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Soon my first book, Anime Aftershocks, will be joined by another ebook. As if cosplay and looking for a new day job weren’t enough already, I’m compiling a book of Sci-Fi short stories. I wrote these stories when I was in college and submitted them to Analog Magazine. I stumbled over them last week while looking for something else. Now I’m having fun editing and polishing them up for a new book that hopefully will be out by next week.
It’s funny, I’d forgotten all about these stories and now I’m seriously considering turning some of them into series. Analog sent them back to me with the standard rejection letter, so it’ll be doubly cool if they end up being popular now. A guy can dream right?
Even though I’m not even sure I’ll make it to Ohayocon this year, one doesn’t wait until the last minute to begin testing parts of a new cosplay project! So today I took some time to see how the shoes, stockings, dress, and blouse of my Stocking crossplay were going to work.
I’m still waiting for the wigs, so I just used my black one as a stand-in. The blouse is also proving problematic. I need a tuxedo blouse with a Peter Pan collar ideally. But I haven’t been able to find that combo yet and may have to make that myself. So for today’s test, I used my Mikuru blouse to get an idea of how things will fit.
The results were quite good! While not perfect, now I know that my basic plan will work. And with that in mind I’m going to redouble my efforts to find the right blouse or pattern to make it. Sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that I seem to make a prettier girl than guy…Naaah, it’s more fun being pretty!
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Sometimes it seems kind of crazy to be working on a new cosplay project while looking for a new fulltime job. But hey! It’s fun and keeps me sane, well mostly sane… My latest project is Stocking from the anime Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
Since resources are tight, I’m working in economy mode on this project and so far I’ve managed to gather what I need from stuff I already had. In particular I’m using the black dress from my Sakura cosplay which is very similar to Stocking’s base outfit except for the sleeves. While this inaccuracy will not satisfy cosplay purists, the dress itself is consistent with something Stocking would actually wear when compared with some of her other dresses in the series.
For me, the real challenge to this cosplay is the wig. Stocking has blue hair on the outside and pink on the inside. After giving it a lot of thought and consulting some discussion threads on Cosplay.com, I decided that I’d need two wigs, one pink and one blue, to get the desired effect. And I found a tutorial referenced that showed how to stack multiple wigs. As I was reading through it all, I was reminded of all of the big hair I’d seen on RuPaul’s Drag Race, a light went on and I suddenly understood how these wigs were being made. So I am no longer afraid of big hair which is a big plus since you usually need to add additional wefts at least to get the best results. Most wigs are just too thin out of the box IMHO.
I’m happy that things are coming together well so far. The wigs have been shipped, and I’ve already received the shoes and stockings. The shoes and stockings were on sale, which compensates for the two wigs. So right now, I think I can come in at maybe 60% of the typical cost of my cosplay projects. I hope to have Stocking ready in time for Ohayocon, if I can go that is… But ACen for sure!
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I want to thank my insurance company GEICO for finally getting me to try out xtranormal. I first became aware of xtranormal after that guy at Best Buy got fired for making a video poking fun at people wanting to buy an iPhone. Recently, GEICO has been running ads built using xtranormal, which they claim took them only 15 minutes to make.
Okay, 15 minutes isn’t much time. So when a friend of mine posted an xtranormal video about becoming an archivist, I popped over and made an account. I think I spent more than 15 minutes on this, but not much more. I wanted to make something more than Hello World, but not take too much time and I had one minor editing problem that actually made it a little funnier. This is my warped take on a midlife problem…
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