Made By Kali

This post will be seriously image heavy. You have been warned.

As always Maura and I were amazed that people line up for their badges early in the afternoon on Thursday. I took the 6pm MARC out of Union Station here in DC and Maura nabbed me at the BWI station on the way back from work. We waltzed in around 8, got our badges in 15 minutes and ran out again in order for me to finish my costume.

From past experience we learned that it’s not necessary to show up at the ass crack of dawn on Friday to set up our Artist Alley table. Maura and I managed to stagger in around 11:30 and Gerry got there at 1. They don’t let the monkeys in until 2, so we were happy not to have sat there for the full 5 hours Otakon recommends.

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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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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.

One of my Boo parasols is up on Ebay. If you’d like a chance to snag one at less than the $20 cost, now is your chance.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330111484314

Auction ends in 7 days.

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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.

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Everyone sing the Jeopardy theme.

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Chieco Kawabe - Sakura Kiss (Ouran Host Club Theme)

Shit like this is why new cons have such a hard time.

Manga News

YaoiPress

Cats on Mars

The Otaku

Long story short, this “traveling con” run by AnimeFF was supposed to donate their proceeds to charity. They didn’t and FLED with the money. And screwed over guests, vendors, staff and convention attendees in the process. Lawsuits are threatened, and I hope these @#$%ers get caught.