Confessions of the Discarded

lintsister — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:41:20 GMT

I think my life is about to turn into a shoujo manga..
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Tonight I shall be singing for you through the night

lintsister — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:28:31 GMT

Tonight I shall be turning on the broken light~

Merry Christmas everyone! If you don't celebrate that, then happy holidays/non-holidays to you! I bring the gift of hot Korean boys singing in Japanese. Someone on my FB list posted this and it's been stuck in my head for a good three days. Their choreography is awesome. It makes me miss dance class. For real. Enjoy~

Fwee

lintsister — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:32:30 GMT

Redid my profile and layout, and by redid I mean I just got rid of all the tenipuri stuff. Not that I don't like tenipuri, it was just too cluttered. For the layout I just yoinked one from premade_ljs since my design skills are craptastic. Ruito is still adorable as hell, but it was time for change.

I feel like I should update this more often, but I don't really have much to say. It was one thing when I was in college or actually got invited to do things, but seeing as how I spend most of my days with me, myself, the internet, and the history/science/discovery channel, I'm about as exciting as wall spackle. Maybe I'll do an introspective into my head or something and really scare people away, because honestly, I probably should have had some sort of therapy. As for now, I think I'm going to get my ass ready for bed since I feel tired as hell despite getting plenty of sleep last night.

That long already huh?

lintsister — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:08:11 GMT

I would have completely forgotten had I not had to click my profile for something, but this is a monumental day I suppose. Ten years ago today I made this journal. According to the stats, I've made 1258 entries not including this one, posted 2388 comments and received 2058. I'm kind of tempted to go back and read every entry chronicling the past 10 years of my life, but that would take a long ass time and I'm not sure I want to read how I went from a bright eyed, bushy tailed 18 year old going off to college to the bitter and jaded person I am now. It'll probably just depress me. Soooo yeah. Happy birthday LJ.

Aside from that, I've been on a Korean drama kick. I went to a site with the intention of possibly watching Garo (awesome J-drama) again, and there was a giant picture in the background for City Hunter. I had vaguely heard about it and that it was pretty good, so I downloaded it. It was awesome. I don't know how close it is to the original manga since I've never read it, but it was an excellent interpretation. Nice balance of action, drama, suspense, and sap. I watched all 20 eps in less than a week. I'm hoping they do a special of some kind since the ending made me go, "WTF That's it?!?!?! You go through all of that and you can't even shake hands or something?!" Then I realized that the final episode had only aired about a week and a half before I watched it so there's still hope.

Hope, unfortunately, didn't exist for the next one I watched. A Love to Kill looked like it had a decent plot, and Rain is never bad to look at, so I gave it a go. It made me angry. The lead female annoyed me to no end; spoiled, overprivileged, whiny, clingy, and kind of psychotic. She gets progressively worse as the eps go on. Despite all that, I trudged through it, mostly because I wanted to see her character completely ruined, but the ending was trite and cliched. Ugh. So I watched the Speed Racer movie to wash the bad taste out of my mouth and listen to Rain's engrishy lines and see him in a dress. XD It's a pretty good movie if you haven't seen it. Definitely keeps the campiness of the original cartoon and it's colorful as hell. It's like the Wachowski Brothers crapped a rainbow on to the movie. Fun shit.

I'm watching this now. Don't really have much of an opinion on it yet since I'm only on the third episode, but it seems ok. One glaring difference I've noticed between K and J dramas is the scenes where any sort of intimacy is required. The Koreans actually put some feeling into it, especially kissing scenes. It's actually believable and doesn't look like two half dead fish touching lips with one another. I'm just going to chock it up to cultural differences. And since I'm on a circles and lines kick, have a catchy song I found while randomly clicking stuff on youtube. Off to make cookies now. Later~

=D

lintsister — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:53:53 GMT

Tron Legacy comes out on DVD April 5th! Yay! Now to decide if I want the 4 disc special edition and get the first movie separately, the 5 disc edition with the first movie included, or the 5 disc edition with the bad ass super special cool identity disc packaging and the first movie. Oh Disney you sure as hell know how to get money out of people and tap into my inner consumer whore. It's not that I really need the blu-ray edition since I don't have a player, but I'm sure I will eventually and you bundle the standard DVD with it anyway, so better to plan ahead right? :3

My poster also still isn't here yet. I'm about ready to stab the UK post. I've gotten my necklace charm and the batteries I ordered which came from Taiwan and China respectively already, and I ordered them after the poster. UK post, I am disappoint.

