Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Beyond the Border~ => Sara's Audio-Visual Import-Overflow Retail => Topic started by: RuneDevros on February 10, 2015, 02:48:45 AM
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I CTRL+F'd Katsucon and didn't see a thread for the con this weekend. Who all here is going and what kind of cool stuff are you looking forward to there?
The schedule is up on Guidebook (https://guidebook.com/guide/29205/)
Touhou Related Eventsat Katsucon (via Kilgamayan) (http://kilgamayan.tumblr.com/post/108231132916/touhou-project-at-katsucon-2015)
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I'm going.
I'll be cosplaying as Reimu.
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yooooooooo
I'm unfortunately missing all the official Friday stuff due to prior commitments but gonna Kyouko it up for Saturday cause I'm not bringing anything else to wear that day (also mega comfy)
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I'm going! I'm bringing back the Papers, Please border guard dude and I intend to guard the gazebo.
PROTIP: nobody's papers are in order
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I'm going! I'm bringing back the Papers, Please border guard dude and I intend to guard the gazebo.
PROTIP: nobody's papers are in order
This time you gotta bring a cardboard booth
Only allow people who hail from cobrastan.
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While we probably have the space I most certainly don't have the motivation to make it. I need to bring myself to do the minor touchups I've had no drive to do ugh :(
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I'm bringing back the Papers, Please border guard dude and I intend to guard the gazebo.
PROTIP: nobody's papers are in order
KatsuCon needs to officially sponsor this idea for maximum hilarity.
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Someone stuff me in their trunk and take me with them :(
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KatsuCon needs to officially sponsor this idea for maximum hilarity.
to what the fuck did you change my name
Alternative idea: I bring a chair and small table, set up the sign that is the gazebo itself being the checkpoint.
GLORY TO GAZEBOTZKA
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But your stamp says MAGFest on it ??? ??? ???
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But your stamp says MAGFest on it ??? ??? ???
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FUCK
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DO NOT FEAR COMRADES
We picked up a VOID stamp at Office Depot.
Also HEY KILGA I ALREADY PACKED KYOUKO WIG CAUSE I DIDN'T LOSE IT THIS TIME ARE YOU PROUD OF ME??
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YOU'RE THE BEST
AROUND
NOTHIN'S GONNA EVER KEEP YOU DOWN
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Well, I was just about to print citation orders to MJP for using an invalid stamp! Way to get around that (barely)....:V
Have fun there, everyone who is going ~ :D
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WHY AM I AWAKE I HATE EVERYTHING
EDIT: officially laying claim to "first injury" and "first forgotten item", both at about 6:45 this morning
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Uh oh what's the damage?
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Minimal, thankfully. Forgotten item was my directions - I'm taking a new path down to D.C. this year (currently at the halfway point). I was less than five minutes from home, so I just turned around and got them. Injury was cutting my thumb open on a previously-unknown plastic nub on my seat belt. :V Nothing serious, certainly, but text is going to be painful all weekend, which is less than ideal for someone that tends to turn into a comms hub.
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Yaaaaaaaaay, Katsulhu!
But dat panel though.
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My highlight of Katsucon
>Being stuck in the reg line for five hours.
>Taking so long that I ordered a medium sized pizza from Papa John's.
>Got it delivered at the reg line
>Ate it all.
>Before paying for registration or the line even moving significantly
>Got to the front and was asked "... so you're the one that got pizza delivered aren't you?"
"yep."
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My highlight of Katsucon
>Being stuck in the reg line for five hours.
>Taking so long that I ordered a medium sized pizza from Papa John's.
>Got it delivered at the reg line
>Ate it all.
>Before paying for registration or the line even moving significantly
>Got to the front and was asked "... so you're the one that got pizza delivered aren't you?"
"yep."
thedream.jpg
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thedream.jpg
Will pre-register, won't do that again, but ...
But worth the story to put on the books right there.
Edit: omfg I tweeted this and ...
(http://media.tumblr.com/6055d45018c61c4601b7e9ec5724b2a9/tumblr_inline_njugzspjWZ1sf1pca.png)
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Will pre-register, won't do that again, but ...
But worth the story to put on the books right there.
Edit: omfg I tweeted this and ...
(http://media.tumblr.com/6055d45018c61c4601b7e9ec5724b2a9/tumblr_inline_njugzspjWZ1sf1pca.png)
Drunk_Aya is now Famous_Aya
HOW TO KATSUCON AT HOME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQRZ8bvuhM&spfreload=10
Yeah, basically Katsucon turned into "let's hang out with people and drink" con.
