Anime Central has come and gone, and I have stuff left!
I put up a whole bunch of new listings to my Etsy store! Since I’m still more or less in recovery mode, it’s all things that I simply had extras of at the convention.
Come take a look! I’ll be putting up more in the next few weeks, too!
dancing queen
young and sweet
only sewenteen
I’m still a bit numb from ACen this year. After a wildly successful weekend that included an amazing concert by Kalafina and an overall fun time, we have Tetrised the car (I’m still not sure how we managed to fit the entire Artist Alley booth back in the car) and driven back to the ‘burbs.
To say I’m tired right now would be an understatement and I’m not even going to try and write up a full con report right now, but here’s a few tidbits:
1. I haven’t been doing paper art that long, really. Last year at ACen was my first year doing it seriously and my first time ever selling any of my art. I had people coming to my table this year that remembered me! I had people come by to say that their friend/mom/etc bought them a box last year, and they were back to buy more for themselves. I had people stop to chat about how my art is hanging up in their living room. I don’t even know what to say about this. I’m dumbfounded and completely humbled. Thank you, guys. You are all so amazing.
2. My social skills are still terrible, and combined with the noise in the exhibition hall making it hard to hear, there were some seriously awkward moments in there. I hope I didn’t seem too awkward to everyone else. :P
3. I think there were like ten of you guys that came to me FROM THE INTERNET that got buttons. Awesome! We also started giving out buttons to anyone whose costume series matched a button we had. Subsequently, our Adventure Time and Pokemon buttons are gone. I’ve never seen so many shiny umbreons in my LIFE.
4. Man, you guys, I wish I could do this for a living. It’s a ton of hard work both before and during the convention, but I love it to death. Being in the Artist’s Alley has rekindled my love of anime conventions. It’s a totally different experience and still so much fun.
Booth 108! Anime Central! Say hi! :D Big thanks to all of you that have come visited me FROM THE INTERNET! You’re all awesome.
Time to collapse and do it all again tomorrow~ Except THIS time with corsets, because corsets (like bowties) are cool.
SO I AM GOING TO GUSH ABOUT KALAFINA
I’m pretty sure this was their first concert in the US? And Keiko is sort of the most adorable thing in the world because her English is so bad and she just stood on the stage and kept apologizing in Japanese while Wakana and Hikaru tried to talk to the…
Kalafina was SO AWESOME. All the feels at the Madoka songs. ALL OF THEM.
Also, nothing I say will stop you from buying yourself a Godoka. Nothing. Because everything I say about it will be stuff like, “That Godoka figure is awesome.”
YOU ARE THE OPPOSITE OF HELPFUL
I HAVE NOWHERE TO PUT HER
I AM MOVING SOON
AND DAMMIT I AM GOING TO BUY ONE ARENT I
If you keep it in the box, then all you have to move is an extra box. Just sayin’.
SO I AM GOING TO GUSH ABOUT KALAFINA
I’m pretty sure this was their first concert in the US? And Keiko is sort of the most adorable thing in the world because her English is so bad and she just stood on the stage and kept apologizing in Japanese while Wakana and Hikaru tried to talk to the…
Kalafina was SO AWESOME. All the feels at the Madoka songs. ALL OF THEM.
Also, nothing I say will stop you from buying yourself a Godoka. Nothing. Because everything I say about it will be stuff like, “That Godoka figure is awesome.”
Leaving a present for room service
(via kikithegirl)
Today was really my last day to work on Anime Central stuff. I have so much more I want to do, though!
I think I can stop panicking now though. I’m not where my original goal was, but I purposely set that bar really high. I’m happy at the number of boxes I have done as well as all the smaller stuff I’m bringing. To throw numbers out there, I’ve got 30 shadowboxes, almost 40 greeting cards, and just under 50 small unframed art.
I’m proud of what I’m bringing to the convention. Very proud. Let’s rock this joint.
Like, let’s count the ways I can embarrass myself in one 24-hour span.
Unless you’ve accidentally walked out of the house without pants on, I think you’re doing pretty good.
People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
(via dabblededork)
