London MCM Expo UGHUGHU

Oh gosh, I'm so sad the weekend has ended, I had so much fun and met so many nice people!
I don't even know where to begin to explain about it, ahhhh! Let's see, let's start from the beginning.

Friday:
The day when it all began, pff no, I wont be as cheesy as that. But it really was, though. I woke up around 09.00 and got dressed, stuffed some make-up in my face and headed out with mom. Considering I had never gone to the London ExCel center before, let alone London on MY OWN before, mom decided to accompany me just for the heck of it.
Which was fine with me. I didn't have to mess around in London all on my own.

We got to the train, which took about an hour from Peterborough to London King's Cross. From there on, we had to get on the Northern subway line to the Juilee line, which was at London Bridge. From there on we got on the Jubilee to Canning Town, where we then had to take the DLR to the con.

The trip was no sweat, just a bit stressful the first time.

We got to the ExCel center around 12 I think. I had no idea where I was supposed to meet up with people, as I knew I had to find Fia, Micki, Cim and Taschja somewhere during the day. As they stayed at a hotel about 5 minutes away, I didn't think they had arrived considering nothing opened before 2.

Mom was getting a cig when I figured I could go inside to see if I could get my wristband. As I tried to find out where to go inside, I thought I saw Micki and Cim, and as I took a proper look behind the wall of people, I saw Fia in her Merida cosplay.
A lot of hugging, squealing and meaningless babbling took place.

Fia and Micki joined me outside to tell mom I had found them, and then mom headed back to get home.

I hung around Fia and them all day and we didn't really do much. We walked around and took a look at the Alley, where all the stores were. I bought myself a Sonic Screwdriver.

^   I have really missed having one of these. <3

After some hours of walking around, we went to find something to eat. Daring as we were, we figured "hey, let's try Subway's baguettes" and I am glad we did. Those things are good! Holy fucking cheese, the chicken breast one; MMMH~

We soon went back to the Alley, looking around some more. Taschja left us a few times because she hung out with some Danish friends too, and she wanted to catch the Doctor Who panel. I wanted to go too, but there was so many people and I enjoyed my time with Fia, Micki and Cim. As Cim said; why stress to listen to some famous people talk about a show, when we can just talk about it whenever we want?

While Taschja was gone to catch a glimpse of Matt Smith (11th Doctor) and Billy Boyd (Pippin Took), we others came across the Artist Alley. Micki and Cim was gonna take a breather while Fia and I was gonna look for Alex, a friend of ours whom we were supposed to meet. Suspicious of how Alex had said she would sell her art, I suggested we'd go through the Artist Alley to look for her, just in case, and so we did. Or at least tried to.

Fia stopped at the first stand to look at the art. The style was nice and funny, and the artist sold some Homestuck stuff too. Now, Fia isn't really into Homestuck, nor is I, but Micki is. And PFFF the drawing I bought for her was just... What? You see, Fia saw this drawing of Dave Strider (think that's the dude's name) and Karkat walking all sneakily. And the faces was to die for, nearly literally. She laughed so hard, for so long, the guy who sold it began to laugh as well. And then I started to laugh, causing Fia to laugh herself to tears and that's how we kept laughing for ages. We got to talk with some other artists too, two-three of them was really nice and we ended up talking for a while, so after an hour Cim and Micki had enough and came to look for us. I got to buy some art stuff, though.

<  Bad Touch Trio; Antonio (Spain), Gilbert (Prussia) and Francis (France).
I fell in love with the art style, uhuh this will hang over my bed. <3

<  Same artist as the BTT one, I crack up laughing all the time omg. 

England having sex with the Kappa living in Japan's pond. How can one not laugh pffhfjf.

<  SuFin (Sweden X Finland) doujinshi. It's so ADORABLE OMG. Fia and I kept jumping around and squealing as we looked through it. It's so perfect omg <3

Friday went by rather quickly, and after the doors had closed at 19.00, we headed over to their hotel. It was small, but cosy, and I stayed there for about two hours or something. Oh, and we went to buy some food at Tesco. After that I had to go home, which also went well.

Saturday:

It began nearly the same as Friday, just without make-up. Pffh.

Mom and Kjell drove me to the train station, where I so headed to London on my own. It went really well, and within an hour and a half (or around so), I had arrived safely at the ExCel center.

Now, the day before, Fia and I had been desperately searching for a friend of ours; Jessica (or Jess). We met her as we left, but only for a minute or so, sadly enough, but we did get to meet her at Saturday.

I met up with them outside the building at 12:05 or something. Fia was Mèrida from Brave once again, while Jess was cosplaying as Jock!America of Hetalia.

