I get to work at a museum.  I get to work at a museum.  I am so happy.

This makes me even more excited for upcoming cons and cosplay.  For Sangawa I plan to be Applejack (My Little Pony), Belarus (Hetalia) and Rina (Mermaid Melody).  darkseraphim04 will be Fluttershy (My Little Pony) and Vietnam (Hetalia).  My friend Phynix will be Rarity (My Little Pony) and Whit will be Female Italy (Hetalia).  And there will be cute little pony stickers and hopefully I will have all my panels accepted.

For Kurokiiro I am tentatively being casual Erika from Heartcatch Pretty Cure.  Tekkoshocon I know I am being Cure White from Futari wa Pretty Cure. 

I want to redo my America cosplay.  It needs to be even BETTER.  I also want to eventually cosplay as d'Eon from Le Chevalier d'Eon.

Here is an interesting article that talks a little bit about the Hakka Tung Blossom Festival in Taiwan.  http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/taiwan-issues/2012/05/07/340207/Hakka-Tung.htm

I have a thing where every day I get emailed news articles on Taiwan and Belarus.  Well, I got an interesting one today about Taiwan and Poland, who actually are pretty close according to it.  In the e-mail it says they are trying to build even stronger ties and that they already trade US $1 billion worth of goods.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/foreign-affairs/2012/05/04/339975/Taiwan-Poland.htm

Love rare ships?  Interested in an exchange for rare ships?  Well, the rare ship swap is open for nominations!  Four fandoms with four pairings from each!  It is waiting for you!

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Square Enix has this project called Fabula Nova Crystallis.  This translates to "new tale of the crystal."*  This is used as an umbrella for three games that take place on unique worlds, but share a common mythology.  The games in it are Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Type-0.

( Final Fantasy spoilers )

Is this a new direction for Final Fantasy in general?  Is Final Fantasy now going to be a series where there are no happy endings?  Or is this just the Fabula Nova Crystallis?

*a more accurate translation is "the new tale to/by/with the crystals"

Link: http://female-fest.dreamwidth.org/4395.html(Prompt post)

Description: A multifandom fic-fest celebrating the female-centric relationship in fandom

Sign-up date/deadline: Accepting prompts through midnight, Central US time, Mid June. Masterlist of prompts go up on the 25th of June to begin claiming.

Due date: No later than September 14

Posting date: 14 August- 14 September

For those that do not know, Vocaloid is a series of programs that allow you to create singing using a library of voice samples taken from a real human.  The software has been made in a variety of languages and by multiple companies.  The most famous by far is Miku Hatsune.  She was the third Japanese Vocaloid and the overall seventh one.  She was made by Crypton.  The other most popular Vocaloids are Meiko, Kaito, Len, Rin and Luka.  It should be noted that all of these are from Crypton.  There are over thirty Vocaloids.  Sadly, the English speaking ones are often not as well known by people.  So, let's talk English Vocaloids!

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And there we have it, all the currently released English singing Vocaloids with one demo song for each.