Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. Hope you're all doing great. In today's video, we're going to have a look at all of the information that has dropped over the last week from that Pokemon Presents DLC trailer, as well as the closing ceremony sneak peek trailer at the upcoming DLCs for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. First thing I want to talk about is the starter Pokemon that we're confirmed to be coming back to the DLCs. Every single starter Pokemon is now going to be catchable with that part 2 DLC in the Indigo disc. Now this is the first time we've had access to catch all of the starter Pokemon in one of the main series titles, I believe since X and Y. So it's pretty big news and it's really nice to see this being confirmed with that sneak peek trailer that we got in the closing ceremony at the World Championships in Yokohama this past weekend. So you can see here the first partner Pokemon from past titles in the Core Pokemon series are appearing in Spades in the Terrarium House within the Blueberry Academy, which is the setting of the Hidden Treasures of Area 0, part 2. The Indigo disc, the terrarium, is a facility that recreates a variety of biomes from the tropics to ICCs. Where many different Pokemon live and thrive in the environment best suited to them, you might even get the rare chance to see first partner Pokemon as they live in the wild. So confirming that they are going to be in the wild and you are going to be able to obtain them, of course you can also battle these Pokemon to try adding them to your team and you'll be able to see how the terrestrial phenomenon familiar to all of those who have played Pokemon Scarlet of Violet looks on these old friends, which is very exciting. And on top of that we had a tweak out from Nintendo of America in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet part 2, the Indigo disc. First partner Pokemon from past titles are appearing in the terrarium housed within Blueberry Academy. Clear missions given to you by the school and you'll get the chance to see these first partner Pokemon as they live in the wild. So kind of confirming that we are going to have missions to do from the school to unlock these Pokemon available in the wild in the terrarium. So I don't think when we first go into the terrarium they're going to be there accessible, we're going to have missions to complete which will unlock them, whether that's a mission for each individual starter Pokemon. If it is, it's kind of a lot because that's like 24 different missions, they might do that or they might do them in generation missions, you know, so you do a mission and it unlocks all the generation one starters, then you do another mission, then it unlocks generation two so on and so on until you've unlocked every single past generation starter set and you can go into the terrarium and kind of catch them in and around different areas that are available to us in those games. But very exciting news and I am super excited to be able to kind of finally have the chance to go in and catch all these different Pokemon in their shiny forms in different Pokeballs if we want them to and just add them to the collection which is really nice which is something that we don't often get access to in Pokemon games so a real big kind of plus for us especially with that part two DLC that will be dropping later this year. Now the first thing that I want to touch upon is that we finally have a release date for the Teal Mask, it will be dropping on the 13th of September so little under four weeks time from the date of recording this video, we'll have access to that first part of the DLC is the Teal Mask where we can go to Kitakami and we did get some more information in the DLC trailers about Kitakami. Explore Kitakami by orienteering during your school trip after arriving in Kitakami for your school trip in the Hidden Treasures of Area 0, part one the Teal Mask you'll get to explore the land's rich history by participating in orienteering activity so this must be part of the storyline I'm guessing you and the other students will be tasked by traveling the land in search of signboards that depict stories from one of Kitakami's oldest folktales which is going to be involving Ogapon, Pheasantipity and Monkadori which is the legendary three. As you learn more about the history of Kitakami you may even unmask its mysteries which is a big hint at I think what will be going on in Kitakami and stuff to do with the masks of course as well that we've kind of heard about before. So we get a few more shots of the area some new characters as well, Briar. Miss Briar is a teacher at the Blueberry Academy and is in charge of your school trip you'll be embarking on. She'll visit your academy in the Paldaire region to meet you before setting out. Briar has an extremely indistinguishable disposition and shows a keen interest in the terrestrial phenomenon. So you can see Briar here has some very big throws to Scarlett and Violet. I do wonder if this picture here is from Violet as she's wearing a violet coloured jacket maybe in Scarlett she has a an orange colour jacket with the depictions on but as you can see from the box art of the games the logos themselves she's got all of these kind of symbols that you would see around that logo as well and of course the earrings as well that you do see on her they are very kind of indistinguishable to something else that got released later in the trailers specifically that Pokemon World Championships closing ceremony trailer which we'll get on to a little bit later so we'll probably come back to Briar but she is one of the new characters that we got introduced to us they'll be kind of leading the school trips from Paldaire into Kitakami and then to the Blueberry Academy where she has a little bit more of a tie to. We also got information on new ways to play in Kitakami aim for the Ogre Austin High Score so this is like a new minigame that we got discovered and the Pokemon presents DLC trailers so Ogre Austin is a special event that has been passed down as a tradition in Kitakami since long ago your goal is to ride on your Pokemon collect berries by popping Ogre balloons and bring those berries to the berry table as a reward you will receive mochi that can be used to increase the base points of your Pokemon stats or even fresh start mochi which can reset the base points of your Pokemon stats you'll be able to try your hand at the Ogre Austin with up to three players online or via local wireless connection try using teamwork to take on harder difficulty levels together for example some players could focus on popping far away balloons while others drive off the greedy Pokemon that come after the berries you've gathered so far that looks like like a little minigame that you're going to play collecting the balloons and with every collection of the balloons you're going to get berries which they can then craft into mochi which is pretty cool because you can change a little bit like otal caps you're going to be able to change the base stats of your Pokemon and the big news is the fresh start mochi which can reset the base points of your Pokemon stats kind of giving us a big indication that we are finally going to have access to be able to make a Pokemon's IV down to zero so that's what I'm assuming the fresh start mochi is going to be you're going to be able to give it to the Pokemon