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totchipandaSo. Animethon :D
I came home Friday after work to roast beast dinner and sexy girls in my house of debauchery. Zoiness had arrived with her sweetie some time in the afternoon. We finished eating, collected up the things we needed for the panel at 7 we were running, and headed out after 6. Got there at about 6:45, so we tried to find Ops to get Nicole’s badge, but they had moved it from last year and it was too far away to try and find before the panel. Headed back to our room. Panel went fairly well, I think. There were mostly new faces, and some seemed rather horrified when Nicole started chatting about the boys’ peenies ^^;; Overall, I think it went OK. I mostly just wrote crap on the board. Mother SD won’t smite us; Anna brought her F-16, and we made sure that people were told to go to DoA for information at first as it’s the most comprehensive. Some day we’ll need to have a little pamphlet ready with all the information on it so I don’t have to remember addresses lol.
Afterwards, Allan obliged a request for Slurpees, and we went back to the house. Zoi sewed grommet tape onto my pants, hemmed, seamed, and waist-banded them, saving me a good 2 hours of time <3333 I worked on my jacket and hat. I was intending to stay up until it was as done as I could make it, but at 2 AM my brain shut down on me, and I went to bed. Though now that I think about it, I don’t know why that took me 5 hours… Got up at 8:30 and finished the last few things (belt loops, buttons) that I could. Allan came home, at least 4 people showered, and most of them left at 10:30 because Nicole had a panel at 11 to run.
While I was sewing downstairs, people started getting up, and then the sounds of torture started XD Zoi’s girl didn’t sound used to being groomed and make-upped, and was yelling about things being in her eye while Zoi told her it wasn’t anywhere near her eye. OMG it was hilarious. It really IS a house of debauchery now XD Just as everyone was leaving, it was my turn to be make-upped. Finished that around... 11:20 or so, and finished getting ready and left.
We missed Nicole’s 12PM panel, arriving at the campus around 12:30. But OK. I sat in a panel about materials, which was quite informative, Tara came in and didn’t recognize me in all my swank red velvet and makeup XD After the panel, I ran down to see my mum, told a Toshiya cosplayer that her Myaku kimono-thing was rather well done (‘cause it was, damnit) and then went to sit with Laila for a bit, in which more people didn’t recognize me. Checked out the dealer’s hall, which was OK. I bought Laila’s book and a pair of shorts for Ralli, and that’s it. It was far too hot down there though, so I went upstairs to sit for a bit, taking off my jacket and hat, and then decided to go catch the end of cosplay. I only saw maybe the last 7 people, but did get to see a lot of the entries afterwards. There was a fucking AMAZING Red XIII mascot, Wiz from DN Angel with a Deedlit, and Nicole helped their skit out, Fran from FFXII (who won best costume advanced, I believe), and at the very end, a 7 foot tall Gundam. I was sitting about as far from it as I could possibly get (opposite side of the room, up the bleachers in the third-from-the-top row at the far end) and it looked absolutely incredible. What seemed like a third of the audience swarmed over to take pictures of it
Cosplay half-time consisted of an AMV which Vlad insisted wasn’t available online (I can’t discount it at this time) titled something like “how short is your attention span?” It’s about 25 minutes long, and it was an absolute trainwreck of short AMVs linked together D: Some were funny, some weren’t, some were OK, some were WTF and some were just D: inducing. It was quite entertaining, actually, because it was a trainwreck XD Two more AMVs were shown after it, including a Narnia movie-trailer parody called “The Chronicles of Ghibli” which was spliced INCREDIBLY well. Like Sophie and Ashitaka from Howl’s Moving Castle and Mononoke-hime spliced on top of scenes from Spirited Away :D Amazing work on it.
After the awards, I swear, I looked down, and when I looked up, Zoiness and girlfriend were gone, and I had a suitcase in her car yet. Nicole and I went to the Consplayers.com room to get some pictures of our costumes (especially mine; I know I’ll never get my makeup looking like that again) and figure out what to do about my suitcase. All I had with me otherwise was what I was wearing, and that’s IT. We’d already sent Allan home to sleep, and Wes was being Nicole’s chauffer for the evening. He agreed to drive out to wherever to get it as I was fairly upset, and “I don’t even know who you are” which made me LAUGH ‘cause he DOES know me, and didn’t recognize me ;) So after the pictures, which I think I sucked at *cough*, we went to fetch my suitcase, and then to the Parliament grounds to take some more pictures, where two Mexican ladies wanted to take pictures with us XD That was awesome. Then we headed to BP’s on the north side of the city for dinner, took Debbiemom and Nicole home, and me to residence where I was staying with my sister and Casey for the night.
