my Biggest cosplay mistake (an elaborate requiem)

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Listen. There is simply no succinct way to tell this tale. Living through the rise, heyday, and eventual fall of Overwatch over the last few years changed my brain chemistry- and while I want to just tell you The Fiesta Blend Story, I also simply MUST provide context, and also explain to you the unfathomable lengths I went to crafting an interactive gamified cosplay experience for 2017 con-goers. This remains one of the coolest dang things I have EVER done, and I hope you love this unabridged novel.
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Hey! I'm Lizard Leigh! I'm a designer who turns abstract concepts into obsessively constructed cosplays. This channel is where you'll find every weird DIY cosplay build, shared with you in a detailed breakdown or build log! And when I say that, I really mean.... flying by the seat of my pants to make it work and catch that cosplay vibe lmfao.
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@heavy_yawns Год назад

The fiesta blend slowly overwhelming the background! This video is so so well made. The pacing with your editing keeps everything on screen so engaging that even my short attention span didn't think to switch tabs before it was over

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

aww thanks friend!!! getting the pacing right on this video was such a journey, also cleaning up all the blend HAHA

@TheGothicSunrise Год назад

Came to say the same thing!

@StormDatIsApproaching Год назад

this wasn't just a cosplay story, it was a love letter, essay, full on statement on fandom, growth, finding new roots and going out in the world. Hope more people find it, because this was super high production and deserves every view

@SwedishSalmonbox Год назад

Yes! My friends have at times expressed shame for their teenage obsessions, but anything than brought happiness and didnt hurt people should be cherished, even if only as a memory. I have for example a lot of great Harry Potter convention memories, and i will cherish those even if i absolutly will not support any new merch, films or games.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

thank you so much for such a meaningful comment!! I really feel like I had lofty goals for what I wanted to do with this video and it truly means the world to hear it landed, so thank you from the bottom of my heart

@sweeetjuicetv Год назад

the dread i felt when i heard “10 pounds” 😂😭 my gf bought us a 10 pound bag of polyfill for a plushie project we have planned, and we no longer have closet space 💀

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

oh my god I can IMAGINE.... a less colorful behemoth than the blend, but a behemoth nonetheless!

@ScreamTelehead Год назад

I have the same box currently sitting in my basement, waiting

@thegrimmestreaper44 Год назад

I got one of those when I was 7 and I still use it to this day. It's not even halfway gone and it's been a long time

@vinnm4516 Год назад

The first tiny hint of the fiesta blend had me cackling. This is such a wonderful look back at that brief, incredible moment where Overwatch really was doing something new and exciting, it really changed how I viewed games and I met so many cool people doing amazing things in the fandom.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

Overwatch TRULY changed the landscape, I genuinely think that the first two years of that game it belongs in hall of fame one of the best games of all time territory. Thanks for watching!!

@drownmeinthestars9545 Год назад

Fiesta blend is forever. Fiesta blend is eternal. Everything began with fiesta blend and it will end with fiesta blend. Our lives have no meaning without it, there is no purpose expect fiesta blend. Those who deny this will die in hopelessness. All is fiesta blend.

@inamelzvoice Год назад

Damn I felt that video in my BONES. After loosing fandom after fandom because of creators turning their back on us (Disney, Marvel, Sherlock, HP, WoW, Game of Throne, Pokemon, and just recently DnD to only name a few) it is very interesting to see how different type of creative mind reflect on their time in the fandom they loved once. I never cosplayed, but I've put my heart and soul for years at a time into writing complex and compelling fanfictions, dealing with deadlines I would put on my shoulders just to make my readers happy, the same way you did with all those loot boxes... and yeah, I totally understand. The mixture of pride for doing something that made you feel so accomplished, yet the irks of knowing everything that it is now linked to that (the deceptions, the betrayals...) it's a very weird blend of emotions, and you captured it perfectly in that video. So glad I found your channel with your korok cosplay, and I can't wait to see the result of what you're working on right now!

