your joy is my low

LE CON OF DRAGONS.

So this report will be shorter than all my other D*C reports most likely. The con was effing packed, esp. on Saturday, and I didn't do much in the way of panels and all that jazz. Plus, we brought nine costumes so a lot of it was either chilling in the room getting ready/being lazy and watching D*C TV or being dorks and taking pictures of the crap we put work into, haha~ XD I didn't even make it into the Dealer's Hall (expect for two seconds to get water) or the Exhibitor's Halls (except for a quick walk around one of them to help Ashley look for something). I went in the art show for a couple minutes to look at Erin's table. Besides those, I didn't use my badge for anything except one Star Wars panel. WHOOPS. Well, okay, and to get into the other hotels later in the evening since you needed your badge to do that - BUT YEAH~ ON WITH IT. :3


LOOK AT THAT LACK OF BADGE LINE, HOLY CRAP.

( Wednesday, August 31 - Thursday, September 1 )

THANKS TO HOMEWORK, I've had a crap chance to write my con report -- meaning the longer it takes to get written, the less I remember. I AM TRYING AS HARD AS I CAN THOUGH. :3

More soon!

So like leesers, I just wiped this whole thing out in one go cause I know if I tried to actually do it for 30 days... I would fail miserably.

This post contains lots of pictures from the past decade, lots of derp and lots of colorful fabric and weirdass props. If you didn't know how dorky I really was, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE.

Star Wars, Clue, Monkey Island, Arrested Development and all kinds of other geekery under the cut!

( IMAGE HEAVY POST OF INSANITYYYYYYYYYY-- have I really been cosplaying for ten years, my god what is this XD )

TIME TO GO READ THE NEW BIOSHOCK NOVEL OH SNAAAAAAAAP

Or something like that! Happy New Year and all that jazz, even though I'm late with it. XD

My birthday was good (om nom nom Red Lobster and I got some magical Wonderflex thanks to my Mom - which I still need to play with - and a Nannerpuss necklace thanks to Nate, among other things, haha~). This weekend was also good - Nate and I went with Erin, Jeremy, Ronnie, Beth, Roger and Alex to ICE!!!1 It was cool, and by cool I mean two things - awesome and flipping cold. Of course, then we walked outside and it was like 55 degrees (last week was freezing with a wicked wind chill). WHAT ARE YOU DOING WEATHER, MAKE UP YOUR MIND.

I moved my room around this weekend (and cleaned the hell out of it - it's still not done) with Nate's help and I forgot I had a floor. My room seriously looked like something out of Hoarders. Although, there are no animals hiding in my room or old, rotting food stuffs. sdjfajkljsdfd ewwwwwwgh.

I need to catch up on friendslist and everything internet-wise. But for now, HEY STAR WARS DUDESSSSS, time to find your copy of Shadows of the Empire and head on over to the forum to discuss Xizor being a creeper!

This is open to anyone, btw, not just people who have already read all the Star Wars books - cause I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to see some people who have new opinions on everything. :D

Updates on the Centuria Challenge are coming soon too! We'll be starting the first game soon and we've decided that we're really gonna make it a challenge in all aspects and also make something creativity-related for each game - and there will be one photo of said creative item for each of the 100 games. Whether it's a ghetto costume or a puppet or something.

MORE THINGS WHEN I AM TOTALLY COHERENT. XD

HERE IS WHAT I'M WE'RE WEARING (since Nate never updates anything XD) AND WHEN, so if you see me us (and again, I haven't already harassed the hell out of you ;D) SAY HIIIIIIII!

THURSDAY NIGHT: Kale Longo & Han Solo - Death Troopers
How to spot us: We'll be in bloody, bright orange jumpsuits. XD

FRIDAY MORNING/AFTERNOON (10 - 4): Tenel Ka & Jacen Solo - New Jedi Order: Star by Star
How to spot us: Turquoise & green bright lightsabers and the drab brown jumpsuits. AND GHETTO THERMAL DETONATORS.

FRIDAY NIGHT (5 - whenever I can't breathe anymore): Ophelia (Drowning Doom) & Grave Digger - Brütal Legend
How to spot us: I will be painted blue. And Nate will be uber-goth. Although, that means he will blend in with 70% of D*C.

