#seekerofpatterns

These first pics were taken by professional photographer Bryan Humphrey. Lan Wangji was played by @seekerofpatterns, and A-Yuan was played by NightstalkerM, of The (Mis)Adventures of a Plush Wolf.

The first photo here was taken by vela_lyrae (on Insta), the second and third by Seekerofpatterns, the fourth by our friend, and the last pic was taken by one of my con roommates. The first pic includes my friend @lokittysarmy as another Wei Wuxian; I don't know the Wei Wuxian cosplayer in the second pic, nor the Jiang Yanli in the third. Seekerofpatterns was Wen Ning in the fourth pic.

I learned how to make a playable PVC flute for my Chenqing (although just how playable it is is debatable, LOL). I sculpted the bamboo nodes put of Apoxy-Sculpt. I bought the tassle-charm.

For the wine gourd, I painted a Pom Wonderful bottle. I had to wing it when I made my hanfu boots. I bought a ring-belt, but I added the studs, and I made the belt-tip out of Apoxy-Sculpt. I made the waist-cinch, and 2 versions of the red under-skirt (for the red under-shirt, I just made a collar, not a full shirt). I bought the wig.

As for the outer-robes, I spent about ten hours tracing elements of the robe pattern from a screenshot in photoshop, until I had a working repeating pattern file (which I uploaded at Cafe Press to make the facemask). For the skirt panels, I traced the pattern in white pencil with a light-box, but the fabric for the shirt was thicker, so that didn't work. Instead, I had to cover the back of the pattern sheets with white conte, lay it on the robe fabric, and draw over it, pressing the conte onto the fabric. I then traced over that with the white pencil. Finally, I painted over the pencil. It took me probably a couple hundred hours (with 2 cousins helping me for about 1.5 of them). And the shirt isn't finished -- I only had enough time to bother painting what you could see. Even then, I was painting till right before we left for the hotel!

The vest was painted freehand, and took me 4 days. (There's at LEAST 3 different versions used in the show!)

For A-Yuan, I bought the wig, and styled it. I made the robes, belt, and jacket. (See pics here.)

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“Am I the only one okay with Loki allying himself with Thanos in...”

I think he'll team up and then stab Thanos in the back at the opportune moment. I definitely don't want to see him regress.

That’s exactly what I think will happen! :) It’d make no sense for him to straight-out refuse to join Thanos, even he’s even offered the chance (I feel like even with the tesseract, he’s going to have to negotiate to live); Thanos would just shrug and blow him into smithereens. And of course Kevin Feige is going to tell people Loki joined Thanos. Technically, it’s true -- and he’s not about to give away the “plot twist” of Loki really being against Thanos the whole time.

Y’all are freaking over nothing, chill.

At worst, Loki remains in-character by choosing to join up with the immensely-powerful being who would kill him otherwise, to attack a planet he doesn’t particularly care about. (This seems much more logical to his character, in my opinion, than him joining the Avengers and risking his life to protect a bunch of humans.) I’m not even sure that counts as a betrayal of Thor -- that’s just straight-up self-preservation, haha.

Its awesome though ��

I read Aftermath and Bloodlines and Poe is in neither. So far in the Poe Dameron comic the subject has not come up.

Don’t do it! Don’t do it! I haven’t read them, actually, but have been warned off by those who have. Starts great, ends rambling, unfocused, and in need of editing. Write your thesis instead. :)

Ah yes that does suck. You could probably get some good notes from the Episcopal Church since we legalized it just last year. Might be a good shortcut.

Sometimes I just feel like writing up a short essay with lots of links, storing it, and sending it out whenever asked about it so I don't have to try to remember everything. Or I ignore the person. :)