So I would do one of those #Drawmylife videos-- but I can't draw. I also suck at using the computer so usually I get other people to do computer stuff for me and they probably would not edit an entire video for me... As I've been talking to fans and stuff they seam to like to know personal things about me, so I wanted to write a little-- what got me into cosplay blerb so that you guys understood me a little bit better.
My alias is Sugar Blossom Cosplay. The name really doesn't mean much-- i just got frustrated with the Facebook name system so I ended up with that. My real name though is Micah, and I got it from my dad. My Grandma was really biblical before Alzheimers kicked in, and she made that his middle name. When my parents found out they were having a baby, I was going to be a Micah whether I was a boy or a girl. I was a girl, and ended up with a boy name. Which got me teased a lot, but the meaning of the name is pretty cool. My name means "Who is like God?"
I have an older sister, who's name is Katrina. We never really got along. The term fights like cats and dogs-- probably would apply to my relationship with my sister. We're kind of polar opposites. She's very detail oriented and I'm very creative and expressive. She inverted and i'm an extrovert. One thing that we shared though was Sailor Moon. I've seriously been watching Sailor Moon my entire life.
Because of Sailor Moon, I have an obsession with red roses. I quote it when I'm not feeling happy, and it's really my go to. It however was not my gateway into anime. As much as I watched Sailor moon and loved Japanese things, anime did not come as easy to me. Anime actually started from books-- or manga.
I am a huge reader. I read everything. I have over 800 books just chilling in various places in my rooms. My book shelves are so full that i have horizontal books on top of the vertical books and then of course stacks of books in the basement. My favorite books include The Sound and the Fury, The Tithe, Heart of Darkness, and the Truth about Forever. I want to eventually become a young adult author which is something not many people know about me.
My godfather supported my love of books. He would take me to the book store and buy me whatever I wanted. I'd usually end up with between 5-10 books, outside of Christmas time. Christmas time-- I'd easily have two of those little hand carts full of books. One time when I was picking up books, I wanted to see if they had the Sailor Moon manga, and I found out that there were other manga. I actually ended up picking up chobits, volume 3. I was so scared of being in that section that I just kind of grabbed it because I liked the art.
After this one random volume of chobits, i learned not to be embarrassed in that section. Quickly I started reading all of the other series that I could get my hands on. I read inuyasha, hana kimi, red river, wallflower... the list continues on forever. I found out that I loved Shojo. I found out what Shojo and Shonen meant, and then Shojo beat started. I have every issue of that magazine, and I read them all cover to cover and all of the manga in them.Then, I would go to the book store and specifically only buy all of the Shojo beat manga.
I had a couple friends that actually read manga too, and that was pretty cool. One of them is Nikita Iszard, artist (look her up on facebook). When we got to high school, we found out that there was an anime club. I never loved anime the way I loved manga, but being in anime club I watched a lot more than I'd ever watch by myself (not counting sailor moon). And, my president cosplayed.
On Halloween he came dresses as a red power ranger, and I think we had anime club that day. He told us about an anime convention where everybody apparently dressed up. My first con was anime-usa and then I kind of never stopped.
I didn't dress up for AUSA, but I did see a lot of awesome costumes. I wanted to join them so badly, and I went to Katsucon without a costume too. My parents though went with me to Katsucon if I remember correctly, and they started making cosplaying a possibility.
Mom always made dresses for my sister, so she already knew how to sew. Cosplaying though is completely different, but she thought that she could figure it out. For Otakon 2007, I debuted lady subaru and it was all downhill from there. I then did Princess Kakyuu for Otakon 2010. Sailor Kakyuu was debuted at Otakon 2011.
Kakyuu was really a love of mine because I sat and like gold dusted every flower individually, and I put hand stitches between them and cut them out of card stock. The details on the costume were amazing, and it really reminded me what I missed about cosplay.
My group though was what really made the catalytic thing happen. I debuted a final fantasy group at Otakon 2012. Me and my mom made all of the costumes. She did most of the sewing while I did the props and all of the fun little details. I had to do things for that group that were unimaginable to me before. I made a zanarchand symbol out of hot glue. I made guns out of wood. I made a Gippal collar out of poster board.
My boyfriend helped me with everything. He was always sanding or using the scalpel to get the correct hot glue shape and he took so many pictures for us at Otakon. I had got messaged on my cosplay account about meeting for beautiful pictures. I was so flattered. I've never worked with Bentpic5 again, just because our schedules never worked out. But... him messaging me... and saying "Hey, your work is awesome, I would love to shoot it" really opened up my world to being a good cosplayer.
I started setting up shoots for every costume since then and every costume from now to eternity because when I got back bentpic5's pictures, I think I texted them to every single person in my phone. I was so elated.
I then started picking back up those old small cons that I had never given a second chance to. I fell back in love with Katsucon, and I hope to see more cons in my cosplay life time. It's so awesome to get to work with different people, and meet people and talk to them about the things we love and the things duct taped to our body.
If you actually read through this, I want to say thank you for looking at me on this personal level, and thank you for supporting all that I do. When I'm sitting there crying because the hot glue isn't melting right or I'm going to have to remake a whole sailor skirt because I snagged a pleat-- I go and look at all of the positive feedback from my fans and it literally means the world to me.
Thank you guys <3 .="" br="">
I would write more but I think you're probably tired of reading <<; If i get any good feed back i'll probably write a-- what cosplay means to me blerb.
