It's for lives. Hi everyone and welcome to the Nodio Knopfelchaz. It's a Nodio Knopfelchaz, I am one of your hosts Sam. None of your hosts, Paul.
And we are joined by some fabulous ladies this evening from the Castle Covenant Gaming Group and to talk all about themselves cosplay and gaming and whatever stuff we can get out of them. They're putting things in here. To see what interesting stories we can find. Well, ladies, if you want to introduce yourselves, I can see who wants to go first.
So now that I... Now he's acquired. Hi, I'm... I usually make art, so I'm an artist as my profession as well, and I work for him in the turf.
And when I'm not working on science, I go to a different field of nerdy stuff and I hang out with these nerds to do cosplay and draw nerdy things instead. Yes, I think I've joined you in one of your Twitch channels when you were drawn. I think it was a more aircraft you were doing. Could have been, yeah, it's done a few of her recently.
It was very interesting to see. So yes, it was very nice. Oh, yeah. It was interesting things when people like CDXO process also because I feel like I'm incredibly messy when I'm sketching.
And eventually, you know, just a process, we get somewhere, but it's always nice to see what actually works out. It's surprising me as well. No, definitely, cos I've started things, everything always is like, this is not gonna work. This is not gonna work.
Then you start seeing it come together and you say, just trust it, just trust it, it'll always work out. But yes. Trust the process, yeah. Trust the process.
It's not pretty much for those of us on daily basis now. So yes. So who's next to the latest test? That was on girls.
Oh, Kelly is right next to me. Hi. Hi. So I'm Kelly, but my cosplay name is Willow.
And during the day, I'm a financial director, which is terribly boring. The next time I make costumes and choreographed dresses, I make deals. So some is our TikTok person makes that untool to the TikTok. So that's a different kind of creature.
I've lost D is to that I have recently put a lock on it that I can't even open it. If I spend more than X amount of time on it, then I don't have to do that because I'm literally taking over a live. But I was just like be drawing and I turn it on and I'm just like, please give me dopamine, any type of distraction and I need to not will do that. I'm not watching nothing interesting.
Yes, I'm not the lovely, the lovely, Seth. What's the best to last? I know. All right.
I'm all right. I said I mainly do the streaming over on Twitch. We're playing Spyro right now, and it is just such a kick of nostalgia. I'm living for it during the day.
My secret identity is a teacher. Oh, I know. I know it's terrible. You're all along.
I've brought in the youth. It's me. No, well, it's beautiful. I have to blame.
You have to blame it. They are all gay. Oh, yeah. Oh, well, that's it.
I thought we turned. I really didn't do that. It's great that I run the tabletop club at school. So I am really just opening the doorway to Dungeons & Dragons, to different card games, different RPGs.
That's amazing. Because we had nothing like that when we were at school. I used to hide me comics any by just getting through the day. So that was always a fun time.
But in that, that was back nearly 30 years ago. So yeah, it's a bit of a difference. And I only went to just put it on there. You really are.
It's really interesting how more generally appreciated comics and tables of RPGs are. It's really nice. I was definitely born in the wrong generation. Obviously not because I am the king of the 80s.
Everything in the 80s was the best decade back in from films, TV shows, music. I don't like the 80s. What? I thought we were going along now.
I'm literally thinking about it. I think that's going to be the end. I've seen it last time. I've seen it last time.
I've seen it last time. So many... No, that's the opposite actually. I've seen no football.
You can't even know what it means. So we're going to have a sport with friends because I need to revive. Yeah. I'm going to have to have a sport with friends and fuck all movies.
I have seen that. I have a list. They're just going to get added to each week. So yeah, I am with you on that.
I'm not seeing anything. Can we have a fun game that sometimes to play on stream, but it's usually in the car where Kelly will mention a film and turn an angle. Seth, what do you think the plot is of X film? And cultural osmosis.
I'm like, this is where they happened. Right. And that's okay. You're really close.
But then you make one really big mistake. I was like, okay, she actually hasn't seen it. But okay, she's like a really close. Everyone just assumes I've not seen anything.
And then nine times I've just turned it right. But that means just getting annoyed. How can you live your life and not seen this movie? No, go away.
