SUPANOVA FTW!!!

[tellytubby101]

Gave my friend the money to buy some Supanova tickets. Yay~!

(To those who don't know, Supanova is like the Australian version of America's Comi-Con. To those who don't know what Comi-Con is, it's like a huge fan gathering place where you can cosplay, buy merchandise and generally squee happily at fandom being around you in RL. America's one is

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[unjaundiced]

HAHAHAHAHA You nut. Also... Buying a sword... Put them in poster tubes or bring sword covers [or really long socks or blankets] to wrap around them and just tie them. This is how people normally transport those.

Also~ Naruto headband? Fer srs? I could buy/send you some, lol. They sell them all over the ding dang place here.

FMA is so long, lol. Don't spend over $3 a book!

[tellytubby101]

$3 a book would be brilliant. In AUS, it's (at BEST) $10 a book. D:

Don't worry about the Naruto headband. I'm thinking about a wall scroll now... (I have a short attention span when it comes to these things.)

[unjaundiced]

DDDDDD: $10 is brand new at the store... $10 is also what it costs for the new 3-volume books they've been releasing for some of the series. I should hunt down cheaper books for you. *hops to it*

You is crazy! What kind of wall scroll? I used to look for these things too, but I never use them after. o.O

[tellytubby101]

If I could get the manga at $3 each, I would completely own all of FMA right now. RIGHT NOW, MAN. *is envious of you* But brand new at store is usually $15 - $17. No joke, sometimes $19. Which is bullcrap, honestly.

THEY BETTER HAVE KUROSHITSUJI MANGA. Every store I've gone to doesn't have and can't order it in. If Supanova doesn't have it, I will weep. And then use the money to buy a tablet. Maybe. IDK.

I have no idea about wall scrolls. I try not to picture it because they're not likely to have a design I like (unless a random KakaIru one pops up), but a friend of mine really wants a Naruto one w/ Kakashi and/or Gaara.

[unjaundiced]

Lol $3 is like the Japanese used bookstore price. It's like $1 for non-translated and about $5 for the June/yaoi ones which are about $13 new. It's probably higher for you because of the import duties? $19 is like imported doujinshi cost! DDDDD: Which irritates me because new, doujinshi are sometimes only about $5

[tellytubby101]

You are epic. But I doubt I'll have much money after Supanova, but if I am searching for more Kuroshitsuji stuffs, I will definitely drop you a line. ♥

And the damn AUS government do this to us by jacking up the prices on international books (any books not published here). THEN the bookstores add their "two cents" and here we are with books that are CLEARLY too expensive. HARRUMPH.

I would boycott, but I love books too much.

I was GOING to buy manga off Amazon, but then saw the shipping costs made it absolutely ridiculous. D:

[unjaundiced]

Hahaha you will be sooooooooooo broke. Just sweet talk some nerdy looking otaku guys into buying you stuff! :D Best line ever >> "Hi!" XDDDDD

[tellytubby101]

AHAHA, yeah, I'm going to flirt with random guys at Supanova in front of my friends. That would be hilarious. So out of character for me; I dislike approaching people. Their faces (if I did this) would be all /(O____O

[unjaundiced]

You should go for broke, just to see your friends' brains explode! I want to be able to see the smoke from here! :D

[tellytubby101]

It doesn't take much to make my friends surprised. If I went up and hugged one of them, they'd probably wonder if I were dying or something. I'm not physically affectionate (unless you count kicking their asses into gear as 'physically affectionate'...).

I suspect they DO reprint prices, mainly because of the government tax laws. JFC, I hate the Australian government's completely anal stance on books. I should lobby and protest or something (with signs and EVERYTHING, full out), but dammit I shouldn't have to! I have stuff to DO, man!

Personally, I try to get the one day delivery things when it's within Australia, but when it's too big, or from overseas, the price is ridiculous. DO THEY WANT US TO BE POOR? DO THEY???

But six months is scary long. Stuff from Thailand takes two weeks AT MOST to come over.

COME TO JAPAN WITH ME~! YOU CAN MEET CHINATOWN GUY AND HE'LL BE ALL, "WTF? Y MOAR ASIANS?" BUT I'LL BE THIS IS MY AWESOMEST FRIEND AND WE CAN ALL BE DORKY TOURISTS TOGETHER. YES. ♥ I see no reason why we can't do that. XD

[unjaundiced]

My friends have this theory they keep trying to work out and it's somewhere at "the rate of touching/poking of Rini increases exponentially with each extra item she wears into infinity" at this point. I protest this!

You should make signs using crappy books from Paperback Swap. Those books have basically had it anyhow! PROTEST THE GOVERNMENT!

Australia doesn't have the greatest in-country shipping rates, does it? Then again.. Neither does Canadia. -__- Yes! It's all one massive conspiracy to make you poor! They do this!

I got an airmail package from the UK 2 months late before too so who knows. One of the scariest things was shipping from Italy. I do not recommend this, I do not.

