I mentioned that I was going to a convention in my last post so I guess I'll talk about that a little bit even though that happened about two weeks ago now... yeah... Aren't I the most reliable blogger ever?!
Anyway, AOD was really fun! It was really interesting because my only experience with conventions before this one was really big ones like Anime Expo (the biggest anime convention in North America) and Fanime (which isn't as big, but is still a pretty decent sized convention) and this one was super tiny. I liked it though; it was nice because with it being so small there was a lot bigger chance of us getting into all the panels we wanted to and everything felt a lot more personal too.
On Saturday (January 31st - the first day of the convention) we got to the hotel that the convention was being held at around nine (which is WAY different than other conventions I've been to because usually we have to go the day before so that we can register, but registration took about 15 minutes... as opposed to the HOURS it usually takes at AX). We then went to opening ceremonies and afterwards Skye and I went to the Maid Cafe. Since it was their first day and it was the first session too they were pretty disorganized and our session started about 15 minutes late, but our maid was SUPER nice and funny, we had a great time despite the trouble they were having. After the Maid Cafe, Skye and I were able to sneak into LittleKuriboh's panel (it was REALLY full, but my mom and Sean were already in there so we were able to squeeze in). I also went to a Fan Fiction Iron Chef workshop which was really fun; they gave us two characters, a location, a scenario, and a theme and we had an hour to write 1,000 words with all of those ingredients. It was a lot of fun; it was hard too, because I had no idea who my characters were - they gave us short descriptions of them, but that was all I had. I think I won something though because the Tuesday after the con a package came that contained the fan fiction I wrote and some candy and manga, there was no note or anything though so I was a little confused... but it was cool. That night I went to some of the AOD at night panels, which were all 18+. I was originally going to go to a fan fiction panel for my first one, but instead I decided to go to LittleKuriboh's 18+ panel and I'm glad I did because that was pretty funny. After, I went to "AOD Guests Play Cards Against Humanity" which was... insanely inappropriate, but in a horrendously... I-feel-horrible-for-laughing-at-most-of-this-kind-of-way... Do you know what I mean...? I didn't end up getting to bed until 12;30 that nigh- morning... Oh, I was dressed in a really cute Lolita outfit all day... I think I can put up a picture for it actually... Oh yeah, here you go:
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| The dress was made by my mother and I made the bow, the wrist cuffs, and the bag |
Sunday (the second day of the convention) was a lot quieter. There wasn't that much to do so we spent most of the time in the Exhibit Hall (my mom went to a lot of panels that day though). We did get to go to "Voice Duel's with LittleKuriboh" which was a lot of fun (gods with all the panels of his that I went to I sound like a stalker...). I was in Lolita again, but a lot more toned down. I bought a few souvenirs: I finally got one of those plush alpaca that are so popular right now: I've been wanting one - it's purple. I also got one for my friend Rishi because she wasn't able to go to the convention with me. I also got a poster of Makoto and Haru from Free! 1) because I can't seem to not buy posters/wall decorations when I go to a convention (I ALREADY had several posters that don't fit on my walls because I've run out of room... I just need to start a rotation system,,,) and 2) because they're my OTP and I didn't have any proof of them in my room yet... Sean and Skye picked things too, Skye got a key chain of Hanji from Attack on Titan because that's her favorite character and Sean got a Portal shoulder bag. We left the con around 4;30 and got home around 6; which was WAY weird for me because I'm used to it taking forever to get home after a convention because we usually go to ones way out of town... I'm also used to them being in the summer which meant that I had time to recover from them, but this time I had school the next day... Let me tell you, getting up at four in the morning after a convention is REALLY hard.
Okay... I think I have talked enough... I will hopefully post more soon. I want to show some of the stuff I've been making and put up pictures of my new wardrobe so hopefully I'll do that soon. I will hopefully post tomorrow; I'll be hanging out with my fake-wife (by that I mean we got "married" in high school because we had a weird group of friends that had created this weird family and that's just how we did things when I was in high school... or at least that's how WE did things...) tomorrow in honor of Valentine's Day and I'll be wearing a really cute outfit so I'll try to put up pictures of that at least.
Alright!
P.S. The main reason I even posted tonight was because my friend said I should... Thank you for keeping me on track Godfather (that's her - yes her - nickname).
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