I suppose this isn't a comedy. How does he go? What? I mean, I've got more room.
I'm just really about watching out. Yeah. That was my childhood. Just sitting in front of the TV.
I'm just a sad childhood. I guess. It was just my childhood. Living the life of the Goonies and standby me.
That was the main thing. Oh, yes. So thank you ladies as well for joining us this evening. I know I mentioned, I think Kelly and Abigail a few times about having used come on, but I think with the time to be right, I'm trying to get as much content done over a short period because I'm going to lie.
I'm a bit home alone at the moment. My wife's decided to fall off to Australia for seven weeks. So good for her. It's a nice place to be.
It is a very warm. It's 38 degrees there today. So I know I'll back here to stop going off. So she's like, oh, how much is that going to cost you?
Oh, yes. So that was my idea in a nutshell. So yes, when we do have guests on, we've started to reach out to the nerd community. I know we've had like, say, Blade Marvellous and MC Metal come on for the clothing range and stuff.
We really want to know, like, say about yourselves, what is about, how you just, like, say, we're going to grill you a bit. So no, no, no, no, no. So you're awfully, um, but I'm just interested, like, say how did you just like get together? Like how did the friendships are?
Have you always known each other or did you just like meet through the college level? Yeah. I'll cry. Is this what you want from me?
Yes. We want to. Yes. Blood, sweat and tears.
At least we won't be behind this. We can't tend to cry a lot on here. Well, me and lovely, well though, have been best friends since college. Um, we, they were wearing this.
It's a huge story. No, it's romantic and beautiful. It's a whole mouth. That's a big, big, big, big hat.
And on it was this little cat pin. And I was like, that's a fruit basket pin because I'm from like a small town. So like no one watched anime. And I'm like, the only is that anime.
Anime I know I love. So I'm like, and I said nothing because I'm a coward. And then we got forced to sit on the same table. And I'm like, now is my chance.
I like, I like your pin. And this bitch, it has later gave me the pin. Oh, I know Willow doesn't remember doing that because I have a worst memory. I remember and I cried and I'm tearing it off.
Oh, so it's definitely those friends that remembers little, every minute data of everything. So she called coaches and like, you never want to fuck with me. I don't have, I remember no moments because I'm full of grudges. Right.
That's so sweet though that you have been friends in college because that's the same with me and him. We met him. I associate from college. I associate from a friend.
But I was three years ago. Yes. Three years. How 15?
Yeah. I'm not going to take me now. It's actually 20 years. It's about 20 years.
I can't do the math. You're a financial director. Yeah. But I'm not working.
She off the clock. Yes. And it's also my baby. I can't be doing math.
You know what? I'm so sorry. Stephanie, there's a very important question from the chat to you. The chat.
What's your side? Oh, it's better than the whole. Well. I think he gets for us.
He gets, he gets, I guess, I guess a torus. One of the vibes. Oh, the vibe is that I'm still holding the grudge. I get it.
I'm a cancer because I am emotional and moody and dramatic. Wow. We really are the same person. But we do.
Move over, move over, move over. You're looking on very well with one of our team members, Donna, then you can see basically runs the sonnecon convention as she comes on the podcast at time and she's in the chat. She's in the chat actually. She's in the chat.
And Dennis does stay as agitarius. You're wrong, Daniel is cancer. You're losing. I'm a senator to the tourist and it shows.
How did you make the lovely laser? Oh, yeah. We started hanging out during the pandemic, because I moved to Newcastle from the Netherlands in November 2018, which was a stressful and traumatic period of my life moving internationally. Don't do it.
Don't do it. I made a mistake of working in science, and I just finished my PhD in the Netherlands, and I moved for a postdoctoral degree, like a postdoctoral job in Newcastle. Yeah, I left science in. So smart.
And I came here, alone, didn't bring anyone. So I decided I need to make friends really quickly. So I joined a bunch of dance classes, and I'm not really at one of the dance classes. All right.
I thought it was just like you would want in the first place. I was like, we had got a connection. I was wondering why the connection was coming down. Yeah.
I mean, I feel like sort of like a first day of that class. And we were like, how do we convince this person to be our best friend ever? And it was like this long con of like, do you want to form a girl again with a thankfully piece, I guess. And it was basically out of me to a group, and I was like, you're a best friend now.
