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Radio Silence- Why Koi is Dead
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I wanted to apologize for the vast silence over the last few years from this group. We're all still alive and well, but won't probably be doing much more group cosplays
I moved on to doing just art primarily, which I realized more recently is really where my passion is. You can see my work, and or improvement (wow I can't believe how much I have honestly improved when I look at the older works i used to post online here) here supernovadreams.deviantart.com…
I'll be updating there more often - but mostly I just wanted some radio silence for a while to clear my head. (It wasn't my intention to be gone for so long, but I just felt that I didn't want to be known for my costume work anymore I suppose)
A lot of the reason I left had to do with me seeing a dramatic shift and all the growing pains accompanying that over the years. Costume play is an amazing industry now, kind of almost a giant, and very widespread and well known. While that is all good and I am very proud of our community and its amazing jump, it's not for me anymore. I don't do well with just about anything if it becomes mainstream. I am kind of the type to just abandon interest in things for no real specified reason a lot. However I felt the only way I could really sever my ties with cosplay would be to delete my accounts. I know what kind of person I am, (big people pleaser here) and I knew that I would want to continue to do what my audience wanted rather than what I wanted. Most if not all of my audience wanted cosplay- and while some people showed interest in my art, I felt my art wasn't up to snuff and I went to focus on that instead.
Art has always been a background passion I've been cultivating behind the scenes, and over the past few years, after dropping cosplay, I have seen a dramatic improvement in my art abilities. I guess I'm just the kind of person that can't focus on more than one hobby at once and tends to get stressed if I spread myself over many different kinds of artistic expression.
I may still cosplay again, I wouldn't completely say that I've abandoned that, it's a creative craft so it has investment to me, and I still adore certain creatures and characters and may want to take a crack at em- but on a whole- supernovadobe was no more a long time ago, and I didn't even bother to say goodbye because I knew that would be really emotional for me and I felt it was better just to leave it all behind.
So that's where I went, and what happened.
Sorry for the radio silence, and the lack of content. Everyone else kind of followed suit after I quit, I don't think on purpose, or because of me, but just that we are a group, and a lot of us don't like doing things without each other, so when I opted to stop and delete all my accounts, there was just kind of a rapid disinterest in continuing on with cosplay.
We still have things in the works, like a lets play channel on Koi, I'm working on a video right now for my own personal YouTube, I do wig tutorials still and still do wig commissions things are happening- but I should warn you that a lot of these things are VASTLY unrelated to cosplay.
I know that's what a lot of you signed up for, and what a lot of you wanted from us, and I feel it's fair to warn you that officially, that probably won't be something we will be doing anymore, at least, not unless I have interest again, which, I can't completely deny it- you never know where the future will take us!
Anyways- you can find me online now under the handle "dreamzcometroo" just about anywhere- something I didn't bother to publicize. If you have interest in art, that's where I'll be. No cosplay, no none of that- just art, maybe some wigs, but really nothing like what you probably followed me for.
I can't be any more sorry for this, I felt the community changed way too much for me to continue to take part in it, it still feels like it's about community in a way and I am glad that people have creative outlets, cosplay is really what you make of it... but the expenses and just the general fragmented interests and the amount of growing pains just got to me. It's hard to book rooms, hard to get tables, hard to get badges, it just became less fun and more work than what it was worth.
I appreciate everyone here, and I appreciate being able to share the fun times I had, I cherish them and even if I did have some rough times, I still wouldn't trade the experience of being a cosplayer for anything. It was a amazing journey and a huge part of my early to late twenties, and I loved all the people I met, and of course am still open to talk to anyone interested- such a experience will never be forgotten.
With much love ---!! Always!
