Not the Animania con report

[rallamajoop]

Been having a bit of a month over here.

Sydney Animania: Was great! Numbers were a bit on the meh side, but I spent more money on shiny new merch than at any other con in ages, and as always half the fun was just getting to catch up with all our friends from over east, and for that alone the trip was awesome.

Akemi Okamura (a.k.a. the voice of Nami, a.k.a. the Guest of Honour): Seemed very happy to see a Nami cosplayer around (there were only two of us at the whole con! Two!), and autographed the back of my handkerchief for me. :3

My Clima Tact: Blew bubbles (with red or blue lights for heat/cool ball effects), did lightning effects and separated into three parts, not including the semi-detachable lightning globe on an extendable chain for swing-arm possibilities, and one me Master Weapon Engineer on Sunday. \o/ Finally got it working, like, the day before we left.

The World Cosplay Summit Australian Finals: Congrats to K and Aly! You were great, and it is absolutely your turn already.

Why I did not post about the con in the week after we got back: Because I came home to find myself with an epic case of con and/or travel blarg, and spent most of the week in bed. :/ (Honestly, I have been sick so little this year that it felt like it was surely my turn, so it was not really so bad.)

Why I did not post about the con in the week after that either: Because I may have spent part of my downtime getting myself shamelessly addicted to this show called Teen Wolf and I have been very distracted okay? (Oh my god, you guys this show!!!)

Full con report, cosplay photos and shameless new fandom squee all coming soon.

Comments

[serrende.livejournal.com]

That sounds absolutely amazing! The ClimaTact in particular is super-impressive. You really must be great at making things!

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, um, so my sister and I may have kind of accidentally The Madman Cosplay Championships (http://www.madman.com.au/news/mncc-2011-finals-supanova-brisbane/) last year (basically one of the two biggest cosplay comps they run in Australia), in the process of which I got to learn how to do a whole lot of awesome stuff with electronics and crazy tricks for cramming complicated mechanisms into spaces in inconveniently small props - and making props was always my favourite part of cosplay to begin with, so. What I am saying here is that I like to think I've hit the point of being pretty decent at making things, and after I fell for Nami so hard in my One Piece binge there was pretty much no way I was going to be able to resist the challenge of making myself a clima tact that sort of really worked. ^^;;; And soon there will be pics to prove that yes, it actually did happen. *g*

Seriously though, I am still ridiculously pleased I got it to work in the end, because after the amount of time, effort and trial and error that took, anything else does not bear thinking about. XD;