New year

lintsister — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:21:45 GMT

It's 2011. It's time for change. This year, the phoenix will rise.

Longer entry later.

Unbelievably frustrated and confused

lintsister — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:31:27 GMT

Contradictions. Don't we all love them. On one hand, I wouldn't mind something happening, but on the other, it might be better if it didn't to save myself from a potential breakdown depending on what I may or may not hear. Arg.

Lyrics...even though it's the stereotypical emo kid thing to do...

lintsister — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:54:34 GMT

but Pandora can be just as psychic as winamp sometimes. Such a pretty song. Listen below.

Pale - Within Temptation

The world seems not the same
Though I know nothing has changed
It's all my state of mind
I can't leave it all behind
I have to stand up to be stronger

I have to try
To break free
From the thoughts in my mind
Use the time that I have
I can say goodbye
Have to make it right
Have to fight
'Cause I know in the end it's worthwhile
That the pain that I feel slowly fades away
It will be all right

I know
I should realize
Time is precious
It is worthwhile
Despite how I feel inside
Have to trust it'll be alright
Have to stand up to be stronger

Oh, this night is too long
Have no strength to go on
No more pain I'm floating away

Through the mist I see the face
Of an angel, calls my name
I remember you're the reason I have to stay

Turned on Pandora after I got home from Columbus and that was one of the songs that came up. I'd heard it plenty of times before, but never payed much attention to the lyrics. Kinda hit home with everything that's been going on. I thought I was getting better, but seeing him on AIM and people from school commenting/liking his few posts on facebook gave me a bit of a relapse. He did comment on a post I made about a TV show we both watch and liked my update about going to Columbus, so at least he hasn't blocked me from his feed. It's piddly trivial stuff, but it matters to me. The AIM thing probably bothers me the most. I'd always have a message within a minute of him getting on, and now all I can do is look at my list and see him on. No one to talk to, no one to say goodnight to. I want to ask how class is going, how the people in his program are, if his professors are cool or not, but I told him I wouldn't bug him and I have to stick to that. I just wonder if he's distancing himself from me because it's hard on him or if he just doesn't care. Again more questions I won't have an answer for.

At least I got a decent distraction last weekend by going to Columbus for Arnell's birthday. In a bizarre twist of fate, I wound up carpooling with Leslie, his ex. She asked if people wanted to carpool and I said sure since I didn't really feel like driving by myself and it ended up just being the two of us on the way there since the others had to pull out. I'll admit it was a tad weird, especially going to Brighton and not going to Paul's. We did drive very close to his house and that was a bit painful, but I held it together. It's kind of funny I guess; her and I went to Chicago after she broke up with Paul, and now her and I go to Columbus after Paul breaks up with me. It makes me feel like a huge hypocrite though. I kind of felt like I had to live up to their relationship since he felt so strongly about her and I wanted that for myself, so when he told me he wanted to try being friends with her again I expressed my dislike and asked him to drop the issue and he complied. It was incredibly selfish of me and I'd do everything I could to take it back. I had no right to say that and I feel like I'm slapping him in the face and the last thing I want to do is make him hate me.

Despite all of this, I really did have a good time. We were so busy there wasn't any time to think of the bad stuff and get sad. I got to hang out with people I hadn't seen in awhile, met a few new people, drank too much and spent too much, but sometimes you have to do that. It was nice to know that a few people do give a damn about me.

Blarg. I hate having brains that feel like scrambled eggs. Vomiting all my thoughts here helps since I can't really do that on facebook, though I've just decided to say fuck it and leave this entry public. Read it, laugh at me, pity me, think I'm a psycho, obsessed, pathetic, I really don't care. There's enough misconceptions about me that they all start to blend together after awhile. I think I'm going to go make some tea now because Ohio gave me the plague. If you have a Teavana near you and you like tea, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It's pricey, snobby, boutique tea, but soooo good. Later~

