I got my luggage! Yay! Now I have makeup, sunblock and clothes that I have worn for fewer than three days straight.

Renee is like candy here! Everyone is obsessed with her. I’m not kidding, we were walking around the convention hall and three different people came and asked for pictures with her, and she was not wearing a costume.

Also a quick US WCS update from Ed, just FYI:

The US representatives for the WCS will be picked at Fanime, but it will NOT be as part of the Fanime masquerade according to what he told me this morning. Ed thinks it will take place sometime on Saturday. Someone from the WCS will probably be there to judge, and Ed will be along to translate and wrangle and do all the things Ed does. (Look for the enormously tall affable Canadian with curly blond hair.) There may be just the one judge, I’m not sure. I don’t know how judging will take place, if there will be pre-judging, or if there will be a separate craftsmanship judging. They don’t know how long it will take. Ed seems to be hoping for at least 10-15 groups to show up. I think he’s crazy if he thinks it will be that few.

If you want to enter, it must be as a team of two, you have three minutes for your performance, and you must be cosplaying from a Japanese anime, manga or video game. You *can* enter the preliminary with costumes from Shueisha properties, but you cannot compete at the finals with them. So if you win with a Shueisha skit, you’ll have to do something else at the WCS. But it’s OK for the preliminary. (Editorializing: Last year’s Team Brazil did a One Piece skit at the prelims, and at the WCS it was a FMA skit. I highly recommend you look it up. I don’t know One Piece or speak Portugese, and it still knocked my socks off. It’s fantastic. I wanted to ask for their autographs.)

They don’t care if your costumes have won a prize or been in a masquerade, or if you enter them in other masquerades in the future.

Ed says to bring your audio prerecorded on a CD. He thinks there will be a stage and an audience, but doesn’t know specifically what the deal is with that, or on microphones. That’s all kinda up in the air still, but prerecorded audio is probably safest.

The specific, official requirements for the WCS are on the WCS website somewhere, but I’m not sure where. I’ll post the link if i find it, but my Internet connection is *really* slow here.

Good luck everyone! If you’ve finished reading this post, you now know as much as I do. Also, just to clarify: I am in no way acting in an official capacity, I’m just relaying what Ed told me. If you have any specific questions, I’ll try to ask for you, but I have absolutely zero power in any of this.

Good luck to everyone! Tell your friends if you think they’d want to know, and please let me know if you have any questions. I’ll be happy to help to the best of my ability. Thanks!

Hey everybody! Long time no post. They lost my luggage with all my costumes, I’m jet-lagged out the ears, and this Internet connection is slow as hell, but I wanted to drop in because I was talking to Ed this morning and they *just* inked the deal for the World Cosplay Summit US preliminaries to be held at Fanime in San Jose! Hooray! Good luck everybody.

Heee.

If this makes me want to make a badass costume for renfaire, I’m going to kill it. Renfaire is for drinking and attempting to shoot things with arrows, not costuming. (I’m a big fat baby about heat, and NY and Chicago both suck in the summer.)

(But I do kinda want one)

The Linda is fast becoming my new favorite wig to mess with. It takes being messed with so happily.

I have no idea where it went! I had one nonbroken threader left, and it’s missing. I wouldn’t have moved it away from the serger, because that’s the only place I need it. But I’ve been threading and unthreading the stupid serger all day, and now I can’t switch back to the stitch I need now because I can’t find the threader, and i can’t thread wooly nylon without a threader. -_-

But I’ve kind of always wanted to make this:

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/the_costume_institute/dress_evening_house_of_worth/objectview.aspx?page=2&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=worth&fp=1&dd1=8&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=8&OID=80006004&vT=1

But even if I do … it will cost a billion dollars, take a thousand years, and when I’m done, I’ll have a strange outfit designed by someone else that I can’t wear in real life and takes up more room in my apartment.

But I still kind of want to.

Bustle, 1871

1. I need a haircut.
2. I do not want to have to go to work in the morning.
3. I’m allergic to everything.

Also, in China, 30 Rock is called “Crazy for Comedy,” and Chuck is “Supermarket Special Agent.” Human Target is merely “Stuntman Target,” and thus significantly less interesting.

Anna came back and caught diadiadia and I backstage at the Atelier Pierrot fashion show at Anime Matsuri.

I got new glasses a year and a quarter ago. But since then I lost my old ones. I’ve been consistently looking for them and constantly whining about how i wanted them, but I couldn’t find them anywhere. Today I was grumbling extra hard, because the new glasses need an adjustment and have been rubbing little calluses onto the sides of my nose. And then I happened to notice a glasses case on top of the TV.

And I was like, “Huh. I’m sure I checked there before, but sure, why not…”

Yep. They’ve been on top of the TV for a year and a half, which means I’ve been looking at them every day for a year and a half. -_-