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

oh thank you so much for such a kind comment!! it's so true, I really feel like people who create their OWN works based on our fandoms have so much in common no matter what we make! it sucks being betrayed by the people who originally created the things we love, but sharing experiences with fellow fans makes it a lot better :)

@hoesstt Год назад

Another great storytime! Honestly cant get over how clean that cosplay looks (especially that blessed zipper). Having the fiesta blend buildup was just the perfect detail, though how close it got to the candle did make me a little anxious.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

ahh thank you!! yeah making those embroidery panels so they lined up perfectly was such an accomplishment- and I hear ya, hahaha I was definitely keeping it pretty strategic near the candle and letting it just explode… everywhere else

@BrigitV618 Год назад

i think my favorite thing about this video was just watching the amount of fiesta blend in the background slowly grow with every cut 😆

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I truly will need to make a short or something with behind the scenes because it was SUCHHH a process hahaha!

@jubileebeatty Год назад

@@HeyLizardLeigh YES😂

@Otomatonom Год назад

this was the cathartic memorial for Overwatch I never knew I needed, thank you

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

tbh it was wildly cathartic to make, i am SO glad to share

@theriolaizer Год назад

Tracer’s reveal as a lesbian had a really big impact on me, also being absolutely obsessed with overwatch at the time, since in 2016 I was 12 and realised like literally a month or 2 earlier that I was a lesbian myself. I feel like that reveal very much solidified why representation is important in media, and the character of tracer became a core part of me for many years after

@honeybeesloth Год назад

Oh gosh. You'll be finding that fiesta blend in that room for months/years from now... It's still hilarious to watch it grow, though.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I honestly think that I will find the last of the fiesta blend when I eventually move out LMFAO

@honeybeesloth Год назад

@@HeyLizardLeigh my condolences to your sanity as you continue to be haunted by the fiesta blend lol

@mainstaytv2929 Год назад

You could put a little baggie of fiesta blend in any send-out to your glorious kofi buyers as like in joke

@wintrygarden Год назад

the blEND ABIDES no but seriously this is such a great way to not only tell your story with this great cosplay and how it traveled with you, but also how this fandom traveled with you. the way you portrayed the space in your life that overwatch filled and what happened to that shape over time, and the game that filled it, and the critique of the game and the support and the community ... idk it's just GOOD VIDEO. you are so good at telling stories, leigh.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

;; thank you for such a kind comment friend!!! I appreciate you!!!

@stagpie6449 9 месяцев назад

I didn't realise how deeply this story affected me until I found myself furiously writing and wax-sealing letters to hand to people in my Violet Evergarden cosplay for MCM London next May. Thankfully her outfit includes a little leather suitcase so I'll have enough room for them 😅

@Foxalicat Год назад

They did my boy Zenyatta so dirty. I still want to cosplay Zen even after kinda falling out of the fandom.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

tbQh Zen was the only one I felt genuinely devastated I'd accidentally forgotten when I tried to name all the heroes haha- and I feel that, I still almost bought Zarya merch at literally magfest just a few weeks ago! the love never dies!

@fikanera838 Год назад

Fiesta blend reminds me of a set of costumes I decorated with marabou feathers. Literally ten years later they were still peeking out under the skirting boards. Great story & fab costume! 🩷💛🩵

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

Oh my gosh I can IMAGINE.......... and thank you!!

@viciousfrockery Год назад

this video was a work of art and i will never not be jumpscared by the absolute poundage of fiesta blend. ive never once committed the poundage to memory. you could ask me tomorrow and i still wouldn't know. as far as i know it's infinite and that my friend is a-okay

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

when I saw that box in the staples it may as well have been infinite....... I still can't believe they just THREW IT IN A DISINTEGRATING BOX with no other bounds of containment...

@EmissaryofWind Год назад

I once purchased 10 pounds of candy necklaces and they were actually not that much more expensive than your fiesta blend, certainly less expensive than the 2022 price. I ate all of them too, my dentist was not happy with me

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

Bulk listings are a danger!! I love that though!