lintsister — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:35:13 GMT

9 hours from now he's leaving. Had I known I wasn't going to get to see him one more time, I wouldn't have left his house so early last weekend. I don't really know how to feel. Part of me is angry that he didn't want to see me one more time and another part wants to curl up in a ball and cry till I can't cry anymore. I didn't get to say all of what I wanted to say in person, so I guess a text will have to suffice, as cowardly as that may seem. I'll admit I'm scared of the answer, but I need to know if these past nearly six years weren't just a one sided thing and that he came to love me even just a little bit. I tried to be a good girlfriend, I really did, but sometimes I feel I wasn't good enough. Then again, I have issues with that; not being good enough. I know it's ok to make mistakes along the way, but if I don't get some sort of recognition in the end I feel like a failure. Not being able to go with him makes me feel that way too, but it's not all about me. He's following his dreams and making the necessary sacrifices he needs to in order to achieve that dream. I wish I had the courage to do that, but I'm so much more cowardly than I let on. Perhaps this will do good to disrupt the stagnancy in my life. I do need to find a real job and gtfo this house. Maybe I'll just completely lose it, get my passport, and move to Japan to teach English or something. I've already considered it before and there's so little I can do with my degree, I need some kind of alternative. This entry is starting to get way too random so I think I'll end it now and update again when my brain feels less like scrambled eggs. Right now, I have a lot of whiskey to drink.

lintsister — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:09:03 GMT

Looks like Paul's leaving either Sunday or Monday. Incoming emoness. You've been warned.

lintsister — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:42:37 GMT

"You two are a mismatched, ugly pairing."

Gee, thanks mom. -,-

Acen and the like

lintsister — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:47:54 GMT

Well, 2010 marked a return to Acen for me since 2007. I was more than apprehensive given the shitty time I had that year, but it was Nick's 30th birthday and that only comes around once so I decided to go. Paul came too, so that was a much added bonus. Left on Thursday morning, went to Rob's, sat in horrible traffic on Telegraph, finally met up with Ryan and Paul at his house, loaded all our junk into Ryan's car, then headed off to Chicago. Stopped in Indiana for liquor, got some kick ass apple vodka, then continued on our way. Got there about 3, loaded stuff into our room, sat around, then went for food. We tried Bennigans, but it wasn't there anymore, so we went to try this local pub only to see the building slated for demolition, and eventually wound up at Chili's. Drank margaritas and had a bitchin hamburger, went back to the room with the itis and hit the hay early since we were all running on either jack shit or no sleep at all.

Woke up decently early on Friday, put on Luc again, went to get Paul's badge with him, had someone actually recognize my costume, perused the dealers room, said hi to Eddie and co, bought the Human Error Processor book, lost my badge, someone was nice and turned it in, went back to change out of my costume, went to Hot Dougs, waited in line for over an hour, got sweet hot dogs, went back to the hotel, put Luc back on, walked around a bit more in that, had a few more people recognize it, changed, got ready for Hardcore Synergy, drank a bit, went downstairs, danced like a fool, came back up to change my shoes, went back down, danced some more, then came back up and wound up going to bed semi early again because there was nothing to do. Cried a little too because of that.

Woke up later than I wanted to on Saturday, wore Zerase for awhile, went to the Suikoden shoot with the whopping 5 of us there, changed, got pizza, drank some, wandered around, ran into Travis, went back to the room and drank some more, hung around downstairs, went into the dance to see Jeff's set, managed to get backstage, hung out there a bit, wound up in Jeff and Rich's room, did some things, threw fireworks off the balcony, came back to the room and crashed around 6-7 am. I probably embarrassed myself and was annoying as hell that night, but meh.

Went to Mitsuwa on Sunday. Saw just about everyone, felt awkward, did some shopping, hung around outside for awhile, went back to the hotel and hung out with Paul while Nick went for food with Leslie and her bf, packed up as much of my stuff as I could, then relaxed the rest of the night. Went back to Mitsuwa on Monday, got yummy Gabutto burger, then headed home.

All the pictures of my costume are on Ryan's camera, but I did manage to find one of Zerase that someone took. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v04cXPAZ1Mk/S_MOQE2x_mI/AAAAAAAAAtA/r_FWrr4ufbg/s576/Acen2010068.JPG

I dunno, I had an alright time I guess, though I really felt like it wouldn't have mattered if I was there or not. I refuse to drink the kool-aid, so that means I'm excluded from just about everything since I'm disliked by so many. I've come to expect it at this point and really don't know why I continue to subject myself to it, but I guess it's just nice to get out once in awhile. Although, once Paul leaves for school in Cali this fall, what minuscule social life I do have will be pretty much nonexistent. Thems the breaks I suppose.

