| One last plea for cosplay advice (I hope @__@) (+ <3!!) |
[15 Jul 2009|12:39pm] |
Okay, first off, wow! You guys made me feel loved!!! I’m not used to very many people noticing it when it’s my birthday. I was kind of surprised. Thanks so much everyone <3<3<3
I’d mostly caught up on getting back to people over the weekend, but now I’m badly behind again, esp with all the nice things people said to me yesterday. I just want to apologize that it will probably take me several days to get back to everyone. Tonight is my last night before leaving for Otakon, and I have to do job-related stuff with my dad after work (instead of finishing my cosplay crap,) so I’m probably going to be frantic today, followed by being MIA.
I do have a final last minute cosplay question for everyone though. Anyone here have much experience in wig styling?
We’ve started working on fixing the wig I got for Yohji’s hair, and it’s proving to be a bit more of a challenge than I’d hoped, haha.
The bottom of it is curly although the top is exactly the type of wavy I had wanted…it had looked like to get it the right length would just chop off all the curly bits….but I forgot that his hair kind of defies physics, and if you want to be able to put it in a pony tail you have to compromise and make it about an inch or two longer than it looks when he’s wearing it down (either that or have a separate wig for each hair style which is a little too late for me to do ((not to mention expensive))) So in order to leave it a pony tail possible length theres just a bit too much curliness left at the ends….which is making it frizzy like woah. I’m not kidding, I was looking a little more like Hermione Granger last night than Yohji ;__;
I don’t know anything about wigs. I’m going to look for advice online./ the cosplay.com forums etc when I have time (I have very little time ;__;) But if anyone has any advice from their own personal experience about how to make synthetic hair lie flatter, that would help me out like woah. My own real hair probably wouldn’t frizz even if you electrocuted it, lol. And I don’t even use any products in it. Ever. I know nothing!!!
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[13 Jul 2009|10:43pm] |
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
There was bloodshed. But I think I might have gotten results I find acceptable.
For this con.
I think it could still stand improvement. But at least it fucking retracts!!!!
Thankee very much for the input ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dolleyes.
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[11 Jul 2009|05:33pm] |
Fucking. Watch.
I hate feeling defeated by an art project.
ARGH.
Maybe I should try a different type of wire. Or maybe I should just give up ;___;
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| I always like this meme. |
[10 Jul 2009|10:42am] |
Man! I actually wrote this yesterday. But my internet connection at work has been awful all week and it crashed for the entirety of yesterday afternoon. My availability may continue to be sketchy during work hours for a while…*twitch* It’s really sad how non-functional I feel when I can’t check my email and LJ every 5 seconds.
I am so behind on so many things…I have a backlog of emails/messages to send people. I’ve gotten awful at keeping up with my friends posts here…the looming con has pretty much eaten up all of my attention span…and yet I’m somehow taking the time to do a meme. Oh, there’s something wrong with me.
Word Association Meme!
Comment "WORDS" to this entry and I will comment back with five words I associate with you. Then you post this in your journal elaborating.
Words courtesy of draelynnthered.
Chupacabra (no idea why, it just popped in there)
Um…okay, lol. Well. The first thing that came to mind upon seeing that word was the very first ‘fanfic’ (the quotes are because at the time I didn’t know what fanfiction was and I didn’t have internet access so it’s written on notepaper) I ever wrote. In which the crew of Red Dwarf teamed up with Mulder and Scully to find a monster in Fiji named the ‘Musuchiyaya.’ Which I’m pretty sure was just my 15 year-old self’s Chupacabra Mary Sue. Lol. I dig weird X-files and Twilight Zoney stuff so I can see why this would make people think of me….I guess. Heh.
The Suicide Forest
One of my most favorite places I’ve ever been, definitely in my top 3 favorite things I’ve experienced in Japan. Whenever I go anywhere new my favorite aspect of a trip is usually something naturey. The Suicide Forest is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. Any place that’s totally covered in moss has me automatically fascinated. Also somewhat ironic that I loved it so much, as when I was significantly younger (oh, 8-15 maybe?) I had a suicide phobia. I’m sure that sounds strange. The anxiety-depression I had back then manifested in some significant trust issues with myself. Being in the forest and not being bothered by that was a nice reminder that I’m a lot better than I used to be. It did have a sad atmosphere though.
