My stuff from ACen!
- A “bloop” from Artist Alley
- Tiny Nyanko-sensei plush
- Chi’s Sweet Home keychain
- Metal sakura hairpin
- Helen McCarthy’s autograph
- Kalafina’s autographs
- Copy of Monica’s Strip Search elimination round comic (@montiray)
Thank you for adopting one of my Bloops! It looks very happy and I’m glad it has a kitty friend to play with :3
Hope you had an awesome time at Acen!
ACen was powerful… I only just now crawled out of bed.
Still have one of these for you though!http://fav.me/d65xkv5 <= clicky~
How can you say no to that face?
This is no such thing as a “bad” cosplayer.
Anyone can cosplay.
You just have to believe in yourself.
Something I need to remember.
This week will start my new schedule. Which is basically putting in a normal 8hr work day and then relaxing/doing what I want in the evenings, along with taking the weekends off like a normal person. I’ll use that time to practice sewing and working on cosplays I’ve been dragging my feet about because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect.
Bulbasaur and Litwick had a fabulous showing at Anime Central, snagging best in show and first runner up. I’m super excited to have gotten my first blue ribbons :)
Now to decide on the next big Pokemon plush!
Back/Front cover for the doujinshi. Clover Cubed is the name of my doujin circle, since I’ve collaborated with others on fanbooks before. :3
I can not wait to throw money at this. CAN.NOT.WAIT.
A random ball pit is set up in the middle of a city
And this is what happens as people approach it.Watch this video.
This is my new favourite video.
Strangers making friends in a ball pit using typical icebreaker questions/prompts! Yes, my inner child is pleased!
This is so sweet
Every city and Airport needs one of these.
Comics~ Glorious comics~
My latest is here.
Rei and Min are hoping you take a peek, it would make them very happy :3
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?
I mean, can we just talk about how this parallels the actual education system? Where they’re so concerned about teaching us things like logarithms and graphing that we don’t know shit about what’s actually out there in the adult world, like doing taxes or writing checks or anything? I mean, “It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.” School children are often under the impression that getting A’s in all their classes ensures a successful future, but really, it’s so ignorant because the real world isn’t just one big question-and-answer paper. There is so much more to the world than being able to give back information like some kind of super-computer, and brainwashing children into thinking that theory is key is just going to lead to a bunch of children falling flat on their faces when they’re pushed into the adult world and feel as if everything new they try to do is wrong because it wasn’t taught to them step-by-step. I just really love Harry’s line, “And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what’s out there?” because I feel as if sometimes we just learn things for the sake of knowing them, despite whether it is actually useful. Yes, school is important, and getting bad grades isn’t a good way to start your future, but it’s so much more than that, you see.
this sounds a lot like something Hermione would say
I think that’s the reason why everyone has such strong negative feelings toward Umbridge (as a person, not a character). I can’t tell you how many times I heard people say that they wanted Umbridge to die more than Voldemort. And I must say that I feel the same.
Voldemort is a racist dictator. While these have existed, and still do, the majority of us don’t live under such a tyrant. We’ve heard about them in history books and on the news- but they’re already dead or on the other side of the world. While we can be horrified at the terror such a person can spread and how, well, evil they can be, a character of this archetype doesn’t strike a personal chord with most of us.
But Umbridge does. As stated before, she represents everything that we hate about the public school system. Most of us know or have a teacher, professor, principal, or school administrator who, to probably a lesser degree, personifies what Umbridge is saying. They teach only to the test, or tell teachers to do so, they insist on including useless things in their curriculums, they PASS LAWS SO THAT SUCH A SCHOOL SYSTEM CAN CONTINUE. This is something that affects nearly every public school in the US, (and I’m guessing the UK as well). Nearly every student has to go through school learning things that they will never use in real life and that in no way prepare them for the real world, just so the various boards of education can use the higher test scores as ‘proof’ that we’re ‘smarter’ than other states, countries, etc., and therefore deserve more funding.
We hate Umbridge so much (again, as a person, not a character) because she represents a villain we all have in our own lives. Possibly every single person who has read this book can connect with the frustration Harry and the other students feel.
We hate Umbridge so much because everything she is, everything she represents, is very real and very personal to every single one of us.
I threw the 5th book a number of times out of frustration, this was one such time.
I can’t word it any better than those above me.
