actualjo:

cosplayinamerica:

Sailor Melanin was actually born from an Instagram post on my personal account. I decided to wear two puffs in my hair to work, some glittery makeup and wood moon earrings. I took a picture and captioned it “Sailor Melanin”. My friend was like, “ooh. That would be a cute cosplay!” I agreed, but didn’t think about it until I was in Joanns and walked past some kente fabric.

I bought a body suit from capezios and made the skirt and collar from fabric I bought from Joanns. I actually struggled a bit because I tried to use a pattern I bought…and it was waaaaaay undersized. Numbers lie.

I was super surprised by the response at the con. It went over way better than I thought. I had never been stopped for so many pictures! People told me they were inspired by me, and I was shocked. I inspire people? That was a crazy thought to me. I just thought it would be great to present the idea that there are black girls who grow up with magical girl dreams too. 

I met my best friends through cosplay. I am relaxed and most at peace when sewing a cosplay. Cosplay brings my family together. I found confidence I didn’t know I had, pride that was dormant and a way to physically advocate the things that matter to me.

I don’t care who you are, cosplay is for everybody and EVERY BODY. Never do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable just to meet a standard. Cosplay the characters you love because you love them:) 

—– https://www.instagram.com/ladylocosplay/

Oh I wish I had seen you at Katsucon. Beautiful and inspired

lacklusterlexicon:

candiikismet:

candygarnet:

shamwowxl:

wine-dark-sea:

ilyasaurus:

randomfandomteacher:

indigopersei:

broitsablog:

wildeisms:

@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?

my friend,
if only you knew

It’s a very dangerous language to learn

Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.

The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.

#now I’m wondering how often my high school french teacher was silently screaming because of this little fact

Every year. Every year there’s that kid who forgets that you can’t translate “I am excited” to “Je suis excitée”. And every year Monsieur Jordan has to slam the brakes before that kid can finish his sentence and then tactfully ask him not to announce to the class that he is horny.

“is the french language always on the verge” oh buddy, oh pal, i am so happy to break this news to you: 

truly the language of love

Inspirational really

[Image descriptions: a series of screenshots from Google Translate showing various French-to-English translations. They are as follows:

  • coup de feu tranlsated as “gunshot”
  • coup de fou translated as “blowjob”
  • coup de foudre translated as “love at first sight”
  • coup de foutre translated as “cumshot”
  • un baiser translated as “kiss”
  • baiser translated as “fuck”
  • verge translated as “penis”]

The second one, coup de fou, only translates as “cr*zy” for me, and coup de foutre only as “fuck” (though I’d believe that it colloquially translates to “cumshot”). But with that said: @stefanidoesstuff​, all French shenanigans shall henceforth remind me of you! ;D

Funniest thing about the Thor trilogy: The 2nd film ends on: “Oh my God, Loki is impersonating Odin! What evil will he do now? Where is his father?”

mysharona1987:

Cut to two years later: Loki’s sitting around eating grapes and getting local actors to play out his wacky fan fiction. 

And, eh, everyone on Asgard seems fine? At worst, he’s just been a bit lazy as a ruler. 

Oh, and he didn’t even kill his father: He just sent him to a fancy old folk’s home in NYC.

Like, If you had to have an evil overlord running everything, Loki would have totally been your choice.  

ruffaled:

teabq:

toney-starks:

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

You know, Stephen says this to dunk on Tony but it overlooks the fact that the flavor came out, Stephen bought it, then tried it. Like dude (or someone he knows) paid cash money for that. Which means:

1) He did it for the lulz, anticipating that it would suck, but still paid money that went to whatever charity the flavor was supporting so still a win for the purpose of the ice cream or

2) He did it because he thought it would taste good and is now revealing his bitterness that his Stark Raving Hazelnuts fanboy dreams were crushed.

But we’re all sleeping on the fact that not only did Stephen do what op said above, he and Wong also bought a tub of ‘Hunk a Hulk of Burning Fudge’ (or however that’s spelled) and decided they preferred that. Wizard bros trying out Avengers-flavored ice cream between protecting the fabric of reality is incredibly funny.

bace-jeleren:

kari-izumi:

the-man-who-sold-za-warudo:

valammar:

valammar:

valammar:

my mom is 61 and her bf is a huge nerd and he’s teaching her to play magic the gathering and he had her watch avatar the last airbender with him and his ringtone is terra’s theme from final fantasy 6 and he paints pictures of sephiroth. my mom’s bf is nerdier than i’ll ever be.

and she does all these pinterest crafts and now she makes little bejeweled vials of healing potions for him and his buddies. my little geek heart can’t handle all this.

edit: just picture a 60-something woman with a VERY thick minnesotan accent saying “mike is having me watch the naruto”

just fyi my mom is now 62 and they finished watching “the naruto”

if i had told my 13-year-old self that this is what my mom’s hallway would look like when i was 30 i wouldn’t have believed me

believe it

Please share to support older fans in fandom ♥️

I once was at a con and was walking back to my hotel room when I happened to spy a bunch of people just then filling into their room and they were all very old- like easily in their 60’s or 70’s- and every single one of them was in unmistakeable Bleach cosplay. I told everyone else in my room about it and they were all “ew, that’s really weird!” which was really disheartening for me because I honestly thought it was wholesome and I honestly hope me and all of my elderly buddies still go in full cosplay to cons when I’m that age.

izhunny:

jackburtonsays:

jackburtonsays:

So I’m watching Eddie Murphy Raw and he’s talking about when the woman is in the Bahamas and meets a dude named Dexter St. John,”walking on the beach, swingin’ his dick”. Not gonna lie but do you know who came to mind while I’m watching this?

I mean…if I’m on a beach and this man came up to me, I might have to go home with him too 😆

@areubeingserved

Actually, @jackburtonsays I’m thinking about how throws it over his shoulder before he asks how I’m doing, but yeah, thanks for this.