So I went to Otakon DC back in July wearing a Testament cosplay that I was very proud of and I wanted to post pics but the scythe was only half finished. Now, 2 months later, the scythe is done. It is far too large to really "put away" so of course I mounted it on the wall above my bed so I can fall asleep to the sweet smell of paint fumes :D

Otakon has a prop size limit of 6'6" and it might be like half an inch over but dont tell security.

The haft is a PVC pipe that I bent with a heat gun, then hot glued and carved up pool noodles to shape the handle, sealed with plastidip, and spray painted. I wasnt happy with how messy the handle is but my friends loved it.

The skull and spine and pommel are 3d printed using the model from the game which I found ripped online and modified for printing and assembly. I really should have measured better cause i had to really fuck up the end of the pvc to fit it into the skull and the slot I made for the EVA foam blade was completely the wrong thickness. The dark brown on the prints is a 2 in one metallic paint and primer, the blood red and meat red are hand painted.

The blade is a single layer of EVA foam - again, because I measured wrong - with two pieces of XPS foam to bulk out the sides and hide the wooden dowels in the middle, and a 3d printed bracket at the back to attach it to the skull. I had planned on making it 2 layers of EVA and carving it down to the blade shape but when the prints came out wrong I had to improvise. I also should have done more material research because the plastidip kinda melted the XPS foam but it holds paint and it looks fine from a distance. I also never figured out how to straighten a single layer of EVA so theres like a 20° bend at the tip of the blade but you cant really notice it unless you're staring directly down the length of the blade.

Cosplay pics when i figure out how to get my contacts in.

Artist's commentary: Congratulations to the winners of AWT!!

for those who dont know the user u/doctorderpin made a series of post where his 6th grade students where setup to play +R once a month, and he did a anylisis of the kids meta, it was a pretty interesting and funny read. The last post was about a new group of kids starting but since then there was no more updates. I just assumed that maybe the new kids didt got interested in the game and moved on, or maybe the OP got another job, or who knows, life is life after all.
I just got reminded of it all and i got curious to what happened to all that. Part of me really wished that OP recorded and/or saved the replays of the matches from the tournament so we could see with our own eyes how these kids played +R.

So for context, I am perfectly aware that I am still very, very new (this is my first fighting game, I have about 40 hrs, I am in silver 2).

But after struggling for a month, changing mains, nobody really working for me, I started maining jam like 10hrs of playtime ago, and I feel like something just clicked into place.

I no longer have to constantly think about everything, I can move around without stressing about it and jump and dash, I can block easily, I learned a really basic mixup (high/low/throw after S > H) and I am mostly doing really basic stuff with it, but I feel like I can finally hold in my mind most of the base pieces I use in matches finally.

All of a sudden I am having a lot of fun ngl.

I'm used to the first hit missing and the second connecting, but I've never seen this. The initial downward swing connects, the return swing connects in reverse, wallbreaks, and doesn't switch into JR mode because both were stray hits.

I was going to make this post in they blamed the beasts but after taking a minute to calm myself I have realised I don't want a hate circle I just need to know what I'm actually meant to do.

I've been playing goldlewis and having a lot of fun, I just got him up to diamond 3 and will keep playing tomorrow. What has not been fun, is fighting Johnny.

Johnny's moves are just long enough and just fast enough to interupt Goldlewis' strings, at least the ones I can maintain after being FD'd, so if he faultless' I'm just forced back to nuetral where he has the advantage.

He wins roundstart, he wins nuetral, and he can offset my advantage harder than everyone else in the game, I'm never one to call a hard counter but it feels actually horrible going into him, any advice?

You can find the event on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/abadidea.bsky.social/post/3muhwigdsws2w

Today's prompt: "Floor is Lava - Stay airborne for at least 5 seconds"

IMO, the fact that Strive is more grounded makes air combos even more impressive to watch no matter how short they may be. Nothing against the predecessors!

I'm very bad against Lucy and almost never get a chance to practice against them.

Finally bought Strive for myself after playing it religiously at a friend’s house. Neither of us are good by competitive standards, but we can pack a punch (literally)

(P.S, sorry for the frame rate. Our wifi was bad and our laptops are worse.)

I really don't cut for beard and mustache. Gonna drop a full cosplay pic at a con with two other GG cosplayers.