I've been bizarrely sewing-ly constructive inbetween readings and home assignments, so after I raged at my Friday lecturers for not releasing next week's lesson plans [thereby thwarting my study schedule] I said "Fine! I'll do Yana/Miko's ***!" and set out to cut interfacing. 15 minutes later I rummaged around and said, "I think I'm out of black drill." silencestation said, "What? Impossible!" and I said, "Yes, I know." and Jun said, "It's probably because our cloth is all over the place. Why don't you clear up the stuff, you'll probably find it sometime."

So it's about a day later and I have 8 drawers of tidied-up cloth and I have confirmed that indeed, I do not have any black drill on hand, nor any substitute like canvas or cotton. The irony burns at my past gothy tendencies; the black leather, suede, silk, satin and vinyl are all laughing at me. Whatever I'm going to get some tomorrow after class. ಠ_ಠ

Anyway, with this clearing I now have a pathetic little bin of the most hideous cloth [largely leftovers from the time the Spotlight ladies really liked me and gifted me scraps, or from cosplays]; I have deigned to submit and do sigh actual prototypes for stuff I sew....so that means for every piece of BJD clothing that henceforth shows up, you will know there is a horrific purple/hot pink version of it sitting in our house, awaiting burnination.

Right now I have Miko and his esteemable sister Rennes sitting on my serger in a pantomime of "ILU my little brother/Get away from me you ho"ness, and the Tsukasa headmould's ability to pretend to be the Mari/o headmould's sibling makes me happy. But I'm too lazy to take a photo of that so here's Rennes with a crapton of new shoes, assisted by mushrooms:



The irony is that we don't even like buying shoes. As it is, Rennes' shoes are occupying about 1/3 of shoe-drawer space. Women.

Time to check out the school system again, to see if my slacker profs have done anything about next week's content... #@*(#.

The gits managed to stand [and stay still, though that's not too hard for them] for an estimated two hours, which is pretty impressive - particularly since the superghetto set-up was threatening to fall onto them and I think I ran them through 5 points of exposure, 6 white balance settings and three cont/sharp/sat settings [I guess that's why it took two hours, ahahaha].

Anyway, Yanagi's head is appley and edible-like.



Obviously I can never leave a good thing alone [wait for full effect].

The very first update in the monster in which you know as Tangled Web was this :

"23rd December 2003 5.33am
The site is finally finished. X_x Not as contentfull as we would like, but it'll have to do for now..."

This means that Tangled Web is now approximately 3 years old. Approximating everything because I'm far too lazy :

1. Kinjyou Seishurou and Suiya Tsukisou are 3 years old. [Old men!] These two arrived during our Europe vacation, and the first pictures we saw of them were in a Virgin Record Store's web access area. Sei's first pictures made me cry. [Not of joy.] But when we opened their boxes, I couldn't recognise him.

2. Ruka is also 3 years old, chronologically arrived before the two old men. He was the first Sweet Dreams Lucas we saw when the limiteds arrived in Domuya and we helped to unpack, and he ended up ours despite the fact that we asked to see both of them to pick.

3. Sanada Mikado and Yanagi Mikoto are 2 years old. [Oh my god!!] Also ordered together at the same time, Sato babies, the F08 had just been released without any official pictures except for small, blurry web-camisque ones. We were also told, a little earlier that there would "Never be MSD FCS!" HAHAHAHAHAHA.

4. Lin Si Ye is 2 years old. We got him despite being late from a typhoon from Dolpa 13 by a Volks miracle.

5. Small Yanagi Ren is nearly 2 years old, the first UFK of AngelRegion. We were worried they'd never have it again. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

6. Chaitanya is 1 year old, Djinn's 21st birthday present greatly assisted by Cassiel [thank you!] and loads of lovely people who donated to the cause - our first sunlight and our first SD boy.

7. Teaberry/Wintergreen is 8 months old and was the first doll off YJA [thanks to Evildolly] we have. Djinn was pining and pining and moaning and pining and I told her, if there is a Kasumi with the 02 Wings that you want, we'll get her and lose all our money. GUESS WHAT?

8. Big Rennes Yanagi['s head - the girl you guys asked about here] is 2 months old, off a Tsukasa Konoe with a Link SD13 body and a SDKen box. A BIN matter off YJA with help from Evildolly once again. Finally, our little Ren grows up. I've been waiting for this.