YES! TO JAPAN! CAN I FIT IN YOUR SUITCASE??? I MUST LOSE WEIGHT! AND WE CAN ALL GO TO JAPAN CHINATOWN TOGETHER AND BE CHINATOWN MARRIED BIGAMISTS! ... POLYGAMISTS! WHATEVER!

[tellytubby101]

Last year, I think, a friend found my weak spot. If you poke me at a certain spot in the side, I am render weakless as newborn. They exploit this when they: a) want something, or b) think I'm being annoying. >_<

Sadly, I am incapable of destroying books. If you handed me a book (any book) and promised me $20 to rip it into bits, I don't think I could. D:

Ahh, yes! You've mentioned the Italy story! Though, with their crazy politics, I'm not surprised that they're all a bit in shambles.

DON'T BOTHER LOSING WEIGHT! I'LL GET A BIG SUITCASE AND NO ONE SHALL NOTICE. AND WE SHALL HAVE A CEREMONY IN A TEENY-WEENY LITTLE SHOP AND EAT LOTS OF YUMMY NOODLES AFTERWARDS. THEN I WILL DIVORCE CHINATOWN GUY BECAUSE HE ALMOST DITCHED ME FOR A 3DS OF ALL THINGS AND YOU AND I WILL DO AWESOME THINGS IN JAPAN AND BECOME LEGENDS. ... that was a lot of capslocking. XD

[unjaundiced]

You need to hone your ninja skillz so you can stop any and all attacks before they get that close!

Even if the book was completely destroyed ahead of time? I've gotten books where most of the pages weren't actually a PART of the book anymore! o.O

Yes, Italy.. With their cutting open of your packages and stealing of Christmas cards.. Why do you do this!

IT'LL HAVE TO BE A HELLA BIG SUITCASE BECAUSE I'LL PROBABLY GET A CRAMP OR SOMETHING AND IT'S A LONG FLIGHT AND I'LL BE REALLY FAT FOR AN ASIAN IN THE LAND OF ULTRA-SKINNY JAPANESE! AND TO HELL WITH CHINATOWN GUY BECAUSE WHAT KIND OF LOSER DITCHES YOU OVER SOMETHING LIKE THAT! WE'LL JUST HAVE FUN WITHOUT HIS PATHETIC OBVIOUSLY-NON-ASIAN SELF! though a lot of Japanese girls like white guys so maybe that's a good thing for him... -__-

[tellytubby101]

When they hit the spot in my side, I lose all ninja skills. It's like... Achilles' Heel. D:

If I got a book where the pages were falling out (which has happened before with library books), I sit down and carefully tape it back together. It's something I have to do if I have the time/materials to fix the book.

I know! A 3DS; he was going to ditch me for some stupid plastic game thing! GAH. I convinced him otherwise, but dammit, how can a game compare to the awesomeness of Japan?!

I WILL BUY YOU A PLANE TICKET (SOMEHOW,) THEN AND WE SHALL GIGGLE AT THE TERRIBLE SELECTION OF IN-FLIGHT MOVIES AND MOAN ABOUT AIRPLANE FOOD AND THEN BUY LOTS OF SHINY THINGS IN JAPAN AND IT WILL BE GLORIOUS. Chinatown guy is tall, white and foreign. Yep, those Japanese girls would LOVE him. XD But he's a dork, too, so perhaps that would negate the cool factor...

[unjaundiced]

You need to get all WACHA before they can get close to you at all! Protect yourself!

Book binding glue. I need to buy this... I really should debind some books I have to scan but... *does not want to/is too scared*

Obviously Chinatown guy needs to be taught a lesson on the true value of things. HE IS SUCH A PLEBIAN! DDDDD:

YES! TERRIBLE IN-FLIGHT MOVIES! PROBABLY SOMETHING I HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE! THEN WE CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HARDTACK THEY CALL CHICKEN! AND BUY FRUITS [except that's like $15 a fruit so maybe not...] AND CLOTHES [also so... so very expensive] OR JUST TAKE A LOT OF PICTURES!

You'd be surprised actually. Japanese girls are weird. Our super dorky Japanese nerd friend went back to Japan during school, supposedly temporarily, but he was such a hit with the girls that he decided to stay there. o.O He came back and was still weird, but apparently is some kind of sex god over there. o.O;;;;;

Kooshball hair nerd Japanese boys are sexy?

[tellytubby101]

D: I could never scan doujinshis. The act of destroying them would make me cringe so much. I would break down and sob to the pages with apologies. XD

You know what sucks about flying? Getting the planes, on an eight hour flight, that don't have television sets. I can entertain myself for a bit with books, but I paid for TVs, dammit! =_=

I can't eat any meat from in-flight meals. They taste soggy and dry AT THE SAME TIME. It's an abomination against nature, I tell ya!

I have just been partially enlightened on the strangeness of the Japanese sex culture. Interesting read. O_o

ALSO: new LJ header is so painfully garish. :(