RE: BurdaStyle: Where do you find sewing inspiration?

Well as is one of my usual habits, I was zipping around BurdaStyle checking out the new stuff, when I found THIS. Well, as not my usual style I decided to comment. I rarely ever say anything over there, so no one even knows I’m there half the time! LOL! Anyways, here is my answer:

***Where do you find sewing inspiration?***

EVERYWHERE! My mom was a seamstress, sew I was already sewing at age 6. I was 16 when I graduated from a fashion design college. In the 20+ years since, I have created tons of patterns and sew all my own fashions.

I not only create my own patterns, but I also design my own fabrics as well. I paint up watercolors and than get short runs of the fabric printed up. I get ideas for a lot og my designs from nature: birds, cats, the sky, waterfalls, trees – everything inspires me to paint. Than the fabric made from the paintings inspire the flow of the dress pattern as well.

Erte is my biggest inspiration. Much of my designs are reinterpretations of his designs. I just love his art deco and flapper styles.

Also, Japanese Kimono, esp those from the Momoyama period (1500′s). I love sewing kimono, because the lines are simple and allow for display of big bold fabric prints, which thus allows me to create huge print fabric designs as well.

***What magazines, websites, books do you look at for project ideas?***

Dover Books are my #1 source of inspiration. You see, I’m a life actor, which I means I CosPlay 24/7/365 and have for years. My daily wear consists of recreations of garb from the 1500′s – 1800′s as well as the 1920′s. Dover reprints tons of French, fashion illustrations, vintage paper dolls, Goody Lady, etc. Of course they are the ones who reprint Etre’s fashion prints as well.

National Geographic and Smithsonian Museum books are huge sources of inspiration as well. I get lots of ideas from cultural photos and antique paintings. I enjoy creating ethnic and historic bases patterns.

And than of course there’s my #1 source of inspiration: comic books. Yep, you heard me: comic books! I’m a huge fan of comic books, manga, graphic novels, super heroes, etc, and well, like I said, I’m really big into CosPlay, so of course a lot of what I design was inspired by comic books.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Script Frenzy RE: What am I doing?

In responce to: RE: What am I doing?

Script writing is pretty easy. FAR easier than novel writing actually, because it is straight up dialog and zero descriptions. Pretty much all you need to do is have two characters talk to each other for a while, have a third character wander in and talk to them. Have a few other characters stroll in and say a few things every now and again.

All you got to do is keep them talking. And if you can’t think of anything for them to talk about, drop a dead body on the stage. Nothing gets your characters gossiping faster than a dead body. They’ll all start speculating who the killer was and start blaming each other and having arguments in no time flat. And if the dead guy is a total stranger, than they’ll really get going, not only trying to figure out which of them killed him, but trying to figure out who he is besides! LOL!

And remember – “It was a dark and stormy night” may be cliche, but it’ll get character conversations going. They’ll sit around complaining that it’s too dark or too wet to go outside, they’ll talk about what they would be doing if it was sunny, they’ll talk about how in their childhood they loved to play outside in the rain, and they’ll be reminded of other wet stormy days to talk about too!

Writing a script is all about keeping your characters talking their fool heads off. So, yeah, unless you are one of those writers who really loves writing long descriptions (like Stephen King, JKRowlins, and Tolkien all do) script writing is by far easier than novel writing.

Another thing is, 100 pages really go by really fast, because of the format of the script. There is an empty line between every character and what they say. So, yeah, once you start writing you’ll see just how fast you go through pages.

Format is nothing to worry about. Basic format can be quickly adapted to any other format when you edit your draft, so it’s best to just write basic format in your first draft, and that’s a piece of cake.

The basic general format of a script is this:

DAVE:
(walks into room)

MARSHA! What are you doing here?

MARSHA:
(slaps DAVE on face)

I know about you and that hussy.

(throws wedding ring on floor)

We are through! I want a divorce!

:CAMERA: Close up on DAVE’s face.

DAVE:
(stares speechlessly)

And that’s about it. A stage or radio script wouldn’t have the camera focus points, but TV, movie, and comic book scripts all do. Did you see the descriptions? Yeah. THAT’S what descriptions actually look like on a script.

The first thing you need to remember during Script Frenzy is this: Dialog.

Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.

and oh, look at that . . . more dialog!

Like I said, script writing is pretty easy. It’s basically: open your mouth, say something, write it down. There is no need to worry about describing what things look like, how things work, what your characters look like, or what your characters are wearing.

All you have to do, is keep your characters talking, because a script is just that: a script. (Some thing you say.)

So as long as you can keep your characters talking to each other, you’ll have no problems at all.

If you are not good at writing dialog, than you will have a tough time at script writing, because script writing it straight up, no stop dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and ONLY dialog. Dialog here. Dialog there. Not a word of description in sight. Just lots and lots of dialog.

There is no prose in script writing.

There is no narration in script writing.

There are no long descriptions of scenery in script writing.

There are no mention of what characters are wearing in script writing.

There is no pretty and plentiful purple prose in script writing.

Script writing is dialog. Only dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and nothing else. Period.

Script writing will do wonders at teaching you how to cut out adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and pretty much every thing else you would use when writing a novel, as you won’t be using those much if you use any at all.

But yeah, you guys have absolutely nothing to worry about. NaNo is by far much, much harder to do than Screnzy is, so if you can survive a month of NaNo you can survive a month of Screnzy.

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>Script Frenzy RE: What am I doing?

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RE: What am I doing?