The total count right now is 10 dolls, of soon which to be 9 dolls, and of soon which to be 10 dolls again. Perhaps in an interval it will be 11 dolls. And the most creepy thing, is that about half of our doll list is fulfilled. But I'm sure we can drag it out till we're 50, since the rest are a lot harder and BOY do we have a lot of stories to catch up on. Also, most of the rest are FCS, so NO MORE UNPLEASANT SURPRISES. [Like the next one.]

In any case, re: the 'not as contentfull' - HAHAHAHAHAHA STFU DJINN AND I, STFU. The current count stands at :

1. 78 photostories [not including roleplay/gathering/cosplay/travelogue photostories] up, 11 mini events.
2. 35 travelogue photostories
3. 2 'movies'
4. 59 photoshoots, 14 songshoots
5. 5 cosplays - Guilty Gear X, Prince of Tennis, Loveless, Alichino, xxxholic

36580 hits as of today, a generous estimate taking off my own visits.

What's this all about? This is me having put off doing this stat count for a couple of years, and to say that officially, yes, we will be renewing Tangled Web. To be - WHITE. and CLEAN. And NOT JAVA-SCRIPT LOGGED. and SEMI-UPDATED. Also, to acknowledge all the dolls we have, how long they've been with us [we never do the birthday thing, we always forget XD;] and that we have too many dolls to do this individually anyway. WE'RE SCREWED because we have too much stuff to do and plus the internet on the computer with all the Tangled stuff is down, so we can't even do our last update on the old layout. Gah. [HOMEWORK WHAT HOMEWORK FUCKING HISTORY ESSAY THAT THE TEACHER SAYS YOU READ THE QUESTION WRONG SUCKERS NYAH WHAT FUCKING HISTORY ESSAY.]

Also, thanks for actually caring about our dolls, what we do with them for all these years, and if it hasn't been all these years, however long you've been with us. It is constantly and adoringly appreciated, and if you haven’t already, do make yourself known to us sometime so we can thank you properly. XD

In any case, happy 3rd belated birthday, Tangled Web. And Merry Christmas and all other holidays to everyone, I hope you have lots of fun despite the fact that a lot of you seem to be a bit down this holiday season. Despite what it could’ve been, it seems this Christmas may not be so bad for us this year.

Everything is calm today.
Djinn and I are evading work and Azri is back in the house, sleeping on the homework and smelling a bit like flea powder.

D-Day is tomorrow! Or is it B-Day, whatever it is, Bio is going to dissect me.

Quick post, because after lots of anticipation, and weird address-type problems, Djinn and I finally got the Leeke wigs for Myoubi and Matsulika from Alichino cosplay for this year's EOY. Thanks rh11! Remind me to tell you our new address so you can send the rest here next time. XD;;;;

Yanagi as Myoubi is singularily cute, lolita love. He wants to kill us right now. The wig turned out more suitable than expected, thank goodness!


Sweet little girl! ::snerk:: A reference picture to Myoubi is here. We can't tie the wig like how she does in the pic, so we'll just leave it like this. I think he's a good likeness already, and he currently really wants to eat our heads. XD;; Please forgive the messyness of the wig, photos taken in a hurry.

( One more pic of the Myoubi wig from the side, and Myoubi with Matsulika )

And so, there we go! little quickie. Also, nice reminder to Evildolly to remember to start on Alichino as soon as you can! And if any of you can find another source for wigs, please please please tell me.

I'm back again, right before Chinese New Year. Whooo.

I have four more days of paid accountness, and it is ending - and that makes me sad. Thank you, person who gave me a paid account, I had a hell lot of fun.

If you're interested in which icons I will be eliminating - I know for sure the Ryouma ones are going. Onwards to new semes, and better anime, I'm tired of Prince of Tennis and most of the English community. Although Yanagi is still my baby. And I still love everyone I love yada yada.

Anime
Djinn and I have of course succumbed to the Digital Cable's Animax, and we've been enjoying and hating it in the ratio of 1:1. The only series we're bothering to really watch right now is Cyborg 009 - and we like it a lot. It's really a pity we caught it in its last arc. =___= I seriously hope it replays again. Cyborg 009 is a nice team anime with consistant art [though debatable character designs] and the only problem with it are the main characters, 009 [Joe] and 003 [Can't remember how to spell her name, and I don't care]. We try to overlook that in team episodes. XD;

It's also actually a very tragic series, I think because old mangaka are ruthless in slaughtering people. Let's have a look in Sailormoon - nearly in every book someone burns or melts or rots away. The original ending was very very tragic, but I liked it, and I'm regretful the manga fans pressurised the original mangaka into making the ending happy instead. Currently Djinn and I are watching the 2000 anime remake and we're not too sure if the ending is happy or bad or will be shown at all.