Kim Winter / Naruto from Koi Cosplay
I moved on to doing just art primarily, which I realized more recently is really where my passion is. You can see my work, and or improvement (wow I can't believe how much I have honestly improved when I look at the older works i used to post online here) here supernovadreams.deviantart.com…
I'll be updating there more often - but mostly I just wanted some radio silence for a while to clear my head. (It wasn't my intention to be gone for so long, but I just felt that I didn't want to be known for my costume work anymore I suppose)
A lot of the reason I left had to do with me seeing a dramatic shift and all the growing pains accompanying that over the years. Costume play is an amazing industry now, kind of almost a giant, and very widespread and well known. While that is all good and I am very proud of our community and its amazing jump, it's not for me anymore. I don't do well with just about anything if it becomes mainstream. I am kind of the type to just abandon interest in things for no real specified reason a lot. However I felt the only way I could really sever my ties with cosplay would be to delete my accounts. I know what kind of person I am, (big people pleaser here) and I knew that I would want to continue to do what my audience wanted rather than what I wanted. Most if not all of my audience wanted cosplay- and while some people showed interest in my art, I felt my art wasn't up to snuff and I went to focus on that instead.
Art has always been a background passion I've been cultivating behind the scenes, and over the past few years, after dropping cosplay, I have seen a dramatic improvement in my art abilities. I guess I'm just the kind of person that can't focus on more than one hobby at once and tends to get stressed if I spread myself over many different kinds of artistic expression.
I may still cosplay again, I wouldn't completely say that I've abandoned that, it's a creative craft so it has investment to me, and I still adore certain creatures and characters and may want to take a crack at em- but on a whole- supernovadobe was no more a long time ago, and I didn't even bother to say goodbye because I knew that would be really emotional for me and I felt it was better just to leave it all behind.
So that's where I went, and what happened.
Sorry for the radio silence, and the lack of content. Everyone else kind of followed suit after I quit, I don't think on purpose, or because of me, but just that we are a group, and a lot of us don't like doing things without each other, so when I opted to stop and delete all my accounts, there was just kind of a rapid disinterest in continuing on with cosplay.
We still have things in the works, like a lets play channel on Koi, I'm working on a video right now for my own personal YouTube, I do wig tutorials still and still do wig commissions things are happening- but I should warn you that a lot of these things are VASTLY unrelated to cosplay.
I know that's what a lot of you signed up for, and what a lot of you wanted from us, and I feel it's fair to warn you that officially, that probably won't be something we will be doing anymore, at least, not unless I have interest again, which, I can't completely deny it- you never know where the future will take us!
Anyways- you can find me online now under the handle "dreamzcometroo" just about anywhere- something I didn't bother to publicize. If you have interest in art, that's where I'll be. No cosplay, no none of that- just art, maybe some wigs, but really nothing like what you probably followed me for.
I can't be any more sorry for this, I felt the community changed way too much for me to continue to take part in it, it still feels like it's about community in a way and I am glad that people have creative outlets, cosplay is really what you make of it... but the expenses and just the general fragmented interests and the amount of growing pains just got to me. It's hard to book rooms, hard to get tables, hard to get badges, it just became less fun and more work than what it was worth.
I appreciate everyone here, and I appreciate being able to share the fun times I had, I cherish them and even if I did have some rough times, I still wouldn't trade the experience of being a cosplayer for anything. It was a amazing journey and a huge part of my early to late twenties, and I loved all the people I met, and of course am still open to talk to anyone interested- such a experience will never be forgotten.
With much love ---!! Always!
Kim Winter / Naruto from Koi Cosplay
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New Videos and New Projects
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So I'm basically going to just snag everything I said in my other journal and swing it on over here because, I would just be saying the same exact thing with different words, and I sort of think you've all had enough of that- so if you follow me on DreamsComeTroo you know what's up! If not- here you are!
