this cat! it is not a cheesecake!

Dumped into my Flickr account, because if I upload them individually and post them here I'll never get them all posted. Have at it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/telophase/sets/72157619166685004/

And one pic of kittyspam.

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Exhausted. Sales sucked - in the art show I made about half of what I usually make, and about 2/3 of what I usually make at the table. Had a great spot, but still made more last year in the sucky spot.* Need to focus on CUTE for stuff, as that what's seemed to be selling like mad elsewhere. I found a place online that does inexpensive 1" buttons, so will think about creating some simple CUTE designs for them.**

Took lots of photos and some random video with narration. May or may not get that up soon - I'd rather just sit and read tonight.

Got meganbmoore safely off back to her hometown, with directions to the nearest Half-Price Books, where I hear she made a serious dent in their stock.

I have a very needy kitten right now, who is all OMG YOU WERE GONE AND THEN YOU WEREN'T HERE AND SOMEONE ELSE WAS HERE*** AND NOW YOU'RE HERE AND YOU KEEP LEAVING**** AND YOU'RE BACK AND IT WAS TOTALLY AWFUL. Nefer is more classy about it, merely meatloafing within ten feet of wherever I happen to be at the time.

myrialux said OMG YOU WILL SEE STAR TREK after he came back from Houston and seeing it with friends, so we did the lunchtime showing at the Studio Movie Grill. I liked it a lot. Winced a bit at the physics, which I expected as it's Trek, and winced a bit at the gender issues, which I'd expected as I'd seen talk here and there on LJ about that, but overall it was enjoyable. :)


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* OK, I didn't have rachelmanija shilling for me this year, but it's more than just my lousy selling skills. :D

** As I'm sending them out to be printed by someone else, these are all going to be originals, not fanart.

*** My current couch is not suitable for crashing on, so Megan stayed here while I crashed at myrialux's place. It's conveniently close. :)

**** For dinner. And lunch. After three days of eating out of a cooler, I want food BROUGHT TO ME, dammit.

FYI - I'm at A-Kon this weekend. I tend to post short updates via text message to LJ, but they don't get crossposted here. So if you care, go there - telophase.livejournal.com.

Weirdest thing that happened yesterday - a woman walked by holding a box of sticks. There was something fuzzy in it, so I stood up to look more closely. It was a chick. Some sort of raptor chick. A large one - this wasn't a small little peregrine or something, it was more the size of a hawk or eagle chick. I don't know enough about it to ID it more closely. I said "How sweet!" and the woman said "You can touch it if you want," so I gently stroked its head - very soft. And then she went on before I could think of anything to ask.

I didn't dream it - although I dreamed *about* it last night - because Toby reports that people in the dealers' room were saying something about a bird someone had in Con Ops, so it has corroboration!

I am profoundly ambivalent about it - it was an amazing experience, but I want to know why it was at the con. I know that you have to feed them like every two hours, so if you're coming to the con, it's coming with you, but it's obviously getting habituated to humans, so I want to know why that's being allowed - this would probably mean there is something about this chick that means it can't be released into the wild. I'm ambivalent enough about the whole thing that I dreamed about it - interrogating the woman about it. :D Her answers satisfied me in the dream, and then it went to frustration as I wanted a photo and she had a list of rules - no flash, no strong light, etc. - that made it very hard to get an in-focus pic, and I was trying to set my camera's exposure, ISO and f-stop to get a good one, but was failing because the chick kept moving. XD

Got all prints made last night. Need to make sales sheets and do official count of prints. Need to decide prices and make price signs. Need to get earplugs. Need to print more commission sheets. Need to pile everything for the table together and make sure it's all there/unbroken/etc. Need to make kanzashi signs.

Office supply store: those clips with prongs, so I don't need to tape prints to the table.


Am amazingly unawake right now - getting up felt like I was hideously sleep-deprived, but I'd gotten plenty of sleep all three nights previously, so getting 7 instead of 8 shouldn't make me feel this way. Aarg.

Kanzashi made, check.

Art show prints made, matted, and paperwork done, check.

Girlporn drawn and markered, check. (Er, a commission from someone to be picked up at A-Kon, who had very exacting specs about the pose and action, I must say. I've mentioned it before. :) Final version here, NSFW. And man, I hate this paper. I'm going to have to see if I can get some more absorbent marker paper.)

Still to do: make prints for table, make price signs, make kanzashi signs, pack. Not actually unpacking most of my stuff from Anime Matsuri is a most excellent choice.

Sora wants to help. It is not especially welcome, as he wants to inspect the pritner close up as its working.

The wanted poster worked! Soon I shall be returning Sanzo's lost property! :D

...back right after A-Kon when I posted the lost prop poster for the Sanzo who left the prop at my table? And I said "Please distribute"? I was actually sort of hoping that some of you would distribute it. Extensive as my f-list is, I know there's not much of a chance that you guys know everyone in con-attending fandom, but there's a bit larger chance that you know people who know people. If you get my meaning. :) I'd really like to get this prop back to the person who owns it, and there's not a whole lot more that I can, or have the time and energy to, do.

