When you're in an argument on the Internet and members of the opposing party suddenly go "STOP TALKING ABOUT [subject at hand]; THIS THREAD IS OFFICIALLY ABOUT [completely unrelated topic]!" that is a sure sign that you have won.

Perhaps you have no life, but you are still the victor.

OMG someone please stop me from watching Code Geass R2. It's gotten so bad.

I'm so lost in 6.041 but I can't read my textbook because I'm watching Code Geass R2. Even when I force myself away from the computer, I can't concentrate because I'm thinking about Code Geass R2.

I didn't even bother separating my whites from my colors when I was doing laundry today because I wanted to hurry back and watch Code Geass R2.

darkr_dragon, I HATE YOUUUUU.

Oh Code Geass. The grandest coalescence of spectacle, melodrama, and inanity; a performance both soap and opera; the supremest work of war, politics, and philosophy ever conceived by a group of people who know nothing of any of these things. It kicks reason to the curb more than any testosterone-fueled GAINAX mecha show ever could, and it demonstrates once and forevermore that awful and awesome are not mutually exclusive.

Aisaka Taiga from Toradora! won Saimoe 2009, beating out the bimbos from Saki and even K-On!'s Hirasawa Yui in the final round.

Tsundere > moeblob. Toradora is reality!

This makes me happy~

(I swear I'll have a real entry soon. I already know what it's going to be about, I'm just too lazy to clean my room for it...)

(BTW CAA peeps, I dropped one of my morning classes and another one is off for the next week; anyone up for Skype chat? =D)

If you've wondered where I've disappeared (I still owe this LJ my maid cafe report from July orz), anime club has pretty much taken over my life now. Seriously, like, I don't even have time to watch anime because of it OH THE IRONY...

Good thing there's this 3 day weekend coming up, right? OH WAIT we're doing 24 Hour Comics Day so I'll be doing stuff for club for a whole day's worth on top of like the 15-20 hours a week already *cry* I need a vacation...

Tonight, I will watch episode 2 of Code Geass R2 while doing my 6.041 p-set. Because I'm not already lost enough in 6.041 cursesssssss. But yeah, flamboyant costumes and cancer hands whooooo!

Also, it's my little brother's birthday today. He's 16 already whoaaaaaaaaaa what??

I will make a post about something for reals... later.

Today, I got lost at school even though I'm already a junior. Ahaha.

And now I'm exhausted. Anime Club has seriously become my life, it's so scary, hahaha. ALSO WE MIGHT BE PROGRESSING ON CERTAIN ENDEAVORS THAT I DON'T THINK I SHOULD TALK ABOUT UNTIL THEY'RE ACCOMPLISHED, BUT LET'S JUST SAY THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERY SINGLE MIT STUDENT WHO'S COME TO OUR SHOWINGS HAS COMMENTED ON THIS ONE PARTICULAR THING AND WE MIGHT FINALLY FIX IT HINT HINT.

In other news, apparently I'm not a schizoid.

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid Personality Disorder:	High
Schizoid Personality Disorder:	Low
Schizotypal Personality Disorder:	High
Antisocial Personality Disorder:	Moderate
Borderline Personality Disorder:	Moderate
Histrionic Personality Disorder:	Very High
Narcissistic Personality Disorder:	High
Avoidant Personality Disorder:	Very High
Dependent Personality Disorder:	High
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:	High
-- Take the Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Info --

So, Fancy Frontier is the local bi-annual (I think?) comicket in Taiwan, held at National Taiwan University. Although there was that one major mishap (orz), the con itself was great fun-- it's quite different from cons in the US! Sort of like the artists' alley expanded into the size of the dealer room; it is nice that people care so much about fanart and doujinshi; if only the same extreme adulation existed in the West...

( Admission is only 200NT/$6! *gasp* )
Overall, getting pickpocketed sucks, but I would so go again, it was a wonderful experience! Although getting shoved by sweaty people kind of sucks, the cosplay and the great products and cheap prices are hugely enviable.

Back from a 4-day trip to Singapore! to visit my team from GAMBIT last year. It's so weird, I've been to S'pore and Taiwan twice in this last year. That NEVER happens, heh. Actually, the timing kind of sucked because one of my friends still had school projects and another had a game deadline...... but it was still loads of fun~ Food there is soooo delicious, it's a bit more savoury than Chinese food. I just can't pronounce most of the dishes heh.

