So. Monday I finally got to get out of the house and ignore my summer project, and met fragile_flowers and DeathBeforeDishonour from Deviantart! It hadn't been that long since I DBD last, but it was almost a year since I saw RKC, so it was wierd that it felt so normal to be with them again. I mean, we've gone our separate ways, and weve changed in that time, but it still felt effortless to be with them. Which was awesome.



ABOVE: That awesome RKC kid. Missed you!
BELOW: Seriously, this was the best and only picture he would let me take, when he obviously took loads of us - boo hiss to you DeathBeforeDishonour! XP



The only distressing part about the whole day was that I had the Jonas Brothers' 'Burnin' up' in my head on repeat. Curse those boys. Especially the reasonably sexy middle one >.>

 

Yeah. Him.

We wandered around town after visiting Gill the librarian at our old secondary school/sixth form, who was wonderful still, and was complaining that she didn't have any new librarian volunteers/student friends like us. Aka, all the new kids have socail lives and friends, whereas we were the social outcasts of the year and hung around in the study room listening to Nightwish and talking to Gill. Good times :)

Then, to top the day off, when I got home I had a mysterious package waiting for me. I've been going a bit crazy buying stuff online lately, which probably isn't the best idea considering I'm about to enter poverty at Uni. But, it was my Edward shirt that I bought off HotTopic last week - it came really fast! :D



Ahh, the sexiness. This was the moment when my social life was destroyed by raging fangirlism and Twilight geekdom. All hail Stephenie Meyer! :D Also, note the obsessiveness going on behind my shirt - that's the place where all the mini pictures go - don't even get me started on the big ones!



Also, if you look to the bottom left, in the largest piece of shattered glass there's a reflection of Bella. Which just screams Midnight Sun to me, rather than Twilight. But who cares, I love it!

Before you start to read this journal, just beware that this is based on real events, even though I got a bit dramatic and wrote it in story form. And to any men out there who have the misfortune of seeing this, I think the title gives it away, so you may want to skip on...

I wrote this all in one go, just because I needed to vent my thoughts, so if there are typos, don't pick at them, as I haven't read it through since I started. And I don't want to. It will only make me upset again.

So, just skip this if you don't want to listen to me whining about the other gender...

Turns out I'm a bit of a feminist!

Sorry if I offended anyone with what I wrote. Please don't yell at me. It was just spur of the moment, honest, truth-telling.

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I'm so tired now...

I've been on holiday for just over two months now, and believe me, if it hadn't been for Twilight and all things related, I probably would have tried to kill myself by now! I've been stuck at home the majority of the time since I can't drive and I have no-one to help me get anywhere. There is a bus that appears once in a blue moon, but I've only seen it once or twice so far, and all my friends are still at University... I've practically finished making my cosplay, I've got to wait until the weekend to buy the last bits. I would be making millions of music videos, but there's something up with my laptop despite the fact that I cleaned up half the disk drive, so I don't know whats wrong with it...*le sigh*

Anyway, this is what saved me (and saved you from hearing any more ranting!).

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.:Temptation Waits:.

This is an image based on the first chapter of Midnight Sun (Edward's perspective of Twilight) that I was re-reading last night, and it's my impression of what would have happened if he had lost to his hunger the first time he met Bella and succeeded in drawing her out of the class to kill her.

'Bella walked into the flow of heated air that blew toward me from the vent. Her scent hit me like a wrecking ball, like a battering ram. There was no image violent enough to encapsulate the force of what happened to me in that moment. In that instant, I was nothing close to the human I had once been. No trace of the shreds of humanity I'd managed to cloak myself in remained.

I was a predator. She was my prey. There was nothing else in the whole world but that truth.'

Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun



.:Adrenaline Rush:.

Raise your hand if you completely didn't believe Edward's lie. *raises hand*

Who else got this feeling whilst watching this scene? XP

This is definitely one of those sides that I don't think many people draw as often as the lovey-dovey pictures (*cough* >.> *cough*) to Edward and Bella's relationship. Like Lizzie and Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, they did start out hating eachother! It's true!

I had so much fun making this image, well, apart from the obviously lacking background. I tried though >.< It's been a while since I had a manga styled drawing come out how I wanted it, and on top of that I drew chibis too (very lame chibis, but chibis none-the-less!)

Inspired from the 'Making of a scene' clip that MTV released as part of Twilight Tuesday today <3




.:Dark Waltz:.

Bella and Edward from the edited wallpaper I made of the official movie poster in my berol pen and water style :)



All of my drawings can be found on my DA page. Thanks for taking a look :)

Now, I've just got to find something else to draw!

Well, it's not everyday that you can say you got on the same train as Sephiroth and Captain Jack Sparrow, is it?! XP

Expo was amazing as usual, and this year we had a semi-formed cosplay group which made it even better - the theme was Pokemon gender bender, so myself, Yolanda and Ellie were cosplaying Ash, Tracey and Brock, but the female versions! I admit, that one was my idea, but it seemed like a really cool idea after I saw this picture:



I can't remember the name of cosplayer (I'm always saving images to my computer without the names of who did them - it's a really bad habit of mine!), but it just seemed like an awesome idea.

It seemed like I was the only one who got recognised though >.< That and an anti-social Link from Legend of Zelda started insulting my Pikachu not 2 minutes after we arrived! So I ended up bitchslapping him with my plushie XP He completely put me off Zelda now, hmph...

My first-time-cosplaying friend Laurence decided to go as L from Deathnote this year, as he'd just finished the manga, and as a last minute costume it is really easy to make! But, as we discovered walking around the Expo, it turns out at least 20 other people had the same idea! There were hundreds of L's walking around everywhere! XP

And this is him in his scary wig:



I didn't get to meet them, but I did see Danny John Jules, the awesome Kat from Red Dwarf (I <3 this show) and Julie Benz who played Darla from Buffy/Angel, another of my favourite programmes. And she sounded just as squeaky in real life! :D

I caught sight of Papercutperfect from DA who is a seriously talented Cloud cosplayer who was wandering around with her one winged Zack:

 

(This picture unfortunately isn't mine cause my camera died after the first 3 photos I took upon reaching the Expo TT.TT)

After wandering around for a while our group sat down in front of this huge pink bus for an online game called 'Audition', and started playing catch with the pokeballs that I made :D I think someone may have caught a photo of us doing this, but I haven't found any evidence of it yet. But when I do - it's going up here! ;P
Also, while I was scouring the photo stands for any evidence of Robert Pattinson's existance (which I did!) apparently Niall stole my hat and was considering laughing manically behind one of the Power Rangers and then shoving it on his head. But he resisted after he thought I may not get it back!:



And finally, this is a picture of the four of us (Laurence/L was taking athe photo!):



From left: Yolanda (Tracey), Marill, Me (Ash), Pikachu, Niall (Turtle licking dude), Ellie (Brock)

We will return in October, better and more prepared! XP