01) I am a sucker for Tenshinhan/Lunch doujinshi.  Spontaneously!Romantic!And therefore out of character!Tenshinhan is my crack.

02) I have spent way too much money on things this past month.

03) TTC revamp is more than a possibility.

04) Kuririn cosplay in pink "Bald Man" shirt (ala Vegeta's "Bad Man" shirt) is a MUST for me.  (Someone please reassure me that I'm not retarded for coming up with this...  or for thinking it's funny.)

05) Bald cap testing very soon!  (IT CAME IT CAME!)  Just gotta get a hold of Amanda. ...If not, I'm making my dad help me.  XD

06) Kuririn Oorin robes at 95%!  Just gotta dye the shoes that butt-ugly brown/yellow color.  -__-;

07) I drew porn (or something like that...), and I'll be posting it on this journal!  *laughs maniacally*


Good times.  G'night all~  <3

First of all,




Hey, unyuu~ a couple of questions for you: Which days will you be attending NYAF? Who are you cosplaying? For now I've just got Luffy in Goku's gi (you're doing Nami in Goku's gi, yes?) ..and I saw on your c.com page that you're planning on cosplaying someone from Avatar?

Alrighty, I've got today and the next two days off, so it's time for some hard-core sewing!  Kimono are very difficult to sew, and I keep thinking I'm making mistakes...  However, except for the fact that I didn't buy enough fabric for the sleeves (...), I think it's going well.  -___-  I'm probably going to tackle the pants today or tomorrow, just to get away from the kimono of death.

Made a couple of edits to my overly-ambitious cosplay master list.

...It's a pretty nice day; I should lay outside and get a tan.  ^^;  Eventually, I'll have to get some make-up and start learning... how to use it to look more boy-ish.  XD

Other stuff:
- make PMK screencaps from the Premium DVD (grendelity and fadedfeathers should know what I'm talking about.  ^_~)
- Darkrai event on Saturday.
- Otakon panel (we'll get confirmation of that next week, right, unyuu?)
- bald cap testing (begins after costume is done.)  *_*
- finish coloring Tatsu art.

Things are beginning to pile up, but I want to do something very simple and easy for AN 2008.  So, with that in mind, I'm thinking Haruhi from Ouran, but not Host Club Member!Haruhi.  Click on the cut for reference images.  ^^

Yep!  It's simple, the clothing will be relatively easy to find, and I don't need a wig (just a trim to keep it neat).  I'll just bake in the June sun, is all.  XD  ...Will people know who I am?

Also kind-of up for consideration:
- Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service)
- Luffy (One Piece)
- Mitani (Hikaru no Go)

'HO SNAPS YOU GUYS!!!  A bunch of us are planning a good-sized Dragon Ball cosplay group for this year's Otakon.  :DDD  I might have to put my Tetsu cosplay on the back-burner, in favor of this...which I hate to do... but we shall see.  This is my first cosplay group ever!  I can't even express how excited I am, how we all are, for this year.  (Plus, Hironobu Kageyama???  For seriously.)

My costumes are as follows:
01. KURIRIN from early DB.
02. PAN in her orange gi.

As I just decided, like, tonight, that I want to cosplay Pan, I'd like your feedback about it.  I have no clue as to who you all are cosplaying, in terms of characters from "Z", so I'm not sure where I'll fit in with everyone.  I'm sure it doesn't matter, since we can have characters spanning the entires series... but I'm just curious.  ^^  I don't want to overwhelm myself.
So, are you guys doing a specific saga or group?  My Pan might be a little random.  XD  (glayish and technoranma, I more-or-less know what your plans are for DBZ cosplay, but I don't really want to spoil them here.)

To technoranma: Since you're doing Goku's blue gi from the beginning of the series, do you also want to have those boxes of milk bottles to carry around?  I'd love to do the turtle shells as well, but that would be a difficult undertaking, yeah?

That's about it, I think....  Oh, and I don't know cobheran, but I'm dying to know who he's cosplaying!  ><

[EDIT] Since Kuririn is a definite, I'll focus on getting his outfits done.  And I'll adjust/add to my Kuririn costume list according to what arc you all are doing for later-series stuff.

Stolen from catalysis! 8D

1. My username is _____ because ____.
- shikach0u because I'm a deer-butterfly hybrid! XD It's inspired by a creature from Dragon Ball that was part boar, part deer, part butterfly.

2. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
- "go ahead. be square ♥" because it sounded cool and it's OK to be a little unconventional and a lot geek!  XB

3. My subtitle is ____ because ____.
- baby, you set the trend because it's from that M2M song "Don't Say You Love Me," which is one of the greatest songs ever.  XD  I like how it sort of contradicts my title.  ^^

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
- "all you need || is love" because my friends are love, and because it's a Beatles song.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
- Youji from Loveless because pimpin' ain't easy.  XD  I plan on changing it soon to something that matches my current Peacemaker layout.

