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Next three weekends are going to be badass, and all in Fargo. This weekend is Bin's birthday, gonna go out on the town with some of my favorite bros. Next weekend going down again for Atreyu concert and a girls roller derby bout the next night. Then the week after that I drive Jen to the airport Thursday night and stay the rest of the long weekend at Meagan's dorm. We're gonna work on cosplay, fuck around, take Byakuran-Uni pictures, watch animu, get me free dining center food, and she's gonna finish up the Sephiroth cosplay she's been making for me. Have I mentioned I like 2010 yet?


Working on Prussia's fine ass hat. I cut out the pieces for this back before Nebraskon so I was actually able to put this together in record time. Just need to put the gold band around the top and make the rose pin for the front. Hats are fun, you can just sit there and work on them, no excessive fitting to run back and forth for. I enjoy sitting.

Am techinically suppose to be in my drawing class right now but decided to forgo that today as I spend most of it wishing a light fixure will fall on me thus ending my suffering. Two and a half hours of excruciating still life drawing, do not want. And not even normal still life objects like fruit in bowls, oh no, last class we drew pelvis bones from lord knows what, a taxidermied deer head+neck with a torn up muzzle, logs, antlers, ect. The hell?

Casey and I made our artist alley frame last week. When we were getting the pipes at the store she was like "..should we get a couple extra ones just to beat each other up with them?" But it took enough just to get three into the apartment without wrecking stuff cuz we're stupid and kept hitting them on the ceiling and glasses and ect. But after we cut them we clamped them to the kitchen counters and sat in front of it for awhile playing imaginary artist alley.


Here's some of the craft stuff I've been doing. The tomatoes are about palm sized and made out of felt. I'm going to be making much bigger pillow versions out of fleece so they'll be nice and soft and buono. Other picture is first stage of my Sculpey cell phone character charms. They're still unbaked because I have yet to add the hair (and hands for some). I kinda just wanted to get a whole bunch of the bodies done first since it's rather mundane work. I'm also going to be printing out another round of magnets soon, this time doing the first twelve countries in the Hetalia set. I forsee them being pretty popular and will probably end up having about 400 to cut out and clear coat (and that's just for Hetalia).

On the cosplay front, still being lazy as hell. But decided I'm going to trick out my Succession Wars Prussia cosplay cuz although I like how simple it is I want it to be more badass. So going to finish the hat then make a cape, ascot, and vest. Thinking it's gonna look pretty princely when I'm done so hopefully if Ebo does the dress version of Hungary we can wear them together for the AX Masquerade Ball.

I've been living in my apartment for a year now and I can't help but realize how sad it is I've never done any actual cooking there. I only have like five different things that I eat (pizza is four of them). Pathetic. I like cooking too which is why this is especially sad. So I decided I'm actually going to start making real food. And I'm going to start with THAT DAMN CURRY BREAD FROM KUROSHITSUJI. Aaaah God it looks so good, I've wanted to make it ever since that chapter came out in December. I'll be very depressed if it isn't good when I make it on Friday.

Starting to look at which cons I'm going to go to next year: Ohayocon in January, Anime Boston in April, Anime Detour in April, Anime Central in May, A-Kon in June, Anime Expo in July. I'm for sure going to Detour, the rest I'll have to really try to get people on board for so I can try to get there. It's a good thing they're all pretty spaced out, I'll be working a lot during the year so hopefully will have enough!

Awhile back Tony and I watched the first five episodes of the Persona anime. And had no idea what was going on. Despite the fact that I've read some of the manga and he's played all the games. Characters kept doing this thing called "shadow stripping" which actually just looked a lot like rape. So then when some girls are getting dragged into a room and someone started lifting up one of their shirts we were like, "wait is someone actually getting raped now or is this just more shadow stripping.." I still have no idea what "shadow stripping" is.

I was lent Persona 3 though, so I could get a better idea of what was going on. Persona is this really original idea where you shoot yourself in the head to fight these things called Shadows. The anime had these twins that were Maka Albarn and Soul Evans look alikes. The game has this guy named Akihiko who is really just 5YL Ryohei who moved his nose tape over to the side to hide his scar. CAN'T FOOL ME BUDDY.

Needless to say, I got the sudden urge to catch up in the Hitman Reborn manga. Also someone sent me this Byakuran page. He looks like he got caught in a wheat thresher, how could I resist such style?? Now that I'm caught up I have to say, can we be done with this arc yet? It's been going for eeeeooooons. I'm really uninterested in the new Millfore guardians though I do like the latest chapter and Irie's descriptions of his time travel. I don't even really get the tournament right now, like do we have to suffer through like eight more of these battles? How do we know how many there will be? I'm assuming that can't just be it since:
1. It's a shonen manga
2. Not everyone has been able to show off yet (especially Hibari)
3. Wtf is this manga going to be about if they just hand over their rings and boxes?
4. It's a shonen manga

Currently, am recovering from a night out at the bars. I woke up at 8am and couldn't fall asleep again. Tummy is a little upset but otherwise fine. I got drinks bought for me all night which was awesome because I like to save my money for my much nerdier pursuits.

Well I'm back, and holy damn the internet is working at my apartment again.

Ai-Kon was rather mixed for me but overall, good. Erin (Undertaker), Ebo (Dagger), Kiro (Ciel) and I (Joker) did a walk-on in the Intermediate group and won Best Workmanship. This was our prize. Lol wut? So it has since been dubbed "The Naked Lady" and is on my coffee table. I'm probably going to go get a base for it and turn it into an actual trophy because that would be funny.

