"Mighty Morphin Power Produce!" by Rob
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 4:56 PM

Well, last post I was going to say we we're gonna have a 'Life and death' situation, but A- I forgot too...and B- No one would have believed me anyway.

Do you believe me now?

Despite the best efforts of the Virginia DMV....

Galeon lives!!! I rode him about 60 miles yesterday and did it feel goooood. Now today, it snows. Not much, but enough for nature to say "Thought you won one didn't you?" *Smack!*

Well then...who says that's a new character...I sure didn't? "why isn't there a profile then!?" you're probably wondering....all in due time.

In due time....Like my copy of Heavy Metal Thunder...it will be here soon.

Resistance is FUTILE!!!

Neo-Vader III



'Geez, you go through water like it's ... um ... water ...' by Kara
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 8:31 AM

Jesus Christ, you people. We really do have to kill someone to get a reaction out of you. I was getting e-mails and IMs this morning like a fiend. Sadly (or maybe fortunately - who knows?), some of you seemed to get pretty attached to MIB1 and MIB2. Which was how we referred to them in the script. We never even gave them names. Sad, eh?

Geez. We introduce a new character, not a peep, but we knock off two extras and you scream. You guys are so wacky. Thirty points each for being even stranger than the ConScrew fans, who are too busy trying to prove that Adrian and Hiru are sleeping with each other to notice anything else.

(I say these things out of pure affection - seriously, I love you all thoroughly legally and platonically.)

Well, Rob's been irate about several things ... now it's my turn. I'm not gonna go into detail and the who's and what's and when's, just to keep things relatively undramatic. Let's boil it down to the fact that I made a costume I'm very proud of ... took me a long time, some inventiveness, and a bit of guessing (because there are only two pictures at all of this costume, and they're both from the front). I've worn it out and about at anime cons a few times, and dammit, it's nice. I don't like my inability to sew, but this one's nice.

It (and by proxy, I) was disqualified from a cosplay not long ago, for not being 'family-friendly.' I won't even go into costumes that have been allowed onstage - and won things - that covered less than I did. I went out of my way to modify this costume to be acceptable in public (at least at a con), and was actually praised by the craftsmanship judges by the ways in which I did so without compromising the accuracy. For God's sake, my grandmother was impressed with this costume.

There was a lot of hollering from various and sundry when this was discovered. Even the presentation judges got pissy, and asked to at least see me, whether I could go onstage or not. But apparently this was not enough. It was 'ruled' at a post-meeting this past weekend that the person who made the final decision was justified. I did get apologies and various ire from people who 'sided' with me, as well as invitations to compete elsewhere ... but it's all w. and g. to say lots of people were on 'my side' ... but with this result, apparently not.

Like I said, I'm not mentioning who or where, because the majority of the people who work this con are wonderful people, and I have no desire to get an 'angry mob' going (despite the fact that it seems to have formed itself while I was up in the room depleting Luna-C's rum stash). Nonetheless, I'm torn between simply putting the poor girl (i.e., my costume) away for a few months, or actually wearing it around more at other competitions to give the asses involved the finger.

Right, then. If you have been, just pretend it never happened.













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