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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah)

@allworknocosplay.bsky.social

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Cosplayer, dice dragon, SFF nerd, a pleasure to have in class 31, she/they 🖤🩶🤍💜 Next con: ?? Working on: Wedding!Jester

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Oct 18

I see there's been another influx from Twitter, so I'll introduce myself again!

I'm Leah (she/they) aka AllWorkNoCosplay. I love SFF, TTRPGs, and lots of other initials you can ask me about. I cosplay from Critical Role, D20, D&Dads, and many others. Welcome!

📷: Adoylible

A person in a long lavender wig stands at a slight angle with the fingers of one hand touching their temple and cheek and the other held out at chest height slightly bent. She has a look of concern and concentration on her face. She wears a light blue dress with ruched sleeves, a white vest with four brown buttons, a yellow neckerchief, and brown gloves that are fingerless at the thumb and pinky. A circular swirling lens effect surrounds them, reflecting little pieces of their person.

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Aug 19

An underrated benefit of being truly overwhelmed by life for like a month and a half is that sometimes you completely miss that a favorite band has dropped a new album

Anyway, having a really good time with Autoheart's new album

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Lyanna 🌙 comms open @lyannatropes.bsky.social · Aug 9

It's art raffle time ✨ Thank you so much for 7k followers, that's a huge milestone for me! To celebrate, one winner will receive an Art Nouveau inspired illustration like the example below ✨

RULES
✨ Follow me
✨ Like + Repost
✨ (Optional) Comment the oc you'd like me to draw

Ends September 9th ✨

Ipomoea is glancing down at the iridescent star between her hands, bright and sparkly. She is sitting over a crescent moon frame, her long gown draping over a night sky with more stars hanging from the frame. The bottom frame has iridescent colours and it is decorated with star drops (a fictional flower with four white petals that resemble stars).

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Aug 10

I started a new job this past week and I haven't even gotten my first paycheck yet but the urge to commission art this morning is SO STRONG

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Jul 10

Authors! Bookshop.org is have a free shipping sale. This is a prime opportunity to support indies!

Reply to this thread with your newest book's title, at least one cool thing about your book, and a link for people to buy it on Bookshop!

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jul 7

Calcifer!

I messed up my own pattern a bit 😅 But I'm still pretty happy with him!

#CrossStitch #StudioGhibli #calcifer #HowlsMovingCastle

A 32x32 cross stitch design of Calcifer the fire demon from Howl's Moving Castle

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jul 7

Only took me a full two and a half hours to realize I was wearing my shirt inside-out this morning. Guess it's that kind of Monday. Really glad I didn't have any Zoom meetings today!!! 🙃

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 30

Time to spin my little threads and try to forget about The Horrors™️ for an hour or so

(I had a gift card leftover from the holidays and almost all of it went to embroidery floss so I can make more little Ghibli guys)

A truly obscene pile of DMC embroidery floss in so many colors sits in front of an empty case, probably soon to be full.

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 30

Born to curl into a little ball and cry, forced to send out endless emails into the void and hope that something will get me new freelance work

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 30

I am planning an Olethra cosplay and I am so excited! I knew I wanted to cosplay her the first time I saw the art! 😍

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 28

Been in a cross stitch mood this week so I converted some quilting patterns I'd sketched out for a Studio Ghibli quilt into cross stitch patterns using FlossCross (my new favorite discovery!)

So here's a Jiji! #kikisdeliveryservice #studioghibli #crossstitch

A cross stitch pattern of the head and bow of Jiji the cat from Kiki's Delivery Service

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 26

Everything okay? Text if you want to

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LaTia de los Muertos 🔜 Gamehole Con! @latiajacquise.com · Jun 24

if magpie puts out a temeraire ttrpg, i fear y'all will never see me again unless you're sitting at my table

Magpie Games Announces Partnership With Bestselling Author Naomi Novik

Magpie Games will announce its next licensed role playing game at Gen Con 2025 based on one of the New York Times best selling author Naomi Novik's works.

www.forbes.com

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you!! Sourcing the different colors was definitely challenging, especially because I limited myself to what I already had in my thread stash! Definitely had to do some simplification of the colors from the original pattern for the sake of keeping the project reasonable haha

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 23

My reference for this outfit came from franfinedatabase.com, which is basically a cosplayer's dream

The Fran Fine Fashion Database !