Saturday went by so fast too, I don't know what to talk about pffhfhf.

I hung out with Jess, Fia, Micki, Cim and Taschja this day too, actually I did through the whole weekend, but pfff. Jess' girlfriend Mollie and a friend of theirs, Katie, joined as well. We met them early that day, when they had the most perfect Homestuck cosplay ever. I don't even.... I mean... Wow. It made me want to continue on the webcomic. (unfortunatelly I didn't get any photos, as I didn't bring my camera before on Sunday, but I can ask people if they can send me some pic ;v; )

Katie and Mollie went to their hotel to change to something more comfy, though. Some cosplay I don't know what is, but ughugh they were nice. And Mollie and Katie was really nice and funny too. 

I regret not bringing my camera, as Fia was till Mèrida, it would be nice to take some photos. And I'd like some photos of Cim and Taschja as well, they cosplayed Sherlock and JAAAWN. Micki was the Sufferer from Homestuck, and it was really nice. She didn't have shoes, though. Poor thing. ; v ;

We hung around, talking with some others too. Like a Moriarty cosplayer, Kat. She was really cool and pffhfhf she and Cim were so funny omg. We met a bunch of others too, but I don't remember their names.

But oh gosh, so many people recognized Fia, Micki and Cim! Y'now, since they're the cosplay group VändettA. It was so weird, it's like they were celebrities or something.

While Fia, Cim and Taschja was taking some photos, Micki, Jess and I sat around chilling. We begun to remove the first letter of everything, which was hillarious! Especially since Jess laughed so hard she started blushing, so Micki and I went all "JESS STAHP 'LUSHING" and it killed us.

Oh, and we're going to Weden to get 'stonia. Just FYI.

Oh, we went to the Artist Alley again, by the way. A person there was going to draw Fia some PruHun (Prussia X Hungary) as angels, which is Fia's AU, and wow. Just... wow! The drawing turned out amazing! Also, I bought more stuff.

<  Mawaru no Penguindrum fanart (love it omg), Hetalia fanart of Japan, Italy and Germany, two pages of a visual novel and a Gintama doujinshi in Chinese. THE STYLE AT THE GINTAMA ONE OMG. <3

<  Two of my fav artists from dA was in the Alley too ughguh. I got to meet them and tell them they're an inspiration to me and they were so nice! ;v;

The two small pics are from DestinyBlue, she's amazing and so nice! <3

We just hung around during Saturday, really. Once the doors closed, we were gonna hang out with Jess, Mollie and Katie at their hotel room, but first Micki had to shower off all the gray body paint, and stuff. So I hung out with Taschja. I got to see her drawings, and gosh! Her style is so adorable! Pff and she had to go and buy shampoo, so I accompanied her. We talked about everything, like how fun it was that we could talk in our native languages and still somewhat understand each other (she's Danish, I'm Norwegian as most people know pff). And how our family positions were, as I said, everything. She's so sweet. ;v;

After she got her shampoo, we went back to outside Expo and waited for Cim, Fia and Micki to come. Taschja was drawing while we talked, and when the others came we called Jess so she and the two others could come and pick us up. The hotel was right by the con, so it was okay.

There we ate some candy and just had a great time. Cim had them try something I tried the night before, crispbread with mild caviar. (IT IS HORRIBLE). They didn't really like it, though Fia discovered she liked it with chocolate. 

We also played a game; a game where we write a few sentences each on a story, then fold the paper so the others can't see when they continue it. It was so much fun. We laughed so hard of it all, it was hillarious!

We all have to illustrate to one of the stories too, I got this one;

"Gandalf was a very angry man, he tried to be nice, but it never worked because every time Karkat took his shoes off, he always ended up in an ocean full of crackers. So he stood up and shouted in the top of his lungs; "HOLY FUCK IT'S A GIANT FLOWER!" Said Mario.

He didn't like some flowers because sometimes when they wore socks with sandals. It was horrific. 

Suddenly Thor threw his hammer, Mjølnir, angrily in the sea. Those damn fish! 

He was dead.

Forever lost in the void of the unknown for eternity. When eternity ended, Snape wanted to build a pink house for John. John on the other hand, still claimed that he wasn't gay. But Sherlock knew that he would soon prove him wrong. 

Soon."

Oh gosh, we all laughed so hard at this one. This is what happens when you continue to write on something and you have no clue what's going on.

Ahh I wish I could write one of the others too, it was so good. Oh my gosh, there was something about Tony Stark flying outside in his Iron Man suit when he crashed into a void shaped like an anus. He then poked Sherlock in the ass with a stick, going all "I WANT CANDY" and Sherlock then puked up kittens.

