One Abnormal Girl

OH MAN.

So I’ve been lazy in writing this, but I did take notes, so I’m hoping I remember it all.  You can check out crazyloststar’s post for cross-referencing XD  Also, this is probably too much detail for most people, but I want to remember it!

About a month before the con, crazyloststar and I came up with the idea to do Greed!Ling and Briggs!Ed for a convention in January, but then decided we needed to do it for Yaoi-con as a surprise to sky_dark, on top of the FAKE cosplay we’d already planned on doing.  Yaoi-con is three days, so we’d have a cosplay for each day, but only a month to make four cosplays, two for each of us.  And what was worse, we had to keep one of them a big secret.  SO DIFFICULT.  But we managed!

Many thanks to rattmice, sky_dark, psycholullaby, inugrlrayn, and militsa for the photos.  You can find out whose pictures are whose by checking out the image name.

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I still need to do some touching up to my wig, but for the most part our FAKE cosplays are done! And this, more than two days before we leave for the convention. Unglaublich! (crazyloststar and I are also learning German, have I mentioned this?)

Here are pictures! They’re pretty silly, but they give a good representation of our 80s glamor.

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I can honestly say that progress is being made on the results of my writing request meme!  Currently I’m working on a response to crazyloststar’s “This Side of Me” prompt, but there will be more to follow, for crazyloststar, Bootses, and KalamityKat. 8D  THANKS GUYS.

But my excuse for being slow is a good one: YCON IS IN LESS THAN A WEEK HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.  I think everything is coming along, though.  Most of what we don’t have yet needs to be bought from a store, so that’s not as alarming as it could be.  Through the hurry and stress, though, I’m still so wildly excited about this year’s convention.  So many people I have connections with will be there.  It’s just a shame that it’s only three days!  How are we ever going to fit everything in D:  I also get to debut a new cosplay, which I haven’t done in a long time, and it’s very appropriate, so I’m extra excited.

In less joyous news, our router burned itself out, so we’ve been having to trade off the connection.  It throws off my normal rhythm quite a lot.  I do get the Internet all day, I just tend to want it most just before bed, so I end up staying up late to do that.  YES THAT IS MY EXCUSE FOR NOT SLEEPING ON TIME.  Maybe we can pick one up this weekend, but I definitely didn’t want to have to spend money on replacing something that wasn’t even that old.

And we need that router.  We need it because we have no cable and the new seasons are all starting up.  WE NEED IT NAO.

In other news, I’m hoping the new temp agency I signed up with will prove helpful, since the old temp agency never contacted me once about anything.  Urgh.  But mostly my thoughts are consumed by YCON.

So I don’t know if I mentioned this, but our new cosplay for Yaoi-con this year is Ryo and Dee from FAKE!  I’ll be Dee, and we’re using these as our clothing reference:

We still need a lot of accessories, though most should be on their way.  We do, however, have to make the jackets, and one is just about done!  Still need to press it and add buttons and shoulder pads, but this is pretty much it.

Also earlier today we went to a Maid Cafe and enjoyed High Tea with the surprising guest of wasabe spread on the tea cakes.

Nom!

Now I need to sleep so we can keep working tomorrow aaaah

So I’m still in California!

This came as a mild surprise to me upon returning from Anime Expo–for once, when the festivities ended, I did not pack up my things and get on a plane, foregoing physical peer contact for months into the future.  Nope, I got all my things back into a car and then I came home to an apartment not so far away, still in the company of crazyloststar.  And that’s totally awesome.  We had shabu shabu for dinner, and that was also awesome.

My first AX was a very good time, though it had its dubious moments, such as the one where some group in charge of some part of the shuttle process decided that only those people whose names were actually listed on their hotel rooms could ride the shuttle to the hotels.  Anyone who has ever been to an anime convention knows that, for good reason, not all parties in a room are on the room bill.  This presented a large problem.  Luckily, some registration officials were less strict about the rule, and the problem was solved (for our room, at least), but I would expect it to be enforced more universally next year, since we will have apparently learned how it works by then.  But it remains to be seen.

Still had an awesome time among awesome company.  Only bought for myself 3 doujin at the Yaoi-con booth price, which is far less than I usually spend.  I had taken two cosplays, but one had a partner cosplay that didn’t work out in time, so I rather happily stuck to the movie!Roy.  Eventually I will have something new, something different, but it’s a good fallback that I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of.

Highlights of the con were:

• being recognized with crazyloststar through livejournal
• learning some Para Para
• actually going to the rave
• the Ghost Stories dub
• Paprika
• MEETING LACIDIANA FINALLY
• SEEING THEREGALTIGRESS AGAIN
• discovering that one of the doujin featured Hyuroi in a phonebooth
• peanut butter [and jelly] sandwiches around 4pm in the hotel room
• meeting new people!

We did have a string of rotten convention-related incidents leading up to, and slightly overlapping, the convention, but all in all it worked out and it was good times.  The swelling from my sunburn from the beach last weekend had gone down enough that I wasn’t too bothered by it, which was a blessing.  I’m only glad I was so covered by my cosplay that I didn’t have to worry about the random red/tan skin patterns.

And now, I have other things to think about!  This includes finding a job, temporary or otherwise; planning out upcoming cosplays; possibly writing something for y-con; and reading 07-Ghost, which we learned about through the con.  Huzzah!

SO in December, edchii, crazyloststar and I went down to Georgia to visit sky_dark for her birthday. \o/ These are some pictures of some of the festivities, which mainly include cosplay and dress-up. General silliness, all much fun.  Too many to caption. ;_; (more…

This y-con I got to hang with crazyloststar, cryogenia, edchii, wiccat, and mikke!

Hard to say what went on this y-con–I have such a hard time keeping up with a timeline But I arrived around 5pm at LAX–that’s L-A-X, not lax–and miracle of miracles, crazyloststar found me at the airport after I got my luggage! Then we hung out at her parents’ for a bit, got food, and took off around 10pm for the drive up to San Mateo with her awesome sister, Itch.

We made it into San Mateo around 4:30 despite our exit being completely closed, and because crazyloststar had requested early check-in, we were able to get into the room. The prospect of having a bed at that point almost obscured the fact that they got some kind of half-suite room of awesome. But I would be headed to a full suite the next night, so I had it good all around.

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(I had this written pretty shortly after I got back, I just couldn’t do anything with it. >O)

The best thing about any con is the people! So I’ll start there.

Notice that according to the chart, there were 12 people at Sky’s house, including me. It worked out well though; it’s a big place.

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These photos are all Jen’s! And they were taken during Otakon of 2007 in Baltimore. My photobucket account is private, so if you’re able to see this post, please do not spread these around.

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