Right now it tentatively looks like:

FRI.

AM/PM | Black*Star / Soul Eater
// with evanae, chynoi (and group?)

late PM | Amuro Ray / Zeta, MS Gundam
// with naoekun

SAT.

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM? | Ribbons Almack / Gundam 00
// Gundam Gathering (with evanae, naoekun?)

≈ 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Yamcha / DBZ with mikage

≈ 3:00 PM onwards | Ueki / Law of Ueki
// rehearsal + Masquerade with ensuing and group

SUN.

AM | Mikage / 07 Ghost
// with evanae and group

PM | Krillin / DBZ with mikage, Ennis / Baccano! ???

≈ 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM | formal Spirit, Black*Star / SE, Ribbons Almack / G00
// Black and White Ball, with evanae as Maka, Moeria Tieria

after 11:00 PM | formal Amuro Ray / UC Gundam
// shoot with naoekun

MON.

AM/PM | ???


May or may not be in Artist Alley the whole rest of the time. Will update later with promotion and table # etc.

THE CON REPORT OF DOOOOOOOMMMMM

With each passing year it gets harder to write these things. This year's Fanime in brief was a whirlwind. There were wins and fails of epic proportions, absolutely nothing was done on time, there was NO TIME to get done all that needed to be done, and most of the 3.5 days was spent getting swept from one place/event/shoot to another. For the most part I loved it! (In much the same way that I love pain and stress and adrenalin rushes). I spent 3 nights in 3 different hotel rooms, met a ton of awesome new people, spent time with some of my favorite friends, participated in my 1st masquerade skit, ate way too much McDonalds and got virtually no swag -- it was generally an awesome and eventful con.

Oh also throughout the whole duration of con I had to myself a total of 3 Souls. BFF CORNUCOPIA

[ETA] WHOA HOLY FUCK this thing is a mammoth *LJ CUTS for the love of god*



SHOUTOUTS!!!!

amandier yayy I got to speak to you! Omg adoriblest Eureka and Four ever ;__;
chynoi *BROFISTS*
cursedinanime, cosplayeriori accidental table neighbors whoo! XD hopefully next year you me and Nori could somehow get adjacent tables :D
eeveil stupid sexy Lockon ♥ and official 1422 Asian Mix DJ wut XD
ensuing + masq gang, THANK YOU for a great 1st skit experience! NEXT YEAR HERE WE COME
evalime thank you for being so accommodating, esp. for our night shots (lol @ getting chased off-site by fat security guard)
evanae MAKA ♥ TATER ♥ MOERIA ♥ baw we didn't get to drink together :/ rest well! Hopefully subsequent cons would be less stressful ;~;
fullmetal_tora *MESSES UP YOUR TOILET PAPER TRIANGLES*
kikyouluver *BUNNY NOISES IN YOUR EAR* ♥♥♥
antieden nice meeting/talking to you~ homg Sakura Taisen *__*
konishii Y SO SRS, HAKUREN? I'm so glad to finally meet you~~ ♥♥♥ derpy SE times was AWESOME XD
lachraine BFF, Y/Y?
luffyxii CANNED HEAT IN YOUR HEELS, MAN. You gotta teach me your moves XDDD
mangoichiban it was nice meeting you (properly)!
maridahhadiram oh man I saw you for like 3 seconds ;~; But amazing costume as usual! Lol your hug hurt so good 8D
mirai_noah yay I'm glad we got to powwow for both SE and G00 XDD more Soul Eater at AX!
naoekun ♥ our early morning conversation XD and ♥ your photos! Nuu we didn't get to do Gundam Anniversary/ Desert Heroes :'< Next time!!
nerdcore glad you made the party MISUTAA BUSHIDO ♥ also omg SEXY JUSTINNNN
random_karen SOOOOOURRRRRRRUUUUU~~~~ good times brah, good times. (PS you're hot in a suit PPS I'm not sorry for constantly cockblocking you and Maka - Love, Papa)
castor it was fun hanging out with youuuu ♥ you were a great Maiza!
sani_caranza you're such a sweetheart! It was nice meeting and hanging out with you :3
mikage EPIC FAILWIN DBZ!!!! Krillin was... an experience (which I'd like not to repeat orz) but I would totally do Yamcha again! Also ♥ Firo ♥!!
sporkkunoichi thank you for sexy Soul Eater shoot!
tenshiyaki I saw youuuu! For like 2 minutes :C maybe I'll see you a little longer at AX XD
whitelilacs SETSUNA GET! It was good seeing you~
yafromuk and Jessiah, you guys are like immeasurably sexy okay. YOU AND YOUR CRAZY GYMNAST POSES, SO CRAZY!!
yoshikochan bah I didn't get a picture of your drive-by Marina DX
ziggybecket thank you so so so much for the bitchin' photos!! And lol awesome/awkward prom ball times XD

