RADELAIDE ANIMANIA ROADTRIP 01
OH RADELAIDE.
The hilarity made it worth it but it was a very long and tiring trip jkjkawe. SAD.
We started off at 4:30am on the Friday morning, and reached Adelaide about 11 hours later, 3pmish Friday afternoon. Miraculously, we did not get lost but that would be more because of the GPS than anything else. :'D
I spent most of the 11 hours glueing 6m of gold trim to my armor and belt, when I was not passed out asleep. Because I am a spoiled brat, I claimed the front seat - which really was not helpful at all, given I had a box of costume in the leg space and sat cross legged the entire time. XD; Unfortunately, I am small enough that I don't really have legs (and even with the chair pushed alll the way forward, short enough to prop my feet on the dashboard with room to spare :'D I like to thnk of myself as travel sized.)
We'd booked two double rooms at Annie's Place, a moderately priced hotel. Or, a twin and a double, both with private en suites because no one really wants to uh... try to get into embarrassing costumes while sharing a room with six strangers. :'D Sob.
The rooms had walls covered in pictures of naked women. :| No joke. And in the bathroom, an entire wall was mirrored. Somehow, this was the wall backing the bathtub and shower, meaning that bathing was an experience and then some. Sob. Jo and I shared the tiniest double bed in the world XD Linc's feet would have dangled over the edge, but given I am a fearsome 153cm and Jo towers over me by less than 10cm, we're pint sized and convenient.
The water in Adelaide is not safe to drink. :'D Because, clearly, there's something in the water. It actually feels like you're showering in a swimming pool because of the chlorine. Nrghhh.
Friday afernoon/evening, we went out to eat and explored Gouger St/Central Market a bit. :D AND WENT TO THE KAWAII FASHION STORE. WE SAW beanie_nup's WANTED ITEMS, F-CUP COOKIES. YOU EAT THEM AND YOUR BREASTS BECOME F-CUPS. GUARANTEEEEEEED.
Night was reserved for frantic finishing of costumes and sleeping the sleep of the dead until all of 6am, when we then proceeded to take three and a half hours to get ready.
ENTIRELY WORTH IT BECAUSE DEAR FLIST, FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE ADELAIDE WCS REPRESENTATIVES IN ALL THEIR GLORY.
MORE MAGNIFICENT THAN WORDS CAN SAY, RIGHT?
We trundled in late and spent a bit of time going ??? until we bumped into a familiar figure from Manifest! Diao Chan ended up being one of the cosplay judges and nudged us off into the right direction. While Jo and Linc were being registered, Desu spent time fending off enthusiastic glompers (a reoccuring theme the entire day) and I sat around looking dazed and uncomfortable in way too much spandex, armor and gold.
And then I got dragged into the cosplay competition.
Quite literally, too. XD The four of us were sitting around, fixing up Jo's weapon and costume and everything and one of the organisers came up to us and the conversation went a little like
mc: SO, YOU TWO ARE IN WCS. BUT YOU TWO, ARE YOU IN THE COSPLAY?
self: :0? Naiiii?
Should I be...?
mc: YES. ♥ COME OVER AND SIGN UP.
self: ???
And was bodily dragged over. XD; I have never been in a cosplay competition. I have never WATCHED a cosplay competition. I um. Was entirely unprepared.
I spent the marshalling time happily flailing with the girl next to me. I think I was the oldest person in that room by a minimum of five years. XD; God. Yuna, who went on and did these slow, gorgeous twirls and poses and THERE AND THEN I DECIDED THAT I WAS GOING TO MOVE ENTIRELY TOO FAST FOR THE CAMERAS.
BECAUSE I AM A NINJA, YOU SEE. HURHURHUR.
But people have very good cameras. :'D Somehow, I am just a little blurry in this, as opposed to UNSEEABLE.
The costume is a bit fail. XD; As in, majorly fail.
BUT SHE IS A FAIL NINJA ANYWAY, SO LET'S NOT GO INTO THAT.
