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AB CON REPORT AWAAAY
So, I'm still trying to get back into the hang of this "posting regularly" thing. I'm not quite sure I've mastered it yet, but hey, anything more than one post every 3 months is progress for me. :B I was actually going to post yesterday as well, but I wasn't feeling so good and also I had to work on my final for my Fairy Tales and Gender class (a retelling of The Snow Queen with lesbians, woooo). But I am done with that now (the draft, anyway), and also I'm planning to start something that will hopefully get me posting a lot more from now on! But before I can tell you that story, I have to tell you this story.
Thursday:
Thursday was, as it often is, uneventful. My friend Julie-san and I took the bus together, which was a lot of fun, and definitely awesomer than most bus rides. Then my dad picked us up at the bus station and I got my badge and Julie-san got her hotel room. Then I went home. I did tell you it was uneventful. There was some brief panic that night over not being able to find my dad's camera, but as luck would have it, I chanced to glance downward and see it just sitting in a box. So that crisis was averted.
Friday:
Cosplayed Graham today. Actually, I cosplayed Graham all three days, but this was the first. :B It was pretty dang well-received; I got a lot of recognitions and enough pictures taken that I lost count, which is unusual for me. I am so glad Baccano! love is alive and well. ♥ Also the costume itself is comfortable and the frillion pockets really come in handy. It is going to bee a struggle not to wear this to every convention I go to in the future. :P
I met up with a bunch of people from my high school around 8 to take the train. It was not as much fun as it used to be because no one from my year was there. Also, no train singing. :( By the time we got to the con it was 9 and nothing was open yet except karaoke, so that's where Yuki (cosplaying Taichi again) and I went. The plus side to this was that we were the second and third people to get to sing. He did Butter-fly (of course), and I did Sorairo Days, which I don't think I knocked out of the park quite as much as I was expecting to. :( Maybe I should have just gone with My-Pace Daiou instead. At any rate, this turned out to be our only karaoke all con. I guess there were too many sweet panels this year. :B
Speaking of sweet panels. (yes good segue.) At 10 Yuki and I went to a panel called Besides Pokémon, which turned out to be the first of 4(!) panels we attended that were run by the awesome Viga, who is pretty much the best and also a huge Digimon fan. :B The panel, which was about mon shows, did of course cover Digimon (all 7 seasons!) before moving on to things like Monster Rancher, Mon Colle Knights, Medabots, and things that did not start with M. This was a huge nostalgia trip for Yuki, but I hadn't watched most of these shows so it sadly did not have the same effect on me. It was still enjoyable, however, thanks to Viga's sweet presentation skills. I also learned that I have to watch Narutaru and that its protagonist is apparently Kris from Pokémon.
Also I forgot to mention this but on the way to that panel we ran into BACCANO! COSPLAYERS YES YES YESSSSSS. There was an Isaac, a Miria, and a (Boss) Ladd, all of them perfectly in-character. I felt supremely inadequate. But I got a picture with them anyway. :D
After that we went to Genshiken: The Next Generation, which turned out to also be run by Viga. It was just a brief look at the characters in the new Genshiken series, with the conclusion that it is probably not as good as the original, but give it time. And Ogiue changed her hair. But also there is a crossdresser, so there's that.
I ate lunch then, because it wasn't Passover yet, so I could. It was the first Flamers burger I'd had in ages and totally worth it. This was also around the time I started getting into the cosplay scavenger hunt, which I'd picked up earlier, in earnest; but more on that later. After this was Hyakunin Kuizu, aka Anime Family Feud. To be honest, it wasn't as exciting as I'd expected (needed better questions), but Yuki got picked for one of the teams and made it to the final round. He won a DVD of Nabari no Ou. Sooooo cooooool. ♥
I think at this point I wandered around the Artists' Alley and/or Dealers' Room for a bit. I went back to those two places a lot (so many awesome artists this year hnnng), so if you see any stretch of unaccounted-for time in this report, just assume that's where I was. I also got several scavenger hunt signatures during this time period. After that was our third Viga panel, Latin Latin Madoka More Latin, which was, as expected, awesome. It was her and another guy basically analyzing everything in the show. I didn't understand half of it but it sure looked cool. My favorite part was what they said about how, just like regular moe shows, Madoka was supposed to inspire pity, but with the opposite reaction - instead of "She's hurting, I want to hug her and make it better," it's, "She's hurting, oh god make it stop." Nifty, I thought.
