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FanimeCon 2017

Makoto fell a sleep on their date...lol Just more goofy pictures before the gathering. And look a wild Sebastian joined us...lol

Makoto Tachibana: @alicedrankthepoison Gou Matsuoka: @daredreemer Rin Matsuoka: @askthetinybishie Sebastian Michaelis: Whimsy Rainbow Star

Bonus: Rin Matsuoka 

FanimeCon 2017

The Matsuoka siblings: Gou tries to take her brother down. I literally glomped the hell out of @askthetinybishie when he showed up at the gathering…lol I think Gou startled Rin.

Photos by: @alicedrankthepoison

FanimeCon 2017

I’m finally getting to sit down and write my review, (story), for Fanime this year. Last weekend was the best con experience I’ve ever had to date. At least I think it was. I’m so glad I got to attend Fanime this year. I had the best hotel mates anyone could ever ask for. I don’t think we ever stopped laughing. Line-Con was nonexistent. Someone finally got their shit together and fixed that issue. Everyone was terrified that pre-reg was going to be a nightmare, but pre-reg opened an hour early and the new system everyone was in and out within ten minutes. 

The new system consisted of tables and tables of laptops with scanners. You walked up scanned your registration code and then a person at the end of the table had your badge printed instantly and waiting for you. After verifying your id matched your badge, you picked up your lanyard and your program as you exited. In and out. It was so fast we didn’t know what to do with ourselves...lol

Day zero always has us marathoning the Kuroshitsuji, (Black Butler), musicals. When we got back to our room I hooked up my blu-ray player and my laptop, so we could watch the latest musical, Noah’s Ark Circus. Unfortunately two of the roomies had never seen the stage productions, so we started with the 2010 musical and then the 2014 run of Lycoris. We ran out of time for NAC. Needless-to-say Whimsy Rainbow Star fell in love with Taisuke Saeki, (Eric Slingby), both the man playing Eric and the character. She plans on cosplaying him next year...lol

Friday was the Free! gathering: (pictures will come next week as I am having trouble getting them off my phone), I was cosplaying as Gou Matsuoka and I was sad that my t’shirt for her didn’t arrive until we left for con, but I found a shirt that I thought suited her, so she kind of was a cos-test. @alicedrankthepoison was Makoto Tachibana and @askthetinybishie was cosplaying as my big brother Rin Matsuoka. I’ll tell more about this gathering later. There were some pre-gathering shenanigans as well.

FanimeCon also hosts guests from Japan. Especially when it comes to music. They have a little music fest., (concert included with badge and autograph sessions) This year’s guest of honor for music fest. was X4. If you don’t know who X4 is, then you need to be shot. X4 is the J-pop group founded and lead by Yuya Matsushita. He also played Sebastian Michaelis in the first four productions of the Kuroshitsuji, (Black Butler), musicals.

Well on our way back to the convention center on Friday afternoon, as we were approaching the corner, I noticed a bunch of cute Japanese boys at the hot dog stand. I instantly knew who it was. It was X4. I had just turned back around from telling my mates behind me to look at the hot dog stand when Yuya sees us walking down the street. Now what I believe caught his attention was Whimsy Rainbow Star, who was cosplaying as Sebastian and directly behind me. This got the attention of the other band members as well, who were excited to see Sebastian. They stepped forward and stopped us on the street. Yuya was like Sebastian-chan. I of course was a dork and was like, “We were watching you on TV last night”. Whimsy Rainbow Star  bowed to him. And we probably could have gotten our picture with all of them had there not been so many people walking between our two groups. A matter of fact, I’m pretty sure that was what they wanted, because they kept trying to move closer to us. Unfortunately we were all starstruck and no one spoke up and the next thing I know we are waving goodbye to each other. I also may have developed a crush on Kodai. I’ll come back to the guys later in another post. There is more to tell when it comes to these lovelies. I’m not done with them yet. 

We also rode the shuttles over to Clockwork Alchemy, Fanime’s sister con, and showed Whimsy Rainbow Star where that con was located. The shuttles are really fun to ride. It’s like being on Indian Jones Adventure at Disneyland. Veery bumpy. This is also where @kimberlycosplay​ texted me the announcement about the up and coming Kuro musical, Tango on the Campania. I actually screamed on the bus and scared everyone. Probably the bus driver as well. 