I feel my art table went over really well, I sold about 94 magnets. Ai-kon is only 2k people so that's pretty awesome. I even made a profit, which I promptly spent. One of the big reasons I love going to Canada conventions is that their Dealer's Rooms have so many different things than American ones. I didn't actually take any cosplay pictures at this con so the only pictures I have are of the cool stuff I got:


The middle Hitman Reborn print and I are engaged to be married this fall.

The big bad thing that happened was Saturday night someone busted in my driver's side window and stole Tony's GPS thingy. The only other car that got broken into had Minnesota plates so.. probably going after Americans. Lame, Canada. Real lame. Thankfully we probably won't have to pay to replace it because my parents are thinking about trading it in. Still. Had to drive like three hours on the interstate with a piece of plastic over the window and stopped every ten minutes to re-duct tape.

Just finished off the rest of the tiramisu dessert Pocky I bought, mmm.

List the first ten series that come to mind. Your friends will comment with the character from each series that they think you are most like.

1. D.Gray Man
2. Kuroshitsuji
3. Soul Eater
4. Hitman Reborn!
5. Yu-Gi-Oh
6. Kingdom Hearts
7. Ronin Warriors
8. Ouran High School Host Club
9. Gundam 00
10. GetBackers

I keep doing this for other people, now I'm kinda curious. And don't just pick my cosplay characters unless you really do think we're alike.

Despite having an awesome time in CA, I'm extremely happy to be home. Two weeks is way to long a time to be on vacation imo... when cosplay is taking up 3/4th of your suitcase. I'm actually several shades tanner but the thing is I was so pale before that I'm now as tan as a normal, living person. So you can't even tell, which is unspeakably pathetic. I'm thinking of setting up my sewing machine on the balcony so my skin sees daylight sometimes.

( TOP TEN THING I NEVER WANT TO FORGET ABOUT AX 2009 )

I'll make a post later for my video but here's the picture breakdown:

Facebook album, part one (200 photos), part two (63 photos).
Part two is mostly Gintama, part one has Hitman Reborn, Kuroshitsuji, Soul Eater, ect.

Well, later today I'll be taking off for the cities to take my flight out to CA. I'm somewhat packed, I need to do some ironing and pick out some normal clothes for when I won't be at AX. I'm staying an extra week so I won't be back until the 11th.. not that I update regularly for anyone to notice. Those of you who will be at AX: see you soon; those of you who will not be at AX: in your face. I'll return with plenty of pictures for you though. X3

Finally finished this freaking hammer.

I started watching Princess Tutu last night mostly because of this. Quite obviously it's like the girliest show ever, but I dunno it's not to bad yet at episode 6. The downside of that awesome music video is that the actual series is less badass. So far it's pretty much the typical magical girl show but with more ballet and abuse (I laughed when Mute aka Prince Tool got shut up in that library room).

COSPLAY MEME FROM crookedascent:

1. Influence
I use to sew "normal" clothes so when I went to my first con it seemed pretty natural to make a costume to wear there.

2. Character Trend
Dudes. Also do a lot of characters with eyepatches/eye(s) covered/something crazy going on with their eyes. Just noticed that. Weird.

3. Cosplay Handle
Torra, my innerweb name.

4. Most Resemblance
Joker from Kuroshitsuji. I was actually kinda creeped out when I saw his character because that's exactly how I usually do my hair. I'd even put blond extensions in every now and then. Facially I think I look a bit like him too. Which is so/so since he is a man and I am not.

5. Favorite
That's hard but.. right now it's probably Joker because it's fun/comfortable to wear. No wig AND I DON'T HAVE TO WEAR WRAP JUST A SPORTS BRA YA-HA! and I can goof off while still being totally in character.

I'm moving some of the bigger folders I was able to find again onto my laptop via sendspace. I figured I'd post the links here since I'm doing it anyway and someone might want something. So take anything you want and if the links go down let me know and I'll re-upload it for you. And don't judge me for what I got on my computer alright, I'm trying to share shit with you.

ANIME
Air Gear ➡ 30 files -- mostly Agito/Akito
D.Gray Man ➡ 107 files -- 70 something of which are Lavi
Soul Eater ➡ 46 files
Kuroshitsuji ➡ 50 files
Hitman Reborn ➡ 136 files

CHARACTER
Viral (Gurren Lagann) ➡ 42 files
Kamina (Gurren Lagann) ➡ 25 files
Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh) ➡ 137 files
Kokuyo Boys (Hitman Reborn) ➡ 143 files
Mukuro (Hitman Reborn) ➡ 158 files
Yamamoto (Hitman Reborn) ➡ 307 files
Godot (Phoenix Wright) ➡ 411 files
Diego (Phoenix Wright) ➡ 135 files
Edgeworth (Phoenix Wright) ➡ 293 files
Wright (Phoenix Wright) ➡ 141 files
Larry + Wright + Edgeworth = BFFLs ➡ 59 files
Phoenix Wright non-main characters ➡ 148 files --eg. Larry Butz, Ron DeLite, Matt Engarde, females, ect

PAIRING
fyi, these don't contain anything graphic. sorry.
169 (Hitman Reborn) ➡ 41 files
Phoenix/Edgeworth (Phoenix Wright) ➡ 506 files

I was at work for six hours on Saturday and spent it all reading Bakuman. I like it, think it's pretty interesting. You can tell it's by the same people as Death Note, the young genius with odd habits bit = L. And although I think only one of you watch, I'd like to take a second to say how much I sincerely dislike and possibly hate Lenalee from D.Gray Man.

MERRY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!
If you're wondering what's in Tsuna's bag of toys, it's guns. Everyone is getting guns this year from the boss. Because, for a mafia show, there is a surprising lack of these.

I hope everyone is having a great Christmas and gets some awesome presents tomorrow.

I'm leaving for Minneapolis and upper Iowa on Friday morning so I won't be around until the 31st. Wait for me internet! D8

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