And I was like, yeah. And it wasn't even like, I don't even do the dance classes. So I had to find out about these, like, hey, there's this bitch that you were fucking love. And they just sent me a picture and I'm like, ah, yes.
That is what I want. I love it. I absolutely love that. I think it's written the entry.
It is real. It's like, is that a gender? Except someone actually said yes to me. Oh.
Oh. Oh, it's a true. I'm sorry, but the bad that you ended up that way. I'm not very worried about the end of the story.
The rest of the days are all nos. Let's see another one. Similar with the nerdy of North. Hey, well, I can't talk to now.
I can't get rid of them. It's like out of them all, which I say, look, want to start a podcast. These people seem like they'll be interesting. Like got wide variety of topics.
Now I can't get the phone to leave us all alone. Literally, X and there's messages every single hour of the day. Oh my god, we have a group chat and it is literally, it is a little, little heaven of our nerdy group. And you love it.
You absolutely love it. I'll have a good one. The majority of them are here in the chat tonight. And the majority are in the chat tonight.
Oh, I'm going to... I'm going to mention that. I was going to say it's the famous little. But it's hilarious though, because when we started out the nerdy of North, they said we'd start this year in lockdown because simply I didn't, I used to put the phone with me friends and talk about movies and shit.
And then when lockdown happened, I couldn't do that. So I was kind of like, create the group to kind of build that conversation and it kind of built from there. Then everyone kind of latched on and grew. And now we're here and I can't get rid of them.
So yeah, but we did actually have a meet-up during last, was it last summer? So everyone comments to us from the group. Here's me thinking, let's create an event where people who will never meet each other from the inn there to all turn up in the same place, what could go wrong? But it wasn't too bad, but the only hilarious thing was nobody knew who I was.
Everyone was like, oh, you're part of the nerdy of North group, I was kind of... And I had nerdy of North, thank you very much. He actually said that it's only kind of some more. I love that.
I had a nerdy of North-tayshadow on him as well. And they're like, oh, so nerdy of North and part of that group, I was like, yeah, I'm the group. But I was like, I'm the group for you. But that was when the eagle was on the rise, now it's come back down to Earth.
But yeah, I think a lot of things did happen during lockdown, as you said, he made a friendship and bonded through there. And it kind of forged us a little bit as well, so it makes them bond a little bit stronger. So it's kind of strange in a way that there's a lot of bad things that happen during lockdown, but I think not many people do look at the positives that come from it as well. I mean, it was interesting that it caused a lot of people to reevaluate their life and what you were doing, because we all had this sudden pause of every...
A lot of people had a sudden pause. I know a lot of people kept to carry on working really hard. But majority of us had this sudden pause in our life, which caused us to wonder like, well, now what? What am I actually doing?
And to look back at what your day actually is? I didn't get that. I didn't get that sudden pause. I work in the energy sector.
So I ultimately did not get that pause. But I did get to relocate to my house, which is incredibly different. We've given that every day when I worked three years a week. So when I was there, I had a lot of people now, and I just love me.
I actually really do love me on a little space. It's like right there. So how did you just get started in cosplayer? I know what makes it, what makes it probably a certain thing that I'm doing in culture.
But was there a starting point or a thing that you thought, this is what I wanted to try and do? Cos I think the closest I've ever got to dressing as the Cowry Lion for a Wizard of Oz, like a fairytale party, with my dress that was like that Wicked Witch and dressed as the Cowry Lion. But I am incredibly socially awkward. And so I don't think I could get the balls to do it like you guys do.
Yeah, I can't. The idea of it, just for me, makes me feel incredibly vulnerable. But I actually really love the process. I love costumes.
I love makeup. So I really... I love watching the process, but you actually for me to do it myself, I have not got the balls. So I literally tip my hat to use for being able to do that.
Cos I thought of it, makes it ill. Just for me, not to... I love watching everyone. I go to a lot of conventions and I just...
Or of these people who could just put themselves in that position when I physically could not do that. So I tip my hat to you ladies. I have to say, there's also a way where you can hide behind the costume. You've got the entire outfit, it's often a wig.
