How can I put this, I - I'm an independent Princess of Kimlasca!
First order of business: I made a Maximilien and Valentin icon! ♥
My favorite Gankutsuou pairing! I cheered for them through the whole series. I was praying that Maximilien wouldn't go get himself killed, and that Valentin would recover from Heloise "Madame Busy Fingers" Villefort's fun with poisoning. I wanted to kill Madame Busy Fingers myself after she pulled that stunt on my beloved - and Maximilien's beloved - Valentin. That girl did not believe the pain she went through! But it went well in the end. I can safely assume that she and Max-the-Panda got married and will have a slew of redheaded babies together in Marseilles. I can also safely assume that Maximilien's love for Valentin will never fade. Hence the icon! Lots of texture work in this one, but it was worth it. And you can tell I was listening to Utada Hikaru when I made it. This One (Crying Like A Child) was the song/drug of choice. :D! The tinytext is "how could I ever love another?" and "I will love you for a thousand years." I want to use this song for another icon, with the "a whisper in the darkness disappears" or "living on my own." But Valentin and Max aren't living on their own, so I can't use that; I may use the other lyric for tinytext in a Monte-Cristo and Albert icon (my tinytext always says something). It's a Hikki explosion! I mean, I'm already planning to use Apple And Cinnamon for a Franz and Albert icon. W00t!
So. Finals are done. I'm confident that I did well, even on my Korean final, which was worrying me more than any of the others. Punch that shit, as they say in "Hot Fuzz."
I've been motivated to work on cosplay ever since Mandy/l-a-n-g-e-r and I went over to Holly's on Tuesday night to work. I feel like I got very little done, but making bias tape with the babysilk fabric I'm using for Natalia's dress is difficult and time-consuming. It took Holly and I over an hour to make one strip of bias tape, one yard long. That's insane and ridiculous and wrong. It takes five minutes to make a yard-long piece of bias tape out of cotton or a bottomweight. For my own good, I'm going to be careful to think about fabric choices in terms of details like buttons and bias tape in the future. Babysilk looks and feels beautiful, and is perfect for Natalia, but it's definitely a troublesome fabric to work with; it always has to be pressed and re-pressed. That's part of why I'm doing Peony out of cotton, broadcloth, and bottomweights. No silks or other blends. I'd tear my hair out and really have to resort to a wig. So anyway, over at Holly's, Mandy was doing her Beatmania cosplay, as was Holly, and as mentioned, I was working on Natalia. I'd like to work more on Natalia today, but first, Internet fuckery! It's the order of the day! (It's the order of every day. Such is the life of an addict.) I'm also determined to get Peony reference pictures, because I want to work on Peony, and to figure out whether I could even put myself in the Natalia swimsuit cosplay without having a wardrobe malfunction. World + me gone wild = no. Ash and Mandy are lucky; Jade's swimsuit cosplay is the Resort King bathrobe, and Tear has a one-piece white suit. What does Natalia wear?
Oh, yeah, that's right. This:
Don't Google image search that with safe search turned off, by the way. Or do, if that's your thing, and since it's totally my thing (boobs! :B Hurhurhurrrlolmaturity), I always have safe search disabled. I don't believe in censorship. But that's another rant for another time.
Anyway, that does not classify as a swimsuit in most countries except perhaps Brazil, and that doesn't count to me. Any country that invented the Brazilian wax has unrealistic beliefs about covering one's body. I'm getting better about being body-shy, but c'mon, jumping from Atoli and her bloomers and stockings to Natalia in her swimsuit is quite a leap. It's the difference between hydrogen and Lawrencium, almost. I don't know why I want to do this cosplay so badly. To prove something to myself and the world? To kick myself when fans the world over insult me for my presumption?
If I don't do swimsuit Natalia (Tropical Butterfly), I am going to do Star of Malkuth. I must be a masochist.
You would not believe the bullshit I went through to get these fucking pictures. I can't find the original swimsuit picture that Sir Snax printed for me, and I trolled through fifty-three pages of AnimeSuki forums looking for it, only to find out that either 1) that post has been deleted, or 2) the person's image hosting account is deactivated. What the fuck?! I got so frustrated that eventually, I settled for these crappy, low-res images. Even sharpened and cleaned up in PSP, they look...like stupid dreks. It's infuriating, 'cause this happens every time I need more reference pictures! Next time, we're moving to Guam! [/Rhea Pearlman in "Matilda"] Next time, we're cosplaying something with pictures that are easy to find, regardless of what costumes are involved! You know what that means, Ellipsis members: Code Geass, I choose you! Here comes the Squirtle Squad Rebellion!
"The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist."