GOD THAT WAS THE LONGEST REPORT I'VE EVER WRITTEN sorry to those who read it 8D;;

And now it's PICTURE TIME

More Fanime to-dos. My entries this whole week are gonna continue to be very uninteresting.

MON

- go to Victoria's Theatrical after work; get BALD CAP and HAIR EXTENSION
- find orange and gold thread
- DBZ: attach collar to gi
- RIBBONS: attach shirt sleeves, make collar, cut sleeve cuffs, make belt

TUES

- go to Joann's for cheap scrap white fabric, gold thread, pants zipper
- RIBBONS: work on pants

WED

- RIBBONS: glue navy strips to pant legs, glue down fraying ends
- DBZ: cut white Kame symbol fabric
- MIKAGE: sew gold trim
- SET UP BILL PAY FOR ALL BILLS
- PAY PHONE BILL

THURS

- take out trash
- buy new ACE bandage (clips)
- buy con food
- RIBBONS: belt snaps
- MIKAGE: belt, gold trim, jacket snaps
- DBZ: paint and sew Kame emblems
- wig/bald cap test?
- choose shirts for B/W ball
- WS&IW website WIP illust

FRI

- PACK
- pick up evanae from airport

@ FANIME:

SAT
- MIKAGE: boot covers

that I'd rather not track

though, I dunno, I think I'm doing pretty well. On schedule, if not ahead of it.

COSPLAY WIP PHOTOS FOR evanae :

( 07 Ghost - Mikage cos progress )

GOD I NEED TO SLEEP. And my tongue sore still huuuuurts whyyyyyyy

I swear to god, with every con I go to it gets harder to write a concise con report XD;

Aside from photoshoots and gatherings, very little went according to plan this Fanime. For most of the weekend I had no plan besides the intent to do a lot of homework and draw a good portion of my contribution to the gundam00 doujin anthology. Both were thwarted. I couldn't even catch the Kiuchi panel that I'd looked forward to attending. No 2nd PMK shoot with Cindy, no 2nd Soul Eater shoot with my group, no brown/ruddy hair for Lockon or Deathscythe because I apparently never got it in my head that Asian hair needs to be bleached before it could dye.

However, for how completely haphazard this con was, it was really awesome and a lot of very cool things sprang out of sheer spontaneity. There were SO many people I ran into that I didn't at all expect to see: aniki ken_smind who came from fricken DC; Jake newcenturysace, Rachel maridahhadiram and Lily (THE Gundam People) from the AX Gundam gathering last year, as well as the Lacus and Kira (Ariella and Jessiah, was it?) Met and hung out a bit with Colleen whitelilacs, Kristen mirai_noah and mikage; also spoke briefly with ycysusan, cursedinanime, ziggybecket and shiroro!

The breakdown:

Friday

- travelling with ensuing, Nik and 'Tardo the retarded Kiba plush
- PMK cosplay with evanae, the CUTEST TETSU EVER T__T; lots of walking, location scouting and self-shooting; had as many as SIX photos taken of us!
- TOTALLY walked past aniki ken_smind and KNEW it was him too, but was too stunned/stupid to speak up before he passed me
- totally randomly and awesomely and by accident spotted Jake, Rachel and Lily as I waited for my ride home (my face-stalker skills are incredible. Jake didn't recognize me. XD You don't know me BUT I KNOW YOUUUUUU)
- had dinner and hung out with mom, spent the night at home

Saturday

- big Baccano! group with Minna no Anime people; a Very Special Graham, a Very Badass Ladd, and shittons of great photos
- walked around con a bit with mom
- went home to dye hair with some success
- hung out with aniki in line for masq
- AMAZING BACCANO! SKIT OF LOVE AND STUPENDOUS WIN; Minna no Nur Puppy BEST GROUP GET!