and it's going to take it's like say for instance a speed IV from 31 down to zero meaning you can actually get trick room Pokemon a lot easier in these games going forward so a really nice addition to see that with the DLCs of course nothing's been 100 confirmed yet with the mochi just assuming that is how they're going to work but really cool item we've got access to and some little features as well that we're going to see in the teal mask when that does drop also got some information on a Pokemon snap sort of theme going into key to call me taking photos with your Pokemon just got even more fun you get access to a new item called the roto stick which is going to let you take wider angle photos and then you can share these with players online and kind of link to that as well we got a search for Pokemon to photograph in the timeless woods so timeless woods is going to be a new area in key to call me during your adventures you will encounter Perrin a young woman who is visiting key to call me in hopes of encountering and photographing a certain Pokemon so this is Perrin here there is very very strong links to adam and from Pokemon legends or case whether or not they're related or not but there's very similar kind of traits that both of these characters do have but getting back to the photography aspect of this you will search for the mysterious Pokemon parents looking for in the timeless woods a place where people in key to call me rarely tread with Perrin by your side you'll be able to take snapshots of Pokemon in this area as you seek out the mysterious Pokemon together what this mysterious Pokemon will be who knows but it might be a new Pokemon that we haven't seen yet or yet to see there's no confirmation and I haven't heard many rumors in regards to it but this is Perrin obviously there is a big emphasis on taking photos in key to call me so whether or not it's just a side quest role for this particular new Pokemon or fits an old Pokemon or whatever it is and we also get some big information or a big sneak peek at the terrestrialization mechanic that we're going to see in key to call me obviously we're not pal there and key to call me is a different area altogether than pal there because it is a school trip and of course heavily suggested that it is in the northern part of Japan key to call me because of the aesthetics of this land everything that's going on around it with the traditions with the mask festival and things like that but we did get some big hints at terrestrialization or a type of terrestrialization with Ogopon see the legendary Pokemon Ogopon has been discovered in its terrestrial state so we do get this amazing imagery here of Ogopon when it does terrestrialize and its mask increases massively in size so this is something that we can look at to say maybe this is the new terrestrialization type with the masks new terrestrialized forms with the masks and how they might link up to terrestrialization in the teal mask in that DLC part one Ogopon has recently been cited in its terrestrial state its appearance seems to differ from that of most other terror pokemon exactly what sort of power this legendary pokemon possesses is still unknown and yeah i think the mask is how terrestrializes and we can kind of we've seen already that there is crystals that looks like terror crystals or any actual mask itself so the mask has a way of being able to help the pokemon holding it wearing it terrestrialize and they do get a new terrestrialized form how that kind of plays into effect with the other pokemon in key to call me is kind of unknown but i'm sure this storyline and the teal mask ties into the blueberry academy that then takes us back to balder to kind of get the answers for area zero because we've had a lot of hints on that throughout these last two trailers on top of that as well we got some brand new pokemon revealed to us in these DLC trailers we got the first one is dipplin which was a pokemon that kirin one of our partnering characters in the teal mask in key to call me was using a dipplin is a new evolution of aplan and it will be available in the part one teal mask dlc it is going to be the candy apple pokemon grass dragon typing and it has the new ability super sweet syrup and obviously another ability gluttony there a newly discovered evolution of aplan this newly discovered evolution of aplan is distinct from flapple and appleton the head sticking out seems to belong to one of the two separate creatures while the tail belongs to the other both creatures help each other out from within their shared apple dipplin caught the apples with syrup produced within their body the layers of fragrant syrup beguile opponents so it's got a new move in syrup bomb as well that once used it does decrease the speed start of an opposing pokemon for the next three turns which is pretty cool and it has the new ability super sweet syrup which is just a brand new ability to pokemon and will appear for the first time in the teal mask when dipplin enters the battle the scent of the syrup spreads across the battlefield lowering the evasiveness of opposing pokemon cool looking pokemon i really like it i'd love to hear what you think of this brand new pokemon as well i love the aplan and flapple and appleton kind of evolution lines so having a third one on top of this is really cool really nice and wasn't something i was expecting to be revealed in these dlc trailers it will be having access to from the 13th of september when this first dlc drops then the pokemon presents trailer moves into its second phase where we go into detail about the dlc part two which is the indigo disc and we look at enter the blueberry league and take on the blueberry academy's elite four so confirming that there will be elite four in the blueberry academy and it will be called the bb league for the elite four battles in the indigo disc the blueberry academy has its own pokemon battling league called the blueberry league aka the bb league where students battle each other and climb the ranks based on their skills the school's top four trainers are known as the bb league elite four and they're looked up to by the entire student body you receive an invitation to join the blueberry league from drayton a member of the bb league elite four you'll be able to take on the bb league elite four in the terrarium each biome is occupied by a different member of the bb league elite four battle one of the elite four you must pass their elite trial each trial is different aim to defeat the elite four and become the best trainer in the blueberry academy also got some information on flying in order to tackle the elite trial set by a mary's your legendary pokemon karyadon and maraidon can take a supplement that will granted part of fly so kind of suggesting that you're not going to have any of the abilities that you had originally in pal there so you might not be able to climb you might not be able to fly you might not be able to jump high with your ride on pokemon like ride on maraidon like you can do in the pal there region something must happen to suppress those abilities when you get into the blueberry academy into that terrarium and it kind of makes sense if you could have access to everything that you could do with both you ride on pokemon as soon as you get into the blueberry academy into that terrarium you're going to be able to explore the whole place and i'm guessing they