An apology

Hey guys, I just wanted to make a post explaining why I haven't been so active recently and why I missed the last two weeks of reviews for Ginger Snap's Halloween-month.  And I am sorry about it.

You see, for the millionth time, I am crazy busy with school work.  I thought I survived Hell Week (midterms), but it turns out that between today and next sunday I have; two 6 page papers, two tests, and the first draft of my 25 page final paper for my writing intensive.
It was a very similar workload the past few weeks as well, and obviously school takes priority over blogging or whatever.
Since I spend so much time reading and writing anyway, the last thing I want to do with my downtime is write even more (or blog for that matter), so instead I've been marathoning different anime or TV shows.

While I did buy some time this weekend to not be doing school work, I have to head home and then make a calling to a dear friend who just lost her younger brother yesterday.
So on top of massive amounts of schoolwork and exhaustion, I'm just not in the mood to be thinking about horror or death right now.

My apologies.  I should be back in the near future, but until then have some photos of my Halloween costumes from last weekend and last night.

The boyfriend and I as Cecil and Carlos from Welcome to Night Vale last weekend

My friend as Cop! Stocking and myself as Cop! Panty from Panty and Stocking last night

The Welcome to Night Vale costumes were worn for the Halloween Party I threw last Friday, and the cop Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt costumes were worn for a costume contest during anime club that we placed first in.  Reference image to who we were being can be found here and the dubbed episode can be found here.

Here is a bonus photo of me and my boyfriend as Panty and Ghostbuster! Brief (though I can promise you right now I do not treat him the way she treats Brief, don't worry)!

Lame couple photo haha

On that note, I have to finish researching for a paper, and packing to go home today.
I'll ask you this though; what were you for Halloween?  Leave comments and links to your costumes, I'd love to see them!  Hope you had a great holiday and I'll see you next time I find time or energy to make a post!

Until then!

♥ the 'real' Tatum Riley

A late post about NYCC

I totally meant to write a New York Comic Con post on Sunday when I got back from it, however between school assignments and some personal issues I've been pretty unmotivated to so do.  Sorry.

But I'm here now!  And New York Comic Con was more than amazing, seriously, its just like...wow I can't even create real words to describe it.
In case you didn't know I'm actually a cosplayer, and if you are unfamiliar with the hobby, here is a link to its Wikipedia article.  I really love going to con's because I love wearing and seeing the effort that people put into costumes.  Its amazing, they make some of my favorite comic book, anime, movie, or video game characters come to life.

Not incredibly relevant to my blog theme, but my boyfriend and I decided to cosplay pajama Link and Tetra from Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and since it just got rereleased in HD, the crowds response to us was almost magical.  It took us so long to cross the lobby of the convention center because so many people wanted photos of or with us.

Hey thats us!

Now to actually get back to the purpose of this post, other than just to gloat about how much fun I had, here are some amazing horror cosplays I saw around the con.  Sadly I don't have any of the names of the cosplayers, so if by some odd chance you know who they are, please leave a comment saying who they are so I can credit them, because they looked so great I just have to give credit somehow.

Chestburster; Alien

"Sam;" Trick 'r Treat

Ash; Army of Darkness

Pyramid Head; Silent Hill

Colombia and Eddie; Rocky Horror Picture Show

Ok, so maybe Rocky Horror isn't really horror, but its a cult film and everyone likes it so deal with it.  Those two actually host Rocky Horror's midnight shows on Fridays in my hometown, according to my younger sister.  Who knew.

Also there was this one Pyramid Head cosplayer who, sadly, I couldn't get a photo of.  He was wearing stilts and was terrifying.  It was so cool.

Sorry for the less-than-great iPhone photos!  I'll probably make another post later tonight about my weekly review on Ginger Snap's blog for Halloween...and I guess you'll see another post from me there as well!

Until then, stay spooky.

♥ the 'real' Tatum Riley