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In the vein of random thoughts,
at Tokyo in Tulsa, I saw a guy in a very striking costume--he looked great. I can't tell you if he was particularly good looking because his make-up was INTENSE. But he carried off the intensity very well.

But it started me thinking...though I'm not photogenic, I think I would make a pretty good costuming doll.
My coloring, particularly, would be fun to use as part of a character design.
(Sometime I'll have to show you the two shots I took of myself in which one is a self-portrait and one is a portrait of me as Tilda Swinton. Just by a slight angle change...)


Things I read Worth Reading lately:


( Why? )

At Tokyo in Tulsa [TnT] my friend found a *fabulous* Sesshoumaru tapestry. Genuinely beautiful. One of the girls in our roving band was saying something about how cool he was, though he lost an arm, and I went...

Me: !...!...!
Me: No, that is WHY he is cool!

This is one of those early-formed ideas that probably makes no sense to many people, I realized as my internal squee peaked out, leaving me incoherent. (I had forgotten about his arm, how do we forget these things?)

  It's the wounds that do it...

I killed off three likely young men in the space of five pages for that kind of glamour. (Annihilating a royal line while I was at it. Very tragic.) {This was a long time ago.}

As a child, I picked my scabs sneakily to try and acquire scars from my minor scratches. WOE, it is now revealed that this can facilitate regrowth without scar tissue.



Anyway, despite baiting as if I had a heady passion for Sesshoumaru, and a subsequent volunteered search for the other not-so-pretty tapestry of him, I had no desire to buy pictures of him. Like the Legolas poster hidden in my closet, there are some characters you just don't change in front of. (If you're silly like me.)

I did buy some Soot Sprite pins!



It must be that spirit of overcoming...

I, uh.
Uh.
Just fell in love with a comic that's completely ridiculous.

Of course, that's it's charm.

And if you're one of the people I've chatted with about:
Ouran
Sesshoumaru of Inuyasha
Skip-Beat
or any other things that have self-awareness of their silliness and work it...this may be something for you.

Watashi no Ookami-san is described thus:

Bored of sitting around holding a wine glass all day, the Demon Lord is looking for something new. Something cute. Someone like Komomo, the level 0 heroine who has just appeared before him, ready to vanquish him like all heroes (or heroines) do. Faced with a demon king who'd rather watch TV under a kotatsu and make out with her than spread evil over the land, what will Komomo do?




...in a completely related but mood-altering note
The real problem with shoujo romances is how often they have heroines rush headlong into a relationship that's supposedly problematic and refuse to address the actual issue.

Like, what happens when you fall out of love with your step-brother and still have to live with him?
(Crossroad is a story that doesn't take an easy out here.)

Skip-Beat is good because Kyoko can't put away her issues. She's working through them, and it's uphill.





So yeah, I had a good time at the TnT con today.

Frex, I'm fragile.

Hopefully tomorrow at Tokyo in Tulsa I won't be the Shy Mopey Girl, though since I'm not dressing up...
It's harder when I'm not play-acting.

I want to go to meet people, but the thing about this cyber age is that people don't really want to meet other people randomly in person. It's more uncomfortable.

How could you create a T-shirt target that means:
Yes, I'd like to chat intelligently
No, I'm not as young as I look and
Please don't take my default look of whatever-it-is to mean I am an intimidating person

So it's been precisely a month since Conestoga. I am putting up pictures of that, supplemented with some I took while figuring out my Asian cowpunk costume.



( A few more... )


Well, these photos aren't going to make my name as a photographer, and the costume looked about as undecided as it sounds, but...I have no regrets!



the composition of this photo was mostly accidental, but humorous all the same.

Good Things about the Con

~ Gentle nudges about things I need to do better as a writer, and

~ Hearing smart people talk, and sometimes being able to join them (in the Urban Fantasy panel, most notably...)

~ Having people I've known by face since my first con begin to recognize *me* (or, you know, have some basis for acknowledging it.)

Good Things about Being Home

~ a downpour out my open window, cool but not chilly

~ not caring how I look/no one to impress (obviously, the second oughtn't depend on my surroundings, but I am like this still...)

