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Welcome to Sanctuary: a Cosplayer haven where you - the person doing it yourself - can listen in to hear about the perspective of cosplayers, their struggles, their concerns, their stories...and it's open to you, both to listen and or to join in! It's not just Cosplay how-to or talking up the latest Marvel Movie, it's discussion about what you do and where Cosplay fits into your life.We get into current issues Cosplayers face, and offer to help bring your cosplay to life with tips and tricks in the world of social media and self-branding.There's a ton to talk about beyond pop-culture and what celebrities are doing - the major driver for Cons and the industry at large is YOU - the SuperFan and the Cosplayer!

Location:

United States

Description:

Welcome to Sanctuary: a Cosplayer haven where you - the person doing it yourself - can listen in to hear about the perspective of cosplayers, their struggles, their concerns, their stories...and it's open to you, both to listen and or to join in! It's not just Cosplay how-to or talking up the latest Marvel Movie, it's discussion about what you do and where Cosplay fits into your life.We get into current issues Cosplayers face, and offer to help bring your cosplay to life with tips and tricks in the world of social media and self-branding.There's a ton to talk about beyond pop-culture and what celebrities are doing - the major driver for Cons and the industry at large is YOU - the SuperFan and the Cosplayer!

Language:

English

Contact:

262-475-8161


Episodes

Gem Beauty Makeup

12/23/2023
A distinct style, and a wonder to the industry, we're talking with Gem Beauty in this special Christmas Episode! Gem came prepared and shares some of her insights into makeup as a professional effects and makeup artist. Her creations are one of a kind, and we get into a lot of tips, tricks, and her insight into creating a look for any Cosplay. You'll learn about her process, the steps she takes, and her positive approach to just using what you have, where you are, and getting started. With over a dozen years of experience, Gem knows that everyone starts at zero, and that you can't compare yourself to everyone else out there creating content. We're all at a different level and moving at a different pace. Watch today, and be sure to find Gem online and LIVE - she's very active on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gembeauty_mkp/ Follow her on Twitch & join her Discord https://m.twitch.tv/gembeauty_studio/home https://discord.com/invite/qcCCmJVgZh Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:01:02:19

Balance the Darkside

12/22/2023
Cosplay has its dark side - believe me. And if you don't, then in today's episode, you can hear it from Anthony Cosjitsu, as he returns to chat with me all about the depths that some go to inside of the community. Cosplay is and should be a positive space, but we know that with anything there can excess, anxiety, competition, cancel culture, and poor behavior. We talk through the ups and downs that we have experienced ourselves and the best approach to navigating the sometimes murky characters you can encounter. Don't get us wrong - it's a small percentage of everyone out in the space, but it never hurts to be careful and look out for yourselves - and each other! Make sure to follow and support Anthony online!! https://linktr.ee/anthonycosjitsu Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:43:49

Take These Steps - Season Finale

12/6/2023
There are steps you can take in Cosplay, or anywhere. I'll take the time in this season ending episode (at least, standard episodes coming out regularly), to tell you what my process is. - Decide on the thing in one of the areas you’re working to fix, my 5 are Environment, Physical and Mental well-being, Finance, and Relationships. - Write down the thin you want changed most and just write about it – what frustrates you, what do you believe you’ll get when you’re done chasing the thing – what do you have to gain or want from making an effort - Make a goal – crazy or not and break it down - Then…look at what really needs to go into it to get results and break it down Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:16:09

FOCUS is a cliché, but it does work.

12/5/2023
Follow One Course Until Success. Stay the course – small corrections as you learn, but you do learn, and you can see results – giving up is the only issue – but if you agreed to the ‘what is it going to take’ part, then you’re in charge of when you quit. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:09:21

Doing Hard S**t

12/4/2023
The hard things we do – belief, consistency, skill building, failing, improving, and having a very solid goal will always pay off in some way. Difficulties do not need to be avoided in order to have a happy Cosplay life. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:08:47

Advice on What People Pay You For

11/29/2023
Selling yourself as the product to a fan is unsustainable and only works short term – you create more anti-fans in the process – focus on what’s sustainable – keep your distance if this is what you want. It doesn’t scale like a product or service would – make the thing – video series, book, mass produce patterns, entertain, but don’t sell friendship. Find the product or value-add service that you can provide to your audience. There are many inside of cosplay. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:12:12

Personality is an Easy Sell

11/28/2023
Just because you exist, doesn’t mean anyone owes you and it really isn’t a good reason to pay you – skills, knowledge, experience, expertise – sell that and use your personality to sell it. Chose ethical money making – coning people, pandering to likes, feigning interest and leaning into obsession – all dangerous. There is inside the community a slippery slope. Make sure you want to jump in to this when you do, and understand what it will lead to. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:07:49

Becoming What You Hate

11/27/2023
Remember, you started this because you wanted to be with the people, not high above them – celebrities never interact, and when they do we go crazy – but this isn’t how it should be for us in Cosplay – we’re not Hollywood Actors... Non-response, never interacting – it’s not social – if it’s just to talk about the next thing you’re doing and you ignore your best people because you’re always busy chasing more new people – see what you’ve become, know it's not the right course to take. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:07:51

Avoid the Main Cosplay Traps

11/22/2023
There are a few Cosplay traps that we haven't talked about yet - more to do with cosplayers supporting cosplayers or those outside of the community who think they're doing the right thing by over-extending themselves to buy other people Cosplays. Do not become a “Fan” and carry a torch – have friends, collabs, but do not de-value yourself into having someone be above you because they can model, or act, or are designers. There are many skills – you need to put yourself first in your own life and believe you have value – being a fan and interacting as a fan will devalue you. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:11:32