probably want you to go on a linear kind of route through it to unlock the ride abilities that you have access to in pal there and then once you've unlocked them once you beat the elite four in this area you'll be able to explore it a bit more intensely and kind of uncover all of the different pokemon that are in these areas at least that's how it kind of comes across from this information it seemed the power is only temporary but perhaps someday this hidden potential will be fully unleashed so like i said that's what i mean i think you will be able to access all of these ride on mechanics eventually but you'll have to do all of these trials along the way to kind of get to the elite four beat them and then become the champion of the blueberry academy after that i'm assuming you'll have access to all of the ride abilities that you had in pal there maybe some new ones as well and of course the members of the bb league elite four we've got lacy we've met before we've got crispin so the name confirmation of crispin here enjoys cooking and red hot battles after club activities have finished he often puts his cooking skills to work at the end of the other three members of the elite four can all enjoy a meal together so we've got lacy we don't have really much information on lacy other than what we've had before very mysterious character especially with those kind of hair clips that she's got with terastal crystals in there so we'll see what role she kind of plays in this whole thing and then we've got a marys who is a taciturn and keeps her cool in any situation but underneath that ironclad exterior she seems to really care about her friends so again not really much information about marys and then we've got drayton who was the character who invited us to attend the bb league other blueberry academy elite four league or whatever it's called um so that was the invitation from drayton as well and a big call to pokemon black and white as well with that character there and we'll not get into detail about that now drayton may act like a days is cold but he's a force to be reckoned with in battle he doesn't seem to go to class often rumour has it he had to repeat a year rice already so a little bit information about drayton we've got a bit more footage from him in the trailer as well with his signature pokemon which is the alcaludon and a brand new evolution of doraladon which is very exciting i do love that pokemon steel dragon type confirmed and it has the ability stamina and sturdy which are crazy strong abilities for a pokemon of this typing and of course it does look like a bridge doraladon was kind of a skyscraper so take an inspiration from other city structures as well in trouble alcaludon extends its normal bentoso trading some of its mobility for more stable center of gravity while it's like this this pokemon resembles a magnificent steel bridge alcaludon builds up static electricity and fires a powerful beam terminals at the end of its limbs gather and store a static electricity which alcaludon can use to fire a powerful beam made up of electric energy not normally generated within its body alcaludon can gather static electricity more easily during storms and other inclement weather allowing to fire its beams faster than usual so whether or not its signature move electric shot has anything to do with what weather's in a play let's wait and see with this electric type special move alcaludon gathers vast quantities of energy and fires off a high voltage bolt of electricity under rainy conditions alcaludon can immediately fire off this attack without having to spend time charging it up which is very very nice for this move two turn move if it's raining it will be a one turn move very powerful electric type attack we also got some more information from this dlc trailer about the league club here so you train your pokemon and battle as a member of the league club trainers participating in the bb league including nearly four get together and train through pokemon battles you can also visit the club room to meet up with people you've encountered at the blueberry academy and deepen your bonds with them the club room computer you can use the computer in the club room to lend a hand to other clubs then need funding for their activities if you donate blueberry points which is going to be a new kind of currency i'm guessing that we're going to get you may receive thank you gifts from the clubs you've donated to for example if you donate blueberry points to the blueberry academy art club you'll be able to redecorate the league club room so it's really cool that you're going to have features where you're going to have like customization to a room that's your league club place in the blueberry academy and by doing these extra outsize missions and things like that you're going to be able to customize it also a thing i'm sure a lot of you will probably enjoy doing especially if you can use this facility online invite other players into your club and there's probably extra things that you're going to be able to kind of add to your room for customization by doing things online with other players and other clubs and things like that so a pretty cool feature that we're seeing integrated and on top of this we're going to get special guests as well during your time at the blueberry academy you'll be able to invite familiar faces from pal dair region for a visit when you invite a trainer over you you can talk to them and take photos together if you defeat one of these trainers in battle you'll also be able to trade pokemon with them you might just see a side of them you hadn't seen before so this is a picture of one of the gym leaders from pal dair that you can invite back in so presuming that you're going to be able to invite the gym leaders over to the blueberry academy and kind of re-battle them and lock some other features that we haven't yet seen in the games which might be quite cool to do and it gives us a way to re-battle i guess the gym leaders once again where we've only had the chance to battle them once through skull and violet and after that second time through they're kind of locked out so you can't really go and battle them again but with the blueberry academy league it feels like these facilities are kind of unlocking maybe there's a battle factory facility you've got the elite for and then you've got the ability to battle the gym leaders once again and hopefully that's something that you can continually do rather than do once and then that's it locked out for the the rest of the game you know on top of all of this news as well we got two new paradox pokemon we got raging bolt and iron crown which are very cool pokemon and they kind of link up with the woken wake and iron leaves pokemon continuing on the theme of those legendary trios we've got the prehistoric paradox form of ryku which is going to be raging bolt i got to admit i really love the design of raging bolt i think it looks amazing like i know there's a lot of memes out there about it being a kind of ryku giraffe rig or ferrigaraf kind of hybrid pokemon but i really do love the design of this and i think it'll be a very very strong pokemon we also got iron crown as well which is going to be the future paradox pokemon of cobalion and you can see a bit more details here of it obviously with that first dlc trailer we didn't get the types confirmed for these new pokemon we did get