Yaoi and Yuri con is coming! :D
Random Note: Sun is shining, the first flowers are starting to bloom, buds are showing and... And we still had snow yesterday. What the hell, weather? But spring is definitely coming anyway! <3
Spring means that it's the spring semester though, which is my annual 'I am SO not all that motivated to work for uni' period. It's too far from the beginning of the school year to have much energy left, but not close enough to summer break to get much out of counting down to that. So instead of doing schoolwork I learn for my drivers license (not as much as I aught to), do a lot of dancing, meander around online and do some sewing... Which is fun but always leaves me with a nagging feeling that I aught to do more for uni. Oh well, seeing that I survived this period with two courses running, and I now have only one, I shouldn't do too bad :P
On a much more fun note, do you remember this post? It's about the yaoi and yuri con that's coming up in the Netherlands. Well, the event is come Sunday and I can't wait! Not only will I go, but in the end, you guys did convince me to cosplay as well! And I'm not going alone (which helps). One of my friends, rose-layon, is going to come with. We're going to play Orihime and Tatsuki from the anime Bleach.
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wo girls have been best friends for years, and ever since I began reading the manga, I've been slahing them for a long time, but ever since the Soul Society arc, Tatsuki has all but disappeared from the fandom picture. That's a huge shame if you ask me, because she's totally awesome! She has a black belt in karate, a fiery temper and is just all around one of those kick-ass anime girls that I absolutely love. She's the one on the right in the pic.
Orehime, whom I'll be cosplaying, is a sweet, slightly ditzy girl who has a tendency to come up with odd ideas, is generally happy, often goes off into strange day dreams and has a tendency to put her friends before herself. She has the power to 'deject' with the help of flower elfs that appear from her hairclip (don't ask me). She can heal, which really attracts me in her has well.
Both are intelligent and on the top few of their class. They are very close and very protective of each other. One of the most striking scenes of the manga is when the two of them are attacked by a Hollow and at first, Tatsuki attempts to fight it, using karate. She can't see it however, and is defeated. Orihime, who, until that point, has had the role of protectee, throws herself in front of Tatsuki in a desperate attempt to protect her. This is when her powers manifest for the first time.
Tite Kubo (the mangaka) has these little side pannels, one each chapter. In the first one, you see a dragon protecting a cowering princess, in the second one, you see the dragon defeated and the princes protecting the dragon. I loved those! ^___ ^ (sadly I can't find them anywere online, and my camera is broken...)
So the two of us are cosplaying these two, and I made the costumes! They're nearly done, too. I need to find some un-permanent hair die (the stuff you can get out in up to 3 washings), which is proving a lot harder than I thought it'd be. My friend needs a black wig, which we'll attack with scissors and hairgel on saturday. My skirt needs a little fixing (I made it slightly too big) but that should be done by tonight. And than the costumes are really and truly finished! I have to say, I'm a little proud of them!
Spring means that it's the spring semester though, which is my annual 'I am SO not all that motivated to work for uni' period. It's too far from the beginning of the school year to have much energy left, but not close enough to summer break to get much out of counting down to that. So instead of doing schoolwork I learn for my drivers license (not as much as I aught to), do a lot of dancing, meander around online and do some sewing... Which is fun but always leaves me with a nagging feeling that I aught to do more for uni. Oh well, seeing that I survived this period with two courses running, and I now have only one, I shouldn't do too bad :P
On a much more fun note, do you remember this post? It's about the yaoi and yuri con that's coming up in the Netherlands. Well, the event is come Sunday and I can't wait! Not only will I go, but in the end, you guys did convince me to cosplay as well! And I'm not going alone (which helps). One of my friends, rose-layon, is going to come with. We're going to play Orihime and Tatsuki from the anime Bleach.
These t
wo girls have been best friends for years, and ever since I began reading the manga, I've been slahing them for a long time, but ever since the Soul Society arc, Tatsuki has all but disappeared from the fandom picture. That's a huge shame if you ask me, because she's totally awesome! She has a black belt in karate, a fiery temper and is just all around one of those kick-ass anime girls that I absolutely love. She's the one on the right in the pic.
Orehime, whom I'll be cosplaying, is a sweet, slightly ditzy girl who has a tendency to come up with odd ideas, is generally happy, often goes off into strange day dreams and has a tendency to put her friends before herself. She has the power to 'deject' with the help of flower elfs that appear from her hairclip (don't ask me). She can heal, which really attracts me in her has well.
Both are intelligent and on the top few of their class. They are very close and very protective of each other. One of the most striking scenes of the manga is when the two of them are attacked by a Hollow and at first, Tatsuki attempts to fight it, using karate. She can't see it however, and is defeated. Orihime, who, until that point, has had the role of protectee, throws herself in front of Tatsuki in a desperate attempt to protect her. This is when her powers manifest for the first time.
Tite Kubo (the mangaka) has these little side pannels, one each chapter. In the first one, you see a dragon protecting a cowering princess, in the second one, you see the dragon defeated and the princes protecting the dragon. I loved those! ^___ ^ (sadly I can't find them anywere online, and my camera is broken...)
So the two of us are cosplaying these two, and I made the costumes! They're nearly done, too. I need to find some un-permanent hair die (the stuff you can get out in up to 3 washings), which is proving a lot harder than I thought it'd be. My friend needs a black wig, which we'll attack with scissors and hairgel on saturday. My skirt needs a little fixing (I made it slightly too big) but that should be done by tonight. And than the costumes are really and truly finished! I have to say, I'm a little proud of them!