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So I made a cosplay tumblr so I can stop spamming the shit out of Plurk and my blog with WIP photos and ramblings and tutorial links. Is there any interest in me setting up a syndicated feed account for it on DW, for non-tumblr users?

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(And if you want to friend me either of those places, be my guest)

I have a laptop power cord again! Oh my precious, how I have missed you ♥ Finally I can have all of my bookmarks and my addons and my saved passwords, which I did not want on the shared computer. I also have a terrible bout of insomnia, care of job hunting and visiting relatives, which has my 'flight' reaction cranked up to about ten. So I'm sitting around awake testing out a new Unohana journal on a Minazuki who is apparently also an insomniac (or lives in futureland).

I also actually signed up to write something for Springkink - Shunsui/Ukitake genderswap. Fic on a deadline, let's see if I can actually pull this off! But Jyuushiko topping Shunsui was just too damned tempting.

I was going to say 'man everybody is going to have way more awesome weekends than me', and then I realized that I'm graduating on Friday and that should be way more exciting than an anime con, but...mostly I'm just stressed about my Florida grandparents being here for a week - they're not bad people, really, but they're loud and Florida and I live in a city that is pretty much entirely hippies and/or Asians, so things are going to be...tense? I am also still all hive-y - still unknown what I'm allergic to (made an appointment for next week to get a referral), but the prednisone the walk-in clinic prescribed me works awesomely for about twelve hours and then they start coming back. So I just made a one am run to Shopper's for some Benadryl so I don't wake up at eight am because I am too itchy to sleep. Right now I'm playing the 'which will kick in first, the anti-histimine effects or the drowsy effects' game.

...Yeah this week is well into crazytown already :|

Name 5 bad-ass female fictional characters and tell me why. Try and use as many different canons you can!

I think 'bad-ass' has connotations that aren't necessarily part of my perspective looking at some of these (mostly because to me it implies 'awesome in the sense of fighting' and...not really the focus for some of these), but eh. I actually realized, when I stopped to think about it, that I can think of a bunch, though some of them are canon overlap. So - sticking to one per canon and going for some more out of the way ones.

Retsu Unohana, Bleach - At first glance, she seems like yet another Yamato Nadeshiko. And then you discover that the batshit crazy fighter division are terrified of her. She has a giant flying manta ray. She has a quiet strength that I am absolutely in love with (see: various posts of me going 'ajlskdfjlksf ♥' over her interactions with Jyuushiko). (PS Kubo Tite, WTB moar old captains appearances)

Yuna, FFX - The one people will probably disagree with me for! I know the reactions to her are seriously mixed, but I love Yuna. See much of this post as to why, but - she's idealistic without being incredibly naive (she's a little naive, at the beginning, but she really does grow through the game), and she chooses her own path freely. I mean, she agrees to marry Seymour - so she can get close enough to Send him. And when that plan fails, she already has a back-up in place, and jumps off the city onto Valefor to escape. Also, FFX: proving that white mages can kick ass and take names too!

Mazikeen, Lucifer - She is the consort of the Morningstar, the war leader of her entire people, and basically a berserker demon-blooded warrior. She would do basically anything to protect those she is loyal to - and that's something she only gives out to a respected few. She was raised to be fierce and strong and independent, and she is. Also, when Lucifer pulls his epic dick move at the end of the series (I still say that was a dick move, really), she has no qualms about giving him hell for it, despite the fact that he's, you know. One of the firstborn of the Almighty.

Mitsuru Kirijo, Persona 3 - She won't hang out with you until you prove you're as smart as she is. She learned to summon a Persona when she was teeny because she wanted to protect the only family she had left. She owns, and rides a motorcycle (you get to sit in back). Also, just...her crit animation

Yelena Rossini, Transmetropolitan - Short, flat-chested, bitter as hell, can probably smoke like three packs a day. She's also an absolutely brilliant writer, and along with the other two of the Transmet trio, is willing to be put on the hit list for daring to try and take down a corrupt President - through the power of free speech.

