post expiration date and non returnable

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

The flight suit in question:

Please I'm freaking out now

Scully and the spooky fbi agent she said she didn't want

when you're the crazy lady in a tinfoil hat at work because you have a reputation for not using ai and then you get to watch when the heavily-ai-built tool everyone was encouraged to put very important work on breaks and now they don't really know how to fix it or when it'll be operational again because they don't fully know how it was put together in the first place

a BIG problem has been found in another ai-built tool that's now going to have to be pulled and fixed as well

Immersive Widow’s Bay finale experience (watching it while in the middle of a severe thunderstorm with a tornado watch)