some nice footage of them in the dlc trailers though but very very cool and i definitely prefer these to the first set of paradox pokemon mythical paradox pokemon that we had released as well so very excited to see these coming and i believe we're going to be able to discover these in the part 2 dlc so the indigo disc we did get a bit more information on these at that teaser at worlds we got their types confirmed we had iron crown is going to be a psychic and steel type pokemon so similar to metagross and we also have raging bolt dragon and electric typing though very unique typing not many pokemon had this mega and frost i believe had this typing so really cool typing to get and it does have a new signature move as well in raging bolt's thunder clap which is a priority attack in electric move which is going to be a very strong attacking option for raging bolt as well so they were the two other new pokemon that we got revealed in the dlc trailers and on top of this we got some more information about torapagos and its baby form and its bigger form so the baby form is its actual normal form that's the normal torapagos but then when it does go into that bigger form that is actually its tracelization form so when it tracelizes it goes from its normal baby form into the big turtle with the big shell on the back with all of those type symbols on its back so that is very nice to know i'll have that confirmation of that they're not two separate pokemon they're not two evolutions of one pokemon they are the same pokemon just with a normal type form and then a tracelization form and once a tracelize they turn into that which is kind of unique for a legendary pokemon having the different forms a bit like necrosma and then ultra necrosma in pokemon sun and moon and then the final thing we're going to talk about today is the big big drop at the world championships at that closing ceremony they announced a 19th terra type which is huge and i think really ties back to torapagos that we just touched upon with having a terastal form which is specific terastal form but the 19th terastal type which was confirmed at the world championship and 19th terra type has been discovered in the trailer as well you kind of see it flicking through all of the different types and then this new terastal symbol appears where pokemon can then turn into this new 19th terastal type and 19th terra type so very interesting i don't think this is going to be like a fixed typing like it's not going to be a brand new typing that we're going to see going forward in like 10, 11, 12 and so on and anything outside of the main series titles i think it's just going to be a 19th type that's tied to terastalization so it's going to be exclusive to terastalization at least that's what i'm kind of picking up on from the wording of this it doesn't appear to be brand new typing it's a terastalization type so we've got 18 types already through terastalization and we're going to have this new one that'll appear just going to be pretty much i think exclusive to scholar and violet and the dlc's for scholar and violet when we come around to gen 10 this will probably no longer be a thing whether or not i don't know we'll see because terapagos if it is directly tied to terapagos this kind of effect might turn into its ability or might be its ability in future generations and i do feel like there's going to be some sort of item tied to being able to terastalize into this 19th terra type and there has to be a cost for it right like we see here in the depictions you've got something like backscalibur it is going to be accessible to as well and then in the trailer as well you can see as well that the pokemon that is using this special 19th terastalization type is predominantly using normal type moves so you presume it's going to be different pokemon to backscalibur so it's going to be accessible to pretty much every pokemon i would assume going forward something about it seems very different from the 18 terra types we've seen before but much is yet unknown what the truth behind this 19th terra type so yeah we don't really know too much information about it of course but it has been confirmed if it was to give my best guess is about this i think it is going to give you the same type of tack bonus on every single type you'll get double same type attack bonus or star bonus on the base typings that you've already got so if you're something like backscalibur that dragging an ice type you'll get two times the same type attack bonus like you do when you terastalize into an ice or a dragon type anywhere and then you are either going to have one of two ways and i can't really make my mind up with how i think this is going to play out where you either have no weakness at all because each type is going to be available and all the types kind of counteract each type so you're going to have no weakness all the weaknesses like the drawback for this terastalization because it is pretty powerful is it's going to be weak to everything that you get hit by so i i don't know i don't know how it's going to work i'm really intrigued to see how it goes but i could see them making this pretty broken as a mechanic because they're going to want people to use it right i think the drawback of having to hold an item so you can't really stack it with any other item like a focus or anything like that makes it a little bit more balanced so i could see an item being required to use this 19th terastalization type and maybe they do just have it have no weaknesses at all so you can't really be hit for super effective damage while you're hitting your opponent for stab damage with whatever choices you use on the pokemon that you're terastalizing into this 19th teratype with but who knows i'd love to hear your opinions get down in the comment section below let me know what your theories are and how this 19th terastalization type ball will work obviously we've got to wait a little while until we discover this new 19th teratype because it will be in that part two of the dlc's which i expect now that we've got the date for the teal mask in september i think the indigo disc will probably be dropping around november time around the 19th that would make sense but we'll wait and see and hopefully we get some more news on that very soon and the last thing to touch upon as well is i really did find this quite interesting that this was on the pokemon website an expanded story connecting back to the pal daire region on top of your school's trip to kira kami and your studies abroad at the blueberry academy the story of the hidden treasures of area zero will tie back to pal daire region as well so all coming back to pal daire and obviously area zero which is the titles of both these dlc parts one and two the hidden treasures of area zero and the nice interesting thing that we did get after all of the terapagos kind of discovering its normal to its terastalization form and we had pictures of heath's expedition going into area zero which is very cool the music of everything around that and then the camera panning into area zero which really takes us back to area zero the whole title of these two dlc packs which kind of indicates a big hint to once we've completed the stories in both the teal mask in kitakami and the blueberry academy in the indigo disc we will be coming back to pal daire to finish off the whole mystery around area zero what happened with