Once there, at midnight, my sister was still working on her costume for the next day and was in tears because she had no idea how to proceed at that point. I told her that I just needed to shower and get the make-up off my face, and then I would help her. We figured out how to put the numbers on the back of the Bleach captain’s haoris she needed, and I painted #10 while listening to an otaku lecture me on the current Bleach episode fillers, and how Ashura is technically genderless after I referred to him as a “he”. F.U. otaku-boy, I don’t need the lectures, kthx. After I painted #10 and she was working on the marks on the bottom and at least knew how to proceed with #9, I went to bed, and then a few minutes later, kicked the otaku out of the room, because the floors are bare cement and sound travels REALLY well and I was already sick of his voice.
In the morning, I was awake as they were getting ready for the day, and I heard that my sister was up until 4 AM painting D: I told her the night before that every cosplayer stays up until 2am one night of the con preparing their costumes, and if she hadn’t done it the night before, then this was her day to do it. And since I already had, I’d gone to bed at 1. I got up just before 10, got ready, and they came back at 10:30 or so, when we decided to pack up the room and clear out before noon so we didn’t have to pay any extra. Finally made it out, and went to Nicole’s wig panel to pick up my wig (at 11:45….) and go see if the loli meet was happening (at 11:50, when it was supposed to start at 11…………)
Wandered the dealer’s hall one more time, sort of. I barely made it down the first row, and I had my picture taken more in those few steps than I had the entire day before XD I think it was my giant bonnet of doom. Laila and I sat in the cafeteria for a bit, before going to fetch Nicole and see the 404’s performance, which was amazingly hilarious. Mark got two of the voice actor guests on stage, Kyle Hebert and Vic Mignoina (sp?). There was much hilarity and moments when no one could continue because they were laughing so hard. In the “Scenes from a Hat” game, the last one chosen was “thoughts running through Vic’s head”. Beej was so naughty in that, saying “Had her, had her, had her, had her, had HIM…” but Vic seemed amused XD They ended with the Mousetrap game, where Will stuck a live mousetrap in his mouth, again. One of their better shows, I think. Nicole actually had tears in her eyes
After that, we just went to sit in the cafeteria for over two hours, just sitting and chatting. Anna brought her sleeping Woosoo vampire doll over, who is just gorgeous. Zoi and I figured I got another half-inch of epeen credit for touching a holy Woosoo, and decided that my Breakaway head has to be worth at least an inch XD YES! I HAVE EPEEN CREDIT! Poor Allan was just dying though. He’d had only a few hours of sleep the night before and had been up since 3 AM, for the second day in a row, so as we sat around just talking and waiting to find people and decide what we were doing that night for the post-con dinner, he was bouncing his head off of the Mario cube he bought in Seattle. Tara ran by on some errand and told Nicole that Consplayers was pissed that they couldn’t find her when she was supposed to be their guest handler for the weekend, so she went off to fnd them. (Nicole said later that they had just wanted to know where she was because they wanted to come hang out with her.) Eventually, just after 6, someone came by and yelled into the room “if you’re not staff or a volunteer, please GTFO” XD Srsly! I lolled. So we picked up and started to head out for dinner, finding people we needed on the way, including Pikmin Link and my mum. The restaurant we wanted to go to had no room for us as a group of 17, but as we called around for options, we found that the fast-food Japanese down the street had lots of room, so as a group of 17, some of us cheered, and we trekked back to the cars. Parked next to Mum in the time we’d been trying to find a place to eat was a shiny, new, black Ford Mustang, which I squealed and ran towards and nearly flattened myself against it’s hood ^^;; Transformers love ahoy. One lovely lady of our group, crossplaying as a boy, declared excitement to eat more Japanese food even though she’d just eaten some less than 2 hours before, and as we laughed, Zoi said “She’s a growing boy!” and we laughed even more. That had to be one of the best moments of the entire weekend.
So we all headed over there, but some people, instead of going to the place we were supposed to, went to a different restaurant ^^; We finally went in, as a group, at 7:15. They closed at 8. We rearranged their tables so we could sit together, mostly, as a group After we were done, most of us stood around talking outside. Zoi finally had to leave, passed around hugs and then we jokingly started a hug-line until everyone had had 2 and she refused to hug any more ^^;; Shortly after, we headed back to the house of debauchery, talked a bit longer, and Mum and Aerina headed home around 10. I felt the desperate need to clean out the sink, which had been ignored since Thursday and was full of icky dishes and food bits. It’s so weird now to not have something I desperately need to finish as much as I can of in less than a week and can now spend time putting our house into order. (I can’t say BACK into order, it hasn’t been in order yet this summer to start with.) Nicole and Debbiemom stayed up talking awhile longer, but I went to bed. I don’t think I even heard when Cori came in.
