Megaupdate

      Good grief.
Long time... sort of. No, yeah it's been a while. Geez...

Well, honestly, my only explanation is how unmotivated I've been to sit at my computer and write. About anything. Obviously. Despite so much going on, I wanted to maybe confide in something else, but ... here I am again. It feels sort of like that scene in Sweeney Todd where he's in Mrs Lovitt's old room, and she gives him his old straight razors, and he's like "well I've come hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome to find you waitiiiinnnnnggggg...  my friiiieeeeennnds.."

but I've missed writing here. It's somewhere I can open myself up without the burden of engaged conversation; without noise or exhausting feedback. The text that flows from my fingertips merely listens. It's the closest thing to a BFF. I almost feel bad for neglecting it. but that's gone and done, and here I am.

I have a ton of pictures. None of which I really care too much about. I didn't even bother enhancing them. but they're taking up space and I'd like to store them somewhere... visible.

[Note; I started writing this last week, when I was feeling less than content, and rather than going in and re-writing everything all over again, I'll just go in with notes ^^]

LETS BEGIN. Damn, it's been since Monsterpalooza... when was that, March? April? lord. I don't know. here we go.


| M O N S T E R P A L O O Z A |

 Frankly, it was not worth the 3 day pass that I spent $80 on. [Negative Nancy, here we go]
I went one day, saw everything, and still left kinda wondering what exactly it was that was so much larger, more impressive, and newer than what was on display at Son of Monsterpalooza 2014.

but as negative as that sounds, it's true. 

 Don't get me wrong, the stuff there was cool.

 but 80% of it was already on display at Son of Monsterpalooza 2014.

 the only difference was that there was no costume contest, the other hotel building next door had all the autograph booths, and there was an auditorium where all the (SFX mostly) panels were held every hour, which totaled out to be like 7.

but I met an awesome artist there; Eric Pigors. I see his work EVERYWHERE [relevant demographic] and saw his booth at Son of last year, but was too shy to actually talk to him. I only had enough money left to get a few patches, but this year I got a long sleeve hooded tee, and a regular tee. They're super cute. We even chatted for a bit. He was feeling under the weather, but was a super sweet guy. His work is awesome

Lots of this stuff was already seen last year.

 but I got a bat.
obvious thing is obvious :3

 there was this walk-through maze thing that wasn't a maze where a ton of stuff was showcased. That was cool

 a lot of the reason the line kept getting held up was because of this guy. I don't watch the show so it took me a moment to figure out who he was. yay drugs.

the booth w/ the insane life-like monster infant baby things was there again, but with more of them. If they weren't a trillion dollars I'd get one and not even feel bad about it. Probably go out and do errands w/ it, too.

 I really liked this sculpture. That story was creepy

 This artist stood out to me the most. They're all made entirely out of polymer.

 They're just gross and beautiful and grotesque and fascinating. I loved it.

 Even though I knew he'd hate it, I bought a small piece for Fett.

I'll look for this artist at Son of, for sure. Sadly, I lost his business card, but if you google "the most beautiful gross art ever" he might come up.

You know what, nevermind. I literally just googled "polymer clay body sculptures grotesque" and his work came up, lol. It's by Johnathan Payne. He made it into the Huffington Post. He titles his art "Fleshette." I love him. ugh.

 Seeing Camden was refreshing

He was literally 1 of 2 people there that I know. Was kind of a relief.

 shirts from the Toxic Toons booth.

and some other goodies I found there. "Cryptic Art" was a book Eric gave me, with a bumper sticker.

The next day, which was Saturday I think, instead of going to Monsterpalooza, Fett, his friends and I all went to the Yokocho Ramen Fest thingie in Arcadia or whatever.

 it was extremely hot out. there weren't as many Ramen vendors as there were last year, but it was still cool. I had 3 bowls. They also weren't as good as last year's.

We stuffed ourselves stupid. It was glorious. Their first time there, and I think we totally turned them on to Ramen. I say this because now Fett goes w/ them to get ramen like twice a week now, but admittedly I'm kinda butthurt about because I was the one who introduced him to ramen, but... yanno. oh well. that's how the cookie crumbles?

afterwards we were so full that we had to get candy, so we went to Rocket Fizz.

and then i just tagged along the rest of the day while they bought stuff. It was awful.



Next event!
Wondercon 2015
That was a lot of fun. We had been looking forward to Wondercon for a while because of new cosplaaaayyyyyssss. And I super love Wondercon, it's probably my favorite con.
Also, it's moving to the L.A. Convention Center because of how big it's become. Albeit more convenient, I'll miss booking the hotel and getting away from L.A. for a weekend. 