By the time the Madoka panel ended it was 4:30 and I had to leave at 5ish, so Yuki and I spent the rest of the day scrambling to find the rest of the required 30 scavenger hunt signatures. After finally locating someone from Battle Angel Alita for "A character made of metal", we rushed to the Masquerade HQ with minutes to spare, learned that we were the third to finish (prizes were to be awarded to the first five), and received... a pocket Rubik's Cube. A really cheap one that the stickers started to peel off of the first time I solved it. And also a tiny plastic trophy. There were other prizes too but I kid you not, it was just this box full of stuff that looked like what you might get if you won a game at a Bar Mitzvah or something. I'm not trying to be greedy, but I think for something that takes as much time and energy as a cosplay scavenger hunt, especially if you advertise prizes for the first 5 winners, they ought to be at least something with some kind of value. I was expecting like a DVD or something. Anyway that was definitely the low point of the con for me. :(
(The list of characters I got for my scavenger hunt list is reproduced here, btw. Normally I wouldn't post something like that, but I was quite pleased with some of the answers I came up with. Especially "An important character's mother". :P)
So then I went home and passovered and stayed up till 2 anyway the end.
Saturday:
Went in same as before, derped around for a bit before meeting up with O.A. in line for the AMV contest. (At the head of the line, as is her wont. :B) I wasn't going to stay the whole time but I ended up doing so because dang, sweet AMVs. Some of my favorites: Reunite Without Fail (No. 6), Fate Matrix (various - won Best Drama), Your Perfect World (Black Lagoon - won Best Action), Shut Up And Ride (Rideback - which I need to watch), First Kiss (various), Enchanted (Kimi ni Todoke - Best Romance - eeeee a KnT AMV that is amazing and actually won ♥), Safety Dance (Nichijou), Hands Up! (Dragonball Z - Best Fun/Upbeat - should have been Best in Show tbh), My Own Personal AMV Hell (various, obvs), and Clubbin' With Lupin (Lupin III, various). Yeah there were a lot of good ones this year. :D
After that giant list of AMVs (during which I ate lunch, because the one perk of cons during Passover is you can bring your own food), I had planned to go to Apples 2 Applezz, but I should probably have realized how popular it would be; it was full by the time I got there. So instead I went to the Caitlin Glass guest panel, which actually turned out really well. Not only did I get to ask how much they take their cues from the Japanese performance when dubbing (answer: a lot, unless there's something they need to change up because of mouth flaps or whatever), I got her to sign my Baccano! DVD afterwards. ^_^ Her actual autograph session was at the same time as the panel I was cohosting later that day, so that was a really lucky break.
After that I'd planned to go to Trivia for All, but that too was full, which was a shame; I'd missed doing that sort of bar trivia thing. However, that too would turn out to be for the best - when I was dragging Yuki down to the Dealers' Room since we had some free time, we came right smack-dab upon A DIGIMON PHOTOSHOOT IN PROGRESS. Naturally, Yuki jumped in and I got about 5 million pictures and everyone was so cool and aaaaahhhhhhhh. Also there was someone cosplaying the Fox Box and playing (dub, obvs) Digimon music. I mean, it doesn't get much better than that.
HG's and my panel was next. I'd never cohosted a panel before, but it was a lot more casual and less nerve-wracking than I thought it would be. We touched on confirmed Jewish characters in anime (very few), possible Jewish characters in anime (slightly more but still few), the Jewish conspiracy of Pokémon, the idea that the Japanese might be one of the lost tribes of Israel, the history of Jews in Japan, and how a surprising amount of Jewish stuff has made its way into Japanese popular culture (need I say more). I am not sure everyone liked the panel but I had a good time. Afterwards we had a makeshift seder, which was surprisingly well-attended (~15 people, including a guy who'd had the foresight to bring a Haggadah - thank you, that guy).