My friend Joanne basically set up a 3 day itinerary:
Wednesday: Food, mall-wandering on Orchard Road + watching Public Enemies, hawker centre (open area dining that's like a mix between a nightmarket and a food court)
Thursday: Food, Singapore Flyer, more mall-wandering near City Hall, hawker centre, chocolate bar
Friday: hawker centre, Sentosa (beach), more mall-wandering new Sentosa, food, Settler's Cafe (a localboard game cafe)

Pics and report behind cut~ I take WAY TOO MANY PICTURES all the time orz
( Why you so fah away la? )

Taiwan picspams to come!

I'm in the airport in Taiwan now, waiting for my flight to Singapore. Just noting here that I owe this LJ these reports:

* shopping for otaku goods in Taipei City Mall and Ximending
* visiting maid cafes
* Fancy Frontier (+ how I got my wallet pickpocketed)
* Singapore

Was hoping to post consistently, but camera trouble + laziness have hindered me. Expect a chain of ridiculously long posts and lots of pics.

So, I was really excited to do my con report of Fancy Frontier, a Taiwanese two-day comiket that I attended this weekend...

...until I got my wallet stolen there today, losing about the equivalent of $200 USD, credit cards, my driver's license, my MIT ID, insurance cards and a coupon to Haagen-Dazs.

You'll forgive me if I'm a little less than excited right now.

(I'll do a report later, but it's not quite the first thing on my mind right now.)

So I'm in Taiwan for about 8 weeks for an internship. (This would explain the irregularity of my AIM/Skype hours.) I've actually never been there (or anywhere outside the US) for quite so long; I'm kind of excited at the chance to explore, but having to go there for work slightly sucks =( It's a bit dull, and we have 7 weeks to do a 2 week job, and it's kind of lonely because no one's online at some points of the day, but it'll pass.

I haven't really done a picspam in a while (ever?), but I thought it was worth it since this is a bit special, so spamming from the first 2 weeks~

( Taiwan will touch your heart-- and then envelop it in 90 degree heat and high humidity )

Next time: shopping in Taipei's own otaku paradise~

Things that should never go together:

Long tour bus rides

and

bad KTV.

That is all.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE ANN IS RUNNING RXJ FULL SITE ADS ok im done.

In Japan now, waiting for my flight to Taipei. Argh, Im nervous about going back because Ive never been without my parents, and I just know know know that Im going to get confused about all my relatives titles and end up calling my second uncle on my moms side my seventh aunt on my dads side or some shit ahahahhaa.

I hope I can make friends at orientation and work .___. and by friends I mean other otaku with no lives like me.

So yeah anyway me being in Narita Aiport also explains my bad typing now orz @ Japanese keyboards. Apostrophe above the 7 key = whyyyyy.

After abandoning one of my comic plunnies for being too emo and realizing that my Death Note doujin would end up being like 12 volumes long, I no longer have any plunnies to comic off of.

O_____________O

Gaaah I really need to write something, I'm so out of practiceeeeeeeee!!! I haven't drawn comics in like a year and a half (Heroica doesn't count), this is RIDICULOUS.

I guess one of the problems is that if I write an original comic, not many people will see it anyway, so it's not worth the 10-15 hours per page that I put into it. Like, I guess I can just comic for myself, but that seems kind of silly...

Guys are jerks but girls are stupid; let's just abolish them all.

CAA, you make me sad sometimes.

That is all.

Edit: Ah, they deleted the thread. I like that the mods are all ninja, but it does kind of spoil the fun XD;

Finished two weeks of anime conventions~! AnimeBoston last week and A-Kon just this weekend.

AniBos was a blast due to hanging out with ninja_orange and darkr_dragon (and her crazy friends OH GOSH THEY ARE INSANE XD). Crazy sketchy pothead table partner though... table-sitting with him was even WORSE than I thought it would be. Asking people to smoke weed with him, talking on and on about dub actors *SHUDDER*, telling neighboring tables' customers to LOOK AT HIS STUFF while they're CLEARLY browsing my stuff, he was a total failure of a human being, just sitting by him made my skin crawl. Thankfully, I know who I'm table-ing with next year so I'll never have to see that jerk in my life again~

Hetalia obsessees were awesome! I made a lot of one-time-only-at-the-con friends with some awesome and totally spunky cosplayers who would actually come and TALK to me! (I love talking while tablesitting, it's so fun meeting people with the same interests as you) and they kept coming back to buy stuff XD. It's nice to be into a series that everyone else is into as well. There was a Hetalia panel too but that was a little awkward and too yaoitastic for my tastes =n=. Also, I sold out of my Hetalia doujinshi!! I should have printed more ^^ will make a second run IF LULU DECIDES TO COOPERATE WITH ME D:

Made a lot of cash hells yeah~ $822 to be frank, highest ever, totally outsold last year by a ton. Honestly, a lot of that was from the doujin, and without that it'd be close to comparable to last year, but yeah~ if only the economy was better (AKA if I had actually sold more than a handful of prints)...

