Showing posts with label Fruits Basket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fruits Basket. Show all posts

September 4, 2013

Tracon 8 cosplay plans!

This beautiful thing popped up in the mailbox yesterday!

My Tracon ticket!
That means I now have the con ticket in my hands as well as the hotel room booked (thanks Ri-kun!) and so far it seems I will be carpooling with some people from the north. :) Everything seems more or less set now so let's roll out the cosplay plans!

Saturday

Series: Fruits Basket
Character: Kureno Sohma


Kureno on Saturday because I will be part of a Fruits Basket group. I don't have so much to say about this cosplay, it's casual and easy-to-wear and having a cosplay group is always a bonus. I would have liked to have a more flashy/cooler cosplay on Saturday but oh well.. ~

Sunday

Series: Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan
Character: Toshizo Hijikata (rasetsu)


Time to be crazy again, Hakuouki style ~
I really want to have a photoshoot of this cosplay (c'mon have like no proper pics of it.. ;_;) and seeing how Tracon has a really nice outdoor area I thought why the hell not? 8D Also Hasakitsuki will join me as oni!Chizuru ku ku ku ~

August 30, 2013

Lens review: Super Pinky Bright Red

What's up bros? ;)

I bought these contacts already some months ago and wore them to Animecon for rasetsu!Hijikata but haven't done a review of them yet I'm lazy, okay? OTL I thought I could do it now while I still needed to check if they looked okay for my coming Kureno Sohma cosplay.

Okay, so these lenses are the Super Pinky Bright Reds. They are my second pair of contact/circle lenses ever, my first pair being the same lenses but in violet, which I also made a review for back in February. There's quite a lot of red-eyed characters I want to cosplay in the future so buying red lenses was bound to happen!

Lenses in solution.
 
Base curve: 8.6 mm
Diameter: 14.8 mm
Water content: 45%
Life span: 1 year (I recommend 6 months)

The first time I ever put these on –which was back at Animecon last month– they went on like a charm! No problems whatsoever and they were very comfortable all con day. But today when I put them on both of the lenses felt uncomfortable in the eyes and when it didn't ease after a while I took them out, cleaned them again and put them back in and then it was a-ok! I guess there was some dirt left in them or something...

I won't talk too much about these lenses but I have some photos to show the photos are pretty crappy though, sorry about that. Excuse me but all photos, except the first one with the lenses in the lens case, are taken in the bathroom with my older camera (aka not the SLR) so not the best lighting and sharpness. Oh, and sorry for my eyes being red no not the lenses but as I mentioned earlier I had problems putting them on. ._.

With just one contact in.
(my natural eye color is a mix of blue-gray-green, depending on lighting)
With both lenses in.
These are quite enlarging but not enough to swallow your eyes, at least not according to me or on my eyes. If you have small/narrow eyes these might appear big but that, of course, depends on your eye shape as well.
I'm sorry if they look a bit orange-ish on the photos but I assure you that the color is indeed a true red, it's just the bathroom light being yellow and a troll. It's actually a pretty intense color and thus great for cosplay! The Super Pinky line of lenses also covers a lot of your iris, which means that the pupil hole is small and thus there's very little of your real eye color showing through in the middle. Unfortunately this also means that they might blur your vision in places with poorer light conditions.
I really like these because while red sure isn't a natural color they still don't look ultra-mega-demonically-unnatural but rather kinda if-red-was-natural-it-could-look-like-this – if that makes sense. :'D But maybe that's helped by the rather realistic pattern of the lenses...?

Oh, and here's a quick try-on with the Kureno wig and a random shirt.

From a distance. (bathroom light)
 
-- EDIT! 2014, mid-August! --

One year after I had opened these contacts I still had them lying around; I thought that I could take some additional review photos and upload them here before I throw the contacts away. Couldn't be bothered to do make-up, sorry. The previous photos were so poor (friggin' bathroom light!) so here's a new photo batch of the contacts going for their last wear, in different lights.
I must mention that I had huge problems keeping my eyes open because the contacts had turned so dry and uncomfortable; it felt like they were pulling my eyelids closed all the time. I constantly felt them in my eyes so I didn't wear them for more than 30 minutes maximum and when I took them out they were dry as hay. I threw them away after this – they had served me well.