heath and the expedition what happened to the professors when they went down into area zero and other deeper floors as well that we can go down into any more paradox pokemon that we'll be able to access surely we're going to be getting anti-teracian paradox forms as well we've had the suikku and we've had raikku confirmed now and none of the pictures really line up with the pictures that were sketched in heath's book so you'd assume that we're going to get a third one maybe we might get a combined one an ultimate one of each kind of set of trio start as who knows but it's very exciting we've got a lot more information to come and hopefully we get some answers in particular with these dlc's which i'm sure we all will get a few more things teased to us i'm sure in the teal mask and then it'll get kind of unraveled fully i would expect in the blueberry academy in the indigo disco and that does drop and hopefully we get a confirmation date very soon on that second part of the dlc's but it's not long like we've said now till we do get the teal mask and also just before we go as well we did get some kind of sneak peek information on something that will be dropping next tuesday the 22nd of august uh sarabee joe and a bunch of other content creators at the world championships over this past weekend got given these boxes with the date of the 22nd of the 8th on them inside was a traditional japanese tea set so hinting at maybe a new regional fake pokemon that will be getting revealed but something will be dropping next tuesday and they're expected to be linked to the teal mask because of the mask descriptions and the art on the box it seems like it's linked to that first dlc pack but let me know what you think down in the comment section below of everything that we've covered today what you're looking forward to what you expect to see coming out over the next two weeks i know this is a bit of a longer video today but i've just got back from yokohama and i wanted to put out a bit of a catch-up video a bit of a summary video on everything that we've seen dropped since last week with those two trailers that we've had for the teal mask and the indigo disc i hope you found today's video useful i look forward to jumping back into content and reading through all your comments over the next week or so and thank you so much for tuning in friends have a great rest of your day i'll be back very soon with more content on the channel drop a like on the video subscribe to stay up to date with all of our pokemon content and i'll see you all in another video very soon so until then friends take care of yourselves and bye bye


Welcome to Fandom 101. My name is Julia Bloom and I have been involved with fan culture, conventions, and cosplaying for the past ten years. In this show, we will talk about what fandom is, what's various aspects are, and what issues need to be addressed in modern fandom and the cosplaying community. Even if you've never seen Star Wars or watched anime, you will still learn about what draws so many to fandom. Today, we will talk about what fandom is and discuss cosplaying or costuming for conventions. Today, my guest is Gladys Leung. She is an illustrator and cosplayer as well as a good friend of mine. Welcome, Gladys. Thank you so much for having me here. You're welcome. All right, so since we're defining fandom and explaining what it is, how would you define fandom in general? I would say fandom is a way for people to share their common interests. So most commonly known as entertainment-wise, like from animation, cartoon, comic books, even movies nowadays. And I would say this word is more used commonly on social media. So that's where everyone can discuss about what they enjoy a lot. All right, great. What are your favorite fandoms and why? That is a really tough one. I have a lot of stuff that I have a lot of things that I really love. So it's kind of hard for me to pick one, so I'm sorry. You don't have to pick one. You can mention a few of them. I know we both are into Tokusatsu or Japanese superhero shows as I describe it. That is very true. Yeah. And I would say I do enjoy Marvel. Marvel have very good, especially the cinematic universe. I do enjoy my hero catamia and One Piece. So I can list out everything, but that's probably too long for today, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And we both cosplay, but what got you into cosplay? That was actually a very funny story. So like a decade ago, so my best friend wanted to go to an anime convention, but she doesn't want to cosplay alone. So she just, so every day she starts asking me and say, Gladys, can you cosplay with me? I'm not sure. Gladys, will you cosplay with me? I'm like, maybe. So because of that, I started to cosplay for the first time. It was very nervous because I rent my outfit, I'm wearing a wig that we tried to cut for the first time. I go to wear makeup, but I still enjoy it because I was enjoying my time with my best friend. And then once I got into college, there is a club called RIT Cosplay Troupe, which I participated in there. And it was really fun because with there you got to learn how to do sewing, how to make props, how to do improvs. Yeah. It was really crazy. And each year we even hold a performance, which is what we call a chess show. So I started to participate in it, and because of this, it enlightened my passion in cosplay again. And I never stopped ever since. Great. Is RIT Rhode Island technical? Oh, no. It's actually up in Rochester. Is Rochester Institute of Technology? Ah. Yeah. I didn't know they had a cosplay club. I don't know if you know RIT or do I, and so I study there. Yeah. I actually also started cosplaying a decade ago. What? Yeah. Another funny story. I met this guy briefly who invited me to am Aresha. So since Doctor Who with the 11th Doctor had either started or was going to, I made a horrible, non-accurate 11th Doctor cosplay with no wig and went to Aresha. I was stood up by that guy, but I continued cosplaying. I went to anime Boston with my college anime club that year, and I've been going ever since. I've been recently starting to branch out from just buying stuff at thrift stores or editing stuff from thrift stores into making my own costumes, including recently a cosplay coat for waz from Common Rider Zio, which took several months to plan and longer to make. I saw that cosplay in person. You look really amazing there. Thank you. You're very welcome. Yeah. So that was a really big step forward for me. So hoping to continually increase my skills. You got this, Julia. Thanks. So what's your favorite and least favorite part of cosplaying? I'll say my most favorite is definitely on makeup, cos I like to see how surprised people are to see how I transform. And I kind of see it as an art challenge to see how many faces I can make.  And sometimes I even like do that to like sharp people like, hey, it's me. How do I look? Yeah. And the least favorite is also makeup. So I say it's a love-hate relationship, cos sometimes one of those makeup can take me around like maybe like one to two hours to put it on for the whole thing. And so that's why time management is always like something I have to keep in mind with. And when you have to kick yourself with makeup for the whole day, you get really exhausted afterwards.  