Obsession (for the obvious reasons ;) )
Ooooh boy…I can answer this so many ways. It’s a pretty defining aspect of my personality. And has caused me lots of issues. I’ll start with the most harmless: 1) Fandom: This is pretty normal. I’ve latched onto books/shows/movies with fanatical passion as far back as I can remember. My first ‘obsession’ was Calvin and Hobbes at the age of 5 (yep, I was ‘obsessed’ with it before I was even old enough to actually read it.) It eventually progressed through several other comic books and the occasional TV series. I think I’ve plateaued with Weiβ Kreuz though, haha. My obsessiveness for that has outlasted anything else I’ve been obsessed with. And doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere any time soon. 2) Social obsession: um, this is awkward to address as it includes people who can read this *cough.* I severely latch onto people. Back in the days before I was in relationships this actually put me at a stalkerish level. Now that I have found my One True Love I think its back to being healthy <3<3 3) OCD: I suffer mildly from a physical OCD that is generally too embarrassing and TMI for me to share with anyone I’m not in a relationship with. And that’s all I’ll say about that. I used to take meds but I don’t think they helped. My girlfriend on the other hand does make it better. <3 again.
Campfires
I love them!! I’ve only gone camping for real once though (in Wisconsin when I was 7 or so.) My main association with campfires is Utah, as there is a fire pit at the cabin we stay at in Torrey (way out in the desert.) I make lots of fires when we’re there; it’s usually my job to set them up. More recently I have been having really nice campfires with genuinelie as there’s a firepit at her house too. I love being outside in the dark. I love the smell of the fire. I love s’mores (I had 5 1/2 of them last Sunday night. XD) I’m extremely finicky about how my marshmallows get toasted.
Asuka
Ha. This was almost the name of my laptop, before I decided that my laptop felt more like a boy than a girl to me. It’s one of my favorite girl names (I’m strangely drawn to ‘A’ names for some reason.) I first heard it not surprisingly from Neon Genesis Evangelion, and back then I originally thought it was a German name because of the character’s background. I’m not at all attached to that Asuka, although I got attached to the name all the way back then. I of course get this association because of Weiβ and how very badly hung up on Asuka Murase’s ghost I write Yohji. I probably write him more not-over-Asuka than anyone I know, haha. She is what makes Yohji so easy for me to relate to however (see above: ‘social obsessions.’) Although its not something I currently struggle with any more, unrequited/lost love is an emotion I very strongly connect with. Aside from that, I just really like her! I love her character design. I love her outfit (the vaguely western styled shirt, the choker, the hat. I would wear all of these things.) I like her short hair. I like her attitude (depicted in the flashbacks. Although they probably are the same person, I consider Kyoko/Neu a separate character since her personality has changed, and she sees herself as separate.) Ah, what else can I say, I’ve just grown rather attached over all the time I’ve written/rp’d Yohji in the last 6 years. I think she is actually worthy of all of Yohji’s angst, unlike so many female anime love interests that I find grating. Yohji/Asuka is one of the only het pairings that has the slightest chance of holding my attention (although it goes without saying that Yohji/Aya is better.) ^__^
And there ya have it.
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| wtf dreams. |
[06 Jul 2009|10:17am] |
First of all I want to thank everyone who gave me feedback on the wig question. I found the opinions helpful (if a little surprising.) Sorry I didn’t respond to everyone, I would have been saying the same thing over and over. I’ll say more on the topic in my next cosplay centric post. Just want to quickly get something down before I forget it….
So anyway, I’ve been having some vividly strange dreams lately. Two nights ago I had a really weird one, which unfortunately I don’t remember coherently enough to describe except that there was this cheerful guy in it who told me that he thought that I was a guy, which rather amused me in the dream, but also that he didn’t think I was very considerate, which I suspect was my own subconscious doing that nohari window meme on myself ^__^;;; (ha, see? I didn’t post it because I found the idea too stressful…so my brain goes and does it anyway.)
