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SATURDAY
We woke up at… maybe it was 9. I can’t seem to remember anymore. All I know is that it took two hours to do Liz’s hair up in ringlets for Mana’s outfit! The hairspray fumes were making me delirious by the time I was only halfway through. ::shudder::
Saturday is just one big blur of posing for pictures. I wasn’t feeling too well (a summer cold/mild bronchitis had been coming on since Thursday, but I was completely ignoring it). Let’s see…. I remember… meeting our Yu~ki and acting out Shiroi hada ni kuruu ai to kanashimi no RONDO in the karaoke room…
Klaha & Kozi
Yu~ki, Mana, & Klaha
all
all2
…then taking a few photos in the hall…
us with guitars
another shot
...then posing for photos from the Livre Rose photo book…
Kozi & Klaha
Mana & Klaha
Yu~ki & Klaha
…then I’m pretty sure we talked with Sharon and DC for a while… and then I think we tried to go have lunch. The key word here being tried. We were stopped a million times for pictures and then we had a photo session with another group of Malice Mizer/Bel Air cosplayers (whom we also knew from last year):
Kozi, Gackt & Mana
Mana (Shiroi, Bel Air, Shiroi)
Finally, we had lunch at Burger King. That was interesting. You try going into a Burger King to eat lunch while you have odd costumes and makeup on.
Afterwards, we went back to the BCC and met up with a friend (Cory, all the way on the right) I’d met who was a fan of Buck-Tick too! (You don’t know how much that amazed me!) He said he was planning on singing B-T’s Iconoclasm, so I had to watch! But the karaoke room had a loooong line and it turned out his turn wasn’t going to be for at least another hour. So we all headed over to the Dealers’ Room again, where I picked up another two hentai het doujinshi (Fruit Basket and Chobits) for $24. Angelica picked up a shota 2x1 doujinshi for $10 or so – it was really cute!
After a while we went back to the karaoke room where we watched Cory perform Iconoclasm. After which we completely gave up and went back to the room where we proceeded to take off our (painful) shoes, attack uke-Klaha, and do a Pocky commercial.
dead Kaoru, Klaha & Mana
Kozi-seme molesting Klaha-uke
Pocky commercial
Then we put on our comfy shoes and a shorter Malice Mizer left the hotel with a mission to get food. We went over to the mall while the poor Baltimore drivers (along with their whole families) rubbernecked their way into an almost-accident staring at the Kozi crossing the street. (I don’t understand…. I looked perfectly normal… for a goth J-rocker.) The poor mall-goers had another shock at the sight of us. Poor Klaha and Kaoru got stopped several times and asked what we were all dressed up for.
After lunch we went back to the karaoke room and watched Cory and his friend perform a Dir en Grey song, and hung out for a while there. That’s where we took those pics of Jeremy and Cory and his friend. That was fun. After that we walked around a while and ended up in the showing for Bronze. Liz and I had been holding a few seats and after a few minutes Angelica and Louie came in, saying that they’d bumped into DC, so I jumped up and completely abandoned them to go talk with Sharon and DC, and, as it happens, Jana. We had a really great talk about the GW fandom, and lots of other things (including Netscape vs. IE). Halfway through, Liz came up and joined the conversation.
After a while, though, it sort of broke up and Liz and I went back into the viewing room where we discovered that Angelica had lost her voice from supposedly screaming at the screen. (Whatever.) After Bronze, Louie and Angelica wanted to go to the Dance, and Liz and I went to the Art Show… after a while we met up again and Liz, Louie and Angelica went back to the YAOI room, and I stayed at the Dance (those Ravers are awesome). After a while of dancing, I went back into the YAOI room where Fish in the Trap was starting. Kate and a few others (hentai Legato/Farfie and her Wolfwood) were there. I remember Wolfwood laying in my lap for a while. ::waggles eyebrows:: She was so cute.
After Fish in the Trap was over, we decided to take the bobby pins out of Liz’s hair. Boy, was that a mistake. When I put them in, I’d twisted the ends so they wouldn’t fall out, but now that had come back to haunt me. They were a bitch to get out, and poor Angelica was overtired, she was cranky, and she was getting really hostile with everyone, including the Otakon staffer who was trying to kick us out of the room so they could close up.
When we got back to the room we stripped, got Liz un-bobby-pinned, sniped at each other a little (mainly me and Angelica) and eventually got to sleep. Of course, I couldn’t sleep ‘cause I was pissed with Angelica. So I ended up reading some of this book that I’d brought with me, 1632 by Eric Flint, which was very good, by the way. Flint has a really great sense of humor; it’s not as quirky as John Ringo’s sense of humor, but it’s highly amusing all the same.