@reizak8966 Год назад

I'm in love with the original Zarya. What they did to her character is a travesty. Like Rise of Skywalker, GoT season 8, and Drakengard 2, I will pretend that Overwatch 2 doesn't exist.

@lexwhy554 Год назад

I met you 43 minutes ago and I have made three fiesta blend jokes ever since and I'm afraid it's not gonna stop anytime soon

@Spiritleaf 8 месяцев назад

The gradual growth of the fiesta blend killed me.

@carolinepoirier8243 Год назад

I feel this so so deeply. Overwatch was a fandom of so many good memories, and to just watch it slowly deteriorate for all these years has been awful. Thank you for articulating my exact feelings and making this incredible love letter

@GinnyDi Год назад

This is an EXCELLENT video essay, 10/10, would fiesta blend again

@pavarottiaardvark3431 Год назад

The "personal journey and cosplay" combination format is really good.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I’m hoping to make lots more of em!! thanks for watching!

@NamiSparrow Год назад

This video is PERFECTION. And for those who doubt the persistence of the fiesta blend, I found some in my home in the year of our lord 2022. I have no doubt I’ll find more this year 😂😂😂 also i was fully cackling over you telling this story. Iconic. Amazing. I am so glad the world knows of your 10 lbs of crinkle cut paper sins. Overwatch is dead and I mourn her deeply, but Fiesta Blend Is Eternal. The “dead to me” random list increases but the friendships, love, and memories are eternal ❤ And I’m assuming you’re still cleaning fiesta blend from your set now ahahhahahah

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

Righttt like I love looking back and thinking of all the relationships that've lasted years and years beyond my love of a show or game!! and I am SO VERY GLAD that the fiesta blend lives on across so many locations HAHA 💜💜💜

@empressstars6158 Год назад

Your commitment to the bit (and the cleanup!) is certainly worth a like! I experienced a similar scenario when buying fiber fill for plushies, so I definitely know how it goes.

@faitparchristine Год назад

The background slowly changing is *chef's kiss 😗👌

@tooblue127 Год назад

I really love your editing style! And how in a cut suddenly the blend of the paper was all behind you was great, but like I can not stop staring at the candle with the open flame. My anxiety is rising.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

thank you!! and HAHA felt, to be honest I have.... so much experience with the structural integrity of fiesta blend, it was deployed VERY sensibly around the jar candle so there was no risk of catastrophe

@Orthus100 Год назад

2017 Blizzcon was a good year. Too bad I never ran into you, I love little odds and ends like those loot boxes.

@Leopardfoot01 Год назад

This is a cinematic masterpiece

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

thank u :')

@mx.yesterday3443 Год назад

I think the fiesta blends will outlives all.

@KadeKuro 11 месяцев назад

you could definitely convert the fiesta blend to recycled paper to doodle on

@TemTelevision Год назад

The fiesta blend slowly encroaching on the background was quite literally terrifying

@princemarcreative Год назад

Thank you for touching on the multiple blizzard controversies, I honestly pushed off watching this video because i was worried it was going to be all sunshine and roses about blizzard. I REALLY LOVED your message in this video, because I also had such a great time with overwatch in 2017. Hell, the cowboy character was my comfort character, so all of that news broke me ya know. anyway, thank you for the great video.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

absoLUTEly!! I get that, it's so hard to revisit things you once loved when you don't any more, especially if you're not sure if the person talking about it is on the same page. the cowboy character was so so so good, and that news was so rough....

