Instagram: May 07, 2019 at 07:42PM
Leone is finally starting to actually look like Leone. Still need to finish the waistband on the pants and then bling this shit up but the end is in sight! #jjbacosplay #cosplay #leoneabbacchio #cosplaywip
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gettin' sentimental on main
(I posted this on the anniversary news post, but I wanted to make a copy of it here in my own journal, too)
Gonna have a moment of sappiness here, but honestly, DW is the reason I have my own house, and a job that I loved. I had taught myself CSS/HTML as a teenager, in ye olde Geocities days, and was kind of interested in CS, but I got to college, took an intro CS course (taught in Java) and absolutely hated it. So I got a biology degree instead and then tried to find work with that.
Then, in 2011, when the first giant wave of RP migrations happened, my best friend complained about not liking any of the existing styles and I thought, well, I know a little bit about coding, and I used to play with custom layouts on LJ - and the result was Marginless (which looking back on is kind of eh, but my friend liked it! Fun fact: the default color scheme and it's name are for the character she used it for, lol). And then I learned that style patching efforts were seriously backlogged, so I went 'well if someone can give me pointers, I'll give it a go' and it just kind of spiraled from there? And I learned along the way that I actually do like coding, I just hate Java.
And after a few years of not finding good work and just working temp jobs, I went back to school in 2014 and got a CS degree, and got hired a few months after graduating at a fantastic company that does application security testing (and it turns out that coding for DW taught me much better security practices than like... a LOT of companies have. A depressingly large number of companies). And said awesome job means that last year I could finally buy my own house, which has been like, a life goal since I was twelve.
So thank you, Dreamwidth. I always joke that you pay me in food and fake money (points), but really, you have paid me in support and mentorship over the last eight (!!!) years.
Gonna have a moment of sappiness here, but honestly, DW is the reason I have my own house, and a job that I loved. I had taught myself CSS/HTML as a teenager, in ye olde Geocities days, and was kind of interested in CS, but I got to college, took an intro CS course (taught in Java) and absolutely hated it. So I got a biology degree instead and then tried to find work with that.
Then, in 2011, when the first giant wave of RP migrations happened, my best friend complained about not liking any of the existing styles and I thought, well, I know a little bit about coding, and I used to play with custom layouts on LJ - and the result was Marginless (which looking back on is kind of eh, but my friend liked it! Fun fact: the default color scheme and it's name are for the character she used it for, lol). And then I learned that style patching efforts were seriously backlogged, so I went 'well if someone can give me pointers, I'll give it a go' and it just kind of spiraled from there? And I learned along the way that I actually do like coding, I just hate Java.
And after a few years of not finding good work and just working temp jobs, I went back to school in 2014 and got a CS degree, and got hired a few months after graduating at a fantastic company that does application security testing (and it turns out that coding for DW taught me much better security practices than like... a LOT of companies have. A depressingly large number of companies). And said awesome job means that last year I could finally buy my own house, which has been like, a life goal since I was twelve.
So thank you, Dreamwidth. I always joke that you pay me in food and fake money (points), but really, you have paid me in support and mentorship over the last eight (!!!) years.
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I had a really good time being casual shitty goth dad at Anime...
I had a really good time being casual shitty goth dad at Anime Boston this year - I’m excited to get his canon outfit done for ACen next month! Photos snagged from various friends, with permission, because I was far too frazzled to get any myself.
- Leone - Me
- Bruno - @pinnedtogether
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Best JJBA moments of AB
- The extremely tall Giorno at the Friday shoot (like, easily 6'6". TALL BOY)
- The older couple cosplaying Oldseph and Suzie Q at the shoot
- Honestly, most of the Friday shoot, even if it was chaos (the assigned space was waaaay too small for the number of people who showed up, so there was wrangling)
- Giving all my trash children bucellati
- Kira who organized the shoot: I just took a cookie from Abbaccio and stuffed it in my mouth without questioning or thinking
- Getting distracted like four times on our drunken wander from the Sheraton bar to video gaming by moar jojos
- Very drunk friend who has not reached part 5: *squinting at Doppio and Diavolo cosplayers we ran into* Are they the same character???
Me: ....Yes... and no. You're too drunk for me to explain. Actually I'm not sure I could even if you were sober.
- The Mista who like, clocked themselves in the face attempting to hastily salute us outside video gaming
- Finally meeting one of the other JJBA fans in my local EGL comm (who has excellent taste in characters)
- The Bruno wearing a DARE t-shirt that we ran into
- The way any conversation about JJBA just attracts more jojos fans
- Going to the Gender Bending Fashion exhibit at the MFA on Monday and just picking out what jojos character would wear what
(hopefully I'll post photos eventually but it turns out I'm very bad at selfies and didn't get any myself)
- The older couple cosplaying Oldseph and Suzie Q at the shoot
- Honestly, most of the Friday shoot, even if it was chaos (the assigned space was waaaay too small for the number of people who showed up, so there was wrangling)
- Giving all my trash children bucellati
- Kira who organized the shoot: I just took a cookie from Abbaccio and stuffed it in my mouth without questioning or thinking
- Getting distracted like four times on our drunken wander from the Sheraton bar to video gaming by moar jojos
- Very drunk friend who has not reached part 5: *squinting at Doppio and Diavolo cosplayers we ran into* Are they the same character???
Me: ....Yes... and no. You're too drunk for me to explain. Actually I'm not sure I could even if you were sober.
- The Mista who like, clocked themselves in the face attempting to hastily salute us outside video gaming
- Finally meeting one of the other JJBA fans in my local EGL comm (who has excellent taste in characters)
- The Bruno wearing a DARE t-shirt that we ran into
- The way any conversation about JJBA just attracts more jojos fans
- Going to the Gender Bending Fashion exhibit at the MFA on Monday and just picking out what jojos character would wear what
(hopefully I'll post photos eventually but it turns out I'm very bad at selfies and didn't get any myself)
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Instagram: May 13, 2017 at 09:36PM
The end is in sight! Though augh there is gold paint everywhere. #toukenranbu #cosplay #mikazukimunechika
Instagram: May 06, 2017 at 09:28PM
I might be able to finish this costume for ACen without dying.... #toukenranbu #cosplay
Instagram: May 02, 2017 at 08:23PM
Got four of the six armor plates I need for Mikazuki cut out (along with two screw-ups). Having access to a CNC machine helps so much. #cosplay #toukenranbu