And the makeup is your mask, because you really put some effort into making your face not really look like your own face, but someone else's face. So it's like layers of makeup, because it's also kind of like theater. I have a big, quite a room full of drag here, so I do get that. I'm quite lucky.
There are some safety mechanisms in that. I wish I could carry that. I do come from a background. That's what I did in college.
I did theatre. I've done music. I am a great age on both of you. But I...
One time a bandcamp. I am literally a bandcamp. Yes! But the reason I don't do it anymore for us, because I couldn't physically put myself out there.
I loved working behind the scenes and putting... But to do it physically, it would make us ill. I have such... Crittling stage, right?
It's unreal. I dropped out of everything. When my dad told me I had to go on an audition. Oh!
I literally... My dad was like, right, we need to start opening the game now. You've done the classes, you do this, and all the extra activity, like, comes with it, you need to go on an audition. And the minute I stood in front of that audition, I was like, that's it, I'm done.
Now walk away from it all. That's a very adult thing to do or say. When you have a hobby, you need to at some point take it to a certain level, rather than just enjoying the hobby and doing something that just makes you happy. I mean, I have the same thing with arts, because now if you do this professionally, but I feel like we underestimate the value of just drawing something that you enjoy, because especially adults will say things like, Oh, I can't draw.
And that's crap. Kids can draw. And they have fun doing it. And it doesn't have to be a masterpiece as long as you just have a good time.
And I think often as adults, we forget how to just have a good time if it's not somehow productive or when you award or prestige. I know when we... We had a guest on last year, Holly, Goh likely from an American comic book artist that's working on Archie Comics now, which would have done Sabrina Comics back in the day. And it was really interesting having taught her about her process and what she went through.
And I remember she studied over in the UK as well, so she was quite versed in like, I was terrified that she wasn't going to understand how it acts as well. But... But she goes so quickly. Yeah, the hilarious part, I did half a year through, because her husband's a massive comic book artist in America is Jim Ballant, who didn't the iconic woman, like the Purple Cowman.
And he just rolled on scene and saw Sat down and talked to us and he was like... That's so cool. And she's like, John dropped. And Charlotte was on the...
He said happy birthday to Charlotte and she just dropped down and went... Jim Ballant just said happy birthday to me. But listening to her process was... Oh, I love thought, but I saw that you guys go there and I'm like, I go there too!
It was our best time! And I just walked out the girls bathroom, like totally dazed to my friends, because we're a little at least outside and Abi had come with me to the bathroom and I just stood there like this. And I was like, are you going to cry? Are you having a breakdown?
Are you okay? And then, and then all of a sudden I just turned to me, and I was like, I love you so much. And it was girls alone. Oh my gosh!
You look like I'm having an outfit. And I'm like, I could die happy in this moment. I don't fucking care anymore. Very me here in this bathroom.
I've done. Oh my gosh! I've sent her, I've sent Gail many of the messages begging her to come on the podcast, but I've not got one reply yet. I wrote articles about that woman back in the back, because I used to do writing for two American websites and I wrote article upon article about woman's influence on my life.
But I did something very similar to Barb's Tar. I stood in front of Barb's Tar in just complete awe and could not say it, I got a damn word, nothing came out, because that woman is just spectacular to look at. But my friend is an artist. She works for her, she's like licensed with Lucasfilm and Tops and stuff like that.
And one of her friends, she knows like, aren't you people and her friends works? Thought bubble every year, Jake. Can't think of Jake's surname, sorry. But she was like, I'm really good friends with Keir and Gillan.
And I was like, well, are you now? And he was like, I want to introduce you to come on. I was like, absolutely not. Sorry.
I'm not, the words will not come out. I will not be able to physically talk. So I bypassed going to say Keir and Gillan and, oh God, what's Jamie? Jamie?
Can't be concerning him. Here's who did his Captain America? Captain America Marvel. I could have went and got him to McAlvery.
That's it. And I bypassed it. I couldn't do it. I'm so on.
For all, I love talking. I'm very shy person to make up his face. I think I'll best like, comic create a story though fully belongs to Willow. I'm quite sick.
I hope it is. For me, she's in the middle. She's in the middle. Whoever this bitch is.
