Seriously, A super big thank you to the completely phenomenal people who run Shadocon. It was a really big weekend for me and my friends, me mostly. Check out the gallery to get a look at my newest cosplay; Arwen from Lord of the Rings Return of the King. Arwen represents 9 months worth of sewing and jewelry craft and I’m very proud to say she walked away with the “Best Individual” win in the costume contest. (And yes, I’ve begun to anthropomorphize this costume, if you’d exhausted nine months of your life beading and bending sheet aluminum you’d start to think your cosplays were your friends too.) But more about Arwen in a future post. My resolution for next year is to start posting more about crafting and construction.

My other big news for the weekend is a “Best Comedy” award for my latest AMV, if you didn’t see it at Shado, (and I didn’t) here it is.

Yeah yeah, I know, I should have been at the AMV contest but I swear on a stack of otakus I had no idea I was even a finalist. I was going to go to the amv contest, I really was, because my friend Megan was a finalist but there was stuff and shenanigans and Quinton Flynn did the Locomotion and Isaak Wells threw a chair and one thing led to another and well…. that’s when Megan ran into the panel and told me I’d won (to which I said “wa?”) So thanks Megan and thanks Quinton and thank you Isaak for not throwing the chair in my general direction. And a big apology to Chris and Henry and the rest of the guys on staff at Shado because I stood you up at the amv contest like a spineless teenager.

Wow, I should do this every weekend.