Script writing is pretty easy. FAR easier than novel writing actually, because it is straight up dialog and zero descriptions. Pretty much all you need to do is have two characters talk to each other for a while, have a third character wander in and talk to them. Have a few other characters stroll in and say a few things every now and again.

All you got to do is keep them talking. And if you can’t think of anything for them to talk about, drop a dead body on the stage. Nothing gets your characters gossiping faster than a dead body. They’ll all start speculating who the killer was and start blaming each other and having arguments in no time flat. And if the dead guy is a total stranger, than they’ll really get going, not only trying to figure out which of them killed him, but trying to figure out who he is besides! LOL!

And remember – “It was a dark and stormy night” may be cliche, but it’ll get character conversations going. They’ll sit around complaining that it’s too dark or too wet to go outside, they’ll talk about what they would be doing if it was sunny, they’ll talk about how in their childhood they loved to play outside in the rain, and they’ll be reminded of other wet stormy days to talk about too!

Writing a script is all about keeping your characters talking their fool heads off. So, yeah, unless you are one of those writers who really loves writing long descriptions (like Stephen King, JKRowlins, and Tolkien all do) script writing is by far easier than novel writing.

Another thing is, 100 pages really go by really fast, because of the format of the script. There is an empty line between every character and what they say. So, yeah, once you start writing you’ll see just how fast you go through pages.

Format is nothing to worry about. Basic format can be quickly adapted to any other format when you edit your draft, so it’s best to just write basic format in your first draft, and that’s a piece of cake.

The basic general format of a script is this:

DAVE: (walks into room) MARSHA! What are you doing here? MARSHA: (slaps DAVE on face) I know about you and that hussy. (throws wedding ring on floor) We are through! I want a divorce! :CAMERA: Close up on DAVE’s face. DAVE: (stares speechlessly)

And that’s about it. A stage or radio script wouldn’t have the camera focus points, but TV, movie, and comic book scripts all do. Did you see the descriptions? Yeah. THAT’S what descriptions actually look like on a script.

The first thing you need to remember during Script Frenzy is this: Dialog.

Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.

and oh, look at that . . . more dialog!

Like I said, script writing is pretty easy. It’s basically: open your mouth, say something, write it down. There is no need to worry about describing what things look like, how things work, what your characters look like, or what your characters are wearing.

All you have to do, is keep your characters talking, because a script is just that: a script. (Some thing you say.)

So as long as you can keep your characters talking to each other, you’ll have no problems at all.

If you are not good at writing dialog, than you will have a tough time at script writing, because script writing it straight up, no stop dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and ONLY dialog. Dialog here. Dialog there. Not a word of description in sight. Just lots and lots of dialog.

There is no prose in script writing.

There is no narration in script writing.

There are no long descriptions of scenery in script writing.

There are no mention of what characters are wearing in script writing.

There is no pretty and plentiful purple prose in script writing.

Script writing is dialog. Only dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and nothing else. Period.

Script writing will do wonders at teaching you how to cut out adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and pretty much every thing else you would use when writing a novel, as you won’t be using those much if you use any at all.

But yeah, you guys have absolutely nothing to worry about. NaNo is by far much, much harder to do than Screnzy is, so if you can survive a month of NaNo you can survive a month of Screnzy.

Incubus: Fear the Night!

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Script Frenzy RE: Dirty tricks

RE: Dirty tricks

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[quote=revallyson]But I admit, I find myself asking, if you're cheating, why bother playing? There's no major prize for getting to 100 pages, and I know that I would feel like dirt if I submitted an empty pdf and claimed it was 100 pages.
[/quote]

Did you read ALL of that person’s post? I think not. She didn’t say she was submitting a blank PDF as a way of cheating. She said that she was writing her play out longhand in a notebook and needed someone to make a blank PDF of her finished page count for her, so she could submit her longhand script. That is NOT cheating. She still wrote the script.

[quote=revallyson]As to fonts and spacing and such, you can't really "cheat" with those. A proper script has special formatting, and if it isn't in the correct format then it shouldn't be handed in. Since the format includes font size and type, page size, margins, etc., it's almost impossible to "cheat" the counter.
[/quote]

Yes, I agree with you there. And not all scripts are created equal either. For instance, the format for a TV Soap Opera is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the format for a stage play, and let’s not even get started on comic book scripts, because not only do they look NOTHING like any other type of script, but each company has their own format!

I write for small stage (school/college/local) and for comic books (Disney) so, my own script writing style leans heavy in those areas.

First off, a lot depends on the type of script you are writing. Not all scripts are created equal. The basic types of scripts are:

Movie Scripts

TV Scripts

Radio Scripts: DJ/Talk Show, News Broadcast, or Live Show/Play

News Report Scripts

Animation Scripts

Talk Show Scripts

Musical Scripts

Stage Play Scripts

Advertisement Scripts

Comic Book Scripts

Each of those is different and each is written in it’s own unique formate and style, and depending on the one you plan to write, you’ll will have to use a completely different style and format. So a person who writes movie scripts may be lost when it comes to attempting to write a comic book script or vise versa.

So, the first thing you need to figure out is: What type of script do you want to write?

To answer that, ask yourself, where do you see your script being published? Here are so things to think about before starting your script:

Will it be a meteorologist’s report on the latest storm read on the nightly news or will it be the next episode of Pokemon?

Are you writing hoping to be accepted by BBC for the next season of Doctor Who or are you writing a play for your local collage drama troupe?