(I'm adding a sixth.)
6. My name is ____ because ____. (The name that appears on my profile page.)
- "irish of the orient" because Koreans are called the Irish of the Orient because we like to drink are a fiery bunch, apparently, and because my last name is extremely Irish and I arrived on St. Patrick's Day.  XD

Ended up going to the fabric store on Saturday.  Man, I feel totally intimidated but also very excited.  ^^  I bought a few essentials (suggested by Sewing for Dummies,) like a pair of dressmaker's scissors, measuring tape, a seam ripper, glass head pins, and a wrist pincushion.  I decided to wait until I've taken a closer look at my pattern and sewing machine before I buy fabric, thread, needles, etc.  There are so many different types of fabric out there!  o_O  It's scary!  XDD  It's a good thing I'll need only cotton blends for my costume...  -__-


I found: three very, very, very, very, very nice Tenshinhan doujin on eBay for reasonable prices, considering their rarity and the fact that I'd probably have to pay more at a Japan Auction site.

What's a girl to do?  *feigns innocence*  ^______________^

YAY SAUCE.  8D

I hope you all are doing well!  ^^

one;
New photos concerning the upcoming live-action DB movie and shizz.  (I got the link from the DB movie club at deviantART.)

...I've gotta say, I'm a bit more interested now that there are photos of Goku (Justin Chatwin) in an orange gi.  XD  I still don't care for the high school angle they're taking with the story.  ...Actually, have they dropped that angle?  *hopeful*  Correct me if any of my facts are wrong; I have not been following the movie or been reading the many and varied opinions of other DB fans.  When I first found out that they were going to make a live-action movie for Dragon Ball, I was appalled.  ...But I've accepted it.  What will be, will be.  I'll go see it when it comes out, and I might enjoy it.  ^^


two;
I'm making my first Fan Soundtrack, for Fruits Basket pairings~  Choosing songs that fit is challenging, but I think I've picked out pretty good ones for Shigure/Akito, Kyo/Tohru, and Yuki/Machi.  (Most excited about the Shigure/Akito one!  :D)  I'm going to try and cover all of the established couples in the fandom (I absolutely refuse to do Hana/Kazuma,) and I know Hatori/Mayu will be the hardest for me, since I don't know enough about their relationship to pick a good song.  For Ayame/Mine, I chose Madonna's "Dress You Up in My Love" sort of as a gag, but I also kind of think it fits them.  XD


three;
I cracked open Sewing for Dummies last night and read the first couple of chapters.  Some of my 7th grade Home Ec experience with a sewing machine is coming back.  XD  I'm relieved that at least some of the jargon is familiar.  Hopefully, I'll get to the fabric store this week and buy some crap.  (After procrastinating for 3 months...)


four;
Back to school is fun.  My Japanese class is in the basement of one of the halls: The Grad School of Education Building on College Ave, if anyone wants to know exactly where and knows about Rutgers.  ^^;  The tables are arranged in an annoying horseshoe shape.

Intro to the Study of Language is a lecture (I shouldn't have been surprised but was.)  Yay excitement!

Math tomorrow.  Boo numbers.  And they're always the hardest to learn in another language.  It hurt my brain to remember how to say "thirty-five," or any other number, in German (fünfunddreißig!!!), and it's not a whole lot better in Japanese (though the kanji make perfect sense to me; I just can't wrap my head around how to say them when they're all mashed together.)

I hope everyone had a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving~~!!  ^^

Jeez, if I'm not careful it'll be another week in between this post and my last.  XP  I hope you all are doing well!


Do any of you guys have a Wacom tablet?  I'm thinking about getting the Wacom Bamboo Fun, but I'm not sure which size to get.  The smaller one has an active area of about 4x6, whereas the larger Bamboo Fun has one of about 5x9.  I think the small Bamboo Fun makes more sense, considering I won't be doing any heavy-duty drawing with it.  However, the bigger active area sounds more comfortable.  'Tis a quandary....

My patterns have arrived from the Round Earth Publishing Shop.  8D  I'm scared.  This means I have to start soon!  Haha.  ...which reminds me: I made a post of AnimeNEXT photos a while ago but never linked to the rest of the photos.  (Dumb!)  They're all here if you want to look at them.

Might as well post the photos I took at MangaNEXT:



Contemplating Otakon2008....  It'd be fun.

I desperately need a new layout...  DD:  All of my creative juices have dried out and I have no idea what to do.  ><  It's so frustrating.