Sunday

- meeting and walking around con with paulcharcoalman
- Gundam group! Lockon, Rockon, Lockoff (spoiler!Lockon), 3 Tierias, yay Louise and Feldt! + UC and Seed love
- phonecall from naoekun in the midst of gathering ♥
- Soul Eater sweatshopping in Marriott 0701
- Soul Eater shoot with ensuing, Audrey, Jesse, Steve; THAT'S RIGHT BITCHES WE WERE THE HOTTEST GROUP THERE
- Johnny Rockets dinner
- a bit of boozin', dawdlin' and karaokein' with Jake & Co. Max's drunken karaoke (of which I have the video ;D) was EPIC. Kristen mirai_noah, thanks for singing Daybreak's Bell with me!

Monday
- final rounds of the dealer's hall; got Gankutsuou doujin and a baby Kyrios :3
- had delicious pizza at Pizza My Heart
- TOTALLY SAW tatsuta_hime THERE AND DIDN'T KNOW IT; NEXT TIME TATS. NEXT TIME.

( favorite photos; image heavy! )

All the photos I took are here, though they're pretty much all PMK, Baccano! and Gundam 00, sry XD;;

More photos; Gundam ones specifically are here and here.

MAN THIS TOOK WAY TOO FUCKING LONG.

Wow I am so late this year. Been set back by demanding and omnipresent schoolwork, kittens, unexpected House post, etcetc.

The important details!

FANIME 2008

arriving: around midday Friday
attending:
Friday - Peacemaker Kurogane group with evanae
Saturday - Baccano! Gathering (Noon)
Sunday - All Gundam Gathering (10:30am)
- Hidenobu Kiuchi panel; if only I had glasses and a Hyoutei jersey!! DDDDDDX
- Soul Eater gathering if one happens to spontaneously occur
- KARAOKE OPEN MIC LOLOLOL oh it'll be a lonely year singing without Jet XD;;;
( cosplaying: )

Also late, and even more important:



ensuing and I are proud to announce that Orichalcum is finished and printed! We will be selling these at Fanime, however we are doing so not in Artist Alley but at shiroro's booth in the Dealers Room. She was kind enough to offer to help sell the books on our behalf, since the Fanime admin was considerate enough to inform us in late May that the Artist Alley had been full as of April. Thanks Shiroro!

If any of you going to Fanime are at all interested, look for this cover:





...I realize now that this information isn't very helpful without the booth number/name. >_>; I will add it to the post as soon as I find out! (if I do orz)

THERE'S STILL SO MUCH TO DOOOOO

So yes, I've been totally neglecting my poor personal LJ, and I'm way way behind on posting Fanime photos and such. u_u;;

I also realize that I won't be writing a post-Fanime report type thinggie, since I stalled too long and I can't recall as readily as I obviously could say, a few days after the con as opposed to a month. *d0lt* Though, I'll specify the highlights: rooming with the crew of the 5pkbc, as well as Steebu, Lil David and jennmenchi, it was a riot XD; for every Tricycle Box book and HP print sold at artist's alley -granted, it isn't much, but it's a start-; the HAWT Gankutsuou group and the BADASS Blade of the Immortal group, imagine my fangasm when I saw them; Bishounen Bingo with jennmenchi, that was quite the experience *sporfle*; getting stopped for pictures -my Samurai Sphere Paine got quite a bit more attention this time than 2 years ago-; Bleach gathering, even though I only got there at the tail end of it; meeting up with nerdcore by accident, and twice too (because I have mad stalking skillz). That was exciting XDD

The downers-- well... mostly the fact that the quality and variety of cosplay seems to be steadily diminishing over the years. >_>; Masquerade too. Man. Don't get me started on the masquerade. At least the AMVs were pretty good this year. =)

Since I have 34 photos in my old 35mm camera batch, I'll put up those first. The digicam ones will be in the next fotozpam. Apologies for the horrible quality of most of the pics. >_<;

( IMAGE HEAVY! Fanime 2006 - Part 1 )

Batch 2 will follow shortly! In the meantime it needs to STOP BEING SO GODDAMN HOT IN SAN JOSE GRAWR. *SWELTERS*

So yeah, due to obsession with polychromatic I totally forgot to mention lately that I'm gonna be at Fanime from Friday to early Monday. The 5pkbc and I will be manning our table (I forgot what number >_>) to sell our comics and prints. So if any of you guys are gonna be there, do drop by and say hi ^__^