merry christmas to everyone who didn’t get presents today because their family couldn’t afford it and merry christmas to everyone who couldn’t make it home for the holidays and merry christmas to everyone spending it alone i want you all to know that i hope you all have a great great end of the year and i love you all and even if your holidays weren’t how you pictured them i hope you still have a good rest of the holidays and year
I want to say this now just in case people are busy with their loved ones tomorrow. First of all, I never thought there would be so many of you so soon. I never thought me frying chicken in response to a bully would have such a big impact, nor did I think that article I wrote would draw in so many of you. The last thing I expected come Christmas time was that I’d have fans, like actually fans, who geek out over seeing me at a con, 3 published books, an article for xoJane, and big plans to keep cosplaying, writing, doing crafts, and going to more conventions than ever next year.
I think we always dream of the things we want happening, but when it starts to get to the point where you actually see glimpses of it coming true, it’s hard to imagine. And that wouldn’t be possible without all of you.
So thank you, and Happy Holidays. And enjoy some random Christmas pictures!
Look what my friends made me for Christmas! I really do have the cleverest of friends…
(The “Pub Rules” are Shaun and Ed’s plan for surviving the zombie apocalypse in “Shaun of the Dead.” I think I squeed a little when I saw that.)
So glad you liked them!
That time I made my friend a pub sign with Shaun of the Dead on it and he geeked out over it <3 (his name is Nate hence the “Nate’s Pub” lol) I was really happy with his reaction over it.
In return we got Ironman 3, buckets of homemade cookies, and a cook book he put together himself full of things I’m going to ask him to make I can try to make myself :)
Then we watched a bunch of holiday classics like Die Hard, Home Alone 2, the Long Kiss Goodnight, Santa’s Sleigh, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ^^ I’m still really tired after all of that but that’s just the sign of a good get together I think ^^
Our Christmas set up this year. My dad made me this beautiful Disney princess set up with the houses and princess figures and stuff (he painted the houses and everything) and we decided that getting a small cute tree and putting our Jack Frost figures on it would be a good set up for the holidays.
Sketched some Yosuke based Christmas stockings for a commission. Now I want to sketch more Persona 4 stockings -_- My wifey will be making the first one for the commission, since she makes character based Christmas stockings :)
A bunch of Thanksgiving messages from me to you :)
From my writing side: It’s Thanksgiving and on my cosplay page I started with a bizarre thanks, so I’ll start one here too. I’m thankful for the person(s) who broke into my apartment all those years ago and stole our laptops. Because of you, we were not only introduced to the delicious Keys Cafe, but it forced my partner and I to start over in the roleplay we had been doing since college. Because of starting over, we came up with the idea of “the Storyteller,” and ended up taking those rpg logs and turn them into “the Hunters” series and are now about the publish our first book, “Seeking the Storyteller.”
So thanks for being a jerk who breaks into people’s houses, because of you we got a book series going.
From my cosplay side: I’m thankful for the bully I got. I’m thankful for their ignorant remarks about my cosplay, because if not for that person, I never would’ve fried chicken in response, would’ve never written that article, and would’ve never gotten so many wonderful fans like you all. If not for such a simple minded individual I never would’ve stood up for myself and for others in such a way, so thanks internet bully, because of you I got the support of some really incredible people.
Though I guess honestly I’m thankful for fried chicken, for being so yummy and symbolic in such situations ^^
My heartfelt thanks: I’m thankful for all of you, for being here and following me. It’s really great that you take time out to comment on my posts or say things to me at conventions or send me messages. You all are terrific :) And if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving for whatever reason, you still have my thanks today and every other day for now until whenever. Thank you to all of you for being fans of me and my work. Thanks for reading what I write, for supporting my work, and just being all around great people. When the books take off and I go on Ellen and do some sort of terrible dance, I hope you’ll still be there cheering me on.
My friends and family thanks: I love you. Short and simple, because you already know <3 It’s been an interesting year with some ups and some downs, but thanks for being here for all of it. From first time book publishings, to jobs I depended on being cancelled at the last minute, you all have pretty much kept me sane through all of it, so thank you.
Black Friday/Whatever Thursday reminder: behind the cut because it’s long.
