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Birthdays and other not-so random notions
Jun. 18th, 2012 08:04 amJust a friendly little reminder that Lymle's birthday is this Wednesday. Please have any artwork, drabbles, vignettes, and poetry submitted by midnight tomorrow night. You can email them to me at luthersfayt@gmail.com
So this week, I plan on wrapping up my discussion on the agricultural side of the underdeveloped planets. Of course, once I get the chance to play Second Story/Second Evolution, there could be more to write. As I've already cheated a little and headed over to gamefaqs.com to see what kind of items were available for First Departure, I'm not going to worry about adding Roak to the conversation. (Roak happened to be the third planet in the discussion anyway, thanks to The Last Hope and harvesting points.) Also, thanks to finding her website, on Friday, I'll be taking a look at Laura Bailey's career as a voice actress. For those who don't know (and haven't followed my blog all that much), Laura gives voice to Reimi Saionji and Welch Vineyard in The Last Hope, though she remains uncredited in the game's credits. (I've sent out a request to Laura, asking if I can interview her for the blog . . . Not heard back yet so I don't know if it'll be a yay or a nay on the interview. Even so, I'll still be taking a look at her career for this upcoming Friday.)
Lymle's birthday is on Wednesday. If you have any one-shot fiction, poetry, or artwork, you'd like to share to celebrate her day, I'd appreciate it. Submissions can be mailed to luthersfayt@gmail.com and I will post them. Edge is the next Star Ocean character with a birthday coming up on July 30. Submissions to post for his birthday should be in no later than midnight, July 29.
Finally, and the idea came to me thanks to my friend Rose, I'm going to look into holding a Star Ocean cosplay, arts, and crafts faire/Star Ocean convention. This year, it just isn't financially possible (though I'm looking at attending NMACon, YoumaCon, and Anime Apocalypse), plus I want to be living in the city where I'd like to hold the event. This kind of an event won't be just for the games Till the End of Time and The Last Hope, but for all Star Ocean games, including any that might appear in the next two years. HOWEVER, in order for me to make this event a reality, I will need to know exactly how many people are interested. If it's only going to be about ten people maximum or less, I'll just hold a Star Ocean gathering in my apartment or home, whichever I happen to land in first. Fifteen or more, I'll book a couple of hotel rooms. If it gets to be about twenty-five or more, I'll hold it as a faire/convention sometime in May or June . . . I'll be keeping an eye on certain conventions so it doesn't become a choice of which to attend because I'd love for the Star Ocean fans to come to my event and meet up with them at others.
So . . . to my fellow Star Ocean fans, I ask this of you:
1 - Would you like to see an event dedicated solely to Star Ocean as I've described it?
2 - Would you attend it?
3 - Will you please help me not only spread the word but find out from other Star Ocean fans that you know and relay what they think back to me?
Here are the tentative plans.
1 - to be held in either May or June of 2014. This gives me to time to not only research a potential venue but to drum up interest in other Star Ocean fans. It will also give me a chance, in case it could turn into a convention-like event, to possibly drum up guests and to either commission someone to make contest prizes for me, buy them, make them, or a combination of all of the above. If enough people are interested and attend, I do have some ideas as to what everyone can do, but, to go back to what I've said before, it depends on the number of people in attendance. (I'll still be happy with a 5-15 people gathering, though.)
2 - Location will definitely be in Philadelphia, one way or another. I'm choosing Philadelphia over someplace in the Great Lakes Region (I did think of the Fort Wayne Convention Center) mostly because it's where I want to live and I plan to move there as soon as is financially possible. Plus, for people flying, it is a great hub to stop at because it allows for a more direct flight than someplace in Michigan. (Speaking with a friend who lives in Washington has told me as much.)
3 - It's a tentative 3 day event. I honestly can't expect people to fly or drive to someplace like Philadelphia for a day when it would take them longer than that and cost more than that to attend.
Naturally, this is just in the tentative idea phase. I will need to do a lot of research first into this to determine which would be more feasible, based on the number of people interested and able to attend. If it gets to faire status for sure, I'll book a conference center and get group rates for hotel stays. Convention status (meaning one hundred people are more interested), I'll send out inquiries about guests. The overall idea is to unite Star Ocean fans in one place for one weekend and to show off our geeky, craftiness in the form of cosplay, art, and the making of things such as plushies, blankets, ducky bombs . . . (added just for you, Charry!) I think it would also be nice to do some silly things, like roam around Philadelphia in costume, have a Star Ocean cake, and just enjoy everything that we love so much about Star Ocean.
That should pretty much do it for the Star Ocean stuff for this week. At this point, I think I'm going to declare July 4 as both Luther and Fayt's birthdays so I'll just add those two into the mix for upcoming birthdays.As with Lymle and Edge, if you wish to submit a one-shot fanfiction piece of some kind or some art, please have it by midnight of July 3rd so I can post. I'll announce other "birthdays" at a later time.