Videos: We have another video up- this time from Supernatural, even though there's some serious stuff going on with Jared ATM, if you know then you know if not then you don't wanna know man- I'm gonna go ahead and throw this up. Just to add a disclaimer, I'm a big poser/actor/loser for making this video because I'm NOT super into the show mans and ladies and gents and madames, (get it, I'm not "super" into the show?) I tried to be, but it's still kind of just skirting my attention span. I blame ADHD xD I don't know, it's a good show though I'm just into more colorful action-ese like things~ bweh.... I feel like I'm reversing my Corolla over my opinion, running it over, and then attempting to revive it...just forgive me and watch the clip -sob OTL-
FREE! Videos: We have a Rei and a Nagisa who will be attending the next series of videos! I'm so excited to work with my friends on this project! Expect the videos to come out, scheduled to be slotted some time just after Feb 13th when our Rei and Nagisa will be visiting us. I can't even contain my excitement on this because I---mushes all over this paragraph about friendship and tolerance and gayness. The happy kind...words. More words. Insert more words. Sobs grossly theur...
Gundam Wing: These videos are slated to have another sometime within the next week or so- we want to apologize with a basket of kittens for our severe delay on distribution of these, they essentially went on hiatus for no reason I can fathom other than the stress-so-saur meter going up beyond 9000. Now that all the kittens are back in the basket we're focusing on making a few more of these to throw up within the week. Sorru-5Over for the delay!
Attack on Titan Group Meetup: On the 15th of February Antiquity-Dreams and DreamsComeTroo as well as possibly blackfruitbat will be attending an Attack on Titan Gathering in Little Tokyo in LA. For more information to get yourself in gear (GET IT YEA YOU DO ... and if you don't I'm sorry) you can check out the link for the event on FB here-> Valentine's Day SNK
Rolling out like an autobot on OTHER projects: Fanime! Antiquity-Dreams and DreamsComeTroo Will be attending and contributing to the Masquerade event in Eternal Sonata wear! Myself and Raven will be putting up a performance, and we just REALLY don't expect to win, at all bros- but we are aiming to have fun, and FUN should happen. If it's not fun, I might rage a little. I might - a little. Maybe I might feel it in my left kidney. (Or maybe my left breast again, BODY PARTS ARE FUN!)
I don't want to get too ahead of myself and list off the rest of what's happening this year for all of Koi, but let's just say A LOT of amazing opportunities/changes have cropped up- mostly thanks to the anime community, and we're very excited/nervous about completion of said projects so in order not to entirely disappoint anyone, I'll hold off on the announcements for AX/Yaoi Con.
Cyril U. Winter/DreamsComeTroo
Videos: We have another video up- this time from Supernatural, even though there's some serious stuff going on with Jared ATM, if you know then you know if not then you don't wanna know man- I'm gonna go ahead and throw this up. Just to add a disclaimer, I'm a big poser/actor/loser for making this video because I'm NOT super into the show mans and ladies and gents and madames, (get it, I'm not "super" into the show?) I tried to be, but it's still kind of just skirting my attention span. I blame ADHD xD I don't know, it's a good show though I'm just into more colorful action-ese like things~ bweh.... I feel like I'm reversing my Corolla over my opinion, running it over, and then attempting to revive it...just forgive me and watch the clip -sob OTL-
FREE! Videos: We have a Rei and a Nagisa who will be attending the next series of videos! I'm so excited to work with my friends on this project! Expect the videos to come out, scheduled to be slotted some time just after Feb 13th when our Rei and Nagisa will be visiting us. I can't even contain my excitement on this because I---mushes all over this paragraph about friendship and tolerance and gayness. The happy kind...words. More words. Insert more words. Sobs grossly theur...
Gundam Wing: These videos are slated to have another sometime within the next week or so- we want to apologize with a basket of kittens for our severe delay on distribution of these, they essentially went on hiatus for no reason I can fathom other than the stress-so-saur meter going up beyond 9000. Now that all the kittens are back in the basket we're focusing on making a few more of these to throw up within the week. Sorru-5Over for the delay!