Do you want to write the words Oprah will say in her next show or would you rather write the next episode of Days of Our Lives?

Are you writing a script for The Price is Right or are you going to write the next big screen movie Johnny Depp will star in?

Is your script the next Broadway hit or a modern day remake of the Orson Wells War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast?

Are you writing the next local cable advertisement of Jolly John’s Used Cars or the national broadcast of McDonald’s new flavor milk shake?

Do you want to write a comic book? If so, will it be for Marvel or DC or Dark Horse or Disney? Did you know that each of the four comic book giants has their own specified script format, each extremely different from the other three and that none will look at an incorrectly formated script no matter how well written?

Before you can start asking for advice on how to write and format your script, you first have to determine, what exactly your script is going to be, and than you need to direct your questions to a script writer who writes the same type of scripts you plan to write.

For Script Frenzy, it is safe to assume that you are planing either a movie, tv show, comic book, or stage play script, as 99% of the scripts written during Screnzy are one of those.

But I was astounded, reading folks “cheats” here and noting that a lot of you are talking about adding lengthy descriptions. I have to step back and ask you guys: Uhm . . . have you ever, like, actually read a script before? You know, a REAL script, the one the directors and actors read, not that pimped up stuff English teachers have you reading in paperback, but a a REAL authentic actual script.

Yeah, I guessing for about 90% of the posters on this thread the answer is a big fat “NO”. And I’ll tell you what triggered that thought for me. The answer is one word: DIALOG.

The first thing you need to remember during Script Frenzy is this: Dialog.

Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.

and oh, look at that . . . more dialog!

If you are not good at writing dialog, than you will have a tough time at script writing, because script writing it straight up, no stop dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and ONLY dialog. Dialog here. Dialog there. Not a word of description in sight. Just lots and lots of dialog.

There is no prose in script writing.

There is no narration in script writing.

There are no long descriptions of scenery in script writing.

There are no mention of what characters are wearing in script writing.

There is no pretty and plentiful purple prose in script writing.

Script writing is dialog. Only dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and nothing else. Period.

Script writing will do wonders at teaching you how to cut out adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and pretty much every thing else you would use when writing a novel, as you won’t be using those much if you use any at all.

The basic general format of a script is this:

DAVE:
(walks into room)

MARSHA! What are you doing here?

MARSHA:
(slaps DAVE on face)

I know about you and that hussy.

(throws wedding ring on floor)

We are through! I want a divorce!

:CAMERA: Close up on DAVE’s face.

DAVE:
(stares speechlessly)

And that’s about it. A stage or radio script wouldn’t have the camera focus points, but TV, movie, and comic book scripts all do. Did you see the descriptions? Yeah. THAT’S what descriptions actually look like on a script.

The only time in the script where you see any descriptions, is in the BEGINNING of the script BEFORE the script starts. In the section where every thing is listed.
Cast List, Setting Notes, Playwright’s Notes, etc.

The list of characters/cast will tell the basics:

JANE is a young woman late twenties to early thirties. She is homeless and so wears a mix and match of ragged cloths she found in people’s trash. She wasn’t always homeless, she used to be an average housewife, but a massive flood took that all away. Her family died in the flood. Her house was washed away. She has nothing left and has given up on life.

STAN is a college professor. He is ten or twelve years older than JANE. He remembers her before the flood. He loved her than and he still loves her now. He wants to find a way to show JANE life is still worth living.

That is what a typical character list looks like.

Notice the age range is given, not the exact age? This allows for a range of actors to play the part.

Notice no hair/eye/skin colors are mentioned? This allows more actors to play the part.

Notice how costume descriptions are limited and only generalized at? This allows theaters to work from what they have and helps their budget by not demanding a whole new wardrobe that can only be used in a single play.

The only type of script that DOES have detailed descriptions of character’s physical appearance and costume, is the comic book script. Radio, stage, TV, and movie scripts, do not have them.

The setting notes will tell the basics:

This story takes place in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine.

ACT ONE takes place outside, late evening, on the dock. LOU has just returned from a week long deep sea fishing job. STEVE and JENNY were there to meet him.

ACT TWO takes place in the front parlor of STEVE’s home which has a window over looking the shore. It is late at night. LOU sits in a rocking chair smoking his pipe and reminiscing about his young days as a sailor. STEVE listens while standing looking out the window. Every one else has gone to bed already.

ACT THREE takes place early morning, on the shore. STEVE and JENNY are watching as LOU sails away once again.

Do you see a pattern here? Like the CAST LIST the SETTING DESCRIPTION is sparse and left open to the interpretation of the director and the producer and their budget.

I’m going to quote something I posted a while back on Script Frenzy:

How much stage direction is reasonable?
[quote=]
Hey guys!
How much stage direction do you think is reasonable? I'm just trying to figure out what would be too much...
Thanks![/quote]


I’d say it depends on the play write’s personal style as well as the style of the play in question. I think of stage direction in a play, like the choreography in a ballet. If every player knows where to be when and what to do at what moment, than you don’t have characters falling over each other and messing up the play.

For example a one person play may not need any directions at all, simply relying fully on the actor’s personal movements as he speaks. With only one or two actors on stage, the play would be more open to actor interpretation. Two actors could guess each others movements and act accordingly.

Whereas a full two hour production with intricate (setting, lighting, costume, etc) details, and 20 or 30 actors on stage at the same time, would need quite a bit of stage direction to prevent it from turning into utter chaos. I mean, if you have 20 actors on stage, each one “doing his own thing” when it comes to interpretation, you’d have nothing but a huge uncoordinated mess.