Nrgh, must lose weightjkjkkjawe. THESE COSTUMES ARE KINDA VERY UNFORGIVING, SOBSOBSOB. Though, hilariously, BECAUSE THE BODYSUIT IS SO TIGHT, MY CHEST WAS SQUISHED A CUP SIZE SMALLER AND THE ARMORED BRA, IT DOES NOT FIT. Maa, because I am kinda super curvy, it's hard to make anything fit properly jkjkawe.
I am happy with how my hip armor falls and mostly okay with the shin guards. The arm guards are a bit fail and the shoulder guards kept moving out of place but saaa. :'D you do what you can.
I whirlwinded onto stage, and at the end, jumped off stage bypassing the stairs altogether. The MC was like "ARE YOU SUGAR HIGH?" and I was all, "I AM IN CHARACTER, BITCH. >:0!" and then proceeded to embarrass myself when we were all waiting around backstage for the solo cosplayers to be called, since the Yuna and I were happily flailing in a corner and had to pissbolt onto stage after everyone else was already lined up and posed.
Afterwards, the WCS! Because I am a ninja, I helped set up the stage and then had to run for Desu and our bags once the skit started. Fumbled for my phone. Set it to video instead of camera, and scrambled for a good position.
The skit was wonderful ♥
I missed less than 10 seconds of intro completely and was in position before the action actually started. Clearly, I am the fasted ninja blur EVER.
I CANNOT FIND A PICTURE OF DESU THOUGH SHE WAS STOPPED FOR PHOTOS MORE THAN THE REST OF US PUT TOGETHER D<
But one of animesque!
And one of bucket_shot!
The awards ceremony was the last thing before we were all unceremoniously shooed out of the venue and it was a LITTLE embarrassing that we managed half the awards between three of us. :'D As usual, I made an idiot out of myself from sitting on the inside and having to climb over a row of chairs to get out and to the stage and then forgot to grab all my prizes because I was so flustered jkjkjkawe.
ALL IN ALL, A HILARIOUS CON.
I am sorry that we missed rhett but some things cannot be helped!
MORE LATER. MAYBE.
The hilarity made it worth it but it was a very long and tiring trip jkjkawe. SAD.
We started off at 4:30am on the Friday morning, and reached Adelaide about 11 hours later, 3pmish Friday afternoon. Miraculously, we did not get lost but that would be more because of the GPS than anything else. :'D
I spent most of the 11 hours glueing 6m of gold trim to my armor and belt, when I was not passed out asleep. Because I am a spoiled brat, I claimed the front seat - which really was not helpful at all, given I had a box of costume in the leg space and sat cross legged the entire time. XD; Unfortunately, I am small enough that I don't really have legs (and even with the chair pushed alll the way forward, short enough to prop my feet on the dashboard with room to spare :'D I like to thnk of myself as travel sized.)
We'd booked two double rooms at Annie's Place, a moderately priced hotel. Or, a twin and a double, both with private en suites because no one really wants to uh... try to get into embarrassing costumes while sharing a room with six strangers. :'D Sob.
The rooms had walls covered in pictures of naked women. :| No joke. And in the bathroom, an entire wall was mirrored. Somehow, this was the wall backing the bathtub and shower, meaning that bathing was an experience and then some. Sob. Jo and I shared the tiniest double bed in the world XD Linc's feet would have dangled over the edge, but given I am a fearsome 153cm and Jo towers over me by less than 10cm, we're pint sized and convenient.
The water in Adelaide is not safe to drink. :'D Because, clearly, there's something in the water. It actually feels like you're showering in a swimming pool because of the chlorine. Nrghhh.
Friday afernoon/evening, we went out to eat and explored Gouger St/Central Market a bit. :D AND WENT TO THE KAWAII FASHION STORE. WE SAW beanie_nup's WANTED ITEMS, F-CUP COOKIES. YOU EAT THEM AND YOUR BREASTS BECOME F-CUPS. GUARANTEEEEEEED.
Night was reserved for frantic finishing of costumes and sleeping the sleep of the dead until all of 6am, when we then proceeded to take three and a half hours to get ready.
