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[soc_puppet]

Cool things on the web today:

Today's Sluggy Freelance - And I don't even watch Doctor Who.
Today's xkcd - Freedom! Sweet, glorious freedom! T^T Oh but to have tasted it sooner...
ANIME IOWA PRE-REGISTRATION: NOW OPEN - Guys guys go register so you can still get in relatively cheap, I will totally be able to put you up one way (my parents' house) or another (I actually have money for a hotel room). COME SEE MEEEEEEE.


Also nabbing that nifty meme that's making the rounds on my f'list, as I think it looks like hilarious good times. As with the Lurker Day stuff, I probably won't get to it until tomorrow-ish, but anticipation is supposed to be a good percentage of the fun? Er.

Name a character and I'll tell you how s/he lost her/his virginity.

Comments

[asrimal.livejournal.com]

Too far otherwise I would ttly be there.

[soc_puppet]

Alas, alack DD: Maybe some other con someday.

[asrimal.livejournal.com]

Your fault for living in the middle of the country.

[soc_puppet]

...Yes. Yes, I suppose it would have to be. *continues to flaunt her MidWesterner status by going to things like Acen and Anime Detour*

[asrimal.livejournal.com]

I may be going to ACen

[soc_puppet]

That would be another con, yes X3 I'll have to bring another shirt to sign, then. And also actually register.

[asrimal.livejournal.com]

Oh, that too. Also get my mother to let me go to Chicago for three days

[soc_puppet]

One thing at a time ;) I'll definitely have to bring the crap-metal rings around to Audience!Marry everyone again.

[asrimal.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha.

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

*in that stunned state halfway between cracking up laughing and hiding under the blankets with a knife* The, uh, dalek dressed up as a-- a something and, that, yeah.

Ooo, interesting meme. Hmmmmmmmm. Aged-up-Mitsuhiko, and will it involve tentacles? *hopeful*

[soc_puppet]

*peers at the comic, looking for something that's dressed as something else* Oh! It's dressed as this really bad-tempered kangaroo who keeps insisting that Horton's off his rocker.

XD Mitsuhiko's tentacle-virginity will be lost during what's supposed to be a study session for high school chemistry when the wrong two vials are knocked over onto either him or someone else. It may or may not be to Ai, depending on how het I'm feeling any given day.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

*stares at Anime Iowa thing* ...I want to go. It's just a matter of A) can I afford to this year, and B) I dun wanna be there by myself since I've never been to a con before, and if you're working... T_T

For the meme, I say...Kaito. Because I am boring and predictable like that.

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

...Mayhaps my/our/a trip out to visit you could just happen to be around the same time as Anime Iowa? Huh? Huh?

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

That...is actually sort of an awesome idea o.o

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

Yay I win!! :D

I vote we decide during this first phase, though, cause yeah. Cheaper.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we'll need to figure this out quickly. I don't know if we'd want to have you guys come up and visit me here for a few days and then carpool over to the con, maybe? Then we can have the best of both worlds! We'd need to run it by Rach, too. See what she says. And then after the con if you guys wanted to crash at my apartment and get a full night's rest before heading back to SC...

*is really thinking about this now*

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

*bounces* Yay! Yeah, that might work. Kinda depends on what Rach can work out, though. Unless I snuck over without her >_>;

[soc_puppet]

I approve of this plan! (Alternate plan/s involve me dragging either/both of you to Anime Central in May, which would make Anime Iowa your second convention. This definitely works, though!)

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

w00t! OMG, I would love to go to ACen! @_@ But getting over there can be hard and it's probably the weekend before finals again with my luck. Plus I don't know how much it costs XD

[soc_puppet]

I wouldn't be surprised :/ I'll have to check on the price, but depending on scheduling stuff and other stuff, I might be able to borrow Mom's car and drive us all over.

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, yeah, if it could work out... *_*. I would freaking study for my tests in the car if need be. As long as it's not windy.

I could always take the train to Eastern Iowa if need be XD. My mom is obsessed with Amtrack now o.o;

[soc_puppet]

Okay, I have checked! It's currently $45/person, and pre-reg will remain open until the end of the month. The con will be May 4-6.

That could definitely work :3

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

The site's telling me it's the 16th to the 18th... *went to look* Cause, whichever it is, it's either over a week before or right after finals @_@. I couldn't go until the night of the 16th/morning of the 17th, though, unless I convince my choir director she doesn't need me to sing at graduation. Which won't happen unless I come up with a really really good excuse XD;

[soc_puppet]

Again, there's also the lovely option of going to Anime Central first, thus getting your con virginity taken care of before I have to be staff anywhere. Of course, that might also conflict with A. But if you register for AI right now, it'll only cost ...what, thirty-five bucks? Plus transportation. And then you could stay with me for either a fraction of a hotel room price or with me and my parents for free! And and and... *trails off* Uh, yeah. And we plan to open registration way early this year, so hopefully we'll have most of the line taken care of before the con even opens on Friday, though it's likely we'll get a bit of a rush closer to the eleventh hour, as it were.

....Because I am not boring and predictable, Kaito will lose his virginity to Pandora on the night he finally finds it, because he will be in great need of somewhere to ...hide it.

[samcurt.livejournal.com]

I'd ponder... of course Coralville is good for me (exactlt 30 mins on foot from home), but is Coralville the only venus for this...?

[soc_puppet]

The Coralville Mariott is the only place the convention is going to be held for the forseeable future, yes. And I'm sure there's busses that could take you closer if need be.

[samcurt.livejournal.com]

Since I already live close to 1st/2nd Coralville, Marriott is not a problem. You see, I walked to Perkin's to have turkey on Thanksgiving. I just wondered why it was always there-- as if most anime fans in Iowa are in the eastern half of this state.

[soc_puppet]

Actually, it only moved there last year; before that, it was held in Ceder Rapids or Des Moines, before we outgrew the hotels there. We're putting a limit on attendees, though, so we're unlikely to outgrow the nice new place.

[girlquinn.livejournal.com]

I call upon Zuko of Avatar for the meme!

[soc_puppet]

...The urge to forstall any huge fandom disagreements compels me to give you three options:

1) Someday not long after this whole war thing is all over, Mai will pin him to the bed (possibly with knives) and make it easy on him;
2) Someday even longer after this whole war thing is over, he and Katara will get over their differences somehow and end up having very awkward sex probably in a hotel in Earth Kingdom;
3) It already happend; Jet did it on the ferry ride to Ba Sing Se.