So, when I’m writing a play, my personal style is: the bigger the production, the more detailed the stage directions need to be, while the smaller production can go with little or even no stage directions.

So in the end, what it boils down to is this: “Cheating” by adding descriptions and creating “unique” formates, is not going to get you any where in the business of script writing. Now if you are just writing a script for the heck of it and no one but your family and friends will ever read it, than, it doesn’t matter what you do.

HOWEVER, if you are planning on making a career of being a playwright, a comic writer, a screen writer, etc, than knowing the guidelines and following the rules now, will save you a lot of time, heart ache and unnecessary revisions later on.

In other words, it is unwise to add lots of long detailed descriptions, because you will only have to delete ALL of them, before you can get your script produced. And by deleting them, you will lose all those extra pages, meaning you’ll have to write that much more dialog for your script to bring it back up to being a full length script. Which means, by cheating and adding descriptions, you only cheated yourself out of getting your film/play made.

Remember, you want to write an actual producible script here, not a bunch of empty filler. Filler is nothing but tasteless sawdust. Sawdust gets thrown away. Don’t fill your script up with something that gets thrown away. You’ll thank yourself later.

Every unnecessary thing that you don’t add today, is one more thing you will not have to remove before you can submit your script to a director/publisher.

Remember, when is comes to script writing: less is more.

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>Script Frenzy RE: Dirty tricks

>

RE: Dirty tricks

@@revallyson http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/470121

[quote=revallyson]But I admit, I find myself asking, if you're cheating, why bother playing? There's no major prize for getting to 100 pages, and I know that I would feel like dirt if I submitted an empty pdf and claimed it was 100 pages. [/quote]

Did you read ALL of that person’s post? I think not. She didn’t say she was submitting a blank PDF as a way of cheating. She said that she was writing her play out longhand in a notebook and needed someone to make a blank PDF of her finished page count for her, so she could submit her longhand script. That is NOT cheating. She still wrote the script.

[quote=revallyson]As to fonts and spacing and such, you can't really "cheat" with those. A proper script has special formatting, and if it isn't in the correct format then it shouldn't be handed in. Since the format includes font size and type, page size, margins, etc., it's almost impossible to "cheat" the counter. [/quote]

Yes, I agree with you there. And not all scripts are created equal either. For instance, the format for a TV Soap Opera is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the format for a stage play, and let’s not even get started on comic book scripts, because not only do they look NOTHING like any other type of script, but each company has their own format!

I write for small stage (school/college/local) and for comic books (Disney) so, my own script writing style leans heavy in those areas.

First off, a lot depends on the type of script you are writing. Not all scripts are created equal. The basic types of scripts are:

Movie Scripts TV Scripts Radio Scripts: DJ/Talk Show, News Broadcast, or Live Show/Play News Report Scripts Animation Scripts Talk Show Scripts Musical Scripts Stage Play Scripts Advertisement Scripts Comic Book Scripts

Each of those is different and each is written in it’s own unique formate and style, and depending on the one you plan to write, you’ll will have to use a completely different style and format. So a person who writes movie scripts may be lost when it comes to attempting to write a comic book script or vise versa.

So, the first thing you need to figure out is: What type of script do you want to write?

To answer that, ask yourself, where do you see your script being published? Here are so things to think about before starting your script:

Will it be a meteorologist’s report on the latest storm read on the nightly news or will it be the next episode of Pokemon? Are you writing hoping to be accepted by BBC for the next season of Doctor Who or are you writing a play for your local collage drama troupe? Do you want to write the words Oprah will say in her next show or would you rather write the next episode of Days of Our Lives? Are you writing a script for The Price is Right or are you going to write the next big screen movie Johnny Depp will star in? Is your script the next Broadway hit or a modern day remake of the Orson Wells War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast? Are you writing the next local cable advertisement of Jolly John’s Used Cars or the national broadcast of McDonald’s new flavor milk shake? Do you want to write a comic book? If so, will it be for Marvel or DC or Dark Horse or Disney? Did you know that each of the four comic book giants has their own specified script format, each extremely different from the other three and that none will look at an incorrectly formated script no matter how well written?

Before you can start asking for advice on how to write and format your script, you first have to determine, what exactly your script is going to be, and than you need to direct your questions to a script writer who writes the same type of scripts you plan to write.

For Script Frenzy, it is safe to assume that you are planing either a movie, tv show, comic book, or stage play script, as 99% of the scripts written during Screnzy are one of those.

But I was astounded, reading folks “cheats” here and noting that a lot of you are talking about adding lengthy descriptions. I have to step back and ask you guys: Uhm . . . have you ever, like, actually read a script before? You know, a REAL script, the one the directors and actors read, not that pimped up stuff English teachers have you reading in paperback, but a a REAL authentic actual script.

Yeah, I guessing for about 90% of the posters on this thread the answer is a big fat “NO”. And I’ll tell you what triggered that thought for me. The answer is one word: DIALOG.

The first thing you need to remember during Script Frenzy is this: Dialog.

Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Dialog.

and oh, look at that . . . more dialog!

If you are not good at writing dialog, than you will have a tough time at script writing, because script writing it straight up, no stop dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and ONLY dialog. Dialog here. Dialog there. Not a word of description in sight. Just lots and lots of dialog.

There is no prose in script writing.

There is no narration in script writing.

There are no long descriptions of scenery in script writing.

There are no mention of what characters are wearing in script writing.