We all laughed. So. Hard. Omg.

After we finished reading and laughing our way through all the finished products, I had to go home. Jess and Katie were kind enough to walk me to the DLR, though it was only, like, 3 minutes away pfff.

Sunday:

Yesterday went really well too, though my voice was a mess because of all the shouting, laughing and weird sounds I'd make the two previous days. Like the day before, I headed to the convention and got there at ca. 12, though this time I didn't know where to meet up. So I tried to call Fia to figure out where everyone was.

Didn't get an answer.

Nope, she didn't hear her phone, so I figured she didn't have pockets in her Denmark cosplay. Well, after a minute I got a text message;

"Jag kör bil. Jag ringer upp senare."

Okay, I thought. She's driving a car. In London. Why? Why would she be driving in a city she's only been in once before when she doesn't have a car? Did she rent one? What? I was so confused, but I just replied with "oh okay, sorry ;A;" before sitting down to wait for them.

After half an hour of doing nothing, I figured I could just as well go to the Alley and get stuff for my friends. I got a gift for Fu, Kèrri and for Milla at that moment. And I got myself an alpaca plush.

<   Fia and I named him Alpanini. I'm gonna get him a bow-tie too. <3 ^










Reason to why I called him Alpanini is because when me and the VändettA left Expo, a girl cosplaying Switzerland showed up and no one heard her name properly. I think it was Virginia or something, but Fia just shot up going "Your name is Panini?! What?!" and later on that escalated to name my alpaca to Alpanini.

But anyway! I didn't know where to meet people and was wandering around the Alley when I got a new message from Fia going all "what what what I am not driving who wrote that omg" and then I got to know where to go. I went to meet them and found basically everyone in this heavy atmosphere and ughgu. I didn't know what was going on, so things was really awkward for a while.

The heavy atmosphere went away pretty quickly, though. And I even remembered to bring my camera, so I took quite some pics of Fia and Micki as Denmark and Norway. I took some of Jess too~!

Here, have some photos.

<  Fia & Micki as Denmark and Norway

<  Fia, Jess and Micki as Denmark, Jock!America and Norway

<  Butt Jess' hand, Cim, Fia & Micki as a butt, Canada, Denmark and Norway

<  Jess as Jock!America, she's such a butt omg. <3

 <  Fia, Micki and Jess being normal as always. :'D

 <  Jess being Jess~ ovo

<  Micki as Norway

<  Fia and Micki being very much Denmark and Norway

We didn't do much afterwards, we just hung around taking it easy. Fia decided she wanted to try something, so she began to draw for coke and candy, and it worked! People bought a few drawings from her, and I was slaving for her, advertising her sales.

The con closed at 5 that day, which was sad as Jess had to leave then to reach her bus. There was a little crying and a lot of hugging involved, and ughughu I miss her so much! ;A;

I hope to hang out with her, and perhaps Katie and Mollie as well sometime. They were so niceeeeommgnhg.

Oh, right before Jess left I hurried to the Alley to buy a gift for Xei. I got one, and I also got myself a wig and some keychains!

<  P-Chan (Ranma 1/2), Agni (Kuroshitsuji) and Arthur Kirkland/England (Hetalia) keychains.

I love the P-Chan one! Ughughu. <3

Anyway, VändettA and I stayed at the ExCel center a few more hours after Jess left. Kat kept us company and stuff, and Cim and I kept discussing shippings and fandoms.

I swear, oh my god, we have the excact same taste in series, movies and ships! Why have I not talked with her earlier???

Ahhh and she even watches Torchwood and ship Jack/Ianto! We're gonna RP it and ughuhsghf!!

Ahh, but yeah. Forgot to mention that Taschja had to leave early! Anyway, Cim, Fia, Micki and I left the ExCel center around.... I dunno, 19.30 or 20.00? They were changing hotel, so they had to get to Victoria Station. I decided to join as I had nothing better to do, and they wanted someone who had been there before to show the way. And so I did. 

That's where Fia and I came up with Alpanini for my Alpaca plush, ughugh <3

I joined them to the station and we decided to meet up at Piccadilly Circus tomorrow, which is gonna be fun! Ahh I look so much forward to it. Oh, and it's possible Cim will come to my place when there's Confusion in Sweden, since she didn't get a ticket. Might as well go to England and do some Christmas shopping then. Pff. But that's gonna be nice, some company isn't bad. ; v ;

After I said bye to them at the station, I headed home. My back hurts like fuck after a weekend of walking around non-stop, but pffh oh well. I look forward til tomorrow aahahhahagshdh!

