Hey guys! (°Д°)/
First of all I want to apologize for neglecting my f-list for such a long time. I've been doing an internship at the Berlin State Library (East Asia Department) that was quite time-consuming. But just to let you know: I'm still alive. And: I've read all your entries (even though I hardly ever commented).
And:I love you guys ó_ò. Just so you know.
Anywhoooo, some time has passed. I'm officially a quarter-century old now (and still feel like the dorky klutz I've been for the past ... 15 years?). Due to the (awesome) internship my spring break has been awfully short (read: one week), so I'm terribly behind with all my papers for uni and seriously lacking some quality leisure time.
Nonetheless, my sister and I decided to go to Book Fair Leipzig two weeks ago. I wasn't exactly what you'd call a recreation from work (it was quite stressfull to be honest), but a nice and welcome change.
There's not much to write about the book fair itself. It was pretty much the same as every year, just a lot more crowded. Unfortunately, I missed a lot of people I've been really looking forward to meet （´°Ａ°`）, but still I had a lot of fun being with my sister and our friend Sarah.
This time, we were dressed up as Miku and Luka from Vocaloid2 (Magnet Ver.).
I first got to know Vocaloid through seeing various cosplays on Cure and found myself quite surprised when I realised, that Vocaloid wasn't a video game, but a singing synthesizer software and that Miku was merely a mascot. On top of that, I didn't like the computer-generated voices at all and thus never quite managed to warm to the different songs. However, I was really fascinated by the self-producing fanbase behind Vocaloid, so I continued to browse NicoNico Douga for new songs and Pixiv for new artwork. It was then that I stumbled across Magnet. Not only did I LOVE the artwork, but the song was really catchy as well - My personal favourite is the version sung by Hitori and Che:Sakurai (Watch it on YouTube), but the original version isn't that bad either, because Luka's voice doesn't sound as unnatural and unpleasant as Miku's.
So I decided to cosplay Luka, because I was looking for a costume that would go with my pink wig anyway. Perfect. Plus, my sister quickly agreed to do Miku, so everything was settled.
 | Megurine Luka & Hatsune Miku - Magnet Ver. (Vocaloid) Sewing the dresses was very simple and I'm really satisfied with the outcome. They're more or less original desings, because you can only see the top parts in the reference picture (there is a lot of fan art with different designs, though). I decided to make Miku's dress short and cute and (as a contrast) Luka's dress more sexy and elegant. I drafted the patterns almost from scratch, so I'm all the more surprised that they worked out so well. The infamous butterfly headsets were tricky, but together we did it somehow. I really like them ♥ This time I also put some more effort into our make-up, using a lot of red eyeshadow, blush and long fake lashes, to somehow recreate the look in the reference picture. It turned out that my sister has been holding out on us. I always knew that she's pretty, but everytime I looked at her at the con I couldn't help but think that she's the cutest Miku out there (〃･艸･) ♪ I know that, as her sister, I might be kinda biased, though XD ↓ pictures in the 1st row were taken by Krone ♥ ↓↓ pictures in the 2nd and 3rd row were taken by us |
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Oh, by the way: Here's the video for those who aren't familiar with Vocaloid ↓
On a totally different note and for all my fellow future librarians:
Whoever said that librarians had no sense of humor was wrong.
During my internship I came across an interesting door when I was in the stacks ↓
Sign reads: "Dublettenkammer des Schreckens" ("duplicate-copies-chamber of secrets")
