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That Which is Eternal
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Sorry I'm so bad at uploading frequently, these days -- but, I promise, it's all been because I've been working on a super awesome project! That includes cosplay! And handsome men in dresses!!!
I've been writing a novel since about August 2011 (technically January 2005 but eh) and have been editing it since the first draft finished in July 2012. The first draft was a messy, sloppy piece of stink, but I never stopped believing in it. Over the past two years I traveled to a bunch of countries in Europe, meticulously studied literature and archetypes and societal implications, and taught myself the mechanics of writing and, at this point, have sort of polished up a draft that, at this point, can be considered like 99%?? final.
Now that I've officially registered the book with the US Copyright office, I feel comfortable talking about it in public in more detail, including announcing its title: That Which is Eternal (spoiler: the thing that is eternal is friendship!!!!1!!
). It's about five college students who travel abroad, and while they're abroad, make friends with the wrong people and end up getting caught in the crossfire of three countries at war.
It will be published sometime this year and I am very, very excited to see it go places
!!!!!!
I really really reeeeally appreciate all the support people have given me so far throughout these two years of development (and a heads-up thank you to everyone who will continue to give support aaAAAAaAAaa!)
is working with me on developing a cover and then it'll be time for me to start putting dollas into advertising (omg yay useful college degrees).
For now, I'm starting up a tumblr account where I will be posting little pictures and bios of the characters and such, and I'd really appreciate feedback if you guys have ideas on how to make it look awesomerer!
The tumblr is here -----> twienovel.tumblr.com/
And it will eventually feature art from, 
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Again, thank you guys for sharing this really really exciting time in my life, with me 8D Things can only go up from here!
I've been writing a novel since about August 2011 (technically January 2005 but eh) and have been editing it since the first draft finished in July 2012. The first draft was a messy, sloppy piece of stink, but I never stopped believing in it. Over the past two years I traveled to a bunch of countries in Europe, meticulously studied literature and archetypes and societal implications, and taught myself the mechanics of writing and, at this point, have sort of polished up a draft that, at this point, can be considered like 99%?? final.
Now that I've officially registered the book with the US Copyright office, I feel comfortable talking about it in public in more detail, including announcing its title: That Which is Eternal (spoiler: the thing that is eternal is friendship!!!!1!!
). It's about five college students who travel abroad, and while they're abroad, make friends with the wrong people and end up getting caught in the crossfire of three countries at war. It will be published sometime this year and I am very, very excited to see it go places
!!!!!!I really really reeeeally appreciate all the support people have given me so far throughout these two years of development (and a heads-up thank you to everyone who will continue to give support aaAAAAaAAaa!)
is working with me on developing a cover and then it'll be time for me to start putting dollas into advertising (omg yay useful college degrees). For now, I'm starting up a tumblr account where I will be posting little pictures and bios of the characters and such, and I'd really appreciate feedback if you guys have ideas on how to make it look awesomerer!
The tumblr is here -----> twienovel.tumblr.com/
And it will eventually feature art from
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , . It's a big crazy art party! Again, thank you guys for sharing this really really exciting time in my life, with me 8D Things can only go up from here!
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New Cosplay Plans
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Blaghhfkjghfkhjgakjgdhjkd I'm still jetlagged I just got done farting around Greece and Italy. I swear I must have consumed 300lbs of pppaaasssTTAAA (and, guys, I thought Hetalia was kidding when the show said Greece loves cats...... bbbutttt I swear there are like 30598435830938 cats running around Athens, look at this cat I saw at the Acropolis: scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto…)
I've learned a lot from my aunt. She believes in the power of the universe and energy and has all these spiritual techniques to achieve happiness and get things you want. One of the methods she taught me was 'manifestation,' literally (in a nutshell) where you put out positive energy to get things. At first I was like "That's a little teeny bit silly," but then she said, "You know, I wish I had 500 francs so that I could buy a plane ticket." She did her happy energy dance. Then like three weeks later she cleaned her closet and literally 500 francs fluttered off of the top shelf because apparently the people who owned the apartment before her left it behind. So I was like, uh.
Part of manifestation is literally envisioning your (insert thing you want) coming to life and having visions about it. I want my book to be published, I want it to be in hard copy, so I figured if I made something tangible, I'd feel like I was bringing my book to life on another (very positive and happy!) level -- aaaaaaaaaaand if anything, I think it'd be really fun to just prance around as my own character. Pppppossitttiiveee eeennerrgyyyyyy.
So for Otakon 2014, I'm going to cosplay as one of my OCs!
(I'll be the guy in the middle). (Leave it to me to cosplay as a man of another race). This is an excuse to flail around in Baltimore and Detroit and the other random cities that have cons that I like in a sparkly frilly jacket and cape 
These are some of the kings from my story (there's a lot of royalty hohoho), King Tusca, King Gallio and King Walten (grandfather, son, father), crowned in 1949, 2012 and 1975 respectively. I designed these outfits sometime late last year and figured Gallio's would be the most fun to wear.Character development has been fun while writing the story itself -- now let's see how fun it is to practice that dialogue in real life
I guess I should list my convention appearances; I want to know ahead of time whoall I'm gonna run into! Let me know if you're attending any of these:
Definitely Attending:
-Otakon- (Baltimore, MD- August) otakon.com/
-Youmacon- (Detroit, MI- October) youmacon.com/
-ConnectiCon- (Hartford, CT- July) connecticon.org/
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CMV -- Break your Heart
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Hooray! This weekend I had a beach retreat with 
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. I got productive and edited one of those music videos we recorded in ~2011~ (some of these clips were recorded at PariahCon and Otakon in 2011) and now, two years later we have another finished Cosplay Music Video!