All photos taken by me, as always.
There's no color filters or such and that's so that the colors would be as true to real life as possible. I'm sorry that my eyes appear to be half-closed or something... I don't know what happened, lol.

Inside in natural room light, facing the window on a cloudy day.
Outside on a cloudy day, facing the (hidden) sun.
Outside, standing in the shadow.
Outside,  some weird bright light going on.
Outside, cloudy day.
Facing the sunlight. It friggin' hurt to keep my eyes open... xD
 
As you can see they are really red and show up well in most lights. They aren't completely opaque so some of your real eye color will show through close to the pupil hole. The hole is still smaller than on your average circle lens, which means that occasionally you can have red corners in your vision.

Psst, if you are curious about other colors of the Super Pinky line and how they look on light eyes then check out my other reviews here: Violet, Green, Wine Red, Black

Short summary:

Color: 9/10 
It's a really bright red that pops. Everyone will notice it!
Design: 5/10 
Looks pretty nice although not really unique. I wish the outer rim would be slightly darker.
Opacity: 8/10
Very good color coverage!
Enlargement: 8/10 
Notably enlarging. A bit borderline if you don't like big contacts and they might look freaky on people with smaller eyes.
Comfort: 7/10 
Comfort-wise okay but I tend to feel them in my eyes sometimes.
Naturalness: 2/10 
Not natural because of enlargement and color. You don't buy these to have people think it's your real eyes, lol.

Nothing else to say, ciao ciao!
Thanks for viewing ~ 

August 25, 2013

Kureno Sohma preview! + Tracon

Yesterday I picked up my wig for Kureno from town and today I did a super quick preview! (aka no cosplay make-up except coloring eyebrows)
Excuse me for the huge mess in the background and yeah, mirror photo.

Yes, that's a plush bird and I'll totally carry it around!
I think it makes it easier to recognize the character ~
I actually thought I would look kind of silly because this shirt is too big for me but seriously, it's pretty much the perfect color and I found it at a second-hand store for like 1 € or something so.. I don't care! xD But with the cosplay on I figured it didn't look all that bad so okaydokay ~

Oh, and speaking of the shirt! There's barely any color pictures of Kureno -as far as I know- but as you know by now I went with the color on one of the manga's front covers showcasing him. But because in the manga he pretty much always has his shirt tucked into his pants I decided to wear it this way too.

Kureno to the left
I also plan to use my red contact lenses for Kureno (I just couldn't be bothered to wear them for the preview test..) because he has red-brown eyes and well, because my eyes aren't brown and I don't have brown contact lenses then I have to roll with red ~

Oh, hey hey also!
Tracon is closing in and I have bought myself a con ticket but it hasn't arrived yet. I'm still not 100% sure who I will cosplay on Sunday -so I won't make a cosplay plans post just yet- but I can say that Kureno will be my Saturday cosplay because there is going to be a Fruits Basket cosplay group that day!

August 14, 2013

Black pants and belt bought

I went to Prisma today and bought a brown belt and black pants for SSL!Hijikata as well as Kureno Sohma and whatever future cosplays I might do that these could be useful to.


Now I just need to find a white shirt and a purple tie for Sweet School Life version of Hijikata and he will be done. For Kureno I now only need the wig, which I ordered yesterday by the way, so expect me to cosplay him this year.. err, screw that, expect me to cosplay both!

And in case anyone forgot what these two guys look like then here:

SSL Hijikata

Kureno Sohma
I'm going to continue searching second-hand stores for a white shirt for Hijikata and whenever Kureno's wig pops up in the mailbox I'll make a cosplay preview for him, stay tuned!

