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 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.

Coldplay’s music all sounds the same to me.

Anyway, I keep forgetting that like a week and a half after I arrive in California there’s Anime Expo to attend!  this means that in addition to PACKING MY COLLECTION OF CRRRRAP into boxes to be shipped since they won’t fit in the car, I need to get to work on cosplay plans.   This means an outfit for Kyo (summer uniform or casual) and possibly Ishbal Roy if I can get off my duff and start the labor-intensive project of making another Amestris uniform jacket.  That uniform also includes some stuff I haven’t made before, like that leather strap over the chest/waist and canvas leggings (the white things over the boots).  I do already have the ring, though, courtesy of crazyloststar.

Then about two months after AX is Y-con!   So incredibly exciting the both of them.  I’ll hopefully be meeting up with lacidiana for the first time at AX, and then sky-dark, psycholullaby, cryogenia, and possibly others at Y-con.  SO EXCITED.  Anybody else going I don’t know about?

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?

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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