Thursday, July 7, 2005

Hello and welcome to the first blog entry in over....a long time. No use in recapping what's happened since October. I will detail more recent events though. Such as, Anime Expo 2005!

If we thought our Cis costumes got a lot of postings last year, it is NOTHING, with capital, bolded, underlined, size 82 hot pink font, compared to the internet coverage this year's costumes got. Friday and Sunday we went as Chun Li (SF Alpha) and Cammy (blue leotard) and Saturday we went as Faris and Reina from Final Fantasy V. Faris and Reina got the cold shoulder, but holy garbanzo beans did we get photographed a lot as Cammy and Chunny. The top five ways we were approached to take photographs, in no particular order, were:

1) "OMG!!! CAMMJSIJI * CHUN LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, CAN I TAKE A PICTUREIJEIWJK???" I'm not kidding. We had a giant Nintendo DS made from cardboard run after us and nearly eat it on the way over. Other people just said the word "sexyyyyyy!" alot and asked for out picture.

2) "Cammy! Chun-Li! Can I get a picture of you beating the crap/$H!#/living daylights out of me?" This was one of my favourite scenarios.

3) "Hey...-oogle- can I/my friend take a picture with you?" This was usually followed up by posing with his arms around us. And a swift roundhouse kick to his face.

4) "......Exsuse me...picture?...." You guessed it. Japanese men who flocked to AX 05 and spoke little english were among the top photographers of our costumes. Good came from this though. We will be featured in Japanese cosplay magazine Cosmode! Excitement!!

5) I can't think of another common scenario. There was this ONE guy though, that took about 800 pictures with us because he was never satisfied. Either his arm was overexposed, or the picture was blurry, or the hair on his elbow got cut out of the picture, or something was wrong.

So, the moral of the story is. Wear unitards and you will be hit on. Or asked to pose for a picture in which you can hit said pervs. But I liked (most) of the attention, so who I am kidding.

The Street Fighter gathering on Friday evening was slammin'. I was the ONLY SF Alpha Chun Li for the whole convention and I saw only 3 traidtional Chun Li's. I'll upload pictures. Like, the flippin' best Bison EVER was there. His bracelets lit up. Purple. It was sweet. Oh man, were my legs sore from the "money shot" as my sister and I call it. Sunday I came up with this brilliant new pose, where I thr...it's to hard to explain, I'll post a picture. Anyway, someone asked for our picture while we were hanging around teh courtyard between the hotel and convention center, and Cammy says "Let's do THE pose." So I get on the ground and into position, and at one point, no kidding, there were like 80 people gathered around, flashes going off in all directions. Hence, the "money shot."

Monday was the last day of Expo. We went as ordinary nerds. Actually, I secretly cosplayed as Jean Grey, wearing all black and some funky jewelry ala X-men 2. My red hair nicely capped off the "secret cosplay." Some guy asked to take my picture. It was odd.

I bought lots of cool stuff this year, and for super cheap. I got a nifty bag with some crazy Japanese person on it and a thought ballon with sqribbles, some Star Wars patches (I am so going to sew the rebel alliance logo on a jacket), some X-men Marvel Mangaverse comics, a flippin' sweet "How to draw Heroines" book with all types of potential poses for Meeras and Keiikens. I have been drawing nonstop.

Hm. Kent found us on the first day! And we never saw him again. >_>... I was mad we didn't get to hang out again. Of course, I suppose it didn't help that I lost somewhere in my unitard his phone number. E_r I met Hchan, and that was spiffy. I feel so bad for Diana and her costume experience from hell. @_< I hope they all give that crazy girl a roundhouse kick to the face.

Before Expo, I just worked a crapload, bringing home the bacon so I can have some spending cash for summer trips. Ah. And I can now add James Spader to my list of hot older guys I'm obsessed with. David Bowie and Alan Rickman have seniority in the club though.

Um. That pretty much concludes this entry. I'm ...maybe going to change the layout, but we'll see. I feel sorta lonely/crappy/empty...so maybe I'll draw and fantasize about my stories. >_>;