Attack on Titan Group Meetup: On the 15th of February Antiquity-Dreams and DreamsComeTroo as well as possibly blackfruitbat will be attending an Attack on Titan Gathering in Little Tokyo in LA. For more information to get yourself in gear (GET IT YEA YOU DO ... and if you don't I'm sorry) you can check out the link for the event on FB here-> Valentine's Day SNK
Rolling out like an autobot on OTHER projects: Fanime! Antiquity-Dreams and DreamsComeTroo Will be attending and contributing to the Masquerade event in Eternal Sonata wear! Myself and Raven will be putting up a performance, and we just REALLY don't expect to win, at all bros- but we are aiming to have fun, and FUN should happen. If it's not fun, I might rage a little. I might - a little. Maybe I might feel it in my left kidney. (Or maybe my left breast again, BODY PARTS ARE FUN!)
I don't want to get too ahead of myself and list off the rest of what's happening this year for all of Koi, but let's just say A LOT of amazing opportunities/changes have cropped up- mostly thanks to the anime community, and we're very excited/nervous about completion of said projects so in order not to entirely disappoint anyone, I'll hold off on the announcements for AX/Yaoi Con.
Cyril U. Winter/DreamsComeTroo
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Whoakay
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So I wanted to inform all ye whos ears are still reading...wait... okay well ALL YE WHO IS LITERATE... entirely, or not - to come gather around for a storytelling session.
Once upon a time there was a cosplay group- who didn't do videos.
AND NOW WE DO
I know weird right?
For now we're just doing a web series on FREE! But in the past we did Gundam Wing which we're still planning on updating soon ish enough.
For everyone who is still following we probably seem like this is somewhat like zombifying a pre-existing zombie and popping up out of the grave like "WOW IT'S A DAISY!"
For everyone who got that you get points.
For everyone who didn't - please follow, subscribe, and enjoy us being us for the first time in what seems like ever! <3
Thanks to all those who still follow.
Love all us at Koi.
Once upon a time there was a cosplay group- who didn't do videos.
AND NOW WE DO
I know weird right?
For now we're just doing a web series on FREE! But in the past we did Gundam Wing which we're still planning on updating soon ish enough.
For everyone who is still following we probably seem like this is somewhat like zombifying a pre-existing zombie and popping up out of the grave like "WOW IT'S A DAISY!"
For everyone who got that you get points.
For everyone who didn't - please follow, subscribe, and enjoy us being us for the first time in what seems like ever! <3
Thanks to all those who still follow.
Love all us at Koi.
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Hello everyone!
5 min read
You're talking to DreamsComeTroo
Or otherwise me! I was just sending out a journal to let you know Koi is getting ready for Fanime which will be coming out soon, we have some huge groups planned (one that's running over 30+ collaborators x___X) so we're hoping that you are still interested in all our sillyness! We apologize for any lack of activity! I know personally i've kind of been running away a little from the internet! All the praise is very daunting and i'm afraid I won't live up to it etc so I have a bit of a problem responding but i'm hoping that you all realize that this is not implication of myself or any one Koi member not caring!
Anywho we will all be attending Fanime- and specifically certain members will be heading out to specific cons!
Anime Conji - Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , Eclecticmaniac <3 possibly also Alcblueyes and Admantius though i'm not sure!