I'm still debating on Youmacon. Yeah it's close, but eh. It was boring last year. If I do wind up going I may just commute everyday and not bother with a badge to save myself some money.

Ookies I think I'm going to see wtf is up with dinner since I'm hungreh. Lata~

Pwow

lintsister — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:03:44 GMT

I really should get into the habit of updating this more than once a month, but life has been meh. Youmacon was alright I guess. Got there Thursday afternoon, checked in, dragged our 90 pounds of crap up to the room, walked around, met up with Nick, helped Derek and Gordon set up for their panel, went to the panel, got badges, ran to meijer for food and junk, got taco bell, then chilled in the room the rest of the night. Wore Arshtat on Friday, met up with Alan and Garret, went to the dinky Suikoden shoot and took some pictures with the two other people that were there, changed into my bubble head nurse costume later that night, stumbled around, got separated from everyone, wound up in Patty's room, felt awkward, took some pictures in the stairwell, went back to their room, walked out with everyone since they were all going to Lansing for a party, felt awkward again, they left without a bye, I went back in, tried to find everyone, no one was answering their phones, so I said fuck it and went back up to the room. Fixed what was left of the monstrosity, then went to bed.

Woke up at 6 Saturday morning, put on the monstrosity, went to Derek's panel, walked around, got blinded by pictures, went up to touch up my costume, went down to judging, actually remembered to talk about everything this time, talked to an awesome Yun Seong, walked around some more, got blinded some more, made it to the masquerade eventually, managed to skip the novice skits, sat through the rest of them, lol'ed at the MC while he killed time for the judges to make their decisions, got my award, stood around for a bit afterward, finally changed, got to sit down, took a shower, got ready for the dance and junk, drank whiskey, saw a bit of Vinh's set, said hi to Arnell for like 5 seconds, left after his set, got angry, and eventually just wound up back in the room for lack of anything better to do.

Woke up Sunday, finished packing, lugged shit to the car, browsed the dealers room one last time, saw nothing as expected, did one last check of the room, went and got food, went to Paul's, came home, died.

So, that's Youmacon in a nutshell. I spent most of the weekend being irritated, but eh. Saturday was going good until the dance. After that it turned into Acen 07 all over again. I should have been able to enjoy the rest of the night, especially since I finally won a damn award for one of my costumes, but no. Expected? Yes. Guess I'm a fool for thinking things would be any different. Ah well, at least I have a plaque to show for it now. Best journeyman craftsmanship go.

Going to Ohayocon next come hell or high water. Here's hoping it's at least somewhat enjoyable. I swear, if I wasn't so addicted to cosplay I wouldn't even bother with these things anymore.

Anyway, have a few pictures since I actually had the cage anchored down this time and my weapon wasn't held together with duct tape.

I really need more poses. -.-

I had way too much fun decorating this costume. :3 I need to find a dirty alley to take some pictures in or something too. The stairs don't quite have the same effect.

And I'm off. I actually have a linkshell that does stuff now (pending I don't get booted since I'm still trial), so FFXI isn't as boring anymore. Bye~

lintsister — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:16:56 GMT

Well kakapoo. Greatestjournal is gone. I didn't update it a whole lot since it was a me only totally locked thing, but I felt like updating tonight. I guess it's good in a way though since it was nothing but terribly depressing stuff from a period in my life I have no desire to relive whatsoever, but eh. I could fire up one of the old rp journals if I really need to.

On a less shitty note, after much consideration and the feedback from here and facebook, I've decided to go with Luc for the next costume. He was my gut instinct from the start and I should have just ran with it instead of second guessing myself. Mebbe I'll do Sasarai somewhere along the line.

Ugh..and now I totter off to bed because I feel like I took a shoryuken to the gut. Nini.

lintsister — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:31:15 GMT

Well, I finished Suikoden III. Good game. Long, but good. And the ending? BAWWWWWWWWWWWW So sad. ; ; I mentioned wanting to cosplay from it last time, and I've eliminated one of them. Sarah, while cool, is a bit too much of an automaton to me, so it's between Luc and Sasarai. Of course, in true female fashion, I can't make up my mind so I'm going to bug you guys for advice. Don't feel bad if you have no idea who the hell they are. I don't expect more than like three people on my list to know them. Links to pictures and junk are under the cut.