SUNDAY
We were all dead tired by Sunday. We’d decided on Saturday not to wear our Shiroi costumes because they were much to elaborate. So we all sort of wore normal stuff. Although Angelica and I wore our uke/seme shirts (she’s uke and I seme, of course ^_~) with our vinyl pants. (Do you know how hot and humid it was that weekend?!) But we survived. We basically just went our separate ways after breakfast until we met up together at the Art Show room around 2, I think. Liz and I had bumped into Sharon and DC, so we spent quite a while just sitting and talking with them, which was really nice. I really love talking to them – it’s great to have people who understand what the hell you’re talking about. (Or if they don’t, at least they pretend to know.)
We met up with Louie and Angelica in the Art Room and stood on line for a good 45 minutes, maybe more, to see if we’d won anything. Of course, I knew I’d won the Dark Chii print, but I was hoping to have won the Schu sketch. But I didn’t.
We met a male Weiß group on line for the Art Show – which was really kakkoii ‘cause there are hardly any adult male Weiß cosplayers. They were so cute! And we also ran into the guy who was Hotohori last year! ::swoon:: I can’t believe he cut his hair – it was so long and gorgeous!
After that we went to have lunch again at the mall and ended up sharing a table briefly with Kate and her friend (why can’t I remember her name?!). We said our goodbyes and went back to the BCC, walked through it, and over to the Days Inn.
Then we lounged for an hour or two in the lobby of the hotel, waiting for the time to come to head over to the bus station. We took a few interesting pics, then, too.
tired Louie
laughing Liz
upside-down Liz
Uke-on-a-leash
Then, we were on the bus. That was an experience in and of itself. I was succumbing to my fever – my head was killing me and Angelica stole a bottle of water for me from the Starbucks in the mall so my dry throat wouldn’t hurt so much on the ride home. That bottle of water saved me, I swear. Otherwise I would’ve been coughing up a lung or something. But anyway, Angelica sort of took a nap, and then when she woke up I leaned my head on her. At one point, a guy from the front of the bus (who’d been at Otakon) went to go use the bathroom, but ended up sitting next to Yoshi and talking with us. Apparently, he’s from NYC too, and hangs out at some of our places also (like the arcade in Chinatown, etc.). And it was really cool that he knew some YAOI stuff and wasn’t scared off by it. But he was mental case himself. I’d describe his comments about Angelica and I being lesbians, but I had my headphones on at the time, so I completely missed all of his remarks! I’ll let Angelica tell the story in my comments space…. Yes, Angelica, you have to because I barely remember it.
Anyway, we got back to Port Authority safe and sound, and took the train to Continental, where my mom picked us up and dropped Angelica off at home.
SATURDAY
We woke up at… maybe it was 9. I can’t seem to remember anymore. All I know is that it took two hours to do Liz’s hair up in ringlets for Mana’s outfit! The hairspray fumes were making me delirious by the time I was only halfway through. ::shudder::
Saturday is just one big blur of posing for pictures. I wasn’t feeling too well (a summer cold/mild bronchitis had been coming on since Thursday, but I was completely ignoring it). Let’s see…. I remember… meeting our Yu~ki and acting out Shiroi hada ni kuruu ai to kanashimi no RONDO in the karaoke room…
Klaha & Kozi
Yu~ki, Mana, & Klaha
all
all2
…then taking a few photos in the hall…
us with guitars
another shot
...then posing for photos from the Livre Rose photo book…
Kozi & Klaha
Mana & Klaha
Yu~ki & Klaha
…then I’m pretty sure we talked with Sharon and DC for a while… and then I think we tried to go have lunch. The key word here being tried. We were stopped a million times for pictures and then we had a photo session with another group of Malice Mizer/Bel Air cosplayers (whom we also knew from last year):
Kozi, Gackt & Mana
Mana (Shiroi, Bel Air, Shiroi)
Finally, we had lunch at Burger King. That was interesting. You try going into a Burger King to eat lunch while you have odd costumes and makeup on.
Afterwards, we went back to the BCC and met up with a friend (Cory, all the way on the right) I’d met who was a fan of Buck-Tick too! (You don’t know how much that amazed me!) He said he was planning on singing B-T’s Iconoclasm, so I had to watch! But the karaoke room had a loooong line and it turned out his turn wasn’t going to be for at least another hour. So we all headed over to the Dealers’ Room again, where I picked up another two hentai het doujinshi (Fruit Basket and Chobits) for $24. Angelica picked up a shota 2x1 doujinshi for $10 or so – it was really cute!
After a while we went back to the karaoke room where we watched Cory perform Iconoclasm. After which we completely gave up and went back to the room where we proceeded to take off our (painful) shoes, attack uke-Klaha, and do a Pocky commercial.
dead Kaoru, Klaha & Mana
Kozi-seme molesting Klaha-uke
Pocky commercial
Then we put on our comfy shoes and a shorter Malice Mizer left the hotel with a mission to get food. We went over to the mall while the poor Baltimore drivers (along with their whole families) rubbernecked their way into an almost-accident staring at the Kozi crossing the street. (I don’t understand…. I looked perfectly normal… for a goth J-rocker.) The poor mall-goers had another shock at the sight of us. Poor Klaha and Kaoru got stopped several times and asked what we were all dressed up for.