SATURDAY MORNING (OR MONDAY, PROBABLY MONDAY): Charlotte "Chuck" Charles & Ned - Pushing Daisies
How to spot us: Me = bright yellow dress/heels. Nate will have our pie box. XD

SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING (after parade - 6): Buster Bluth & GOB Bluth - Arrested Development
How to spot us: Look for the group with the tall guy in the loud shirt with a Franklin puppet, the blonde wearing a shirt that says slut on it, a "dude" in camo fatigues, a boozy woman in a skirt suit with a martini glass and two very bored looking banana stand employees. THAT'S US. XD

SATURDAY EVENING (aquarium - late night): Elaine Marley & Guybrush Threepwood - The Secret of Monkey Island
How to spot us: Nate will have a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle of it. I don't know any other good way, haha. XD

SUNDAY MORNING (9 - 12:30): Tenel Ka & Jacen Solo - Star Wars: EU (Warrior Queen thing & early GAG fatigues)
How to spot us: LIGHTSABERS! Those are always the easiest way. XD

SUNDAY AFTERNOON (1:30 - 7): Tenel Ka & Darth Caedus - Star Wars: EU (Queen Momma dress & CAEEEEEDUSSSS)
How to spot us: Giant black cloak! Red lightsaber!

SUNDAY NIGHT (after the masquerade - 2am): Peter McVries & Abraham - Stephen King's The Long Walk
How to spot us: There will be four of us and we'll all have fake bullet wounds somewhere on our faces.

That's your handy guide to easy harassment - and by easy harassment I mean it'll be easy for me to harass you if you see me/say something. <3 I'll be actively hunting any and all of you who are going down too, BECAUSE I LOVE.

Also, everyone should listen to this cover of David Bowie's Fashion. It is the Heather D*C Anthem of 2010 and is backed by the fanmix. I'M NERDING OUT TOO MUCH HERE I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP. :(

So Saturday night was a magical night for AIM chatting (seven people HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE lololol)! We actually figured out when to wear the 3483958439052358 Star Wars costumes we will have between us. And also talked about makeup and belts and other things -- and also crack, like usual.

My D*C weekend is tentatively looking like this:

Thursday PM: Kale Longo (Death Troopers - SW:EU)
Friday AM: Tenel Ka (Jedi Strike Team - SW:EU)
Friday PM: Ophelia (Brutal Legend)
Saturday AM: Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
Saturday PM: Elaine Marley (Monkey Island)
Sunday AM: Tenel Ka (Queen Momma - SW:EU)
Sunday PM: Peter McVries (Stephen King's The Long Walk)

And then Chuck (Pushing Daisies) will be fit into that schedule whenever. It is quick to put on. XD

It was horrible too, cause all that talk of SW stuff made me want to make a Warrior Queen Momma outfit so it's not just the fancy one I'm bringing. But I already have too many costumes as it is, hehehee. (Then of course it was extra horrible cause I found these three awesome belts on ebay and I was trying to decide between them on which one to build the costume around... you know, the COSTUME I'M TELLING MYSELF I HAVE NO TIME TO MAKE. D:

...I don't know which belt to go for either. And and and asscape.)

There are some new necklaces and junk up here. I wanted to kill that tassel one when I was making it cause those beads like to fly everywhere like the little expensive pretty colored bitches they are. But once I got it done I kind of wanted to give it a hug. I don't know how you hug a necklace though. o_o

Okay, I had about a two hour light nap when I got home (I say light because I kept sort of waking up, paying attention to the tv for .6 seconds and then drifting off again) but I feel like I'm gonna pass out so maybe I should go do that. I need to save up my energy for tomorrow cause Nate and I are going to see Toy Story 3 and I have a feeling that I'll be wasting all of this energy on CRYING MY EYES OUT. D:

(Then I will want to come home and play with my childhood toys. <333)

P.S. Whenever Ken pops up on screen I will think of when my Dad used to crossdress my Ken doll in Barbie's clothes. And then whenever I see Barbie it will instantly remind me of when my best friend from elementary school, Heather (LOL THE HEATHERS), and I used to get bored playing normal Barbies and pretty much made Barbie a stripper. I MISS MY CHILDHOOD.

(LOL duh I had to icon it. Placeholder hottness till I can get to my photoshop and make a better one. XD I also have to make a TK one. AND MAYBE ONE WITH BOTH OF THEM?)

This past weekend was good. Friday night was hanging out with Erin, Ronnie and Jeremy. We ate dinner and went fabric shopping -- meaning Erin and I went fabric shopping while Ronnie gave his opinion on the fabric and Jeremy and Nate were there as moral support (meaning they were forced to come along, hehe). The next night Nate took me to the Cheesecake Factory (but not before we spent points at Dave and Buster's, lol) and afterwards I was so stuffed I wanted to pass out in the car. I was surprised we finished the piece of cheesecake we split (you can't go there and not get cheesecake). It was White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle and it was so damn good omg. I love that place. <3

Sunday I got my hair did done lol. This is the shortest it's been in years and it's red again. Not too red though, it's pretty dark. It'll grow out some by D*C and will have faded just a bit. So I should be good to go for Tenel Ka costumes (color and length), Mrs. White (length - being able to shove my hair under a wig) and all the rest of the gang of misfit costumes I am lugging along with me. XD

I can't believe the con is already so close. WOOOO!

(I still can't get enough of these Essential Atlas pictures. Oh man I want to blow up the Caedus picture and turn it into a poster. Does anyone have a really good scanner?)

