Tomorrow at 4am (><) I’m leaving to go to Germany for 3 weeks. Why? I was born in Germany and lived there for 6 years and my entire family excluding my parents and my brother and I still live there, so we try to visit about once a year. This year it just happened to be for the holidays.
My nendos and dolls are coming along for the ride, of course!!
In addition to my beloved Banpresto Cafe Maids, I got two other little figures at Bakuretsucon, nearly two months ago now but because of school I didn’t get a chance to review them earlier. Since they’re not scaled figures I won’t give them my usual full review but these are nice little figures that deserve a post to themselves.
The figures are from Growlanser IV and made by Vice. I know nothing about the characters but the artstyle on the box attracted me. The characters that I ended up with are Frane and Tippi.
Bridget, of course!
Before Black Rock Shooter came along and dragged me down the inescapable rabbit hole of figure collecting, there was Bridget. I saw a review of this figure about two years ago and loved it so much that I bookmarked the page, going back to it every now or then to look at it. This was before I knew anything at all about figures… in fact, I had no idea that there was even a slim chance that I would ever own such a pretty figure. For some reason, figures were in that void of “things in Japan that will never find their way to the remote tundra of Vermont.”
BOOM. So along comes Shooter and puts everything in perspective. Of course, when I started collecting, I knew there was one figure (aside from Shooter herself) that I ABSOLUTELY MUST have in my shelf. And that was Bridget.
This image has kicked around on my computer for a little while and I thought I might as well share it. aka let’s procrastinate
ZD’s final character design. (click for bigger/clearer image!)
This is only one (cropped) version of this image. I have lots of versions as I intend to animate this for a vocaloid PV. Miku’s version is here. Used this for my new banner as well, as the other one was a bit rough ><
Okay, now back to studying… ;.;
I’ve been keeping fish since I was very young. I think I owned my first betta (fighting fish or Betta splendens to be technical) when I was about 7 and it was one of the first pets that I could have in my room. The hobby grew quickly– to the dismay of my parents– and when I was in my early teens I often had as many as five aquariums set up in my room alone. In high school I was bred and raised bettas and convict cichlids. That’s not counting the pond ^^;
In any case, when college came along things changed a bit. No longer being in my parents’ nest allowed me to start pursuing more allergy-causing pets, like my chinchilla, hamster, and quail. Fish still have a very special place in my heart, but as my freshwater aquarium was standing nearly empty for awhile I decided to reduce it down to a smaller container and placed the big 20-gallon into retirement.
To add a little color to the otherwise (nearly) uninhabited bowl, I returned once again to my beloved bettas. Unfortunately for him, there appears to be a cat in the house…
As promised, I took Shiro out so that he could experience snow for the first time. He has only been part of my life since March so this will be his first winter with me.
It didn’t take very long for me to discover that he is actually a winter doll. No setting has ever suited him this well. I only took a few shots (the snow had started to melt a little and wasn’t as pristine and soft as I would’ve liked) but he looks absolutely in his element in each one. I had trouble selecting specific ones to upload.
This morning, I woke up to…
… the first snow of the season! Hardly more than a dusting, but enough to make everything look a little more like winter.
Of course, my first thought was “photoshoot!” but since this is the last week of school for me with finals starting on Friday, sadly I have to resist the urge to take my figures out. However, I have lots of ideas for shoots in the future so once I survive school you can expect more photostories!
In the spirit of the start of real snowfall, you should now see virtual snow falling on my site! ^^
Do you get snow where you live?
She arrived today and she has completely captured my heart. I know nothing about the character or show (Da Capo II… although I plan on watching it soon) and to be honest, 75% of the reason I ordered this nendo is because I am a nekomimi addict and there was no way I was going to miss out on her. The remaining 25% was the fact that her faces are simply so cute!!
Don’t you just want to give her a big hug? >w<
Emma, my other half, recently took up knitting and she was kind enough to make Shiro a new sweater and two scarves! They’re absolutely beautiful and my boy loves them. It called for a photoshoot of course!
Just a new image for ZD’s first vocaloid PV. Hopefully Vocaloid will start behaving soon so I can start putting together the final product. Until then, I’ll just keep myself busy with the core images.
Clicking the image will bring you to its deviantart page. ^^
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