To celebrate 100 backers (WHOO!) I wanted to share a picture with all of you. One of the freebees you get from pledging is a coloring page of all the girls cosplaying. I colored it in to show one of the ways you can color it. You can also print it out and color it that way, too, which I’ll share a pic of later.

This coloring page was actually drawn by ME! I don’t do too much drawing, to be honest. I’m usually writing or crafting, so this is the first project I’ve had where I’ve done some illustrations (this coloring page and the mini comics that’ll be in the book).

Thank you so much, everyone, for your continued support. We have two weeks left so let’s make this happen! Share! Pledge! Drink hot chocolate because it’s tasty!

Keep at it, magical ones <3

Kickstarter link is HERE :) 

The girls are celebrating a great first week with the Kickstarter (via some adorable art by NamiOki)!

1. There are 82 backers after the first week!

2. We’re already at 6K! This is about 37% of the goal. For the first week, that’s PHENOMENAL!

3. The largest tier “They’re All My Waifus” is SOLD OUT!

4. Remember, you can keep up with what’s going on through the event MagnifiqueNOIR Kickstarter (at least until the 17th since Facebook only lets you have an event for 2 weeks)

I’m also happy to report that I spent a lot of time this weekend talking about the project at Gaylaxicon AND got to talk about it on a podcast (which I’ll link when it’s posted). The support has been amazing and all of you are wonderful!

Remember, if there’s a tier you want, go for it (especially the limited ones) as Kickstarter won’t charge you until the end of the campaign.

I’m gonna relax and actually celebrate my anniversary tomorrow, lol, so until then: GOODNIGHT, MAGICAL ONES <3 <3 <3

(Kickstarter link is HERE)

There’s a city. It’s like most other cities. Buildings. People. Monsters who can destroy sidewalks by vomiting acid onto the ground, and an elite group of black, queer, magical girls who work to put those monsters in their place.

See? Just like most other cities.

Bree Danvers would’ve compared it to a video game, maybe a cartoon or comic book, except black girls are rarely the heroines of the story. But there her heroine stood, plus sized and wonderful, rocking a dazzling amount of purple and defeating monsters with galactic sparkles. Galactic Purple, that was her name, and soon, Bree was joining her on a magical adventure full of transformations and after school battles to defend a city like most other cities.

And soon, others would join them, and each one would be magical in their own way… give or take a few bumps on the acid covered ground.

Welcome, everyone, to the world of magnifiqueNOIR, a young adult book series that delves into the lives of a group of extraordinary magical girls who defend the lives of the people around them. Along the way, they face new challenges that may undo everything that they’ve become, but even so, they always work to be the best women they can be.

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A new cosplay piece I wrote :) 

bathtubbuccaneer:

jakface:

I’ve seen my share of “fake geek girl” shaming, and just thought having a Fairy Gamer Momma to come to the rescue would be nice. I know they exist, I’ve met plenty who are amazing and could beat my ass at any version of Mario Kart. Give the Gamer Momma in your life a big hug! :D

YASSSS

I don’t have a kid but omg I am this woman. BLOWING IN A CARTRIDGE! SHOOTING DUCKS! ARCADES! PUTTING A QUARTER ON THE MACHINE TO INDICATE THAT YOU WERE NEXT! THE NINTENDO RUNNING PAD! PRE-ESRB! 

LIKE DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT FAKE GEEK I WILL DESTROY!

We’re remodeling our geek room~

The top pic is most of our anime/manga. Thank goodness for cube shelves that let us put things in two rows deep. Also the second, third, and fourth rows of the cube shelves are yaoi and yuri (omg what is my life). 

Second pic is us being way too happy about finding the perfect curtain. Granted… we had to go to the boys’ bathroom section at Target and get creative but it still works!

More pics to come as we get more stuff done throughout the month ^__^

Quick update because I haven’t updated in a while so here we go!

1.  We’ll be at Anime Central this weekend in artist alley with our crafts, our books, and cosplay stuffs.  I’ll post a map before the con  :)

2.  Two weeks after that we’ll be at Momocon in artist alley with our crafts, our books, and cosplay stuffs.  I’ll have a map posted closer to the con.

3.  The very next week we’ll be at Colossalcon in artist alley with our crafts, our books, and cosplay stuffs.  I’ll have a map posted closer to the con.  Also, on Saturday of Colossal, our plus size geeky dresses will be in the Colossalcon Artist Alley Fashion Show and we’ll be premiering some new dresses designed by me and the wifey, and made by the wifey.  I’ll be walking in the show in Wonder Woman and we have some amazing models walking in our stuff like Mario and Sonic themed dresses and such <3 <3 <3

So yeeeeeeeah this is why I haven’t updated in a while.  LIFE IS HECTIC AND GEEKY!

I posted this on my cosplay page so I thought I’d post it here, too, since I may be offering a different POV since I cosplay AND sell at cons, and cosplay while I’m selling.

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blackgirlnerds:

Things I Wish I’d Known Growing up as a Black Girl Nerd

Growing up is always tough. But there’s something unique about the black girl nerd experience. There’s no prototype for the black girl nerd; no famous fictional adolescents whose path we could mirror and cling to. I think many of us had to go our own way, figuring everything out as we went along because it felt like we were the only ones. For me, it felt like isolation heaped atop a pile of…

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This.  All of this.  Every single word.

I decided to wear my Sonic the Hedgehog/Green Hill Zone dress on the last day of Geek.Kon because I hadn’t worn it in a while.  I also found a red hat to go with it  <3

My cosplay page is here.

My wifey of 12 wonderful years is the one who makes my stuffs ^__^