@melodyofamaya5418 9 месяцев назад

1. You are amazing 2. I love the game idea and interactive part of your cosplay 3. OMG on the Fiesta paper 4. I LOVE how you keep adding the paper all over your office. LOL Blessed Be ♥

@merrymarigoldgold Год назад

i'm glad that the convention side of this story ended up going well! i never got into overwatch personally, but i feel for all the fans who felt let down as the years went on. also wow that's a lot of fiesta blend LOL

@annabellagaleski1449 Год назад

I clicked for fiesta blend. What I got was such a well put and succinct mirror of my own feelings and grief for the game that defined so much of my teen years. I cried while watching this video and I think you discussed really well how the changes to the game just left it feeling vacuous, and how a game that was once so full of life and lore just became a hollow shell of what it once was. I also now want to make my own Ozymandias of a cosplay, I've always wanted to but now I'm wanting to even more, and am actually planning one now. Amazing video, very well put. I also loved the background gag of more and more fiesta blend, it got a good laugh out of me even when I was tearing up. Thank you for making this video :)

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

the fiesta blend draws you in and then never lets you go :) but seriously, thank you so much for such a thoughtful and kind comment!!!!!!!!!!! i'm SO glad this video connected with you, that was truly my goal because I know so many people had similar experiences with this game. I truly hope you end up making something great, and sorry my comment responses are so late!! 💜

@lelalu101 Год назад

FIESTA BLEND TIME! 10 seconds in and OMG I CAN"T WAIT FOR THE BEAUTIFUL RETELLING

@yubyubcommander Год назад

As a longtime WoW player, the Blizzard shade is so perfect 😂😭

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

yuppp! it’s really so deserved haha, can’t talk about the positive memories without some dunking

@abbyroy8430 Год назад

You are a legend. Your filmmaking and storytelling abilities are incredible. 😭 And I can’t WAIT for the workroom video 😍

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I'm excited for it!! It'll definitely be a few weeks since I need to finish a whole other cosplay first, but it's been a long time coming and I'm hype!

@GoblinGhouls Год назад

It's kinda a relief to know there's at least one other non-binary person out there who was figuring out their gender identity while looking at Zarya and thinking, "idk which I want more: to marry you or be just like you!" I was also really disappointed by her redesign.

@screamingintotheabyss8458 Год назад

Ok…a way to use the rest of the fiesta blend….Fiesta blend. Themed. Cosplay. 🤔 haha Loved seeing it slowly take over the background. And, as others have said, what a great eulogy to such an important time in your life. Really enjoyed this video. 🙂

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I have TRULY been considering a fiesta blend themed look, I think the possibilities are endless LOL. thanks for watching!!

@MusyVideos Год назад

Blizzard’s treatment of BlitzChung was the ending of my love for them and for WoW, a game and community I’d been deep into for years. I mean, much like described here I’d been losing touch with the game as it was treading water a lot in 2019, but I figured something would change to bring me back in. But then it really crystallised that they did not care about even people who had put the most time and emotion into their communities, and the only thing I could do in response was cancel my sub. And then I never opened Battlenet again (2020 killed my love of gaming in the end, it was much harder to enjoy being inside on the computer when it was suddenly all I could do). I still have a deep affection for my memories of Azeroth, but my story and my time within it is over.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I feel this!! It's hard to leave behind all that time in such a great community, even if you know that time is over... And it really is such a shame seeing Blizzard turn into such a bad guy in the industry :C very here to treasure the memories though!

@thorunns.craftstudio 4 месяца назад

I love the increased fiesta blend as the video progressed. Tho I will say how close it got to the candle made me nervous...but still hilarious 😂

@magnoliaalchemist Год назад

This is such a good video! I was never into Overwatch but the MCU was my life so listening to your experiences was pretty relatable lol. I absolutely love the way you edit your videos and the concepts and designs you come up with for your cosplays are so inspirational!

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

Oh my gosh I sure could make a whole other video like this about the mcu man, talk about another beloved universe that I just... have very mixed feelings on now!! and thank you so much, I'm glad to have you here watching! :D

@AshLG Год назад

Me: hahahaha who would let a bag of scraps overwhelm their entire life The bin of miniscule fabric scraps in my workroom: 8DDD

@crazydo1phin11 Год назад

great video! i hope the clearup for all that fiesta blend went well because it makes me slightly insane to look at and think about pulling bits of fiesta blend out of that thread pegboard

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

thank you!! man I cleaned it up right away but still ended up finding little bits for weeks after LOL

@lbon5479 4 месяца назад

Oh noooo. Dollar Tree has so many of those crinkle confettis in different colors for cheap. If you have friends with rodent pets, they might be able to use some of that extra ~fiesta blend~ for enrichment or digging toys.

