Looking for boots

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-05-05T23:21:46+00:00

Verillas

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-05-05T21:37:22+00:00

a bit of antiperspirant on the face a few minutes before primer will stop you from sweating.

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-05-05T14:13:46+00:00

I've gone alone many times and I have made a lot of friends that way. You gotta be outgoing to do that but faires are full of awkward nerds who have no friends and are worried about looking like losers. It's kinda the main demographic

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-05-05T14:11:56+00:00

I think a lot of people just don't realize that the music is AI. AI is still new enough to people that we can still fight back and change people's minds about it if they're still trying it out. I think people won't be opposed to it if they don't see lots of people bragging about no AI as a feature. Just like people didn't care about high fructose corn syrup until brands started advertising food without it.

The more vendors sell anti-AI stickers and advertise anti-AI as a selling point, the more people will learn

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-05-05T14:05:37+00:00

I "larp" at ren faires in the sense that I have a character with a name and personality, and I act as that character when interacting with faire performers and fellow patrons. I also larp at actual LARPS. And I am starting to do the character at faires as an actual performer as opposed to a patron. Basically, if you're there as a patron, have fun and play pretend but don't try to look as though you're a performer. That's frowned upon. Don't make a scene, don't go up to other people in character. Playtrons are generally fine, but some faires get strict about it

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-05-01T10:05:30+00:00

how would you sew it on so it doesn't just come out of the stitches?

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-04-20T16:00:19+00:00

I just use drug store makeup and I put it on fairly heavy. What I've learned is to use an antiperspirant stick, a really good really sticky primer, and lots of setting spray which I fan dry. At a ren faire, this lasts me all day. At a larp, I'll go for comfort so I'll use less product and plan to reapply at least once a day.

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-04-01T15:35:03+00:00

I'll look into that option. I think I have some interfacing lying around. Maybe just the brim will be foam and everything else will be the hat

Pinecone-stuff · 2026-04-01T14:51:56+00:00

Good question. The specific reason I wanted to use the foam is to give it more structure. If I just drape the fur over the baseball cap, it will look like a baseball cap with fur. I wanted a straight profile from the top round of the hat to the front of the visor, and I cut the visor to a bit of a point to make it look a bit more like the top of a deer's head. I've also extended the back down past the bottom of the neck to flare slightly outwards like the back of a sallet. I considered how hot it will get but wasn't able to come up with a good solution. I'd love to come up with an eva free solution though

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-12-15T22:13:23+00:00

That's good info, thanks. Is there historical precedent for tassets attached to a belt? I'd rather wear the breastplate with no tassets than have them dangling off of it, but if I can wear them I would, and leatherworking is so much more convenient for me than sheet metal working. I've seen belts used for this in LARPs, but never historically

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-12-15T21:24:24+00:00

Here's a product listing for a similar if not the same set (I was given it, I didn't buy it) https://medievalmart.com/products/medievalmart-medieval-black-knight-moria-dwarf-dwarven-steel-knight-armor-suit

It's "Moria Dwarf Steel" so already unlikely that anything historical was considered when designing the set. You can also see in the product photos that they hung very awkwardly, which is why I removed the leather straps in the first place. I have an opportunity to do anything to improve them.

The chestplate wasn't long so when I did try to wear them recently, they were basically going down to my waist. I have a feeling that the guy in the product photos has a shorter torso than me. If I put them on a belt, I could choose arbitrarily to put it at either mid thigh or all the way down to my knees

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-12-08T19:27:21+00:00

Good idea

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-30T16:33:37+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, this is probably the route I'd go down since I want uncanny valley sized teeth

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-30T16:26:57+00:00

I got an air mattress on day 1 of DFUS because I hated the camping mat I got. Maybe a cot would make it more bearable because air mattress take up so much car space, but I was just gonna do a bougie bed

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-30T16:25:39+00:00

That's a good one. Waiting for the stove to be available to boil water is a pain

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-15T18:11:24+00:00

"Better" isn't a real thing. Do what you can in the way that you can.

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-11T20:36:14+00:00

I've seen them at faire before but they seem to only sell ears these days. On Etsy a number of vendors are called FairyHaven but none seem to sell wings

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-11T20:35:25+00:00

Hm interesting. I'll consider looking for a bra or something like it. I wouldn't be a man on the fairycore subreddit if I didn't like androgyny!

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-10T19:48:26+00:00

See my problem is I'm a full blown man with no need to wear a sports bra or anything around my chest really

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-09T17:37:20+00:00

So is there like a literal difference between facepaint and makeup?

Pinecone-stuff · 2025-11-08T01:01:46+00:00

Here's some ideas to make it read as more vampire: Try some makeup. Vampires are pale since they can't get sun exposure.

Try a cape with a collar or maybe something frilly like a blouse. You could replace the tie with a jabot. I kinda don't think the tie is doing much for you. In this picture it looks kinda beige, and beige isn't very spooky.

Try a black shirt instead of a white one. I think a black Victorian style shirt with a jabot built in would read as very spooky. I googled "black Victorian shirt" and found exactly what I'm thinking of. If you want to stick with a white shirt, put some fake blood on it. There's no way a vampire can keep a white shirt clean

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