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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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

No, not for me. For the dolls! I had ordered some alternate clothing on eBay just to give them something else to wear, and it finally got here. I was beginning to worry, but it was coming from Hong Kong.

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Well, finally scrapped together something worthy of an entry, and wouldn’t you know, it’s fandom related. Should be a story posted soon as well. I finally heard back from the final university, and I didn’t get into any of them. I’m not emotional about it anymore, but the biggest obstacle I’m going to have now is not feeling upset whenever I hear about people in grad school. Jealousy is one of my bigger faults. I may end up trying again at some lesser universities, but for now the plan is to try and find a job that uses my undergrad degree. If I can do that, I’d be content. And I probably need to be making about twice what I’m making now (which isn’t impossible) so that I can actually start paying off my debt while still getting on with my life. “Getting on with my life” means moving to a bigger city, closer to at least one group of friends, or making enough money to drive, which would at least let me travel to my friends. Really, just a better paying job in general would solve a lot of the issues that are dragging me down emotionally. Grad school would have been one awesome method of adding fulfillment to my life, but there are others. Making $8.50 an hour, however (although this is my favorite job so far), is not going to get me any of the things I need and want.

It’s a bit embarrassing to juxtapose the above paragraph with this one, but in my defense, I ordered these action figures in November. I didn’t really have the money for it then, either, but I can’t be blamed for something I did almost 6 months ago. Also this purchase made me productive again, so it’s not all terrible.

Onward! About two or three weeks ago I finally received Medicom’s Roy and movie!Al in the mail. I promptly took pictures, then found a foam piece that was just right for a couch, then made a cover and pillows for the couch. I also fished around in the basement of my parents’ for our old Barbie kitchen set, which is really a Sindy kitchen set. Must have been Barbie’s rival in the 70s, but I still think this stuff is cool. They don’t make Barbie furniture like this anymore. Dude, the sink has a drain in it, and a plug, and a little basin under the sink to catch the water you could put in it. Check out the pictures! I’m hoping to rummage some more this weekend for any other pieces I can find.

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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…

So, just to be sure I chronicle this, because I’ll never remember otherwise, here’s what I bought while I was at y-con this year.

The Doujin:

• The top-left one looked promising, but it turns out it was by a circle I’m not particularly fond of but hadn’t known the name of. RoyxHavoc.
• The middle-top was a gift from cryogenia from the circle Cherub! <3 It’s a HughesxRoyxHavoc where they seem to be trying to outperform each other.
• The top-right one has such a pretty cover. The art inside is nice too, but it didn’t seem to stand out. RoyxHavoc
• The bottom-right also has strong art, another RoyxHavoc. I liked the cover, which seems to state that Havoc is a full head above Roy.
• The middle-bottom is THE MOST ADORABLE DOUJIN YOU WILL EVER BEHOLD. It features Hughes and tiny kitty!Roy out for a visit in the country.
• The bottom-right is a HughesxEd from the excellent Mulberry. First four pages are in color. Lovely art. <3

Other:

• CRAZYLOSTSTAR BOUGHT ME A COHEED AND CAMBRIA DVD AND PATCH from a concert she went to. 8D
• I finally found Ponderosa’s table to snag that little drunken kiss between Hughes and Roy.
• crazyloststar bought me the EdxAl print <3
• Found adorable artwork in a corner of one of the art rooms and picked up the keychains of Roy and Havoc. She had an amazing FMA calendar, but it was a bit pricey.
• I also got a Kyo (Fruba) t-shirt, but I forgot to put it in the picture! D:

I should maybe unpack my stuff?

from edchii!

Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun. Tag six of your friends and ask them to give you a view of their desktops as well.

I had to blur out a filename that had my name in it.  It was my resume.

I’m tagging:

1. crazyloststar
2. cryogenia
3. lacidiana
4. pollinia
5. burningvigor

Optional of course, just curious. :3

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 waited all summer for my toad lily to bloom, and it finally did about two weeks ago. This is the first bloom. They’re tiny flowers, about an inch across at the top, but there’s a lot of them.

Also, here’s the first preying mantis I ever saw first-hand. And had it not been on the other side of my screen I would have flipped out. Okay, okay, I know they won’t hurt me, but holy shit, that’s a huge insect.