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mingmerciless. One day he's going to regret telling me about all these cons. heh. Appears to be rather different from your average Starfury and Sector14 convention. More casual and more chance of actual sleep.
And oh dear god, conventions have turned me into a costume geek. Watching things with a beady eye to get details correct, even if most of mine are low-effort costumes... er... (thinks of the Psylocke costume) .... to an extent, lord copper. I of course bow before Ming, king of the low-effort costume. Anyway, he's reprising his Templar costume and I've decided to go as Templar squire/lackey, which is even more low-effort than his, as mine's got no armour and weaponry to go with it. However, was watching Seven Poor Knights of Acre and rewinding several times going 'C'mon, you bastard, turn round!' so I could see how the tabard hung, splits up the side/back, etc. And lamenting the fact that I'm using heavy cotton rather than wool, so it creases rather than drapes properly. :sings the lament of the frustrated costumer, scored for lute and bagpipes: Sitting in the almost-finished tabard now - just got to paint the red cross on the front.
And will attempt to keep mouth firmly shut if see way too many girls doing their ambition to go romantic/medieval. It's bad enough at Buffy and Angel cons.
Hmm, and it looks like the Cabaret costume will be getting another outing on the Sunday night...
mingmerciless. One day he's going to regret telling me about all these cons. heh. Appears to be rather different from your average Starfury and Sector14 convention. More casual and more chance of actual sleep.And oh dear god, conventions have turned me into a costume geek. Watching things with a beady eye to get details correct, even if most of mine are low-effort costumes... er... (thinks of the Psylocke costume) .... to an extent, lord copper. I of course bow before Ming, king of the low-effort costume. Anyway, he's reprising his Templar costume and I've decided to go as Templar squire/lackey, which is even more low-effort than his, as mine's got no armour and weaponry to go with it. However, was watching Seven Poor Knights of Acre and rewinding several times going 'C'mon, you bastard, turn round!' so I could see how the tabard hung, splits up the side/back, etc. And lamenting the fact that I'm using heavy cotton rather than wool, so it creases rather than drapes properly. :sings the lament of the frustrated costumer, scored for lute and bagpipes: Sitting in the almost-finished tabard now - just got to paint the red cross on the front.
And will attempt to keep mouth firmly shut if see way too many girls doing their ambition to go romantic/medieval. It's bad enough at Buffy and Angel cons.
Hmm, and it looks like the Cabaret costume will be getting another outing on the Sunday night...
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Date: 2003-05-21 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-21 12:44 pm (UTC)And dammit, they said on Sunday, come as anything you can think of! It'll be good for them. Honest.
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Date: 2003-05-21 03:11 pm (UTC)> costume does?
That'd be one way of putting it.
> Maybe we should introduce Claire and Sonja to
> them... :snerk:
That'd be a fully fledged massacre. Mind you, the only other SA I went to was a good few years ago.
> And dammit, they said on Sunday, come as anything
> you can think of! It'll be good for them. Honest.
Really? Must have missed that bit. Where was this mentioned? Hmm... what shall I bring then...?
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Date: 2003-05-22 04:23 am (UTC)