(other awesome female characters not appearing on this list - much of the female casts of aforementioned canons, the women of Resident Evil, Samus Aran, girl-Turks, half of the Endless)

Even though the financial aspects of it will probably come back to bite me in the ass a little, I'm really glad I decided to take May off instead of jumping right back into work. It looks, unfortunately, like my hopes of finding a lab tech job are not to be, so it's back to the grocery store grind for a bit for me In June. But I've been filling my new-found free time with RP, video games, and hanging out with friends, which has been good. Both the tabletop games I'm in have been going well, and online stuff too - Ishida is a much better fit in Desai than some of my previous characters were, and I'm planning on apping at a new Psychonauts-universe game - Psitanium - with Sougyo no Kotowari, because them plus crazy summer camp for psychics is a brilliant combo. Video game-wise, I finally started playing Metroid Prime and am absolutely loving it. Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm like eight years late to the party. I always am. I'm pretty much okay with this. I did a bunch of sewing on Wonder Chef, too, and then Justin and I have an epic fabric shopping trip to Bellingham planned on Friday. I'm still a little weirded out by the fact that I can go to a different country for like...the afternoon. But Joann's has great sales. Friday is also the opening night for Night Market, which means lots of delicious food! Looking forward to that.

So KB and I joke frequently about how Toushirou Hijikata (from Gintama) is Ukitake's replacement-Hitsugaya in Sky Tides. Grumpypants, another Shirou-kun, etc. Tonight we realized something hilariously beautiful. Ukitake and Hitsugaya only share the same last kanji of their first names (郎 , rou). Ukitake and Hijikata on the other hand...have the same first name. 浮竹 十四郎 , Ukitake Jyuushirou, and 土方 十四郎, Hijikata Toushirou.

This will amuse me for a long time. You can't escape, Rou! You're practically family now!

This week has had a number of strange, fortuitous, hilarious events. Last Sunday was Dine-Out Vancouver, which Justin ended up coming to as one of our other party members dropped out at the last minute, and I ate an entire dinner plate packed with desserts.

Yesterday was VGL, in which they played Chrono Trigger music (FUCK YES), and one of the guys we came with won their costume contest by dressing as Earthworm Jim. The last is especially funny because we didn't realize it was someone we knew until after the concert, and I said when they were lining up on stage, "The Earthworm Jim guy should win just because he's willing to get up on stage wearing a shiny spandex bodysuit and what looks like a penis on his head."

Today, my chiropractor offered to pass my resume around for me. I don't think that needs any further context, really.

Also, after some grading mix-ups and what not, it is finally pretty much official - I! Am! Graduating! And I am very excited about that too.

So I had two dreams I can remember with any clarity last night. In the first, I was bawwwing because someone was trying to convince me to get a race change for Alixia so I could faction swap or something and no you guys, Alixia will be a gnome forever :|

In the second, at one point I shouted 'Take that, CBS!' at an abandoned gas station security camera while waving a flash drive I stole back from a bunch of velociraptors in the air. Yeah it was pretty epic. I think I'm going to blame my Children's Lit final and the fact I wrote a nice big essay on heroic tropes in classic boys' adventure fiction for it.

And now I must make my house presentable for normal human beings, as in my infinite foolishness I agreed to host an end-of-exams party at my place (the great irony being that I'm the only one not actually done with exams yet, sigh). And, well. My living room hasn't quite recovered from the last con yet.

So this thread over at Shapely Prose is pretty much the most goddamn awesome thing I have read all week. So awesome that to the best of my limited internet popularity, I am going to make this shit a meme. We will call it the I am Fucking Awesome meme. Your mission: go forth and post telling us how fucking awesome you are, and all the fucking awesome shit you can do. And we in turn will look at it and not think of it as rampant narcissism or egotism of any of that shit. We will look at it and go 'wow, my friends are some pretty fucking awesome people.' And you will go, and tell them that they, too, should tell the internet how fucking awesome they are. And you can copy and paste this or whatever.

So. I'll start. I am Ruth-fucking-H., otherwise known as Cocoa, and I can, in fact do some awesome shit. I can build furniture from scratch, reupholster an armchair, sew a vest in a single afternoon, and make the best goddamn apple pie you have ever had (the secret's in the crust). I am a fucking fantastic cosplayer, I can run things from the commandline in Linux, and I can BS a paper like it's going out of style. I can do anything, given a set of instructions. I am an angry, blunt bitch, and I don't care who knows it. I am also a fantastic mage and awesome at farming fish in WoW, and I full embrace how incredibly nerdy that is. I am also damn sexy.