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superhero_musesI GOT WRITING DONE THIS WEEK! Solid, enjoyable fic writing. It felt so good and it's been so long. *happy sigh* Now I'm really hoping to tackle something DC-related in addition to the wrestling once more.
--Does your most recent POV character have an obsession? Name it.
Ahhhahahaha, this is a good one for Kevin Owens, who is basically a seething ball of various obsessions: with food, with success, with proving himself better than anyone else, and with his ex-friend Sami Zayn. I love characters with obsessions, they drive stories forward and add so much tension (superheroes without obsessions are rare indeed!)
How are your obsessions going lately? And your writing? (For me they are much the same...)
--Does your most recent POV character have an obsession? Name it.
Ahhhahahaha, this is a good one for Kevin Owens, who is basically a seething ball of various obsessions: with food, with success, with proving himself better than anyone else, and with his ex-friend Sami Zayn. I love characters with obsessions, they drive stories forward and add so much tension (superheroes without obsessions are rare indeed!)
How are your obsessions going lately? And your writing? (For me they are much the same...)
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Date: 2017-09-04 07:51 am (UTC)I hope the kimono panel goes great! Is it for a con? What kinds of things are you covering?
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Date: 2017-09-05 01:56 am (UTC)Yup! It's for an anime convention and I hope I can do well enough in front of people. XD Things sound great in my head and then get a lot less great in reality. But I have REALLY been wanting to do this panel for a few years, and after last year's host said that a kimono is only made out of silk, and if it is made out of something else, synthetic, wool, hemp, etc., then it's just a yukata... And that is so not right.
I mean, the availability of synthetic has sort of helped with the approachability of kimono to young and people new to kimono. Silk is a scary and precious fabric! Especially when you factor in the dying techniques, like kyo-yuuzen, or Oshima tsumugi... The price point of an authentic, new mud-dyed Oshima tsumugi can give you a heart attack, and yet, it can only be worn as an informal kimono! Even used Oshima tsumugi can leave a heavy coin purse quite bereft. (This is also what I am afraid of doing, just rambling on and on and on. lol) But the usefulness of a hitoe synthetic kimono is kind of invaluable to a first-time buyer, and even people who just like to wear kimono often, since they can be put into a washing machine, so long as they are folded properly and put in a garment bag and run through on the gentle cycle. That's a lot friendlier than kimono that, typically, need to be completely picked apart, sewn back into a bolt the original bolt form, washed, then sewn back into a kimono. Expensive! And also not really a service available in America. I don't really trust dry cleaning, either, just because so many of the dyes are not colour fast and I've heard a lot of tales of kimono dry cleaning gone horrible.
Aaaanywho. I mostly want to focus on the basics (but even that is iffy to properly get through in less than 2 hours) and getting people started on where to buy kimono and where they turn to to educate themselves. It's only a 2 hour panel, so, not a lot I can say in that time, but I really want to pass on some knowledge and point people in the right direction. I'm putting together a list of books (and of course, I just bought another 200$ worth of kimono books. For science!) that have helped me over the years, and the books themselves are fairly cheap, plus a list of Youtube channels, and other websites. The last few years, the hosts just didn't have the knowledge to truly pass on to people, and I was left pretty disappointed that not only did I not learn anything new, but I heard a lot of incorrect information. So, for kimono, I will get over my fear of talking in front of people!!! I guess that's, probably, a good growing/learning experience, too. If I want to be mature like that.
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Date: 2017-09-13 09:38 am (UTC)100 kimono this year, I am kind of in awe! That sounds lovely, what a beautiful closet you must have...