Hey all~

How's it going, y'all? First off, let me apologize for not being around lately. It's the last 2 weeks of classes for us, and the professors are attacking us from all sides. It's that time again where we hardly have time to eat and sleep, but it's not all that bad because I get to spend a lot of time with my friends at uni. We all stay there overnight working, it's like we practically live there...but it'll be over soon. I'm glad I found some time today to write a journal, I missed you all~




Thank you for 10, 000 hits
Many, many thanks to all my friends, watchers and those who drop comments and to all who added my stuff to their faves~ I really appreciate it. I wouldn't get this far if it wasn't for you guys~ On that note, thanks as well to all who commented and faved my new Haruhi cosplay pictures. The shoot we did was very brief...it was only for about half an hour because we needed pictures for my project, but we enjoyed it.


Cosplay Updates
I still haven't taken proper photos with my Enma Ai cosplay, so we're still working on that. We're thinking of having Mark as L to join me...it should be interesting. He got a new wig and he can't wait to have new pics taken as well~

Not too long ago, I got a surprise package from my friend in Richmond. It's the Cloudy wolf ring I've always wanted! [link]

I am so pleased~ That and the release of Advent Children Complete made me decide to do Tifa all over again from scratch. I'm sorry if you feel like you're seeing too much of my Tifa cosplay, but she's one my fave characters of all time and I really want to do her justice. The costume that my aunt and I made ages ago is falling apart, so I really need to start again from scratch.

Also, I cut my hair recently. It's now short: [link]
I regretted it and was emo for a while afterwards...I really missed my long hair, but the ends were dead so it had to go. Oh well, it'll grow back.

With that said, it means I'm getting a wig for Tifa too. I just want to know what color do you think would be best - brown or black. Her hair appears both black and brown in Advent Children and I can't decide what to go for. I want black because it looks better with the rest of her outfit...but maybe brown would be more accurate? I need your opinions, guys.


Advent Children Complete
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
<sup>I don't exactly remember how, but while I was looking for news about ACC, I stumbled upon a link to the torrent of the movie, and clicked it. I never downloaded torrents before as I didn't think my laptop had the software and such, but boom, it was there and it was suddenly downloading. It took a while, but it was worth the wait. It's frikkin amazing! I love all the additional scenes, the changes and the blood! XD I'm not a huge fan of violence, but I felt there was a lack of blood in the original Advent Children. I think they overdid it a little this time though, Cloud was dripping and splattering blood all over the place at one point during his fight with Sephiroth.

We got an additional Cloti scene as well, which is something ~Strifehart and I have been anticipating. It's very brief, but it made the inner Cloti in me squee with glee and I'm sure he would love to see that too when he comes back from boot camp. It's just Cloud saving Tifa from a falling building, and he did it in such a "never mind all the falling debris and flying crap, let me get to Tifa pronto" kind of way. And Tifa was all cute and girly after Cloud came to her rescue~ XD

There's also much more Denzel, The Turks and Zack~ Reno looks super amazing in the additional scenes. The ending was altered slightly as well. Many people were saying that Aerith merely passed by Zack and wasn't walking with him. I find it almost funny how it was changed so that it seems they were really walking together or really close to each other. Yellow flowers are now growing on Zack's grave, and Zack's buster sword is now in Aerith's church. What can I say? Zack x Aerith ftw!</sup>


That's all for now. When the next 2 weeks are over, I hope to put up some new stuff again. Looking forward to hearing from you guys! Take care~




<3
~jo