, and . I got productive and edited one of those music videos we recorded in ~2011~ (some of these clips were recorded at PariahCon and Otakon in 2011) and now, two years later we have another finished Cosplay Music Video!CMV -- Break your Heart
Looky looky hoorayyyyy ---->>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHnhsm…
Done in typical stupid Sunshine Duelist fashion 
Camera mistakes, sure, and a girl's singing voice supposed to be Vegeta But for real, we really hope you guys like it and think it's silly and fun. This is our first CMV that uses our DragonBall Z cosplays.
Camera mistakes, sure, and a girl's singing voice supposed to be Vegeta But for real, we really hope you guys like it and think it's silly and fun. This is our first CMV that uses our DragonBall Z cosplays. Sunshine Duelists are back with a new Cosplay Music Video, but this time, it's DragonBall Z-related. Bulma loves Vegeta, but Vegeta warns her from getting too close, because he's just going to probably kill Bulma anyway -- but he's nowhere near as tough as he seems.
And ultimately, who is the heartbreaker in this pair?
Sung from Vegeta's point of view.
Sung from Vegeta's point of view.
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Greetings from Baltimore, on the first day of Otakon. While I'm waiting for the con itself to open and for our pack of friends to make our ways to the con center, figure I'd give a little update.
So last year my Dell computer conked out on me, taking with it my video editing software and a decent amount of the video clips. I was grumpy and frustrated with the whole ordeal and sort of put it on the back burner, which is a shame because we actually filmed FOUR new cosplay music videos a while back that never got the chance to see the light of day.
Well, with my uncle's help I was able to tap into the depths of my poor dead hard drive and retrieve the video files and with a little bit of tinkering can change their formats from the other software's to work on Final Cut Pro, which I have on the mac that I bought to replace the dead Dell. So this is me proclaiming that in not too long I WILL upload new Sunshine Duelists videos, because they're THERE, I just have to edit them! But that's doable!
But that's doable! For now though it's time to party it up at Otakon. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll prace around as Anastasia and try to see if I can crash any Disney photoshoots and be obnoxious. Is anyone at Otakon and wearing Disney getup and taking pictures that I can ------pretend------ to be a part of?
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Nobody Likes You When You're 23
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And are still more amused by TV shows...
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About a week ago, I celebrated my 23rd birthday by purchasing a new car. ...and eating a butt-ton of cake. There's this bakery near my house that's super awesome. I got a cake that's vanilla but it's dyed a bunch of different pretty colors 8D I had a really nice birthday, and I really appreciate so many people commenting on my profile here I read all of those comments and treasure them!!
I read all of those comments and treasure them!! I also have been lucky in recent days to have been given a lot of art -- some of em are commissions, but some of em are generous presents and they're the best presents ever ever I like my OCs too much looklook:
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I have good news: it honestly pains my heart that I've uploaded so few Sunshine Duelists/cosplay-related things lately. It's sad because the Sunshine Duelists actually live in about five different cities, so the time we get together is rare and precious -- the thing is, is putting together a great opportunity for us to all meet up again and take pictures in cosplay and maybe even do skits!!! It'll probably happen sometime in September but I'm already excited about it.
is putting together a great opportunity for us to all meet up again and take pictures in cosplay and maybe even do skits!!! It'll probably happen sometime in September but I'm already excited about it.Speaking of my OCs, taking funny pictures in cosplay isn't the only thing I'm super passionate about -- I also really like writing and am in the final stages of editing my novel! I finished the first draft almost a year ago -- on July 9th, 2012 it had 194,000 words (close to the length of the 4th Harry Potter book) and now it has 96,000 words (about halfway between the lengths of the 2nd and 3rd Harry Potter Books) and it's sssssooo mmmucchhh cleaner and better and yay That's a funny thing I've learned about writing -- in August 2011 I had this decent concept, by July 2012 I finished a very messy, honestly downright bad first draft, and even then it took me ANOTHER whole year to craft it into a coherent work of art. I guess the lesson is, never give up because you can only keep getting better!!! (...even if it takes a loooong time )
That's a funny thing I've learned about writing -- in August 2011 I had this decent concept, by July 2012 I finished a very messy, honestly downright bad first draft, and even then it took me ANOTHER whole year to craft it into a coherent work of art. I guess the lesson is, never give up because you can only keep getting better!!! (...even if it takes a loooong time )Anyway, by no means am I the most genius writer in the world (I think I'm still unnecessarily wordy and probably downright cheesy) but I believe in this silly thing and think that someday it'll have a future 8D 
Maybe even someday kind of soon! But until then I'll keep commissioning art because y'all can bring my ideas to life better than I can. Who's open for commissions!?!!?
Maybe even someday kind of soon! But until then I'll keep commissioning art because y'all can bring my ideas to life better than I can. Who's open for commissions!?!!?Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In