Note to self: quit working on cosplay early tonight due to exhaustion from combination of food coma and sleep dep; am now about half a day behind schedule.

I swear, this cosplay....!


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I'd just like to say that silk is a royal pain to work with at times. Especially when attempting to do nice little seams. But oh does it LOOK gorgeous.

In the mean time, I just realized I still need to get some fabric yet for this project, whoops. At least it's something I should be able to find easily enough, though.


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Welp, my day is made.

On another note, does anyone have any suggestions for what to use for styling cosplay wigs to KEEP it styled without it just looking like it's full of hairspray? As in, I need to braid the wig for the costume I'm working on, and then transport it to Japan...

First off, THE LIST SO FAR, please tell me if I'm missing someone or have someone listed incorrectly.

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So, I may have gone and ordered a subscription to Dragon Magazine. Which, for anyone who's not familiar, is a Japanese publication of serialized fantasy novels and manga. It's the magazine that Fullmetal Panic and Slayers ran in, and Legend of the Legendary Heroes currently runs. The first issue of which may have arrived this weekend ( Read more... )

One thing that kinda gets to me, is just how big a deal is made about new words being added to some dictionary or another. Or the question of whether or not a word is in a dictionary, and so on.

Now mind you, I do like having consistent grammar and standard spellings and so on, which is largely what a dictionary is for- to compile a list of the ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail today from paypal informing me that I'd been automatically enrolled in their "paypal advantage" thing that is supposedly for their best customers. I haven't the faintest clue WHY, but hey!

Legend of the Legendary Heroes continues to be amazing though I want the next novel now dangit. ;_ ( Read more... )

I have learned, in my experience, that the best way to enjoy those things known as trading card games, is to just decide from the outset whether you want to buy it to play the game, or to collect the cards. It's possible to be a player and enjoy the game fully, or be a collector and enjoy it. More often than not, though, it seems that trying to ( Read more... )

...what people would think if, say, instead of their job that they find tedious or annoying or otherwise not worth putting their full effort into, they had to actually hunt and gather or grow their food, and build their own house, and so on. If nothing else, even with the worst of jobs, knowing that it's what stands between oneself and working ( Read more... )