Leah Rose FTW!

Hi friends! Thanks for coming and peeking over here, I know facebook is a lot easier to check in on but we all know how FB feels about long posts, keywords, and basically anything other than not taking my money, hahaha/sad Anyway, let's just jump into it- my announcement for today is I'm beginning a Patreon account. My emotions on Patreon are pretty conflicted a lot of times, I have to be honest, and I'm sure you can understand what I mean if you've been online and seen all the backlash that some people get from starting Patreons. I've always been afraid that my work wasn't good enough, consistent enough, or popular enough to warrant anything like this. But then my personal (financial and time restraint)  circumstances changed, and my options were: 1. Stop cosplay nearly entirely, disappoint you and myself, and lose something that brings me and many other people a spark of joy.  or 2. Ask for help, be able to continue, and with the money that I receive...

Warning: long, rambly, personal, vaguely political.  I'm having a really hard time putting into words what I'm feeling when it comes to the violence and the brutality and the racial tensions that are happening in our nation right now.. and I am SO frustrated because a lot of people in the public eye including myself have to weigh the pros and cons of speaking out on things that are politically charged in any way shape or form. If we speak out we always risk offending someone (even if the offended person is wrong/a bigot/whatever) and when our career and livelihood has so much to do with being in the public eye, it's so hard to feel comfortable expressing your opinions when anybody could decide to bash you and you could lose any success you've already gained. Does that make sense? Even if you're on the right side of history, if enough people vocally disagree with you, you're lucky to come out the other side. With all that said, I still feel like ...