This is Luc. Honestly, I'm a little biased towards him. Aside from being in the first three games, he meets the whole "crazy person who tried to destroy the world" prerequisite that I seem to have been following lately in the costumes I make. Throw in a little cocky arrogance to him too. The only real downside to it is that is his outfit is kind of on the bland side.

This is Sasarai, the arrogant prick from the country that thinks it's better everyone else. He's not as cool as Luc, but I like his outfit better. The patterns I have can be modified into either, so that's not really much of an issue.

As far as wigs go, I've got the style covered, but color is the issue. For Luc anyway. I'd use this one for Sasarai.

For Luc, it'd be this one, but I'm torn between colors. It's either HL4/30 or HL4/33, which means:

This would be the main color, about 75% of the wig.

This would be one highlight color mixed in with the above.

Or this would be the other color mixed in with the top color. Here's what they look like blended.

To make it simpler, we'll just call this Color 1

Same color taken from a different site

And Color 2

Same color, different site.

As you can see, there's little difference between the two blended colors in color 1 versus color 2. I don't want it to look too streaky, so what do you guys think? Here's an in game shot if that helps.

The bottom line? I like Luc's character better but Sasarai's outfit better. Dilemmas.

This costume wouldn't be used till Acen, possibly Ohayocon if I go, so I have some time to decide, but I like to get things sorted out in advance. Soooooooo if I haven't made you think I'm batshit crazy, I'd really <3 your opinion. Thankies~♪

EDIT: The poll should work now. I haven't done one of these yet so forgive my specialness.

View Poll: #1460469

Nom nom nom~

lintsister — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:43:58 GMT

Oh hay, my LJ turned 8 years old on 8/18, so happy birfday to that. I should go back and reread everything one day. That'd be...interesting.

In continuation of the last post I made, I've decided to go to Youmacon. It's local and Nick had a very good point in just telling everyone to basically fuck off and have a good time. It's also why I've decided to go to Acen next year. Well, it's mainly for Nick's 30th, but I haven't been to the con in two years and it'll be nice to see people I haven't seen since then even if I just get a hi out of them. It'd be nice to bring Ashlotte, but her weapon doesn't fall under their way too short length limit and I don't need some jackhole IRT on a power trip telling me I can't have it every five seconds. I could bring Arshtat again. I <3 that costume to pieces.

And speaking of Suikoden, I finally got around to playing/finishing II and I'm on to III now. I'm not much of a fan of the whole trinity sight system they have. Yeah, it's kind of neat to see three different perspectives, but I feel like I'm playing the game three times over. I'm like 11ish hours in and the plot it just now starting to pick up. orz If anything, I have a few cosplay ideas now. They're not as ornate as Arshtat, but still plenty recognizable (I think). I don't know much about two of them, Sarah and Sasarai, yet so I dunno if I'll like them or not, so at this point I'm biased towards Luc since he was in the first two games as well. Here's pics:

Luc without mask

Luc with mask

Sasarai

Sarah

I haven't forgotten about Hrist either. That one is still stewing in the back of my mind, but, like Ashlotte needs a bit more engineering than the Suikoden ones.

Grah. I need to stop thinking about what I want to make in the future and concentrate on what I have now. I still have to fix the cage for Ashlotte so it doesn't snap apart on me, epoxy the hell out of the weapon joint so it's one piece and doesn't require duct tape to hold it together, remake the arm armor, and fix the halo. I have a corset I want to make too. At least I'm only going to wear it one day instead of two now, so it won't take as much abuse. There's actually going to be a Suikoden group this year, so I'm dragging out Arshtat for at least one more con.

I still need to register. Fack. At least the hotel/roommate situation is taken care of already. One less thing to worry about. Seven weeks go go.

