All of the things. A new woodburned piece because apparently I can’t stop doing Persona tarot stuff, and two finished clocks: Sailor Moon and Smash Brothers. My craft table is starting to hate me and my hands wonder how I get so much paint on them.
Because the Sailor Moon feels are getting more intense in this house, we have a new hat available in the shop. Special thanks to Carter the Kitten for sitting still for five seconds so she could serve as my Luna :)
Wow hey look at all of the hat sketches! This means… NEW PRODUCTS FOR 2014!
All right, so my wifey already makes a few different character hats, but she came upstairs this weekend with a bunch of patterns and said, “Sketch some for me to make.”
And… ta da!
These are just examples, but we can do any character you want, whether it’s a hat they wear or an idea to make a hat in their image (like the Death the Kid one). We can also alter what the hat looks like (like if you want the Charlotte hat to be made in the style of the Titan hat, ect.)
I hope to create the listing for it soon so people can purchase them. And just like with the hoodies, if you have any character ideas, tell me.
Here’s what the sketches are from top left to bottom right:
1. Kuriboh themed hat from Yugioh (completely with his little arms as ear flaps)
2. Sailor Moon themed hat (interchangeable with the other scouts)
3. Free! Iwatobi Swim Club (with a bonus Iwatobi-chan pin for extra)
4. Dark Magician Girl themed hat from Yugioh
5. Death the Kid themed hat from Soul Eater
6. Attack on Titan themed hat (yeeeeeeah)
7. Eternal Sailor Moon themed hat
8. Puu hat (with ear flaps)
9. Charlotte from Madoka Magica hat (again, yeeeeeeeah)
So we’ll be going to a Holiday Geek Expo here on December 7th and 8th, which means we’re going to be offering holiday themed items. Yesterday I finished sketching 6 Christmas stockings that will potentially be made for the Holiday Expo. Essentially, my job is to sketch ideas that my wifey can make. The top picture is my sketches while the bottom picture is an example of what the finished product looks like (it can come in a smaller size, this particular person wanted it bigger).
Going left to right from the top:
1. Harley Quinn
2. Sailor Moon (and of course it can be made into the other scouts ♥)
3. Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians (seemed appropriate for the time of year)
4. Nagisa from Free! Based on the outfit from the ending sequence.
5. Yoshi! ♥♥♥
6. Death the Kid from Soul Eater.
We also can take commissions on these, all you have to do is ask for a character and a stocking will be made for them. You can either go to the listing or message me or my wifey here on tumblr.
That moment when you realize you’ve been an anime and video game geek for more than half your life. I started playing video games when I was 6 (Super Mario Bros. on NES) and saw my first anime when I was 10 (Vampire Hunter D). I’m 30 now.
I seem to be doing o.k. though I mean it’s not like I pretend that fictional characters make out off screen and it’s not like I scream at the video games I play or dress up like an animated princess or anything like that. And it’s certainly not like I’m making this into a career or anything I mean my books certainly don’t have geeky bits in them and they certainly were re-imagined fanfics or anything.
AHAHAHAHAHA… haha… ha…
Goodbye friends I am gone.
This year I’ve watched basically the same anime 3 times wow u know the one with the
bespectacled
estranged
father
and
important
dead
mother
and their
emotional
protagonist
son
that joins
a military
organization
Holy shit that just happened.
Geeky Firsts
I thought this would be fun to answer, since I got a lot of new followers (I see that 800, christ on a pogo stick) and all :) Feel free to answer these too, if you want.
First anime: Vampire Hunter D (and back then we called it Jap-animation or Japan-imation)
First anime series: Dragon Ball (back then they only aired six episodes)
First anime you realized you shouldn’t be watching because your parents would flip out: Wicked City
First anime series you realized was edited: Sailor Moon, thanks to a Suncoast employee breaking it down for me (aka: “OMG THEY ALL DIE?!” and also “OMFG THEY AREN’T COUSINS?! Well… o.k. actually I figured that wasn’t the case but still…)
First fandom: Gundam Wing, also know as how I discovered yaoi, how I discovered fanfiction (which I had already been writing I just didn’t realize it had a name), my first introduction to roleplaying and how I met my wifey
First OTP: Online: Heero and Duo (1x2). In my ratty notebook: Vegeta and Bulma.