Thanks!

Dude, I got tons of these. This'll entertain us all for a while. :D

As promised, the ( L feeding frenzy! )

(And, as always, read the comments for identifications, quips, corrections, etc.)

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There's still more to go! Next time: L feeding frenzy!

I shall slowly get them all up!

ETA: I think I just slashdotted myself with the marital scale quiz. You may have to come back in a few minutes, hours, or days to look at the pics if they don't show up for you. XD

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There's a lot of these, so they're going up in batches. Photos taken by me and rachelmanija at A-Kon 2008, most of them from our artist alley table. We found it's quite effective to hail the cosplayer in question, ask to take their picture, then to offer them chocolate for posing for us.

This is where the anime aphasia I whinged about in a text-to-LJ post earlier became a problem. I found myself completely unable to remember the names of various characters I'm almost more familiar with than members of my own family. So many good costumes passed us by because Rachel and I were going "Um. Uh. Whozit. Whatisit. That guy. From that thing. Where they did that other thing. Yeah. That one."

I also regret that I was not able to capture a picture of the Captain Komamura who wandered by wearing his basket hat.

I also apologize for the quality of the pics: I did a batch conversion on them instead of editing, adjusting, and cropping each individually, because if I did that I'd never get the damn things posted.

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NEVER SAY I AM NOT MAGNANIMOUS TO MY LOYAL MINIONS!

Shirtless tattooed Renji cosplay ahoy!

( Right under here! )

More pics of other cosplayers to follow when I get the time. :D

mscongeniality made an image in response to my request for people on the Speshul Filter to make taunting comments on the, er, taunting post. At any rate, it made me laugh in an unattractive gasping manner, it was so funny. XD

( See the SPESHUL TAUNTING PICTURE right here! )

I have posted a Speshul Filtered Post filtered to only the Speshul Peeps who earned the right to see the shirtless, tattooed Renji's six-pack before I whinged about it. MAYBE I'll post it unfiltered later tonight. MAYBE.

But to tide the rest of you over, here's an amusing pic: ( Can You Spot The rachelmanija In This Pic? )

Have con crud. Must also get meganbmoore and rachelmanija off on their respective ways, rachelmanija in possession of a converted copy of Lost from my TiVo. Then shall possibly consider posting pictures, including whether or not you have earned shirtless, tattooed Renji.

Before do all of that, however, must roust rachelmanija out of bed, as air mattress is placed directly in front of dresser containing clean clothes. :/

Ya know, I'm reluctantly coming to terms with the fact that hardly any of you see fit to comment to my LJ-by-texting posts* OK YES meganbmoore I AM GETTING TO THE POINT however I cannot begin to understand why only ONE of you commented on THIS post about the shirtless, tattooed Renji. ONE OF YOU. fmanalyst, so far ONLY YOU have the right to see shirtless tattooed Renji!**

The rest of you must EARN your shirtless, tattooed Renji! Who is NOT a plushie, a drawing, a parody or anything other than a NORMAL COSPLAYER. Or maybe NOT SO NORMAL. This is a shirtless tattooed Renji who IS IN POSSESSION OF A SIX-PACK THAT IS NOT BEER.

HOW MAY I EARN THIS SHIRTLESS TATTOOED RENJI? you may ask. Well, I CHARGE YOU TO GO BACK THROUGH MY A-KON POSTS AND MAKE RELEVANT COMMENTS! RELEVANT! "I'm commenting!" DOESN'T COUNT! Or you can order Project Blue Rose: Human Touch or any of the fine, fine literature on that website. Either way. I am a generous and magnanimous supreme leader of everything, after all.

THE POWER OF CAPSLOCK COMPELS YOU!


P.S. Anyone who finds a pic of this tattooed shirtless Renji on another site and posts it here is OFF THE FRIENDSLIST. Because that is NOT FUNNY and NOT PLAYING ALONG.***







* Guys? The entire reason I post to LJ is for the CONVERSATION. Which only happens when people RESPOND. :P


** Who is in possession of a nice six-pack, rachelmanija reminds me to post OK I HAVE POSTED IT NOW YOU CAN STOP TELLING ME TO.

*** IN response to rachelmanija's "What if someone found a different shirtless tattooed Renji...?" NO RULES LAWYERING!

I must pick up Death Note swag for the newest reference librarian here at work. When she found out I was going to A-Kon, she mentioned that she'd started watching Death Note, but quit because she found herself too attracted to L and it kind of freaked her out. XD (She laughed, not nervously, as she said it - she's one of those very outgoing, funny people.) But she wanted to know how the story went, and I told her she needed to read the manga. I also promised her I'd hook her up with some DN swag. Hopefully I can find her some L stuff to dream over. XD