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Oh my god, i'm still alive!

As most of you know, I spent a weekend and a day in Toronto to visit friends and attend Anime North 2009. That weekend was fabulous. It's a shame that upon my return my boss would unleash 13 hour days (I kid you not) on me. As a result i'm kinda tired, have not yet unpacked and had no time to draw a con recon. :(

But enough with the bitchin'

It was great to see my friends zenavvy , earthstar_chan  and gullwhacker . I wasn't able to find free time to see neshel , which made me sad. The stories of our aventures are hilarious though. I looted plenty of anime boxsets. Strange, now that I am reading less manga, I seem to be watching my anime then ever! I also got Gargoyles as a b-day present from the gang. Not knowing was Gargoyles WAS, I responded to receiving the boxset by saying *I don't like furries.*

Johanne responded fairly quickly that this was la creme de la creme of tv animation and that I had to watch it. Link also geeked over upon seeing the said boxset when he joined us in Toronto. Looks like the present is indirectly a present for him too *laughs*

Aside from the boxset loot, I was also able to score a zel keychain, an awesome leather classy packman themed bracelet (CLASSY!), a mini top hat (to match Link's con wear - a larger top hat), some plushies and of course the body smell of a massive amount of people (eek). With the gang, I had a ton of fun watching Dragonball Abridged, attempting to steal Zen's heart (much in the way of Crow!Mytho in the Anime Princess tutu. God, I love crows!), assaulting Toronto and making up a funny version of a Slayers play. Yes, it's an idea loosely based on the Avatar episode on Ember Island. Naga, back to her old self, and remembering the stories that Amelia told her of the Slayer's adventures while she was Nama, decides to sell the story to some theatre troupe for money and the opportunity of humiliating Lina Inverse. Lina was already the theme of a play in season one, but this play would have everybody in it. It would basically be Naga's version of Amelia's version of the facts, and it would be damn ridiculous. And of course, Zel would get a musical number containing as many rock puns as humanly possible.



I really think this is my last con. I'm getting to old and i'm definitly more motivated to see my friends rather then attend the actual con. So we though next year we should do like they do in the webcomic Something Positive: We should hold our own personal mini-con complete with watching of series, video games, D&D and generally drawing at somebody's home somewhere in North america. That way, we can still all cross the country to meet.

In the way of cosplays, there was a few interesting ones. One of the recurring ones was these two cheshire cats and their wonderland crew. Eventually, I was hoping it was a new wonderland themed anime! So I asked one of the cosplayers where it was from. Apparently, it's from a special episode of Ouran Host Club. Darn! No alice Anime. Oh well, if anything, this will encourage me to watch Ouran.



Don't forget to ride your chocobo...



That's all for now. I gotta go to bed. Another long 10 to 13 hour shift awaits me tomorrow! Yay...

Isa

Well, I was going through my props and costumes today because I am starting a photo project about fairy tales (aka, I get to dress people up! Squee!)

And I found a few things that made me think of Renge. So guess what I did?

Yes, that's right. I took a break from my pile of work to go cosplay Renge.

I'm such a geek.

The photos turned out very nice though! I love the hair! ^^ I think I imitated well the positions and attitude I imagined for the character.
And for those who wonder: I forgot to write it down but Renge DOES wear glasses. But only to read.

I kinda wanna make icons from these. But I suck at iconing.

-secondlina

p.s. why is it the photos where I actually look cool, i'm dressed up? *sigh* Why am I not pretty as myself --_--



Peace out.


Fireball, bitch!



Looking up and pretty!



Renge, the sad mage.


Casting a spell! (I swear I did not tweak this with photoshop...It's the flash reflection. Looks cool though!)

Some people's cosplays just really impress me...



I'm going to have to post a photo of all the clothes i've made one day. i've made a few skirts, but I never done any cosplay, aside from that one time I dressed up as inuyasha (I still wear the pants once in a while during the summer. Those really puffy red pants are quite confortable and look really cool with a black top XD)
On another note, I think I just got a good idea for my drawing project! Oh joy ^^ I was blocked.