After lunch we went back to the karaoke room and watched Cory and his friend perform a Dir en Grey song, and hung out for a while there. That’s where we took those pics of Jeremy and Cory and his friend. That was fun. After that we walked around a while and ended up in the showing for Bronze. Liz and I had been holding a few seats and after a few minutes Angelica and Louie came in, saying that they’d bumped into DC, so I jumped up and completely abandoned them to go talk with Sharon and DC, and, as it happens, Jana. We had a really great talk about the GW fandom, and lots of other things (including Netscape vs. IE). Halfway through, Liz came up and joined the conversation.
After a while, though, it sort of broke up and Liz and I went back into the viewing room where we discovered that Angelica had lost her voice from supposedly screaming at the screen. (Whatever.) After Bronze, Louie and Angelica wanted to go to the Dance, and Liz and I went to the Art Show… after a while we met up again and Liz, Louie and Angelica went back to the YAOI room, and I stayed at the Dance (those Ravers are awesome). After a while of dancing, I went back into the YAOI room where Fish in the Trap was starting. Kate and a few others (hentai Legato/Farfie and her Wolfwood) were there. I remember Wolfwood laying in my lap for a while. ::waggles eyebrows:: She was so cute.
After Fish in the Trap was over, we decided to take the bobby pins out of Liz’s hair. Boy, was that a mistake. When I put them in, I’d twisted the ends so they wouldn’t fall out, but now that had come back to haunt me. They were a bitch to get out, and poor Angelica was overtired, she was cranky, and she was getting really hostile with everyone, including the Otakon staffer who was trying to kick us out of the room so they could close up.
When we got back to the room we stripped, got Liz un-bobby-pinned, sniped at each other a little (mainly me and Angelica) and eventually got to sleep. Of course, I couldn’t sleep ‘cause I was pissed with Angelica. So I ended up reading some of this book that I’d brought with me, 1632 by Eric Flint, which was very good, by the way. Flint has a really great sense of humor; it’s not as quirky as John Ringo’s sense of humor, but it’s highly amusing all the same.
SUNDAY
We were all dead tired by Sunday. We’d decided on Saturday not to wear our Shiroi costumes because they were much to elaborate. So we all sort of wore normal stuff. Although Angelica and I wore our uke/seme shirts (she’s uke and I seme, of course ^_~) with our vinyl pants. (Do you know how hot and humid it was that weekend?!) But we survived. We basically just went our separate ways after breakfast until we met up together at the Art Show room around 2, I think. Liz and I had bumped into Sharon and DC, so we spent quite a while just sitting and talking with them, which was really nice. I really love talking to them – it’s great to have people who understand what the hell you’re talking about. (Or if they don’t, at least they pretend to know.)
We met up with Louie and Angelica in the Art Room and stood on line for a good 45 minutes, maybe more, to see if we’d won anything. Of course, I knew I’d won the Dark Chii print, but I was hoping to have won the Schu sketch. But I didn’t.
We met a male Weiß group on line for the Art Show – which was really kakkoii ‘cause there are hardly any adult male Weiß cosplayers. They were so cute! And we also ran into the guy who was Hotohori last year! ::swoon:: I can’t believe he cut his hair – it was so long and gorgeous!
After that we went to have lunch again at the mall and ended up sharing a table briefly with Kate and her friend (why can’t I remember her name?!). We said our goodbyes and went back to the BCC, walked through it, and over to the Days Inn.
Then we lounged for an hour or two in the lobby of the hotel, waiting for the time to come to head over to the bus station. We took a few interesting pics, then, too.
tired Louie
laughing Liz
upside-down Liz
Uke-on-a-leash
Then, we were on the bus. That was an experience in and of itself. I was succumbing to my fever – my head was killing me and Angelica stole a bottle of water for me from the Starbucks in the mall so my dry throat wouldn’t hurt so much on the ride home. That bottle of water saved me, I swear. Otherwise I would’ve been coughing up a lung or something. But anyway, Angelica sort of took a nap, and then when she woke up I leaned my head on her. At one point, a guy from the front of the bus (who’d been at Otakon) went to go use the bathroom, but ended up sitting next to Yoshi and talking with us. Apparently, he’s from NYC too, and hangs out at some of our places also (like the arcade in Chinatown, etc.). And it was really cool that he knew some YAOI stuff and wasn’t scared off by it. But he was mental case himself. I’d describe his comments about Angelica and I being lesbians, but I had my headphones on at the time, so I completely missed all of his remarks! I’ll let Angelica tell the story in my comments space…. Yes, Angelica, you have to because I barely remember it.
Anyway, we got back to Port Authority safe and sound, and took the train to Continental, where my mom picked us up and dropped Angelica off at home.