Saturday saw me cosplaying as Grell Sutcliff and Whimsy Rainbow Star as my Sebastian. We attended the autograph signing for X4, and then @alicedrankthepoison and I stuck around for Chris Cason’s autograph session. More on those later. I didn’t get to cosplay for long, because I wanted to change for the concert that night. Plus Grell’s boots were beginning to kill me. I’ll give my full review on the concert in a later post. I’ll just give a little teaser; Hot!

After the concert we all went to the Japanese tea shop and got some cool beverages. I actually tried a “Green Sour Apple” slush. It was really good and very bright...lol This thing was neon Green. Whimsy Rainbow Star shows it in one her videos. I’ll be linking those as well. Where I actually make appearances on camera. You’ll all get to see a rare sighting of me on film...lol 

Sunday I decided not cosplay and we had a hotel mate flip for the X4 Q&A panel. Where Whimsy Rainbow Star had been with us on the street and attended the first X4 autograph session, she was replaced with @sugar-coated-dame who had missed out on the other two events, as well as the concert. I took her to the second autograph session as well. 

Sunday night we ordered room service and finally watched, Noah’s Ark Circus. I’ll have a review of that later.

Sadly our weekend was coming to a close and none of wanted to leave. Monday was final day of con and thanks to mother nature being a bitch to me, we got a later start on checking out, but we managed. @alicedrankthepoison and myself never made it back to the convention center, but that was cool. We got to hangout with our roomies till their rides arrived. Took some selfies. Acted like the dorks we are and made awesome memories. We’ve already began to make plans for next year. Turns out we are all pretty sappy, but I wouldn’t want it any other way. So much happened...I wish I could put it all down in words, but I can’t, so I leave this post as it is and end it here. More to follow, including pictures and videos as well as links. 

-Dare

P.S. I want to thank my roomies for being so awesome. I know I said all of this on FB already, but I truly am glad you all could attend and room with me this year. You guys were the funnest bunch of coconuts to hang with. “Oh my!”

No worries, I´ll be fine. Somehow. XD

We´re a class of six students, so flu bugs and the like get passed on very easily. As for the mental stuff…I´ll somehow manage. I always do.

Thank you so much dear. I wasn’t even aware I had any mail here. I’ve been trying to catch up on tumblr ever since I got home from con. I can officially say I have finally done it….lol (hugs)

askthetinybishie

You’re welcome. I know it took me a few days after I got home from con to even want to think of going on Tumblr. I wore myself out too much, so I’m going to try not to do that again. I kinda just picked a place to stop the first time I got back on Tumblr because I knew there was no way I’d be able to catch up. I follow too many blogs and it’d take me too much time. Anyways, you’re welcome again, and congrats for catching up finally. :D -hugs back-

46) Can insanity bring on more creativity?

Interestingly, yes. I do believe that there is a fine line between madness and genius, and that often time they go hand in hand. One bigots the other. So, I feel that creativity is a stem from both and therefore insanity can bring on more creativity. Even if that creativity is dark and demented. Anything outside the box, is a form of creativity. I think a lot of people imagine creative ideas solely as beautiful works of art. It isn’t. Creativity is derived from the imagination. Madness sometimes is the birthplace of dark, but brilliant things. And generally those who are insane are not wrapped up in mundane ideals, and that allows them to come up with more creative endeavours. So yes, insanity can and does lead often time to more creativity, though it sometimes also is of a disturbing nature. 

sweetlittlevampire:

(found here)

sweetlittlevampire: 

*puts blanket of love and friendship around you* Man, I wish I could do something for you. You´re my friend, and I hate to see friends suffer.

Sweet.... thank you. (hugs)

sweetlittlevampire:

I´m here for you. *hugs back*

askthetinybishie: 

-gently hugs if you allow it- You can message me anytime. I’m willing to listen. You are important and yo do matter. You’re an awesome Grell, cosplayer, and I do consider you a friend.