OH and here, have a photo or two of me in my new wig. Might gonna use it to cosplay Hikaru from OHHSC sometime, or just make an OC. I just loved the color. <3

But yes, Expo was fantastic! I had so much fun, and I got to meet such amazing people. JESS I MISS YOU, YOU LITTLE SNOPP! <3

Looking forward till tomorrow, it's gonna be fun to just hang out in London with Micki, Fia and Cim. ;v;

Ai over and out~ ovo/

Life update + EXCITEMENT OMG

Ah, been a while since I updated something positive, hasn't it?

Well, I can begin to say things are going forward technically. I still have my ups and downs when it comes to my mood, but nothing I can't handle, really. 

I've gotten a job. Yeah, currently I work as a volunteer at an animal shelter. It's nice there, I like the animals, but I am not too sure about the hygene. The fruit they give the monkeys, emus and other animals are literally rotten. They just cut off the moldy parts and then feed it to the animals.

Not very hygenic at all, and it annoys me. Also, though I like it there at some aspects, I still have this really strong feeling in my gut as if I don't really belong there. You know what I mean? Like I'm a misfitted piece of a puzzle.

Still, work means I'm getting out and that is definitaly positive. Also, I've gotten more interested in acting and singing. Pff I've spent at least two weeks learning songs and at singing, mom must be going mad soon. I still don't like my voice, though. 

Oh, and gonna start learning musical chords and start playing the piano. I have an electric piano in my living room, so this ought to be interesting~ ; v ;

Mom's been spoiling me too. She's spammed me with pokemon cards and figures, shirts and now we're waiting for some bow-ties, ties and vests that she's bought. Dunno what's gotten into her. In one moment she's all happy and spams me with stuff I want, in the next she's shouting at me because I made a joke.

Pff she's weird.

My writers inspiration is coming back as well, which is nice. I can thank Fia for that, it came back after we started to RP with our UTAUs, Yone and KIDNEY. Now we're doing a Hungary X Prussia RP as well, which has gotten me really pumped about writing. Ughughu. QvQ

Gonna color my hair this weekend, though it wont be any different. The red color in my hair is fading to pumpkin orange, and I don't like it. So I'm waiting for red hair dye cream, which will probably come tomorrow while I'm in London.

LONDON. FOR MCM EXPO. Am I excited? YES!!! AJSHJDKGS

I sure hope Kerrie can come, though. Or else I'll be going alone, which will be awkward. But omg I am really excited to meet Fia, Mica, Cim and Taschja! I've spent a lot of time the past month(s) talking with Fia and I look SO MUCH FORWARD TO THIS UGHUGH. and Jess, oh gosh I get to meet Jess! AHHHH!!! ;; v ;;

I am currently in a state of being UNCONTROLLABLY EXCITED AKHSJDL.

Hiya!

Figured I've been posting too much depressing shit lately, I could fill this blog with some love as well. <3

Things are going alright here in Peterborough. I really miss home, but it's only a matter of days now before I go back to Bergen for Raptus. Not looking forward to the trip over, though. I'm such a nervewrack when it comes to long distance official transport, and switching trains and whatnots are just not something I look forward to.
But I will manage, the trip -back- is the worst part.

Anyway, I am looking forward to see everyone again. My god how I miss them! <3 ;O;
Urm, what else? Oh! I've joined this wildlife rescue-thing. I don't get to work, so I'm gonna sign up for a wildlife rescue senter as well for exotic animals as well. Gonna be great!

Also gotten some new friends, online that is. I'm still all "can't believe this" as they are two of my fav artists ever on Deviantart, and somehow during one of them's streams they recognized me from dA and now we're gonna meet up at London MCM Expo in October. c:
It really cheered me up talking with them too, as I've been down lately. ;O;

Opened two accounts on Fanfiction.net as well, though you'll only get to know one of them; AiyariBakaPie.
If you're interested in my written shit go there. c:

Mrrrh~ think that's pretty much it, really. I do draw a little, but that's only traditional as my retarded dad has lost the pen. =_=

Over and out ~
// Ai

Arrived in the UK.

Title explains itself, I have arrived in England. It's nice here, but I have to say this is something I wish I never did.

It's as they all say, you don't know what you have before it's gone. I miss everyone in Bergen, I miss Tegneloftet, I miss those moments where I can pick up the phone and call the gang, going "hi guys, wanna meet up tomorrow?".

*smashes head in the wall* I really am beginning to regret this whole "moving to England" thing. I wanna go home to my friends, my family. I miss how it didn't cost a fortune to visit my girlfriend.

I just wanna go home.

Finally!