I came home Friday after work to roast beast dinner and sexy girls in my house of debauchery. Zoiness had arrived with her sweetie some time in the afternoon. We finished eating, collected up the things we needed for the panel at 7 we were running, and headed out after 6. Got there at about 6:45, so we tried to find Ops to get Nicole’s badge, but they had moved it from last year and it was too far away to try and find before the panel. Headed back to our room. Panel went fairly well, I think. There were mostly new faces, and some seemed rather horrified when Nicole started chatting about the boys’ peenies ^^;; Overall, I think it went OK. I mostly just wrote crap on the board. Mother SD won’t smite us; Anna brought her F-16, and we made sure that people were told to go to DoA for information at first as it’s the most comprehensive. Some day we’ll need to have a little pamphlet ready with all the information on it so I don’t have to remember addresses lol.
Afterwards, Allan obliged a request for Slurpees, and we went back to the house. Zoi sewed grommet tape onto my pants, hemmed, seamed, and waist-banded them, saving me a good 2 hours of time <3333 I worked on my jacket and hat. I was intending to stay up until it was as done as I could make it, but at 2 AM my brain shut down on me, and I went to bed. Though now that I think about it, I don’t know why that took me 5 hours… Got up at 8:30 and finished the last few things (belt loops, buttons) that I could. Allan came home, at least 4 people showered, and most of them left at 10:30 because Nicole had a panel at 11 to run.
While I was sewing downstairs, people started getting up, and then the sounds of torture started XD Zoi’s girl didn’t sound used to being groomed and make-upped, and was yelling about things being in her eye while Zoi told her it wasn’t anywhere near her eye. OMG it was hilarious. It really IS a house of debauchery now XD Just as everyone was leaving, it was my turn to be make-upped. Finished that around... 11:20 or so, and finished getting ready and left.
We missed Nicole’s 12PM panel, arriving at the campus around 12:30. But OK. I sat in a panel about materials, which was quite informative, Tara came in and didn’t recognize me in all my swank red velvet and makeup XD After the panel, I ran down to see my mum, told a Toshiya cosplayer that her Myaku kimono-thing was rather well done (‘cause it was, damnit) and then went to sit with Laila for a bit, in which more people didn’t recognize me. Checked out the dealer’s hall, which was OK. I bought Laila’s book and a pair of shorts for Ralli, and that’s it. It was far too hot down there though, so I went upstairs to sit for a bit, taking off my jacket and hat, and then decided to go catch the end of cosplay. I only saw maybe the last 7 people, but did get to see a lot of the entries afterwards. There was a fucking AMAZING Red XIII mascot, Wiz from DN Angel with a Deedlit, and Nicole helped their skit out, Fran from FFXII (who won best costume advanced, I believe), and at the very end, a 7 foot tall Gundam. I was sitting about as far from it as I could possibly get (opposite side of the room, up the bleachers in the third-from-the-top row at the far end) and it looked absolutely incredible. What seemed like a third of the audience swarmed over to take pictures of it
Cosplay half-time consisted of an AMV which Vlad insisted wasn’t available online (I can’t discount it at this time) titled something like “how short is your attention span?” It’s about 25 minutes long, and it was an absolute trainwreck of short AMVs linked together D: Some were funny, some weren’t, some were OK, some were WTF and some were just D: inducing. It was quite entertaining, actually, because it was a trainwreck XD Two more AMVs were shown after it, including a Narnia movie-trailer parody called “The Chronicles of Ghibli” which was spliced INCREDIBLY well. Like Sophie and Ashitaka from Howl’s Moving Castle and Mononoke-hime spliced on top of scenes from Spirited Away :D Amazing work on it.
After the awards, I swear, I looked down, and when I looked up, Zoiness and girlfriend were gone, and I had a suitcase in her car yet. Nicole and I went to the Consplayers.com room to get some pictures of our costumes (especially mine; I know I’ll never get my makeup looking like that again) and figure out what to do about my suitcase. All I had with me otherwise was what I was wearing, and that’s IT. We’d already sent Allan home to sleep, and Wes was being Nicole’s chauffer for the evening. He agreed to drive out to wherever to get it as I was fairly upset, and “I don’t even know who you are” which made me LAUGH ‘cause he DOES know me, and didn’t recognize me ;) So after the pictures, which I think I sucked at *cough*, we went to fetch my suitcase, and then to the Parliament grounds to take some more pictures, where two Mexican ladies wanted to take pictures with us XD That was awesome. Then we headed to BP’s on the north side of the city for dinner, took Debbiemom and Nicole home, and me to residence where I was staying with my sister and Casey for the night.