I could have gone to the masquerade after that, but there was a panel I was looking forward to during it and also the annoying MC last year had sort of soured me on the whole idea. So I slipped into Great Anime Openings, which was just a guy playing a bunch of his favorite anime openings one right after the other, and it was awesome. (Animes to check out based on openings: Kimagure Orange Road, Ring ni Kakero, Tenjho Tenge, Planetes, Devilman, Overman King Gainer, Outlaw Star, Paranoia Agent. Also Baccano! was in there. c:)
A couple hours after that was the one I'd been looking forward to, which was called Nanda Korya! Deciphering Manga Japanese. It was interesting, but probably would have been more so a couple years of Japanese ago. But maybe I'm just bitter because during the panel someone stepped on my wrench and broke it again. >:| Thankfully I managed to get it fixed the next day, but I'm going to have to do some serious repair work before that thing can see the light of another con. Yeesh.
Anyway then I met up with Yuki and we caught some of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Anime Style, which was not that great and also I had to leave early to get a ride. Also it turned out that there was a gigantic Homestuck meetup right outside that room so I took a few pictures. Unfortunately, my ride happened to have left without me (my fault for not getting on the list earlier), so I just got a ride home with Yuki the end.
Wait not the end there was one more day.
Sunday:
Sunday morning was the long-awaited (by Yuki and me) Digimon: Digital Fan Panel, run by - you guessed it - Viga. I don't remember much about it specifically - it was just a bunch of Digimon fans being Digimon fans about Digimon in a room for an hour. And it was awesome. ♥
The Digimon panel ended at 11:15 and HG's panel was at 11, so I probably could have made it there, but I realized I'd made plans to meet my semi-internet friend Pyro at the Pokémon photoshoot at 11 so I had to bail. Sorry HG. D: Pyro and his friends were awesome though and I had a sweet time hanging out with them, even if I was super awkward and a dork the whole time. c:
I then met up with Yuki in the middle of 10 Years of Anime Boston AMV Submissions. Sadly, I'd just missed the ones from '07, which if you'll remember was the first year I saw the AMV contest and included a whole gigantic mess of ones I loved. Oh well; I'm sure they're on YouTube. And it's not like the other ones were bad either. That one Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne video especially. (I've still got to watch that show.)
I was considering going to Gender and Nerd Culture, but I abandoned it in favor of (I think) derping around and buying the last stuff I was going to buy. (Bought stuff list coming up, btw.) Then I had to change in the bathroom because my dad was going to drive Julie-san and me straight to the bus afterward, and then I found Yuki at the closing ceremonies. Those were good but pretty short, so afterwards I think we sat around for a bit, and then Julie-san and I had to go. :(
I slept on the bus on the way back to school and when I woke up felt surprisingly satisfied, with very little post-con depression. I should try sleeping directly afterward next con. Anyway the point is, good AB, best con. AKA it was awesome. ♥
Other cool things I forgot when they were:
- An Otacon and I mutually squeeing over each other's costumes, and his friend Big Boss trying to recruit me to build Metal Gears; I had to decline as Graham's specialty is dismantling things, not so much putting them together.
- Running into two more Baccanoes (Jacuzzi and Nice eeee)
- Not one, but four Katawa Shoujo cosplayers!
- A freakin' Sandman group adkjfkdskvdhkbdakbhdav
- every cosplayer actually honestly
- Finding out that the Artists' Alley guy who sells clay Digimon stuff is also a JCA fan and is planning to make talismans to sell next AB (OMG YESSSSSS all of my money)
- Wow is that all really.
- I guess everything I bought also qualifies.
