I looked nice and Kyle looked amazing (and to quote his brother, he looked 'like the mafia'... I didn't really see it lol). We went to see Phantom, which he'd never seen before. We held hands all night~ He made jokes about how I was in a short dress and my jacket was short too, so I was really cold. He made another joke about me taking off my
I had one of the best nights of my life last night, and he did too :)
We're going to see Phantom of the Opera next weekend~
S'cuse me while I go be ridiculously giddy and happy for a while. *prances away*
HMMM What has happened since Otakon?
Just after Otakon:
I started playing --and got addicted to-- World of Warcraft
I turned 18 (yaaaaaaaay)
I started college at Wake Tech Community College
Recently:
I began to lose intrest in World of Warcraft (my typical game-interest cycle has returned, huzzah)
I began hanging out with the guy that I like on a semi-regular basis
I went to AUSA
I got an Xbox 360 from Wind and Kyou who were also enough to let me room with them at AUSA (I love you guys!!)
I started playing --and got addicted to-- Eternal Sonata. I'm still addicted to it, and will be for a few months :D
Overall AUSA was kinda 'meh'...It wasn't as good as it was last year, and it seemed like a letdown :\ On top of which a lot of my friends had a less-than-good time. Even though I've been to better cons, I still liked seeing Nyoko, Stealthy, Wind, Kyou, Alex, and Chalu again :D
Though lack of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
vesperia made me sad....Jasmiiiiiiiiine
Katsucon is coming up surprisingly fast, as is the end of this semester. Blarrrgh finals...but yay Christmas!
Katsu is in the Gailord this year, so I'm hopeful it's going to be better than last year and the year before :D
So far I'm rooming with my dad, but I may-possibly-might be able to room with a old bud of mine named Sam instead. My dad is cool and all, but you can't stay up till 3 AM playing videogames and being silly with your dad, y'know?
- Music:Stupid Girl -- Cold
I'm glad we got up there on Thursday; we're probably gonna keep doing that from now on .
PICTURES HERE: s121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/shishi0
THURSDAY:
Left at 10 and stopped by the Grand Asian Market for some b-day present munchies fordemonicfangs
I'm not too sure about the timeline from now on, but after we got all our junk up to our room
funk_mastah_ion came up to hang for a bit while she waited for lady_arieta , ,demonicfangs , and vesperia to arrive in Blatimore. They got in around...6, I want to say? And then the two of us walked from the Renisance to the Hyatt to collect Annie and her things.We got in line for our pre-reg badges around 7, maybe? By the way, the line was around the freaking building and then switchbacked a lot. BIG LINE. And we were in line behind these three RETARDED fanboy kids. :\ Seriously. They were like "OMG Have u herd of Lucky Star?!" "OMG I luv ur shirt!" "LOL IT'S PEEDO BEAR." finally after they said Peedo Bear (pronounced like Speedo) like 5 times we said:
Middle boy: -Turns to us- Look, its Peedo bear.
Me. It's Pedo. Peh-do.
Youngest boy : Hahah no it's not. It's Peedo!
Chalu: Do you even know what it means, KID?
Middle boy: Kid? We're not kids!
Oldest boy: I'll have you know, I'm on 4chan all the time.
Me: HAHAHAHAHA
Stealthy: Yeah. Because being on 4chan makes you Mature.
Annie: Wow, you're a brat kid.
They didn't stop their annoying fanboy-ing (unfortunately) but the did leave us alone, and they did'nt talk quite as loudly either. YAY.
We got our badges around 8:15, and realized: "Shit! Alex's dinner starts at 8:30 and it's hella far away!"
So, we started walking (and I was smart and didn't bring actual comfy shoes so my feet were soon in pain) But, following the Otakon-provided-map turned out to be WRONG. Seriously, the map had everything ass backwards.
After walking around for 45 minutes and not finding anything remotely right we headed back. We stopped in the remote vicinity of the aquarium to sit for a while and we got a call from Jasmine. Turns out the 'Whole Foods' we'd found about fifteen minutes earlier was RIGHT UP THE STREET from where their dinner was. FFFFFFFFFF
We were too tired to hike all the way back there so after apologizing a lot we climbed up to Stealthy's room and ordered some Chinese (they delivered, yay) I ran up to my room and showered then came back down with gummis and ramune. We hung out for a while, ate the food when it got there and too funny food-eating pictures. I went back to my room at...maybe 11 or 11:30ish???
FRIDAY:
Got up at about...8:30? I forgot breakfast (lol) and got dressed in Decus. Called up Chalu and Stealthy and jogged down to their room. .I helped Chalu put on her breast plate and armor; her armor was awesome and her spear was neat and surprisingly light. Stealthy got on her suprizzle costume (which turned out to be Yeager from Tales of Vesperia) It was quite impressive, and the gun prop was awesome.
We headed to the convention center at some time in the morning (I don't even remember anymore) but yeah, we got inside and almost right away someone yelled "DECUS!!" and then someone recognized Stealthy too~ Chalu got recognized as well, but it took a little while longer XD
I found Gina while we were there and I glomped her (accidentally punching her in the jugular >.>)
I forget what happened next, but it led to me, Chalu, Gina, her friend and Wind and Kyou going to their room to fix Chalu's shoulder armor with some glue. We went back to the convention center for a litle while (I forget what happened) We somehow magically located Dr. D HUZZAH. And eventually went all went for some Bubbletea.