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First off, my photo album (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153084385636800.1073741837.714241799&type=1&l=9e3cfbeb7c). It's got the first Touhou photoshoot, the Friday Fire Emblem photoshoot and a small Tales series photoshoot, plus other stuff I thought was neat. I was Jetpack / Astronaut / SSiB Marisa.
Katsucon was wonderful. One of the best conventions I've ever been to if not the very top. Most everything I set out to do, I accomplished. It was a con full of firsts for me. Like my first Touhou Cosplay, my first time actually learning to sew things together for said cosplay, first time incorporating electronics into my cosplay, my first time speaking in front of a convention panel, and first time having tea parties at conventions.
Convention Highlights
Touhou photoshoot / Teacon 2015 - Went to the Touhou photoshoot, followed by a mad dash to prepare tea with Patchi for everyone. It was here that Yama got the nickname "Mermaid / Fish-man with the green hair and discopants." Let's all have tea together again sometime!
Our talk as part of the Touhou panel - I've done plenty of science conference presentations before, but like I said, first time talking at an anime con panel where the audience is a lot different. Despite our technical difficulties, I'm was really happy to have our demo go smoothly (Thank you RNG gods) and was glad that people seemed to enjoy it. I want to extend a gigantic thank you to the panel organizers (Silentsword and Kilga) for the opportunity to present my work. When we started the project on MotK back in 2008 (https://web.archive.org/web/20080521142337/http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=973.0), I never thought in a million years that I'd be doing this presentation in front of all of these Touhou fans. We've come a long way!
Basically all of Saturday - We started the Touhou photoshoot which was as fun as the first. Then we had a mini-tea party in our hotel room with my hotel roommates plus Yama and Patchi. I had a lot of fun with playing Cards Against Humanity before the amazing and delicious Touhou group dinner at Nandos. And then we hung out in the hotel room looking at cute animals and having my tablet taken over for IRC-ing :3c. Later that night, it became bad fanfiction night where the highlight was Ephshi reading out loud terrible terrible Mario Kart (!) erotica.
End of the con on Sunday - At cons, Sunday is always the saddest day. Said farewells to people throughout the day, and then helped pack up the Touhou booth. My sister made tasty cupcakes for us afterwards. Many hugs were exchanged as we said our goodbyes before we all parted ways.
Embarrassing remarks ahead. Please be cautious. A lot of people that I met have only spoken with through through online chats and forums, so I was happy to meet everyone in person that I only knew as an IRC handle or a Twitter name. You are all such wonderful, kind people! I will miss you all! I hope that I will be able to see you all again someday soon!
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恥ずかしいセリフ禁止!
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It's a beautiful day - the sun is shinin', I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now. (http://kilgamayan.tumblr.com/post/111243507201/)
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you certainly were feeling pretty good Kilga~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxr2ajbe864 blocked, sad
http://a.pomf.se/llmdjg.mp4 (http://a.pomf.se/llmdjg.mp4)
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http://a.pomf.se/llmdjg.mp4 (http://a.pomf.se/llmdjg.mp4)
dahahahahah
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Was Never Gonna Give You Up actually what was playing outside?
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THE THINGS I MISS NOOOOOOO
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Was Never Gonna Give You Up actually what was playing outside?
no idea, I just thought it fit
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It was some upbeat song with a Latin feel. I didn't recognize it.
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Katsucon was a blast!
Got to eat sushi in my Reimu cosplay at an impromptu dinner.
The game room with all the Touhou rigs were AMAZING. (I helped the owners set them up.)
Photoshoots are better with guest appearances (Freddie Mercury).
I learned how to play hanafuda and now I'm totally addicted.
Nando's chicken is always tasty. I ordered two dozen wings.
I didn't spend a dime in the dealer's room or artist alley?!
One small downside was that I didn't get into the Touhou panel as well as a few others. We hung outside the room and chatted Touhou. There were a few people that wanted in just because they didn't know what Touhou was so I offered to give a mini-panel to them. They declined though I told them in parting if they a wanted to try the games that the game room had setups.
I didn't get a chance to properly say goodbye to everyone because I promptly left Sunday morning.
Overall, I'd go again.
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I really wish we got a bigger room for the Touhou panel. I remember last year we managed to get assigned to a decently sized one so I'm not sure why we got crammed into that tiny space.
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Yep. Waited outside for forty-five minutes, then saw people had left in the middle of it, so I replaced them.