There is no pretty and plentiful purple prose in script writing.

Script writing is dialog. Only dialog. Nothing but dialog. Dialog and nothing else. Period.

Script writing will do wonders at teaching you how to cut out adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and pretty much every thing else you would use when writing a novel, as you won’t be using those much if you use any at all.

The basic general format of a script is this:

DAVE: (walks into room) MARSHA! What are you doing here? MARSHA: (slaps DAVE on face) I know about you and that hussy. (throws wedding ring on floor) We are through! I want a divorce! :CAMERA: Close up on DAVE’s face. DAVE: (stares speechlessly)

And that’s about it. A stage or radio script wouldn’t have the camera focus points, but TV, movie, and comic book scripts all do. Did you see the descriptions? Yeah. THAT’S what descriptions actually look like on a script.

The only time in the script where you see any descriptions, is in the BEGINNING of the script BEFORE the script starts. In the section where every thing is listed.
Cast List, Setting Notes, Playwright’s Notes, etc.

The list of characters/cast will tell the basics:

JANE is a young woman late twenties to early thirties. She is homeless and so wears a mix and match of ragged cloths she found in people’s trash. She wasn’t always homeless, she used to be an average housewife, but a massive flood took that all away. Her family died in the flood. Her house was washed away. She has nothing left and has given up on life. STAN is a college professor. He is ten or twelve years older than JANE. He remembers her before the flood. He loved her than and he still loves her now. He wants to find a way to show JANE life is still worth living.

That is what a typical character list looks like.

Notice the age range is given, not the exact age? This allows for a range of actors to play the part.

Notice no hair/eye/skin colors are mentioned? This allows more actors to play the part.

Notice how costume descriptions are limited and only generalized at? This allows theaters to work from what they have and helps their budget by not demanding a whole new wardrobe that can only be used in a single play.

The only type of script that DOES have detailed descriptions of character’s physical appearance and costume, is the comic book script. Radio, stage, TV, and movie scripts, do not have them.

The setting notes will tell the basics:

This story takes place in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine. ACT ONE takes place outside, late evening, on the dock. LOU has just returned from a week long deep sea fishing job. STEVE and JENNY were there to meet him. ACT TWO takes place in the front parlor of STEVE’s home which has a window over looking the shore. It is late at night. LOU sits in a rocking chair smoking his pipe and reminiscing about his young days as a sailor. STEVE listens while standing looking out the window. Every one else has gone to bed already. ACT THREE takes place early morning, on the shore. STEVE and JENNY are watching as LOU sails away once again.

Do you see a pattern here? Like the CAST LIST the SETTING DESCRIPTION is sparse and left open to the interpretation of the director and the producer and their budget.

I’m going to quote something I posted a while back on Script Frenzy:

How much stage direction is reasonable? [quote=] Hey guys! How much stage direction do you think is reasonable? I'm just trying to figure out what would be too much... Thanks![/quote]

I’d say it depends on the play write’s personal style as well as the style of the play in question. I think of stage direction in a play, like the choreography in a ballet. If every player knows where to be when and what to do at what moment, than you don’t have characters falling over each other and messing up the play. For example a one person play may not need any directions at all, simply relying fully on the actor’s personal movements as he speaks. With only one or two actors on stage, the play would be more open to actor interpretation. Two actors could guess each others movements and act accordingly. Whereas a full two hour production with intricate (setting, lighting, costume, etc) details, and 20 or 30 actors on stage at the same time, would need quite a bit of stage direction to prevent it from turning into utter chaos. I mean, if you have 20 actors on stage, each one “doing his own thing” when it comes to interpretation, you’d have nothing but a huge uncoordinated mess. So, when I’m writing a play, my personal style is: the bigger the production, the more detailed the stage directions need to be, while the smaller production can go with little or even no stage directions.

So in the end, what it boils down to is this: “Cheating” by adding descriptions and creating “unique” formates, is not going to get you any where in the business of script writing. Now if you are just writing a script for the heck of it and no one but your family and friends will ever read it, than, it doesn’t matter what you do.

HOWEVER, if you are planning on making a career of being a playwright, a comic writer, a screen writer, etc, than knowing the guidelines and following the rules now, will save you a lot of time, heart ache and unnecessary revisions later on.

In other words, it is unwise to add lots of long detailed descriptions, because you will only have to delete ALL of them, before you can get your script produced. And by deleting them, you will lose all those extra pages, meaning you’ll have to write that much more dialog for your script to bring it back up to being a full length script. Which means, by cheating and adding descriptions, you only cheated yourself out of getting your film/play made.

Remember, you want to write an actual producible script here, not a bunch of empty filler. Filler is nothing but tasteless sawdust. Sawdust gets thrown away. Don’t fill your script up with something that gets thrown away. You’ll thank yourself later.

Every unnecessary thing that you don’t add today, is one more thing you will not have to remove before you can submit your script to a director/publisher.

Remember, when is comes to script writing: less is more.

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>NaNoWriMo RE: Night of Writing Danerously

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uhm. . . . question . . . I know I read it somewhere, but I forget where it was. – what day exactly are we supposed to be “Writing Dangerously?” I was thinking it was the 22nd. And what time are we supposed to be writing? Is there a certain time or is it just all day long? Any one know the exact details of the “Writing Dangerously” timing?

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since I’m writing a Psychological Thriller, I shouldn’t have any trouble “writing dangerously”.