@aDoylible Год назад

So I've watched this video twice now, once as I was editing and then I had Allen watch it with me. We were both were big Overwatch fans and so this hit home in many ways. Although Allen did say if we left NYC in April without a cup of Fiesita Blend then it was all for naught. xD You're killing it, Lizard.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I'm catching up on youtube comments and just want to formally note that we WILL make this happen HAHA

@ladykitzcosplay 5 месяцев назад

HEYYY I'm the DVA standing next to you in the group shoot! :D I received one of your fiesta blend loot boxes at DragonCon that year. This was a trip down memory lane learning about the history of the boxes. That Overwatch meet up at DragonCon an absolute blast - meet ups are not like they were back then. So much fun! I still have my Overwatch at Dragoncon shirt.:)

@pagodrink Год назад

this story was a wild ride from start to finish, thank you for sharing

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

thank YOU for watching the absolute rollercoaster

@dalefreund 2 месяца назад

When I heard ten pounds I froze for a second and just stared at my phone (I put your videos on in the background when I crochet

@akanamilas Месяц назад

god i havent interacted w overwatch in like years now and i did not expect to feel like Grief seeing old overwatch, NEVER DID I THINK I WOULD MISS VOLSKAYA GOD

@jubileebeatty Год назад

FIESTA BLEND EVERYWHERE!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉

@saradeemon Год назад

This was so cute and made me see the light in what has turned so dark. Thanks! 🖤

@jubileebeatty Год назад

I never played Overwatch and I’m not very big on video games at all but I do love cosplay and creating things. You are such a fun person and I absolutely LOVE your content. Can’t wait to see more :) also thank you for making me smile and giggle over the fiesta blend. I needed that 😂

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

thanks so much for watching!!

@taylorblanchett7528 Год назад

I really want blizzard to see this video tbh, I had a very similar overwatch experience to you and I want them to know the love they lost

@susancharlton8598 5 месяцев назад

I know I'm late to the party, but I love this video so much. I feel it on a personal level too. One year for AKon in Dallas, a group of friends and I invented an entire anime and cosplayed characters from it. It was so much time and effort, just because I wanted to see how many people would claim they had heard of it and they thought my costume looked familiar (4 of them). I think our attachment to memories like this are in part linked to how much effort we put in. And how much fiesta blend still haunts our lives.

@fikanera838 Год назад

I've done some similar things, & also feel the need to take responsibility for my errors in judgement! I can't afford to support you financially right now, but love rewatching all your videos, so hope that helps.

@HeyLizardLeigh 11 месяцев назад

that's a-okay!! and thank you for watching! :D

@jenniferredd1430 10 месяцев назад

I am so much like you on how much I loved Overwatch, rest in peace Mercy. I hate how they killed it, OW was my first real videogame, started playing in 2015, stopped 2 days after they forced us over to OW2.

@charlotteroberts 6 месяцев назад

I keep coming back to this video and decided to have a think why... it's just so comforting. Truly like a friend (who's fab at telling stories) recounting this tale in the most captivating way for my silly little brain. So much so I've added this to my "Eventime" (sleepy/relaxy/comfy) playlist. This is high, high praise, Lizard. Well bloody done! Also.. all Hail Fiesta Blend

@toughtink Год назад

this video was a lovely summation of the full overwatch saga as well as capturing some of my favorite parts of pre-covid cosplay: the interaction! it's not that it's not still there, but i do feel like that element of cosplay's gone down since then. also, glad to see another person who wasn't really a fps person until overwatch who also kinda dropped it after they instituted the role selection. i miss the early days of it where you'd end up with a full team of torbjorns or all reapers and one lucio! it was fun and silly!! the roles made everything more Serious and Competitive which i was specifically avoiding by never doing their actual official competitive mode. i'm just a silly little guy here to have a silly little time. :(

@quinzequinze 4 месяца назад

Oh my god. I used to live in a town in France that had a prelenten Carnival celebration that involved a confetti fight in the town square. They used recycled paper confetti and by the end of the day you would be up to your hips in the stuff. It took years for me to stop finding bits of it around. Now I live in New Orleans and I have the issue that I will always have at least a little glitter on me no matter what I do. So in some ways I feel you 😂 All hail the fiesta blend!

