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Back from Yaoi-Con! It was awesome as always. Many laughs, fun events, great people, good times. It's sad leaving such a fun con, and especially because I was hanging out with toggy and astrokittie at the end and I didn't want to leeeeave. Needless to say, now I'm exhausted! I was up until 4 AM last night because I was at the dance until 3 AM and then took a shower and whatnot, and I did not want to get out of the comfy, pillow-filled hotel bed today. Yet again I missed the panel Foods Corrupted by Yaoi because I slept in--every year I think I'm going to go and be amused, and every year I sleep too late.

I'm not even into yaoi manga because most of it is, frankly, not very good storytelling, but I bought a stack of it because for $2 a book and one free for every five you buy, I couldn't resist. Hopefully some of it will be good, or at least amusing, and if not, no big loss! (Yes, I do ship plenty of m/m pairings and in fact love pairings of all flavors, it's just the actual canon yaoi manga tends not to be so great as a whole. I'm sure there are exceptions, though!)

I love how Yaoi-Con is so easygoing, accepting, and entertaining. There's just a wonderful attitude and spirit to it. It's definitely my favorite smaller convention. I guess they're going to be moving it to LA, which is disappointing and makes it much more difficult for me to go, but I'll probably still go every year. I hope, at least. I really think it should stay in the bay area, though, no matter what DMP wants to do. :( I tend to get nervous over big changes with cons I love, but hopefully it'll retain its current awesomeness level.

Too tired to say much more, I'll have to write more tomorrow once I've gotten some sleep and relaxing in.

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Back from Yaoi-Con! It was awesome as always. Many laughs, fun events, great people, good times. It's sad leaving such a fun con, and especially because I was hanging out with toggy and astrokittie at the end and I didn't want to leeeeave. Needless to say, now I'm exhausted! I was up until 4 AM last night because I was at the dance until 3 AM and then took a shower and whatnot, and I did not want to get out of the comfy, pillow-filled hotel bed today. Yet again I missed the panel Foods Corrupted by Yaoi because I slept in--every year I think I'm going to go and be amused, and every year I sleep too late.

I'm not even into yaoi manga because most of it is, frankly, not very good storytelling, but I bought a stack of it because for $2 a book and one free for every five you buy, I couldn't resist. Hopefully some of it will be good, or at least amusing, and if not, no big loss! (Yes, I do ship plenty of m/m pairings and in fact love pairings of all flavors, it's just the actual canon yaoi manga tends not to be so great as a whole. I'm sure there are exceptions, though!)

I love how Yaoi-Con is so easygoing, accepting, and entertaining. There's just a wonderful attitude and spirit to it. It's definitely my favorite smaller convention. I guess they're going to be moving it to LA, which is disappointing and makes it much more difficult for me to go, but I'll probably still go every year. I hope, at least. I really think it should stay in the bay area, though, no matter what DMP wants to do. :( I tend to get nervous over big changes with cons I love, but hopefully it'll retain its current awesomeness level.

Too tired to say much more, I'll have to write more tomorrow once I've gotten some sleep and relaxing in.

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Not something I talk about much, but I figured I'd talk about Pokémon cards briefly.

I am nowhere near a "serious" card collector, though I do enjoy casually collecting. There aren't very many cards I really want, but there are a few. My favorite cards are old Japanese promos. This is mostly because, I remember as a child reading about these in magazines and online. They seemed so unattainable, legendary, things you stared at and dreamed of but never saw in real life. They had almost a mythical status at the time.

Several of those cards are now mine. I have JR "Lilypad" Mew, JR surfing Pikachu, the first Birthday Pikachu brand new in its packaging, and also a card I really thought I'd never have, Grand Party. It's awesome to get these items that I daydreamed about so long ago, and see them in my card binder. I have many other cards that are special as well, but perhaps not as special as those four.

I still have some cards I want--McDonalds promo Mew 033/P, the Natta Wake promo birthday Pikachu and probably all the birthday Pikachu cards really, and the Worlds promo cards with surfing Pikachu on them, among others--but overall, I'm very satisfied with the cards I have. I think it's just amazing to have these items that are certainly not as rare as I used to think (they were overhyped), but if my younger self could know that I have them, she would be awestruck. It brings me back to when I was younger and it felt like they were the some of the most incredible things you could possibly have. They are cherished items to me for that reason--they evoke that magical feeling I had as a kid, and still often have, about Pokémon.

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Not something I talk about much, but I figured I'd talk about Pokémon cards briefly.

I am nowhere near a "serious" card collector, though I do enjoy casually collecting. There aren't very many cards I really want, but there are a few. My favorite cards are old Japanese promos. This is mostly because, I remember as a child reading about these in magazines and online. They seemed so unattainable, legendary, things you stared at and dreamed of but never saw in real life. They had almost a mythical status at the time.

Several of those cards are now mine. I have JR "Lilypad" Mew, JR surfing Pikachu, the first Birthday Pikachu brand new in its packaging, and also a card I really thought I'd never have, Grand Party. It's awesome to get these items that I daydreamed about so long ago, and see them in my card binder. I have many other cards that are special as well, but perhaps not as special as those four.

I still have some cards I want--McDonalds promo Mew 033/P, the Natta Wake promo birthday Pikachu and probably all the birthday Pikachu cards really, and the Worlds promo cards with surfing Pikachu on them, among others--but overall, I'm very satisfied with the cards I have. I think it's just amazing to have these items that are certainly not as rare as I used to think (they were overhyped), but if my younger self could know that I have them, she would be awestruck. It brings me back to when I was younger and it felt like they were the some of the most incredible things you could possibly have. They are cherished items to me for that reason--they evoke that magical feeling I had as a kid, and still often have, about Pokémon.