At some point during the day we went down to Artist Alley and I got 2 Puff Puggles and ordered a commission of my OC Nugari from the dA artist Zelas.
There was an Alice at the Tales Shoot so we had fun doing some silly Alice and Decus poses. OHMYGOD who was the Alice?! I forgot to get her LJ D:
We met up with Meowzy and Luna and Vil somewhere in there XD
I really don't remember what happened for hte rest of the day >.> I remembe that we eventually found Shad somehow, and I walked around the dealers room with her and got a ToS OVA Artbook and a Steampunk-esq book holder. Got back to the hotel around...some time at night. LOL
That night we somehow gathered a large group of people (like...9 people) of nyoko_, Vil, Stealthy, Chalu, Me, and some people I didn't know. We went to the food court got two large pizzas, went outside and had a fun random pizzaparty. YAY
I then went and hung out with Vil and Luna in Vil's room for a little while.
YUM Bubbletea and Pizza
SATURDAY:
Woke up semi late, met up with Chalu (as Lalouch/Ladouch) and Stealthy (as Kratos/Crotchtoast) and headed for the con again. We waited at the top of the Dealers room for Dr. D and had a surprising amount of photos taken of us XD We went around the Alley and I showed Stealthy where I'd found the OVA book. We headed down to the alley to pick up my commission which wasn't done >:
I was dehydrated, felt sick and was in pain so I sat down on the side of the alley for a while. Dr. D hung out with me <3
Vil and Luna and Meowzy showed up soon, finding Stealthy and Chalu; THERE WAS A WONDERCHEF and Luna was awesome enough to fetch me a Bannana Nut recipe from him XD (and it was an actual legit recipie)
Gina came down at some point and we spent more time together. We all hung out for a while and I got my commission. Luna and Meowzy disappeared at some point and so did Dr. D (I think?), and Gina and I found a Pit who's sword had broken.
We preformed McGyver surgery with some pencils and glue provided by Wind and Kyou and then with electric tape. Lolfail. But we had fun.
I went back to my room with Dr. D Wind and Kyou to get my CD player near 3:00 but it turned otu to be broken :( We accidentally missed Stealthy, Alex and Jasmine's Darker than Black panel and then ran back for the last tales photoshoot.
Alex and Jasmine showed up as Shing and Hisui and Stealthy came as Kratos and we had photoshoot fun.
We left after the shoot for Panera food. Stopped by my and Vil's rooms for her to change and me to drop off my prop. We caught up with Stealthy, Alex and Jasmine and then ate delicious Panera food. YUMYUMYUM
The food almost made us miss the Tales Panel OOPS. We made it to the line just as it started to go into the panel and I jumped in with Wind and Kyou (becuase they are amazing) and go in the second row.
Tales panel was fun and informative as usual~ yay.
We went for bubbletea ~9:30 after everyone (but me) had changed out of their cosplays and Stealthy had changed into Ion for a private shoot.
I got a BUCKET of Green Apple Green Tea (twice the green!) and drank it all really fast. Deliciousness!
I got back to my room and packed up ~10:30 while my dad was at a panel.
SUNDAY:
Dragged myself out of bed at 8 and threw on my Steampunk outfit. We finished packing and I got some cereal to cure my stomacheache-caused-by-lack-of-food. I dashed out of the hotel at 8:50 and ran for the convention center so I could catch the Steampunk panel that I had been looking forward too all con. I almost looked weird because I didn't see any other cosplayers outside. >.>
At one point when I pulled out my pocket watch while running I looked like the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland LOL.
I got in line jsut as it started moving and managed to get a seat. YAY.
After the panel my dad and I ran down to the Dealers room one last time and I got a LoZ shirt and two D. Gray Man manga for really cheap.
We found The Outlanders (a steampunk group) on the way out and got pictures, and I found Chalu and Hasta-Stealthy. Stealthy's Hasta is ruffletastic. I said byebye and headed home~
DUDE I went into a Popeye's in my Steampunk outfit (minus hte tailcoat) and got some funny looks. While getting drinks I saw a guy holding up his cell phone like he was taking a picture, and when I started walking his phone followed me. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. YOU'RE NOT SNEAKY.
Lol.
SO
Otakon is in a little over a week.
Anyway, I got my costumes planned out/ scheduled~.
Yuan will be making an appearance, that is for sure. Though I don't know about his cape.... His cape is really heavy and thick, and I think that's one of the main 'heating me up' factors when I wear that outfit; it's an extra layer, it's heavy, and it's like I'm wearing a huge blanket.
But, a plus side, is when Yuan has his amazing Swalllow-weapon-of-doom he doesn't wear his cape. SO that's one problem solved. Though, Saturday night for food-finding I'll probably ditch the weapon and don the cape for nighttime running around.
I haven't done anything about the shoes. Well, not really shoes. More like pieces of cardboard with elasic bands and cloth coverings....I'm thinking about putting my Converses in the boot-cover-shoe-things for the con just because my Converses are actual SHOES. I'll test that theory out before I leave. Plus, I can put Dr.Scholes in my Converses, thus increasing the foot comfort!
