xanatenshi:

darlingchristie:

k-koji:

Ive yet to find anyone like this irl.. thank you internet for connecting me with these types lol

I’m so glad to have several friends IRL to do this with. *coughs* Nate, Chibi, Jessica, Jo, Xana… And more…

<3

Guys this is legit like the best feeling ever.  The fact that my wifey can tolerate me screaming over a fucking anime about basketball, or swimming, or killing titans is the best.  Even better is her tolerance to me swearing over the blue shell in Mario Kart.  The best is if she tolerates me swearing at HER when she uses said blue shell.

Like the fact that she isn’t trying to leave me is the best.

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.

snowtigra:

Assassin’s Creed baby poncho all finished!

Made as a gift for our friends who are having a baby soon.

My super talented wifey is now making baby things.  Assassin Baby!  The hood even sticks out more in the front like the Assassin’s Creed outfit, omfg!

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

This is how I dress when I go out on dates don’t judge me!

snowtigra:

I’m offering the Spiderman tote bag I made from up-cycled t-shirts for sale on my etsy!  Check it out if you’re interested, I’ll also make these bags custom out of your order t-shirts or any of your choosing!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/165233562/spider-man-heavy-duty-tote-bag

Signal boosting my wifey’s ridiculously awesome bag.  I knew those old GameStop T-shirts would come in handy someday!

Here’s the geekiest love story ever told.  Today marks the 12 year anniversary for me and my wifey.  Why am I posting pictures of Gundam Wing?  Because this, my dear followers, is how we met.  

This story actually starts 14 years ago.  When I was 16 I discovered Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network and got hooked pretty quickly.  Back then, the internet was still a new thing, but I used it when I could to find whatever information I could on the series.  I ended up discovering a page that cited evidence of Heero and Duo’s relationship.  Back then, I had no idea what yaoi was, but I learned pretty quickly.  I also didn’t know what fandom was, or the difference between “fanon” and “canon,” oh man, it was the late 90s and everything we new and wonderful.

Anyhow, I wrote some pretty terrible fics for these two boys.  I wrote terrible, terrible yaoi sex scenes because all of my information came from whatever dirty fics I could find.  When I was 17, someone messaged me about joining a Heero and Duo yaoi mailing list, but you had to be 18 so I waited.  When I turned 18 I joined the list.  A month later, I went off to college, and went full force into the list (I was the youngest member at the time).  

Two things happened.  Well three things, really.

1.  I accidentally started a ship war between Heero and Duo versus Duo and Heero (or 1x2, and 2x1).  However, unlike the ship wars we see today, this was super friendly and probably the most fun I’ve had in a fandom, since we all wrote fics and drew art to “fire shots” at each other.  There was a girl who preferred 2x1, but she decided to take my side because I was the baby of the list.  More on that girl later  ^^

2.  I got my nickname, Chibi.  I was going by “Chibi Shi-Chan” on ff.net, but there was a certain girl who said that that name was too long and that I should just go by Chibi.  Which leads me to the most important thing that happened, 12 years ago.

3.  I met my wifey, who named me Chibi, and joined my side of the ship war because I was the baby of the list.

Now at the time, I had a boyfriend.  But he ended up not talking to me anymore because I wouldn’t sleep with him.  I was pretty upset about things and she ended up sending me a white tiger (which I still have).  We talked and talked, not just on the list, but on IRC (wow yes I am that old) and everything.  We wrote a terrible Resident Evil/Gundam Wing fic together, and just… it was good fun.  We sent each other pictures, and even started talking on the phone. I didn’t realize that feelings were developing until she told me about this girl she had a crush on in her class.

Now, back then, the thought of being attracted to a girl never ever crossed my mind.  All my friends back at home had boyfriends, and even I had a boyfriend at one point.  There’s also the fact that no one really talked about homosexuality, nor did we really know anyone who was gay.  The one girl I remember who claimed to be a lesbian also had a boyfriend, or at least, a guy who got her pregnant?  We didn’t really know what “bisexual” was at the time, and just called her confused.

