Ex-Aid and a big(!) Mighty plush friend for @/skymiistuffs on Twitter; Thank you for commissioning!

Today, I visited the ‘real’ Mugen Academy. Well, at least the two building that inspired the design, Sphere Tower Tennoz and Sea Fort Square. I’m happy to report nothing evil was going on.

仮面ライダーエグゼイド

There’s a lot of discourse going on right now re: cosplay elitism, comparing cosplayers who create their own costumes to those who buy them, and it’s really divisive and helping no one so I wanted to say something about it.  It’s fine to make your own costumes or buy them. If you’d like to try sewing, you don’t need to buy a sewing machine right away, or have a lot of money. I started out hand sewing with the cheapest fabric I could find to practice with. Everyone starts out not knowing what they’re doing. You eventually get better. The one thing that kept me going when I first started was how kind everyone was twelve years ago. No one made me feel bad about my costumes not being perfect. Everyone was really encouraging, and it made me want to work harder and improve, even though I was very poor and only made $5.15/hour at my job. So this costume in the photo? That was more than a day’s pay for me.  But it was worth it, because it gave me the opportunity to cosplay with my friends, and have fun, and feel like I was part of a community. To just be a nerd who loved comic books, in a safe space with kind people. I’m not seeing a lot of kindness in these discussions today and it’s really sad. I wish the cosplay community would be more welcoming to new people instead of making them feel like they have to be perfect, or spend a ton of money just to be accepted.

Kamen Rider Ex-Aid (2016-2017)

I LOVE THIS MOVIE

and then oma zi-o shows up and gets defeated by the power of friendship or something. i dunno, im just rambling off the top of my head here. the original arc probably still would’ve been some kind of mess because It’s Zi-O, but i still would’ve liked to see it more than swartz’s alternate universe nonsense

Masamune deliberately didn’t allow Kuroto to have any social interaction and never taught him about failure, all to “bolster” his talent at game-making.

2017年撮影

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Why this got me boppin at my desk tho lol

About racism in fandom.

Racism is global, and it infiltrates everything that we do; it’s close to inescapable offline, and it’s just as common online. Fandom is no exception.