D'Carson's tailcoat got iiiiiin!!! I was bouncing off the freaking walls for two hours because I was worried the EBay seller was one of those "I'm gonna take your money and not give you your shit." people, because we ordered it a month ago and my dad sent two messages asking where it was...and we got no response. BUT IT ARRIVED LAST WEEK. And my fears were allivated.
It smells like an Attic.
I'm not even joking.
It smells like this guy went digging through his grandparents attic and found the jacket and was like "Dude! I can make money offa this shit!" and then sold it.
But whatever. We were worried it wouldn't fit me, but it got here...and it fits me perfectly? The shoulders are the slightest bit big, but the sleeves and everything else are the perfect length. The person who wore this previously must've been freaking tiny.
I'll be dying of the heat when I wear it...His outfit consists of: Knee-high boots (and knee-high socks) black pants, collored white shirt, black vest, heavy black tailcoat and a tophat. I'll carry around a bottle of water with me, I'm gonna need it.
Aaand Decus. His wig is kinda messy...and the styling is still fail =( I'm too lazy to really fix it... I'll brush the ponytail and bangs out and maybe fix the spike a bit, but I don't really want to undergo any serious wig fixing or surgery with just a little over a week left before the con. Aside from which, I'm without a backup plan if my attempt at fixing makes the wig worse or ruins it. BUT, Decus' wig is a first priority after Otakon!
I've got two perfumes that I could wear... Neither of them smell bad, I'm sorry. I'm kinda worried about smelling bad at a con...because at Animazement I watched somebody literally get THROWN out of an elevator (thus making room for me to get in). Why were they thrown out? Because they smelled bad. HOWEVER, Otakon lacks elevators. So I might search around in the mall for a cheap, not-good-smelling cologne to wear in the next week.
SO my currently planned cosplay schedule:
Thursday sillyness: Pierre D'Carson Grüsster
Friday: Decus
Saturday: Yuan + Weapon (--Might ditch weapon and get cape at night)
Sunday: Myself or maybe D'Carson again
I PLAN TO FIND:vesperia ,demonicfangs, luna_hoshino , funk_mastah_ion,lady_arieta, dark_link08 , and Wind21, Kyoushiro, and Dr. Daiquiri off dA
- Music:Ghost Love Score --Nightwish
I start at Wake Tech Community College August 18th
AND I STILL DON'T HAVE A JOB
crap.
Aaaaaaaaanyway, how are the lives of all my friends out there?
I'm excited as mess about Otakon, and can't wait :)
Hopefully Otakon be great fun, as it always is. And hopefully my friends and I will be able to avoid a few annoying fangirls and drama-llamas.
First of my finals:
Finals start on Thursday, and I'm exempt from ALL OF THEM except one 8D
And that one is a sewing final. So it doesn't count. (I'm not except because it's a 'VOCATS' required exam')
Booyeaaaaaaaa, only three more days of getting up at 6:20 in the freaking morning and then I'm done!! *huzzah*
Graduation is next Friday, I can't wait~~!!
AND OTAKON!!
Word up! Who's going!? And what/who are they going as?
I've got a few costumes I want to bring, they're pretty much decided already, and I'm in the process of making a costume of my Steampunk character 8'D
When I finally learned what Steampunk was I was inspired to write a story and I've come up with a few silly characters so far.
BTW, my Steampunk characater has a really fancy/complicated name:
Pierre D'Carson Grüsster
More commonly known as: D'Carson
I know I wanted to be the red Wall-Reaper from The World Ends With You, but if I can get my character's outfit together, I'll wear that instead. Because if I go as my character, I'll get to walk around Baltimore in a tophat and a tailcoat with funky glasses on. Oh hellz yeah. 8Db
G-R-A
G-R-A-D-M-A-N
GRADMAN!!!
WHAT IS GRADMAN? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xwNDdiri
WHAT IS IT LIKE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvCkweaf
OOOOOOOKAY so, Gradman is this special thing that my school does (it's kinda seniors only. the seniors elect guys like 'mr. individualistic' 'mr. best all around' and stuff, and then the elected guys put on a show for the upperclassmen. They go around collecting money for a specific charity for a while, and whoever wins 'gradman' all the money goes to their charity)
But you see, they need a lot of light and sound for their show. They had mics, music, and DVDs to play and shit and then some lighting effects.
AND me being a sound techie; I kinda had to be there. My friend Kerri was there too; as she's the only one who really knows what they're doing when it comes to lights. So, starting Monday she and her boyfriend Yousef would come back from college and set up stuff after school; and I'd be there with them.
SO BASICALLY
I would get to school at 7, and then at 2:18 I'd go to the auditorium to burn CDs and set up mics and lights and then at 4 we'd go somewhere random for dinner and then we'd be back and hang out at 5, and then at 6 the gradman-guys show up and then we start rehearsing around 6:30-7 and then I GET TO LEAVE AT 11.
THE EARLIEST I EVER GOT HOME SINCE MONDAY WAS AT 10:30 HOLY SHIT.
And whenever I got home I'd just go pass out in bed and SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
So we had the show last night and it was A-MA-ZIIIIIIIIING and hilarious and it went great~~~~~
SO now I can finally just come home right after school and not stay up till 11 doing sound and DVDs and mics for a show XD
SORRY I WASN'T ON FOR SO LONG, I WASN'T IN A CAR CRASH OR ANYTHING I'M OKAY LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I'LL FINALLY BE ON AIM AGAIN, I PROMISEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <3
LOL YEAH 2 WEEKS LATE SHUTUP
Anyway:
Left friday after school and drove up for 5 hours. Called Stealthy, Chalu and Alex along the way. Alex was the only one who picked up HAHAHA
And apparently I gave the impression that I already was/ was almost at the con OPS SORRY.