Well, I suppose I should go format my computer again. I got a lovely rootkit from a download that I couldn't get rid of, so when Newegg had a sweet ass deal on a terabyte hard drive I snatched it up. Copied all the files I wanted to keep over to that one, formatted the old one, and somehow the aids managed to come back. I got rid of almost all of the executable files I copied over since I think that's what caused it, so we'll see if that solves the problem. If not, I'm really boned. x.x

lintsister — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:07:32 GMT

I R home. Good weekend was good. The monstrosity gave me issues that I need to remedy for Youmacon. Report later. I go die nao.

lintsister — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:50:55 GMT

I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I've never even played the game
I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I do not want to make this
I'm going insane. x,x

Otakon....

lintsister — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:04:26 GMT

Is in a little over three weeks. x.x How is the costume coming? Well, I have almost all of the grommets punched aside from the ones that hold the vertical parts of the cage since I need to figure out the horizontal part of it before I can do placement of the vertical. Only 32 left to punch. Not too bad and it gives me an excuse to hit things with a hammer to let out my frustration. :3 Cut the bangs into the wig today and sectioned off the pieces for the little curls on either side of the face, but I have to get curlers since the ones I have are too big. orz At least the back just gets tossed into a loose braid instead of something ornate.

I have my hoop wire now so once the loops to hold the skirt outward are dry I can start measuring that out and get it painted. The armor is going to be a pita, but I really just need something passable at this point. It's not going to be judged so if it falls apart after the weekend I can just remake it for youmacon. I can do dis. *Flex* I am seriously going to boil in this thing. I was sweating like crazy with just the wig and the headband thing on today when I was checking the bang length so I can't even imagine what it's going to be like with every part of my body covered except for my face in the Baltimore heat. The Soul Calibur shoot is outside too at the fountains a couple blocks from the con center. -,- Youmacon and Ohayocon (tentative) are at least when it's cooler so it shouldn't be as bad there. We'll see. If you don't hear from me after the con I melted into a puddle of goo and they tossed my ass into the Chesapeake. Either way it'll be good to see people again. I haven't seen anyone aside from Paul since like...February, but no real surprise there. I may as well be a leper. =P

Ooooookie dokie. Me. Bed. Nao. Work early. Nini!

Grommets grommets and more grommets oh my!

lintsister — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:01:41 GMT

The title says it all. This costume is going to wind up having around 225 grommets on it. I think I've punched close to 100 before I ran out. Orz At least the place I'm ordering the hoop wire for the cage skirt sells them by the gross so I can get 12 dozen for ten bucks. Much better than joanns price of 3 bucks for 15. The outer skirt is finished and attached and the inner skirt is getting there. I can't do much more with it till I get all the grommets punched and the wire for the cage installed. Soooooo much work to do, but I'll get it done. I'm not going to bother with the hall contest at Otakon this year. I don't think it'll be good enough for it and I'll have an extra 4 hours to spend doing whatever on Saturday instead of sitting backstage and watching retarded skits. I'll save it for Youmacon. Arr. I was planning on making a corset for the vamps concert and my two mockups didn't come out as well as they should have. My stupid ass ghetto booty doesn't help either since it makes the back ride up. Grr. Looks like I'll have to save that one for Youma as well when I can take the time and properly fit myself. I can wear my pvc tank top in the mean time. I've only worn it to the Pendulum concert so far.

Hokay, I'ma drag my ass to bed now since I have to go to Joanns yet again for glue and I want to explore the hobby lobby that just opened. Nini~

lintsister — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:50:42 GMT

It's been a month since last time already? Damn. Well, probably the hardest part of my costume is done. The clear coat on the weapon is drying right now and I have to say I'm very pleased with the way it came out. It's not as smooth as I'd like in some spots, but we'll just call it battle damage and be done with it. It's kind of dinged in spots in the pictures anyway. I'll post pictures of it tomorrow since I don't want to dick with it right now while the coating is still tacky. I have the bodice and skirt pieces all cut out so I just have to sew the top together, add the sleeves/lining, buckram the skirt, assemble it, add grommets and wire loops, add a zipper, and line the skirt. It sounds like a lot, but not really. I'm off work for a week after tomorrow so I'll be busting my ass on it. My unitard arrived two days ago and I'm quite impressed at the quality. Dance supply stores wanted like $60+ for one so I hit up old ebay instead and found a Chinese seller selling them for $30 with a custom fit. It's labeled as a sentai/power rangers suit so the feet and hands are completely covered and I have a nifty Mexican wrestler mask. XD I started some prelim work on the armor as well. Got the rough shape of the head piece figured out and I'm going to work on the shoulders once I finish typing this up. I'm so freaking excited for Otakon. I have something to do every day so far with hopefully more to be added. So far we have:

Thursday
- Aquarium (time permitting)
- Vamps concert

Friday
- Soul Calibur photo shoot 12:00p
- Cosplay.com meet up/shoot 7:30p

Saturday
- Masquerade? I still haven't decided if I want to compete or not again. It ate up quite a bit of my Saturday night.