ENTIRELY WORTH IT BECAUSE DEAR FLIST, FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE ADELAIDE WCS REPRESENTATIVES IN ALL THEIR GLORY.
MORE MAGNIFICENT THAN WORDS CAN SAY, RIGHT?
We trundled in late and spent a bit of time going ??? until we bumped into a familiar figure from Manifest! Diao Chan ended up being one of the cosplay judges and nudged us off into the right direction. While Jo and Linc were being registered, Desu spent time fending off enthusiastic glompers (a reoccuring theme the entire day) and I sat around looking dazed and uncomfortable in way too much spandex, armor and gold.
And then I got dragged into the cosplay competition.
Quite literally, too. XD The four of us were sitting around, fixing up Jo's weapon and costume and everything and one of the organisers came up to us and the conversation went a little like
mc: SO, YOU TWO ARE IN WCS. BUT YOU TWO, ARE YOU IN THE COSPLAY?
self: :0? Naiiii?
Should I be...?
mc: YES. ♥ COME OVER AND SIGN UP.
self: ???
And was bodily dragged over. XD; I have never been in a cosplay competition. I have never WATCHED a cosplay competition. I um. Was entirely unprepared.
I spent the marshalling time happily flailing with the girl next to me. I think I was the oldest person in that room by a minimum of five years. XD; God. Yuna, who went on and did these slow, gorgeous twirls and poses and THERE AND THEN I DECIDED THAT I WAS GOING TO MOVE ENTIRELY TOO FAST FOR THE CAMERAS.
BECAUSE I AM A NINJA, YOU SEE. HURHURHUR.
But people have very good cameras. :'D Somehow, I am just a little blurry in this, as opposed to UNSEEABLE.
The costume is a bit fail. XD; As in, majorly fail.
BUT SHE IS A FAIL NINJA ANYWAY, SO LET'S NOT GO INTO THAT.
Nrgh, must lose weightjkjkkjawe. THESE COSTUMES ARE KINDA VERY UNFORGIVING, SOBSOBSOB. Though, hilariously, BECAUSE THE BODYSUIT IS SO TIGHT, MY CHEST WAS SQUISHED A CUP SIZE SMALLER AND THE ARMORED BRA, IT DOES NOT FIT. Maa, because I am kinda super curvy, it's hard to make anything fit properly jkjkawe.
I am happy with how my hip armor falls and mostly okay with the shin guards. The arm guards are a bit fail and the shoulder guards kept moving out of place but saaa. :'D you do what you can.
I whirlwinded onto stage, and at the end, jumped off stage bypassing the stairs altogether. The MC was like "ARE YOU SUGAR HIGH?" and I was all, "I AM IN CHARACTER, BITCH. >:0!" and then proceeded to embarrass myself when we were all waiting around backstage for the solo cosplayers to be called, since the Yuna and I were happily flailing in a corner and had to pissbolt onto stage after everyone else was already lined up and posed.
Afterwards, the WCS! Because I am a ninja, I helped set up the stage and then had to run for Desu and our bags once the skit started. Fumbled for my phone. Set it to video instead of camera, and scrambled for a good position.
The skit was wonderful ♥
I missed less than 10 seconds of intro completely and was in position before the action actually started. Clearly, I am the fasted ninja blur EVER.
I CANNOT FIND A PICTURE OF DESU THOUGH SHE WAS STOPPED FOR PHOTOS MORE THAN THE REST OF US PUT TOGETHER D<
But one of animesque!
And one of bucket_shot!
The awards ceremony was the last thing before we were all unceremoniously shooed out of the venue and it was a LITTLE embarrassing that we managed half the awards between three of us. :'D As usual, I made an idiot out of myself from sitting on the inside and having to climb over a row of chairs to get out and to the stage and then forgot to grab all my prizes because I was so flustered jkjkjkawe.
ALL IN ALL, A HILARIOUS CON.
I am sorry that we missed rhett but some things cannot be helped!
MORE LATER. MAYBE.