AX - Eclecticmaniac , Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , ALCblueyes , Admantius , Trap4u , Blackfruitbat , Raven-unit , Kamaruu
Fanime - Kopininja , Eclecticmaniac , Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , ALCblueyes , Admantius , Vaporapture , Trap4u , Blackfruitbat , Raven-Unit , Meredish , Oli
And of course the ever-obligatory
Yaoi Con - Kopininja , Eclecticmaniac , Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , ALCblueyes , Admantius , Vaporapture , Trap4u , Blackfruitbat , Raven-unit , XMBloodedge , Meredish , Oli
To be honest I was seriously considering Sakura Con, but more and more I realize I see and feel less of a reason to go. So despite my want to go, I personally am finding less motivation as time goes on. Since I'm not interested this just has turned into a convention that Koi Cosplay will most likely not be attending from now on. It's the first time since 2007 in which I am opting out. My lack of interest is kind of catching, unintentionally, so most of my friends and family are opting out just the same. I'm sorry for anyone who usually expects to see us there. I see and hear a lot of "I'm so excited to finally meet you soon!" And I get very excited, only to belatedly realize that people still think I'm going to Sakura Con. Despite my multiple attempts to communicate on Tumblr that I'm not, I'm continually having to disappoint people by telling them I'm not going over and over. So I'm leaving this here to let everyone know for SURE, myself and Raven do not intend to go to Sakura Con. I am sorry again, I know at this point that I have received so many messages of people excited to 'meet me for the first time' that this may be disappointing but in order to not continually have to individually tell people I'm putting this up here so hopefully I won't feel bad every time I have to re-explain that I don't want to / do not have enough motivation to desire to go mostly for financial reasons. So I hope everyone can meet us at the other cons I'm exploring this year! I'm happy to meet a few friends that i've met online at AX! You know who you are Kamaruu and Pepsi-Freeze.
This is just an overview so I'm hoping I'm not missing anyone! For everyone who is collaborating with Koi Cosplay at these many conventions if you would like to be mentioned please send a note to Supernovadobe and i'll be sure to mention that you're doing so! We have a lot of groups that have members of Koi Cosplayers with collabors of other individuals that are going to be going up on the main Koi Site. If you don't see everyone in one group it's just because group members were doing other cosplays at that time. We're going to be extremely active in the next couple of months so we're trying to find all old photos and pump them out for you guys. We have some Harry Potter, some Weiss Kruz, Blue Exorcist, Tiger and Bunny, and a lot of backlogged photos that never got put up including X/1999. We are hoping you will be happy to see them !!! To be honest- I'm pretty guppy like so I just plum old forgot to upload as pictures were taken is all!
Thanks and everyone please send your love to all the individual accounts. After Anime Conji we'll have a lot of individual announcements to make about long-standing collaborators becoming new members and the like! So expect new updates as time moves on
!
Or otherwise me! I was just sending out a journal to let you know Koi is getting ready for Fanime which will be coming out soon, we have some huge groups planned (one that's running over 30+ collaborators x___X) so we're hoping that you are still interested in all our sillyness! We apologize for any lack of activity! I know personally i've kind of been running away a little from the internet! All the praise is very daunting and i'm afraid I won't live up to it etc so I have a bit of a problem responding but i'm hoping that you all realize that this is not implication of myself or any one Koi member not caring!
Anywho we will all be attending Fanime- and specifically certain members will be heading out to specific cons!
Anime Conji - Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , Eclecticmaniac <3 possibly also Alcblueyes and Admantius though i'm not sure!
AX - Eclecticmaniac , Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , ALCblueyes , Admantius , Trap4u , Blackfruitbat , Raven-unit , Kamaruu
Fanime - Kopininja , Eclecticmaniac , Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , ALCblueyes , Admantius , Vaporapture , Trap4u , Blackfruitbat , Raven-Unit , Meredish , Oli
And of course the ever-obligatory
Yaoi Con - Kopininja , Eclecticmaniac , Supernovadobe , Antiquity-dreams , ALCblueyes , Admantius , Vaporapture , Trap4u , Blackfruitbat , Raven-unit , XMBloodedge , Meredish , Oli
To be honest I was seriously considering Sakura Con, but more and more I realize I see and feel less of a reason to go. So despite my want to go, I personally am finding less motivation as time goes on. Since I'm not interested this just has turned into a convention that Koi Cosplay will most likely not be attending from now on. It's the first time since 2007 in which I am opting out. My lack of interest is kind of catching, unintentionally, so most of my friends and family are opting out just the same. I'm sorry for anyone who usually expects to see us there. I see and hear a lot of "I'm so excited to finally meet you soon!" And I get very excited, only to belatedly realize that people still think I'm going to Sakura Con. Despite my multiple attempts to communicate on Tumblr that I'm not, I'm continually having to disappoint people by telling them I'm not going over and over. So I'm leaving this here to let everyone know for SURE, myself and Raven do not intend to go to Sakura Con. I am sorry again, I know at this point that I have received so many messages of people excited to 'meet me for the first time' that this may be disappointing but in order to not continually have to individually tell people I'm putting this up here so hopefully I won't feel bad every time I have to re-explain that I don't want to / do not have enough motivation to desire to go mostly for financial reasons. So I hope everyone can meet us at the other cons I'm exploring this year! I'm happy to meet a few friends that i've met online at AX! You know who you are Kamaruu and Pepsi-Freeze.