Do Not Set Traps

11/21/2023
Do not go to Cons just to con people. Do not hustle to see what you can get for free. Diminishing the community, your value, and only seeing others for what they make and how many followers they have reduces you. Avoid being the gatekeeper, or the cosplayer that bait and switches everyone for some personal issue that isn't being addressed within yourself. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:09:30

How Cosplay Traps You

11/20/2023
The fame monster is real and cosplayers chase it. Eventually it traps you and you're just as stuck in your online world and it's customer service as you were when you were answering the phones at work and getting yelled at by customers. You begin to feel trapped. Staying relevant, getting validated, feeling the good and bad of it – dopamine either way and that rush is what got you into your scroll hole, your outreach loop, your constantly being attached to your phone. We crave attention, we want to be social, we want companionship – but Cosplay isn’t that. Cosplay is expression, not a means for which to gain attention. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:06:31

Authentically Fake

11/15/2023
Avoid the authentically fake influencer, cosplayer, or person. Also, don't become this person. Selling and promoting the "fake" life on Instagram just leads to so many issues with yourself, with your following, and eventually - unless you have a PR department - it comes back to find you. You can't sustain a "fake" persona unless it's all you do and that is your life. Being a persona or a public figure who shares nothing of themselves online might be what you want to be or do, and that's your choice - but know the truth of it. Know the dangers of warping what authentic really is, and yes - you'll gain and gain and grow, but will you ever achieve the fulfilment you were looking for when you do go down this road? Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:11:30

Cosplay at Face Value

11/14/2023
Do you have Con Friends? The people that only talk to you because you go to conventions and might see them there with their other friends? They might talk to you online, but ONLY about cosplay and they seem like they'd not even bother with you if you weren't gaining followers week by week? Maybe they just want to use your platform to gain more Insta-fame or for some other made up 'clout' metric. Who knows? But we do need to talk about Cosplay at face value and when to support the full idea instead of the misinformed version of an idea or problem online in the community. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:10:05

Everything in Cosplay is based in Fiction

11/13/2023
We’re only showing so much of ourselves, and that self is based in fiction – graphics, effects, quotes – it’s all made up so that you like it. Going overboard with "fake" – beyond makeup into alteration for validation and so much lack of authenticity in just being what you THINK you have to be in order to gain attention. You use terms like 'higher self' to describe what you do in order to 'fit in' to the online world, but in doing so, you can lose your audience, your friends, your sense of self, just to gain likes and follows. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:09:46

Consequences of Keeping Your Job

11/8/2023
Is there a downside to keeping your regular job when you gain some ground in the cosplay community? The short answer is yes, but there's just so much pressure to be in the space and be "the best" or rub elbows with celebrities, or get the best deals as an influencer with name brands. Whatever put that into your head, let's try and unpack it and have it make a little more sense for the casual cosplayer. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:13:22

It's OK to Have a Job AND Cosplay

11/7/2023
Cosplay doesn’t need to be your full time thing – you don’t need to run a business small or otherwise - you can just enjoy being a cosplayer. Despite the online world and the pressure it places on you to make money as a cosplayer and an influencer, take a step back and think about how Cosplay can be fulfilling without being your full-time all-in career. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:08:55

Cosplayers and The 9 to 5

11/6/2023
Being independent can make you really dependent. Everyone idealizes the "ditch the 9 to 5" without really telling you how hard things are to replace when you do. For someone starting out, it might be a little easier, but for all cosplayers - listen in before you decide that jumping out of the corporate life and into entrepreneurial dress up adventures, consider what doing part time can mean for your overall stability. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:08:20

Just Do Cosplay Less

11/1/2023
There’s a difference between laziness and doing less – create space for creative ideas and projects. When you're just rushing and freaking out to get more content up to produce more reactions, you're not in a very creative space. Pick your battles and focus your time – relax and do. It's not a race, and it's certainly not a rush. Never feel like you HAVE to cosplay – especially if it’s just a hobby – you don’t have to market yourself. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:12:51

The Productivity Trap

10/31/2023
Time is your most precious resource – don’t waste it just to increase metrics. Being productive is great, but is it always necessary and what good is always checking off boxes if the boxes being checked don't move you towards anything. You just keep treading water in the Cosplay world. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:13:51

Do Less More Often, Cosplayer

10/30/2023
Just keeping busy isn’t the answer. Constant scrolling, fear of sitting still, fear of being passed up or passed by or just...in the past - obsolete seems to wear on us as adult cosplayers. You can actually do a lot less and receive far greater gains and productivity out of what you do. The problem is that when you constantly push and grind, you're doing it from a weak mindset, and one which doesn't allow you to push into creativity - very much necessary for Cosplay. All this week, I'm talking about doing less and getting more out of it. Shift the mindset. Find us online: https://www.heroesofcosplaysanctuary.com/ Find the Sanctuary on Social: With Co-Host @astravoidcosplay Follow Her On Instagram & Join Her TikTok Community! https://linktr.ee/AstraVoidCosplay​​​... Like, Comment, and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZst...... Of course you can share the video and follow us Online: Instagram: @heroesofcosplaysanctuary Twitter: @hocspodcast

Duration:00:09:52