Welcome to the website ! Your online database of the Fran Drescher fashion, from her legendary show : The Nanny. You can search outfits by episodes or by designer.

franfinedatabase.com

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 23

Sometimes your Monday is already off to a bad start so your roommate challenges you to draw your D&D character in one of Fran's outfits from The Nanny. The world still sucks but morale has somewhat improved

Rough sketch of a half-elf woman with long wavy hair in a button-up dress

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 23

It's been a hot minute since I've done any cross stitching but I've been playing a lot of @fieldsofmistria.bsky.social lately and the cows are so darn cute I knew I had to try to make one.

Pattern is adapted from this one: kandipad.com/pattern/pink...

A cross stitched cartoon white cow with pink spots and accents, outlined in black.

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jun 10

Sorry I just straight up disappeared for a couple months!

Anyway, here's what I've been working on (and finished!) lately. My Allura Vysoren redesign is all done!

A floor length cerulean dress on a red dress form. It has a split skirt with a gold underskirt beneath, balloon sleeves striped with a paisley blue and gold material and long bell sleeves below that.

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Mar 12

Photography credits:

Laudna 📷: @inthelongrun.bsky.social
Imogen 📷: @adoylible.bsky.social
Jester 📷: juliabyersphotography (IG)
Moonweaver 📷: @mingofmings.bsky.social

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Mar 12

From creative inspiration to dear friendships to solace through difficult times, @criticalrole.bsky.social is responsible for a lot of wonderful things in my life. Happy 10th anniversary, and thank you for the community you've built!

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleCosplay

(📷 credits below)

Leah cosplaying as Laudna from Critical Role campaign 3. She wears a gray bodysuit and face paint, a long wavy black wig with white streaks, and black contacts, as well as a black sleeveless bodice embroidered with colorful flowers in warm tones.

Leah cosplaying as Imogen Temult from Critical Role campaign 3. She wears a flowing knee-length light blue dress, a pearlescent white vest, a yellow scarf, and brown gloves, as well as a long lavender wig. She is looking into the distance, the wind gently blowing her skirts.

Leah cosplaying as Jester from Critical Role campaign 2. She wears a blue body suit and face paint, a bobber dark blue wig, a dark green capelet, long ivory sleeves with pink embellishments, and curving dark blue horns. She holds a pink floral fan in her hand and her chin is tilted up, looking thoughtful.

Leah cosplaying as the Moonweaver from Critical Role. She wears a long-sleeved white wrap dress, a long white wig, and two draping bits of fabric over their shoulders that taper from light blue to dark, almost black-blue. Their skin is painted a shimmering light blue, and they look down and to the right, as if gazing down benevolently on their followers.

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Tokudoku🌸 @tokudoku.bsky.social · Mar 12

“Is it Thursday yet?”
Happy 10 BDay Critical Role! Here’s a few collages of all the CR characters I’ve attempted since ‘19!

#criticalrole #critrolecosplay #criticalrolecosplay #voxmachina #voxmachinacosplay #mightynein #mightyneincosplay #bellshells #bellshellscosplay #criticalrolecosplayer

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Feb 8

Leah coded characters

Aka big nerds with an anxiety disorder, probably

Kou Sakuragi from Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Feb 6

Happy Critical Role C3 finale day!

I'm about a dozen eps behind so I won't be able to watch tonight, but I'm sure it'll be an emotional rollercoaster!

📷: @adoylible.bsky.social
Imogen Temult is from @criticalrole.bsky.social played by Laura Bailey

#aDoylible #CriticalRoleCosplay #ImogenTemult

A cosplay photograph of the character Imogen Temult from Critical Role. Leah has one hand to her temple and the other stretched out in front of her with an intense expression on their face. They wear a long lavender wig, a yellow neckerchief, a light blue dress, an ivory vest with iridescent brownish buttons, and brown faux-leather gloves with the thumb and pinky cut out. There is a reddish light over half her face and a lens effect has been used to reflect many versions of her in a circle around the edge of the frame.

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jan 26

Yes!! That's one of my top three for sure!

🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jan 26

Literally Padme's entire Star Wars wardrobe

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🌷All Work No Cosplay🌷(Leah) @allworknocosplay.bsky.social · Jan 21

Started to draft a "here's a [x] cosplay for your Monday" only to very quickly realize it's for sure not. And I can't even blame not working yesterday because I definitely did.

Anyway, here's a Cassandra de Rolo cosplay for your whatever-day-it-is!

📷: juliabyersphotography (IG)

A person standing in a snow-covered landscape cosplaying an original design of Cassandra de Rolo from Critical Role. She wears a gold and blue brocade sleeveless coat over a ruffled royal purple tea length skirt and a white blouse. She has brown hair and pale skin and is looking pensively off into the distance.