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This is the knife I bought at the con. I like it alot.


I was in a "yarn ball" swap, where you wind up a bunch of little things into a ball of yarn.



This card's concept is now asking to be a quilt-block.

It's based out of George MacDonald's fairy tale "Cross Purposes". An black umbrella and a sunset out the window are two of the very important opening images.



This is my latest yarn--Snow White and Rose Red. I'll post about it again when I do the shoot and have it all ready to go. But I love this one.

I'm also pretty happy with the retelling I'm finishing today...

there will be a real con-report, too, sorry kids


~ I am starting to see that it's the plaid that makes men in kilts a little silly (though cute).
Utilitikilts are thus dangerous.

~ As far as I can tell, my age-appearance doesn't work against me when I'm putting out Con fires. Except for with A Certain Person, but there's always some Certain Person.
   {this person is not reading my blog, and is being kept nameless only for my own dignity and a certain malicious delight in the turn of phrase, so don't ask if it's you}

~ Exception: My desire to please and height in comparison with some people carrying swords and agendas works against me inside my own head

~ As noted, my ability to produce 10c. words when I'm tired does not abate. It's the sentence structure that goes to pot...



My Evil To-Do List for next year is:

- make sargon999  field all staff-internal complaints.  >D
- lurk about registration rather than Con HQ to intercept authors so I don't spend most of the con furtively trying to see their badges, and this is not just about ones I kept trying to get come talk to me without making a move myself.
It's embarrassing with the middle-aged authoresses, too.
- continue to be called "cute" and buy knives for $5



Via jade_sabre_301 

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on alfalfa, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc.

Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

This is semi-pointless, since I already alluded to boys which is pretty  much what I don't post about, and also to someone who ticked me off, which is the other thing, but if you ask nicely I might give a more detailed sort of dissertation on such topics. Friends-Locked. With a contract that you will not use it against me.

Or I'll just post my purple description prose from the one event I sat all the way through.

In the vein of random thoughts,
at Tokyo in Tulsa, I saw a guy in a very striking costume--he looked great. I can't tell you if he was particularly good looking because his make-up was INTENSE. But he carried off the intensity very well.

But it started me thinking...though I'm not photogenic, I think I would make a pretty good costuming doll.
My coloring, particularly, would be fun to use as part of a character design.
(Sometime I'll have to show you the two shots I took of myself in which one is a self-portrait and one is a portrait of me as Tilda Swinton. Just by a slight angle change...)


Things I read Worth Reading lately:


( Why? )

I, uh.
Uh.
Just fell in love with a comic that's completely ridiculous.

Of course, that's it's charm.

And if you're one of the people I've chatted with about:
Ouran
Sesshoumaru of Inuyasha
Skip-Beat
or any other things that have self-awareness of their silliness and work it...this may be something for you.

Watashi no Ookami-san is described thus:

Bored of sitting around holding a wine glass all day, the Demon Lord is looking for something new. Something cute. Someone like Komomo, the level 0 heroine who has just appeared before him, ready to vanquish him like all heroes (or heroines) do. Faced with a demon king who'd rather watch TV under a kotatsu and make out with her than spread evil over the land, what will Komomo do?




...in a completely related but mood-altering note
The real problem with shoujo romances is how often they have heroines rush headlong into a relationship that's supposedly problematic and refuse to address the actual issue.

Like, what happens when you fall out of love with your step-brother and still have to live with him?
(Crossroad is a story that doesn't take an easy out here.)

Skip-Beat is good because Kyoko can't put away her issues. She's working through them, and it's uphill.





So yeah, I had a good time at the TnT con today.

So it's been precisely a month since Conestoga. I am putting up pictures of that, supplemented with some I took while figuring out my Asian cowpunk costume.



( A few more... )


Well, these photos aren't going to make my name as a photographer, and the costume looked about as undecided as it sounds, but...I have no regrets!



the composition of this photo was mostly accidental, but humorous all the same.

Some of my last details/duties for Conestoga (this weekend) have been wrapped up.

Not all, of course.

But I had my inaugural costuming frenzy. I have to finish my masquerade mask trappings, but otherwise I think I'm set.




Yes, cons are my chance to dress less subtly silly than other times. What of it?

...no, I will not be wearing that flag in my hair for real. But when I picked it up out of all our souvenirs I had to see how it looked.
And honestly, it looked every bit as good as the way they wear them on their backs in battle re-enactments. It was amusing. (That one's worth clicking on to see larger.)

I'll include this shot for the kinda funky look:


(trying on the prototype)

"Orson Scott Card sold a new steampunk series aimed directly at the YA market to Anica Rissi at Simon & Schuster's Pulse. Agent Barbara Bova of the Barbara Bova Literary Agency sold World English rights to the first three books in the as-yet-untitled series, which is scheduled to debut, in hardcover, in Spring 2011."   {rest of the article}


On the homepage at SFScope, which also has really relieving article about Realms of Fantasy's sale (!) that will keep it from going under.


But still moreso Orson Scott Card working on a YA steampunk fantasy!

This is right up there with the Colfer sequel for Hitchhiker's Guide...




In thematically related news of less import: I am currently working on my Asian-Cowboy-Punk outfit, for the con perhaps. Draft pictures to come soon?

And so here's my list--I love:

Suzette Haden Elgin or ozarque: "I have a husband who's so sight-oriented he has to put on his glasses to listen to a casette tape!"

Honorary Mentions:
 Beverly Hale (bevhale), Ilona Andrews (ilona_andrews), for being the kind of people who are just funny no matter what they say--I like to laugh!
Cedric playing violin with Queen's Gambit
Queen's Gambit
Elspeth Bloodgood, for being at least humorously cool under fire, and nice to me for reasons obscure and unfounded.

If there's seems a preponderance (I'm not sure that's a word, or even the word I'm looking for) of females, that's because cool geek women are cooler than you. I mean, unless you are a cool geek woman. Which is kinda my crowd, so you probably are.

[Note: The cool geek men are already married.]

Oh, and I can't read these, but Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series have the most pretty but grounded covers ever. So gorgeous.

I'll check in with more Poisson later.