I just liked that quote, considering how bare-assed (arsed?) naked Natalia nearly is in her Tropical Butterfly costume.
My favorite Gankutsuou pairing! I cheered for them through the whole series. I was praying that Maximilien wouldn't go get himself killed, and that Valentin would recover from Heloise "Madame Busy Fingers" Villefort's fun with poisoning. I wanted to kill Madame Busy Fingers myself after she pulled that stunt on my beloved - and Maximilien's beloved - Valentin. That girl did not believe the pain she went through! But it went well in the end. I can safely assume that she and Max-the-Panda got married and will have a slew of redheaded babies together in Marseilles. I can also safely assume that Maximilien's love for Valentin will never fade. Hence the icon! Lots of texture work in this one, but it was worth it. And you can tell I was listening to Utada Hikaru when I made it. This One (Crying Like A Child) was the song/drug of choice. :D! The tinytext is "how could I ever love another?" and "I will love you for a thousand years." I want to use this song for another icon, with the "a whisper in the darkness disappears" or "living on my own." But Valentin and Max aren't living on their own, so I can't use that; I may use the other lyric for tinytext in a Monte-Cristo and Albert icon (my tinytext always says something). It's a Hikki explosion! I mean, I'm already planning to use Apple And Cinnamon for a Franz and Albert icon. W00t!
So. Finals are done. I'm confident that I did well, even on my Korean final, which was worrying me more than any of the others. Punch that shit, as they say in "Hot Fuzz."
I've been motivated to work on cosplay ever since Mandy/l-a-n-g-e-r and I went over to Holly's on Tuesday night to work. I feel like I got very little done, but making bias tape with the babysilk fabric I'm using for Natalia's dress is difficult and time-consuming. It took Holly and I over an hour to make one strip of bias tape, one yard long. That's insane and ridiculous and wrong. It takes five minutes to make a yard-long piece of bias tape out of cotton or a bottomweight. For my own good, I'm going to be careful to think about fabric choices in terms of details like buttons and bias tape in the future. Babysilk looks and feels beautiful, and is perfect for Natalia, but it's definitely a troublesome fabric to work with; it always has to be pressed and re-pressed. That's part of why I'm doing Peony out of cotton, broadcloth, and bottomweights. No silks or other blends. I'd tear my hair out and really have to resort to a wig. So anyway, over at Holly's, Mandy was doing her Beatmania cosplay, as was Holly, and as mentioned, I was working on Natalia. I'd like to work more on Natalia today, but first, Internet fuckery! It's the order of the day! (It's the order of every day. Such is the life of an addict.) I'm also determined to get Peony reference pictures, because I want to work on Peony, and to figure out whether I could even put myself in the Natalia swimsuit cosplay without having a wardrobe malfunction. World + me gone wild = no. Ash and Mandy are lucky; Jade's swimsuit cosplay is the Resort King bathrobe, and Tear has a one-piece white suit. What does Natalia wear?
Oh, yeah, that's right. This:
Don't Google image search that with safe search turned off, by the way. Or do, if that's your thing, and since it's totally my thing (boobs! :B Hurhurhurrrlolmaturity), I always have safe search disabled. I don't believe in censorship. But that's another rant for another time.
Anyway, that does not classify as a swimsuit in most countries except perhaps Brazil, and that doesn't count to me. Any country that invented the Brazilian wax has unrealistic beliefs about covering one's body. I'm getting better about being body-shy, but c'mon, jumping from Atoli and her bloomers and stockings to Natalia in her swimsuit is quite a leap. It's the difference between hydrogen and Lawrencium, almost. I don't know why I want to do this cosplay so badly. To prove something to myself and the world? To kick myself when fans the world over insult me for my presumption?
If I don't do swimsuit Natalia (Tropical Butterfly), I am going to do Star of Malkuth. I must be a masochist.
You would not believe the bullshit I went through to get these fucking pictures. I can't find the original swimsuit picture that Sir Snax printed for me, and I trolled through fifty-three pages of AnimeSuki forums looking for it, only to find out that either 1) that post has been deleted, or 2) the person's image hosting account is deactivated. What the fuck?! I got so frustrated that eventually, I settled for these crappy, low-res images. Even sharpened and cleaned up in PSP, they look...like stupid dreks. It's infuriating, 'cause this happens every time I need more reference pictures! Next time, we're moving to Guam! [/Rhea Pearlman in "Matilda"] Next time, we're cosplaying something with pictures that are easy to find, regardless of what costumes are involved! You know what that means, Ellipsis members: Code Geass, I choose you! Here comes the Squirtle Squad Rebellion!
"The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist."
I just liked that quote, considering how bare-assed (arsed?) naked Natalia nearly is in her Tropical Butterfly costume.