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Hey, I hope y'all are having a fabulous week. I just wanted to give a shout out to DeviantArt user Potato-Casserole ( for his attached picture, which is based on one of my 🪖Tank Girl🪖 photos. It brought back some fond memories, as the photo was from my first proper cosplay shoot. I've tried a bunch of other Tank Girl looks since then, but this one is still one of my faves, as it was inspired by the Lori Petty movie, which I adore ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜. I especially enjoyed making the hat (which I've talked about in detail in another post). Having said that, there's no way I look as cool as the cartoon me in Potato-Casserole's version. I've been a big fan of his pictures since I first stumbled on them, so it's super exciting to be the 🌟 of one. You should definitely check out his gallery if you haven't already, as there's some amazing stuff 👀...

The jury's still out on whether I'm worthy of being featured in other people's artwork, but it's flattering for sure. As for my own artistic efforts, there's a new one coming real soon.

Just 4 days to go till my bday and as usual I've got mixed feelings about it😕 I 💜 the celebrating part, but I get hyper-aware of the relentless march of time. I dread to think how I'll feel next year when I hit the big 3-0 😱

I'm planning to hit the town with my London besties for this one... catch a show and then get pleasantly tipsy at a bar. Then on Sunday my gf's gonna cook a meal🍳 We'll see how that goes. She's my 😇 sent from heaven, soooo good at loads of stuff, but cooking isn't one of them. Supergirl would have struggled to get the scorch marks off the pan last time she tried🤣

I guess that last comment would have tied in nicely with a Supergirl cosplay post, but as my top rated pic from 2025 was me as Rei Miyamoto, I've gone with Rei instead. In this shot I'm having happy thoughts as the forces of darkness secretly gather around me🧟🧟‍♀️... par for the course when you're a student in a zombie infested high school. As for Supergirl, she's still fighting for her life against that dreaded lump of kryptonite. Next update coming soon⏲️

Have a great rest of the week y'all, Christabel ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Sharing Potato-Casserole's gorgeous fan art of earlier this week got me to thinking how long it's been since I posted any Tank Girl cosplay photos📸 I couldn't actually remember off the top of my head, so I had a look and it's more than 2 years❗ Too long methinks, as the character still is (and probably always will be), one of my faves. The problem is I've posted pretty much everything I have from my Tank Girl shoots. 💡The obvious solution is to do another shoot, but I'll want to come up with a new outfit before I do that, so in the meantime, I thought a top ten might a nice idea. It's a similar deal to my top 5 of 2025 post... I trawled though the Tank Girl posts across all my social platforms and figured out which were most popular📈 Then I got a whizz kid friend 💻 of mine to put them into a video and here it is... A lot of the entries were from my most recent shoot, but the winner was an older shot🏆, and that was far and away the most popular with over triple the likes of the runner up. I suppose it helped that it's a pinned post on Tumblr and Instagram, but the fact it's a booty shot maybe played a part as well. Shout out to Alana Jordan for the excellent music (HOW LITTLE YOU HAVE TO SAY) 👏💐 I totally wanted to use songs from the movie soundtrack, but y'all know how it is... pesky copyright and all that! Stay tuned for new cosplay pics... Tank Girl💣🪖 maybe, other characters definitely🐱🦸‍♀️♦️🎩⚔️

I don't know if any of y'all suffer from the January blues, but I totally do ☹️ I hate having to say goodbye to the holiday season, and this time I had to say goodbye to sunny FL too. I've been back home in the UK for about 2 weeks now and I'm really not loving how the weather's been... either sunny ☀️ and freezing ❄️ or kinda warm, but pouring with rain ☔︎︎. Thank the lord for hot chocolate - that warm and comforting scrumminess always gives me a boost. Anyway, I decided today I should stop moping about and do something, and that something is this cosplay post💻 I could have just shared a pic like I normally do, but I thought I'd mix things up and do a lil retrospective on 2025 instead. I was curious to see which of my shots were the most popular, so I did the math 🖩across all my social media accounts, and put together a reel of the top 5. As you'll see it was a HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD one which came out top 🧟🧟 (and by a pretty long way I might add), but my Asuna Yuuki ⚔️ definitely deserves an honorable mention for taking two spots on the list. One interesting thing I noticed is that my top-rated pictures vary from one account to another. I don't know why and I don't really care... I'm just happy people are looking 😊😊 Stay tuned for new pics.

Best wishes for the coming year, Christabel ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

I don't know about y'all, but I can't wait to see the new Red Sonja movie🍿 The one from the 80s was kind of fun, but there are soooo many more Sonja stories to tell. They've done super interesting things with the character in the comics and I'd 💜 to see some of that on the screen... Sonja teaming up with Vampirella, Sonja taking the lead role in JACK & THE BEANSTALK🍿, the wlw stuff⚢ I've seen some pretty dire reviews of the movie, so I don't know if it's going to live up to my expectations, but I'm keeping an open mind 🤞 If nothing else, I'm hoping to get some cosplay ideas from it, as Sonja is definitely on my to do list. That's for the future, though. In the meantime, here's another pic from my recent Asuna Yuuki shoot 📷 It's more of an action pose than the last one with a bit of Yoga coming into play🧘‍♀️ It's also more revealing, I guess, but not too much, which is how I tend to roll. Anyways, I like it, because I can totally see Asuna pulling a move like this and there are a few variations which I'll probably share sometime. Stay tuned for that and for more of my cosplay stuff, and have a great week.