Everything I bought:
- Two incredibly cute commissions of Charlie and Stella, my gijinka Infernape and Staraptor
- A sketch commission of two of my friends' next-gen Homestucks by the awesome Homestuck artist averyniceprince@tumblr (SERIOUSLY IT WAS SO PERFECT kadkhfadbhkfadbkadbhkds)
- Small Madoka print by same
- Organization XIII print
- Yoko print (I seem to buy a lot of those)
- 3 Baccano! prints by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halcyonjazz, because a) she liked my costume, b) where else am I going to find Baccano! things to buy?, and c) she's awesome. c:
- The entire series of Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts (I waffled a bit, but it's probably out of print by now, and hey, 4 volumes for $20? Can't beat that.)
- A bunch of keychains from the amazingsoltian: Kimimaro (which she gave me for free, d'aww), Gatomon, and A CUSTOM LADD/CLAIRE ONE EEEEEEE (eeeeeeeeeeeeeee perfection thank you soltian also it was great seeing you ♥)
- Madoka keychain, which is currently occupying the place of honor on my keyring
- ANAKIN/LUKE DOUJINSHI
Okay I have to wax poetic for a bit about this Anakin/Luke doujinshi. Not only is there a big enough Star Wars fandom in Japan to have fanworks, and not only are there Ani/Luke fans within this Japanese fandom, but there are enough talented Ani/Luke writers and artists to put together a whole freakin' doujinshi. All of my love. ♥ ♥ ♥ Of course, since half of it is fic, now I have to get better at Japanese stat. But hey, it's a pretty good incentive. c:
ANYWAY THAT WAS MY CON REPORT THANKS FOR READING ♥
Wow that was horrendously long. Kudos to you if you read all of it. Anyway, here is that thing I was talking about that will hopefully revolutionize my posting habits (i.e., make them existent)! :D
{Take the 100 Things challenge!}
I know I don't normally do stuff like this, but I sawburningqueen doing it and I was inspired. :D My topic is going to be 100 of my fandoms. It would probably sound better as something like "100 fandoms I am or have been in", but I never really leave a fandom, just kind of drift away from it for a while (which is what led me to think of the topic in the first place). I'm going to be posting them in alphabetical order, and I wanted to get the first one up tonight, but we'll see how much energy I have after writing this big long post. But if this works out, prepare yourselves for a whole lot more entries from me. I think you're going to like them. c:
Thursday:
Thursday was, as it often is, uneventful. My friend Julie-san and I took the bus together, which was a lot of fun, and definitely awesomer than most bus rides. Then my dad picked us up at the bus station and I got my badge and Julie-san got her hotel room. Then I went home. I did tell you it was uneventful. There was some brief panic that night over not being able to find my dad's camera, but as luck would have it, I chanced to glance downward and see it just sitting in a box. So that crisis was averted.
Friday:
Cosplayed Graham today. Actually, I cosplayed Graham all three days, but this was the first. :B It was pretty dang well-received; I got a lot of recognitions and enough pictures taken that I lost count, which is unusual for me. I am so glad Baccano! love is alive and well. ♥ Also the costume itself is comfortable and the frillion pockets really come in handy. It is going to bee a struggle not to wear this to every convention I go to in the future. :P
I met up with a bunch of people from my high school around 8 to take the train. It was not as much fun as it used to be because no one from my year was there. Also, no train singing. :( By the time we got to the con it was 9 and nothing was open yet except karaoke, so that's where Yuki (cosplaying Taichi again) and I went. The plus side to this was that we were the second and third people to get to sing. He did Butter-fly (of course), and I did Sorairo Days, which I don't think I knocked out of the park quite as much as I was expecting to. :( Maybe I should have just gone with My-Pace Daiou instead. At any rate, this turned out to be our only karaoke all con. I guess there were too many sweet panels this year. :B
Speaking of sweet panels. (yes good segue.) At 10 Yuki and I went to a panel called Besides Pokémon, which turned out to be the first of 4(!) panels we attended that were run by the awesome Viga, who is pretty much the best and also a huge Digimon fan. :B The panel, which was about mon shows, did of course cover Digimon (all 7 seasons!) before moving on to things like Monster Rancher, Mon Colle Knights, Medabots, and things that did not start with M. This was a huge nostalgia trip for Yuki, but I hadn't watched most of these shows so it sadly did not have the same effect on me. It was still enjoyable, however, thanks to Viga's sweet presentation skills. I also learned that I have to watch Narutaru and that its protagonist is apparently Kris from Pokémon.