Djinn and I have lost interest in downloading anime, and most of the current series, because a) it gets really tedious, b) we'd somehow rather download Star Trek, c) some of them are sucking like oh, say, Prince of Tennis, d) the anime doesn't live up to the manga as well.

So other than that, we set out to get Alien 9 and Cyborg 009 bootlegs but the shop didn't have any [I'm not telling you where it is, nyar nyar] of them. [Alien 9 is really good, by the way, and sweetly yuri and very sad - I think Damien Kellis-san you would like it.] So in a fit of pedo perversity, we got the second season of Meitantei [I keep saying Matantei, damn you Ragnarok Loki] Conan and spent the rest of the night of that day searching for the bits where he meets his 'rival' Hatori and we giggle about how wonderfully shota it really is. Conan/Kuro is terribly ukeuke in any form and that made me very happy.

I always liked detective series, but I suspect Kindaichi was too ugly for me to follow up on [although I do like Akechi very much]. I only liked one of the live-action Kindaichis, which had the Kinki Kids' dude as Kindaichi because it fit so perfectly - he's ugly, he's crass and exactly like Kindaichi. Also, he had a cute bespectacled sidekick [live-action original] called Makoto who keeps getting hurt and impaled all over the place. When the Arashi dude took over as Kindaichi, it was not at all convincing anymore.

So we've fallen back on old-time anime. Conan and Cyborg 009. Oh dear.

Music
Digital cable also added the fantastic Soundtrack Channel to our list of cable programs, and Djinn and I love it because very little movies have senseless rapping and so on. Instead, they tend to have alternative rock songs, which makes us very happy.

Two days back Djinn and I heard a very very indie alt rock cover of Against All Odds and it make us aww-ish. It was done by a band called The Postal Service, and later Djinn found out that the singer of The Postal Service is the singer of Deathcab for Cutie. Yay! No wonder he sounded so nicely familiar. The Postal Service was a collab between him and another musician from another indie band.

I will be putting it into the depressing playlist I'm burning for Karen. It is a must.

Cosplay
Accordingly, I really wanted to cosplay Cyborg 009, actually, 004 [Albert] from Cyborg 009, the one featured on my icon. I've even perfected how to roll my eyes up so that when people ask for photos, I can swivel them up with relative ease and show nothing but eyewhite. But Djinn was right – I'm too short and too young-looking to cosplay 004. Thus 004 will be filed away as one I would cosplay – if I were ever taller and older-looking. That might take a while though. Or never at all.

I think I've figured out who I'm gearing for next year's events. As for this year, a confirmed update:

Cosfest [Midyear] – Chitose of Fatal Frame II
End-Year Event – Tsugiri of Alichino

And as for our boys, as some might be interested:
Alichino
Ryouko – Seishurou
Myoubi – Yanagi
Tsugiri – Sanada
Black Matsulika – Tsukisou
Enju – Ruka
Hyula – Si Ye

I've gotten materials for Ruka – it's…er…pretty bleah to me. XDD;;;; It's such a pity the cloth looks exactly like the screentone she used in the manga. I need to start early.

Next year for me, my tentative plan is Agito from Air Gear for midyear and Seika/Hyomu from Teikokusen Senki for year-end.

Art
It's been a while, and I have to admit I'm not strong on the art front right now. I did manage to do a few pieces though – today, specifically my first and only Deathnote fanart.


Click on the tiny tiny image to see it fullview on DevArt~~

I really liked this one, actually. It worked out and it looked like Raito and L. OMG! XDDD Also, it's to "It's Good to be In Love" by Frou Frou – because 'cucumber eyes', 'all of my clothes feel like somebody's old throwadays', 'I'm black and blue all over' reminds Djinn and I too much of L. XD

Other than that, today was the Chinese New Year celebrations and according to tradition, after writing the 'chun lian' [um, spring couplets I think] I started to draw with the calligraphy brush.

( And Yanagi is the result. )

I recently also completed the character sketches of Kenichi and Naoki from my original series G.A.T.E.S but I'm slowly CGing in the basic colours of their outfits so I can utilise it in the future.