So at 7, when we're almost there, I get a call from Alex: "Hey can I drop some stuff off in your room?"
"Sure...When we get there."
"WHAT"
We got in around 8-ish, and nobody was there when we got there XD Stealthy was still on the way down, Alex had gone out to dinner, and Chalu had gone home cuz her buddy was feeling sick. So my dad and I went up and got into Alexander and Decus, and then we went back down to wait in the OMFGWTF COMBINED non-reg and pre-reg line
KATSUCONYOUREALLYNEEDTOWORKTHATOUT >8C (<<I Regal frown at you.)
But the funny thing was we stood in line for a few minutes then my dad went to ask some lady where the pre-reg line was, and apparently she assumed that we'd been standing in line for HOURS and was like "OMFG WAIT THERE I'LL REGISTER YOU NOW." So my dad and I were like "....sweet" and got in.
I found (/was found by) Ling and two of her friends, so I hung out with them for a bit, and in doing so I located Ken and Mimi, and then I located Kym. I sat with Kym and one of her friends for a while telling band camp/ marching band stories, and then I got a call from Stealthy asking about Parking.
So I ran outside and nearly got hit by a police car (THANKS MAN) He didn't even stop; wtf, he just drove off. And waited for Stealthy to come up so I could help her locate parking. Some people were practicing for the rave dance in the street.
For those of you who don't know it was in the 30's there and Decus' outfit has this nice HOLE cut out of the front, just above chest level. So yes. MY CHEST WAS COLD.
Stealthy pulled up and I hoped in her nice warm car and helped her find a parking spot which didn't have a parking meeter (I'm sorry you got a ticket, I didn't know you couldn't park there!!)
We went inside and ran inside, finding Jasmine and Alex along the way, and went to the public bathroom (that smelled like dirty baby ass DX) and Stealthy transformed into Jade.
I FORGET THE REST OF THAT NIGHT HEHEHEHEHE
I know I got my Abyss cell-charm figures, Lloyd, Guy B, and a bunch of keychains
The next morning I changed into Decus and ran around downstairs and waited in line for half an hour OMFG I FOUND MY FRIEND SAMMY!! <3
I then ninja'd into the Dealers room and bought a Kyle, special Zelos, Presea, and Relea, a Dirge of Cerberus poster, said HI to the Yaoi Man of WIN, and the original Supernintendo version of Tales of Phantasia. After getting out I found Chalu and we were like "LOLYAY 8D" we then ninja'd upstairs so she could drop her crap off and so I could change into Yuan (CHALU TOOK PICTURES OF ME CHANGING WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM CHALU XD) I got back at her by spraying some perfume in her mouth HAHAH SORRY
We found Stealthy, Alex and Jasmine as a DTB group when we went to the Tales panel. I WON A RUTEE FIGURE 8D.
Here's how:
"Who was the only main character from Tales of Phantasia not included in--"
*HAND UP*
"Um...Yuan."
"KLARTH."
"That's...right!"
"8D"
So then we went up to my room and dropped off stuff. And then we went back up to my room and had a bit of a debate. Cuz the photoshoot was at 4 and it was almost 2, also everyone decided to change and by the time they were done it was almost too late to go to eat. So we decided to go after the shoot.
The shoot wasn't much fun though D8
Most of the abyss cosplayers were abyss because of the anime; they didn't know there characters very well. >: I gave Luna my camera and she took pictures for me 8D THANKS LUNA <3
So, AFTER THE SHOOT WAS OVER, my dad as a Renegade, came downstairs. He then abducted me to get a formal picture taken; it didn't turn out too great :\ I look like a Yuan doll wearing lipstick. After which Dad made me go stand somewhere and took more pictures of me even though I really wanted to go find Stealthy and the guys cuz they were waiting for me. (but he also got Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 and Tales of Hearts for me so it's all good 8D)
SO after that was done I ran downstairs and met up with the guys again. We then ran upstairs and everyone changed outfits.
Yuan (me) > Decus
Ion (Stealthy) > Wei
Chaltier (Chalu) > Formal Chaltier
Alex (Spada) > Amber
Jasmine (Iria) > Some Persona 3 person
Anise > Anise (LOL she didn't change at all XD)
Luna > Luna (Luna you need to cosplay >8U)
Then all 7 of us crammed into Stealthy's 4-seater car and drove off to find chinese. Just FYI, Wei has elf ears, Decus has dark blue hair, Chalu has white hair, and Persona 3 dude has gray-blue-white hair.
We found a Chinese food place near Alex's house and got Chinese. The workers didn't really seem to mind, they were more like "HAHA silly customers" while the other customers who were there were like "WTF WEIRD PEOPLE"
Then, to drive to Alex's house, I volunteered to sit on the floor of the passengers seat (where Jasmine had been before) and I sat right on Chalu's foot LOL
When we got to Alex's I tried to crab-walk out of the car, but I fell on my ass on the ground instead LOL. I was like "I got this...I got this... I got--oh shit!"
We then went inside and had fun eating actual food. We then came up with our game.
