Inaba Yu & Katono Taiko in the February 2015 issue of Junon.

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Won 2nd placer in cosplaymania preview event

Ever wanted to see a secretary bird make out with a lammergeier? Nah, me neither. 

REMEMBER THE BIRD BL DOUJINSHI?

Here are a couple of sample images from both FORBIDDEN BIRD BOY LOVE ~Eden~ and FORBIDDEN BIRD BOY LOVE ~Paradice Reguined~ or, as the cover puts it, “BL of the bird, by the bird, for the bird.”

I’m not going to scan either of them more than this, because the creators were nice enough to make them available for international buyers to purchase (here) and (here). (Oops, the first one is sold out.)

It’s mostly short cute stories with totally accurate depictions of birds; I can identify most of the species visually, and it’s weird shit like nightjars and gay penguins and swallows and burrowing owl x king vulture and kiwi x ostrich and all that sort of shit. A+ would buy again.

BIRD YAOI WHICH IS FOR BIRDS

I don’t like short dresses. I can’t seem to control my expression and legs at the same time, the photos always turn out a mess :( 

Anyway! Flower dress and headpiece are all finished, step by step instructions for this dress can be found on my blog, and a video tutorial for the headpiece is here! 

The whole thing is sheer, but you can’t really tell because the petticoat is white and i’m very pale ;;

It was designed, drafted, made, and worn by me! Took 16-ish hours to make, spread over a seven day period. Has about sixty dollars worth of fake flowers in it and several yards of silk organza, poly chiffon, and tulle.

I was a fun and easy little project. I enjoyed it.

Image & description courtesy of IEEE (Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=681788875209084&set=a.176108879110422.62121.176104589110851&type=1&theater)

Description: Engineer Amor Munoz has created this sewable circuit board that allows non-engineers to create circuits. She drives from town-to-town in Mexico, letting the working class build circuits with her for 12 times their average pay. More info: http://bit.ly/SO9E9n

「まどか」と「ほむら」のジーンズ登場！

▼くわしくはコチラ

Messenger Bags, Backpacks, Hip Bags, Bicycle Panniers and Festival Water Bottle Bags by LeaflingoOo in Budapest, Hungary

Summer Festival SALE! 10% Off all Fanny Packs in our Etsy Shop ‘till August 1st ! Apply coupon code SUMMERFESTIVAL at checkout for the discount.

ITS DONE! MY PARTY POISON COSPLAY IS DONE!! I’m super excited to cosplay him this weekend at animarathon, please ignore how shitty the lines are on the jacket I ran out of paint to fix it and won’t have time to fix it before the small con this Saturday

some more photos of my kigu

im super proud of that tail ok

This is super awesome!

Two ladies making an elegant “snow Lady”!!!

1891

where did the little girl go when the bomb went off?

everywhere

you’re trans??? prove it using the quadratic formula

how do u like them apples

What You Don’t Know About Beauty and the Beast:

Some backstory: due to this little discussion, I was considering writing a continuation/expansion of Beauty and the Beast. I read up on it and found out everything I thought I knew about it was wrong.

-It was created by one, singular, female author in 1740: Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

-It is not a retelling of a pervasive folklore like Perrault’s Cinderella, for example. It was influenced by folklore but is an original story and is very “post” the fairy tales you might be familiar with. The story is also influenced by women who gathered together and told each other revisions of fairy tales in Parisian salons.

-It’s over 100 pages long

-Though written simply and in a straightforward manner, the characters have personalities and are much more complex in their emotions than a normal folkloric tale. They behave in a diverse and fairly realistic manner to their situations. The Beast’s mother in particular is a complex woman, protective of her son and a capable military leader but not progressive in her attitude towards marrying below your station.

-Women are overwhelmingly the masters of the plot and outnumber the men in number and priority.

Female players include:

-It contains considerable world-building. Fairy language, Fairy law, Fairy influence over monarchies, Fairy hierarchy, Fairy magic are all things she depicts. (eat your heart out, Tolkien fans).

-The curse is broken halfway through the book. The rest is devoted to comments on class, monarchy, marrying for love vs. status, appropriate conditions for love, and marrying below your station among other things.

-The Beast is cursed to punish his mother.

-The book’s plot turns out to be entirely due to the machinations of The Mother of the Seasons and the long-game trap/revenge story orchestrated by the Nice Fairy to defeat The Mother of the Seasons Fairy.

-The book takes place in a specific time period rather than in a nebulous “before-time”, somewhere, as I figure, between 1669 to the early 1700s. It might even be contemporaneous to when it was published. It references the age piracy, revolutions, the merchant class, the presence of slavery, Belle watching comedies, operas, and plays the Fair of St. Germain, and a Janissary battle.

-The Beast’s Queen mother led troops into battle for several years, put down a revolt and defeated an encroaching enemy monarch.

And this is only a partial list.

If you’d like to read the original version by Madame de Villeneuve, it’s collected in a book by J. R. Blanche.

It’s available for free:

Archive.org (they don’t mention her name in the author list but it’s there)

Google Books

I’ve uploaded a PDF of the Beauty and the Beast part on Google Drive.

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