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I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of The Halloween Thread is true.
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With the obvious twist of me being snow white and her being the prince.
Not sure where to find a snow white dress for a 6'5" guy with linebacker shoulders.
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Good guesses both. I've even done one of them before! But neither is correct, I'm afraid.
good going, snowbeat
time to start making all these hot threads that have been brewing in my jail cell
That is some awesome armor. Love the mask too. Sadly, I don't think I'd be very good at actually making all that.
Seriously
if you have access to a tan jacket and a briefcase, you could make a Faceless mask for a few bucks
although I would leave enough material at the back to slip the entire thing over my face for a seamless look
easy.
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it's a few years late but i'm seriously tempted to do a fantastic mr. fox costume (since my locks are not nearly flowing enough to pull a full anderson)
anyone got any leads on decent fox masks?
Realize if you do this you'll get tons of "WHAT DID THE FOX SAY?"
What I always found intriguing is that the plague doctor costume was, in some ways, actually effective at preventing the doctor from being infected. They waxed the capes that covered the whole outfit, which may have made it more difficult for fleas to stay on the clothing and thus preventing the wearer from being bitten. They also examined patients with canes, keeping themselves further away and thus also potentially away from the flea-ridden bed of the plague victim.
It's a really interesting intersection of being right for the wholly wrong reason. The waxed capes especially suggest to me that people associated fleas with plague enough to develop defenses against them.
That said, for these sort-of medical advances, there were plenty of bone-headed decisions, such as the aforementioned bleeding treatment, and the idea early in the plague years of moving infected patients to towns where no infections were present in order to take advantage of the clean air there. Of course, after the plague mysteriously cropped up in those towns the practice fell from favor and quarantine became more common.
FUCK YOU, THE INTERNET
see: people doing that at the Theros draft when they pulled this card out of their boosters
somehow 50 million people looked at an web video and i didn't hear about it
So last year I built this.
This year the brothers of my sister-in-law want to Ghostbust with me so I've been collecting them the needed gear for basic uniforms. I will then distribute my PKE Meter and Ghost Trap between them so I don't have to carry it all.
I am also in the process of upgrading the lights in the wand portion of the proton pack. This is the current interior.
The circuit board at the top middle is the sound board. Everything connects to that. The battery, speaker, lights, and switches. The big mess of cables currently run to all the lights and switches in the wand. They are all pretty much jury-rigged to work. All those wires are being replaced by a single ribbon cable that plugs into a nice empty socket on the sound board.
The blue box is just a mounting block for the lights on the pack.
Here is a close up of the sound board.
The audio in plug at the bottom allows me to plug in my iphone into it and play music out of the pack speaker. Like the Ghostbuster's theme. One cool thing is that the sound board has a volume dial that extends out the back and through the black metal slab, called the motherboard buy GB builders as everything is attached to it. That dial controls the pack noises, but the music from my iphone has a seperate volume so I can be playing music while the pack is also making noise.
So at this point I have to rip out all the existing wires and lights from the wand.
Here is the current board for the wand lights in situ. It has all been removed. The new one will be much smaller and I will hopefully have enough spare room to install a small motor to create a vibration effect.
I am also upgrading various attachment points. Where previously bolts were screwed into the resin, I've now sunk brass threaded inserts.
really let loose
and go as a homestuck
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make sure to palpate your friends' necks and armpits "to check for buboes"
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Wrist?
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oh my gosh how spooked would you guys be if Bluedude DIDN'T have a head, though
Yarr! Wait...
PFFFFFFFT.
I REALLY miss dressing up for Halloween and I wish that I knew the type of people to have awesome Halloween parties. But this year I might go back to volunteering as an actor at Fright Town, which is a super awesome haunted house in Portland. You get hella cool make up and get to scare the shit out of people, which is always fun!
I should watch Frighteners. It has been years.
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Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
hey! come on and give headless horsepeople a fucking break already, all right? check your cranial privilege
Seeing as I own this all I really need is an animal mask...