And afterwards you're just like, I'm doing it again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what issues do you think the cosplay community needs to deal with? Oh, dear, there's as beautiful as cosplay can be, there is still a lot of issues going on. For example, like there's people who are like body-shaming others. Some of them would think that like, oh, you are not at the right race to cosplay a certain character.  So I feel like instead of shaming others, we should support each other, giving positive notes, kind of encourage them to keep going to do what they like. So that is definitely one issue, that is definitely one issue with the cosplay, which I've seen a lot, and which I hope people like us can keep improving on that. Yeah, definitely. Everyone should be able to cosplay what they want. That is very true. Yeah. Oh, what advice would you give to a first-time cosplayer? Star small! Sorry. So yeah, I'll say star small, don't go too ambitious as the first try. So start with, start with like maybe more simpler character, and it's totally alright to buy a costume, it's okay to sew something very simple. Just do it step-by-step, and you don't need to go like crazy make up. Yeah. Just do it little by little, and once you're comfortable with it, then you can step it up more, and be a little bit more ambitious, and you can like give yourself even more like fun challenges to like, to make it like more lively, more fun, more enjoyable. Alright, great. So actually I'd like to see some of your own cosplays, and one that you're working on as well. So we are going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we will see some of Gladys' cosplays. Welcome back to Fandom 101, my name is Julia, and today I'm talking with Gladys Leung, who's a friend and cosplayer of mine. So Gladys, we're going to discuss some of your cosplays. We actually have a few photos of them right here. Alright, so obviously, well, obviously not to my viewers, but to me and you, that's the main character, sorry, Deku from My Hero Academia. Can you tell me a bit about this costume and its process? Why do you think I actually got this t-shirt online? Oh, me! Yeah, I was like doing a quick makeup for the My Hero Academia movie, and I thought like, instead of just going as myself, why don't I just go as Deku like that? So I quickly grabbed my wig and quickly put on my contacts and tried to like figure out how to do the makeup, and it was crazy because that was actually my first time figuring out how to do makeup for freckles. Ah, I see. So it was also a fun challenge, and I think it's making it more interesting when some people actually thought I'm a high schooler. Neat! How do you do the freckles? Do you just take an eyebrow, pen, no, eye pen and poke? I contour palette and brushes, so you kind of like pat a little bit for the color and then you kind of get a darker brown to like, to have the spot there. Ah, neat! So that's how you can do kind of like a more natural version of freckles. Ah, cool. Yeah. So… Cool, so maybe we could look at the next costume? Oh, yes. Yes! That, how, I still am trying to find out how you make cheekbones that sharp. Contouring! And I am bad at contouring, so I need to improve on that. Yeah, and that's actually, I can tell you, this is definitely kick with makeup. A heavy kick with makeup because I had to also cover my eyebrows there too. Okay, which character is this? This is the, it's one of here, it's like all mites, but we call it a small mites from My Hair Academy, and that is his Halloween outfit. Oh, I didn't know he had a Halloween outfit. Oh, yes, he kind of does. He looks like a vampire. I think that's probably the idea. Yeah. And one thing is, I bought this jacket online and I asked him to get a red fabric to kind of sew the parts, and then I painted the skeleton patterns there on the shirt. So I actually get acrylic to paint it for days. Okay. For days while measuring, like where are my riffs and where are my bones going to be. Yeah. So it's pretty fun and challenging. Yeah, I just noticed the rib cage on the shirt. I painted that. Yeah. I have painted other pink costumes before, such as a coat. It didn't come out great, but it had the effect of a two-tone brown coat. I think that was great. Yeah. And I liked the washed-out background as well. I think that was taken at Hull. Okay. Hull Reservation Park. So my photographer friend, Ethel, he found a location and then he just told me, hey, let's go there and have a photo. And so we just went there and it was such a wonderful place for photography. Nice. And I was cold and freezing at the same time, but it's worth it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Excuse me. Next picture. I really like this one. Thank you. You're welcome. How did you make the part for the arm? So this one, this one I use, I need to think back first. Yes. I use a material called Warbler. Mm-hmm. So I heated it with a hot, I heated it with a heat gun. And afterwards I start like, I start like carving, not carving, but like kind of like mold it to the shape and then even like curve it a little bit. And afterwards I add gesso, gesso on top, sand it and then I color it with acrylic. And I actually got this glove on Amazon, but I can't, but I wore it and I make sure to cut it along to the wrist area so that it will make it look like a one piece. Nice. Yeah. And I think there's some other parts I also work on like the ear rings. Mm-hmm. So ear rings and, you might, ear rings and some other accessories part because I want to see if I could still add a little bit of like flare element in it. So I actually, let's see, I used, I forgot the material called again. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I used resin for the first time. Mm-hmm. And I also play, I've been like playing around with it, testing it, and then I start to apply it for this cosplay. Okay. And I say I also pretty proud of it because I also try to figure out how to, how to do scar makeup with only eyeshadows and concealer. Oh wow, I didn't know there was all eyeshadow and concealer. It is. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Maybe the next picture. Ah yes, this is one of my favorites just because of how ridiculously elaborate it is. So how did you go about planning this one? I actually bought this costume online and I have to, I had to keep telling myself when is the time, when is the latest time I have to order it. Mm-hmm. So I had to estimate when is the shipping and whether it's going to fit me or not. Mm-hmm. And also this is, I think this also pointed for everyone is that before you go to confession, always try on your costume. Yeah. Especially this one has the most complicated parts ever. Mm-hmm. So I have to like try it on like many, many times before I can figure out how to put every pieces. Yeah. And also make sure to bring a jacket. Yes, it can get cold and in the summer it can get hot. And this is taken in February last year. I see. Probably not the best time for disgusting. Yeah. Which character is this by the way? It's called Alexander from a game called Fate's Grand Order. Mm-hmm. So have you heard of Alexander the Great? I only know of him like. History. The basics of history, that kind of thing. Yeah, the game is kind of based on a history. Mm-hmm. And this is how the game interpreted a young version of Alexander the Great. Mm-hmm. So, and I pretty much really love this character. Okay. And playing as a character, so I decided to go for him. Sure. Yeah. All right. All right, if we move