Red Paws
BTW, if my last post didn’t convince you to join the Metroid Marathon stream on June 1st, I’m sure this certainly will!
A set of six Metroid buttons for the Penguins’ Metroid Marathon! The stream will go live June 1st, and all proceeds will go toward the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the St. Catharine’s area. These buttons are an auction prize, and obviously won’t be watermarked when you get the real deal.
These are timed-exclusives. The marathon will be the only place you can get these buttons for now, because I won’t be officially releasing them for sale until FanExpo, at the end of August! So watch and bid!
On Saturday at AN I participated in something called “Create The Anime” where you were given a made-up title of an anime (Like, a really ridiculous title) and three anime tropes, and had to make a “review”. You were pitted against another player, and whoever’s review gets more cheers at the end gets the prize.
So I watched a few rounds, and when the announcer held up the next prize, a Pinkie Pie set, I stood up from my seat and waved my arms around to volunteer. The announcer said they “shouldn’t let Bronies have all the fun” and that a girl should get to play for it as well, and chose me.
I was given a title like “Super Samurai Mermaid Squad” or something, and the three cliches were “pointless humour”, “strange aliens”, and “a classy vampire”. I kind of just started pulling random ideas out of my head (The aliens were actually duck-billed platypi. The classy vampire was a giant clam with two big fangs and a British accent)
And holy carp (Yes, I just used a pointless pun), I got more cheers than my opponent!
It’s the Pinkie Pie set that comes with a pink hedgehog and suitcase. Once I find out how to make her mane poofy like in the cartoon, I’ll post it.
Free stuff! WOOHOO!
Stupid Google Images, I was searching for images of Samus’ BOOTS!
SHERLOCK IS NOT A GAY POSITIVE SHOW
SHERLOCK IS NOT A GAY POSITIVE SHOW
SHERLOCK IS NOT A GAY POSITIVE SHOW
The closest thing in Sherlock to queer representation was Irene Alder who said she was gay and then fell in love with Sherlock. (make of that what you will.)
The whole show is about two heterosexual men. And one of those men, Watson, spends about half an hour each episode telling everyone ever that he and Sherlock are not a couple.
That is not gay representation.
I repeat: that is not gay representation.
And fuck you if you think that is representation.
A show having a large slash fandom does not count as representation.
I’m sure there a many legitimate criticisms of Elementary, but accusing the show of being homophobic because Watson is played a women is not one of them.
I cannot say this enough times: Sherlock is not a gay positive show.
Sherlock is not a progressive show in terms of representation. It is about two white cis heterosexual men solving crimes.
The fact that Elementary has a women of color as a main character pretty much already makes it more progressive than Sherlock.
And furthermore if you watch Elementary you are under no obligation to ship Sherlock/Watson. I’m sure that there will be at least one other dude you can find.
And listen, Sherlock is a good show and Elementary existing is not gonna change that. You are under no obligation to watch it. You are under no obligation to even acknowledge it.
THANK YOU
I was just saying this yesterday to a friend at Anime North, where they had a whole panel of Sherlock Slash.
Ship what you want to ship, but there’s certain things you should just. Not. Say.
I’m writing this in my PJs at 7:30, because I am officially wiped. I used to think owning a table was more tiring than actually being a guest at this convention, but I was wrong!
Met up with Tam (Negalmuur) all three days, and I say I deserve a freaking medal for that because he was in three different cosplays.
Didn’t buy a lot. Just plushies of Raikou and Dialga (The really pudgy kind of plushies! Poke! Poke!), and a necklace of a fox. Believe me, if I had an AA table, I would have splurged on a pair of steampunk goggles.
Honestly thinking that if I don’t get picked next year, I’m going to go ahead and buy a table at the Dealer’s Room. It may be 5x the price, but I made over $1000 at last year’s Artist Alley, so I don’t think money is an issue.
Aside from that, I saw Madoka Magica (Hope I spelled that right) for the first time (Mark dragged me into it) and…no spoilers please, does anyone else find Kyuubey kind of…unsettling? Those pink eyes and a never-changing expression? Eeek! (Love the change in art style of the witches’ lairs, though)
Watched something about “Lame Animes”, I don’t think I ever laughed so hard at some of the stuff. Everything from terrible dialogue, poor animation, and…unfortunate titles. XD
Sat in on a panel about the history of My Little Pony, never realized how cheesy the first generation was, or how…creepy-looking the third one was. o_O
Well, that wraps up the year! Wish me luck in getting a table, Artist Alley or Dealer’s Room, next year!
Next stop: Atomic Lollipop!
Thisclose to falling asleep now.
Day one of Anime North down!
Sadly, this was a year I did NOT get an Artist Alley table, boo! I went just as a guest instead.
Well, I made $10 when I delivered a commission to someone, which I went and bought myself a Raikou plushie with. Gotta buy ‘em all! XD
Gonna watch some Cosplay Chess tomorrow and see if I can drag my friends to a My Little Pony panel.
P.S. The 404s are still hysterical. Should have bought one of their DVDs, but I’m trying to be frugal.
Another commission. Toothless is SO much harder to draw than he looks.
I think the pose turned out looking too similar to my Hugs4Chris llamas. Oops. (Well, llamas don’t give big, slobbery licks…)
…And it’s a rather well-known Creepypasta animal.
WHO DID THIS?! WHO WANTED ME TO HAVE INSOMNIA?! YOU’RE ALL SICK!!!
*Ahem* I’m going to go for one of the tamer versions of this fella, because…well, let’s just say it’s not making me “smile”
