Finally finished my cosplay build for RJTG!!!!
Top Picture: Assisting Ashoka! Picture taken by: Ben Jamin Comic Con / on Instagram and Facebook
Bottom Video: Video taken by: Marcia Leeder Video and Photography / https://www.instagram.com/marcialeeder/
All media taken at Fan Expo Toronto, Canada / Friday August 26th, as Star Wars Rebels Jedi Temple Guard cosplay build - completed in full on August 24th 2023.
It was a great time, although I fizzled by the end of the day.
Altogether, this cosplay build has been an 'awesome' experience!
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Chinese Censorship of the 2023 Hugo Award Nominations
Back before the 2023 Hugo Nominations were conducted, I noted that the Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China. I suspected this would result in arbitrarily applied censorship to control the ballot. I am sad and unsurprised to discover I was correct.
The 2023 Hugo Nomination vote data has been published (https://www.thehugoawards.org/2024/01/2023-nominating-and-final-ballot-statistics-published/), and includes notation where nominations were excluded from the ballot. Those with normal reasons, such as being in the wrong category or not being published in 2022 are identified with their reasons for exclusion. This time there are a number of nominations that are merely marked at "Not eligible".
Here is the list of those nominations, that would otherwise have been placed on the final 2023 Hugo Award Ballot.
Babel - R.F. Kuang - Best Novel: Very likely excluded for referencing student revolution, and the use of language and translation as coercive tools of oppression.
Color the World - Congyun "Mu Ming" Hu - Best Novellette : A story about perception of, aid of, and discrimination against disability. Congyun Hu has left China and now lives in New York.
Fogong Temple Padoga - Hai Ya - Best Story : Either there is something in the original Chinese that was not translated, there's a taboo subject that elides my reading, or this otherwise innocent looking near future tale of cultural building restoration was written by the wrong person.
The Art of Ghost of Tsushima: Dark Horse and Sucker Punch Games - Best Related Work : The video game Ghost of Tsushima was subject to directed social exclusion for it's depiction of the Mongol invasion of Japan.
Sandman, Amazon Studios: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long and Short) - A diverse and divergent cast, includes subject matter and social issues that are currently taboo in China.
Paul Weimer - Fan Writer: Publicly Critical of holding a Worldcon in China.
Xiran Jay Zhao - Astounding Award: Qualifying work "Iron Widow" is reimagined story of Chinese Empress Wu during a fantasy/mechanical alien invasion.
This raises a lot of questions as to if this basically taints the process, and what can be done about it.
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As a chronically ill person, my body is NOT a temple!
digital illustration of a large pink and green haunted house with ghosts and stars. text reads, 'my body is not a temple, it is a haunted house.'
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when it comes to music, these three became my top favorite and most-listened-to bands as of late. (that are absolutely my mood lifters.) kisses them all on the forehead💕🥺
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Obsessed with Lloyd never mentioning his grandfather is the First Spinjitsu Master, apparently to the point even Arin didn't seem to know, because "eh, it never came up". Cause like, yeah, sure, my grandfather is God, what of it? Normal day for me. Shit happens. My dad is also evil, you wanna talk about that? I sure don't.
It's also funny from a character arc perspective. Here's itty bitty baby first season Lloyd, loudly proclaiming he's the son of Garmadon, and probably also making sure everyone knows he's God part 3 electric boogaloo. And then one Tomorrow's Tea and a few more years later and he's doing everything physically possible to NOT care about his heritage. In fact he'd probably rather his parentage was literally anyone else. Dude could care so less he forgets about it most of the time. King behavior.
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HC: this is what the sisters/ (dress-liking) siblings of sin uniforms are in the ministry.
(And yes they were still designed by High Priestess Alexandra, we need more Twin Temple cross overs in the fanfiction everyone)
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Recent Destiny 2 commission that I finished arround Halloween. Had a lot of fun with this one, really happy with how it came out!
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Fifteen: I’ve got no one
The entire Noble-Temple family including Fourteen: The fuck you don’t….!?
Fifteen: Shhhh I’m the Doctor this doesn’t work if I’m not at least a little broody just give me this
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