@lavendermenace8078 10 месяцев назад

18:52 omg yuri on ice is still my favourite cozy anime. I rewatch it every winter. Seeing that you have a original sketch of victor is killing me that’s so fucking cool💍🐶🐯🍛⛸🥇❄️🏳️‍🌈

@niccyknickers Год назад

this was such a lovely and wholesome story!!! thank you for sharing it with us. th video was fantastic, as well as the EPIC COSPLAY!!

@Mandrake_root 11 месяцев назад

It's so funny listening to this video in the background because every time I look at the screen there's so much more fiesta blend

@werelemur1138 Год назад

The last shot was like a horror movie. This is how humanity ends: devoured by an encroaching pile of pansexual-colored crinkle paper.

@laceinari9609 9 месяцев назад

WHEN YOU SAID 10lbs i about died this is so funny lol. i love your storys your amazing!

@four1629 2 месяца назад

22:50 LMAO it took me until this moment to notice that you had been slowly adding more of the paper everywhere. i haven't heard the rest of the story yet but this is so funny

@sweetnayru Год назад

you are great at storytelling, loved watching this even though i never got into overwatch! XD

@kawaiierness Год назад

Thank you for this awesome content 💕

@hakichan94 Год назад

Really enjoyed the video. I’m not into shooters so I didn’t know the original Overwatch was dead, that’s a shame. Also, you have my admiration to the devotion to the fiesta blend. I don’t think it’s on the same level as glitter, but you’ll definitely be finding bits and pieces around after this video.

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

Literally just last night I was jumpscared by some on the shelf, it's truly here forever!! thanks for watching!

@PandaMuki 7 месяцев назад

This is what makes the cosplay community so amazing, people like you who spend so much time and effort to create a great experience for people in the fandom you love ❤ This was so heartwarming (and a little sad, rip Overwatch)

@delanocarson7544 Год назад

The bit of the fiesta mix slowly just covering everything was so funny. Bless

@a_viewer5386 Год назад

this is defintally gonna be one of the videos I listen to in the background while I draw the way you tell the story too is really fun

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

this means so much to me, thanks for watching! :)

@jessdriscoll 19 дней назад

I was waiting for fiesta blend to peek out from under your shirt collar, so thank you for satisfying that yen.

@AlleyDreamer 10 месяцев назад

This was such a cool story omg

@lilacangelblue2404 7 дней назад

The clair de lune with the Fiesta blend was bizarrely beautiful to me 😢

@Luboffin Год назад

This was an absolute delight to watch. I know nothing about Overwatch but was riveted the entire time. Bravo!

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

I'm SO glad!!! I really wanted to make sure that the video would still be fun to watch even for people that never got into the game back then! :D

@PocketLeaves Год назад

I absolutely LOVE the way of story telling in this video! And the way your cosplay story also tied into essentially a deep dive into Overwatch was really neat!

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

thank you!! it definitely made this video a bit of a behemoth to edit haha, but I'm so happy with how it turned out!

@OPFreak34 Год назад

The fiesta blend just feels like the cute anime version of an Eldritch horror, just creeping into your home! Really cool video! Theres always something sad about an era of video games just ending, but also always great to hear about the experiences it brought to people

@NicoleHelenaCates Месяц назад

I am also in the camp of "flared pants are back in style so what do I know." I recently discovered your channel and I'm having a great time binging your channel

@tesshissa Месяц назад

okay but that candle makin' me real nervous next to that fiesta blend tower

@roseallai 10 месяцев назад

Hey so I just found your channel and I’m amazed at the quality of the content. Please keep it up Also you’re giving me the good energy to finish my projects lmao

@fikanera838 2 месяца назад

I love your storytelling so much. I think I watched this video about four times! 🎊

@luminitephoenix7394 Год назад

I started playing when the switch first came out. I loved the game and still do just, it’s not the same as it was and I miss the old charm. Loot box’s were my favorite thing that they chose to take away

@Tati1701 7 месяцев назад

This was just _so_ good to watch! I had my own trip down memory lane with bulk orders that followed us for so many years 🥲 Many said it here, but the video was just amazing. Love the commitment! The editing! The intertwined story! The pace! Well done 🎉❤ One of the best finds on yt ❤

@redpandadotjpeg2640 6 дней назад

Man all this really warms my heart Giving me a lot of motivation todo a cosplay of characters I’m attached to

@WarpStar95 Год назад

I was also so obsessed with OW in 2016 and had such a fun time doing cosplays and playing the game with friends so this was such a fun relatable topic! People who give little things away at cons are always make my day, 750 boxes was pure dedication! The fiesta blend slowly taking over had me giggling ♥

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

It was truly a PERFECT con experience building so many things to give away to people, the joy was truly mutual!! I'd love to make something like this again but we'll see if that ends up happening!

@mariel1533 Год назад

Your loot box cosplay is such a fun idea! I love it when people have some kind of interaction with their cosplays. It can really make people's day at a convention

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

It was truly SO wholesome to just spread joy and bring good things to people's day, 100/10 con day experience

@_amyplify 14 дней назад

Me, a handmade paper enthusiast - omg the paper that repulped fiesta blend would make 🤤

@quixoticraven4242 Год назад

This is a great video! I’m sorry that Overwatch got… well. But I’m so glad that you have those great experiences to look back at, not to mention it makes for a great story! Especially the fiesta blend. XD I did something similar when I started in crochet. So, it’s usually suggested to beginners to use bulky yarn, so I found me a website I liked and bought all the hooks and stuff and a ton of bulky yarn. When the box gets here, it’s huge! Not as big as your huge box, but I think it came up to my waist. I had no idea what it was but when I opened it the box was stuffed with huge skeins of huge yarn! I didn’t manage to use it all but it made a nice granny square blanket that I gave to my mom. I ended up donating the rest 😅

@anniebell6846 Год назад

Your stories are awesome ❤

@anniebell6846 Год назад

Also I now want to knit myself a dove costume so thank you for being the inanimate object cosplayer it’s cool

@PinkChaDesigns Год назад

Great story and storytelling

@GaraksApprentice Год назад

The fiesta blend saga is incredibly relatable and exactly the kind of epic mistake I would have made. Though in my case it’s one likely to be giant-ass cones of oddly coloured weaving yarn thinner than sewing thread 😅

@hirotan10 Год назад

I'm getting nervous watching the fiesta blend slowly getting closer and closer to the candle

@ace.of.space. 8 месяцев назад

wow i have never felt so seen in terms of my experience with overwatch... i too had never played FPS games and really enjoyed it for a period of time and lost interest around the same time for similar reasons. what a journey you have been through with fiesta blend.

@equiz9235 9 месяцев назад

Hi hi hi this video is so good and the amount of fiesta blend is truly magically, just like an experience with fandom. It's been a while since the vid came out but i am sure you still have the stuff so an idea for what you could do with (some) of it is making paper? those colours would look sick as paper if the dye stayed intact :^D

@MakerFishmeal Год назад

This video is a masterpiece 💚

@samanthamoreno8653 Год назад

I know literally next to nothing about Overwatch but this video was so entertaining! I loved learning about your process and all the thought you put into that cosplay! I understand being completely obsessed with something so this video definitely hit home for me. Also, how long did it take you to clean up the fiesta blend lol 😂

@HeyLizardLeigh Год назад

this makes me so so glad!! I definitely wanted to have enough info so that it’d still be fun to watch for people who hadn’t played. and oh man, I tried to clean it up right away, but I am STILL finding blend places LOL