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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? )

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.

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?

It was 22838.

For my Half-Birthday, I have both Dressed Up and Done a Good Deed.
(deed: convert a dear friend to a certain steampunk webcomic. CHECK.)

I wondered about Batman's ears being stiff enough to dig into the ground and get him stuck, a few episodes ago.

They're for breaking through glass ceilings before his skull hits them, as proven in episode 13 of Season 2. I don't know why I didn't think of this myself.

PS this entry has half as many tags as it does total words. This is, yes, sad.

I know such creative people I surely rank in the richest world-wide for it...




My childhood friend Dani hand-made these wings for her costume. They are about 10 feet across.
She's studying art at Gordon College, and would love to go into film special effects props and costuming. (If Facebook hints are any clue, I think a different picture of her was in the Boston Globe.) She's enormously talented, and I wish I was closer geographically to her, coz then I could stalk her.
   Uh, in a friend sort of a way, of course.

And though terribly anti-climactic, I will post my own costume photo:



Got any eye-candy links to share today?

nanowrites
This morning I commenced with 1580 words. Since 2000 a day is my Sundays-off wordcount, I guess it's not terrible, but I am being valiant to hardly any avail right now.... Currently at:
2619 words. Which is what, halfway done for the day's requirements? *gah*

syned, a brik

Today I got to page 66 of Mortal Queen (handwritten).

My total word count on World Domination 101 has gone down a few thousands since I started...
but the revised word count is 39000 and rising!
I'm averaging 5000 a session, since it's a simple grammar line-by-line. I'll get back to the voice/POV problems later. *shudddderrr*

And I have a Howl Costume, albeit with further modification to come...

Click for enlargement, but it is very hard to photograph. The fronts of the sleeves now have extensive quotes from the book scenes.
...a slight, very slight hint of red. and "You couldn't rest until I was miserable, too! It's GINGER. I shall have to hide" are part of the right side, for example.

It's supposed to be a book-nerdy costume, so it's okay it looks like glitterpaint on a bathrobe. My handwriting is attractive and unreadable to people, so I'm hoping it adds to the fire in silver affect. *sigh*

Where does the magic go?

Walk Eager is a perfectly wonderful story, and I was totally psyched about it. I think I got off-course, and need to rediscover the part that's exciting to me. Even typing this I realize I wanted to subvert some tropes, and though I'm almost to the first major one, I lost sight of it in the nitty-gritty... Luckily I'm not too far.

Things Still Magickal:

Howl Frontispiece Pictures after the jump...



And a Mortal Queen Excerpt
Because you deserve a treat...


(I kind of like the semi-country/Southern tone that's emerging for Tara. I'm pondering a real western steampunk and the brainstorming is infecting the rest of my brain.)

Okay, Inuyasha Flash!

Is it my imagination, or is Seishoumaru looking younger this season? Again, with the fangirl pandering!
That rather mindless ending footage of Emo!Seishoumaru definitely has him looking younger, but the owie-youkai bit, too...

I guess that was more of a Seishoumaru Flash! 
Though for the life of me I can't figure out how I want to spell that name. It seems a definite long "ei" sound, but with a double "ss" that's usually a shortening sort of orevious vowels, and...
I wouldn't be paying so much attention if I wasn't prey to the cold immortal shtick myself, of course.

Or even just the inscrutible mortal, as is the case with Witch Hunter Robin's Amon. He has scraggily whiskers, though, and up against S's facepaint...there's just no contest.

Howl!       yes, that's a calming influence. I have all the pieces for that costume, now I just need the work ethic...



I can tell when I'm in a seriously procrastinatory mood by the organizational stuff I try to talk myself into doing. Recently, I have a hankering to clean up my tagging here, from the very beginning.
Hahhh.