Anyway, that one wasn’t so bad, just weird and a little interesting. But last night I dreamt that I was still a student, and I don’t remember what I had done but apparently I made some sort of ‘mistake’ which resulted in the verdict that when I showed up for class I was going to be shot. Yeah, in my dream a school execution was apparently normal. And something that fit onto a schedule in like a ‘third period’ type of slot. And I was really freaked out about this, but instead of going ‘oh fuck, I don’t think so,’ and getting the hell out of dodge I just accepted it, and waited in dread for that particular class to happen (to the point where I was worried I’d go to the wrong one and miss it by accident.) And I finally showed up, and I didn’t know the teacher, and of course she’d forgotten that that was supposed to happen and I was very relieved but still worried and confused.
And then the school started to morph into a sort of One Piece type of world and there where whales that were actually half whale half wooden ships. At this point I woke up and felt pretty odd (and relieved.)
So what’s my subconscious trying to tell me, huh??? Am I unbeknownst to myself actually an inconsiderate transgendered fatalist or something??!! WTF brain.
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| Opinions from the Weiss people? |
[03 Jul 2009|11:53pm] |
...I just spent like 3 hours seaching without steller results trying to find a better wig for Yohji's cosplay (I am severly severly running out of time before Otakon ;___;) I've found a few possibilities but I'm going to have to step away and re-examine them when I don't feel totally burned out from looking. So in the meantime I have a question!
...What color exactly would you pick for Yohji's hair???
Light golden brown? Light golden blonde? Strawberry blonde? Chestnut???
His hair is like a different color in every reference pic I look at .__. Damn you and your inconsistancy Weiss.
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| Fic update! |
[30 Jun 2009|01:07am] |
Oh boy!
Okay, so I've been sitting on this project for a while now, but I've put together a writing journal for myself. I've archived all of my fanfiction there and I'm also in the very (very very) slow process of scanning WK doujinshi to archive there as well (so far one down, over 60 more to go, yikes.) So I guess it's actually a WK fandom journal more than anything. I haven't advertised it until now because I was waiting until there was actually a new fic update to put in it, so I wasn't just telling people to run over and look at something filled only with stuff they've already seen.
So, my 'new' (it's actually an old recycled rp journal) writing journal is yotan.
And it comes with an update to 'This is Not My Life' XD
Chapter 25
Just in time too, because I had to censor this chapter before posting to fanfiction.net. Heh.
Holy crap was this chapter difficult for me to finish. It's my first sex scene not written in rp format (and therefore not half written by genuinelie.) And having to write it in first person was just awkward x1000. My apologies if it's awful. I've been struggling to get this finished for about a month, at least.
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| FYI |
[25 Jun 2009|10:35am] |
Hopefully none of you would fall for this anyway, but just so people are aware, there’s a phone scam going around where someone calls pretending there’s an emergency and asks you to dial a number. If the number has an 809 area code you’ll end up getting charged something like $2000 a minute. The area codes 284 and 876 are bad too, but 809 is the main one. The scam is based in the Dominican Republic, or something like that.
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp
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| Yaaaaaar. |
[16 Jun 2009|02:14pm] |
Heh! My art director just came back from vacation, and I’d forgotten she always brings us random presents. This time we got stickers for our keyboards. So I spent the first hour of my work day pimping out my keyboard with a skull and crossbones pattern across all the keys, lol. This of course makes the keys a little harder to read, so work efficiency has now probably decreased, double lol. I am amused because she said she got the idea specifically because the skull and crossbones made her think of me. I’m also happy ’cause I have a tendency to drip grapefruit juice all over the desk, so for the first time in months my keys aren’t all sticky. We’ll see how long that lasts… heh.
So this is probably way too late for anyone to care, but I’ve been sitting on a dreamwidth invite because I was holding it for someone but I don’t think they are actually interested. I expect that anyone who actually wanted an account has probably managed to get one by now, but just in case anyone is wanting an invite, let me know.
Also…I just tried typing the word “sword” and for the life of me, I couldn’t spell it. My brain kept wanting to insert an ‘a’ into it for whatever reason (even just now, typing this after I figured out how I was spelling it wrong.) In the end I defaulted to ‘katana’ because it was easier to spell. Anime has screwed with my head. Seriously.
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