Tales of + Darker than Black + Persona 3 + Food = TALES OF BLACKIA 3: THE OM NOM
OOOH fun crazy times.
After fun food eating and joke cracking we went back to the Hotel and walked around a bit, then headed up into my room and changed into magical formal wear.
After we were all changed we went downstairs to wait in line for dance lessons (cuz people who took formal-dance-lessons got first dibs on getting into the ball) Jasmine became bothered with my wig while we were in line and spent 15 minutes fixing it for me XD THANKS JASMINE <3
Someone actually recognized me as being Formal!Yuan, so I was kinda surprised.
And then we met some guys who started flirting with us. I agreed to dance with two different guys, one was a Formal!Luffy; he was a sweet guy and WOW WAS HE SHORT. HE WAS LIKE....4'10 LOL. And the other was some big guy....who was creepy. Formal!Luffy (Who's name was Sheldon) cracked a few jokes and such, but creepy stalker kept trying to hold my hand >:
We got into the room and we were supposed to choose sides leading or following. I was on the following side at first, and so was Mr. Stalker. I then decided I wanted to lead (as that was where Stealthy, Chalu and Jasmine had all gone) and when I switched sides Mr. Stalker followed me. I stood next to Chalu and she switched places with me so I wouldn't have to stand next to him. After we learned the moves they told us how to hold the other person, and one guy compared the hands to Lego-Man and Barbie; guys were Lego-Man with their hand folded in a C to put on the girls shoulder, and girls were Barbie with her hand flat on the guys shoulder. Again, Mr. Stalker tried to hold my hand T_T
When we broke up to go dance Stealthy volunteered to dance with me, so I danced with her instead of creepy stalker guy, and we went away somewhere.
It was kind of awkward dancing cuz both of us learned the leading way to dance and I kept stepping back with the wrong foot XD
After that we found Ken and Mimi and others doing the Cha Cha Slide from memory in the corner, so I joined in with that. FUN FUN FUN <3
After that I danced with Formal!Luffy for a bit, and then located Stealthy and Jasmine and Alex and Chalu, and we departed up to the room after successfully ninja-ing away from creepy stalker.
I want to stay with friends next time >: I mean, I love my dad and all, but he's dead set on going to bed by 1AM (and I can't leave the room after that) instead of staying up for craziness at 3 AM
Sunday I found Chalu and we went into the dealers room one more time together. We bought a bunch of in-the-box Destiny figures. She got 2 Judas' and a Stahn, I got Lilith and Relea, so we traded Judas and Relea 8D
She went off somwhere then, while I waited for Stealthy and the others to show up. I went back down and bought a few more figures; I got Guy A, Luke B, and Leon 8D
After finding Stealthy, Alex and Jasmine we walked around the Dealers Room a bit more. We hung around talking, and then my dad reappeared with an L shirt around 1 and we headed home. 8D
FUN TIEMS. NEXT TIME I WANNA ROOM WITH FRIENDS THOUGH~~
PICTURES OF AMAZINGNESS:
http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/s
I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE TURNING THEM ALL RIGHT SIDE UP. DEAL WITH IT XD
- Music:Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo -- Bloodhound Gang
ADFGHJKHFGJKEHFDNHSDSO YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!
It looks amaaazing 8D
Wow, I can't believe Katsucon's this Friday 8O
I keep thinking:
"Aaaah, it's on Valentines day, that's a wase off. I can cut my Decus wig later, and I've still got time for the costume to come in." then someone comes up
"....fuck."
Yeah; the Decus costume I commissioned was supposedly shipped a few weeks ago, and when it didn't arrive, we e-mailed the lady asking 'Where is it?' Turns out it never got shipped out of China and was sitting in the post office for a few weeks (lolWHUT?) She mailed it out again last...wednesday-ish with 3-5 day shipping, so it should be getting here soon.
WELL I cut my Decus wig yesterday, and I kinda failed -_-
But, I knew it wasn't going to be perfect, and for it being the first time I cut a wig, it doesn't look toooooo too bad.
I'm happy with it for now 8D
I'm bringing Decus (IT BETTER GET IN D8<) Yuan and then formalwear for the Valentines Day Ball.
Formal Yuan~ OH YES
Derrrrrrrrr who's coming to katsucon 8D? I know...</a></b></a>
funk_mastah_ion, </a></b></a>demonicfangs , </a></b></a>vesperia , </a></b></a>
lady_arieta, </a></b></a>slightlysalted, </a></b></a>luna_hoshino, </a></b></a>
kawaii_kenshin, and </a></b></a>anigirl15 are coming. 8DAaaaand I thiiink
nyoko_ will be there??? Yes? No? I'm talking to myself again?Did I miss anybody??
BTW, IF YOU SEE ME PLZ COME SAY "HI I'M SO AND SO" DON'T WAIT TILL AFTER THE CON IS OVER TO SAY "HEY I SAW YOU". Thanks 8D
okayokayokay; so, I went to visit some family in Illinois this weekend (....14 hour drive...woo...) and my cousin had gotten a PS3
After figuring out that he didn't have the plugs in all the way (which is why it 'wouldn't turn on') we went to a video store to rent a game. He said 'Go rent something, I'm goin' to look at Blu Ray'
So I ran off to the game section; and lo and behold, Eternal Sonata was there.
I picked it up just for the hell of it, and then when we got back I started playing it.