Part of my story deals with a serial rapist who targets young girls (8,9, 10, year old young girls) which is a seriously taboo topic to use in fiction and most publishers won’t touch it. However I feel it is an issue that SHOULD be published, because it DOES happen, and happens often, and to read a book for the 10 year olds point of view, would do a world of good at letting people know just really how badly she feels emotionally after something like that happens to her. I hate how adults pass it all off as “she’s young, she’ll get over it”. Speaking from experience, I can tell you – SHE DOESN’T GET OVER IT! And the average child rapists get only 6 months in jail – doesn’t even go to prison, and can get out punishment all together by doing 6 months of community service instead!!!!!

End Rant.

(sorry, didn’t mean to go off on a soapbox there) Anyways – that’s the underlaying theme through out my book. So, it’ll be pretty easy for me to get all political and really go off on a dare like this.

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Likewise, I too would hope I can write 5k for the night of writing dangerously, maybe, if I really push myself, I can write 10k, cause I need to reach 100k before the 30th, so I kind of need another 10k day.

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>NaNoWriMo RE: Phobias, and the Black Dog Serial Killer

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[quote=andrea-tiefling]At the risk of sounding morbid, I’m terrified of being raped, because when I was a child there was a famous (and gory) rape in my neighbourhood. I always believed the girl had been “ripped” like she was ripped in half and the thought just (shudders) well…

and being a rather petite woman, I’m terrified of being physically overpowered, especially by someone who has the “authority”, a cop or a doctor or someone like that.
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I wonder if we live near each other or both just live in creepy neighbor hoods.

I’ve got both your phobias. And pretty much for the same reasons!

A few years back a girl from Biddeford went missing. Her pictures were on posters all over town. Her parents were frantic looking for her. The posters used to freak me out, because it was like looking in a mirror, she looked just like me!

About 5 miles from my house the girl was found in the road with no head. It was all over the news and newspapers and well, my dad worked for the newspaper, so whatever local news there was, my family knew about before the public got wind of it, because of my dad’s job for the paper.

Well, over the next 2 or 3 years, we averaged 4 or 5 dead girls a year. All 14 year olds, all with brown hair and green eyes, their heads were rarely found with the bodies. Then two headless bodies washed up on the beach, just yards from our front door. I remember the coast guard coming in and shutting down Old Orchard Beach (this was in 2005, it was the last of the killings). (All together there were 15 murders here in Old Orchard Beach, Saco, Biddeford, and Scarborough – Maine.)

The really odd thing was, they were not connected! The first girl, the one found in the road, had gotten so much publicity, that there were several none related “copy cats” who for whatever reason each thought it would be funny to make it look like a serial killer.

The last 2 that washed up on the beach, were two girls that each had caught their boyfriend with the other one, so he killed both of them, and copied the idea of that first headless girl.

So, I developed this really freaky fear of leaving the house, because of it. Today I suffer from a serious case of Agoraphobia and rarely go outside at all.

The whole thing was made worse, by at the same time this was going on, there was a serial killer on the loss, but he didn’t kill people. He killed dogs! No one ever caught the guy, all any one knew was that for the entire summer (I think it was 2002) all up and down RT 1 from Sanford to Portland, dead rotwilers, black labs, and dobermans would be found laying in the road.

It freaked me out one day, when we was driving home, and this red pick up suddenly tosses out a black dog, the dog started running, and he spun the truck around and ran over the dog, just missed ramming my moms car. We stopped and I jumped out, grabbed the dog and my mom drove like mad until we found a vet and took her too. We found out later, she had been dogknapped, her owners, contacted us a few months later to tell us that she had lived, but had had tons of surgery. They never was able to find the guy with the red pick up though.

Because of this, I can’t drive a car. I’ve developed a horrendous phobia of driving for fear I will hit some one or some one’s pet. I have a car, but I can’t drive it. I walk every where, I need to go, providing you can get me out of the house to begin with.

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InuYasha 558: Sesshomaru x Rin x Kaede

Okay, so if you’ve followed the books these past 12 years, you know that the final volume came out this week, and if you know me, you know I had all ready read it less than 3 hours after it hit the newstands. If you’ve read it you know that everyone lived happily ever after, except as usual Sesshomaru, who for the 7th time in this series has had yet another woman he loves, taken away from from him. Sara died, Kagura died, Rin died twice and he just keeps bringing her back, yo get the picture. Sesshy’s life has been made complete hell in every volume, and this final volume was no exception. InuYasha married Kagome. Miroku marries Sango. Rin is taken away from Sesshomaru and sent to live with Kaede.

As the days go by and more and more people read the final chapter of InuYasha, and I go through blogs and forums reading people’s responses to it (me only being interested in people’s responses to the Sesshy x Rin part of course!), I am finding one thing a bit odd. Most people seem to be reading it as Sesshomaru left Rin behind, forcing her to live with Kaede.

I actually read the ending totally differently… weird… but I guess I’m weird so, yea, it figures, but anyways, the way InuYasha said that Kaede said Rin was to learn to live in a human village (note that he said, that Kaede said it, not Sesshomaru) I took that to mean that Keade took Rin away from Sesshomaru, not Sesshomaru left Rin with Keade… that is what it says after all, that “Kaede said it”…. not “Sesshomaru said it”.

It seems to me that if he had left her, he wouldn’t be coming back with the gifts either; it’s more logical that Kaede took her, thus now Sesshomaru is sticking around the village and bringing Rin gifts, biding his time, until she’s old enough, to take her away from Kaede without Keade or anyone else being there to say she’s too young.