to the next one. Ah, yes. Oh my. I assume that the photographer had to be spark effect. Oh yes, he did. That's really cool. What's photographer did you use for this one? I call him Tony, but you can refer to him as Lassaro for talk. No, Lassaro Studios. Mm-hmm. And he's like a magician to me. He's also an awesome friend. He found a very right angle at a convention and then he added a special effect. Mm-hmm. As I exclaimed to him, how do you make me cool? Yeah. This is making me feel more confident about like eventually being able to save up for my own shoot because even though I'm not the best at posing or acting, they'd probably be able to put stuff in. And there's another thing great is that there are actually photographers that can guide you through posing. Nice. So if you're not confident enough, they can always like give you some suggestion. They can tell you like, you can move your face a little bit, both this hand, like that. So this is why I like working with my photography friends because they always gave me very good pointers. Nice. And with that, we can just improve and we somehow got this out. Cool. Yeah. All right. Next picture. Ah, yes. Oh. So this is from an anime Land of the Lustrous that I do want to try to cosplay. And the thing with that anime is the everyone has glossy, basically glass hair. Oh, yes, they do. Have you tried to make that or did you just cosplay this character because she doesn't have that kind of hair? Nope. I am not putting the sparks in there because this wig is really long. It even went over my knee. Wow. So what, as we said, is like I have a best friend who is like four feet nine. Yeah. Like as tall as my friend. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the wig that I would definitely don't want to like add anything to it. Instead, I would just probably just add a lot of like wig straightener, like detangling spray and just keep combing it. Hair straightener for maybe an hour. An hour of pain just to comb it straight. Nice. So after that, I'm not touching it. Was the wig that long originally or did you add wigs? Oh, it is that long originally. Oh, wow. And that is like the longest wig I've ever got. How do you store it, like going back and forth to cons? So what you did is you get the wig, you put like a ball of paper inside there. Afterwards, you kind of like carefully roll it down. Some people like to braid it like a pigtail. But for me, I can still roll it a little bit. And then once you've got a hair net, you just cover with it and you put it in a plastic bag. And that way you can just travel around with that. Nice. That's good. I see people who go from con to con with their wig head and the wig attached in a plastic case. Yeah, for some way. But I don't have the space. Yeah. But for some of their wigs, it is kind of mandatory because it's really going to go crazy that if you store it that way, it won't stay in the shape. So some people would actually carry with the wig hat over there. Okay. Even though the wig hat looks kind of creepy at the same time. Yeah. All right, next picture. Ah, yes. So this one, you can talk about binders. Yes, definitely. Binder always invests on a good binder. That's what I've been telling. That's what I always tell everyone is that instead of using bandages, it's best for you to invest your own binder, especially that's more fitting to your size. And make sure not to make it too tight or else it might crush your rib. And that's probably not the most ideal thing. No. I made a mistake before. I used those elastic bandages. Oh, I've heard the warnings about those. Sorry. Yeah, I did that and I went for an outdoor photo shoot during the summertime. And it was really hot and it's like crushing my ribs so much that I had to take it off in the midway. And I say, I'm done. So yeah, I definitely recommend people to like get a binder to dress if you want to cross-dress as a man or as a boy. And another thing to point out for Cosmy as a male character is, posting is also change a lot of things. Like the way I hide your pose, it can make you look more masculine. Okay. So that will actually make quite a big difference too. All right. Great. And I think you mentioned that the wig needed that pointy part attached separately. Oh, yes it does. I had to use wire and then wrap it with tape. And then I glued the wig here. We call it as the weft. The weft's on there. And then we add hot glue. Just stick it right on there and it just stays. Great. Yeah. All right. And next picture. Ah, yes. This one's also a very nice picture. Can you tell me about making this costume? I bought most of it besides the top one, besides the very top crop top. Because I wasn't satisfied with how it looks when I bought it online.  Try to look at the outfit that I got online. Try to figure out the sewing pattern and try to sew everything together. Okay. So you were editing the costume that you bought? Yeah. Okay. Because I'm still trying to improve on sewing. And there is still some parts I can and cannot do. So I decided to start like this by this sometimes. Kind of like alter it a little bit until I'm pretty much happy with it. And most of your costumes do have swords. Of course, going to conventions, those can't be real swords. Oh, it cannot. This one is actually a wood sword that I bought online. But for my cosplay, I did before with an other blonde hair one. I actually made that sword myself. Okay. So with maybe like $10, all the materials with $10 on my coast. Oh, wow. Yeah. Let's see. I used like if a foam. I think like not bamboo stick. It was like definitely a tiny wood stick paper. And I just break paint everything at the cloth. There you go. You got the sword right there. Nice. So it was really fun making props, I can say. Oh, right. Great. Don't know if there are any more photos that might be the last one. Can we check? Okay. So that is the last photo. All right. Well, thank you for talking with me today. If we want to find more of your work, where can we look? You can find more of my work on my Instagram called Sangeebongee. And it's also under the same username on Twitter. Yeah. All right. And actually, if you want to follow me, just look for henshin4pi on Twitter or on Instagram. All right. So thank you for joining us to learn more about fandom. I hope to see you next time as we continue to discuss the ins and outs of fan culture. And remember, never stop being passionate about the things you love. I'll see you next time. Thank you for watching.


