Happy 2/2, aka Akechi Euthanasia Day!!! I took my akeshu ita bag to Costco to celebrate~


some "youths" - late teens/early 20s maybe?? - recognized what it was and were suitably impressed :D
Anyway! The household went to Costco today + brought Elio along, since he needed to stock up on groceries after being in NYC and Japan for the past few weeks. We ended up at a different one than usual, because it was closer to his apartment, but that meant everything felt like it was in different places and I hate change so I was stressed out ;w; Also, I've been battling a terrible headache all week, which didn't help. Despite all that, it was quite successful :D

Less successful: wig styling........

I bulked out the wig head, which was a huge pain I only defeated thanks to Liz's assistance, and then...it didn't fit on the new wig head stand.

AGGGHHHHHHHHHH

My nicer wig head fits just fine, so I didn't think to check the styrofoam one I was using before I jumped into it. idk I wanted to try it out on a $3 wig head instead of something nicer, and I guess I'm paying for it???

Sooooo I tried to wrap the rod that the wig head goes onto in paper towels to make it thick enough (hehe, thick), and instead it just shredded the inside of the wig head.

'kay.

I'm just gonna bulk out the nicer wig head, but I couldn't do it last night....I was too dejected ;w;

bluh bluh I'm taking it extra hard + I'm more exhausted than usual + terrible headache, so either I'm having yet another mono flareup or I'm about to be on my period, and I don't like either of those options >:O

uhhhhhh I also could ramble about enstars and the valentines events and the current events in jp and eng but as previously mentioned: headache :c

Day 4 | IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.

noooooooooooooo I just redid my profile and updated things about myself on other sites, do I really have to do it again? XD

Anyway! Hi, I'm Killian~ I just turned 34 earlier this week and I live on the east coast of the US - though not in the same state that I grew up in! - with my wife dragonofeternal & my bff arahith. We bought a house a couple years ago and very quickly filled it with a delightful amount of fandomy things, as well as our four cats :D I'm currently a creative writing student, and I'll be finishing up my associates degree this spring, with hopes to transfer to a bigger university to complete my bachelors. Very exciting!!!!

I'm currently deep, deep in Trigun hell, thanks to my wife dragging me into it last year ♥ It's got me in a fucking death grip; I got out of watching the 98 anime and IMMEDIATELY started writing fic, the same day, and that fervor hasn't really subsided yet XD It's, uh, really good, I swear!!!!!!!

One of my first loves is Kingdom Hearts, and it will always have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy JRPGs in general, particularly Final Fantasy VII & X and the Persona series. Other "previous" fandoms include Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Mo Dao Zu Shi, and Yu-Gi-Oh!........though previous is a kinda strong term, since I can never truly leave a fandom behind.

Fun fact: my wife and I met through Homestuck, and they decided to date me despite the Eridan sleeve tattoo I have XD That's true love, baby!!!! We've been together for over a decade now ♥

Other fun fact: my desk has been dubbed the "ita desk" because of how extensively I've decorated it. I'll share a pic and let y'all be the judge of that XD


Okay okay okay, lemme try to wrap this up some~ When it comes to participating in fandom, I mostly write fanfiction, all of which can be found at my AO3. I'm the most active on bluesky, because it's still fairly slow moving and lowkey, with a lot of the features of Twitter I use most. I also cosplay occasionally, but not as often as I used to ;w;

That's about all I've got! If you also like any of these fandoms and/or wanna be writing buddies, I'd love to be friends!!!!!

IT WAS SO GOOD TO BE BACK AT KATSUCON!!!!!!!

We got there super late because I didn't wanna wake up, doing our makeup took forever, and then parking was a nightmare, but it was all worth it because it was so much fucking fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Katsucon 2020 was the last con we went to before covid hit, so it was definitely very special to finally be back ;w; Like, we went to Otakon in 2021 and 2022, but it wasn't the same; we hadn't actually been since it moved to DC. This was like...coming home, in a sense. I've been going to katsu since 2010, so being in the Gaylord is very nostalgic and familiar and incredible *w*

Also, I have got to get back to doing physical therapy, because my back nearly gave out on my countless times throughout the day >< I can't keep living like this. Like, I can handle my day to day life sucking, that's fine. But impacting my fun at anime conventions? NO. That's where I draw the line! XD

Uhhh okay so Liz and I wore our fancy juhaku robes that we made in 2017 because they're big and forgiving enough to still fit after gaining some weight. And we'd both made peace with the fact that no one would recognize us, mostly because literally no one did when we first wore them, and Magi was way more popular then. People even looked confused at the Magi photoshoot at Katsucon 2017. So okay. That's where we are. AND YET MULTIPLE PEOPLE RECOGNIZED US THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. PEOPLE CAME UP TO US EXCITED AS FUCK TO SEE NOT JUST MAGI COSPLAYERS, BUT JUDAL AND HAKURYUU.

Not complaining, just confused.

Sooooo that was good, the weather was surprisingly mild, the vibes were incredible...just walking around and seeing so many cosplayers again was so good ;w; I feel reinvigorated just from being able to observe all of it.

The final part of the night was the midnight Persona shoot (as you do) and that was also amazing. There were a decent amount of P2 cosplayers (for once): the Suou brothers, Jun, and Philemon??? Who fucking cosplays Philemon?????? So that was exciting!!!! I think Liz is gonna be living that high for awhile ♥ I mostly ended up talking to one of the Joker cosplayers about our akeshu itabags and other insane amounts of money we've spent on fandom merch XD

Oh!! And Pat found a Naoto figure in the dealers hall (always a dangerous play to go), which was a fun find. Since we got to the con kinda late, we had to speed run artist alley and dealers room in just over an hour, but we still managed to get some cool stuff.

I'm still picking away at my journal layout, but I figured I'd share something else creative I accomplished lately!

I finished decorating my notebooks for this semester, so I can finally show them all off properly!! They were a labor of love (and procrastination) and I'm really proud of how they came out!!!!! They each have their own unique look but also are clearly mine- I can see my style in all of them :D Images are quite large so they're under the cut~

( decorated notebooks here! )

Now I get to have super cute stuff for school that is fandom-y without being just...here are a few stickers on something. I'm very pleased!!!!!! I can definitely share where I got all the stickers/washi tape/etc if that's like, a thing people are interested in? Most of it is from aliexpress or a Japanese stationary store back in Pittsburgh (because yes, I've been hoarding stickers since about 2004), but obviously most of the fandom ones are from specific artists.

Still hoping for a classmate to comment on them, but at least they got a bit of traction over on tumblr XD