Well, that’s the way I saw the ending as being.

Did anyone else see it this way, or am I the only one who does not think Sesshomaru left Rin behind?

And another thing… why is this bugging me in the first place? They are fictional characters, it’s not like these things really happened anyways, and yet, I’m all riled up over this! I just can’t get this out of my head. Weird.

I need to examine this farther. I don’t think Sesshomaru would do anything he didn’t want to, it’s not his nature, that’s true, but than all the fuss that went into protecting Rin, over a period of what, 460 chapters?, something like that, would be pointless if he suddenly said to himself, “It’s time to leave her somewhere.”

It’d have been nice if Rumiko would have shown us what triggered the sudden, send Rin off bit, because it is so out of character for Sesshomaru to do that willingly. And it’s out of character for him to not fit to keep Rin.

It seems easier to believe that it was Keade who took Rin away, rather than Sesshomaru who suddenly dumped Rin off on Kaede, and yet, his past actions tell us that if Keade did take Rin from him, he would have reacted but lashing her to pieces with his claws, and than walking over her bloody remains to carry Rin away from the village.

Logic tells us that if Sesshomaru suddenly decided to leave Rin with Kaede, that some event had to have happened to trigger such a dynamic change of character for him. The question is, what could have happened to cause him to do a full 360 degree turn like this?

On the other hand, we do know that Kaede has a soft spot for children, and has been seen on countless occasions to be caring for children from the village. We also know that until the death of Naraku, Kaede had no knowledge of the fact that Rin was living with Sesshomaru. Upon Naraku’s death, Sesshomaru and Rin ended up in the village because Sesshomaru was chasing Naraku and Rin was following after Sesshomaru on Ah-Un.

We now that Sesshomaru hates humans, but we know also that of all humans he reviles priestesses the most, esp. Kikyo and her kin. We have heard these words come straight from his lips on more than one occasion. He refers to both Kikyo and Kaede as “that woman”, with a deep tone of disgust and hatred that far outweighs the hatred in his voice when talking about half-breeds or regular humans. His hatred of human priestess is unfathomable. And yet, not only does he leave Rin in the care of a human, but also a priestess, and to make it one step worse Kikyo’s sister! We have a major mega triple whammy on our hands here, one that glares off the page at us like a hand with 20 sore thumbs on it.

If he had left Rin with anyone else, there would not be so many questions, but the fact that he left her with the human, priestess who was the sister of Kikyo, just goes against everything Rumiko has ever told us about Sesshomaru!

It is completely impossible to believe, knowing what we know about Sesshomaru, that he would ever by himself, come up with the idea of leaving Rin in the care of Kaede.

It would be so much simpler if Rumiko had just added one more page, to tell us why the dessision was made to leave Rin with Kaede. I mean, we all know Sesshomaru would die to protect his beloved Rin. Likewise we all know Rinfights like hell against the idea of either leaving Sesshomaru or worse, living with humans (her worst dreaded fear of all!)

So taking all these facts into consideration, we come to the conclusion that something must have happened in the three year period, something drastic, to change either Sesshomaaru’s or Rin’s mind.

So whose mind was changed and why? Let’s look at what we know and than draw some conclusions:

We see Rin (wearing Kagura’s kimono no less!) happily helping Kaede. Giving that Rin now seems to enjoy living among humans, we can assume that she has somehow lost her fear of humans. We can also assume that she is no longer 100% dependent on Sesshomaru’s protection, and no loner feels the need to run to him for help. In fact her reaction to his presence suggests a tone of indifference. She does not seem to care that he came to visit her, it seems to be just another thing that happens. She is neither pleased to see him, nor displeased. This is out of character for Rin, who normally is overflowing with bubbling joy at even the slightest glance from Sesshomaru. Rin’s outlook towards Sesshomaru has changed, and rather dramaticly.

And why is Rin wearing Kagura’s kimono? How did she get it? If it’s not Kagura’s kimono, than why is she wearing a duplicate of Kagura’s kimono? Kagura being the woman Sesshomaru loved and probably would have taken as his mate had she not died, we must question the change in Rin’s wardrobe and the motive behind it. We know that Sesshomaru gave Rin her golden Noh robes, and we know that he gave you yet another kimono in 558, so we can safely assume that he also gave her this duplicate one that is like the one Kagura wore as well.

Okay, so that’s Rin now, lets look at what Sesshomaru is doing now.

We know how obsessed with Rin, Sesshomaru is, so to see them sepperated, is odd to say the least. Giving that Sesshomaru is still lurking around the village, in spite of his outspoken hatred for humans and his avoidance of setting a foot within a human village, we can assume that he not only still cares about Rin, and still desires to watch over her and protect her, in spite of the fact that she no longer lives with him, but that he is now forcing himself to put aside his hatred for humans, just to be near her. How odd and un-Youkai like of him! To make this whole series of events just a little bit wierder, we now see Sesshomaru flying in to not only visit Rin, but also to bring her gifts as well! Now that is the most, un-Sesshomaru thing to do of all!

Sesshomaru knew that Rin knew he cared for her, and while he knew this, he was not giving her gifts. It seems to indicate now, that Rin is questioning the fact that Sesshomaru cares for her, and he is now overdoing it, by bringing her gifts to prove to her that he does still care for her. If one was to look at the old Rin and Sesshomaru and compare them to the new ones, it would seem that their roles have reversed. Rin is now the cold emotionless one, no longer bringing gift after gift to her lord, while Sesshomaru is now the one bringing gifts to the girl ho no longer seems to care.

