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yukieI am now the proud owner of a Squeenix Mateus figure that I got for 10-15 bucks less than what I usually see them going for, as well as a really pretty CG print that looks a hell of a lot like Lady Night from Vicky's pantheon.
I really need to set up a proper altar at some point.
I'm a little bit broker, and still tired, but seeing Elf and her husbang Roadbuster, and Luna H. and Akai again was rock-socking, and not even dumb high school kids in the Gay Sex 101 (or, how to not fail@slash) panel, the huge line for registration, and the obnoxious closetalking hygieneless yelly staff dude could harsh my squee. I got to swim, I bought a router so's we could all use the hotel's interpipe (their wireless was down, so I bought a wireless router; they didn't seem to give much of a shit about this and that's likely because (a) all we were doing was chatting or tagging RP and (b) goddamn there were a LOT of people doing likewise and there was a LAN party somewhere too so we were hardly the greatest evil), I had iced cappuccinos with breakfast and generally all was good.
AN is still having its growing pains; they still have way too few people at the registration desks and they don't realise that Captain Loud Closetalker is a giant hindrance to getting anything done right - AN staff, please give him a different job, it's not fair to him or the congoers to keep putting him on reg aid.
Either way.
The dealers' room was MUCH bigger and MUCH better staffed this year, as was Artist's Alley. I saw some epic costumes (a tiny Maria and Isaac whom I would have asked for a photo if they hadn't both been dead tired, some AMAZING Fate/Stay Night cosplayers (the best two were South Asian and super cute, oh god, such a cute Rin I have NEVER SEEN), a whole bunch of marvellous Touhou costumes, many many cute guys crossplaying, a kid dressed up as a Pokéball, a BLASTED AWESOME Seiken4 Stroud (who gleed because I knew who she was), THE MOST EPIC LIGHTNING EVER, and fuck - Roadbuster's Richter costume is fucking amazing, seriously, I need to find pictures of it), I got to cosplay Sypha (I wish I'd gotten Elf to take a picture of me and Roadbuster being all ZOMG ANACHRONISM COLLISION) and I got complimented on my tablecloth art at Jack Astor's and had chocolate fondue there (Isaac was over the moon).
In conclusion, one of the guys on the Gay Sex 101 panel IS NII (seriously - he's about 30-40, Asian, has a goatee, is HILARIOUS, and last year in explaining his own preferences, said, "I tend toward the toppish side and the sadistic side - oh, and that reminds me! YOU ALL JUST LOST THE GAME! :D"), the other little Asian guy on it IS ENSUI (his sunglasses, I wanted them), everyone was in general awesome, ad I need to transcribe the quotes I wrote down because they were amazing.
Overall: YAY CON, WILL DO IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR! I plan to start my costumes sooner, and continue in the classic gaming vein. Because I got dared to I will likely be trying to do the default sprite version of Secret of Mana's main antagonist. X3 YES I AM A NERD SHUT UP.
I may go all out with the fucking meta nerding and make a scythe too. :B
Other possible costumes I might try: Isaac, maybe Sonia Belmont,
(As an aside, the Utawarerumono staff are FANBOYS, Hakuoro's mask is like, DAMNED similar to T-biscuit's. Just switch the colour of the horns. I am amused.)
I really need to set up a proper altar at some point.
I'm a little bit broker, and still tired, but seeing Elf and her husbang Roadbuster, and Luna H. and Akai again was rock-socking, and not even dumb high school kids in the Gay Sex 101 (or, how to not fail@slash) panel, the huge line for registration, and the obnoxious closetalking hygieneless yelly staff dude could harsh my squee. I got to swim, I bought a router so's we could all use the hotel's interpipe (their wireless was down, so I bought a wireless router; they didn't seem to give much of a shit about this and that's likely because (a) all we were doing was chatting or tagging RP and (b) goddamn there were a LOT of people doing likewise and there was a LAN party somewhere too so we were hardly the greatest evil), I had iced cappuccinos with breakfast and generally all was good.
AN is still having its growing pains; they still have way too few people at the registration desks and they don't realise that Captain Loud Closetalker is a giant hindrance to getting anything done right - AN staff, please give him a different job, it's not fair to him or the congoers to keep putting him on reg aid.
Either way.
The dealers' room was MUCH bigger and MUCH better staffed this year, as was Artist's Alley. I saw some epic costumes (a tiny Maria and Isaac whom I would have asked for a photo if they hadn't both been dead tired, some AMAZING Fate/Stay Night cosplayers (the best two were South Asian and super cute, oh god, such a cute Rin I have NEVER SEEN), a whole bunch of marvellous Touhou costumes, many many cute guys crossplaying, a kid dressed up as a Pokéball, a BLASTED AWESOME Seiken4 Stroud (who gleed because I knew who she was), THE MOST EPIC LIGHTNING EVER, and fuck - Roadbuster's Richter costume is fucking amazing, seriously, I need to find pictures of it), I got to cosplay Sypha (I wish I'd gotten Elf to take a picture of me and Roadbuster being all ZOMG ANACHRONISM COLLISION) and I got complimented on my tablecloth art at Jack Astor's and had chocolate fondue there (Isaac was over the moon).
In conclusion, one of the guys on the Gay Sex 101 panel IS NII (seriously - he's about 30-40, Asian, has a goatee, is HILARIOUS, and last year in explaining his own preferences, said, "I tend toward the toppish side and the sadistic side - oh, and that reminds me! YOU ALL JUST LOST THE GAME! :D"), the other little Asian guy on it IS ENSUI (his sunglasses, I wanted them), everyone was in general awesome, ad I need to transcribe the quotes I wrote down because they were amazing.
Overall: YAY CON, WILL DO IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR! I plan to start my costumes sooner, and continue in the classic gaming vein. Because I got dared to I will likely be trying to do the default sprite version of Secret of Mana's main antagonist. X3 YES I AM A NERD SHUT UP.
I may go all out with the fucking meta nerding and make a scythe too. :B
Other possible costumes I might try: Isaac, maybe Sonia Belmont,
(As an aside, the Utawarerumono staff are FANBOYS, Hakuoro's mask is like, DAMNED similar to T-biscuit's. Just switch the colour of the horns. I am amused.)
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Date: 2010-06-01 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-01 12:32 pm (UTC)XD Sonia would be fun, man. I mean, yes, boots of DOOM but I'm not likely to deal with otaku bein' fools when I'm wearing that. (Some otaku have trouble remembering that people aren't the character they are cosplaying; this is likely what saved me from idiots when I was cosplaying Matou Sakura from Fate/Stay Night the year before last, as Sakura is in one of the story routes the yandere from hell.) And I found this epic dang JP fanart of Sonia by an artist who also did some damn epic interpretations of the CV3 quartet (if you've got a pixiv account they're here) and their work gives me epic dang ideas.
I like oldschool/16-bit gaming characters XD; usually they've got fun clothing.