August 6, 2013

Second-hand stores, I love you so

Yesterday I went to a second-hand store in town that I visit every now and then mostly with cosplay in mind hurr and I found a black suit jacket there that actually fit me! That doesn't happen very often. So of course -considering it only cost 4,40 €- it came back home with me. I'm pretty damn sure sooner or later I will stumble into some cosplays that will need one anyway so why not grab it now when it was there in front of my face?

(sorry for cellphone camera photo in bathroom lights..)
But uhm, originally I went to the second-hand store with Hakuouki's "Sweet School Life" version of Hijikata in mind because obviously, if luck would have it, it would be one hell of a lot cheaper to just thrift all the clothes needed for it. I want to cosplay this version because it's stylish (Hijikata always is xD) and would be a nice change whenever I just can't be bothered to put on kimono or anything else that takes a fair amount of time.

SSL Hijikata
So when I got home yesterday from the second-hand shopping I checked my references and noticed that OH GOD THE OTHER JACKET I WAS LOOKING AT WOULD BE PRETTY MUCH PERFECT FOR HIJIKATA AGHFGDHSAFH!!!11 *brain explode* Yeah. So today when I woke up which was, well, late I super-speeded back to the same second-hand store in hopes that the jacket would still be there and aaw yeeah it was! You know, I did try it on yesterday and it actually fit me too (clothing gods must like me this week.. lol) and the only reason I didn't buy it back then was that I was like "but I won't need two different ones yet" and I'm a liiiiittle bit too mursu for that jacket because lowest button is slightly hard to close, but it's not a problem cuz Hijikata wears his jacket open anyway...

Oh, and did I mention this only cost 4,40 € too?
(sorry for cellphone camera photo in bathroom lights again..)
While I was walking around the second-hand store I also noticed these shoes and after a quick fitting test they got approved by me! I was surprised they would be just the right size actually and didn't seem uncomfortable either the short time I had them on.

I love 2 € shoes xD
These should be okay to wear for SSL Hijikata as well as Kureno Sohma and likely many others with rather basic shoes.
I feel pretty good about these finds, most times I'm not so lucky when I go second-hand shopping but sometimes miracles happen I guess. :DD

June 21, 2013

Desucon 2013 - Friends, foes and a gourd that shits everywhere

Desu Desu Desu Desucoooooon ~


I'm pretty sure you all know what is coming next, am I right?
The Desucon summary of course!
I will write about all days in one single post so be prepared for a wall of awesome (and a wall of photos) coming in. You have been warned.

Thursday

Yes, my Desucon journey started already on Thursday. I didn't advance far though, just from my home to Oulu by train. I had contacted my aunt living in Oulu beforehand and asked if it's okay if I come by and sleep at her place the night between Thursday and Friday. It was okay so there I was in Kemi train station around evening time with all my con stuff in a blue suitcase and a swordbag on my back. The train trip took about one hour and I played on my Nintendo DS to pass the time. When I got to Oulu I just walked to my aunt's apartment, chilled and went to bed. Nothing special so let's get on with the Friday!

Friday

Friday morning arrived and the first rays of Desucon feels, carried by the sunshine rainy clouds, spread across one apartment in northern Finland and awakened a glimpse of con hype in an otherwise almost dead shell.. also known as a human who didn't get enough sleep.


I woke up around 07:00 in the morning and got ready to leave. I had decided with the carpoolers that we would meet at Oulu's train station around 08:00. Luckily my aunt had work starting the same time so she drove me there. At the train station I soon enough spotted the red car in the car park that was going to take me to Lahti. So I bid my aunt farewell, crammed my stuff into the car and went inside and so the ~more real~ journey to Desucon started!
About the car pooling I have nothing special to say actually, I mostly just alternated between sleeping and playing Nintendo DS and occasionally getting out of the car when the others had decided to eat or such along the way. Oh well, before I knew it Lahti didn't seem that far away anymore and so I texted Ri-kun a few times along the way to check if they were already in Lahti and when to pick me up from Sibeliustalo, also known as in front of the building Desucon would be held in.
So came the time when our red car found its way into one of Desucon's parking places and I would switch from one car into another.. namely into Ri-kun's. I said the goodbyes to the carpoolers while Ri-kun appeared to show me the way to their car - after the obligatory hugs of course.

