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D’Manda Martini

@dmandamartini.bsky.social

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The Chanteuse of Southern Maryland, Cosplayer, WATCH Award Winning Actor & 4X Nominated Costume Designer

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · Aug 1

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️I AM PHOENIX🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Suit: @elborgers.bsky.social
Accessories: @3dinfinitydc.bsky.social
Hair: #epiccosplaywigs
📸: @nolandigital.bsky.social

#trans #transgender #hopesummers #phoenix #xmen #mutantandproud

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 2d

Dammit. I’m in.

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 2d

#Bishop: “Please, hear me! You have no need to fear me. I know — I made mistakes.”
#HopeSummers: “MISTAKES?! Like terrorizing me when I was a child? Was THAT a mistake? How many times did you throw a grenade at me? Do you remember murdering my adopted mother?”
#xmen #cosplay

D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 3d

Betsy’s short, rushed, and ill-advised first stint at joining the #CaptainBritain Corps may have almost taken her out permanently, and did end with her being blinded, it at least gave us this absolutely crazy 1980s costume.
Mask: @3dinfinitydc
📸: @gnawbuscorner

#betsybraddock #xmen #mutantmonday

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 7d

Le Tarot ne consiste pas à prédire l’avenir ; c’est un outil de réflexion, nous offrant un miroir de notre moi intérieur.
📸: @krystynslack

#tarot #marieangecolbert #hellions #newmutants #xmen #tbt #cantspeakfrench #soiletthefunkymusicdothetalking #girlsaloud

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 8d

Leanne Rimes doing a music video of her unending love for Eddie Cibrian ( who I must say is extremely attractive ) is still so wild to me.

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Hailing Frequencies Open Podcast @hailingfreqopen.bsky.social · 8d

OUT NOW:

Lanita has seen 100% of televised Trek but NOT the movies. So we’re covering her first viewing 1 by 1. Fresh perspective!

The great cosplay drag queen @dmandamartini.bsky.social joins us for the original crew’s cinematic swan song.

STAR TREK VI THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 8d

It’s the first Witchy Wednesday of Spooky Season - so going way back to DC’s Enchantress! I wonder if she & June Moon will look more like her comic counterpart in the NEW DC movies… #enchantress #dccomics #witchywednesday #suicidesquad

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Hailing Frequencies Open Podcast @hailingfreqopen.bsky.social · 9d

DROPPED TODAY!

@dmandamartini.bsky.social guest cohosts on Lanita’s first watch of STAR TREK VI.

THE ICON Kim Cattrall had to bring a littttttle scandal to her legendary Trek appearance

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 11d

“They say that I’m a witch
And that I weave a spell
Well, I’ll be a son of a
I don’t know what
Well, let me tell you brother
I’d rather be burned as a witch than never be burned at all” - Eartha Kitt

📸: @erikwphotography

#satneen #excalibur #xmen #witchcraft #cosplay

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 12d

Which character permanently altered your brain chemistry?

I will answer this in 3 parts:

1) oh, but who is she though? Why do I long to be her?
2) oh no, he’s hot, emotionally stunted, & can’t read good?
3) (actual serious response): oh, so that means *I* don’t have to be a boy and be famous?

D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 12d

He saves us and saves all the world.

D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 13d

We better bring in the expert as well @jessicacrouse.bsky.social

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 13d

Episode 39: ARMOR is up on other socials! This was fully a journey but so glad it (somewhat) came out like I imagined in my head! #tomemyxtreats #armor #hisakoichiki #astonishingxmen #xmen #newxmen #cupcakes

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 14d

As someone who dresses like superheroes, and wears heels — it’s because it looks good and I want to look a man dead in the face as I defeat him wearing the most impractical thing possible.

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 14d

“The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.” True words to live by.

Storm: @num1xmncosplay
Captain Britain: @dmandamartini
📸: @bryantcoxphotography

#xmen #storm #ororomunroe #captainbritain #betsybraddock #tbt #throwback #shadysquad

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 15d

I’m not a gamer 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you all so much.

AVENGERS ACADEMY:

Warning! Major spoilers for #60 follow...please do not swipe til after reading this week's issue.

And so we come to the end.

It has I confess come upon us sooner than we thought and more sudden than we hoped – but that, I suppose, is the nature of all life’s endings.

[section of thanks abridged for character limit]

Comics will mend your heart, if you let them. When I was a scared, lonely, closeted kid, the Marvel universe’s heroes were there for me when very little else was. That is a debt I can never pay back, but one I’ve tried with great travail to pay forward. I want to believe we have afforded a little of that same refuge to those who sought it. I hope you saw yourself; please know you were seen. Til we all meet again (and may it be soon), may you find each other. May you find yourself. Remember that there’s always time – but waste no time. And what is broken is still beautiful.

Above all, remember love. It is all that lasts.

Anthony Oliveira

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BloodStarved Bailie @ MCM M-01 @bailierosenlund.bsky.social · 15d

Now that the final issue of Avengers Academy is out, I just want to say thank you. To my incredible team, and to our incredible readers. Every week has been such a joy. AvAc has been such a career highlight for me--I truly love this story & this cast & I deeply mourn its end. Thank you again 🌹✨

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 15d

As today releases issue #60, the final issue, I’m so glad we got to celebrate @meakoopa.bsky.social @bailierosenlund.bsky.social @airy.bsky.social & the team incredible work on #avengersacademy at @flamecon.bsky.social this year. What an amazing journey and beautifully queer superhero story.

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 16d

Just over a month away from @derpycon_official - Oct 31 - Nov 2 - and we’re bringing more SHENANIGANS!!! Hope to see you there - we’ve got some returning and some new faces this year and I’m excited yo see what nonsense we all bring to the stage! #derpycon #dragshow #cosplay

D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 17d

It’s #mutantmonday - and let’s face it, things aren’t great in the world. But at least my eyeshadow looks stunning.
Collar: @colbymelvin.bsky.social
Armor: @3dinfinitydc.bsky.social
Suit: @cyanmandesigns x @herostime_official
📸: @erikwphotography.bsky.social
#siphon #xmen #cosplay

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 20d

Had this great interview about being queer in Southern Maryland. Looks like it’s going to be an ongoing project to help record queer stories of how we’ve always been here. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 20d

My first cosplay in 2013

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 20d

Episode 38: MATCH is up on other socials! Possibly the shortest X-Treat video yet! #tomemyxtreats #match #academyx #xmen #newmutants #newxmen #cupcakes

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D’Manda Martini @dmandamartini.bsky.social · 21d

A tale of #mdrenfest in two pictures. Featuring @jessicacrouse.bsky.social & @dmandamartini - withe special cameo by #karencosplays

#marylandrenaissancefestival #xena #xenawarriorprincess