But anyhow, when I realized that I was jealous of her liking this girl, I freaked out.  I stopped talking to her and everything.  I thought, there was no way I could like a girl, no not at all.  That’s not something that was done, right?  Girls had boyfriends, right?  But when I stopped talking to her I started to miss her, and it was really hard not to send an email, or call her, or anything like that.

So finally, on this day 12 years ago, I stood in my college library and sent her an email that told her that I liked her.

The plan had been to take things slow, since we hadn’t met in person.  That didn’t work at all, because we both liked each other, so we just went with the flow of things.  We met in person at Anime Central 2002, and then at some point she started coming to see me once a month while I was in college.  Before I graduated, I told my parents about her (well I told my mom, my dad found out).  My mom was cool with it, my dad not so much.  We had a pretty big fight, but we talked it out and now he loves her to death.  

She told her parents and they pretty much ignored it/didn’t acknowledge it, and we figured that they never would.

Over the years we’ve been through a lot together.  Apartments, a new home.  Being broken into.  Dealing with her parents not acknowledging us.  Conventions, writing dreams, hard realities of my job being terrible and me being miserable.  Rejection letters for books.  Money problems.  Losing both of our cats.  Just… a lot, and I mean a lot, has happened.  But with the bad there’s always something good, or at least, she makes me feel like there is.  And so much has improved with our relationship that it’s hard not to be optimistic about the future.

Her parents love me now.  They’re supportive of us.  For the first time ever her dad introduced me as her partner this year.  

The writing dream is coming together, slowly, but surely.  Also, so is the costuming convention art dream.  

Hell, we can get married in our state now.

After 12 years, I still love this woman more than anything.  It’s amazing what she does to me.  She can always make me smile no matter how bad I’m feeling, whether it’s me missing my brother, or having writing frustrations, just… she can make me feel so good about things.  And she makes me feel good about myself.  She makes me feel like I can do anything.  She makes me feel beautiful and creative and talented.  She makes me feel all of these things.  Sometimes, I look at her and can’t believe that I found this woman, and it’s so cool that it’s all, essentially, thanks to anime and the internet.  

So thank you Gundam Wing.  And the 1x2x1 ML.  And fanfiction.  And just… all of those things helped create this relationship.  It’s been an amazing 12 years and I’m looking forward to 12 more.

snowtigra:

Sukuna Hikona sweater I designed for my wifey and finally finished. This is the prototype, considering offering for sale but made out of sweater material instead of fleece.

Thoughts? Any other characters we should design?

The idea is to make geek friendly sweaters and hoodies that can be for plush or thin sized, custom made.

MY ANNIVERSARY GIFT IS DONE!!!  Sukuna Hikona sweater.  I’m so happy with it!

This is the prototype to a new item we’ll be offering at our shop: character hoodies.  We will be taking commissions on these, too.  The plan is to make it look like what the character wears.  We have a few sketches done for other sweaters/hoodies, but we’ll also take custom orders too  :)  

This idea was inspired by me wanting geeky hoodies/sweaters, but it’s always difficult to find them in my size.  So plus sized geek hoodies are a go!

Oh, and reference pic below:

ndib:

paxxes:

nikiforovkatsukiplisetsky:

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I love albinwonderland so much 

Whattup? Truth.

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but it needs to be shared again  :)

Progress pictures and finished product for a clock I made for a local comic book convention coming to Minneapolis in October.  We got a table for Fallcon 2013 at the State Fair Grounds which means that it’s time to make some comic book themed stuff.  First up is an idea I had for a Dick Grayson clock.  

Before I was going to just have their faces like this (Robin and Nightwing) with like a dark edge, then I thought, “Hmmmmm… let’s be a bit more tragic.”  So I painted the clock edge colorful, like the circus.  Then I added “Flying Graysons” to the glass.  At first it was completely filled in, but I wanted to fix the yellow so it was more even, so I started to wipe it off to try again after doing the red outline.  

And then… this happened because I didn’t scrub hard enough with the glass cleaner.  

I was going to keep wiping until it came off then my wifey was like, “No. Keep it like that.”

So I did.

And ta da, you have yourself an angsty Dick Grayson clock  ^^

More craft progress can be found on our store Facebook.  You can request commissions or make purchases on our Etsy.