day to tell me it was the most liked photo he’d posted, and I went and it had 250+ likes  and also this dude who LITERALLY fell to his knees open mouthed like he was meeting his favorite celebrity and was like “THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. THANK YOU.” It was super adorable and the next day he shouted to me across the street to compliment me again. Hahaha.So anyway, all that was great, and also since Joey and Chris from *NSYNC were there as guests we went to their panel and also met them but mostly Chris since you had to pay $20 for a selfie with each and we only had $16 (I borrowed some from a friend who was a few ahead of us in line). So, I mentioned these teddy bears my friend and I made for *NSYNC wayyyy back in the day (because they were essentially mini-cosplay) and Chris told me he just found a bear in his garage when he was moving a few months ago and I’m like 99% sure it was mine, and I think he was even more excited about it than I was (which was a lot). Anyway, he was crazy nice and took the above selfie of us with my phone and we only talked to Joey for a moment but just a few hours ago we went to the opening of his new hot dog stand at the Florida Mall here in Orlando (yes, really, haha) and he totally remembered us before we even said anything, which was great (I mean he literally met thousands of people last weekend so…?). They’re both the best, honestly. Oh and the day we got to Atlanta we rented a car so we could visit Jason’s grandma and we made a little detour to the infamous grocery store from Stranger Things. I originally had planned to put my costume on and everything but after only getting an hour of sleep the night before and flying and everything I was just sooooo tired and had a migraine, so I settled for pretending I was El in my regular clothes. Which was fantastic. So those were the highlights of my last week or so. Things have been really good for me and I’m trying super hard not to fall into post-con depression. We’ll see how that goes now that all the fun stuff is over and I need to clean up all the messes I made before we left.  I don’t have any plans at the moment to actively come back to Tumblr (except my side blogs, which I’m still running) but I do miss you guys, so if any of y’all want to friend/follow/whatever me on Facebook or Instagram, I would love to keep up with you there. ❤️ -- source link

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