Also I forgot to mention this but on the way to that panel we ran into BACCANO! COSPLAYERS YES YES YESSSSSS. There was an Isaac, a Miria, and a (Boss) Ladd, all of them perfectly in-character. I felt supremely inadequate. But I got a picture with them anyway. :D
After that we went to Genshiken: The Next Generation, which turned out to also be run by Viga. It was just a brief look at the characters in the new Genshiken series, with the conclusion that it is probably not as good as the original, but give it time. And Ogiue changed her hair. But also there is a crossdresser, so there's that.
I ate lunch then, because it wasn't Passover yet, so I could. It was the first Flamers burger I'd had in ages and totally worth it. This was also around the time I started getting into the cosplay scavenger hunt, which I'd picked up earlier, in earnest; but more on that later. After this was Hyakunin Kuizu, aka Anime Family Feud. To be honest, it wasn't as exciting as I'd expected (needed better questions), but Yuki got picked for one of the teams and made it to the final round. He won a DVD of Nabari no Ou. Sooooo cooooool. ♥
I think at this point I wandered around the Artists' Alley and/or Dealers' Room for a bit. I went back to those two places a lot (so many awesome artists this year hnnng), so if you see any stretch of unaccounted-for time in this report, just assume that's where I was. I also got several scavenger hunt signatures during this time period. After that was our third Viga panel, Latin Latin Madoka More Latin, which was, as expected, awesome. It was her and another guy basically analyzing everything in the show. I didn't understand half of it but it sure looked cool. My favorite part was what they said about how, just like regular moe shows, Madoka was supposed to inspire pity, but with the opposite reaction - instead of "She's hurting, I want to hug her and make it better," it's, "She's hurting, oh god make it stop." Nifty, I thought.
By the time the Madoka panel ended it was 4:30 and I had to leave at 5ish, so Yuki and I spent the rest of the day scrambling to find the rest of the required 30 scavenger hunt signatures. After finally locating someone from Battle Angel Alita for "A character made of metal", we rushed to the Masquerade HQ with minutes to spare, learned that we were the third to finish (prizes were to be awarded to the first five), and received... a pocket Rubik's Cube. A really cheap one that the stickers started to peel off of the first time I solved it. And also a tiny plastic trophy. There were other prizes too but I kid you not, it was just this box full of stuff that looked like what you might get if you won a game at a Bar Mitzvah or something. I'm not trying to be greedy, but I think for something that takes as much time and energy as a cosplay scavenger hunt, especially if you advertise prizes for the first 5 winners, they ought to be at least something with some kind of value. I was expecting like a DVD or something. Anyway that was definitely the low point of the con for me. :(
(The list of characters I got for my scavenger hunt list is reproduced here, btw. Normally I wouldn't post something like that, but I was quite pleased with some of the answers I came up with. Especially "An important character's mother". :P)
So then I went home and passovered and stayed up till 2 anyway the end.
