The Singapore vacation went well! Don't have much in the way of pictures, I kinda left that up to the others. We had lots of delicious food, and watched the Avengers twice, and did lots of touristy things.

If you ever have the chance to visit Singapore, I'd recommend doing the Night Safari. Yes, zoos, they have them everywhere, but 1) The layout of the main Singapore Zoo is really well done, very enjoyable, and 2) the Night Safari is /at night/. It's actually an adjacent park, and you get to wander around the paths and visit all the nocturnal animals, and there's also a tram tour that takes you around to all the large animal areas. Really cool.

Cosplay happened! I went as Tony Stark to the midnight showing of the Avengers, in the outfit displayed in the trailers. Pretty happy with how it turned out, despite the wig being a pain in the ass. And not having enough time to match up the facial hair properly, augh.

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And the last day of my stay was Free Comic Book Day! I also started out the day as Tony, as I met up with Kie and her friends to get ALL THE COMICS. (Tangent: I now have the hardcover for Children's Crusade. OMG FINALLY) After that, I switched into Superboy mode, and Kie and I went to Universal Studios! and purikura!


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Cut to a week later. While visiting Jessamy and Marixsa, we made cakes! LOTS OF THEM. We ended up making a layered red velvet cake inspired by that amazing Captain America one, but this time more on the Cap/Iron Man slash end of things. (And also started putting together a Hulk cake, muahahaha)

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Now, finally getting back to the subject line (no, visiting singapore to see a movie and making comic book cakes are not nearly insane enough)...

I've decided to get a circle space at Movies Paradise this fall. MP is a relatively small fan event for western fandoms -- your typical Japanese event with circle selling fan-comics and fanfic and a little bit of cosplaying. I have also decided that I'm going to make props for ALL the Avengers characters. And possibly SHIELD stamps. Along with whatever cosplay I manage to get finished (Tony is ready, Steve is doable, Loki would be insane).

NOT ONLY THAT, but I had also been considering putting together an Avengers fan-anthology for the event. I've since realized that that is /probably/ too short of a timeframe, but here's the deal. If you want to distribute or sell related materials at MP through me, let me know. This could be postcard prints, copybon, whatever. I ask that you pay me for whatever printing, etc. charges I'd need to do on your behalf, but otherwise, I'm game. (I could probably manage a staplebound anthology/artbook still if there is interest, but.)

Apologies for the massive fail of the last post. Oops.

In any case, I'm going to Kyoto! Woo! Meeting my friend Kuri there on Friday, and we'll be staying there until Monday evening. We're going through guidebooks and online travel sites, but I welcome any input on places to see and things to do!

Things we currently have on the list:

Central Kyoto (where we're staying?)

• Costume Museum (OMG SQUEE HEIAN REPLICAS)
• Toji Temple Market (I've been looking forward to this also since before I came to Japan, lol)
• Nijo Castle
• Imperial Palace
• Toei Uzumasa Eigamura Theme Park
• Museum of Kyoto
• Nanzen-ji
• Ginkaku-ji (apparently there's a road between this and Nanzen-ji that has a traditional teahouse we should stop at, according to my students)
• Fushimi Inari Temple
• Kiyomizu-dera -- best view of Kyoto
• Iwatayama Monkey Park
• Arashiyama area -- best place for trees, apparently :P

Also wanted to go to Nara, and see the deer at Nara-koen, and the various temples including Todaiji, with the huge bronze Buddha. I've been told that there's an area in Nara where the historical dramas are filmed because its all still in Meiji style, though I'm not sure if I've confused that with the Eigamura park... And in Kyoto, there's Gion (sp?), where the maiko are...

So, yes. Suggestions, anyone?