3. My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today have but one purpose to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles. 4. Father, I give all that is mine today to Christ to use in any way that best will serve the purpose that I share with him. 5. Nothing is mine alone, for he and I have joined in purpose. Thus has learning come almost to its appointed end. 6. A while I work with him to serve his purpose, then I lose myself in my identity and recognize that Christ is but myself. Amen.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are joined by D. Raghunandan from the Dell Science Forum to talk about the most recent explosion of the SpaceX Starship series. This time it was the SN10 which exploded right after landing and this was the third such explosion which has happened since SpaceX has started testing its Starship series since December. So Raghunandan, thank you for joining us today. Can you first tell us about this craft itself? You know what does it do, why is it being built? Yeah, so the Starship is a spacecraft meant to be taken for interplanetary travel to the moon or to Mars for example and have enough power so that it can take off from the moon and come back to the earth or it can take off from Mars and come back to the earth. So this is just the spacecraft. It's an extremely powerful spaceship as you can imagine because it must have the power to while it's on the moon or on Mars to take off from there directly to earth. Now if you remember the moon shots with NASA's shots with Neil Armstrong and others it had an orbiting craft and a lunar module which landed on the moon took off from the moon only up to the spacecraft which then brings it back to earth. This guy, this spacecraft is designed to from the moon or from Mars directly boost and come all the way back to earth. So you can as you can imagine it's a very powerful craft but to add to this this is meant to be the spaceship but it will sit on top of a extremely powerful rocket which is also undergoing tests currently and the first prototype flight is still to take place which will actually carry this spaceship to the moon or to Mars. Once it has the spacecraft has left earth's orbit this main rocket will come back in the now by now well established SpaceX tradition of making a soft landing back on earth the typical vertical landing that we have seen which is now common across SpaceX's launches all their satellite launches near earth orbit launches are done that way so you can imagine this spaceship is by itself a big guy and it's going to sit on top of a even more powerful rocket which will be used multiple times so as you said this is the third of these craft which is being tried out there several this is serial number 10 and each of them has gone through various modifications and changes and unfortunately till now we have not yet seen a successful launch we are still to talk about the rocket itself which is not even the first prototype has been tried we since you're going to be talking about the explosion I'll cover some related aspects there right so that's what I was going to ask me asking a next can you tell us about why these explosions have been happening well why is still I can't give a definitive answer till we actually get an answer from SpaceX itself because I'm sure they are analyzing all the what happened and so on but what one can make out from the videos of the landing is this is SN10 SN8 and 9 also had a hard landing vertically when it came back it did not just smoothly land and slow down but it crashed while it landed this guy seems to have almost made a soft landing although there are some doubts on that because at the bottom of the craft are three kind of landing legs which it is supposed to land on none of the videos I've seen you can see these landing legs so maybe there's a problem in deploying those but it seems to have had also a fairly rough landing because it landed and then it tilted slightly so you can see the spaceship being slightly tilted and flames coming out at the bottom of the spaceship so it looks as if maybe the landing was a bit hard it jolted the inner components and structure of the spacecraft some fuel may have leaked from somewhere from the tanks and because of the hard landing and the fire that you see below the fuel leak must have got ignited and led to this explosion right and what we see is that the feedback or the response to these explosions until now has been that these are not necessarily a bad thing that you know this gives SpaceX an opportunity to collect data and to then improve on the technology so what do you think of this sort of response well there's two aspects to it of course rocketry is not an easy technology to master and if one goes back into the history of NASA's rockets into the Soviet launches in the early days we never got to hear about what happened with Soviet launches until much later and if you see even the Indian launches we have had a large number of failures before you finally succeed in a regularized workhorse rocket today for example SpaceX's Falcon rocket or even the Falcon heavy rocket which is now routinely goes off launches satellites or carries crew to the space station and comes back safely so that is now a well-established technology and it is it's now become a workhorse for SpaceX but this also had its teething troubles to begin with it had its teething troubles to begin with so the additional problem with SpaceX and the personality of Elon Musk if you like is that with this spaceship he has set himself extremely ambitious targets his target is to take a manned crew to the moon and back a manned craft to the moon and back by 2023 that's just three years away and imagine where we are today with not even one successful launch so with a looming deadline hardly three years away Musk is clearly pushing it while at the same time innovating in the craft now even under normal circumstances and with any other technology innovation rapid innovation large-scale innovation along with tight timelines is as you can imagine put strain on the entire system and can certainly lead to crashes and I'm sure this is one of the contributing factors to these crashes that we have seen because the team must be under pressure to deliver quickly so one of the to my mind answer to SpaceX SpaceX's troubles with these would be to elongate the time frame if you give yourself time till 25 or 2026 then I think you would see fewer crashes of this nature because after every crash you need to have sufficient time to analyze rectify and then launch with eight nine and ten that does not seem to have happened more or less the same things are happening now of course we don't know the technical details from inside the establishment from inside SpaceX and Elon Musk is notoriously tight about diverging technical details one of the reasons for which is by the way Elon Musk is also a verse to patent it he doesn't patent many of his technologies but in order to do the innovations that he does quickly and usefully he has to keep a very tight lid on the technical information so that's one reason why from outside we may not get too too many technical details of what happens inside SpaceX but as I said I feel that the tight schedule that he has given himself plus the number of innovations that he's trying out on this craft add to these problems one such innovation I'll just as an example I'll give you is he has changed the body of the spaceship and if you see the videos you'll see it glistening and glimmering in the sunlight because the craft is made out of stainless steel while normally one would have gone with carbon fiber or some such but Musk of course as you know wants to cut costs in terms of space launches and he has come to the conclusion that carbon fiber ultimately ends up costing about $200 per kilo whereas he can use stainless steel to build the rocket or the spaceship at about three to five dollars a kilo so he's pushing that as well and that may lead to some of these things because carbon fiber is more resilient and a material while stainless steel can tend to be a little rigid and hard so that's contributory factor so like I was just giving that as an example to show that you try a number of innovations while at the same time you give yourself a tight time schedule I think this is putting too much pressure on the system