MAH FRIEND
I and Ri-kun had booked a hotel room for us two for Desucon and so now when we were gathered we headed straight for the hotel, still having a few hours to waste before Desucon would open its doors. 10 minutes or so later we had found our hotel, called Salpakievari, nicely "disguised" as a Thai restaurant. Err, well, it seemed more like a restaurant with hotel rooms than a hotel with a restaurant anyway. If that even makes sense. xD

le hotel restaurant
(photo taken on Sunday, hence Ri-kun's western!Saitou cosplay :DD)
Inside the hotel we went to the reception desk thingy to check in and get the hotel room keys but we happened to be there at a time when their boss were soon to visit or something so, eh, we were told to wait a while in the restaurant until the visit was over. Oh well, we weren't in a hurry so we didn't really mind the extra wait and besides, we got free tea!

Free stuff is always good, heh
Before long we got the keys and our room number was 3. We walked a corridor and found our room, almost last as always. Inside the hotel room we opened our suitcases, spread out our stuff everywhere and then we changed into our Friday cosplays. We chilled in the hotel past the con's opening time (17:00) on purpose so that we wouldn't have to stand in line while it was raining outside. Kimono and rain ain't good friends man.. sure I had my umbrella but rain is still eww. We went to the con, hmm, I think it was around 45 minutes after the start and that was a good decision because when we got to Desucon we could easily walk in. Oh, and my cosplay for the day was Kazuma Sohma from Fruits Basket and Ri-kun accompanied me as Kyo Sohma.

Photo by Kyuu Eturautti
At the con we just walked around together, met some friends and had our photos taken more than we both had expected. Oh, and of course I took photos of some cool cosplays too.
There really wasn't that much to do on Friday because the Dealer's hall was closed and stuff so yeah, we went back to the hotel when we felt we had seen everything for the day.

I LIED
We actually went superspeed to a random foodstore just before closing time to buy cheese doodles before we went to the hotel. Yeah. Everybody's gotta love those yellowish shapes of crispy cheesy goodness ~ But for some reason we didn't even end up opening the bag on Friday, I ate my leftover travel candies instead.. fail. x)

Hotel room night chillaxin' [feat. stuff everywhere]
At the hotel we changed out of our cosplays and spent the rest of the night talking and eventually falling asleep on the very comfy beds. I swear the temptation to jump on the beds was much greater than normal...

Saturday

And so Saturday dawned. After some lagging I managed to get up and to our joy it wasn't raining outside, which was definitely a good thing. We quickly put on random everyday clothes and headed for hotel breakfast. I must say there really wasn't much to choose from but hey, here comes the "but it's free food" so of course I would eat some yoghurt, bacon, bread and drink some juice and milk. After having had breakfast we were back in the hotel room and putting on our Saturday cosplays. For me it was shinsengumi time!

Saitou dressing in progress
While I turned into a samurai Ri-kun turned into a hobbit - Bilbo Baggins. We had decided to have a quick Bilbo photoshoot in the hotel backyard's foresty area around the car park before heading to the con. Now the photos were taken with Ri-kun's camera so I don't have them but Ri-kun posted some of them at their Desucon summary blog post, so go check it out man!