I was like, well, um, do you mean when David Arge asked me for a picture? I do. I don't know what I mean, baby. So I was dressed as Kate Bishop and I think I was dressed as Scarlet Witch.
I mean, we're just walking through a court bubble. And the guy stops us. And he goes, he goes, just so you know what, that's David Arge over there, which is the artist of my favourite walk I run. But he was like, is he doing like signatures and like, join some stuff?
So we're like, we're going to go see him at signing. So we'll not bother him now. But thank you for pointing him out. I really appreciate it.
If we look at some of that stuff and like literally five minutes later, David Arge himself comes over and is like, you look amazing. Can I take a picture with you guys? Because he does Hawkeye and also like, Sol Witch. So like my brain was broken by that point.
I was like, yeah, of course. And he signed my book and drew Kate Bishop in the front. Oh, I see. Did he do it with me?
I think I did. Yeah. Oh my God. I think his wife is my hero.
She is my ultimate. Yes. I love that woman so much. She actually read one of my articles I wrote about her and I wept for about five years afterwards.
Oh, I dream. Do you know that? We are going to see your old job. We are going to apply for more conventions this year as well.
That's the one thing that we did our first panel app, Sonny Con last year where we had a sit in a room thinking there was only going to be five or ten people and talk about just basically like do this podcast. But I think the subject was 80s versus 90s movies, which were the better type. And we absolutely should have ourselves because more and more people kept walking into the room. I know if it has been to Sonny Con, like the panels where the rooms are quite big.
And it filled the room up to the points where I think this is the first thing we've ever done live. Normally we were just sitting in front of the computers and not have to be sitting next to people or having audience react to you. No, safety bomb. Right here.
Very chair. But as soon as we started it was like something clicked and it was like, right, fine, control the room. Everyone, but I think we asked how many people as part of the media community would have the other here. And I think about 75% of the room put the hands up.
So I got these are our people that came to see as part of the community. Because even though we do get regular horse and stuff, but it's amazing, like people who just sit in the back and just watch and read and don't actually get involved as much, but they are part of the community as well. So that was a nice sort of thing. But I know I've applied for the creator pass for the MGM London one.
So I've put my application in for that. We are in talks with the Comic Con and North East, the Monopoly as well, just to say if we can get involved and we've had a few emails back. So not to jinx it to which one might be actually involved with that as well. So how?
Definitely better. Are you guys going to talk about this? Yeah, absolutely. Oh, yeah.
I am sorry. It's in October or November this year? November, then. Oh, it might be a possibility.
I am so tempted, me and my best friend have been going since 2016. And I just, I love it. Absolutely love it. The panels, we went to an image panel and I have never felt more inspired by just sitting listening to people talk about comics and it was fantastic.
I was at the armory. But I think is it a Harrogate now? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. This is when it was at the armory and it was very small, like not being compared to what it is right now. But thoughtable, such a fantastic, I always say it's the grown up side of conventions. It's actual comic book convention for comics.
I think it's a little bit of a bit of a... You know, it's been a walk around the corner and say a hundred fun goal is to walk around the corner. It's like another hundred fun goals. You are going to get actual literature and the art.
Oh, it's just amazing. Can't be put up in a pile of it. Sorry. Sorry, I've got lost in the conversation.
So how did you just get started? Yes. How did you start? I mean, do you want my village?
Like, village? That's, you know what? I thought you were going to move on. I'm so glad you asked.
I want to fucking die. Okay. I was exposed to cosplay first. We'll say like, you make a sound?
I'm not going to say it. I was committed. It was so bad. It was a really toxic environment.
So I was like, I want none of this. I don't feel comfortable. I don't like it. I'm out of here.
Peace. And I've got a job on my life. I grew up. I got some degrees.
I got a job. A car. Things were looking great for me. And then these halls.
What if I do a silly little TikTok wearing my fancy Jackson t-shirt? Wouldn't that be funny? What if I filmed these cherry blossoms going to the soundtrack of the run has the host and that they're going to be able to make fun of this. I'm not going to tripped.
You have to be like, I'm not going to go for the next time. Real TikTok. I need a fancy TikTok now. That would be what I'll be doing after this go over.
Oh no. Oh, yes. They were having so much fun. I'm like, oh, no, no fun.
