@linlicosplay.bsky.social

From China 🇨🇳 I cosplay characters from ancient video games and comics from the 1900’s. Probably old enough to be your mom. Probably taller than you. Probably stronger too.

I think I may be done posting my cosplay content here. There does not seem to be an audience for it on Bluesky at all. 250 posts, most with zero interactions, and the crickets chirp. So long!

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“Sit and Dream” my favorite song from Fallout New Vegas. A tribute to all the brave & foolish souls who tried to take the shortcut to New Vegas past Quarry Junction. It would not be the same without all the deathclaws.

Behind the scenes… it’s just me standing in front of a blue screen before I edited the background. Groundbreaking special effects for the year 1920, I know.

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When you set up your photo studio, dress up like a superpowered Kungfu mutant in a skintight suit, start doing that jiggly leg thing because no one is watching, and then there is a knock at the door:

The ladies of Chrono Trigger: Lucca the inventor, Ayla the chief of the Iola tribe, Marle the runaway Princess Nadia of the Kingdom of Guardia. All cosplays, photos, and photo editing by me.

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My Selene cosplay from Underworld. Where does she keep her guns when not in use? Selene doesn’t have holsters. You might think she keeps them in pockets in her trench coat, except she magically pulls her pistols out when she’s it wearing it too.

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A cosplayer I followed said it was wrong to cosplay characters from other cultures. She said she always wanted to cosplay as Moana, but never would because she was only half Polynesian, and that would somehow ruin the experience of Polynesian cosplayers because there isn’t enough Moana to go around.

Every time I use American social media, I see American cosplayers (always Americans) trying to police behavior of other cultures. For the last few months, it’s been “my grandma was from Korea, so you can’t dress up like Kpop Demon Hunters, it’s so disrespectful to my culture!”

This is getting out of control. I have been privy to discussions of American cosplayers now wanting to cancel the sport of bodybuilding, calling it “blackface. Did they forget what the American practice of blackface actually was?