Month: July 2011

Upcoming plans

I didn’t do any hall cosplay this year at SDCC. I considered bringing Sue Sylvester (either the track suit or wedding dress version), but I decided against it because a) Glee fans nooooooo, and b) I was just too darn busy. When you’re planning to be in line for four hours, followed by panels for another six, wearing costumes is pretty low on the priority list. Maybe next year. I did miss it a bit.

My next event is Yaoicon in October. This is a pure cosplaying event—the convention doesn’t interest me at all. If all goes according to plan, I’ll be making this lovely lady from the video game Eternal Sonata to wear with my cosplay buds. Which means a whole lotta crunches to get my stomach photo-ready.

San Diego!

So what did you do last week? I spent it in San Diego, making my annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con. I had a super time, as always. For the second year in a row, I made it into all the panels I decided I had to see. It’s remarkable when that happens. It requires waking up VERY EARLY, though.

Apart from the panels, there was the masquerade. Watch our dumb skit!

That’s me as Dot Matrix, and my pal Umi as Princess Vespa. More details about the construction of my costume can be found here.

Well, there goes the week

I went to a A Dance With Dragons release party last night at a local independent bookshop. It was reasonably well-attended, I think there were like 50 people there. Snacks and wine for free, but I did not partake (it was already difficult staying up until midnight). There was a sort-of pub quiz thing, and sadly, while I did not win a copy of the book, I came in second or third and received a little stuffed dragon. Even though I misspelled “Rhaegal.”

I called myself “Team Yay Sansa.” With the broadcast of A Game of Thrones on HBO, I’ve been hearing a ton of Sansa hate, and while she is written specifically to be hard to like in the first book, she’s grown a lot since then. So I thought I’d throw her some love.

I’m heading off to San Diego Comic-Con next week. I am VERY excited. This will be my fifth year attending, and my fourth year participating in the masquerade. I still have a decent amount of work left to do on my costume, and hopefully this book won’t impede that too much!