Life feels pretty good at the moment, summer is here, I have figured out what I want to do with my art, I am becoming more social and taking risks I usually would be too scared to take.... Oh, and of course, the time for England is closing by real fast. Got a phone call from mom earlier, she was all "I'm in the house now, the contract has been sign and we have a key!". So we now have a house in Peterborough.

These feels, I can't possible contain them all.

My hair will be cut and dyed on Monday, after that I hope I can take a fairly okay picture of me which I can add in an application. Ugh, I hate having photos of me taken, I'm not photogenic at ALL. Not to mention how awkwardly bad skin I have. Bla-bla-bla, girl problems, I know.

Just now I got this really strong urge to cosplay something. Of course, because of my luck, I don't own any cosplay at all. I wanna cosplay and make a little video with someone. ; A ;

Other than that, it feels like my writing is going somewhere as well. Lately I've been on a roll when it comes to Lord of the Rings, so I re-wrote my OC Tuluwen's story. I'm really happy with it so far, as I feel like I managed to deepen my way of writing in a direction I feel comfortable with.

Last weekend I was also at Desucon, and boy did I have a great time! My next convention will hopefully be London MCM Expo in October, and I hope I will be able to go to NärCon in Sweden next year. C:
I WANT TO COSPLAY AT THE NEXT CON DAMNIT.

- Ai

So many thoughts, so little time. >u>

I AM DRAWING AGAIN. *shot*  No really, I am trying to practice a new style. It's difficult, but at last I think I know where I wanna go with my art. Also I want a new chibi style. The one I have now reminds too much of the style a previous friend has, so I want to change it. However, it's very hard. I don't know how I want it. D:

Also, Desucon is closing by and I am really psyched for it. I look so much forward to it! There are so many people I miss from Banzaicon whom I'll meet again, and I look so much forward to hang out with my girlfriend. <3
Unfortunately, for this con I'm broke as fuck. I will barely have enough money for food... |D

Lately I have found myself growing tired of cartoons and anime. It's strange, as it feels like I am changing for something that's not the "me" I am used to know. I've given a lot more thought into voice acting and acting in general, and it's something I am seriously considering. I have also given a lot of thought to who I want to be, and how I want to approach that change. I need to change. I want to be more secure in myself and what I do, and I want to be proud of who I am.

Past is past, I have to kick my ass in motion and get over it.

I noticed how conventions actually helps me in the progress of getting more social. Usually I don't like being the odd man out, after a hard past from school, but after Banzaicon I discovered how much nicer it is to just be myself and have fun. Gradually I am changing back to the "me" I was in 8th grade, when I dared to be different from everyone else.

As for the acting and all, I remember how much I loved it when I was in elementary school. We didn't have many plays, but I enjoyed that bump in the bottom of your gut when you're about to enter stage. I enjoyed it so much, I usually memorized the whole script. Hopefully I will be able to change so much, I actually dare to take acting classes when I move to England. That will be my main goal for now.

Other than that, I have been thinking about other things. More serious matters about myself. Don't worry, it's not anything depressing or anything, but lately I have found myself wondering "just what am I? What is my identity?". Giving it a serious thought, I still hasn't gotten to an answer yet. But I know with myself that I'm not a feminine type of character. Whenever I wear something girly, I feel... wrong in a way. I can't do it anymore. I want to be more feminine in a way, but I have realized that's mostly because I am still scared to be too different. It's not "me" to be very girly, but we'll see. I'll give it a try, though for now I feel more and more like a guy. >u>

New fandom indeed ~

The Avengers isn't healthy for me. Really, I've been thinking about like nothing else. Also seen "Thor" like... four or five times. And I've seen Iron Man three times. >_>

Tomorrow I'll watch the Avengers for the third time with Milla, Lise and maybe I-Ki. Looking forward to that, it's gonna be fun. C:

Other than that, I suppose nothing much is going on. Mom and Kjell is in England, been so for a week now. They're coming home on Friday, ugh. Or there's the possibility of only Kjell coming home. Hopefully mom comes too, I hate the man. I can't stand the thought of being alone with him for god knows how long...

Also I have to go and meet dad someday soon... Kèrri's tablet pen is there. Do not want.
Possibly I'll meet him on saturday, oh the joy.

Just wanna say I have made a blog for bawing. However, I wont link you all to it. xD
If you wanna find it, I bet there are ways to do so. The title isn't too difficult to think out. I just need a place to vent sometimes, and I don't feel comfortable doing so in this blog. It feels like I am bothering everyone by doing so, so... yeah.

Now excuse me while I go and watch Thor for the 6th time and to fangirl over Tom Hiddleston. :I *shot*

- Ai