Requiescat en Pace

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

Photo i just took

I guess you could say he’s ve… he’s a very h…

The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster

The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster

moodboard: emily x nolan x jack (qpr emily & nolan)

cut flowers / mia forrest

it's uncanny