Superdollfies
A while back after my dad had a bit of a fiasco with his girlfriend, he got guilty after seeing possibly SD-sized bicycles and was very willing to get them for us. Of course, we didn't resist and we packed up Si Ye and Sanada to go try out the scale.

At once when we saw the bikes, we knew they were MSD sized. There were two –

( They call them the male bike, and the female bike. )

We were estatic – it fit the MSDs perfectly and this was wonderful because Sanada and Yanagi attend school [transfer students] and it's so cute if they bike there. ::squee::

( These remind me of 60s Asian drama serials with guys in singlets/white shirts riding the bike along while the girl clings to them… )

I love the bikes. XD They're real, working miniatures, the gears, pedal and chain all turn when you move them.

I've also been spending one day a week sewing – Saturday night really. I've been getting something done which is good.

Also, here's the tangled web colourbar. I'm going to put it on my LJ userinfo, I suppose – and for you crazy but very nice people who might actually want the colourbar, here it is with the code –



tangled is love

Remove the spaces between the html brackets and the content in it, don’t worry about leeching bandwidth, gamers and HongKong people already do. Also, I might change the photos or add more sections so it'd be much more convenient :

< center >< a href="http://tangled.silentragedy.net" >< img src="http://tangled.silentragedy.net/tangledcolourbar.jpg" border="0" >< br >tangled is love< /a >< /center >

The bar links back to tangled, not to this entry nor am I going to put up a page in tangled for this. It's seriously ridiculous XDDD I just wanted one for myself. But if you seriously, really put it anywhere – please comment here so I'll know!

End
You see, this is what happens when I don't update for a long time. XD;

On a minor note – hmm. Somehow my SEMEautomatic [idea by Fraser for me – thank you!] icon looks somehow very perverse. XDD ::♥ Cyborg 009's 42::

::jumps:: tangled updated! With the new boys! ::mad dance::

They're so lovely and small - *___* so light, and so easy to carry...I guess this is the high-light of getting MSDs later, because they are so small and cute compared to the big boys. XDDD

Volks did a wonderful job on their faceups, Sanada is as awkward and stoic as he should be, and Yanagi's faceup is incredible. ::grin:: the specific shape of the red blush at the corners of his eyes are wonderful.

Sanada doesn't look like other F08s I'v eseen - of course I'm biased XD - for one, I've never seen one of normal skintone, and one not-smiling. Sanada has been painted specifically not to smile, and I love it. XDD He needs smaller, 14mm green glass eyes, anyone have any for sale? XD;;

Yanagi's eyes don't really seem to fit very well either, but it's much better than Sanada's because of the larger eye-wells. We wanted him to have eyes nearly filling up the entire eyewell anyway, so it's alright, but not for Sanada.

For more of the details on their faceups, go to Djinn's LJ, since she was the one who plotted it out anyway. XDD

The only reason why we have them so early, actually, is because Domuya had that 5% FCS discount for locals, so taking the opportunity, we decided to order them with Shan - and to keep anyone from knowing for a) a complete surprise, b) so that Djinn can change their faceups if needed. I think from Djinn's post and the pictures you see we didn't have to - ::laugh:: Great Volks.

We heard that they were coming on the Saturday [I think] night that they would be arriving in the next week. So I took the opportunity to tell Mainey. XDD and keep my mouth shut about the new boys, of course. On Wednesday and Thursday night, I rushed out two MSD yukatas - I didn't have any other material other than pink plisse XD;;; and goldfish plisse. Of course Sanada was going to scream if he got the pink - so...er...Yanagi got it. XD;

Djinn and I have been researching on sewing yukata and kimono for a while, and through many references to GothLoli and other book, I realised how to sew them, and how it worked just in the nick of time. The first yukata I ever sewed was Yanagi's, being verrrry frank, it is a girl-style yukata, which has open vents at the side of the sleeve inside, and longer length to fold up and tuck under the obi. Sanada's was of course the male-style one, without open vents. I worked from online MSD measurements and Shiina's measurements [thanks Shan! XD] and I was worried for a while about the fit, but I decided not to. XD; taking in consideration that Sanada's yukata was men's style without the excess cloth to fold up - I took a gamble on how long it should be, and on the length of the yukata collar, and it worked out great. ::relief:: I'm actually very proud of their yukatas.

