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So! Supanova Brisbane 2013 was last weekend. Or as I liked to call it, Nintendo Streetpass Palooza 2013 with a side of cosplay.

Seriously I spent at least half of the time just collecting streetpasses, guys.

( Mostly cosplay pics under the cut )

I really shouldn't be on LJ.  I should be frantically painting and gluing things, or in lieu of that, maybe working on fic or perhaps reading up on the latest loudness metering standards in preparation for upcoming mixing sessions at work, or hell, playing some more FF13-2 or Virtue's Last Reward. Or sleeping, which I have not been doing nearly enough of recently.

But none of that would count as procrastinating!  Which is all I apparently want to do currently, and making posts on LJ is at least marginally more productive than trawling Reddit.

Anyhow, I thought I'd share the progress of my latest attempts at cosplay!  The deadline for this one is quite close, I have until Wednesday to finish, although I really need to be done by Monday night since I expect I'll be working late Tuesday and Wednesday (and will need to pack it Wednesday night).

( Usual pre-con freakouts under the cut )

Hey guys!

Just wanted to give you a heads up, there won't be an update for Beloved tomorrow.  I've been frantically cosplay-making all week and haven't written a thing in days!  D:  Convention is tomorrow and I'm still not completely done...

Expect it next weekend!  My folks are visiting town and will be demanding I provide proof of life, but I should have time enough for an update. I think I'll be switching to fortnight updates from here on in though - I've got two exams after that, and then Christmas parties, dentist appointments, and then a friend coming over from Canada which is going to eat up all my spare time...

But hey, here's an in-progress cosplay pic!  To prove that I have genuinely been super busy.



It's supposed to rain tomorrow though... with this particular costume, that is indeed a worry.  o__o

So, Manifest happened!  Some of you may remember my cosplay freakouts in the lead up to it.  


( mostly me talking about cosplay malfunctions under the cut )


EDIT:
Oh man forget all that, anyone wants to see a bunch of incredible Manifest cosplay WATCH THIS REALLY GOOD VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYi9yx5kXW8&feature=youtu.be

It kind of summarises the convention better than I could anyway.

...Also kind of alarmed at how many people I recognise in this.  Australian convention scene is starting to feel small.

I thought I'd do an in-progress post on my frankly stupidly ambitious cosplay plans for an upcoming con. Because honestly the freakout when you realise how little time you have left and all the misadventures you have of trying to assemble it are probably more interesting than actually wearing the costume itself.


( Why do I do this to myself? No really, why? )

Brisbane was so lucky as to get a second Supanova in 2011!  As next year it's moving permanently to November and the April one is moving to the Gold Coast.

I don't normally cosplay at the local con, as the people I usually go with aren't particularly into cosplay (and there's way too many people from work I risk running across).  But they weren't interested in coming to this one (or had moved overseas by this point), so cosplay was on.  Because frankly, without cosplay, Supanova is the most boring con.  There were some cool guests, but those were all rather wasted on me.

( Mostly just cosplay under the cut )

I'm absolutely wrecked.  Sorry guys, I won't be able to make a Fifth Act update today, I had a look to see how much work the chapter still needed earlier and I found two enormous inconsistencies and about a million typos, which has made me paranoid and I'm really not in the mental condition to pick over it with the necessary fine-tooth comb.  But in consolation, here's a rather hastily thrown-together con report from Supanova! :D

I only got to go on the Saturday, as there were familial obligations on Sunday I could not gracefully wriggle out of after my blissfully family-free Easter.  :(  I pretty much cleaned up all the merch I was interested in on Saturday anyway - brought home a nice haul of old and relatively cheap Geneon-released soundtracks from Transreality.  *__*  And Supanova doesn't have heaps of things to do anyway, so one day is enough unless you're cosplaying, or spending most of your day standing in line to see a guest.  In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realise the primary activity at Supanova is standing in line.

Anyhow, pictures!  Cosplay!  That was the entire reason I went!  My cosplay photo-fu has become weak, so I didn't get as many photos as normal.  And a lot of them came out too blurry to really post, but here's a selection.  Cosplay attendance was down a little on last year - I think a portion of the anime audience has been driven off, a lot more of the cosplays were TV show and comic book related.  Or maybe they were slain by the heat.  But one fandom that turned up in unusually high numbers was Sailor Moon, of all things.  I saw at least three different Princess Serenities!



( More pictures under the cut! )