THIS GAME IS AMAZING.
I wish I could have stayed longer cuz I wanted to keep playing it XD
When I left off, I was in...Fermata something. That place on the other side of the really big suspension bridge that shows up after you get Viola in your party.
Character preferances at this point (most liked to least liked)
1: Frederic Chopin (I want his tophat, SCREW THAT, I WANT HIS OUTFIT)
2: Allegretto
3: Viola
4: Beat
5: Polka
Polka's not too bad, I suppose. As the main heroine, I've seen more annoying characters; but, out of everyone I've found, she's the least-cool.
Also, I think it's interesting how everything is named after musical terms; it's really interesting 8D
Now this is just another excuse to get an Xbox 360. Cuz Eternal Sonata and Tales of Vesperia have come out for 360.
Well, I've got all this week off 8D HOORAY
But I'm somewhat bored D8
Does anybody have any idea where I could find some funny pictures to laugh at?
So, yesterday I was making dinner to take to the last marching competition with me; when I suddenly hear a WHAM!
I look outside in time to see a little brown ball hit the deck.
At first I wasn't all that worried, just like; "Oh great...a bird hit the window again."
So, I went outside to make sure it hurried and got it's poor little self off the deck before my cat got to it. Usually just coming outside will scare the bird away, but this one wasn't going anywhere.
So, now I was like "ooohhh dear...." I went over to it, it was moving a little *yay* just not in a coordinated "I'm going to fly away now" way, more of a "WOW that really hurt" way.
Not knowing what else to do I hunkered down and picked up the little thing in my hands. (I decided to call it a boy XD) He kinda sat there, looking around all confused. He couldn't really stay balanced well; he kept kinda falling to one side. Poor guy really nailed himself D8
Luckily, my cat was totally unaware of the bird hitting the window so she was just chilling on the stairs up the deck. I called my dad down so he could look at the bird and see if it was okay; and he brought his camera.
He took a couple pictures:
Lookit how tiny that little finch is!!! He can fit in one hand!!
Little guy crapped on my hand too while I was holding him. Nice way to say thanks, no?
So my dad said he'd probably be fine in a little while, he just needed to get over being dazed and such. While my dad took the cat inside I put the little bird down on the deck railing for him to continue chilling.
I went back in and finished making my dinner which took about 10 minutes; and when I looked outside that little guy was still there. Getting worried about the guy again, I went outside to try and make sure he was okay and away he flew!!
So, he was just fine
Soooo.......I was glad to see he was okay, but at the same time I was like "...aw...he was cute..."
What is it?
Well, It's called....
My Master of Luke DESUNO!!!!
and it looks like
THIS
The cover art alone makes you die a little bit inside.
In case anybody wants some crack or brain numbing, you're free to take a look:
s121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/shishi0
Warning: Your eyeballs will melt and your brain will explode if you look at too much at one time.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I make a bad Yuan for that reason XD
Anyway--not all of these pictures are mine; in reality I took very few pictures, so I'm stealing some from the galleries of
funk_mastah_ion and, slightlysalted , lady_arieta 8DMASS PHOTO DUMP. BEWARE.
AND...THE PICTURES DON'T QUITE FIT LOL, SO YEAH CLICK ON THEM TO VIEW THEM RIGHT
PHotodumps here: Mine: s121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/shishi0
ANYWAY
---FRIDAY::
Got up ~6:30, left about 7 and headed out. Got some Burger King breakfast on the way out of town to save time (we would have gone Bruggers or something healthier, but it's kinda hard to eat a bagle sandwhich with one hand.)
Due to traffic, convoluted routes (not having a concrete way to Arlington this time) and lot's of "Road Work" we didn't get to the hotel till....~1 instead of the planned 12. Oh well.
SO after we go the car unloaded I got to stand inside with the luggage cart and our props while my dad went to park the car at some 'Government Facility' where they make you walk through medal detectors and shine lights all over the car looking for bombs and stuff. Some girl hugged me while I was standing with the luggage cart, and before I could ask why (I thought she may recognize me or something) she exclaimed "FREE HUGS FOR EVERYONE!!" and ran off.
After getting up to the room I called Stealthy
My dad and I then changed into our costumes, and right after I'd gotten my wig on I heard a THUD from down the hall. Something told me it was probably one of my friends, so I stick my head out of the room and who is it??
funk_mastah_ion , demonicfangs , anigirl15 and vesperia !! LOLSo, anyway, they come in and hung out for a while. I gave Stealthy her exsphere, and she seemed to like it 8D
*insert more stuff that happened*
Anyway--My first run around the convention was without my cape, and carrying my weapon down with me. So that worked out alright--it was a good test run for walking around with the weapon. But when I tried to go in the dealers room I wasn't allowed 8D LOL
My weapon was too big/tall so I would have had to check it or go put it up. Because we had a mini photoshoot at 3 and it was ~2:20 already I decided "Whatevs, I'll just keep it with me and put it up later." Alex and Jazz had already disappeared into the dealers room, I told Stealthy and Kim they could go on into the Dealers Room, I'd go walk around Artist alley for a while, but they were awesome and stayed with me instead 8D
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While we were down in Artist Alley we found the RefractorProductions.com guy, and he got some pictures.
3 Cruxis baddies. Kratos is the only one looking at the camera, LOL
I shoulda taken my badge all the way off...Oh well, I know that now for Katsucon.
