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McCall's Cosplay Pattern line

bee-the-gatekeeper:

cosplaying-on-a-budget:

“Tell me whatcha’ want, whatcha’ you really really want!  I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want!”  …Cosplay Patterns!

The marketing department over at McCall is getting savy. They are now marketing a  line of patterns  specifically for cosplayers, 

We are getting school girl patterns, more character specific patterns for popular shows/movies,  and awesome body suite patters courtesy of Yaya Han’s own line of patterns. They are mixing in some of their old historical pattern too.

Maybe this will help beginner bypass some of the pattern cobbling mess that many of us had to suffer though. 

McCall’s cosplay pattern LINK

This is brilliant because less and less people are sewing these days despite the lamentable lack of nicely made clothing in stores but cosplayers and Steampunks and the like are sewing more and more. They already have a boatload of Steampunk patterns; I’ve even seen some of the cover photos for them turn up here as photos of great Steampunk looks without any indication that they are actually meant to promote a pattern. There are a lot of varied retro looks too. They’re figuring out who’s going to actually be in their stores. I’ve ended up in conversations about WonderCon with the younger staff at some of the cloth stores.

I guess I just think it’s cool. :)

Note: Use the site as a guide only. If you have a Joann Fabric store nearby, they have regular sales on patterns and you usually can get them for $1-2. They keep them at 40% off most of the time other than that.

krxs10: NEW VIDEO RELEASED OF MENTALLY ILL MAN TASED TO DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR "SAGGING PANTS" On November 26, 2013, 38 year old...

krxs10:

NEW VIDEO RELEASED OF MENTALLY ILL MAN TASED TO DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR “SAGGING PANTS”

On November 26, 2013, 38 year old Ervin Edwards, partially deaf and mentally ill, was arrested by police for sagging his pants and taken to the West Baton Rouge Parish jail in Louisiana. He only lived for a few more minutes inside of the cell.

For 18 months, police have lied over and over again about what happened the night Ervin Edwards died in their

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BUY MY FIRKIN BOOKS!If you can't buy them, then encourage others to buy them for you. If you don't want to read my writings [why the hell do...

BUY MY FIRKIN BOOKS!

If you can’t buy them, then encourage others to buy them for you. If you don’t want to read my writings [why the hell do you follow me?] then at least show my stuff off to friends and family who might like my style.

You can also:

  • Share links to Facebook
  • Tweet about my stuff
  • Leave a good review of something you’ve read
  • Find inventive ways to spread the word
  • Do one of those powerpoint

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revolutionarykoolaid: No Justice, No Peace (4.20.15): It was only a matter of time be for the national spotlight was shined on just how...

revolutionarykoolaid:

No Justice, No Peace (4.20.15): It was only a matter of time be for the national spotlight was shined on just how racist the police in my city can be. While my local squad has been focused on busting the school-to-prison-pipeline, we kept hearing a similar story: people felt like they were being targeted by the police simply for riding their bike around their neighborhood. Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Times released a damning report, showing just how real and

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bitch-media: Sentencing someone to prison for a miscarriage seems outrageous--but Indiana's law is part of an increasing number of "fetus...

bitch-media:

Sentencing someone to prison for a miscarriage seems outrageous—but Indiana’s law is part of an increasing number of “fetus rights” laws nationwide. In thirty-eight states, violence against women that results in pregnancy loss is called fetal homicide. But, as demonstrated by Indiana, that law can be—and has been—used to criminalize the women themselves who lose their pregnancies.

Map credit: PRI, with data from the National Conference of State Legislatures.

See this? This is BEYOND FUCKED UP!

You

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Challenge #00820-B089: Going Viral

:Speaking of real-life, actually-happened biological warfare development:

After deployment failed, killing only five hundred million individuals before the target population began developing immunity, development started on another attempt using a different disease. Loss of containment on that one killed ten million during testing, and let the unfinished virus into the wild.

(…The twist is it was the testing of RHD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbithaemorrhagicdisease) in Aussie attempts to control the rabbit population after myxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/

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Challenge #00819-B088: True Words

Beware the happy person with power tools.

There was a sign over the door to the maker-space. Warning: Happy people with power tools inside.

Shayde thought it was a joke until she stepped in. Sure, it had been a few years since she got together with fellow nerds and a bunch of tools to create something. At least, in subjective terms.

In real-time terms it had been closer to five hundred years.

The very concept of maker-spaces had changed while she was

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12 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Magic System

barbaricyip:

metteivieharrison:

  1. How is it learned and executed?

  2. How is it accessed?

  3. Does it have a will of its own?


  4. Is it restricted in space and time?


  5. What does available magic do?


  6. How does it relate to the character, plot and theme of the book?


  7. What is the cost of magic?


  8. What can it not do?


  9. How long does it last?


  10. Who can use it?


  11. How do others react to it?


  12. Why haven’t people with this power taken over the world?

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