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# Statistics
Favourites: 18; Deviations: 57; Watchers: 30
Watching: 39; Pageviews: 10832; Comments Made: 121; Friends: 39
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Endou OkitoFavorite TV shows: BBC Sherlock, Downtown Abbey, Nature
Favorite bands / musical artists: ZUN
Favorite books: The Years of Rice and Salt, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, His Dark Materials
Favorite games: Outside: the free-to-play MMO
Tools of the Trade: Singer Featherweight, Panasonic Lumix, exacto knife, block plane, cardstock, rasp, scissors
Other Interests: 日本語学習
# About me
I'm shy and bad at self-promotion. I like historical/supernatural anime and manga, morally dubious characters, Japanese mythology, and intricate art styles. I also like making hats. Hats are fabulous.I was introduced to cosplay and anime by my sister aecr in 2004; she has since left the hobby, but I'm still here working on leveling up my craftsmanship!
I'm working on a BA in East Asian Studies, with a particular interest in Shinto. Outside of academia and cosplay, my hobbies include gardening, reading, bicycling, figure collecting, and exploring wild places.
Chilmark is the name of my hometown in Massachusetts. A gryphon is a mythical beast with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion. It's been my screen name since 2001, I can't seem to pick a new one...
# Comments
Comments: 22
chilmarkgryphon In reply to PaXingCai [2013-11-16 18:38:34 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome! I frequently see you on the Touhou Cosplay group and your costumes always look great~
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PaXingCai In reply to chilmarkgryphon [2013-11-17 15:35:25 +0000 UTC]
Aww thank you :333 I really really really love making Touhou costumes!
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iKYm2 [2013-08-13 04:06:40 +0000 UTC]
Nice meeting a fellow Horizon fan at Ota!! :3 (I was the Horizon cosplayer LOL)
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chilmarkgryphon In reply to iKYm2 [2013-08-13 13:47:38 +0000 UTC]
Oh hai I added you on Facebook
Busy this week, but I'll try to send your photo along over the weekend~
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iKYm2 In reply to chilmarkgryphon [2013-08-14 16:06:50 +0000 UTC]
Nice!! Thanks, I look forward to it
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chilmarkgryphon In reply to Stealthos-Aurion [2013-04-24 23:23:05 +0000 UTC]
Sorry I failed to do so earlier, I am bad at using DA I love your costumes and tutorials.
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Stealthos-Aurion In reply to chilmarkgryphon [2013-04-24 23:59:28 +0000 UTC]
Heh, not to worry, real life has to come first in all situations.
I also know my DA account has some random things that kind of scare people off so it really never bothered me if people don't counter-watch.
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xIGetUm [2012-06-19 14:37:09 +0000 UTC]
Forgive me for the late reply, but I would like to thank you for joining our group! I really appreciate it! ^^
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chilmarkgryphon In reply to louixa [2012-05-23 01:17:41 +0000 UTC]
SHHHHHHHHHHH! We do not use that name on the internet.
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Fiendish-Thingie [2012-02-26 22:38:15 +0000 UTC]
Did you ever finish the costume that you made the paperclay ears for?
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chilmarkgryphon In reply to Fiendish-Thingie [2012-02-27 17:50:27 +0000 UTC]
Nope :/ They were supposed to be for Demon!Chrono from Chrono Crusade, but that project got canned after I tried on the neck armor and wig together, and discovered that I looked comically skinny and huge-headed in them. ALAS.
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Fiendish-Thingie In reply to chilmarkgryphon [2012-02-27 18:10:46 +0000 UTC]
d'aww. Could you at all still share how you got the paperclay to stick to your ears? o.o I had no luck.
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chilmarkgryphon In reply to Fiendish-Thingie [2012-02-28 05:06:52 +0000 UTC]
The finished ears were never stuck on with anything, they were just sculpted to wrap around the base of my pinnae securely. My ears might just be a weird shape o__o Maybe add a thin wire headband over the top to support the weight, if that's what makes them fall off?
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Fiendish-Thingie In reply to chilmarkgryphon [2012-02-28 13:17:49 +0000 UTC]
no, I mean while you're sculpting the clay. But I think I know what you mean now. The first time I read it I didn't get all the way to the headband part. I am a fan of not having to have a headband. So now I'm just using a molded cast and model of my ears, using sculpey to make the long pointy part, and then re-molding a cast of those and using liquid latex since I fortunately am not allergic. Woo re-planning things XD
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