Then we went upstairs and took a break for a minute--
During which Stealthy and Kim decided to have a little war with the pointed parts of their outfit. Stealthy with her pointy Kratos cape and Kim with her pointy Mithos drapery.
Aaaaaaaaaand THRILLER!!
Damn, I didn't get both of Stealthy's hands >3<
Hehehe, I don't think Mithos quite gets the whole 'Thriller' thing XD
lady_arieta and her little group and went outside for a mini Cruxis photoshoot.Here are the pictures I pulled out of her shots and here are some of mine LOL
</lj>Surprisingly, when I got up my white pants were grass-stain free.
Looking at something...OVER THERE X3 It looks dramatic--I really like this one.
Now you can kind of see how tall the weapon is compared to me. Except for the fact that the Swallow is tilted LOL
Anyway; after this there were epic Kratos and Mithos photoshoots--it's harder to make them laugh than it is to make me laugh, apparently, so there are less pictures of them laughing than me XD
Then Chalu (lady_arieta) demanded that I do that gay hand flippy thing that I had continually done at Otakon (see my profile page for an example XD) So right as I was going to, she was like "No no!! Kratos, you get in there and look annoyed! Alright....Yuan go!"
Yuan: Like TOTALLY~
Kratos: Yuan, stop being
Shishio9/Deanna: LOL Did I seriously just do that?
Stealthy/Alison: Yeah, you did. ....heheheh...
While Jhonny (Slightlysalted) and Chalu (Lady_Arieta) ran around taking pictures of this, Alex commented,
"Yuan, you look like you're proposing!" And what did I happen to have on my finger? Martel's engagement ring.
LOLPROPOSAL
Okaaaaay, I forget what happened next, but something along the lines of going back, I put my weapon away, and then we walked around for a while and went to the dealers room and stuff.
OH, but I DO remember the funny man down there who was selling Yaoi doujin. 'YAOI!! Get your flaming hot yaoi!! Hot guys kissing each other! Hot guys having hot sex! They're Prettier than your boyfriend!!" he would then point at people calling "YOU! You look like You need Yaoi!!" he was quite entertaining X3 I purchased 2 doujin from him. A gag Peony, Jade and Dist doujin, and some other gag doujin which makes your brain explode if you read too much of it at once. I'll have to scan it at some point....
Well--after getting out of the dealers room we then found![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
nyoko_ and two of her friends. Nyoko made such a cute Genis ;A; Aaaaaaand then we went back outside and took more funny pictures XD These ones are actually off of MY camera because I finally remembered that I had one.
....Genis, stop messing with your pockets...or looking at the bush...or whatever it is that you were doing XD
BFF'S MAN, BFF'S
I'd say this is pretty self explanitory, mm?
Kratos has mucsles!! Mithos and Genis.....not so much.
LOL KRATOS AND MITHOS LIKE FROLICING 8D
SO after more laughable photos and such, we went back inside and wandered around for a while...doing er...more stuff . Wow, I can't remember what we did XD. Well, eventually we somehow located a Lagretta andluna_hoshino
We found a nice restaurant, and ate dinner there; I requested funny pictures from Nyoko about Raine's cooking while she ate the complimentary Miso-soup that came as an apetizer at the restaurant.
"Soup...? Well, Okay...Looks safe...."
"OH MY GOD RAINE MADE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
SO after the funniness we all got our food. About 1/2 the group got sushi, and about 1/2 of it got...not-sushi. And my dish had a surprisingly large amount of food, so as everyone finished eating, I offered food if anybody was still hungry. Stealthy took up the offer and enjoyed some,
Kratos has a bib...I'm jealous. Heh, nice red-eye effect going on with Mithos over there XD
After various more storytellings and stuff we all made our way back to the hotel. I went to Chalu and friends panel at 10 o'clock; it was very nice and very helpful~
--SATURDAY::
Didn't get up till 9, awesome, and got a bagle for breakfast. I got my Yuan outfit back on, waiting for Stealthy who had asked to store some costumes in my hotel room. In the time before she showed up I ran down to the dealers room and located a Saiyuki: Reload GUNLOCK box set. After staring at it for a long time and looking it over for a while I discerned that it was actually a real box set, and then rushed off to buy it. After which I purchased another bag of Kani Crab Chips and headed up to my room
After Stealthy arrived I quickly ran downstairs and carried her props while she got her epic costume bag upstairs.
After which we headed downstairs to find Griff and Luna once again. YAY. And an Asch too (I forget who cosplayed her) We headed outside to the same place we had been before to fiiiiind:
Chalu and her group outside again, eating some little riceball thingies,
Yummy~
Thanks for modling one, Chalu X3
KRATOS NOMNOM FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEE
Stealthypleasedon'tkillme
SO, as I always do when I find a Kraots and Lloyd in the same room....
I make them hug. 8D
They should hug in the game; it would be cute. Or do the same thing they do in the manga ending with the head-pat. It's so cute ;A;
Not too sure what's happening here other than Asch air guitarring on flamberge. Feel free to come up with scenerios for what could be happening here XD
You see, Asch tried going solo, but it didn't go well.
BUT, Combine the musical talents of Asch, Kratos and Lloyd, and they become....
THE AMAZING TALES-OF AIRBAND!!