Sunday
- Final Fantasy shoot 11:00a (Maybe. I'll be the only one from XI so we'll see)
- Cosplay.com shoot 2 12:00p (Unless they scare me really bad on Friday then no)

Excitement. Then once we get back there's only three months till Youmacon. x,x I'm definitely entering the masq. at that con and I won't miss the damn awards ceremony this year. >< Oooook I should probably get crackin on that armor so I'm out. Peekshurs tomorrow. Bai~

lintsister — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:56:44 GMT

Fwee. Just an update since it's been kind of awhile. Ashlotte is coming along better than anticipated. The weapon is pretty much ready for assembly. I have my foam sealant now and I went ahead and did some preliminary sanding, so now I just have to attach it to the dowel rod, sand it some more so all the pieces are flush and even with one another, seal it, and paint it. I got my shoes and thankfully the 10 wasn't too big. They're super cute and fairly comfortable so feet pain should be the least of my worries, never mind that I won't really be able to sit down while wearing it. I finished the muslin mock up of the dress and have my skirt pattern all worked out so I can start assembly on that, which looks like less work than I originally thought. Arshtat was a pain because it had so many layers and all the hand painting I had to do, and though I do have to paint the lining of the dress it shouldn't be nearly as bad. I can just make some big stamps out of craft foam and do it that way. Plus I don't have to do multiple layers of paint to cover the red. If it's kind of faded in some spots it's alright since that's the way it looks. The white poofy short skirt is done. That was just a cake-tastic circle skirt. I'm making decent time on it I'd say. There's still a little less than 3 months till Otakon so I should be alright.

Kinda pissed that I'll miss the Soul Calibur shoot though. We were originally going to have it on Saturday, but the chick organizing everything decided to change it to like noon on Friday. I'd have to get there Thursday in order to make it to that. Arrrrrr. ><

Okies, I should probably get ready for bed or something since I have an asstastic Lowes in the morning. Just where I want to be on my bday. With my luck they'll send me outside in the rain. -.-

lintsister — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:32:54 GMT

*Crawls out of hole* Boo. What have I been up to? Outside of breathing melty, stinky, and quite possibly toxic foam fumes and working, nada. Ashlotte's weapon has been coming along surprisingly well. I had a few bumps with learning the most effective way to use the hot wire cutter, but I've got most of them worked out. I have almost all of the main pieces of the staff cut out, I just need to add those small things, add some more detail, sand the bejesus out of it, seal it, and paint it. I have some progress pics here. It's supposed to look like this. Mine doesn't look too bad I don't think. I'm hoping to have it done by mid april so I can start work on the monstrosity of the costume. x.x

I finally finished Kingdom Hearts. I got annoyed at a part for some reason way back when it first came out and I never got around to finishing it. I got all the crap required to get the secret ending, which included all 99 of the puppies and the annoying mini-games in the 100 acre wood. I forgot just how stupid Pooh is and his obsession with Piglet is kind of disturbing. >.> Sephiroth was a joke. I barely lasted 20 seconds with his "lol I can hit you even though you're standing on the other side of the arena" attack. <^> I was surprised at the ease of the final boss. I was only level 58 or something and I beat him rather quick. Ah well, one down, two to go.

Hokay, I'm out. Bai~

Hoooookay

lintsister — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:03:56 GMT

So, I'm going to do Ashlotte for sure now. I took a trip to Joanns today for the President's Day sale and managed to find the perfect fabric for the main dress on the clearance rack for $1.50 a yard and the white fabric for the skirt and sleeves for $2 a yard. Hell yes. I expected to pay around $30 for both of those, but I wound up spending like $12 instead. \m/ I have the rest of the materials all listed and priced out, but I'm still iffy about which wig I should use.

Her hair looks more white in the art picture above, but it's gray in the actual game. I have a long white wig from my Arshtat costume (here), so I'm wondering if I could get away with using that for Ashlotte as well or if it would look funny. I'd rather put the money towards materials instead of another wig if I can, but if it'll look too off I'm debating between a silvery white or a darker gray. Which do you guys think would work the best?

lintsister — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:52:59 GMT

Get your own valentinr