***

As for A-Kon, which was mostly table-ing with aoineko (which, just in itself, was great~), there was... quite a bit of disappointment. Honestly, after the fiasco of table-ing with Captain Sketchy, I was planning on making A-Kon my "fun" con with AniBos as a "work" con, and that did work out because the table company was infinitely better, but uh yeah. WTF A-Kon? The Artist Alley was run terribly by an apathetic bitch, so our table was upstairs next to the dealer room, away from tons of illustrators downstairs where the table normally is, and we had much shorter hours to boot. Traffic was like halved, it suuuuuucked! I was so looking forward to it but meh. Revenue was just more than HALF AniBos, ridiculous! (Plus I spent like 3 times as much money in the dealers' room orz)

Hetalia fans were still there, met a few awesome people~ not as many as AniBos, don't know if that's just because the traffic sucked.

All in all, I think print sales totally went down, perhaps because people are less willing to pay for high-priced items when they have less money? But there was a serious discrepancy.

So, having gone to two cons around the same time, I made a few interesting observations... Having done this, of course I am going to make sweeping generalizations.

1) Dallas congoers seem to like prints a bit more (but not hugely) than Boston ones. Generalization: People from the Midwest tend to be more generous and free-spending than people in the Northeast, and they have a higher appreciation for beauty. This is probably because New England is so cold that residents become bitter and stingy.
1b) Boston congoers like pins a lot. Generalization: They are stingy =(
2) Boston congoers seem to like things that have stupid jokes on them. Generalization: New Englanders have a heightened sense of humor, particularly tacky humor. But doesn't this contradict point one? Perhaps they are less hoity-toity artsy-fartsy and more LOLOLOL. At any rate, it makes sense since Northeast = more liberal = not so uptight LOLOLOL
3) Dallas congoers tend to consist of a larger percentage of overweight adults and people who want commission of (often somewhat furry-ish) OCs. Generalization: Dallas people are overweight furries. Actually, this makes sense because Boston is a walking city and Dallas ISN'T, but the furry and OC thing is kind of lolwut? Ummm! 100 degree heat destroys brain cells, there.
4) Boston Hetalia fandom > Dallas Hetalia fandom. Generalization: too many to list.

But yeah, I kind of want to go to a con that I don't have to AA for now. Maybe New York Anime Fest, I could just volunteer, it'd be fun~ But I do like having cash =(

Why is facebook suggesting that I add Ladd Russo (from Chicago, IL) as my friend?

...W-what?

Am I going to get horribly murdered?

Slept at 5 AM, woke up at 10 AM on Wednesday.

Went to class, did my thing.

Went to the student center at 10 PM, pulled an all-nighter doing my doujin with a friend.

Called it quits at 10 AM on Thursday, took a 15 minute nap.

Went to class.

Went to the clubroom around 1PM, took a half hour nap on the floor, then toned doujin for a couple hours.

Went home, hacked at the doujin, took a 3ish hour nap from 5:15 to 8:30 PM, woke up, toned more, FINISHED IT around midnight!

Spent 3 hours in the wee hours of Friday morning formatting the thing for print and writing authors' notes.

Spent 3 hours uploading it onto Lulu, constantly reformatting and resizing things in the process, and then...

"We've encountered an error."

...

...

...








WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

They don't even tell you WHY there's an error or what's going on or annnnything.

Spent another 3 hours trying ANYTHING to get it to work.

Called it quits at 9 AM, overslept until 2 PM.

Dammit!

I'll probably have to print it at a copy shop, but it'll take sooooo long, it'll look shitty, and it'll be more expensive.

I haven't even started studying for exams!!

(But yes, the actual drawing's done.)

WHAT

IS

THIS,

GUYS?!



10 YEAR AU TIMESKIP WITH 17-YEAR-OLD EDOGAWA CONAN.

TEITAN-AGED TANTEI-DAN AND THE RETURN OF MATURE HAIBARA.

RAN IS 27 and 17-YEAR-OLD-AND-HORMONALLY-CHARGED CONAN IS STILL IN LOVE WITH HER.

BEST FANFICTION OR BESTEST FANFICTION?!

_{Sorry for spamming so much nowadays; I um, am in denial about AniBos being in a little more than a week.}

I've come to the conclusion that I am a complete and utter tsundere.

And that tsundere are only cute and my ideal woman when they aren't ME.

URUSAI URUSAI URUSAI!

It's frustratinggg _{especially not being able to express myself honestly to people I care about. D:}