Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors

WOW. Seeing the new YST illustration earlier this year was cool enough, but I didn’t know there was new merchandise floating around as well! Nice!! :D 

Second Newsletter for January has just been sent out! In it, I cover the newest communication methods that have been added (Discord and Twitter), the current estimated make-up of the fanzine, and suggestions for writing bios.

Check it out here: https://emily-wing.com/rwfanzine/20180113.html

These two characters are the hardest for me to draw. I don’t know why, but Shin’s eyes and hair always throw me off. Shu’s build is so different from the other troopers that I just plain struggle. orz

The last newsletter for the month of January has just been released! Be sure to check it out here:  https://www.emily-wing.com/rwfanzine/20180127.html

Just a reminder that this Wednesday is the last chance to vote for what we should do for the fanzine cover! Every vote counts, so take the survey before it’s too late:  https://goo.gl/forms/frmwvMSMlqx2cVdq1

They’re more comfortable, still form fitting, and best of all: THE POCKETS. THEY HAVE ACTUAL POCKETS.

don’t believe me? look:

these are boys pants, and they look just as good on me as any other skinny jeans I own

See that phone? I’m going to put it in the pocket. Must be so small right??

Ah yes, girl pants length. Probably can’t fit any further than that-

what? what’s this?

Good god. Oh good lord in heaven. This is blasphemous.

Look at how much room is still there. There’s chaos in the streets. Babies are crying. Fashion designers are screaming out of fear of the unknown.

Tall ladies: men’s pants are easier to find in longer lengths than women’s pants are.

Trans ladies: Wanna get on this gravy train, but afraid people will misgender you for wearing clothes off the men’s racks? Step one: tell me who these people are and I will punch them in the face. Step two: if it doesn’t make you dysphoric, please don’t feel obligated to wear pants off the women’s racks if pants off the men’s racks are more comfy/useful to you. I’m a cis woman who’s been wearing pants from the boys’ section and, later, the men’s section, ever since I hit puberty and in thirteen years maybe, maybe half a dozen people have noticed. And it’s always women asking the oh-my-god-pockets question. You’re all good. <3

Fat ladies: you will pay the same for a pair of 42x32 jeans as for a pair of 34x32 jeans, instead of having to pay some kind of Fat Penance Tax by way of being in the “plus size” section. Also, did I mention more room in the butt?

Ladies concerned about modesty: For obvious reasons, there is more crotch space in men’s pants. Embrace it and enjoy a life free from cameltoe worries and spontaneous labia-wedgies when you squat down.

All ladies: I swear to god the waists in women’s pants these days are made specifically to fit exactly nobody so that no matter what you do, your underwear will show. Men’s pants do not do this. The waists sit where they’re supposed to and will actually lay flat against the small of your back instead of flopping open to show your unmentionables to the world. If you want hiphugger jeans, buy one leg-length too small and one waist-size too large and let them hang, and they still won’t accidentally show your undies. Men’s pants will last longer. They cost less, in a lot of cases. Embrace the men’s jeans. Buy the men’s jeans. Stop buying shitty flimsy women’s jeans that wear out in six months.

And I said yeah, I’d seen it, I’ve been through the Trying To Fit Clothes On My Stupid Body wars, and this post really only applied to skinny jeans because they’re so stretchy. It couldn’t possibly work for regular jeans! I have TRIED SO MANY TIMES. I’ve always shopped in the men’s department because women’s clothes are like 90% bullshit and 10% fake pockets.

But I hadn’t seen the second addition, which gave me more hope, and I decided to just try on a few pairs when I was at Old Navy the other day. They have some “classic” jeans with no give to them at all, which is what I was trying on years ago that convinced me it just wasn’t possible. (Jeans in my price range didn’t really come with any form of stretch back then, as I recall. Textile technology is bad-ass.) But these days they mostly have “flex” jeans that have some give to them. (Women’s jeans are usually labeled “stretch” but apparently men’s have to be “flex” like they need stretchy garments so their HUGE MUSCLES don’t just TEAR THEIR CLOTHES!)

This was totally an impulse decision so I couldn’t measure myself, but I grabbed a few sizes based on what I vaguely thought my measurements probably were and decided it couldn’t possibly be worse than the endless cycle of regret, dissatisfaction, and recrimination that is trying on women’s clothing.

The first pair I tried on fit like a DREAM. I’ve been gaining weight lately which is a whole separate nightmare (mainly centered around “but I don’t WANT to buy new bras, this is bullshit!”) and the reason I need to buy new jeans because nothing freaking fits me, and I was sure these wouldn’t either, but DAMN. They’re the best pair of jeans I own. Twice as thick, pockets twice as big, legs nice and loose (they don’t even sell women’s jeans with a cut remotely similar to this), and contrary to my super dumb opinion from before this experience, they’ve got my plenty of room for all my womanly curvey bits. AND because they’re actually a relaxed fit instead of trying to cling to every inch of me, they don’t show my weight nearly as much as my women’s jeans do, they’re easier to move in, they’re not constantly inching down my hips with every move I make, and overall they just make me feel GOOD about how I look which is a strange new sensation I could definitely get used to.

Athletic cut jeans have more room in the butt. I repeat. Athletic cut jeans have more room in the butt. You don’t need to go to the dress pants to fit your lovely curvy self in there. Go to the regular section or big and tall if you’re a bit taller and/or wider, and there’ll be a little section of athletic style jeans. They’ve still got the giant blessed pockets and the room in the crotch and if you’re really curvy with a large bone structure like I am you can get yourself some quality pants.

HEY, I SAID I WAS GOING TO DO IT SO HERE IT IS.

I want to organize a Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/ Ronin Warriors 30th anniversary fanzine, to be completed sometime in 2018, preferably around the spring, or start of summer.

I have never done anything like this before, but this series means a lot to me, and I’m sure it means a lot to many others too.

What am I looking for? 

Submissions. Mostly art, multiple entries are totally fine, but just in case, I think I will currently set the limit to about 5 pages per person. Short, one shot fics are also fine, but depending on the length, I may limit those entries to one per person, since they will take up more space. I have no idea what kind of measurements the images will need to be yet, but I’ll figure that out soon. I would really like it to be printed!

Will you be selling this?

Ideally, yes. But again I’ve never done anything like this before, so I will need to do the appropriate research and figure out how to make sure everyone would get paid. If I can’t figure something out, I’ll at least put together a PDF? This fandom is pretty darn small I think, so I don’t know if it would even sell honestly.

How can I contact you if I want to participate?

Please send an email to crystalcatburd @ gmail.com if you would like to participate! In the email, please link your online gallery.

Take a look! I made new versions of the RW/YST plushies I created in the past. These were specially made for @amara77. ^__^ <3

Okay I had to break away from the usual Dark Warlord/Mashou and Kayura theme to post this.

So I randomly found this candle while shopping a few days ago, and somehow it led up to a meme-inspired drawing. I don’t even….XDD;