My Facebook page was hacked and deleted by someone yesterday. Because I’m in Japan, this was the happy surprise I found waiting for me when I returned to my hotel. Truly, the cherry on top of an amazing week.

We like to talk about how bullying within the cosplay community needs to stop, how we need to stop name calling or questioning each others ‘geek cred.’ This is absolutely true.

I’ve never really had a truly negative experience within the cosplay community until this week. I just love making costumes and meeting new people — that is truly the main motivation for my cosplay.

But after this week, I think I can say I now understand what it’s like to be bullied.

I have had people call into question even the basic sincerity of my words and actions.

I have had people posting my personal information online.

I have received numerous hurtful and mean-spirited comments, emails, and tweets. One of my personal favorites was ‘I hope you and your site get raped by the collective wrath of the internet.’

And I have had my Facebook page, the main way I share images of my work and interact with the cosplay community deleted.

But, you know what? I’m not going to let it bother me. Hell, my life is pretty awesome. I have the freedom to do whatever I want with my life and, more importantly, I have a list of people who love and care about me.

So I’m not going to play into this silly cycle of drama that seems to suck in so many cosplayers and cosplay fans. Cosplay is a hobby about fun, it’s not some sort of Greek tradegy that destroys its participants through unending cycles of revenge and spite (though sometimes it might feel that way).

All I ask is that you guys help me spread the word that my Facebook was deleted, so I might reconnect with the people I enjoy interacting with so much!

And you can access my new page here: https://www.facebook.com/ConstantineCosplay

XOXO

The weekend also included two amazing photoshoots!

First, we headed out to the Old Zoo at Griffith Park on Saturday morning to shoot an amazing Gotham City Sirens group, featuring myself as Poison Ivy, Angi Viper as Catwoman, Steffy Quinn as Harley Quinn, and Lon Brown as Batman:

And on Sunday, I was finally able to get some great shots of my Kasumi costume from the videogame series Dead or Alive!

Matta ne~~!

Constantine

Of course, the most exciting part of this weekend for me was finally unveiling my most recent costume – Emma Frost (classic White Queen) from X-Men!! If you guys like this costume, then forward all of your thanks to my editor at JapanCinema.net ~ the only reason I made this costume is because he asked me to! As always, you can see more images on my Facebook page =)

I also got to meet and cosplay with the wonderful Lady Lynn!! She commissioned a Psylocke outfit from me (shown above) and looked absolutely amazing in it!! You can check out her cosplay work here: Lady Lynn Cosplay

As usual, here are some post-con videos and updates for you:

You can see me as Emma Frost and Angi Viper as Dark Phoenix getting catty in NerdReactor‘s coverage of LBCC:

AND, super exciting, both my Emma Frost and Cheetara costumes are featured on io9.com’s coverage of LBCC! I read this blog every day and was SHOCKED to see my face on their front page today, LOL!!

This upcoming weekend, I’ll be attending Pacific Media Expo here in Los Angeles and have several NEW costumes to unveil (again!)! Stay tuned!

XOXO,

Constantine

 
First up, legendary Hong Kong director TSUI HARK, the man responsible for films like ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA and FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE. I was super nervous for this interview, because Tsui Hark is an extremely influential and prolific director who creates absolutely beautiful wuxia films. CLICK HERE for the interview!

Next is classical music superstar Anne Akiko Meyers. One of the world’s premier concert violinists, Anne is hands down one of the most talented and elegant people I have ever had the chance to speak with! CLICK HERE for the interview!

Stay tuned for more interviews over at JapanCinema.net!

The full set of images from my Psylocke photoshoot it now up on my Facebook! Check it out!

I am also running a fundraiser for a new latex costume – http://www.constantineintokyo.com/donate – There are some pretty nifty donation rewards!

 
We photographed Psylocke vs. Black Canary (for a Marvel/DC mash-up) and then ‘Dark’ Psylocke vs. Psylocke. In the video, you can see me acting like a silly geek and showing off my totally rad dance moves.

Check it out!

This past weekend, Angi Viper and I went to the 2012 ThunderCon / Power-Con over in Torrance, CA – a convention dedicated solely to He-Man, She-Ra (Masters of the Universe) and THUNDERCATS!!

Click to see more after the cut…

I’ve been wanting to cosplay Cheetara for YEARS, so I was super excited to finally get to debut my Cheetara costume! Even more exciting, Angi Viper agreed to cosplay Pumyra with me! And, of course, we made the classic 1980′s version of their costumes! =)

At the convention, we met lots of cool cosplayers – including the awesome Zoltina-J who was cosplaying as She-Ra!

We also competed in the cosplay contest, where I somehow managed to win 1st Place! Here is me grinning with the pile of toys I won.

And here is a pic of me and my boyfriend Skeletor (not actually my boyfriend):

Finally, we got to meet Tanya Tate and do a quick interview – she is an extremely sweet person and very pretty!

One last thing – my Cheetara photoshoot is now live on Facebook!! You can SEE IT HERE!!!

That’s all for now! My next convention is Yaoi-Con in October ~~ see you there!!

James from ThreeDegressOffCenterProductions made an awesome Comikaze Expo 2012 video! You should really watch it (Hint: it gets EXTRA AWESOME at 1:30).

It was really great to meet/work with him on Saturday, please check out the other cool videos on his YouTube Channel. =)

XOXO

C.