I actually want to make Yanagi a Hinoto from X costume, and sell it - the challenge of the thousands of kimono layers XD;;; and the wig should be intersting, and he certainly fits the part. XD

We started research on kimono and how it worked because of these two little troublemakers. XDDD Because of our little miko-boy Yana-chan and our obligation in our mind to get the traditional wear right, we went through lots of pains figuring things out. Sanada, although half Caucasian, likes the Japanese culture [and Yanagi XDD] a lot, and so having his own yukata makes him really happy. ::laugh::

- back to what happened on Saturday, on that day we arrived early - say, 1pm or so, and asked to see them. We opened the respective boxes at the same time [the geeks we are, we did the same thing when Seishurou and Tsukisou came XD] and uh... XDDD Their bodies were upside down. XDDDDD So we, anticlimaxically turned it the right side up and gasped a lot. XDD Then squee-ed. XDDD You can imagine. Sanada was perfect, I couldn't really visualise him but when I saw him, I knew it was Sanada. Yanagi, with his streaks of red, and his sakura blossom lips ::giggles:: looked a little too sad in my opinion. So Djinn [being as paranoid as she is] pulled out the pastels she brought and worked her magic, just a little bit, and there was the final version of Yanagi.

We then dressed them, squee-ed more, called Mainey to ask what time she was coming, found out Tashigi was coming, and packed them up, 'Djinn-san' and 'Mae-san' labels blocked by the cow bag and 'Superdollfie' in gold blocked by a folded piece of paper. XDDD

When Tashi and Jasmine-san came in and asked where was Kazumi - Tashi's gaze swung to the white boxes, but I quickly pointed into the storage room. XDDDD;;; We spent the rest of the time poking and oohing over her Suzume, and watching TashiTashi agonize about the lack of battery in her camera. XD;;;

Djinn and I wandered off to get a bit of food from 7-11 - hadn't eaten lunch, and JUST at that time, I'm-Stuck-In-A-Traffic-Jam-Will-Be-Stuck-For-45-Minutes Mainey ARRIVED. =____= So we rushed back with a Slurpee and watched her open the box! XDD Kazumi turned out really smiley and cute [and is currently fitting into the family well, and owning a Techdeck skateboard XD] and his eyes were beautiful. XDDD I took many photos of him! XD I was so happy for Mainey, Djinn as well, and we were teaching Mainey and TashiTashi SD dynamics and holding and all that. XDD Remember, lessons require money!!

After a while, Candy asked - "Why aren't the new babies out with the new boy?" and well - wham-bang, the cat was out of the bag XDDD and out came the MSDs and Mainey telling me how MEAN I was. XD:;;;; What?!

Lots of photos ensued, titty boom. XDDD

Which brings me to the topic of photos -

Sanada Mikado

Stoic, serious, and wishywashy. XDDD

Yanagi Mikoto

Neutral. XDDD

( Both of them! <3<3 )


Mae: Go on! Say it! "I call you, Mini-me!!"
Seishurou: =___= Get this poofy wig off me and let me GO.
Tsukisou: ...
Sanada: *thinking* who's this man? is Mae trying to say I look like him? I don't want to look like him. I don't like him. I - ::worries::
Yanagi: ...

...You can see Papa on the far left, Mama on the far right. XDDDDDDD

Tsuki's gonna be their surrogate mother. HAHA

I got to take a proper family picture with Ruka, too. XDD I love these little boys, it's such a joy to bring them out. We just got geta for them which fit, too. XD ::happiness!:: tangled web has been updated with their new profiles [so odd to have 5 banners in profile] and a photoshoot of the MSD boys, plus Mainey's cute Kazumi and Hide/Kim-san's pretty "Sasha boy" En as well as photos of TashiTashi's Suzume in her new Miyavi dressie thing. XDD

Coming at you soon will probably the be the BJD crossover of the centuary - ::laugh:: Mistula meets tangled! After that will come the MSD photostories. XDD

I'll be busy the next few days working on my Chitose patterns. I finished Edward Elric arm in less than a week. Let's hope I can repeat the same feat again. XD:;;;

Loki-san - Hello Loki-san! XDD Thank you for commenting on my previous post - I didn't know you had an LJ! XDDD;;; Nor that you'd seen Tangled Web OR my LJ! XDDD I love the way Kitori and Aiden fit together, and the story concerning Manx. XDDD