Can pretty much be explained by the following post elsewhere :)

Ports to follow soon this week <3

Y-con 2006. Oh my god.

At some point I will be awake enough to give a more coherent report, but for now I will settle for a) letting you guys know I didn't die and b) expressing my shock/love/affection at various people, holy crap.

mikkeneko: LIVEWIFE I MISS YOU ALREADY ;;;_;;; You made a smoking last-minute Heiderich; sorry I sucked at cutting your hair. I will also note it took a SUPREME ACT OF WILLPOWER not to snog you in thanks for THE BELT THING. (I worked very, very hard at being good in general during that particular party XD)

Speaking of which, maypirate, you have the best belt ever. You are also the hottest Riza ever. And your Ent-rape stole the show at the panel, seriously. I may remember that until I die.

velvet_mace: WE DID NOT DIE. Oh my god. Thank you for helping me with those fics; now there will be so much fic I might still die XD;

wiccat: You deserve a medal. AND YOU ARE STILL THE HOTTEST ENVY I HAVE EVER SEEN, OH MY GOD, EVERY TIME YOU MADE PUCK EARS I WANTED TO ATTACK YOU AND COVER YOU IN BUTTER AND EAT YOU. Seriously.

Speaking of hot cosplay, crazyloststar, theregaltigress, loreamara: I am not sure words can describe how awesome you guys were. I am also vaguely afraid of how psychic you were O.o; I SAW LOOP AND LOOP THAT HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN YET COME TO LIFE BEFORE MY VERY EYES!!!

sky_dark: HOLD ME. SEE ABOVE.

zalia, hieronymousb, perivates: I wish I'd gotten more time to talk to you guys, cause you all were so great ;_; The con needed to last about another three weeks, goddammit >:E

wofl_iron, thewolfplush, csakuras: Same as above. You were all awesome and I wish I could have shared more doujin and dancing, and Wofl, holy crap, you can break it down on the dance floor.

ANYONE I'VE FORGOTTEN: I LOVE YOU TOO, OH MY GOD, IN CONCLUSION THIS IS THE BEST FANDOM EVER AND HOW COULD I POSSIBLY EVER LEAVE IT YOU ALL RULE.

And now, I die XD;

Sup all-

Just a heads up to let you guys know I will be Kumoricon 2006 this coming weekend, and there will be PANEL DISASTER - yes, someone unfortunately put me in charge of something XD; Anyhow, here's where you can catch me making a fool of myself in public:

Saturday:
12pm - Fanfic 101/102 Panel. Clearly I'm here as the advocate for genderswitch badfic XD

Sunday:
8pm - Parody panel. I'm going to attempt to be entertaining while talking about entertaining people. SOMEONE HOLD ME PLZ.

10:30pm - CoS in Five Fifteen Minutes. Yes, it got its own time slot; yes, it's officialy 15 minutes now; yes, I am totally terrified that it's been built up this much XD;

Other than that, there are plans for me to visit the lovely velvet_mace, and possibly go out with people for PIE. As I owe Vel a birthday dinner, PIE seems like a great plan :D

Well, I finally made it home.

THE GATE
The secret revealed: the cosplay I spent all month working on was the manga version of the Truth XD Yes, I dressed up as an inanimate object. Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Anyway, I was actually reasonably proud of the gate despite all the details I didn't have time to do. It was made entirely of an aluminum superstructure, 1'-3' bars that screwed together, and the doors themselves were free-moving on hinges. The inside had many eyes and a hole with clingy tentacles. And the entire thing was on WHEELS, so when it moved around it sort of floated XD

So how was it received? Well, I think it went reasonably well, especially since you could only see the cool part from one side. A lot of people unfortunately thought I was a big black box from the sides and back (especially cause some idiot had apparently put a black box on his head and run around saying he was a robot). However, in a certain light, this gave me an advantage in scaring the shit out of people XD For example, one night as I was wheeling along, some guy comes running up and was like "HEY BOX, I LOVE YOU! I wanna give the box a hug!" So of course, I found it prudent to whip the Gate around (did I mention I could spin 180 no problem? XD) and fling the doors open. The reaction was awesome XDDDD Poor guy was like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *flee* Now THAT'S fun, right there ;) Other encounters included scaring some of the Japanese exchange students (first by being the Gate, second by apologizing for it XD), fanboys that jumped into the gate unexpectedly, packing like four cute Ed cosplayers into the Gate at the same time (hell yes, Ed sandwich *_*), and getting interviewed by media people who thought this was "performance art". WTF. At any rate, though, I had a freaking blast.

You can see a few shots of the Gate here.