GANT IS COMING!

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We just got back from Anime Mid-Atlantic. I’ll probably get some sort of con report up later, but here are some pictures of Maura and my costumes, and a small sampling of the entire gallery at Beware of Ninja.

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Maura talked me into going on a scavenger hunt that her job was running in the National Mall this morning.

The Smithsonian Metro station is in a weird spot from where we live here at Pentagon City. Even though the Smithsonian is on the Blue Line like Pentagon City, the Blue Line does a ridiculous loop before it gets there. It’s much easier to hop on the Yellow Line heading for Chinatown and then switch to the Blue Line going back towards Pentagon City. Unfortunately the switch at L’Enfant has… unique signs, and I ended up accidentally exiting the station trying to find my way out.

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Some of you may know that the main source of my income aside from my Efiction skins is my custom parasols.

With Anime Mid-Atlantic and my Edgeworth costume looming, it was only a matter of time until this happened.

And yet another set of buttons, this time from scanned kimono fabric patterns.

Still $1.50 a button.

Buttons #5-6
1 1/4″
Price $1.50 per button, incl. shipping

I’m starting to get my buttons ready for Anime Mid-Atlantic. Here are the first four designs.

The picture doesn’t do the attorney badge justice. If you are not a convention go-er and want one of these buttons for some reason, it’s $1.50 incl. shipping.

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Alright, so here’s the actual Tekkoshocon update.

Traffic on the way there was horrific. This was made worse by GoogleMaps sending us due west to go east. We never did find the imaginary road that we were supposed to take, and finally just gave up and took 395N like sane people would. Screw you, GoogleMaps.

We decided to make Tekkoshocon a one day con for us, since we don’t really end up going on Fridays or Sundays when we do have 3 days passes. I think it was a good decision on our part, although we did get a hotel room for Friday and Saturday night.

Tekko was fun for Maura and I, since we generally prefer trolling for costumes rather than running from event to event. Gerry, however, was not as enthused. The only event Maura and I went to was the Masquerade, which was amusing because we got to be first inline. Much bragged in Pictochat ensued.

Anyway, I now have two new costumes to abuse, which I will go into under the “cut”…

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More later, but you can view the full set of Tekkoshocon 2007 photos here.