KATSUCON. TODAY. I AM HOME. Erin and I will be heading over there around 4 (with everyone else heading over later), most likely stopping by Shoppers first for some food substance. BUT YEAH.

Costumes: (Femme!)Jack Frost [Persona/Friday night], Joshua Shepherd [Silent Hill: Homecoming/Saturday morning], Hunter [Left 4 Dead/Saturday afternoon & night]... and then Erin and I will have our super awesome costumes for the dance lololololololol.

Roomings: Two suites (at Katsucon rate!, since it's the same hotel as Anime USA, this means we will still get WEIRD BATHROOMS THAT DON'T LOCK). Costume Superdome contains Erin, me, Beth & Roger. Party Room contains Jeremy, Ronnie, Andre and Alex. Guess whose room will be messier.

People I need to see: hitosyura (djfaksfjsd texting when I get there!), rumminov (this is funny cause we were apparently in a Jet Set Radio cosplay picture of group doom together the year before last at this same convention - SMALL WORLD XD), Jonci, Jonathan, ES & VY -- five of which I actually have phone numbers for OH SNAP (STOP. HARASSMENT TIME). Oh, and of course any and all members of Team Takeo making an appearance cause it wouldn't be right if we didn't see them (ESPECIALLY AT THE DANCE).

Stuff to do: BESIDES DANCE? Video games. Run around. Take pictures. Dance. See people. Lounge in the room (where hopefully no creepy dudes come in randomly again). Buy swag. Dance. People watch. Stay up till 5 a.m. with glow sticks then come in and collapse on the couch. Stand by the water dispensers and continously drink and nod your head at people. Dance. Make signs for the bathroom that say OCCUPIED with a censored naked stick figure on them. Watch some TV. Admire our balcony. Watch Andre threaten to climb over to the other balcony. Take more pictures. Order pizza. Eat ramen. Watch creepy people hand out free Pocky to unsuspecting youngsters. Dance some more.

You know, it'll be like Anime USA except bigger. LOL.


P.S. Apparently the cast of the new F13 did a photoshoot. JARED P. MAKEUP. jfsdlkjskafsj yummmmmmmmmmmm

So my Dad lives in a little town in Florida that's right south of Daytona Beach, yes? And I call him the other day to ask him how he is faring with the storms and all that jazz. He told me they sat in the eye for two days with sun and lots of nothing and then the storms were back and it was really windy and the lights were flickering while I was on the phone with him and then we were about to get off the phone and I hear a ding -- it's the sound of the doorbell at his work.

"OH OKAY GOTTA GO. PIZZA'S HERE. LOVE YOU, BYE!"

My dad got a pizza delivered in a tropical storm. XD

This weekend I was pretty lazy. I did bloody up my Shmi outfit -- I just need to add a few rips and it's done. I'm gonna start seriously packing tonight.

Friday night, Alex, Ronnie and I met my mom and Duane at Hooters (at the Hooters that usually has good service and stuff) and we got stuck with this chick who sucked and never came back to check on us and failed at getting us an appetizer (and we specifically ordered it like way before the meal) and failed at getting Alex and Ronnie the pitcher of beer they asked for ("It's almost ready," she says, ten minutes after they order it -- A PITCHER OF BEER DOES NOT TAKE TEN MINUTES TO "GET READY"). We watched her flit around the restaurant blabbing at people and showing off her non-assets though (seriously, most homely looking girl in the joint). So Ronnie ended up tipping her like three bucks on our check and Duane tipped her a whopping $0.76. XD

Next, the three of us went to two Wal-Marts looking for Scrubs for Ronnie's Turk outfit -- both ones that we went to didn't have green scrubs. :| Every color but green. Although, we did see these guys in the booze aisle (yeah, booze in Wal-Mart is totally foreign to us) that we didn't think were twenty-one and they were looking at the wine and would look nervous whenever we looked over at them. They ended up getting a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon and some wine and some sort of Canada Dry product that didn't look like ginger ale. They looked really awkward going up to the cashier and we watched them from another register aisle as Ronnie and Alex got a 6-pack of weird beer that had some weird shit in it. They were just like, "LOL WE'LL GO WITH THIS ONE. IT LOOKS INTERESTING."

So we're walking out and we see one of the boys carrying the beer and he knows we're watching him and giggling and maybe we're undercover cops or something. It was pretty damn funny. Then you know, we of course did the whole "HE'S BRINGING THE PBR BACK TO THE LAN PARTY AND HIM AND HIS BUDDY ARE GONNA BE HEROES! THEY SENT THEM CAUSE THEY WERE THE TALLEST AND THEREFORE LOOKED THE OLDEST." I mean they looked so nervous for some reason.

We ended up sitting around and watching random tv all night. What Not To Wear, the X-Men cartoon, the second half of Clerks II, etc. Alex fell asleep at some point and I refrained from kicking him awake whenever he did, then during Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive (this was like 3 a.m.) I groggily looked over on the other couch to Ronnie, who had passed out as well. I promptly passed out like half a minute later. We're getting old.

Saturday night, Ronnie and watched more tv and then played some Wii Play. Alex got there and it turned to Wii Sports where he tried to have the Lil' Jon Mii play on both tennis teams. This resulted in Ronnie and I playing a nice game of Wii Tennis with each other while Alex flailed around the basement trying to play as well. They also decided to start Wii Fit accounts -- and Alex cheats at yoga. He also passed out again after we pulled out the bed-couch thing and Ronnie and I sat in a cocoon of blankets and played GTAIV. He showed us the really skanky lap dance too. I briefly wondered how many gamers spent like all of Niko's money on that so they could watch it over and over again and then I shuddered and turned my mind to other things.

jdjasfkjdfjka ewwwwww boys. XD

P.S. Question to the people who have a DS. Has anyone played The World Ends With You...? If so, is it any good?

Sunday, Mom and I went out shopping and I ended up getting fabric for the top of the Shmi (DEAD!SHMI!) costume. I cut out all the pieces and also started cutting pieces for my uber-Queen Tenel Ka outfit of massive doom and stuff. I also found a shovel for the Lisey Landon costume, which is effing awesome cause it's like a pint-size half shovel. It's like someone took a shrinking ray aiming to make the shovel a spade and didn't have enough power so it came out as this silly little shovel. Which is awesome because I was afraid I'd be slapping people upside the head with a normal shovel.

We also had a D*C chat that actually ACHIEVED THINGS! I KNOW. IT SHOCKED ME TOO. IT WAS AMAZING. prix_etoile, see_aphy_be, lusa_thul and jedijaya were present and they helped me with ideas for Dead!Shmi and I helped Kyle find some stuff she could use for Dead!Mara and we planned general asshattery for the con and all that.

WE'LL BE HAVING ANOTHER CHAT SOON. LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTAKE IN CON/COSTUME PLANNING OR SOMETHING. HURRRR.

And then today on lunch break I actually sat down and made an effing spreadsheet in Excel about crap I need to do/have/get for costumes. MUAHAH~ Scheduling might switch up a bit, but I am telling myself I can't change this list NO MATTER WHAT (even though the pull of an Old School American Gladiators outfit is SO HARD).

D*C 2008 FINAL COSTUME LIST OF LOLS:
-- Chris Chambers (Stand By Me/Stephen King's The Body, w/ Aphy as Gordie Lachance)
-- Lisey Landon (Stephen King's Lisey's Story, King group w/ Aphy as Annie from Misery)
-- Peter McVries (Stephen King's The Long Walk, w/ Aphy as Art Baker & Em as the Major)
-- Tempest Cover Tenel Ka (Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Tempest, w/ EU characters galore!)
-- Queen Tenel Ka (Star Wars Hapan Royalty of many Yays and Backstabbings!, w/ more EU characters!)
-- Dead!Shmi Skywalker (Your Favorite Dead Star Wars Characters!, w/ all these thugs <3)
-- Little Sister (Bioshock, w/ Aphy as a Spider Splicer! <3)
-- Maid Marian (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, w/ Team Takeo & Rhythm Bandits as the MiT!)

(HEY, DID YOU GUYS KNOW I LIKED STEPHEN KING AND STAR WARS? I DIDN'T. :|)

I already have Peter (D*C '07) and the Little Sister (Katsucon '08) done. I'm remaking parts of Tempest TK (D*C '06 & Anime USA '07) and adding to it (except not those effing scales those are fine and I never want to mess with them again XD). Chambers is just a random thing (IMMA BE RIVER PHOENIX, YOU GUYS) to throw on during costume downtime and basic clothes, so it's pretty much done. So the ones I really need to focus on are Lisey, Shmi, Queenie Teekay and Marian (I'M SEW HEPPAY~!). FOUR COSTUMES. THREE MONTHS. GO.

The best part about these is that I only need to bring two pairs of boots to the con. Unlike last year where I brought FOUR PAIRS OF BOOTS. :| Chris and Peter wear Converse. Little Sister and Lisey are barefoot (I'll have flip-flops :P) -- and I have slippers for Marian and sandals for Queen TK. LOL, this is gonna be the most comfortable con for my feet in a long time. Especially after these last year. Which is a very good thing. Considering how much my feet HATE ME RIGHT NOW.


P.S. Why do cameo brooches remind me of HAPES? Is it the whole "LOOK AT THESE PRETTY LADIES!" thing or what? Cause I'm totally thinking about incorporating one on the Queen TK dress. LOL IT'S A PORTRAIT OF MY MAMMA TENENIEL, I SWEARS IT. XD