Delicious friends! It may feel hard to believe, but Fallen London is going to be turning 15 on the 11th of January. To start the celebrations in Neathy style, we’re having a competition! It’s a cosplay one! We’re calling it The Fallen London 15th Birthday Cosplay Competition. The prize will be one of London’s most exclusive companions: The Rubbery Plongeur!
To enter, submit photograph of yourself in Fallen London cosplay. You can cosplay anyone you like - your character or one of ours! The entries will be judged in the following categories (you don’t need to specify which category you’re entering in):
Most Masterly
Pick a Master, any Master, and dress up as them.
The Heart of Your Character
Show us your character and tell us all about them (does not have to include their actual heart).
A Specific Individual
Choose any Fallen London character to portray - other than a Master, see above - and tell us why you chose them.
Made Us Laugh Most
Simple really. We’re jovial sorts and easily tickled.
Peak Neath
Include the most Neathy references in your entry photo!
You can enter via BlueSky, Discord, Reddit, on tumblr or right here in this handy thread. Please tag us @failbettergames where relevant, use the official post/channel, and on Tumblr please use the hashtag #fallen london cosplay competition. You may also include up to fifty words of accompanying text to illuminate your entry.
We thoroughly encourage wardrobe cosplay. Don’t feel the need to buy anything new for this! Anyone with a blanket can cosplay a Master, and creativity on 0 budget is just as valued by us as complexity or exemplary craft.
Multiple entries are allowed, but please make them as separate posts (an individual can’t win more than one prize, however). Group entries are also allowed, and everyone in the group will win a Rubbery Plongeur should the entry be selected. Image manipulation is allowed (e.g. to combine two characters in a single image) but any entries which employ generative AI will be disqualified.
Closing date for entry will be Monday the 17th February 2025 at 1400 GMT. Here are the full terms and conditions. Good luck!