snowtigra:

brichibi:

brichibi:

These quotes are all things that have been said to me in regards to my body and my race.  It’s not everything that’s ever been said to me, oh no, not even close, but they’ve been said as recently as last month.  

Don’t let the negatives take over, don’t let them weigh you down and dictate who you are.  Don’t let them cover up the things that make you, you.

<3 Brichibi Cosplays

Reblogging because it’s totally relevant for today.  Today we can add the following to that list above: Cow, Hippo, Wonder What to Eat Woman, Wonder Bread Woman, Wonder Blob, Wonder Water Buffalo, Blunder Woman, Fat Slob, Wonder Whale, Wonder Why Woman.  All in one day. This is not including questions like, “I wonder how she got in that costume.”

The message at the bottom is still the same: Don’t let someone else’s hang-ups cover who you really are.  People don’t like a fat, black Wonder Woman?  The amount of fucks I give about that is the fattest form of zero.    

This is my beautiful, loving, stunning, inspirational, creative and amazing wife. I love how she always speaks out positively about things even when certain people aren’t so positive toward her. We’ve been together 13 years and people can say whatever they want but I love her and you better be damn sure that I’m going to keep making her amazing dresses and you’re going to keep seeing her everywhere.

And if you don’t like it? Then go find somewhere else on the internet to spew your hate and self loathing thoughts because they will not gain traction here.

Reblogging because my wifey is amazing and supportive and I just wanna hug her to pieces <3

chubby-bunnies:

The couple that cosplays together stays together, and it’s been a good 12 years <3  Me and my wifey not only cosplayed together on Saturday of Minneapolis Comic Con, but we were on the City Pages best costumes list!  She’s actually wearing the Belle dress she made for me, but using a bodice so it fits her better.

I’m super happy with this pic because she rarely cosplays lately. She gets my costumes done and has plans for her own, but never gets to them.  And she’s always super encouraging with me, you know?  So on Saturday our friend watched our table for a bit and we walked around together, and it was great seeing her get the love I think she deserves :)

My gorgeous wifey is Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

I am Neo Queen Serenity from Sailor Moon.

Holy crap who the heck reblogged us so much all of you are wonderful beings!  <3<3<3

A good wifey is one who lets you listen to your random video game music while you both craft in the basement. Like I know she doesn’t know the Contra Jungle theme, but the important thing is she lets me jam to it. That’s true love <3

Who is this pretty lady?  Why, this is my wifey!  Also known.as the one who makes my costumes, the one who makes me feel pretty, the one who makes the hats and plushies and things, my coauthor for “Seeking the Storyteller,” the one who drives us to conventions, the one who deals with my video game madness, the one who chuckles when I spaz over anime, and a bunch of other things that didn’t come with the job application of putting up with me.

And today is her birthday.

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY WIFEY!  I love you  :)

I want to showcase a cosplayer today: my wifey.  She makes me such wonderful cosplays, but she rarely gets in costume herself.  So as a confidence booster, she borrowed my Belle dress and a corset so that it would fit her better, and we walked around together at Daisho Con <3  She got to see what it was like to be stopped for pictures and be called beautiful, and it was really great to see her reactions.  Because I think she’s so lovely but I’m always the one wearing the fancy dresses.  

I think the best moment was meeting J. Michael Tatum, because he spazzed over our dresses and I was like, “She’s the one who makes them.”  His face after that and her reaction?  Yes.  It’s about time she got to be in the spotlight  :)

So yeah, here’s my costume making wifey.  Tell her that she needs to cosplay in more things like this with me!  Oh, and she found a Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon a Time and spazzed all cute like  :)

teacupnosaucer:

beautifulsouthasianbrides:

Photo by:A.S Nagpal

“Paint War Engagement Session”

oh my fucking god i can’t even take how cute this is

I want super cute pictures like this when we set the date for our wedding  <3

Hi my name is Chibi and I take terrible pictures of me and my wifey and stuff. 

No but seriously this is my wifey and she is the best.  She makes all of my costumes and is geeky with me.  She watches me play video games and I wouldn’t be a huge anime nerd without her introducing me to more than DBZ 12 years ago.  We go to conventions together, and we’re writing a book series together (the first one is being published!), and we make crafts together.  

Most importantly, she loves me for me  :)  She loves my size. my writing, and my dorky ways.  She’s a big part of why I’m so into cosplay, and when I ever start to feel doubtful she’s there to remind me that I can rock it  ^^

Oh and the future Mortal Kombat wedding was her idea.  She’s designed dresses and everything  *__*

Hey look it’s me and my wifey at our table  :)  We’ll be doing the same thing at Metacon this weekend, whew, back to back cons are craziness!

Dear girlfriend,

At this point you are more than just a girlfriend, no matter what society says about us being married.  Sometimes I wake up and wonder how the hell we’re still making this work.  Or rather, I’m wondering how you’re still putting up with me.  Lately I’ve been really scattered and emotional, I think, with the book and getting ready for more and more conventions.  I’m really happy that you’re here with me as, literally, all of my dreams are coming true.