Oh well, we arrived at the con around 10:00 or something and walked around again, spotted some familiar faces and just generally chilled. I was excited when I found out I wasn't the only one cosplaying from Hakuouki; there were these 4 guys cosplaying as Saitou, Hijikata, Okita and Ibuki and ahgjfdsghj! I was really happy haha.

le Ibuki cosplayer ~
(a cosplay video with the rest of my Desucon photos is at the end of this post!)
After some hours I realized I was hungry as fuck and so a samurai and a hobbit made their way into the nearest food place! Turned out everyone else had thought the same thing at the same time as we so there were a lot of people waiting in line to Kotipizza to well, order a pizza. Me and Ri-kun quickly changed plans and headed for the foodmarket next to Kotipizza instead and I ended up just buying a small banana flavor milkshake instead. I would have bought Moomin lemonade but it was sold out! I had to try the banana one because all my life I thought Power Cow milkshakes only existed in strawberry and chocolate, god so wrong I was.

Yum ~
We then derped around some more at the con and then, well, I was hungry again. Not a wonder seeing how my last warm/proper meal was back on Thursday mid day... Back to Kotipizza we went and this time there wasn't an overlong waiting line so we headed straight inside. Seeing how Ri-kun wasn't as hungry as I was we decided on just buying one pizza and I'd give a part of it to the not-that-hungry hobbit. Our pizza of choice ended up being a pepperoni pizza with tuna. Actually, it's exactly the same one I ordered back at Desucon Frostbite 2012 that I waited forever for and when I got it in my hands my Sprite exploded all over the pizza and it was a.. former pizza. :DD This time I had better luck though, bless that. Oh, and speaking of lemonades, I went to grab myself a Mountain Dew Supernova while Ri-kun waited for our pizza to get ready because hey, Mountain Dew is yummy and I wanted to taste this new flavor.

This was taken by Ri-kun after I had returned from my buy-a-drink trip.
Notice how there's a Saitou, aka me, in the background with a perfectly placed lamp reflection face censor. xD
Waiting for pizza..
As soon as we got our pepperoni tuna pizza we headed back to Sibeliustalo to try and find some empty sitting places. Turned out there were some nice bench table things outside, next to the dock area.

Pizza tajm!
At some point I found the Kenshin cosplayer I had been looking for and so we headed out to take some crossover photos while Ri-kun went to hang around with some other peeps for a while. It was windy as hell but at least we got some pretty cool photos. I must say Anniilaugh is the best Kenshin ever. <3 It was fun to be your shinsengumi enemy of the past, heheh... ~
Oh, and I totally dumped my scarf at some point because it was a major pain in the ass to keep on; it kept smothering me, flying everywhere, sliding over my shoulders and just being a nuisance.

Photos by Tubbsen.

lolol I did some improvisation Gatotsu.. xD
I couldn't take a more proper feet position because the wind was raging and I don't approve of kimono feet flashing..


After the crossover photoshooting I rejoined with Ri-kun and before long we bumped into Zero dressed as Rokuro Unno from Brave 10. We chatted for a while about a lot of things, like Närcon and stuff. I got so much more motivation to put fire on my ass so that I will finish my Masamune Date cosplay on time for Närcon now because damn, Zero will be a sad Yukimura if I don't! Can't let that happen!

Motivation boost!!
After Zero had to go I and Ri-kun walked around some more and when we were at the dock area we decided to have some photoshoots.

Cosplayer: Valkoinen Samurai
Photographer: Ri-kun







And because Ri-kun is just so adorable and great as Bilbo.. <3


Oh, during the photoshoots we also bumped into Jäärä, Zkitsune and the rest! It was nice to see you guys again!

Hellou Jäärä!
After the photoshoots we two just walked around some more and enjoyed the con atmosphere. When it got late we decided to leave for the hotel and spend the rest of the night hotel derping as it has become a sort of tradition to us by now. :D Oh, and Ri-kun's coolness factor increased by 100% when Bilbo put on the sunglasses unts unts unts ~


Driving, like a boss
Oh, guess what we did at the hotel this time

Oh you crispy cheesy goodness, how I've been waiting to eat you ~
...
 Ehrm. Yeah.