~ food. Though next time I'll try to remember there is a huge Reasors right across the street, as I observed late on Saturday. I can *buy* food...



Since I do not extrovert, but love to hang out with people, I always leave the con feeling a bit in a deficit. I need a con buddy.

Also, I want to go to a different con. Not that I *haven't* before, just the feeling is suddenly stronger.

Still. Let's try this again next year!

Some of my last details/duties for Conestoga (this weekend) have been wrapped up.

Not all, of course.

But I had my inaugural costuming frenzy. I have to finish my masquerade mask trappings, but otherwise I think I'm set.




Yes, cons are my chance to dress less subtly silly than other times. What of it?

...no, I will not be wearing that flag in my hair for real. But when I picked it up out of all our souvenirs I had to see how it looked.
And honestly, it looked every bit as good as the way they wear them on their backs in battle re-enactments. It was amusing. (That one's worth clicking on to see larger.)

I'll include this shot for the kinda funky look:


(trying on the prototype)

So fabricalchemist  and I have chatted on FB twice now. It is inevitable that I should incite her to foolishness.

Thus, The CHALLENGE:

I post my Gen Cosplay pictures and Ashitaka/San fanart.
She likewise will post Howl Cosplay/Fanart.

This was supposed to happen days ago, but I (at least) am both lazy and a turkey.

But no more!

A Warning: These are things I would rather not post. You will not be impressed. And yet, for Howl, I will do this.  *sob*


You can tell these pictures have lived many places with me...

( If you want a close-up... )





( Bad picture, but better view of the outfit... )
By the way, this shoot was hilarious, because there were actually little black kittens climbing around the tree and getting under my feet...

That's it for me.
I think. Was there anything else embarrassing I was supposed to put up here?

Now it's a certain someone else's turn...




Conestoga's coming up, folks! Don't forget! It's in April this year. I really need to get cracking on my Dress to Humiliate plans...

"Orson Scott Card sold a new steampunk series aimed directly at the YA market to Anica Rissi at Simon & Schuster's Pulse. Agent Barbara Bova of the Barbara Bova Literary Agency sold World English rights to the first three books in the as-yet-untitled series, which is scheduled to debut, in hardcover, in Spring 2011."   {rest of the article}


On the homepage at SFScope, which also has really relieving article about Realms of Fantasy's sale (!) that will keep it from going under.


But still moreso Orson Scott Card working on a YA steampunk fantasy!

This is right up there with the Colfer sequel for Hitchhiker's Guide...




In thematically related news of less import: I am currently working on my Asian-Cowboy-Punk outfit, for the con perhaps. Draft pictures to come soon?

If you didn't see my last post and want to hear me be silly about the con, that's the previous post at anachred. This is just a Teaser Dump.

From Chapter Two:

I manfully finished typing this chapter after hitting The Wall at 5ish.
Also, despite all the lovely doubts that this is a far too simple plot and it needs more tension, and everything I always do wrong in stories I'm still doing wrong.
On the upside, Sarah Rees Brennan's blog is hilarious and I have friend'd her. *beams*

And so here's my list--I love:

Suzette Haden Elgin or ozarque: "I have a husband who's so sight-oriented he has to put on his glasses to listen to a casette tape!"

Honorary Mentions:
 Beverly Hale (bevhale), Ilona Andrews (ilona_andrews), for being the kind of people who are just funny no matter what they say--I like to laugh!
Cedric playing violin with Queen's Gambit
Queen's Gambit
Elspeth Bloodgood, for being at least humorously cool under fire, and nice to me for reasons obscure and unfounded.

If there's seems a preponderance (I'm not sure that's a word, or even the word I'm looking for) of females, that's because cool geek women are cooler than you. I mean, unless you are a cool geek woman. Which is kinda my crowd, so you probably are.

[Note: The cool geek men are already married.]

Oh, and I can't read these, but Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series have the most pretty but grounded covers ever. So gorgeous.

I'll check in with more Poisson later.