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I'm going to Sakuracon 2013! I'm so excited, since Sakuracon is one of my favorite conventions!

Here's my costume plan list

Day Zero: I'm cosplaying as a JoJo fan. (Aka, not cosplaying.)
Day One: Young Jonathan Joestar from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (the episode 1 from the TV)
Day Two: Johnny Joestar from Steel Ball Run, Giorno Giovanna from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Pop Sound Blossom Makoto Kikuchi from iDOLMster
Day Three: Kurloz Makara from Homestuck

I've linked to previous deviations of each of the costumes except Jonathan Joestar; that one's entirely new!

I can't wait to see people there! And if you're wearing an outfit that matches up with one of these and want to grab pictures, let me know please; I'd love to!

The bad news: I know a few people were hoping to see me at Katsucon. Unfortunately, thanks to real life situations and my own rather poor health, Katsucon will not be happening. You will be hopefully be able to see me at AOD, but other than that, the next thing I'm going to is Sakura-con.

I would put a list of my upcoming costumes here but.... i doubt it's a good idea right now, other than THERE WILL BE JOJO.

The other thing I want to mention? I'm starting to get a bit burned out. I plan on attending plenty of events this year, some out of state even, but starting a bit this fall and definitely next year, I'm going to be cutting back on the costumes and the conventions. Not that I want to quit the hobby! I'm just starting to get a little burned out, and my year off time from work and school is running out, so I'm going to need to go back to focusing on real life the most. I'll be primarily attending local events, maybe doing photoshoots, making fewer outfits, but not leaving the hobby! It's just that real life matters more to me than any costumes.

Happy new year to all the wonderful people out there on dA! Whether or not I see you, whether or not we've interacted, I hope that your 2012 went well and that your 2013 is even better!

I'll see some of you at Anime Los Angeles!

Oh man, I'm glad that "serious" con season is mostly over; that was a bit too stressful, and I'm still feeling exhausted!

This year I ran the serious con gauntlet of doing Fanime, AX, Otakon, and then San Japan; normally you'd slot one or two of those out for SDCC but still, if I had SDCC in that mix, I would have probably fallen over collapsing, and that's also with me switching to be in the second wave of Starry outfits for Angel Hearts iDOLMster instead of the first (which just won grand prize at AniMegaCon this past weekend, YOU GO GIRLS I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!) I'm not always in the best of health, so all the stress and costume all-nighters and constant travel really took a toll on me. Spaghetti everywhere for almost everyone who met me.

Oh yeah, and I'm going to Jpop Summit in SF this weekend in lolita and to SacAnime the next weekend with one or two new costumes, and I'm possibly going to Youmacon after YEARS of one of the staff heads badgering me to finally show my California ass out there. Welp. I am clearly an idiot.



Anyway, you probably won't see quiiiite as many costumes from me for a while; I'm doubling down on my physical therapy efforts (I have a serious arm injury that's keeping me from real-life advancement and I think I've found another track to healing it faster), I need to focus more on real world stuff in general, and I've also decided to stop doing crappy filler outfits that I'm not really happy about anymore. If I'm making something in the future, it'll be because I really WANT to do it and I think it's challenging to my skill or it features techniques I really want to do. I may make one or two "easy wear" outfits, or I may just buy one off Taobao or eBay (and trust me, you guys, if I buy an outfit, I let everybody know it's purchased), but my focus is on clearing the backlog of costumes that I really want to make but I haven't found the time or focus to make them happen. OK, let's be serious, I'll probably make one or two one-day outfits at some point to get rid of old fabric, but you know what I mean, yeah?

Some of the things on this list (can't promise everything though, obviously!) are Sunny (Toriko), Magenta Magenta (SBR), Haman Karn (ZZ armored outfit), Judeau (Berserk, and ACTUALLY DONE), Farnese (Berserk), Allenby (G Gundam), Starry Makoto (ims 2), Rohan Kishibe (the Mutsukabezaka outfit), one of the JoJolion girls because I kind of have to (I'm pretty sure I'm going with Daiya for now buuuut I might be persuaded into Yasuho), Trish Una (JoJo 5), and who knows what else. I might even at some point do my ultimate dream outfit and do the uniform for Dianna Soriel from Turn A Gundam. But the pride I felt with doing volume 19 Johnny Joestar, which was on my list of "want to make" for years, and being happy with the result, absolutely dwarfs how I feel about things like (sorry guys) God Tier Gamzee or any other last-minute "just because" "filler" outfit. I want to feel like THAT more often.

Anyway tl;dr I go to too many events and I'm exhausted AND I STILL CAN'T STOP PLANNING OUTFITS OH GOD HELP ME.