Of course everyone loved Fett's cosplay, again.

poor thing, couldn't see shit through that helmet lol.

WORTH IT.

He did such a good job though. Made the thing from scratch. I was so proud of him! He looked awesome and deserved all the attention he was getting.

So, the first day, I took like... 0 photos. Again, just like last year, I had nowhere to put my phone, or was even able to use it really w/ my cosplay. 

That's the only thing I don't like...

before I began cosplaying I was able to capture everything. Now that I'm more a part of it, I can't. Though I'm living it and actively participating in it, I still wish there was an easier way to document cons at the same time, for myself. One thing that came to mind though was using my lantern as a purse, which would be brilliant. Except... I'm broke, and that lantern is only big enough to hold a few essentials, just not my phone. But, Anime Expo isn't until July, so that gives me some time to maybe make a bigger lantern for my Poe. We'll see.

We were right at the Marriott. Fett insisted on it, lol. It was nice, he was right. The convenience was worth the extra $30 each.

Such Alvin. Very smile. Much Selfie. Wow.

He was totally BB8 and it was awesome.

WUB DEM :DDD

Brittany makes the best Tina in the world ever uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh

We met up w/ a few people at the Hilton afterparty thingie.

Apparently there was another afterparty at some bowling alley place a few blocks away from the convention center, and on our way there we ran into Alvin. Couldn't find it forever. Finally did, went downstairs and it was empty. So we all split for the Hilton.

Bahb and Fett. the half-whites.

 | I don't know what day this is |

I appreciated Jimmy Jr.'s enthusiasm to dance.

And Tina's enthusiasm for Jimmy Jr.'s butt.

I'm wearing my hoodie, so this must've been from Sunday, day 3.

Camden again! :D

Ya, definitely Sunday. I guess I didn't take any photos on Saturday, lol.

this was pretty neat. I thought it was a cosplayer and was really impressed, but found out later it was just and SFX/make-up school thing, so... duh. explains why he looked so spot on. was neat though.

Alvin snuck in for a selfie, lol

Tina's final form.

Gone w/ the Wind stairs scene. eh oh el. :3

and loooooooot! Mostly comic stuffs.

I also went to Little Tokyo sort of recently to revisit an old lover.

Mr. Ramen. 

Beef curry ramen hits all the right spots.

Oh, and like 3 weeks ago there were a bunch of cops right outside my house blocking off the ends of my street.

and helicopters.

lol, just a suspect for murder running around my neighborhood is all. lol.

SWAT team showed up later. at least they got him, lol.

Aaaaand some arts and crafts!

w/ a dead baby! a baby opossum to be exact.

My co-worker called into work on her day off while I was there. She tells me that she found a dead baby opossum in her back yard, most likely killed by the dogs, but in otherwise perfect condition and asked me if I'd like to have it. Of COURSE I said yes! and thanked her for thinking of me. She said she'd put it in a baggie and store it in a freezer until she saw me next. Which is exactly what happened, and when I got this little baby I was thrilled!

as soon as I got home I slowly defrosted her with luke warm water and washed her thoroughly.

she pooped :(

then washed her with hydrogen peroxide.

squeaky clean!

ugh she's so cute

and finally sealed in a jar.

And recently I did a shoot thingie with the other Cynthia for the next Fetish Spell event. It took all day, but was fun. She made me look neato!

Believe it or not, that's my hair, lol. She made horns out of my hair!

The theme this year is carnival. Which reminds me, I have to order something for that night =\

Now, up to pace, I've finally finished my classes for the Spring semester. I kind of really disliked the teaching method my english professor practiced, but he grew to like me so I hope he won't completely shred my final research paper. You should see what his B- corrections are... you'd think you failed the class. Super hard grader.

Anyway, now that that's finished, I'll have some free time, and drive less! Which means less money spent on gas, which means earnings! And for the summer I'll be taking 2 online classes because fuck that 4 day commute. Nooooo. I wouldn't be able to work as much, and I'm not trying to be homeless. so.
It's so weird not having anything I need to do by a certain day to turn in. Sometimes I'll catch myself worrying if there's something I need to be working on, then remember classes are over. Free time, you're so adorable.

but it's been nice. relaxing and such after work. even started making these guys again

 umami has the best ketchup and aioli.

 and I made this little guy for Fett. 

Axel is his favorite character, but I was feeling lazy so ... he got a heartless instead. With a sea salt popsicle. Yeah... this is a product of laziness, lol.

 my face is changing shape as I get older and I don't know how I feel about it. it's like... thinner, and slightly longer.

This weekend is Bats Day weekend. Holy crap, that was fast. But it's gonna be awesome.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm gonna play more Outlast. squee.

worst update ever, lol.