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nonesensed) wrote2023-01-25 08:05 pm
nonesensed) wrote2023-01-25 08:05 pm
Books and Resolutions
We're at week 4 of 2023 and I'm doing pretty well on my New Year's resolutions to myself!
I've managed to only work full time (which is an achievement for me XD), actually sleep enough hours to not be dead on my feet come morning even on the days when I have to get up at 4.30 AM (like tomorrow), and I've replaced all candy and soda with fruits and water and am still doing perfectly fine re: eating and feeling happy :D Am mighty pleased with myself about this <3
My sister and I are in the cosplay planning stages too! Other than repairing and expanding existing cosplays from Mononoke (not Princess, the other one), Critical Role, Okami and DC/Marvel Comics, we're going to be working on colossus outfits from Shadow of the Colossus and new outfits from the Hades game! I'm going to be Persephone in her Hades outfit and I think my sister finally settled on Chef Ghost, with Eurydice as a more long-term goal <3
I'm somehow also heading to a LARP this weekend. Where I'll be singing. Soooo, there be a lot of rehearsing before that~
Finally, I've been reading some excellent books already this year (and right before New Year):
I've made it through Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (wonderful bodyguard/prince romance with loyalty a huge focus of the plot + with a smutty epilogue posted on the author's AO3 account) and Some by Virtue Fall (theater drama <3). I've thoroughly enjoyed the latest horror novel by Jonathan Sims of The Magnus Archives podcast, called Family Business, as well as Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea (eerie and creepy and bittersweetly romantic rather than horrific but definitely good <3). And, on the more classic-ish fantasy front, I and sis at last finished Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart by Jane Lindskold - still very engaging!
Recommending all five of these books, should any of them seem up your alley! I've written more detailed reviews over on Goodreads.
I've managed to only work full time (which is an achievement for me XD), actually sleep enough hours to not be dead on my feet come morning even on the days when I have to get up at 4.30 AM (like tomorrow), and I've replaced all candy and soda with fruits and water and am still doing perfectly fine re: eating and feeling happy :D Am mighty pleased with myself about this <3
My sister and I are in the cosplay planning stages too! Other than repairing and expanding existing cosplays from Mononoke (not Princess, the other one), Critical Role, Okami and DC/Marvel Comics, we're going to be working on colossus outfits from Shadow of the Colossus and new outfits from the Hades game! I'm going to be Persephone in her Hades outfit and I think my sister finally settled on Chef Ghost, with Eurydice as a more long-term goal <3
I'm somehow also heading to a LARP this weekend. Where I'll be singing. Soooo, there be a lot of rehearsing before that~
Finally, I've been reading some excellent books already this year (and right before New Year):
I've made it through Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (wonderful bodyguard/prince romance with loyalty a huge focus of the plot + with a smutty epilogue posted on the author's AO3 account) and Some by Virtue Fall (theater drama <3). I've thoroughly enjoyed the latest horror novel by Jonathan Sims of The Magnus Archives podcast, called Family Business, as well as Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea (eerie and creepy and bittersweetly romantic rather than horrific but definitely good <3). And, on the more classic-ish fantasy front, I and sis at last finished Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart by Jane Lindskold - still very engaging!
Recommending all five of these books, should any of them seem up your alley! I've written more detailed reviews over on Goodreads.
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Oh, do you have cosplay photographs somewhere?
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I do have the occasional cosplay photo floating around online! All credits for the outfits and makeup got to my super talented sister, I just wear them while she makes us look good XD Most of our photos are on friends-locked Facebook groups, but here are a few I think are visible to all:
Here's me and my sister as Kusuri-Uri/Mr Medicine Seller (me, left) and Masked Man (her, right) from the anime Mononoke - a waaaay old picture, but I still love those outfits <3 We keep updating them to get even better and better! :D
And here's from summer last year, as opening-title-fantasy-version!Matthew Mercer (me, left) and Viktor (sis, right) from Critical Role (It was an outdoor event with plenty of space, as you can see, so we could pose without masks for a bit <3)
I have some old Bleach cosplay floating around the Internet too, but I shall stop my link spamming for now XD