Catharsis

This thing has been circulating around many websites and I guess it’s time to start my own 100 theme project. The original version is in Japanese. This is just a translation I grabbed from DeviantArt years ago. It’s never too late to start on it!

I believe there is another version (the one that starts with Introduction, Love, Light…), but I think this list is cooler (besides, I found this one first), so I’ll stick to this one.
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Unfortunately, I could not attend this convention the first two days, but I did go the third day. I guess I had fun, as well as I wish I didn’t go see Transformers. Anyway, my friends and I arrived at the convention at about 2:30 p.m. and I walked straight to the cosplay exhibit with my friend Alba. The cosplayer’s exhibit was just like a petting zoo! It was funny. The good thing was that we could leave the stand whenever we wanted to.

My friend Alba and I left for a while to go to the food court. Apparently, we were hungry when we arrived, but lost our appetites as we got to the food court. Since we were hungry and it was freakin’ hot, Alba and I decided to go check out the videogame store. (I had no idea there was such thing as Gardening Mama. )

We went back to the cosplayer petting zoo and sat there until my other friends came to pick us up to watch a movie. We ended up watching Transformers. It was a good movie, however, sitting in the front row and having to adjust and reajust myself and my wig - which wasn’t letting my blood flow to my brain - was very uncomfortable. At the end, I just loosened the wig a little so that I wouldn’t pass out during the movie.

We started taking pictures after the movie.

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You may or may not know this, but there has been a convention preview since Friday the 26th. It is a preview because the big event is going to take place in November, or that’s what I understand. Well, I’m planning on debuting my shiny new Link costume (Note that it isn’t literally shiny). You may have followed along with the “Hylian Props” posts and I regret not making a serious walkthrough/tutorial. I might make one in the future, but nothing is certain.

I’ve made a basic checklist of things I want to do in my Link costume and I thought it’d be nice to share:

• Chuck my styrofoam bomb at people.
• Learn and perform all of the hidden skills in Twilight Princess.
• Attempt to pay for lunch with rupees.
• Hang out near a videogame shop or pressing my face against the glass looking for a Zelda game.
• Play Guitar Hero: World Tour and sing a song that involves a lot of shouting (B.Y.O.B. anyone?).
• Mandatory photoshoot.
• Dance Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance and the moonwalk. (RIP MJ.)
• Watch a movie in my costume (I want to see if they will tell me that I can’t get into the theater with weapons).
• Stab the rude person that poked my lovely elf ears intentionally and without permission with a coke bottle.
• March. Just march.
• Hare Hare Yukai or the Lucky Star dance… or any fast-paced and/or silly dance will do.
• DO A BARREL ROLL.
• Play a Legend of Zelda game in public.
• Front-flips, back-flips…cartwheels. (This will probably not happen anytime soon as I don’t want to fall down and break my neck yet.)
• Chase a cuccoo (chicken) around for no apparent reason.
• More dancing and hyperactivity.
• Perform Link’s final smash.
• Walk around like a drunkard carrying a bottle of milk.
• Sing nonsense while I walk around like a drunkard carrying a bottle of milk.

I will be sure to upload pictures unless I forget my camera at home, in which case, you are invited to stone me to death. (Please don’t hurt me.)

I feel like I’m ranting too much sometimes… I guess I can’t tolerate stupidity. The other day, I went to a cosplayer’s meetup at a park and they asked us to take our wigs and costumes for a simple photoshoot and parody of American Idol (Cosplay Idol). I decided to use my Link costume, but Link is not Link without his ears and hat, so I figured that I should go with my ears and wig on. So I arrive and sit down and this stupid sonofa comes up behind me and POKES my elf ears with his bottle of coke. I turn around and glare at him and all he could say was “Sorry, I was curious…”

No, seriously? If you are curious, common sense obliges you to ask for permission before touching. This guy, however, not only did he lack the most common of senses and was downright rude for poking my ears with his dirty cola bottle! Next time I see him, I will consider chucking my sword at him. I also got called an “ugly duckling” by some random fat guy on the street because I had my blonde wig and elf ears. Such rude people…

…and they ask me why I get pissed off so often…

Well! We left off with an unfinished Master Sword and unfortunately, I was too lazy to take pictures of this whole process, but as I said in an earlier post, I’m just following along with the tutorial at the Prop Blog. Well, here is the the near-finished product. After I hot-glued everything in place, I took some school glue/white glue and painted the sword. Of course, it doesn’t have to be just glue at all; a water/glue mixture is fine too, but you will probably need more layers of that and it will take longer to dry. I used pure glue, so I had my handy hair dryer there to help me dry it. I’m very impatient.

Well, I decided to work on my shield then. For the metal decoration, I decided to use styrofoam as suggested by my cousin and cut it using a styrofoam cutter. I’m not very good at it. That’s why it looks crappy, and if you can’t see it here, you will be able to spot it in the next picture.
Same with the sword, I coated the decoration with at least two layers of glue and let them dry before I spray-painted them. For the Triforce, I did the same thing, but instead, I used craft foam.

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Today was a lazy Sunday. However, after washing my family’s clothes (even though we have a washing machine, it’s tedious work, believe me), I decided to work on my Master Sword. I would have started working on it on Friday, but I ended up at my friend’s house for the day and after that, I went to a BBQ goodbye party for a classmate of mine.

My friend… she has a working NES. I squealed in delight when I saw it. She even let me play a bit before going out to the BBQ party.

OK, I just wanted to share that. Now, onto the Master Sword! I followed Amethyst Angel’s tutorials most of the time, however, I was forced to improvise and change a few things since I couldn’t find certain materials here in this country.

This is the base for the “wings” of the sword. I sandwiched a wire between two pieces of craft foam to make it bendy. Woot?

This is what I have so far. Doesn’t it look neat already? I just realized that the name of the image files can be read as MS Word instead of M Sword. Hahaha. Ok, that was totally random.

If you are wondering (if not, I’ll tell you anyway), I did get hurt in the process. My cousin calls them war wounds and she tells me that I should show them with pride, so here it is. My war wound. I burned myself with the hot glue gun and it left a nasty blister on my finger… but besides having a good looking sword (so far), I get to use a cute Pucca bandaid, so I’m not suffering that much.

(Yes, I saw the need to watermark my finger.)