All This and Tea!

thewatermonchichi:

princessfirepussy:

shyperbole:

radastheyscum:

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:

onward-to-gallifrey:

cocobaby23:

mymindinaclusterfuck:

bright-happy-healthy:

i just thought this needed to be pointed out to the tumblr community.

these are all photoshopped by enrico francis

it needs to stop.

Dear Enrico Francis Photoshop extrordinare,

STOP FUCKIN PHOTOSHOPPING BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND MANIPULATING THEIR BODIES AND FACES INTO UNNATURAL BARBIE LOOK-A-LIKES.

1. youre not very good at it. the manipulations you make are so fucking freakish that all i have to do is glance at your photos and know that its not real.

2. the natural beauty of these women is so profound that the fact that you feel the need to photoshop them is fucking INSANE. 

3. we do not need another fucking shit putting these unrealistic expectations of women (and men, cause you shop them too) into the world. its not right. you know its not, i know its not and tumblr knows. 

So Enrico, I beg you please give it a rest. be a good fucking human being and stop. learn to be a true artist and enhance the beauty youre working with as opposed to completely warping it.

and if you dont i will continue to publish your shitty photoshop all over this fucking website.

This is disgusting.

FOR ONCE SOMEONE INCLUDED WOMEN OF COLOR.Thank God. Its good for people to see how this is done to women in the industry. sickening, but true.

Anyone else notice with the women of color, they narrowed their noses? And that none of the white women’s noses were altered? 

(Yes I am annoyed at the other things they narrowed but.) 

Remember folks, when studios edit for beauty standards, they’re editing for WHITE, EURO STANDARDS. 

They fucking gave those beautiful women of color a white woman’s nose. 

Remember that. 

I was LITERALLY going to say the same thing

That nose bullshit is for the birds

They look SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER with rounded off noses, fuck that pointy shit god damnit 

they photoshopped women in the BACKGROUND

This shit actually just brought me back down to earth because wow that Selena Gomez one is fucking bonkers. He photoshopped the woman in the background. He photoshopped a literally faceless nobody because they want this ingrained in your head- that impossible thinness, that perfectly sculpted arms and abs are the norm, what is expected, just the minimum prerequisites of being a woman in society. They want to let you know that even if you aren’t the star of the show, all eyes are on you, and they’ll eat you alive if you aren’t as skinny and pretty as the cash cows. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t being paid to let people watch you on screen: they’re still watching you from behind the scenes and you’re done for if your arms jiggle. God save you if your armpits are fat.

These were really really important on my journey to loving myself. I used to look through magazines and see these women who were seeming unattainably beautiful. To see the before and after a showed me the reality of it. I don’t look at magazines anymore, they just make me feel awful. These women are so beautiful, and to manipulate their bodies like this is shameful.

Dear world, your standards of beauty are bull shit. no love, genevieve

fuckyeahfatcosplay:

Mod post!  Haven’t posted one in a while, so here goes.

This is my adult Toph Bei Fong cosplay from Avatar: The Last Airbender/ Legend of Korra.  I debuted this costume exactly a year after my Sailor Jupiter one and was about as nervous about it.  Even though it did cover considerably more than Sailor Jupiter did, (which was my concern with Jupiter), I had never really made armor before and when I first wore the costume, only one or two other people had cosplayed this version of Toph.  But it immediately became my favorite as soon as I wore it.  This past year in particular, I’ve scarcely worn any other costumes at the multiple conventions I’ve attended.  Toph is tied with Jupiter for my all-time favorite costume I’ve done, and she’s one of my all-time favorite characters in general.  I’ve just fallen in love with, connected with, and learned from the character, and made a lot of connections and fallen in love while wearing the costume.  I grew close with my roommates this year through the character and the costume, met some of my now-best friends in that costume, traveled to and saw a lot of places in it, and even met my girlfriend through cosplaying Toph.  Even if none of it lasts, the fact that all of this happened through my love for an animated character and through wearing a geeky costume, to me, is pretty amazing.

A lot of people I’ve come across think it’s really nerdy to love a show and a character that much.  So that’s why I think it’s especially odd and terrible that those who are nerdy, those who are labelled “weird” by a large portion of society, often ostracize other nerdy people for how they look, especially in terms of cosplay.  It’s reactions like that that made it, even with the huge positive reaction I got from Jupiter and the enormous confidence boost it was, still a small bit nerve wracking to cosplay a character that I knew was considered to have a different “look” than me.  But I took a leaf from Sailor Jupiter’s book when I cosplayed her and the positive response from everyone was one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me.  So I did the same with Toph. 

I cosplay the characters I do for a reason; they tend to have similar outlooks on things (and I’d bet money they’d all get along famously if put in a room together.)  They are all imminently themselves despite people’s labeling them as abnormal in some respect, particularly Jupiter and Toph. I follow Toph’s philosophy of doing what you love and staying imminently true to yourself, despite any perceived oddity in it and regardless of what anyone else thinks about it.  Toph does what she wants and if you tell her she can’t, you’d better be prepared because it’s about to go down.  Toph Bei Fong doesn’t take anyone’s shit and I try to do the same.  And if anyone ever told me I wasn’t doing justice to the character because of what I looked like, it’d be clear to me that they don’t understand Toph.  Toph does not care what she or anyone else  looks like and why would she?  She knows exactly how much bullshit it really is to judge on looks. She cares about the content of peoples’ character, their actions, their words, their behavior and she judges herself on the same standards.  She knows who she is and doesn’t need anyone else’s justification for her existence. Why would I ever be concerned with what people think about how I look in the costume when I love it so much and when it’s done so many wonderful things for me?  Never be ashamed of who you are and who and what you love.  Don’t hesitate to give something your all. Wearing first Jupiter, and now Toph, has taught me that loving something with everything you’ve got, and to hell with anyone who has a problem with it, can do unexpected and extraordinary things. 

I loved reading your thoughts here. ^_^  I tend to have a similar focus with the characters I cosplay, with a similar level of love for characters.  I mainly cosplay Uncle Iroh and Lumpy Space Princess, and am debuting Rarity from MLP this year.  But yeah, there’s a reason that I am going into my third year of the same Iroh cosplay—I love the positive response that I get from people, and seeing how much people love the character.  I’m really glad that I get to make them so happy.

thegreenwolf:

theofficialariel:

Princess to Prince Transformation

All characters portrayed by Richard Schaefer (Me)

Costumes also made by myself. My Fan-page

This HAS to be my favorite cosplay post EVER.

You do wonderful cosplay work! :D