Performing at: Grand Chokmah, Derris Kharlan, Werites Beacon and Sulz!! Get your tickets while they last!!
LOL then we went inside again and....and.....we did more crap. We eventually went back up to my room and Kratos went through a Sailor Moon transformation sequence and became Mithos. We then located Nyoko as genis once again and went outside to have fun in the trees. Asch stalked us too 8D
Genis: Whats this?
Mithos: A panpipe, duh.
Oh Em Gee! Where did Genis goooo?
And then Stealthy saw a squirrel and decided to chase it. I would have chased it too--but I never saw it...so I stayed behind with Stealthy's camera to take pictures of her squirrel searching.
Questing for a squirrel.
I think Stealthy found it at this point, but Nyoko's face is just so priceless....
Hey, I think she found it! When did Genis get down there?
OMG ASCH IS SCARY AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
So, at this point while they looked at their pictures I ran back to my bag and got my bag of pizzaria Pretzle Combos that I'd been munching on all day. As I came back, waking towards them, Asch was like "OMG I HAVE A PICTURE IDEA" Which then resulted in this:
AAAAAH EVIL YUAN BEAR AND HIS BAG OF COMBOS!! RUUUUUUUUUN!! Stealthy's expression makes me giggle.
Then, when we were again out of funny photo ideas, I came up with my own funny idea.
Sketchy Yuan in the bushes is Sketchy.
Mithos and Genis play paddycake, Yuan is jealous.
I was actually munching on combos back there while they took this picture XD
The rest of the day was somewhat unimportant except for me going to a Thai restaurant at 9:30 at night with Stealthy, Alex, Luna and one of Luna's friends. Alex squirted soup out of her nose and I spilled a glass of water XD
--SUNDAY::
Woke up at 9:30 after going to sleep ~1 AM, we'd packed the night before so we loaded up everything and headed out right away. I saw Kim as I headed out and gave her a hug ^_^
So yeah, I got a new pair of headphones today.
They're like earbuds, but they've got that soft tip that goes in your ear instead of being all hard like the generic iPod earbuds. They're slightly more expensive, yes, but they're very worth it (especially considering that the hard ear-buds won't even fit in my ears D8)
The brand is..... 2XL
Never heard of that brand before, but I just used them and they're great. Also, they're more reasonably priced than Skull Candy. 8D
I copy-pasted from dA to LJ last time, sooooooo NOW IT'S TIME TO SWITCH IT ALL AROUND!! >8D
I've got a lot of manga that I've lost interest in and just plain don't want anymore cluttering up my very tiny manga bookshelf as well as the rest of my room...
And I've still got strategy guides for games that I've already sold cuz the game stores don't accept strategy guides.
So I've deciced I might as well get some money for them, right 8D?
Manga Books: $7 per book (if you order 3 or more at one time you'll get some form of discount that I have yet to calculate)
Novels: $6 per book
Shipping (for 1 book): ~$2-3?
Strategy Guides: Prices vary depending on the guide. Probably ~$10-11.
Condition:
--All Manga Books and Novels are in nearly perfect condition; they've each been read only one or two times.
-------After being read, they've been sitting on my bookshelf/ in a small plastic box collecting dust and getting pressed to new-condition-flatness by the pressure of other books.
--The Strategy Guides are in almost perfect condition.
-------They have creaces in the spine from leaving the boook open for long hours.
-------Some have the occasional spot or two on the cover or back, though nothing extremely obvious or horribly detrimental to the cover design.
-------They are not missing pages, nor have any pages been torn, ripped or written on.
-------All Strategy Guides Were Purchased NEW From Either Gamestop, EBGames, or Walmart
*****Manga:
Cyborg 009
Volume: 1
Deathnote
Volume's:
Volumes 1, 2, 3 SOLD to Betwixtworlds on DeviantArt
Hikaru no Go
Volume's: 1, 2, 3
*No, the manga itself is not new. I located this lying under my not-able-to-fit-on-the-bookshelf Trinity Blood manga and added it to the list*
Samurai Deeper Kyou
Volume's: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11
Yu Yu Hakusho
Volume's: 1, 2
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Volume: 2
*****Novels:
Devil May Cry Volume 1
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Land of Sand
Naruto: Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood
Rurouni Kenshin: Voyage to the Moon World
****Strategy Guides:
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
Platform: GameCube
Maker: BRADYGAMES
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
MarioKart =Double Dash
Platform: GameCube
Maker: NIntendo Power
Soul Calibur II
Platform: GameCube
Maker: BRADYGAMES
Keep your eyes open, the list may grow! 8D
I found these pictures of the books on Amazon because I'm far to lazy to take the pictures myself.
Yuan's last name is KAFIE!
Yuan Kafie...it makes me laugh XDDD
But yeah...They said it at the Tales Panel at Otakon, but I missed it. All I got was "It sounds like 'coffee'."
Kafie...Coffee....Yeah. They do sound alike, I guess.
I don't know why this fact entertained me so much, it...just sort of did. HEEEHEEEEEEEE
Hmm, I wonder where you hear his last name. In Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World?? Hmmmmmmm... *sits to ponder*
- Mood:
geeky - Music:Gladiator OST
I'm also figuring out the basic jist of this site and how stuff works~ It's pretty straightforward.
If I ever get around to putting all of my Otakon pictures on the computer, I'll post them here. 8D
- Mood:
amused