Sunday

And so arrived the last con day and again we woke up at 08:00 and headed for hotel breakfast. My stomach filled with the same bacons and yoghurts I changed into kimono!Rokuro.. but only for a quick photoshoot. I had figured earlier that if I would end up sitting in cosplay during the car pool back to Oulu wearing a black kimono would be less sensitive to dirt and shit than an off-white one.. and having both my eyes available would save me from eventual hazards. So yeah, I just wore Rokuro for a quick shoot in the hotel's backyard and then switched back to Saitou for the con.

Cosplayer & edit: Valkoinen Samurai
Photographer: Ri-kun





We didn't shoot for long and soon enough I was Saitou again and Ri-kun western!Saitou. Double Saitous heading for the con aaaawww yeeeah!
But before we left I just had to try on the Waluigi cap I bought on Saturday at the Dealer's hall for Jäätynyt Enkeli, who couldn't go to Desucon because his school's closing ceremony or whatever was on 14th June, aka Desucon's first day.

So cool bro, yo
When we arrived at the con my Saitou ponytail hairtie had derped and so Ri-kun retied it for me. We stood close to the entrance and at some point a group of Japanese girls had approached Ri-kun and asked for a photo. I didn't see when they came because I was turned facing the other way but when I did turn around they noticed I was cosplaying Saitou too and yeah, photo time! We changed a few words in English and then came the ~awesome moment~ which made me smile like a dork for the rest of the con and even now! :'D Turned out they were big Hakuouki fans and had with them this drawstring bag with random Japanese Hakuouki gashapon figures and they gave us one each ohmygodohmygod I died so much. <3 I got this adorable western!Okita. ;w;

B'awwww <3
After enough ahghdshj-ing me and Ri-kun went to the Dealer's hall again to check if there was anything new today and yes there was. One of the things I bought was this fabulous Wario t-shirt for myself:

WAHAHA
Because Wario is DA MAN >8D
Later on we went back to the dock area and I was being the cameraman again, this time photoshooting Ri-kun's western version of Saitou. Yes, I really like photographing!

photographer!Saitou at your service ~
(photo by Jäärä, taken on Saturday)
Even though I was the photographer I won't upload any of the photos here; some of them can be found at Ri-kun's blog post.. which I already linked to earlier so just scroll up a bit if you're interested!

Oh well, we ran into Ellu, Joel and their company and decided it's better if we go pick up those free cosplay parts now when we all were together than to wait until later. So everyone crammed themselves into Ri-kun's car and off we headed to city to pick up free cosplay stuff from an apartment of someone we didn't even know. :DD The whole car ride was so much fun and absolutely hilarious things were said, you guys are awesome!

The people at the back seat having fun ~
Uh, about the free cosplay stuff thing.. this one person wanted to give away their stuff for free to anyone who wanted them because otherwise they would be going to be trashed. They had informed about this at Aniki forums and I had reserved some parts for an Inu no Taisho (Inu-papa) cosplay from InuYasha because hey, my first manga and the thought to cosplay him has been stored in my brain long enough already so, eh, why not make it happen someday?
While there I also grabbed a Gaara (Naruto) gourd because no one had reserved it and hey, it was cool and deserves a second life much more than being trashed. Sure it was cracking and a bit heavy but the cracking should be fixable. It's likely I'll let my twin have it though because he has mentioned an interest in cosplaying Gaara.

Well well, back at the con Joel took some photos of us. After that we parted ways and again me and Ri-kun derped around. We went to eat some more cheese doodles outside when I felt my stomach roaring for food... yeah, cheese doodles pretty much count as food for me at a con. I know, con nutrition is the finest thing ever ~

western!Saitou and crispy cheesy goodness..
We just hung around the rest of the time and walked all over the place, chilled and talked with people we knew. When Desucon started to near its end we both started to feel laggy and sat down and awaited the con ending ceremony to finish. I would maybe have gone watching the ending ceremony had there not been a huge waiting line for it.. I don't know really but whenever there's a long line to something it pretty immediately drains out my interest to go check it out. Huge lines just puts me off somehow. *shrugs*

