Con Report: Mid-Ohio Con

Gads, it's been fahreeehhhhvah since I last blogged!



At Mid-Ohio Con, we schmoozed with the 501st Regiment.



In a manner of speaking.


Lindsay got her picture with Ray Park----


Oh wait, here it is. XD


Which of course made Barbara just a touch jealous.

Don't worry, they worked it out eventually.


Even our mascot had a good time.


More schmoozing. XD



We also got to hang out with Boba Fett.

I mean, Daniel Logan, who PLAYED young Boba Fett (Lookit those fantastic arms!)


Everybody likes Leia's chain!

Aaaand here's the websites off some fliers I collected; one of my favorite parts of cons.

http://www.robyngriggs.net
-This lady gave me a pretty photograph for free because she was out of business cards. XD

http://www.D20girls.com
-Their card says they specialize in everything.

http://www.expressprintplus.com
-Brad McDevitt.

http://www.jayfife.com
-Illustration, portraits, graphic design. :3

Tortuga Trading Post
-This was from the pirate with the hammer from Barbara's video. He is awesome. Right before we had to leave he treated me to a prop-sword fight-- the kind of swords you can actually hit people with without hurting the people or the swords? And it was ROCKING. As soon as I have money for it, this is the first place I'm going.

www.hangingchadentertainment.com
-They have comics. :3

Blue Collar Invasion
-So do they, and they're also wonderfully audacious. XD

A Life of Science
-They're making a comic and an album as one package. All I know is that the robot on the cover was sleek and sexy.

Alienated Productions
-Their Myspace says they're 101 years old. I find this highly dubious. XD

David M. Bancroft
-This guy gave Lindsay a free Slave Leia print for posing with him in her costume. I say not fair! XD

Pickle Press
-More comics! :x This dude's logo is mildly disturbing.

Back Porch Comics
-These guys didn't have a card, they had a flier to a small press and alt. comics expo. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. And it's not until April! Maybe I'll have cash by then! XD

Anyway, that's the end of it.

(coughs)

Signing off-
Jessi-sama

I dislike

browsers that constantly ask me if they should remember passwords. There are five people who use this computer, some of us log into the same sites, and at least one of them has reason to be nosy. Also I have a lot of websites I log into, and you never know who can look into your computer's records while you're online.

Of COURSE I don't want the damn password remembered! Sheesh.

Signing off-
-Jessi-sama

We have a walking machine now

Mum und Da brought a used FreeStyle Gazelle home from the Goodwill about a week ago, so we've all been using it, because Mama mine wishes us to be in shape.

I spend ten minutes on the stupid thing, walking at my normal, brisk walk-- and I get a stich in my side. I am the skinniest adult person in this household at under 120 pounds, and can spend the least time on the stupid thing because I get a stitch in my side. Anybody who thinks skinny=in shape is a moron.

Meanwhile, my cat is 22 inches long (not counting the tail) and weighs fifteen pounds-- Very large for a cat. (And not all that weight is length.) And she can jump a foot into the air from a lying down position.

So now I'm jealous of my cat.

Signing off-
-Jessi-sama

SO hey I revamped my forum

I got a forum for The Law of Purple some time ago. And while it tends to be quiet even on its best days (and filled with robots other days, although I admit I find them mildly hilarious) it's always been a nice place to dump background stuff about the comic.

So this past January, I started a new comic, Alien Revenant. And I had this nice forum just sitting there, minding its own business--

so I changed its name from The Law of Purple Forums to the GDG Comics Forums and added a section for Alien Revenant. (GDG acronymizes my username, Golden Dragon Girl. I'm considering using it as a name for what amounts to being my own little comic "company." Not that I actually make any money off the damn thing yet.)

AR's section hasn't got an in depth "About the Comic" section yet, so I can't actually link that at the moment. But I CAN tell you this about AR:

It is heavy duty science fantasy, duudes. XD Possibly the heaviest scifa story I'll ever do. Aside from the story itself, which you can read the comic for, it features not only alien settings, but full on alien languages, and I get to show off one of my insaner hobbies (making up languages.)

So why did I start another webcomic at the beginning of the year? It's not like this is the best time in my life for it.

But it was the time. And if I can help it, it won't be the only new comic I start this year, certainly not the only new comic I'll be doing art for this year. (Invid likes to write stories too-- but he hates drawing, the freeloader.)

If you see a post about a merchandise store in the near future don't be too surprised.

Signing off-
-Jessi-sama

Speaking as a religious person

I am really tired of hearing people talk about how we need to dispense of religion because "it's holding us back and always has."

Not only is that insulting to me as a religious person (who attends church every week and who recieves about a third of her human interaction from that church) but it's brain-numbingly untrue.

Exhibit A: Before the Christian sect got its start, people in the Roman Empire considered it perfectly acceptable to leave unwanted infants to die in the street, or to be taken in and sold as slaves. Christians started the concept of orphanages, which, while they have their faults, are certainly better than letting infants starve to death in the gutter. Christianity uplifted the worth of a human being to that of something worth preserving.

Exhibit B: The world's first athiests (although they made a show of following gods, as a cover) were the great Greek philosophers. They believed that the only thing on Earth worth study was the human mind, so they accepted with glee the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe. When the Catholic Church picked this up it was because of the Greeks, not because of any original Christian edict-- and when the first Medieval scientists first began to study the world around them, it was because they felt that, if God had made the whole blamed thing, that made it worth studying.
In short-- If we had listened to the Greek philosophers, we would still think the sun revolved around us. The Catholic Church may have persecuted the people who discovered otherwise, but if it hadn't been for Christian attitudes they would have never figured it out in the first place.

Exhibit C: Genetics were discovered by a monk.

Exhibit D: The Protestant Ethic. It made the United States the most powerful nation in the world, yo.

Religion connects people. It gives them disciplines to live by. It gives them laws of the soul. Abolishing religion is not going to make close-minded people more open-minded. If anything, it will produce chaos and anarchy. Chaos and anarchy always go hand in hand with terrible violent death.

If that's what religion is holding us back from, I will gladly let it.

Signing off-
-Jessi-sama will blog next about stem-cells if someone comments about such. If not, probably about my webcomic or Dollhouse or something.