What's going on?
Things are pretty slow for me right now. Really the only interesting things that have happened are Anime STL 2009 and me becoming addicted to Avatar The Last Airbender.
Anime STL was great! The venue was much bigger than last year's, which allowed more room to run around and be insane. My best friend showed up with her husband and a few of her students from her class that wanted to tag along. Watching their confusion at Caramelidansen was priceless! (They're anime-loving inner city kids, who have never been to a convention or even understood what a convention was, so it was like a culture shock.) I met a lot of nice people, most of whom were wondering who I was cosplaying, and then commenced to squeal with delight when I told them I was Anko.
There were a few downsides though. There seemed to be an overall lack of effort with costumes, which was disappointing. I guess it's to be expected though, with the current economic woes. Still, the purist in me was miffed seeing people wandering around in Akatsuki cloaks without actually being an Akatsuki member. Same thing with Bleach shinigami captains' cloaks. I only saw one really good Yoruichi.
There were also multiple cosplays of the same character; mainly Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, Kakashi and Yuna. So minus points with variety. I think that's why I got noticed more, because people were curious about who I was and were appreciative that I was being different. That made me pretty happy.
Another bummer was that the wig I ordered didn't come in on time, so I had to wear my hair au naturale, so to speak. But thank goodness for the magic of Photoshop.
So that's my life currently. Of course, that could change next week. Meh...
Off to Avatar and Zuko hotness!
Sparkly Muzics....
Neutral
Isolated
Cheerful
Stumped
