Here I tackle the final topics of redfishie's list! As a reminder, her topics were:
- What gets me excited about costuming
- Why Maine Coons are so very awesome
- The art of writing games
- Vampires, in all their forms
- Other languages, those I speak/read
- Fanfic - or tormenting Hellsing fans :P
- How to make period correct clothing (does hand stitching ( Read more... )

My epic summer party of epicness was this past weekend, overlapping with Pretty Much Everything, alas. As a result we only had about 12? 15? guests. But there were ribs! In epic quantities ( Read more... )

A couple of notes:

1) It is nice to have a truer-to-the-manga interpretation, complete with more badass Seras.
2) ... but I miss Floppy Hat Guy's music.
3) The original Van Helsing apparently shares a VA with the narrator from the first One Piece opening. I keep expecting him to yell out "DAI KAIZOKU JIDAI!"

Since Sunday, I have doubled my doujinshi collection. Not that this means much, as it now consists in one Trigun and one RK doujinshi. But damn, I have discovered how insidiously addictive this is. I must stop. It is only Christmas money I'm spending; money which was intended for me to buy myself something fun, but I wonder how the person who gave ( Read more... )

(also posted on my real blog [link defunct]).

In case you are wondering what these strange gyrations are, they would be me, doing the happy doujinshi dance. Of course, my joy is tempered by the fact that I just paid $28.50 for something that the seller probably paid $3 for in Japan. I'm not sure why I convinced myself to pay that much--plus ( Read more... )