I'll be fun. I can be fun. And I am very much the bridge between these two groups. And I believe I'm not.
Despite all this. I'm shy. When you find that though, that's the thing. Obviously when I was in the new videos I wasn't the Shires, I was, I am now, but in the whole group I am probably the the least person that would walk up and say hello up my name's Paul, I would go, look I'm gonna, I'm gonna hide away.
My wife is very flamboyant and out there and Maxesh is very like redhead, like you can't miss a coding pad who's- She's beautiful. And I'm just- He's fucking stunning. And I'm just kind of like the person that just is just there goes, like you go out in the pace, I'm, everybody's a wine, I'm just gonna go home and just watch, watch some crack taping, watch MoonShine as that's making it. MoonShine does!
It was really hard to start though because like I don't look like these characters, I don't see myself in these characters. And then I had this real moment of, you know, who has had a whole over my life since I was like 13 years old? Jason Todd? Yes.
And I've never been to say that actually. I often wonder why there's nothing like that. But a life without red hood, I feel like I would have been more secure, I would have been more stable, but that's just not how it worked out. Unfortunately, I'm in love with Jason Todd.
It feels so good to say out loud obviously. Oh wow. It was almost like an invention that I was just getting- What the- Actually this is what I could have done to sign, this is an intervention! You need to be stopped!
Stop! You stopped! I love that man! He's so finished!
I love him! I love him! How do you feel like Jason Haffles wants to be a cast-ism? I think that would work.
Oh, I mean his voice was obviously perfect for it in the animated one. So I canonically, he's about 23. So the vibe isn't there, something future set maybe. I guess that kind of makes me a cougar.
I think I won. I know, that's true. I'm 21. Yeah.
We are all 21 here. Yeah, everything will be kind of- Can I join this club? I've never had a club club. Sound that went a long time ago, I thought that's- Sorry.
This man is roots and he is going to leave us. Yes. That's so fast. I was looking for a club club.
I was looking for a club club. Oh my gosh! That was always going to be one day I got kicked out. So that was always going to happen.
Which he has no fix. I kind of only hated Jason Haggles though. When I think of Jason Haggles, I only hate him. Yes, although the often night- You know, I'm not going to segue again and then we're not going to get into the club.
Yeah. Right. So just if you watch our podcast, we cannot keep it on front and subject. That's fine.
You know what, tune into the Batman episode. Okay. That's fine. There's a good advertising for me.
Oh, I'm a professional. Always hustle. Yes. Well, that's the thing that you thought of the wrong girl, because Sam is a Marvel girl.
I am the DC one though. I thought we had to go for it. I am a Marvel girl, but I am a huge Batman fan. Like, I am on such a Batman ride at the moment.
I've just bought Death in the Family. I'm reading that and I've just finished what I've finished. Long haul away. Long haul away.
Oh my god, that was amazing. I gave that at least at the Christmas. It is the best Batman comic. Greetings!
And they're gone. I have that skirt she has on too. I will argue with you. All the same person.
This is the best Batman movie. It's Batman. It's the Arkham Living Hell in 2003, that series. Is that Grandma Orson?
No, Dan Bois. What was the Grandma Orson? That was the Arkham Asylum, sorry, wasn't it? So, Steph, if you have recommendations by on me, can you please send me them?
Because I'm writing this Batman high at the moment. I was just like, I put this here, but yeah. I will. I was just like, I'm going to read it.
I was just like, I'm going to read it. I'm just going to read it. I'm just going to be advertising. I'm not doing well enough.
It could do better. If you've heard that I did have the original comics for the long Halloween, I did sell them before lockdown, when the prices went crazy, which is still a Han's way to do. But yes. Meanwhile, I just direct everything here.
I love the character so much. Like, you know, like, I can say that I look good in red. I look good in red. So I was like, you do?
Is that you do? You know what? It's my color and I'm working it. Yeah.
I could flip the idea out of being Jason Todd and I did it. And I have thankfully, and I never have to serve this, but I have the most supportive friends. They were like, you better work, bitch. Good for you.
What's up, like? You know, it's a fucking kid. I don't know what that's like. Please ask.
How much science have I learned for you? I guess you're real. You keep learning. I go tree-factor, bird-factor, and I'm in the list, shit.
