My seamstress. My coauthor. My editor. My business partner.
My everything.
This is what queer looks like <3
Photo credits to Elyse Lavonne Photography, Stray Things Photography, X-Geek, and Nude Carbon Studios (whose specific photos are in the captions)
14 years ago, I was 18 years old and starting my first year of college at Iowa State University. It was my first time away from my home, my family, my friends, and my boyfriend. However, over the summer, I had joined a Gundam Wing yaoi mailing list, wrote a bunch of fics, and met a lot of great people.
This included a girl named Jessica who went by Snow Tigra.
Over time, the two of us started talking more online, and we became friends. She was there for me when my boyfriend stopped talking to me, and even sent me a plushie white tiger so I wouldn’t feel so alone.
Spoiler: I still have that tiger and it comes to cons with me.
We started writing fics together, and chatting more and more, and at one point during one of our chats she mentioned how she had a crush on this girl in one of her classes. I went along with it, but when we were done chatting, I realized something.
I was jealous.
I was jealous that she liked another girl.
And then… I proceeded to ignore her because, in that moment, I discovered that I liked girls.
I thought, “no, no way,” because up until that point I had had a boyfriend, and all the friends I grew up had also had boyfriends. Being gay was out of the question, I was supposed to find a guy and marry him. So I avoided talking to her at all cost, would say I was too busy, but, after a while, I started to miss her.
So finally, one day, I went to the campus library and wrote the email that would change my life forever. I told her why I had stopped talking to her and not only came out, but admitted that I liked her. She was stunned, but decided that it would be best if we took things slow. We hadn’t even met in person, yet, and I did just break up with my boyfriend. I agreed, but we quickly realized that, nope, that wasn’t enough either.
So, on this day, 14 years ago, we decided to start dating. This involved a lot of chatting, fic writing, roleplaying with different characters, sending each other gifts, meeting up at conventions, her coming to see me on a monthly basis from Minnesota to Iowa, and finally, after I graduated in 2006, I got in her car with all of my stuff and moved to Minnesota.
I never knew, all those years ago, that that email I was writing was going to lead to me meeting this amazing woman who would become my support system, my seamstress, my coauthor, just… everything, absolutely everything. I had no idea that we’d have this house with these cats. I had no idea that we’d be creating art together. I had no idea that we would becoming inspirations to people. I had no idea that we’d be talking about so many issues together and promoting such positive messages. I had no idea, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Happy Anniversary. I love you :)
This just in: still madly in love with my wifey. That is all :)
Many thanks to Lavonne Brite for taking pictures of us outside of cosplay and in cosplay. As always, all cosplay was made by the wifey <3
I’ve been with this woman for 13 years and I’m looking forward to 13 more, and more, and more until we reach forever. She’s my co-author, my seamstress, my partner, my everything.
Pictures taken by our friend Lavonne Brite, who’s getting into photography and wanted to do some couple shots of us, from us being in normal clothes to showing what we normally do together, which is this lady making my cosplay and making me feel amazing :) You can also find my cosplay page here and my wifey’s here. We have many new things planned this year and are excited to continue to bring our ideas to life.
Though we have a ton more these are three of my favorite shots of my fiance and I as Noel Kreiss and Paddra Nsu-Yeul from Final Fantasy XIII-2. These were two dream cosplays for us and the fact that we have them now just means the world to us! It’s so amazing to bring these two incredible characters to life!
My fiances tumblr: http://dragonmasterblane.tumblr.com/
All right everyone sorry to spam your tumblr with ridiculously adorable couple’s cosplay but my friends are the cutest cosplay couple ever! Go. Look at their stuff! It’s full of cute! And sweet! And EEEEEEEE!