So this week, I plan on wrapping up my discussion on the agricultural side of the underdeveloped planets. Of course, once I get the chance to play Second Story/Second Evolution, there could be more to write. As I've already cheated a little and headed over to gamefaqs.com to see what kind of items were available for First Departure, I'm not going to worry about adding Roak to the conversation. (Roak happened to be the third planet in the discussion anyway, thanks to The Last Hope and harvesting points.) Also, thanks to finding her website, on Friday, I'll be taking a look at Laura Bailey's career as a voice actress. For those who don't know (and haven't followed my blog all that much), Laura gives voice to Reimi Saionji and Welch Vineyard in The Last Hope, though she remains uncredited in the game's credits. (I've sent out a request to Laura, asking if I can interview her for the blog . . . Not heard back yet so I don't know if it'll be a yay or a nay on the interview. Even so, I'll still be taking a look at her career for this upcoming Friday.)
Lymle's birthday is on Wednesday. If you have any one-shot fiction, poetry, or artwork, you'd like to share to celebrate her day, I'd appreciate it. Submissions can be mailed to luthersfayt@gmail.com and I will post them. Edge is the next Star Ocean character with a birthday coming up on July 30. Submissions to post for his birthday should be in no later than midnight, July 29.
Finally, and the idea came to me thanks to my friend Rose, I'm going to look into holding a Star Ocean cosplay, arts, and crafts faire/Star Ocean convention. This year, it just isn't financially possible (though I'm looking at attending NMACon, YoumaCon, and Anime Apocalypse), plus I want to be living in the city where I'd like to hold the event. This kind of an event won't be just for the games Till the End of Time and The Last Hope, but for all Star Ocean games, including any that might appear in the next two years. HOWEVER, in order for me to make this event a reality, I will need to know exactly how many people are interested. If it's only going to be about ten people maximum or less, I'll just hold a Star Ocean gathering in my apartment or home, whichever I happen to land in first. Fifteen or more, I'll book a couple of hotel rooms. If it gets to be about twenty-five or more, I'll hold it as a faire/convention sometime in May or June . . . I'll be keeping an eye on certain conventions so it doesn't become a choice of which to attend because I'd love for the Star Ocean fans to come to my event and meet up with them at others.
So . . . to my fellow Star Ocean fans, I ask this of you:
1 - Would you like to see an event dedicated solely to Star Ocean as I've described it?
2 - Would you attend it?
3 - Will you please help me not only spread the word but find out from other Star Ocean fans that you know and relay what they think back to me?
Here are the tentative plans.
1 - to be held in either May or June of 2014. This gives me to time to not only research a potential venue but to drum up interest in other Star Ocean fans. It will also give me a chance, in case it could turn into a convention-like event, to possibly drum up guests and to either commission someone to make contest prizes for me, buy them, make them, or a combination of all of the above. If enough people are interested and attend, I do have some ideas as to what everyone can do, but, to go back to what I've said before, it depends on the number of people in attendance. (I'll still be happy with a 5-15 people gathering, though.)
2 - Location will definitely be in Philadelphia, one way or another. I'm choosing Philadelphia over someplace in the Great Lakes Region (I did think of the Fort Wayne Convention Center) mostly because it's where I want to live and I plan to move there as soon as is financially possible. Plus, for people flying, it is a great hub to stop at because it allows for a more direct flight than someplace in Michigan. (Speaking with a friend who lives in Washington has told me as much.)
3 - It's a tentative 3 day event. I honestly can't expect people to fly or drive to someplace like Philadelphia for a day when it would take them longer than that and cost more than that to attend.
Naturally, this is just in the tentative idea phase. I will need to do a lot of research first into this to determine which would be more feasible, based on the number of people interested and able to attend. If it gets to faire status for sure, I'll book a conference center and get group rates for hotel stays. Convention status (meaning one hundred people are more interested), I'll send out inquiries about guests. The overall idea is to unite Star Ocean fans in one place for one weekend and to show off our geeky, craftiness in the form of cosplay, art, and the making of things such as plushies, blankets, ducky bombs . . . (added just for you, Charry!) I think it would also be nice to do some silly things, like roam around Philadelphia in costume, have a Star Ocean cake, and just enjoy everything that we love so much about Star Ocean.
That should pretty much do it for the Star Ocean stuff for this week. At this point, I think I'm going to declare July 4 as both Luther and Fayt's birthdays so I'll just add those two into the mix for upcoming birthdays.As with Lymle and Edge, if you wish to submit a one-shot fanfiction piece of some kind or some art, please have it by midnight of July 3rd so I can post. I'll announce other "birthdays" at a later time.
