just realized I've never posted this (probably I haven't even mentioned it??) on Tumblr, which is just criminal, bc i posted it on twitter back when i used it and then on Bsky almost a year later after i started using that .
but yeah, in 2024, i threw a costume party to celebrate my 18th birthday with my friends (would probably be the last time i saw some of them face to face since most went to college all around the state, including me).
so... i cosplayed Yennefer. i mention I'm a butch all the time, bc i am, but cosplay was always something very separate for me when it comes to gender and the way i present who i am, bc it's more of a performance than anything else (i barely smiled with teeth in pictures that day, no matter how happy i was, bc Yen rarely does). it gave me a new appreciation for her wearing those clothes in Skellige, bc DAMN, THEY'RE WARM, and it was summer and i live in Brazil, so i was suffering for beauty's sake.
funny thing that happened also: no one knew what my costume would be, and even then my best friend gave me a Yennefer funko pop, which was extremely funny and nice of him.
really weird to see myself as feminine, but i do think i look good in those pictures, so i kind of had to post it.