Laggy Ri-kun leaning on my shoulder
And so the ending ceremony finished and people started leaving Desucon... but something decided to arrive too, namely the notorious "Desucon weather" which means rain, rain and more rain. Oh, and did I say rain? :DD Yeah, it started raining a lot just when the con ended and that wasn't cool man! I then realized I would have no choice but to change out of kimono unless I wanted to brutally murder it along the way. Seeing how my suitcase was in Ri-kun's car there wasn't much to do than go get it and well, I couldn't do that myself unless I wanted to sacrifice parts of my cosplay. So well, Ri-kun being as awesome as they are went and got it for me. ;^; They came back half-soaked and I went turboo into the roomy handicap toilet to change into casual!Saitou more like my everyday clothes with Saitou's wig and make-up before the con would order everyone to get the fuck out of Sibeliustalo and out to enjoy (not) the Desu weather. They even said in the speakers "Sään tarjoaa Desucon." which translates to "Weather brought to you by Desucon." <- Yes, it's that notorious. Go figure.

I bid Joel, Ellu and the rest farewell and went with Ri-kun to their car with all my stuff in and we then drove to the other parking place to find my carpool company. We found them and then we had to move my OVER NINETHOUSAND stuffs over to the carpool car and avoid the water pools that were everywhere while we were at it. The most interesting mission was to get the Gaara gourd safely into the car. Luckily seeing how there were only two people in the backseat the gourd could be put in there and it was totally put between the couple oops. But they said it was okay because had I kept it in my lap I could barely have moved...

Gaara gourd is a bitch and it's on its way to a new home ~
(yes, that black thing is a car safety belt lol)
Oh, the gourd decided to shit out "Gaara gourd was here" cracked pieces all over the place.. there's pieces of it in Lahti, Oulu and Kemi and around my apartment... lol


On our way to Oulu
I spent most of my time sleeping and playing Nintendo DS again during the trip back to the north. Oh, and as you can tell from the photo I sat in the front, but obviously not in front of the driving wheel or we would have been swimming in one of Finland's thousand lakes. :DD 
The two people in the backseat left at Jyväskylä and so me, the driver and the Gaara gourd was left. We also ate hamburgers at an ABC station along the way. I then slept some more and before I knew it we were in Oulu and there was a pretty sunset going on too!

I'd so want to have a cosplay photoshoot in a sunset like this someday..
We arrived at Oulu past midnight and I dragged my stuff to my aunt's place again where I would sleep the night. On Monday morning I woke up early and took a morning train to Kemi and well, I was a bit in a hurry to get to the train in time but I managed (read: it was late) nevertheless. Oh, and I must say people stared at me so much in the train station because of the gourd, oh god. 
Well well, I bought a ticket at the train (I normally always buy tickets online) and something weird happened; when I said I wanted to buy a ticket to Kemi the train conductor asked if I was a junior.

What the hell...
I probably did that very same expression and said my age and the conductor just silently gave me a normally priced adult ticket... now when I think back at it I should just have pokerfaced and lied because he didn't check ID I would probably have gotten a lot cheaper ticket. Damn.

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Alrighty then, that sums my Desucon journey up. All in all it was awesome and the only thing I can think right now is agjhdshja I want to go to a con again! ;_; Luckily there's Skecon coming up on early July so I will survive.. now to return to working on my cosplays...

Oh, and here's my cosplay photo video from Desucon:


If you want your photo just tell me at what time you are and give me an email adress or something to send the photo(s) to and I will. :)

Thank you for a great con and to everyone who interacted with me! It's always such a fun surprise when someone tells me they follow my cosplay blog at a con. :'D Oh, and if anyone survived this textwall then major creds to you! 8D

...

 Wait.
This is the last thing, I promise.
I'm also looking for photos of my cosplays, if you happen to sit on some I'd be very happy to have them. You can send them to my email valkoinensamurai[at]gmail[dot]com. Thank you! ~