Just playing around with my new camera. Much better quality than a camera phone, whoo! And thanks to the SD Card reader I have, I can use my Chromebook to get the pictures off the memory card! I’m really excited about being able to take better pictures, especially of my crafts :) So have some random Geek Room pictures of my collection of things ^^
Analyzing my two favorite peoples
So the debate is back. You know, the Persona 4 fandom debate that happens every couple of months or so about Kanji and Naoto. I don’t really mind, it happens, and is bound to come up as newcomers enter the fandom, whether it be from Golden or the anime or just finally getting around to P4. Let’s face it, regardless of my love for them, they’re interesting characters and bring up issues that haven’t really been addressed in a game before (or, at least, not in so much detail, to the point of facing yourself and accepting who you are and things like that).
So I don’t mind the debate, I don’t mind what side people take, because it’s really up to how you interpret it. As I’ve said before, for every piece of evidence that “clearly states” one thing, you can find something that “clearly states” something else. It’s fandom, that’s what we do, that’s how it works.
But one thing I don’t understand is how people think Atlus or SMT or whoever somehow “copped out” with these characters.
More under the cut for spoilers sake.
Nintendo Direct brought a lot of news today but nothing excited me more than Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem. This right here is 2 of my favorite franchises crossing over in a game that we know nothing about. Is it a dungeon crawler grindfest? Is it a fighting game kind of thing? Is it a SRPG? WHAT WILL IT BE I DON’T KNOW BUT I WANT IT.
OK I’ll stop spazzing tumblr followers sorry for the Nintendo spaz, but but BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT!!! OMG OMG OMG!
I was going to wait until more of them were done, but the Fortune one has been most troublesome and I’m happy that it’s done! So here’s a picture of it! And here’s a picture with the Emperor because Kanji and Naoto 5eva!
O.K. Phew. Here we go.
The giant arcana coaster project that I never intended to be a project, lol! The first two rows are the finished ones that are woodburned and ready to go. The next two rows are the ones I have sketched so that I can woodburn them.
From what I can gather (including Golden and P3 and such) there are… 25 cards? (please correct me if I’m wrong) I know Golden has 2 for Adachi, 1 for Marie, that adds to the standard social links. And P3 has “the World” or “the Universe” and whatnot.
So at the moment there are 7 complete, 8 sketched, which leaves 10 more to go. I do plan on selling these individually, mostly because I don’t think anyone would buy a full set, BUT I DO want to have ALL of them available before I start posting them on the store/taking it to conventions.
From a Persona 4 standpoint (since that’s my current SMT obsession though EVERYONE knows that) so far the major characters are done/in-progress (Souji/Yu, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, Kanji, Rise, Teddie, Naoto, Dojima, Nanako, Adachi – times 2, Margaret, Marie, and the entire Investigation Team – judgment, or “Seekers of Truth,” if you will). I’m not sure how long this is going to take, but our first convention is Anime Detour and I’d like to have them there?
Fun fact: So far the ones that have been the most troublesome are Chie, Naoto, and Adachi (Hunger/Lust), but mainly Chie and Naoto, because of the crazy details.
Oh! Check out these links, yo ^^
So what does everyone think so far?
7! Now I have 7 burned and finished! I have 5 more sketched out which will make 12, but I plan on attempting to make the ENTIRE ARCANA SET! These are for sale and will be sold individually… unless if someone is crazy enough to order the entire thing (including the extra links, like Marie, and Adachi).
So there’s… 20 altogether, plus 3 more because of Golden? (though isn’t Aigis in the Aeon arcana too, not just Marie?) Whatever the case, there will be 23 coasters. I can’t decide if I want to post them on sale now or when the entire thing is finished, though who knows when it’ll all be finished since I ABSOLUTELY NEED to take breaks in between ^^;;;
My phone takes terrible pictures, I’ll try and take better pictures once the room is completely clean (it’s still not completely clean, I rearranged a bunch of stuff). Anyhow, the first picture is my fighting game collection, and um… that’s not all of it. I couldn’t fit the Mortal Kombat stuff because the fight stick is too big, I’ll try and get a picture of that later ^^;;; Two of the Street Fighter things are signed, including the VHS tape (which I completely forgot about, but I got it signed by Akuma’s VA yeeeears ago!) I have way more figures than that, they’re just in the hutch in the living room, I just grabbed a couple. There’s also the Street Fighter 25th anniversary box which was like, one of the best purchases I made last year. I mean… the American Street Fighter cartoon is in it!
The bottom row is full of Tekkens and Guilty Gears and BlazBlues and Soul Caliburs.
The second picture is all Shin Megami Tensei. Yeah there’s two Catherine boxes, two Raidou Jacks (one still sealed with the game), my Golden is still sealed because I STILL don’t have a Vita, um… I have two copies of Digital Devil Saga 2, and just… P3, P3 FES, the P3 and P4 guide, figures, and just…
… help I have problems I mean…
This does NOT include the artbooks, since there was no room for them. Oh! And my Kanji and Naoto cake topper is there too ^^;;;
The third picture is Jiraiya, because I swear I spent like ten minutes just posing him and giggling. I decided to have him doing a handstand on top of a P4 mug, lol! P4 game and artbook that was given out with preorder because they’re signed by Yu/Souji/Adachi (I’m amused that he signed it as Adachi on the game cover, by Yu’s,Souji’s face, like, “You know who the real star of the game is right?”)
Anyhow, that’s the progress so far. I want to take better pictures of the whole room when it’s done, which… won’t be for a while ^^;;;
So this is how I spent snowtigra’s birthday weekend. My babe and I decided to have an epic crafting weekend that’s still going on right now, I just wanted to show some progress pictures.
The L is in progress for what I’m calling a “Candy Coated L” clock. It’s in black and white, but the L is made up of sweet things and candy, all the things that L loves best ^^
The coasters are a wide variety. Finished some more of the Persona tarot cards, got a little Freakazoid, a Lauren Faust combination of heroines, even Johnny Bravo showed up to the party. All of this stuff is for sale, you can always send me a note on tumblr if you’re interested (since I haven’t posted them on the store sites yet ^^;;;) And as always I take commissions.
Which coasters do you guys like the best?
This is what the front of my laptop looks like these days. The first four are the burned, finished ones so far (The Fool, Magician, Empress and Emperor) and the five laying flat are the ones that still need to be burned (The Fool/Jester – thanks Adachi, Lovers, Chariot, Fortune – so far the hardest one to sketch – and Judgment – go Seekers of Truth!) Currently I have three blocks left and plan on doing The Priestess, The Star, and… I’m not sure ^^;;; I can’t decide between Lust, Aeon, or Hierophant. (or for the P4 savvy, Adachi’s second arcana, Marie, and Dojima)
So originally I hadn’t intended on making so many, I was just putzing around and did the Magician first, then moved on to the Emperor and the Fool, and just… I dunno, it just keeps going ^^;;; I at least want the entire Investigation Team done, Adachi was a happy accident along with Margaret.
Don’t forget, you can order your own custom things from me! These will be for sale, I just haven’t posted them on the sites yet, I think I want to get the rest of them done.