How do you think? I'm already bird-fed. Especially bird-fed. I love birds.
Oh, my God. I'm not a segue now. I'm not a segue. My favorite bird-fed.
I'm not a bird-fed. I'm not a bird-fed. My favorite bird-fed is birds. We know how follow bones.
But it's a lot of people think that bird-fed follow bones because hollow bones are lighter. But hollow bones aren't actually lighter than non-halo bones. They're just as heavy. Birds have hollow bones so that air can actually go through with it and go through to the muscles.
So the muscles have quicker oxygen flow through. So the bones are part of the lung system. Right. Okay.
You really could be a bird-fed lawyer. Yeah. When we said eyes, and at this point it's going to be very fucking soon. We're going to put that on that way as soon.
Did you know hollow bones? It's my face. I'll give you a little on time. I love the fact that I'm in the middle of that man conversation.
And something actually quite profound. Like, you know, you getting into your cosplay of Giz and Todd. You just come out with a bird-fed. That's exactly science, bitch.
That's the common thing. That's the common thing. One grain of salt. Multiple trains of salt.
Yeah. Look at it. Look at it. It's January K.
I'll take it. So my first cosplay actually was at Snowfest. All right. And it was one of my favourite pictures of me was a real play.
I was playing House of Dead with the Red Gun and my Red Hood outfit. And I'm like, you know what? I could do better than this. And then it became a game of what cosplays can I do.
So I've done this joy. I do online Instagram, Battravia, where I do a make a book inspired by a background character. And I just talk about the history of the character, and the variations recommended reading, that kind of thing. Because I have no life.
I'm coming to join your Instagram. Do you really like to have our own club? And Paul's not invited. I'm just like, oh, I'm 21 years old, coming out.
I'm starting to have your co-te I'm fine. I'm doing okay with your first. By accident as well as trying to say anything. So my friends really inspired me to improve upon my costumes and improve upon generally my own self-esteem.
I'm feeling fine. I'm feeling fine. Sometimes I look at the right and I don't hate myself. Me?
That's the most of the population. It's moving in a mirror and not hating yourself. I'm too tired. Because when I was putting together the advertisements for tonight's podcast as well.
I know that's quite personal when you do cosplay. So I try to get your permission for which images to use and make sure that everything was fine. And I've been saying this in the non-creek, yes we can. Years girls are absolutely stunning.
Like the work you do, all the things. It's just phenomenal. And all different. The one I absolutely like, again I'm not picking favorites but at least it's rogue.
Like they have absolutely had me put with being an absolute like. That X-Men cartoon is just iconic and you hit it. It's perfect. That wig was a journey.
I bought a black, a brown straight wig and a white straight wig and I cut them both up and sort of like Frankenstein them together. And then they were straight, not curled. So I put like plastic curlers in them, you're like a pin girl, you roll them up. And I put it in boiling water because it's plastic.
It's not actual hair so plastic you need it. Yeah, I know right. I'm a cheap bastard who gets plastic wigs. So I boiled it and then my partner was looking at it like that's not spaghetti.
It's not spaghetti, it's not spaghetti. It doesn't taste like a good shot. Then it needs to be completely cold before you can take out the curlers. And I had this whole moment where I was just like, I was going to put it one of those.
It goes, but it turned out really well. I'm still actually surprised at how much I would work. I even burned off a part of it with the air dry because I was a little bit too enthusiastic and that's when I learned that in very thin plastic melts at relatively low degrees. That's the impressive part.
That was your first time doing that and you're like, what did I do flawlessly? I had watched a single YouTube video so I was an expert. Oh, no, no, no, no. You're right.
I'm so sorry. You're a strange. Oh, yeah. That's what you were talking about.
There is nothing you can't learn on YouTube. I know. Let me tell you about my day job, science on YouTube. You know what the black is for?
That the black is for? Oh my god, I'm so sorry. You were typing the black. You were typing the black.
You were typing the black. The only day job is for a minute earth. We are a science YouTube channel and I manage the short account, which is minute minis and we hit 100k right before Christmas and they were nice enough to send a black to my house. Wow.
Well done. I need a second. I do want that black. I want to get there.