Kinnie with Jimmy Freakin CASKET!//Stabby//sassy//kind of a dick when shifted//Secretive//Non-Binary//They/them//You'll find out the rest eventually m'fren.
Also I apologize for blinding you with my Scottish/Irish skin, light reflects off me like a fucking mirror, if I were the moon I would light the earth like the sun and it'd be day time 24/7
The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.
Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.
the ableds care so much about this defunding of the special olympics, but where are they when disabled people are dying due to lack of access to medical care? where are they when disabled people are literally begging them to give a fuck about our lives?
this is like “disabled reporter mocked by tr*mp” all over again - a lot of ableds online never even bothered to learn his name (serge kovaleski) or read his work, they just saw an opportunity for virtue signalling, took it, & then proceeded to learn nothing else about disability politics & lived experiences.
ableds want to talk about the defunding of the special olympics? cool. they better be reading & learning & boosting disabled people talking about medicaid & medicare, the ADA & ACA, independent living, institutional & systemic ableism, etc As Well. otherwise, they can keep their witty jokes to themselves.
I originally planned on doing a cosplay that allowed me to be comfortable at the convention….and then I saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse. As soon as I saw Kingpin I thought, I MUST BE HIM. I fell in love with his character design and loved how absurdly large he was.
I started sculpting his face after I saw the movie but didn’t start on the body until a couple weeks before the convention. I basically just built a box out of insulation foam sheets with foam pieces inside that rested on my shoulders to give him height. I cut a hole out of the belly area and covered the entire body in sheer black fabric so that I could see through it without any obvious vision holes. For the arms, I bought the largest pair of black pants I could find at the thrift shop and used them as sleeves. I stuffed them with foam and ran a wire through them so they could bend and so I could easily attach my silicone hands (which were lifecasts of my own tiny hands). I ran the face in silicone and backed it with foam. I then attached the face to the body with silicone caulk. Everything else was basically attached by hot glue and a prayer.
I tried it on for the first time a couple days before the convention and realized the insulation foam was really doing its job and within seconds I was already getting warm. So, the night before the show I ran out and bought a battery operated fan that I installed under his armpit.
As much as I stressed about all the imperfections, as soon as I walked into the con and saw the reactions to it, I was immediately relieved. Seeing so many little Miles cosplayers freak out over a giant Fisk truly made my day.
Doing cosplay is such an amazing creative outlet for me. I’m a full-time SFX artist, but like most jobs, I don’t have any creative freedom. Cosplay gives me the opportunity to use all these crazy skills I’ve learned and create something that brings myself and others pure joy.