I want to start this post by saying YAY FOR BOOKS 📚 I'm 💜ing the one I'm reading right now and the three before that were even better. The run started with GIRLS MADE OF SNOW AND GLASS, a feminist take on SNOW WHITE by Melissa Bashardoust. I  💜 how this book reworks key parts of the original story, but still has the feel of a fairy-tale✨ The mother/daughter reconciliation at the end literally made me cry with happiness 🥹  and the 👭 romance was handled super well too. After that, I couldn't resist rolling into GIRL, SERPENT, THORN, another Melissa Bashardoust  masterpiece. This one has its roots in Persian mythology, but has the same fairy tale quality, which I can't get enough of. The characters feel real and I was so engaged in the story I could hardly stop reading. Next up was A LESSON IN VENGEANCE by Victoria Lee, a dark academia horror💀 with some super twists and turns, while the latest is THE SOCIETY FOR SOULESS GIRLS, a sapphic thriller/mystery set in a prestigious English college with a dark past.  It's such fun losing yourself in these books and exploring their worlds 🗺️🧭

Talking of other worlds, I think it's about time to take you back to my version of the DCU in...

🦸‍♀️THE FALL OF SUPERGIRL, PART 5🦸‍♀️  Fearing Supergirl might somehow overcome the crippling effects of the kryptonite and start to fight back 🥊, her unseen enemy ties her up 🪢 She lies comatose as he runs the thick ropes round and round her body.  If she were at full strength she could have broken them easily, but the radiation is continuing to envelop her, leaving her helpless. When the villain is done, he places the noxious block of kryptonite by her head, where it can continue its deadly attack with maximum effect, and steps back to admire his handiwork, cackling wildly. Who is this dastardly foe who has managed to overcome the valiant girl of steel so completely❓❓ Stay tuned and all will be revealed...      

Luv & hugz, Christabel

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Holy jingling bells, just 10 days to go until Xmas 𖢔𖠰🦌 They say the novelty of it wears off as you get older, but I haven't found that so far. I get super excited seeing pretty lights everywhere, hearing people sing carols🎶 Maybe when I hit the big three-0 (still a couple of years off I'm pleased to say), I'll start to feel different, but I doubt it. It's just soooo magical💫 and it's great that I'm getting to spend it with my family, which isn't always possible. Mom will be doing the traditional dinner thing, which I'm sure will be scrummy as always😋 I'll offer to help, but I expect she'll say no. She usually does...and I can't blame her. I can be a bit of a klutz in the kitchen. At least, I've managed to get most of my Xmas shopping done🛒🛍️, and I'm pleased with how it's gone. I can't wait to see what everyone thinks of their gifts. I'm not usually this organised, but I'm liking how it feels. It means I can just relax on the beach⛱️ now, reading books, paddling in the sea and sharing cosplay pictures. Talking of which, today's one is me as Typhoid Mary trying to look like I'm ready for a fight🤜🤛 It's not one of my faves from the shoot, but I like how you can clearly see my makeup. BTW, I was thinking the other day that Mary actually has quite a lot in common with Harley Quinn, which is maybe why I 💜 her. Maybe y'all are wondering whether the fact I'm drawn to unhinged characters says something about me, but I have no clue🤷‍♀️ Anyway, I've gone on long enough.

I've probably mentioned this before, but when I'm not making like I'm gonna save the world in cosplay costumes, I have a 9 to 5 type job as a dental receptionist🦷👩🏻‍💻 It's pretty much what you'd expect... answering calls, booking appointments, updating records and stuff. I'm okay with it most of the time - the pay isn't bad and the people I work with are super friendly - but every once in a while, a patient decides to be a pain in the neck, and there was one today... a smart business lady, who needed to pay for some work. I ran her card a few times, but it kept being declined❌❌❌ and she totally kicked off at me like it was my fault. I made nice and advised her to call her bank, which she did after much swearing. They sorted it out for her there and then, but did I get an apology? No! She made the payment and then stormed out like a wet hen💦🐓 Not nice at all. Lucky for her my Tank Girl🪖 rocket launcher isn't real💥💥

And on that note, I should get on with talking about today's cosplay pic. It's another one from my ⚔️Asuna Yuuki⚔️ shoot. In the last one I posted I was facing off against a reanimated skeleton conjured up by the notorious SWORD ART ONLINE mage D.I.L.🧙‍♀️ and this is a continuation. Trouble is, how do you take down someone with no vital organs? Here I'm trying a slash to the neck to see if that works. The pic is kind of revealing, I guess, but there's an anime rule... when you're making a cut, show your butt (leastways for female characters 😉). Oh and in case you're wondering how dangerous these skeletons are, check out the animation below to see them in action. More cosplay stuff coming soon.

Have a fab week, y'all, Christabel ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 ko-fi.com/christabelq instagram.com/christabel.simpson deviantart.com/christabelq