I apologize in advance for the worrysome moments that are bound to come.  I know I’ll be fretting over the book and conventions and commissions and everything until everything is done.  I know I’ll be really emotional when the book is released, and terribly worried about it being well received.  I know I keep talking about wanting to take random trips “when the book makes it,” but I honestly mean it.  I want to spoil you so badly you have no idea.  I want to be able to.  I want to not have to worry about money so we can just up and leave somewhere.  I want our business to take off.  I want so much for us and it’s this weird, terrifying feeling, because… all of this stuff might actually work out.  I’ve spent so much time getting rejection letters, working a shitty job, and being miserable that I can’t believe that things are actually working.  

So if I look a bit lost, that’s why.

Although I don’t have to tell you, you always just seem to know.  You’re always willing to take me away for a moment so I can breathe.  It amazes me that you can deal with me being like this with a smile on your face.  It amazes me that you can just bring home dinner and watch me play Injustice, or take me out randomly driving after an 8 hour day of work.  Then again, everything you’ve done in this relationship amazes me.  We’ve been through a lot.  We’ve been through your parents denying us being together.  We’ve been through my dad not handling it well.  We’ve been through me working one shift a week for months and not having any money.  We’ve been through me loathing my job.  We’ve been through me losing my job last year and, even if I got a better one, it was temporary, and there were some months where I had nothing at all.  We’ve been through losing two cats back to back.  We’ve been through the stress of getting this house.  We’ve been through being robbed in our old apartment.  Just… there’s so much, and you’re always there, and it amazes me.

You amaze me.

And it’s kind of weirding me out that we’re going through so much GOOD after the bad.  Your parents accept us, hell, they even built us a kitchen and helped us pay for this house.  My dad loves you to death.  I have a job that I like and have figured out how to manage money, so when it is over for a month or so at a time, we’re fine.  The book is getting published.  A short story is getting published.  We’re doing really well at cons.  Detour was just… I can’t even begin to go into how amazing it was to feel like so many people WANTED us to be there — including guests.  Just… wow.  And… I feel like we’re finally there, you know?  I feel like we’re riding this wave of good and I can finally start giving you the things you deserve, because I couldn’t before, but I feel like I’ll be able to now.

So, all and all, dear girlfriend, I love you.  Even after saying everything I just said, I feel like that doesn’t even begin to cover how much I love you.

Love always,

Briana 

brichibiwritesthings:

snowtigra:

(Ok, this is serious guys and I felt the need to write something with all of the court cases going on right now.  I need to write this down, so to speak.)

My marriage doesn’t cheapen yours.  My marriage doesn’t affect yours.  In fact, I’ll be frank, my marriage has nothing to do with you.

 My marriage has to do with her.  The woman I love, who I’ve loved for over 10 years.  We’ve been through a lot of crap and we have come out happier and closer than I ever thought possible.  Marriage would be about giving her something that society has taught all women to dream of from the moment we could walk and try on frilly fancy dresses.  But it’s more than that.

 Beyond the desire to walk down an isle in a beautiful white dress, it’s the commitment.  I want to give her a ring, I want to sign the certificate and I want the physical moment of marrying her in front of family and friends.  I want to stand up in front of a room and state in terms that everyone is familiar with that I love this woman and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to give that moment to her, her family, her parents, my parents and everyone else around us who’s supported us along the way. 

 Things like taxes, and ownership and legality and such are secondary.  It’s the commitment that is important and I’m pretty sure that - still - none of this has anything to do with the people who say we can’t get married. Marriage is about the commitment between me and her and nothing else.

 So, based on that, why can’t I just marry her now without legal crap?  I mean, technically, we’re planning on having a hand fasting anyway - a Pagan marriage - so why do I even need to have the government’s blessings?  That’s what you’re thinking right?

 Marriage is important, because at its base, it’s the promise to the world that you will care, love and take care of this person in front of you.  I know society has changed and even I’m asking for marriage to change, but at the core, the meaning is still the same.  I want to marry her and swear that I will take care of her.  And in that same vein I don’t want to cheapen my promise in a fake ceremony or something that’s incomplete, because to me it feels like I’m lying.  If the marriage is fake and not recognized, then that just hands haters a way to say ‘you don’t love her, because you can’t give her what she’s supposed to have: a man.’

 I could write all day and make all sorts of anthropological arguments, pro equality arguments and everything else, but I’m not going to.  It’s about that, and at the same time it isn’t.

 The right to marriage is important to me, because I want to give it to her.  It’s important to us.  Because marriage is about the couple, it’s their day.  It would be our day.  Not yours.  It doesn’t affect your day. 

It is our day. We should be able to have that day too.

Uh…

I’m just gonna reblog this and go cry somewhere.  My partner wrote this for me.  I had no idea she was writing this.  I’m just going to marvel over the fact that someone wants to have this with me, you know, since I’m a huge spaz and flail over everything, like, OMG PUPPIES FLAIL!  

But really, all joking aside, this is why this is so important to us.  And it has nothing to do with anyone else but us.  In no way does it cheapen anyone else’s marriage, hell, the only people who will see us get married are the people who love us, so I fail to see how that has anything to do with anyone outside my circle.  

So… yeah I have no more words, she got it all down.

I <3 you snowtigra :)

Oh and good morning to all the new followers of the writing blog.  Um… here, have a wonderfully written letter about equality that’s not written by me but is written to me :)

Reblogging because there’s a lady in love with me  :)