Saturday:
Went in same as before, derped around for a bit before meeting up with O.A. in line for the AMV contest. (At the head of the line, as is her wont. :B) I wasn't going to stay the whole time but I ended up doing so because dang, sweet AMVs. Some of my favorites: Reunite Without Fail (No. 6), Fate Matrix (various - won Best Drama), Your Perfect World (Black Lagoon - won Best Action), Shut Up And Ride (Rideback - which I need to watch), First Kiss (various), Enchanted (Kimi ni Todoke - Best Romance - eeeee a KnT AMV that is amazing and actually won ♥), Safety Dance (Nichijou), Hands Up! (Dragonball Z - Best Fun/Upbeat - should have been Best in Show tbh), My Own Personal AMV Hell (various, obvs), and Clubbin' With Lupin (Lupin III, various). Yeah there were a lot of good ones this year. :D
After that giant list of AMVs (during which I ate lunch, because the one perk of cons during Passover is you can bring your own food), I had planned to go to Apples 2 Applezz, but I should probably have realized how popular it would be; it was full by the time I got there. So instead I went to the Caitlin Glass guest panel, which actually turned out really well. Not only did I get to ask how much they take their cues from the Japanese performance when dubbing (answer: a lot, unless there's something they need to change up because of mouth flaps or whatever), I got her to sign my Baccano! DVD afterwards. ^_^ Her actual autograph session was at the same time as the panel I was cohosting later that day, so that was a really lucky break.
After that I'd planned to go to Trivia for All, but that too was full, which was a shame; I'd missed doing that sort of bar trivia thing. However, that too would turn out to be for the best - when I was dragging Yuki down to the Dealers' Room since we had some free time, we came right smack-dab upon A DIGIMON PHOTOSHOOT IN PROGRESS. Naturally, Yuki jumped in and I got about 5 million pictures and everyone was so cool and aaaaahhhhhhhh. Also there was someone cosplaying the Fox Box and playing (dub, obvs) Digimon music. I mean, it doesn't get much better than that.
HG's and my panel was next. I'd never cohosted a panel before, but it was a lot more casual and less nerve-wracking than I thought it would be. We touched on confirmed Jewish characters in anime (very few), possible Jewish characters in anime (slightly more but still few), the Jewish conspiracy of Pokémon, the idea that the Japanese might be one of the lost tribes of Israel, the history of Jews in Japan, and how a surprising amount of Jewish stuff has made its way into Japanese popular culture (need I say more). I am not sure everyone liked the panel but I had a good time. Afterwards we had a makeshift seder, which was surprisingly well-attended (~15 people, including a guy who'd had the foresight to bring a Haggadah - thank you, that guy).
I could have gone to the masquerade after that, but there was a panel I was looking forward to during it and also the annoying MC last year had sort of soured me on the whole idea. So I slipped into Great Anime Openings, which was just a guy playing a bunch of his favorite anime openings one right after the other, and it was awesome. (Animes to check out based on openings: Kimagure Orange Road, Ring ni Kakero, Tenjho Tenge, Planetes, Devilman, Overman King Gainer, Outlaw Star, Paranoia Agent. Also Baccano! was in there. c:)
A couple hours after that was the one I'd been looking forward to, which was called Nanda Korya! Deciphering Manga Japanese. It was interesting, but probably would have been more so a couple years of Japanese ago. But maybe I'm just bitter because during the panel someone stepped on my wrench and broke it again. >:| Thankfully I managed to get it fixed the next day, but I'm going to have to do some serious repair work before that thing can see the light of another con. Yeesh.
Anyway then I met up with Yuki and we caught some of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Anime Style, which was not that great and also I had to leave early to get a ride. Also it turned out that there was a gigantic Homestuck meetup right outside that room so I took a few pictures. Unfortunately, my ride happened to have left without me (my fault for not getting on the list earlier), so I just got a ride home with Yuki the end.
Wait not the end there was one more day.
Sunday:
Sunday morning was the long-awaited (by Yuki and me) Digimon: Digital Fan Panel, run by - you guessed it - Viga. I don't remember much about it specifically - it was just a bunch of Digimon fans being Digimon fans about Digimon in a room for an hour. And it was awesome. ♥
The Digimon panel ended at 11:15 and HG's panel was at 11, so I probably could have made it there, but I realized I'd made plans to meet my semi-internet friend Pyro at the Pokémon photoshoot at 11 so I had to bail. Sorry HG. D: Pyro and his friends were awesome though and I had a sweet time hanging out with them, even if I was super awkward and a dork the whole time. c:
I then met up with Yuki in the middle of 10 Years of Anime Boston AMV Submissions. Sadly, I'd just missed the ones from '07, which if you'll remember was the first year I saw the AMV contest and included a whole gigantic mess of ones I loved. Oh well; I'm sure they're on YouTube. And it's not like the other ones were bad either. That one Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne video especially. (I've still got to watch that show.)