Once there, at midnight, my sister was still working on her costume for the next day and was in tears because she had no idea how to proceed at that point. I told her that I just needed to shower and get the make-up off my face, and then I would help her. We figured out how to put the numbers on the back of the Bleach captain’s haoris she needed, and I painted #10 while listening to an otaku lecture me on the current Bleach episode fillers, and how Ashura is technically genderless after I referred to him as a “he”. F.U. otaku-boy, I don’t need the lectures, kthx. After I painted #10 and she was working on the marks on the bottom and at least knew how to proceed with #9, I went to bed, and then a few minutes later, kicked the otaku out of the room, because the floors are bare cement and sound travels REALLY well and I was already sick of his voice.
In the morning, I was awake as they were getting ready for the day, and I heard that my sister was up until 4 AM painting D: I told her the night before that every cosplayer stays up until 2am one night of the con preparing their costumes, and if she hadn’t done it the night before, then this was her day to do it. And since I already had, I’d gone to bed at 1. I got up just before 10, got ready, and they came back at 10:30 or so, when we decided to pack up the room and clear out before noon so we didn’t have to pay any extra. Finally made it out, and went to Nicole’s wig panel to pick up my wig (at 11:45….) and go see if the loli meet was happening (at 11:50, when it was supposed to start at 11…………)
Wandered the dealer’s hall one more time, sort of. I barely made it down the first row, and I had my picture taken more in those few steps than I had the entire day before XD I think it was my giant bonnet of doom. Laila and I sat in the cafeteria for a bit, before going to fetch Nicole and see the 404’s performance, which was amazingly hilarious. Mark got two of the voice actor guests on stage, Kyle Hebert and Vic Mignoina (sp?). There was much hilarity and moments when no one could continue because they were laughing so hard. In the “Scenes from a Hat” game, the last one chosen was “thoughts running through Vic’s head”. Beej was so naughty in that, saying “Had her, had her, had her, had her, had HIM…” but Vic seemed amused XD They ended with the Mousetrap game, where Will stuck a live mousetrap in his mouth, again. One of their better shows, I think. Nicole actually had tears in her eyes
After that, we just went to sit in the cafeteria for over two hours, just sitting and chatting. Anna brought her sleeping Woosoo vampire doll over, who is just gorgeous. Zoi and I figured I got another half-inch of epeen credit for touching a holy Woosoo, and decided that my Breakaway head has to be worth at least an inch XD YES! I HAVE EPEEN CREDIT! Poor Allan was just dying though. He’d had only a few hours of sleep the night before and had been up since 3 AM, for the second day in a row, so as we sat around just talking and waiting to find people and decide what we were doing that night for the post-con dinner, he was bouncing his head off of the Mario cube he bought in Seattle. Tara ran by on some errand and told Nicole that Consplayers was pissed that they couldn’t find her when she was supposed to be their guest handler for the weekend, so she went off to fnd them. (Nicole said later that they had just wanted to know where she was because they wanted to come hang out with her.) Eventually, just after 6, someone came by and yelled into the room “if you’re not staff or a volunteer, please GTFO” XD Srsly! I lolled. So we picked up and started to head out for dinner, finding people we needed on the way, including Pikmin Link and my mum. The restaurant we wanted to go to had no room for us as a group of 17, but as we called around for options, we found that the fast-food Japanese down the street had lots of room, so as a group of 17, some of us cheered, and we trekked back to the cars. Parked next to Mum in the time we’d been trying to find a place to eat was a shiny, new, black Ford Mustang, which I squealed and ran towards and nearly flattened myself against it’s hood ^^;; Transformers love ahoy. One lovely lady of our group, crossplaying as a boy, declared excitement to eat more Japanese food even though she’d just eaten some less than 2 hours before, and as we laughed, Zoi said “She’s a growing boy!” and we laughed even more. That had to be one of the best moments of the entire weekend.
So we all headed over there, but some people, instead of going to the place we were supposed to, went to a different restaurant ^^; We finally went in, as a group, at 7:15. They closed at 8. We rearranged their tables so we could sit together, mostly, as a group After we were done, most of us stood around talking outside. Zoi finally had to leave, passed around hugs and then we jokingly started a hug-line until everyone had had 2 and she refused to hug any more ^^;; Shortly after, we headed back to the house of debauchery, talked a bit longer, and Mum and Aerina headed home around 10. I felt the desperate need to clean out the sink, which had been ignored since Thursday and was full of icky dishes and food bits. It’s so weird now to not have something I desperately need to finish as much as I can of in less than a week and can now spend time putting our house into order. (I can’t say BACK into order, it hasn’t been in order yet this summer to start with.) Nicole and Debbiemom stayed up talking awhile longer, but I went to bed. I don’t think I even heard when Cori came in.
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Date: 2007-08-14 04:30 am (UTC)I think Pikman Link was our "growing boy" XD she's so cute. *pinches cheeks* I wish my girl had been able to stick around long enough to meet her, since I keep telling her about sexy crossplayers. ^__^