Insomnia + Comiket are unmixy things. Sigh. Might as well post an update while I can't sleep.

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I've also had an influx of SH2JW Toranoana orders. Hi, new people! *waves* I've sent in a batch of orders already, here's hoping they keep in stock for anyone else who wants to order! TAKE MY WHOLE LIFE is already down to half stock.

Direct orders will be continue through the new year, though because of Comiket and a few, ah, cosplay-related vacations in early January, I might not be able to respond quite so promptly. I need to double-check when Japan Post is closed for the New Year holiday, but I think the earliest the next batch of packages will go out is January 3rd. That includes a shipment or two from before Christmas, sorry guys.

Hello all! I am currently embroiled in the madness that is GISHWHES, and found something you may be interested in helping with.

GISHWHES creator Misha Collins is also associated with charitable group Random Acts, and there is a joint pledge drive going on right now. Not pledges for money, but for random acts of kindness. You can read more about the Random Acts Pledge Campaign here -- essentially, you're making a promise to do a kind act (of any sort!) by the time the year is out. We're all more than capable of that, right?

If you'd like to participate, please follow this link and fill in the form. It's free, there's no required newsletter (or even full name!). For referral email address, I'd appreciate it if you included my email, feikoi at gmail dot com, as the numbers will help my GISHWHES team, but it's not a requirement.

Thanks for reading!

feikoi

The Singapore vacation went well! Don't have much in the way of pictures, I kinda left that up to the others. We had lots of delicious food, and watched the Avengers twice, and did lots of touristy things.

If you ever have the chance to visit Singapore, I'd recommend doing the Night Safari. Yes, zoos, they have them everywhere, but 1) The layout of the main Singapore Zoo is really well done, very enjoyable, and 2) the Night Safari is /at night/. It's actually an adjacent park, and you get to wander around the paths and visit all the nocturnal animals, and there's also a tram tour that takes you around to all the large animal areas. Really cool.

Cosplay happened! I went as Tony Stark to the midnight showing of the Avengers, in the outfit displayed in the trailers. Pretty happy with how it turned out, despite the wig being a pain in the ass. And not having enough time to match up the facial hair properly, augh.

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And the last day of my stay was Free Comic Book Day! I also started out the day as Tony, as I met up with Kie and her friends to get ALL THE COMICS. (Tangent: I now have the hardcover for Children's Crusade. OMG FINALLY) After that, I switched into Superboy mode, and Kie and I went to Universal Studios! and purikura!


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Cut to a week later. While visiting Jessamy and Marixsa, we made cakes! LOTS OF THEM. We ended up making a layered red velvet cake inspired by that amazing Captain America one, but this time more on the Cap/Iron Man slash end of things. (And also started putting together a Hulk cake, muahahaha)

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Now, finally getting back to the subject line (no, visiting singapore to see a movie and making comic book cakes are not nearly insane enough)...

I've decided to get a circle space at Movies Paradise this fall. MP is a relatively small fan event for western fandoms -- your typical Japanese event with circle selling fan-comics and fanfic and a little bit of cosplaying. I have also decided that I'm going to make props for ALL the Avengers characters. And possibly SHIELD stamps. Along with whatever cosplay I manage to get finished (Tony is ready, Steve is doable, Loki would be insane).

NOT ONLY THAT, but I had also been considering putting together an Avengers fan-anthology for the event. I've since realized that that is /probably/ too short of a timeframe, but here's the deal. If you want to distribute or sell related materials at MP through me, let me know. This could be postcard prints, copybon, whatever. I ask that you pay me for whatever printing, etc. charges I'd need to do on your behalf, but otherwise, I'm game. (I could probably manage a staplebound anthology/artbook still if there is interest, but.)

my grampa has a brain tumor.

in other news, this streak of doing absolutely nothing but reading so far this week? is going to continue. i have many excuses, but i'll spare you. things will get done starting next week.

Waaaaaay too fucking lazy to go through the pix individually right now, so embedding the albums instead! Only two processed so far, more to come later.

Iron Man 1

"Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration: the Jericho."


"Come on, honey bear."

Ambitious is not usually a term I use to describe myself -- I don't have much in the way of career goals, and I've never been able to answer that whole "Where do you see your self in 5/10/20 years?" question. (When inevitably asked by students come interview time, what is your dream?, I totally bullshit about whatever topic they'll actually understand my answer for. Recently, becoming a fashion designer.)

But I'm coming to realize that in a few areas of my life, I actually do have ambition -- but I lack the drive to back it up. One is my long-term interest in small to mid-scale exportation of goods, despite recent setbacks with #fanservices. The other, as you're probably sick of hearing me blather on about, is cosplay.

I'm not a very good cosplayer. I mean, I have standards, but I don't have terribly much experience with proper garment and prop construction, and I procrastinate so badly that I'm very rushed for time before presentation at events. This blog post is one of those procrastination tools -- I'm supposed to be constructing a Captain America cosplay right now, for an event in two weeks. Guess who hasn't started cutting/sewing? Fortunately, Castiel is wearable, minus shoes and possible wig changes, so I won't be without a costume.



Yeah, I like to play dress up (and the prestige of not buying a ready-made costume) so much more than actually making it.

My wishlist for cosplay keeps growing longer and longer, not helped at all with the fact I'm apparently working on obtaining /all/ of Tony Stark's wardrobe, or at least off-the-rack imitations thereof. (My next post here will be all the reference shots I'm using -- if anyone else can make use of it, since I have yet to find any posts focusing on the non-battle-suits of those movies elsewhere...)

List of characters off the top of my head:
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...am noticing the tendency towards desiring to cosplay both characters in a pairing I like. ^^;; There's definitely a ton more I'm leaving off the list, but I'll have to add them in later.

flist seems to be filled with varieties of colds and aches and pains. Me? STOMACH FLU. /o\ and after i had just been talking about hardly ever getting sick.

Ugh.

Since it's the internet and all, I don't actually care about TMI and bodily functions quite as much, but I'll cut my moaning for your sake.

Have submitted two items so far, and have another three possibles kinda ready? Seriously, the item list is ridiculous. Really really.

Who wants to help out? XD

In other news... who am I kidding, there is no other news. Other than somewhat old cosplay pix, cuz I don't think I've actually posted these yet!

Renji: Halloween party pix, both at school and not. I think you'll be able to tell :P
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The wig doesn't spike nearly as much as it could, but that's intentional, as I wanted to be able to switch between up and down styles without too much pain.

Gaara: wig progress and make-up practice.
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But seriously, if you have any original fills or ideas on how to accomplish some of those items, and don't mind me submitting them for Team #67, I'll gladly take them. You can reach me at feikoi [at] gmail.com.

 So, uh, yeah, I've signed up for #GISHWHES, aka that massive ridiculous scavenger hunt Misha Collins is promoting. And the wait is fucking killing me. where's my team emaaaaaaaaaaaail

/dying