I was considering going to Gender and Nerd Culture, but I abandoned it in favor of (I think) derping around and buying the last stuff I was going to buy. (Bought stuff list coming up, btw.) Then I had to change in the bathroom because my dad was going to drive Julie-san and me straight to the bus afterward, and then I found Yuki at the closing ceremonies. Those were good but pretty short, so afterwards I think we sat around for a bit, and then Julie-san and I had to go. :(
I slept on the bus on the way back to school and when I woke up felt surprisingly satisfied, with very little post-con depression. I should try sleeping directly afterward next con. Anyway the point is, good AB, best con. AKA it was awesome. ♥
Other cool things I forgot when they were:
- An Otacon and I mutually squeeing over each other's costumes, and his friend Big Boss trying to recruit me to build Metal Gears; I had to decline as Graham's specialty is dismantling things, not so much putting them together.
- Running into two more Baccanoes (Jacuzzi and Nice eeee)
- Not one, but four Katawa Shoujo cosplayers!
- A freakin' Sandman group adkjfkdskvdhkbdakbhdav
- every cosplayer actually honestly
- Finding out that the Artists' Alley guy who sells clay Digimon stuff is also a JCA fan and is planning to make talismans to sell next AB (OMG YESSSSSS all of my money)
- Wow is that all really.
- I guess everything I bought also qualifies.
Everything I bought:
- Two incredibly cute commissions of Charlie and Stella, my gijinka Infernape and Staraptor
- A sketch commission of two of my friends' next-gen Homestucks by the awesome Homestuck artist averyniceprince@tumblr (SERIOUSLY IT WAS SO PERFECT kadkhfadbhkfadbkadbhkds)
- Small Madoka print by same
- Organization XIII print
- Yoko print (I seem to buy a lot of those)
- 3 Baccano! prints by
halcyonjazz, because a) she liked my costume, b) where else am I going to find Baccano! things to buy?, and c) she's awesome. c:- The entire series of Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts (I waffled a bit, but it's probably out of print by now, and hey, 4 volumes for $20? Can't beat that.)
- A bunch of keychains from the amazing
soltian: Kimimaro (which she gave me for free, d'aww), Gatomon, and A CUSTOM LADD/CLAIRE ONE EEEEEEE (eeeeeeeeeeeeeee perfection thank you soltian also it was great seeing you ♥)- Madoka keychain, which is currently occupying the place of honor on my keyring
- ANAKIN/LUKE DOUJINSHI
Okay I have to wax poetic for a bit about this Anakin/Luke doujinshi. Not only is there a big enough Star Wars fandom in Japan to have fanworks, and not only are there Ani/Luke fans within this Japanese fandom, but there are enough talented Ani/Luke writers and artists to put together a whole freakin' doujinshi. All of my love. ♥ ♥ ♥ Of course, since half of it is fic, now I have to get better at Japanese stat. But hey, it's a pretty good incentive. c:
ANYWAY THAT WAS MY CON REPORT THANKS FOR READING ♥
Wow that was horrendously long. Kudos to you if you read all of it. Anyway, here is that thing I was talking about that will hopefully revolutionize my posting habits (i.e., make them existent)! :D
{Take the 100 Things challenge!}
I know I don't normally do stuff like this, but I saw
burningqueen doing it and I was inspired. :D My topic is going to be 100 of my fandoms. It would probably sound better as something like "100 fandoms I am or have been in", but I never really leave a fandom, just kind of drift away from it for a while (which is what led me to think of the topic in the first place). I'm going to be posting them in alphabetical order, and I wanted to get the first one up tonight, but we'll see how much energy I have after writing this big long post. But if this works out, prepare yourselves for a whole lot more entries from me. I think you're going to like them. c: