Hello and thank you all so much for being here! 2024 was such a crazy year and definitely was a learning lesson of how I want to run my content for this next year! Here are some updates for 2025 on what is changing:
Themes:
The themes for this year will remain somewhat of the same! Each month there will be 1 theme that the cosplays, content and tattoos will follow. However I will not be including subscriptions anymore. This is due to the lack of interest of these offers!
Themed posts:
We are changing up the format of posting! For our monthly themes, instead of posting one cosplay each week, we will be posting throughout the entire month with 3-5 cosplays! So no more "week 1" or "week 2" posts!!
Subscriptions:
For 2025, subscriptions will be suspended until further notice! They may come back within time, however the demand for them are nonexistent and therefore, will be removed unless requested!
Shop:
The LarpLikeRae Shop will still be available throughout the year! Themed merchandise will be available occasionally, but not monthly like before. When there is themed merchandise, there will be emails going out to all subscribers to share the deals and discounts of merchandise.
Tattoos:
Tattooing for 2025 will remain the same!
Scheduling:
Booking, consultations and deposits will all remain the same! To talk directly to me (Rae) for tattoo inquiries, email me at: LarpLikeRaeWebsite@gmail.com
Flash:
However, monthly flash sheets will now turn into season long tattoo flash. The tattoo flash sheets will be discounted and posted several times throughout each season (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.)
Events:
Will be posted 1 month and 1 week prior to the event! (Friday the 13th, Holiday Specials and Shop events)
Tattoo Convention Events:
Updates will be posted once contracts have been signed and communication has been set in stone with location, flash and cosplays!! Everything will be posted 1 month and 1 week prior to the convention to schedule and plan out your experience and next tattoo!
Cosplays:
This new year, I am changing up my cosplays and content just a little more! In 2024 I tried out new forms of cosplays due to my health. I was diagnosed with painful breast tumors, and no longer can bind comfortably. So I had to play around with cosplays and finding out what to do to make cosplaying more comfortable for myself. I will be having surgery in March so my plan is to take it easy!
In 2025, I want to work on bigger projects rather than smaller cosplays to match a theme each month. Instead, I want to take my time with each cosplay I make and not rush projects just to get content out there.
I posted nearly every day (1-2 times a day) on every social media platform since August of 2024, and I've found out that my content does worse than it did when I just uploaded when I wanted to and didn't stick to a schedule. Now I will still be sticking to a schedule, but a lighter and more comfortable one where I am not posting every day. I can focus more on my creations rather than posting online.
Informational Videos & Posts:
In December of 2024 I had tried out making informational videos after 1 large topic for that month. With having fun with these videos, I learned that they were too much effort for a series that barely did well at all. I found that I was sacrificing a lot of my own personal time editing and making these videos with no one to watch them.
These informational videos will still remain to be an experiment for the beginning of this year! I am thinking about only doing a few videos each month that are informational based, instead of 12-16 videos a month.
I still enjoyed making this content, but it felt as if I was only making it for views, which is not what I intended. So I may change it up just to see how I like it!
Conventions:
Within this past year, I have guested at many conventions, for this next year of 2025, I will be chilling out a little bit more with guesting. It can get very overstimulating to guest at many conventions, back to back, so upcoming conventions will be posted at the top of the website in a red banner to promote it!