It was WONDERFUL.
SOOOOOOOO WONDERFUL. And fabulous. And horrible. And fabulously awesome, and I wonder how long it will take me to recover enough that I stop screaming in joy and bursting into tears at odd moments. So good. So joyful and full of amazing moments. I was crying and laughing and whooping, generally at the same time.
So many moments. So many things I had hoped to see but never thought I would. So many I never would have expected. So many things I was curious about but never expected to be addressed. But were. Quite a few things I definitely did NOT want to happen.
I keep bawling. But it was so wonderful.
Thank you, so much, so very much, Joanne K. Rowling, for such a wonderful gift as is the gift of these books, this world, and these characters. And thank you for the philosophies of love, family, and what’s really important that runs underneath them, and through them. Thank you.
And now, SPOILERS.
Initial impressions, Harry Potter 7 SPOILERS
I am cloistered and sequestered.
I have “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in my hands.
Yesterday I finished rereading books 5 and 6, and napped.
I will reemerge into the world after I have read the tale that Rowling has wrought.
Then I will put forward my thoughts and scour for the thoughts of others.
And I hope to be as happy with the entirety of Harry’s saga as I am with its parts.
I’m very excited.
LOLZ!! Spidey 3 is such FUN!!!
Unexpected friend connections got Sis and I in to see the 9pm employee showing at the movie theater tonight.
Total fun. Emo Parker and a DANCE NUMBER. I was laughing all over.
It looked to be all dark and scary, but they broke it up with cute goof and heartwarming stuff. Tobey just wasn’t convincing emo evil at all. Even Venom-boy so enjoyed his conniving mayhem, you can’t dislike him.
Highly recommend Spider Man 3! Great fun, great moments, and great action. And the lol emo factor.
My sister is home! Yay! We’ve been having Heroes marathons. I’m finally watching it. And it’s awesome. (if rather gorey, yeeig!) Hiro Love!
Went to Animematsuri last weekend. Couldn’t get off work so I didn’t bother with a table, and this is the first con I DIDN’T cosplay for. Shock!
The con had problems: too long lines, half the panels not happening, blah blah blah, but 4 of my prints in the art show sold. XD Friday wasn’t even worth going to. So many people, and nothing to do but look at each other and shop. I paid $40 for this?
I think I’m going to start getting a table for Saturday only and doing it that way on these cons. Because I love face painting. :)
I’m totally going to make an Avatar:Princess Ursa/Zuko’s Mom cosplay for whatever con I go to next. And for long term planning: I want to do Sesshoumaru’s mother from the Inuyasha manga. But that will be an EXPENSIVE costume, so I’m going to take it slow. And maybe commission the wig, or something.
Am I going to end up being “That Guy’s Mom” for every cosplay I do from now on? yeeig. Cute ingenue and slinky sex-vixen just don’t work with my body, so elegant matron it will have to be. heh.
Art!:
Blonde Fairy
(I would have called it “Green Fairy”, but that has connotations that would disappoint any googlers.) ;]
Hope everybody had a lovely Easter!
Last Thursday I went with my best friend Junebug and her sister to see WICKED in Houston.
Oh, so fabulous. XDDDDÂ DeFYing GRAVITY!
After hearing about it all over livej, I picked up a copy of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” last week. I usually avoid anything of the “Teen Vampire Romance” genre (3 novels of Amelia Atwater Rhodes’ Mary Sue glorifications having finally pushed me over the edge of disgust with anything with the word ‘vampire’ in it), but all the fangirling and some very warm recommendations got me curious. After visiting Stephenie Meyer’s website and discovering that she is an LDS mom who graduated from BYU (whoohoo!), that she also pays warm and friendly attention to her fanbase, and is a-round adorable and fabulous, I just had to read it.
Bella, awkward, shy, angsty and depressive, is a very sympathetic character midst all the angst and I quite love her. Edward, as I expected, is too perfect, and I wasn’t entirely convinced as to why he would fall in love with Bella, (me being one who has lost all credulity when it comes to beings with an almost incontrollable urge eat something ever being able to be sexually or romantically attracted to that thing, and also being one who doesn’t find wanting to be eaten a turn on. :} ) We WANT Edward to fall in love with her, however, and he does everything to show that he is in love, so, like with all happy shippy fanfiction, we go with it.
The Cullens rock in general, Alice in particular, and I want more of all of their characters. Twilight is wonderfully written, a fun, enjoyable ride, with many scenes that fill my heart with girly glee. At the end I felt it was great stuff, but not fandom (or fangirl) inducing to myself. I had had plenty of spoiler warnings about the 2nd book from a friend who despises it, so I was going to wait for the library copy to become available before I would read New Moon.
After two days I caved and went out and bought it.
Yep, I’ve been caught.
Having been so warned and spoiled about most of the plot of New Moon (reading the 3rd book summary teaser spoils one of the major mysteries of book 2), I was able to take its turns in stride and actually enjoy it. It is quite wonderful. After reading through all the online info available about why Stephenie did what she did, I think the major plot weakness of the book was…[New Moon SPOILERS] » Continue Reading
I’m 27 today! Gulp.
Happy Birthday to me!
Since I didn’t post one on the new year:
Accomplishments of last year, Goals for the new:
This is totally not to make anybody jealous, but, WHEEEEEE!
It arrived yesterday.
Merimask made this Kohaku mask for me. Happy BIRTHDAY to me! More pics in her entry for it here.
A few weeks ago, Merimask asked me if I wanted to barter: a painting by me of Sesshoumaru for one of her leather masks. She makes the most gorgeous masks.
I said “HECK YEAH!” and before I could start on my half, she’d finished this beautiful mask and sent it to me. ^__^
I finished the painting today, hopefully I can manage to scan it tomorrow. It’s bigger then the scanner.
(For the curious, that’s my bedroom wall, and the prints are paintings by Kinuko Craft, Mucha, and Waterhouse. :)
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The pretty Kohaku on my wall inspired me to finish one of my fanart100 pieces I’ve had sitting on my harddrive waiting to be colored for over a year.
Thunder.
You would think it would be easy to find reference pics of people with under-lit faces, and of models striding forward. But when you try to search for them, they’re almost impossible to find! Gwah! I must be using the wrong search words.
I found some, but it took longer then I wanted. XP
—Dogwood Blossoms, Inuyasha Fancomic, Chapter 2, p. 1-7, posted: here