Honorable mentions: Harley and Ivy, Gambit and Rogue, Robin and Batgirl, Aladdin and Jasmine, Belle and Beast, Liu Kang and Kitana, Zack and Kelly from Saved by the Bell (shut up I was really young), Tommy and Trini (because I didn’t like Kimberly and thought Trini was cooler), Buster and Babs Bunny (no relationship), Sonic and Sally. I’m probably missing some
First yaoi pairing (canon): Yuki and Shuichi from Gravitation. Also, Gravitation was my first canon yaoi anime that I watched.
First yuri pairing (canon): Uranus and Neptune from Sailor Moon, once I realized it
First hentai: Does Wicked City count? Otherwise, the answer is Bible Black, thanks to a random search engine on my college campus
First anime to make you cry: Ai no Kusabi
First tragic pairing: Seishiro and Subaru, god, even now they are my top angsty pairing
First really cracky anime: Excel Saga
First anime that disappointed you: Tenchi Muyo, because I really liked the OVA but I didn’t like the series as much
First time you didn’t like a dub: The new DBZ dub, at first, after FUNimation got it. It had been several years, I’ll never forget, because it originally ended up Goku arriving to Namek but then played reruns over and over again. Then, years later, it picked up where it left off on Cartoon Network. It threw me off because all of the voices were different. At the time, I didn’t understand that there were different studios and things like that. I adjusted to the new dub eventually.
Honorable mention: Same thing happened with Sailor Moon, they got new voices and I didn’t like them at all at first.
First anime you didn’t know was an anime: Speed Racer
First video game: Super Mario Brothers (NES)
First mature rated video game: Mortal Kombat (before ESRB existed)
First game you saw with nudity: Doom and the strip club, courtesy of my dad, not even kidding
First video game that made you feel like you weren’t a "real” girl: Virtua Fighter at the arcade. I went to play against a boy to impress him. I beat him and he walked away, pissed at me. I didn’t realize I was doing something wrong and that girls didn’t play video games.
First game where you stopped giving a fuck about your girl bits: Killer Instinct. I brought it to school on a day we were having a party and I beat the crap out of my entire class with a smirk on my face.
First game where “oh my, I’ve never play video games before, tee hee”: Marvel vs. Capcom 2, after my high school prom, with my hair and nails done and all.
First game where your girlness was blatantly picked at: Soul Calibur 2 at Anime Central one year, I was in like and they kept skipping me, thinking that I wasn’t playing. I beat the crap out of my opponent with Talim. No regrets.
First game to scare the crap out of you: Nightmare on Elm Street on the NES (I’m so lame)
First game where you completed everything like a nutcase: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
First cheap boss who took way too long to beat: M. Bison in Street Fighter 2 on had mode. Also, Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat 2. Fuck them both – if you could even get to Shao Kahn because Kintaro was a dickhead. Also, Robot Sonic/Final boss in Sonic 2, because you got no coins >.<
First time you learned that leveling up has to be done or else: Final Fantasy 7. I jumped into the crater unprepared. I regret everything, but somehow I did manage to beat it.
Quickest game you beat: Kingdom Hearst in 2 days, I did not sleep. I’m not counting fighting games because, yeah…
Game you put the most hours into: Persona 4. Well over 100.
First game to make you sad or cry: Final Fantasy X
Most addicting game: The Katamari series
First handheld: The Game Gear
Most underrated series: Guilty Gear, it really needs more love
Showing SNK to friends who have never seen the show
This is the most accurate thing ever. It’s even better to see their reaction because you know that feel, so you finally get to see it mirrored on someone else’s face. Seriously, just look at their reaction when the first episode plays. It’s a range of “wtf is that big thing” to “this opening is really snazzy” to “oh not attacked in 100 years great that means you’ll be attacked now” and then, towards the end, “oh god oh god oh god OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD!”
Even better when you get to episode 5.
Even more fabulous when certain new titans show up.
Let’s not forget episode 22.
All right it’s safe the say the series, as a whole, just… yes.
Surprisingly this also works on Free! because your friend thinks “ehehehehehehe pretty boys fan service” then episode 5 happens… then the rest of the series happens. And they have this look of, “THIS WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE FAN SERVICE!”