This is just an overview so I'm hoping I'm not missing anyone! For everyone who is collaborating with Koi Cosplay at these many conventions if you would like to be mentioned please send a note to Supernovadobe and i'll be sure to mention that you're doing so! We have a lot of groups that have members of Koi Cosplayers with collabors of other individuals that are going to be going up on the main Koi Site. If you don't see everyone in one group it's just because group members were doing other cosplays at that time. We're going to be extremely active in the next couple of months so we're trying to find all old photos and pump them out for you guys. We have some Harry Potter, some Weiss Kruz, Blue Exorcist, Tiger and Bunny, and a lot of backlogged photos that never got put up including X/1999. We are hoping you will be happy to see them !!! To be honest- I'm pretty guppy like so I just plum old forgot to upload as pictures were taken is all!
Thanks and everyone please send your love to all the individual accounts. After Anime Conji we'll have a lot of individual announcements to make about long-standing collaborators becoming new members and the like! So expect new updates as time moves on
!
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Heyoo!
2 min read
Just wanted to say another heart-felt thank you to all watchers out there! We've been planning a lot of stuff but we've only been uploading mainly from the Supernovadobe account on youtube and the antiquity-dreams account on youtube so if you want to see some of the antics our group has been up to check them out !!
www.youtube.com/user/Supernova… - SND account
www.youtube.com/user/Antiquity… - AD's account.
(To be honest right now for some reason it's very difficult to upload specifically onto the Koi account on Youtube XD)
Your support has meant the world to us, and has helped us through a lot of hard times, with as much as you say that it has helped you, you have helped us!!!
I know we all have not really been posting too much on that account but SND from Koi wanted you to know something very personal - on the interwebs we all enjoy our fair share of roleplaying- and she wanted to make sure to let you know you're all invited if you want to see what she has been up to on tumblr as Supernovadobe and as ToraToraTiger! You can also find a couple of other Koi members there but I won't ruin the surprise I'll let you guess! Only if you're that interested- and probably even more likely if you're a Tiger and Bunny fan- it's open for critique and SND encourages you to help her learn how to write so she can become better each day! She adores love critique
supernovadobe.tumblr.com/ - Supernovadobe
toratoratiger.tumblr.com/ - ToraToraTiger
www.youtube.com/user/Supernova… - SND account
www.youtube.com/user/Antiquity… - AD's account.
(To be honest right now for some reason it's very difficult to upload specifically onto the Koi account on Youtube XD)
Your support has meant the world to us, and has helped us through a lot of hard times, with as much as you say that it has helped you, you have helped us!!!
I know we all have not really been posting too much on that account but SND from Koi wanted you to know something very personal - on the interwebs we all enjoy our fair share of roleplaying- and she wanted to make sure to let you know you're all invited if you want to see what she has been up to on tumblr as Supernovadobe and as ToraToraTiger! You can also find a couple of other Koi members there but I won't ruin the surprise I'll let you guess! Only if you're that interested- and probably even more likely if you're a Tiger and Bunny fan- it's open for critique and SND encourages you to help her learn how to write so she can become better each day! She adores love critique
supernovadobe.tumblr.com/ - Supernovadobe
toratoratiger.tumblr.com/ - ToraToraTiger
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