This is Silkie, Starfire’s pet mutant worm.
Isn’t he cute?! =D
This was my most relaxing Comic Con ever and I had a blast. Not that performing in the masq isn’t fun in its own way but after doing it 3 years running, we really needed a break. I think I saw more panels this year than in the past 3 years all together.
If this picture looks dubious, blame it on the very badly designed wing harness we came up with this year that requires reaching down each other’s dresses to snap the buckles. =D
Yeah, this is a way late post about AX…
So if I could sum up in one sentence what I did at AX, it would be: Spent the whole time in the room CHANGING.
Ohemgee, it feels like we were constantly changing… which we pretty much were! =P We way over-booked ourselves this year with the number of costumes.
Diagram kindly provided by Judy
Did I suddenly get super productive and accomplish it all last night? HELL NO.
I sliced my index finger open with a knife while carving the foam on my angel wings. F minus. =P So no more costuming for me. If it ain’t done, it ain’t getting done.
I’m fine. Thank gods for a quick thinking roommate. Judy had my hand wrapped up and me in the car before I even had time to register how bad it was.
AJ on the way to the hospital: Ohmigod that was DUMB. Do we have to go to the hospital?!
Judy: … Ummm, YES. =P
So after 5 hours of hanging out at the hospital, I finally got all patched up: they super glued me shut! =D Ok the real term is Dermabond but the doc says it’s just glorified superglue. Pretty nifty stuff. It sure beats being stitched up.
It is (according to my release papers): a 2 cm laceration. It kinda makes me all squeamish looking at it too. *yeech*
LOL
Anyways, that was my Monday evening. If we has cosplayer badges (like girl scout badges), I would award myself the “Grevious Bodily Harm while Cosplaying” one.
Go me. ^_^’
So shinbios is cooped up at my place sewing like a good little elf for AX. I asked him to keep an eye out for some ribbon I bought on Friday and couldn’t find this morning. He just told me he found it near one of the sewing machines.
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There are 5 machines out in our living room. EVERYTHING is near a sewing machine right now. =D
You know… anyone on the outside of the cosplay world watching us, could conceivably think of cosplaying as a big cult thing. There is some mystical date upcoming (that has nothing to do with a comet) and as the impending date approaches everyone gets progressively more suicidal and delirious and hysterical.
^____^’
Ok it’s a stretch but you gotta wonder what non-cosplayers think when they see all these journal entries of people having meltdowns.
Actually, I am remarkably unstressed about cosplay. I’m stressed but it’s all coming from my work deadlines. I just got one out of the way today so I got one more to go. If I don’t figure out this bug soon though, I’m still gonna go nuts.
AX status: I got a bit left on Nanao; a top and boots for Kizna; and feathering wings for Touki. It’d be manageable if it weren’t for the work deadlines, so we’ll see how it goes. I’ve gotten pretty zen about it… it’ll get done or it won’t, and that’s that.
This AX for AJ update brought to you by Jelly Belly’s Sport Beans.
(We should get some of these for AX.) =D
I have adopted porcupines! =D Actually, it was kitty scrubbing day on Saturday. And here is Yoyo after he figured out that we had set up all the lamps for them to toast under and dry off. Bobo was off sulking somewhere. He was very unhappy after his bath. ^__^’
AX stuff is crawling along. I have other deadlines not involving costumes (what a concept), so I’ve only been working part time on costumes. I’m fairly on track except for my Kizna costume which I haven’t even started on. I figured I’d work on it when shinbios gets here so then he can listen to me whine non-stop about having to wear a skirt. =D
Schedule for AX…
Saturday
Wish (Clamp) – pretty much all day seeing as how the panel is scheduled for 3 hours o_O
Sakura Taisen revue suits – after Clamp stuff sometime
Sunday
Hyoue (Her Majesty’s Dog) – 10am for Mick Takeuchi’s panel
Kizna – sometime in the afternoon
Gilgamesh – sometime in the evening
Monday
Oscar – morning 10am
Rocky Road – afternoon
Bleach – evening
Doesn’t seem too bad… I don’t have any specific times for most of my costume plans so I’m just gonna mosy around and hopefully get to hang out with lots of people. =)