Why, is Sesshomaru, bringing her gifts? That part is so odd. Is her afraid that she will forget about him and brings her gifts to keep him on her mind? Is he afraid she will never return to him, and live the rest of her life with the humans, and so is bringing gifts to try to sway her to come back to him? Is she angry with him, and he brings gifts as a way to ask forgiveness? Any one of these things is out of character for Sesshomaru. He’s showing emotion. It’s like the episode of Star Trek, when Mr. Spock started laughing. It stunned everyone because Spock is devoid of emotion. Sesshomaru shows no emotion. Emotions are a thing humans do that make them weak and pathetic… he has said this in the past. Yet now here he is showing emotion, by giving gifts. What emotion is he showing? Love? Fear? Guilt? Does it matter? Either way it’s still an emotion, something that Sesshomaru does not admit to having.

So while most fans are saying that Sesshomaru had a change of heart and left Rin, it seems to me, that the one who changed was not Sesshomaru, but Rin. It looks more like Rin left of her own accord, and while Sesshomaru did not want her to leave, he also does not want to hold her prisoner and so let her leave, but is now regretting that he did so.

Why would Rin leave him? What could Kaede have said that could have gotten Rin to leave? Did Rin leave because Kaede told her to? Or did Rin leave and seek refuge with Kaede? Is it possible that Sesshomaru some hoe scared or hurt Rin, to the extent that she no longer felt safe in his care?

What could have happened, I suppose would be affected by how you view their relationship: Master/servant-pet; father/daughter; or lolicon, being the three most commonly accepted theories.

The whole gift-giving thing, completely throws out the father-daughter theory, because, lets face it, how many dad’s go out of their way to buy gifts for their kids for no reason at all? Fathers have a hard time remembering to buy gifts for Christmas and birthdays, and rely on the mother to buy the gifts for them… it’s not logical that Sesshomaru would be buying gifts for Rin if he thought of her as his daughter, though it is logical to believe that Rin did look up to Sesshomaru as though he was a father. I think the father-daughter theory, would only hold true in Rin’s mind and not Sesshomaru’s.

The master-servant or master-pet theories are so similar that I’ll call them one and the same. It is this theory that I personally felt held true for this couple, throughout the series. Rin clearly looked up to Sesshomaru as her master, and obied his every command without question. His fierce protection of her, is no different than the protection one gives to a beloved house-pet. He protects her, keeps her safe, kept her feed and healthy, and pretty much did nothing else. When a dog runs away or gets lost, you look for it, and when you find it you are so filled with joy that you shower it with gifts and treats. This seems to hold true for Sesshomaru’s actions. He has lost his beloved pet to a new owner and is trying to convince her to return to him, through the bearing of gifts.

Than there is the lolicon relationship, which I have already read posts from fans who are pointing the dreaded lolicon finger at Sesshomaru. Actually, as much as I hate to admit it, this does seem to be the most logical and highly likely reason for this unexpected turn of events. Weird, I find myself agree on this point, because until now, I had never actually believed that the lolicon theory was even possible. It just seemed to unlikely and out of character for Sesshomaru. The Sesshomaru gone lolicon was a theory that I pointed at and laughed. However, after reading 558, I can see this being a distinctive possibility, and one that could have gone one of three ways:

One, Sesshomaru, did as most fans suggest, and sent Rin away against her will to live with Kaede. For this to be true in the lolicon theory, we would have to assume that Sesshomaru no longer trusted himself and sent Rin away to protect her from himself.

Second would be that, Rin left of her own accord after a lolicon confrontation between herself and Sesshomasru left her scared to live with him anymore.

Third would be that Kaede, accused Sesshomaru of being a lolicon and took Rin away from him. This one could go one of two ways:

One Sesshomaru is in fact lolicon and Kaede somehow found out and took Rin away.

Two, Sesshomaru is not lolicon, but Kaede just assumed that he was, and took Rin away.

Reading 558, I actually got the impression that the later was true. Kaede, saw Rin and Sesshomaru together for the first time, after Naraku’s death, and was not aware Rin lived with Sesshomaru, before that point (chapter 552). InuYasha said that it was Kaede who said Rin should prepare to return to a human village. (558). So we know that Shortly after Kaede discovered that 7 year old Rin was living with 700+ year old Sesshomaru, she told them that Rin should live in a human village. The question is, how did Kaede convince Rin to come with her, and why did Sesshomaru let Rin go?

We do know that more than once Sesshomaru has told Rin, she could leave if she so desired, so we can assume that it was Rin who decided to leave Sesshomaru, otherwise, I can see no way he would have let her go. He would not have sent her away. He would not have allowed anyone to take her away. The only way he would let Rin go, is if, Rin, left of her own accord. But why would Rin leave?

Have I gotten anywhere with all of this? No. But at least I got it off my chest and now I’ll let someone else unravel this mess and figure it out. I’d love to hear how other fans are taking this. Me? It’s safe to say that I am very upset over this and not taking it very well at all, otherwise I would not have spent the last 3 and 1/2 hours sitting here typing up this rant about it.

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InuYasha 558: Sesshomaru x Rin x Kaede

Okay, so if you’ve followed the books these past 12 years, you know that the final volume came out this week, and if you know me, you know I had all ready read it less than 3 hours after it hit the newstands. If you’ve read it you know that everyone lived happily ever after, except as usual Sesshomaru, who for the 7th time in this series has had yet another woman he loves, taken away from from him. Sara died, Kagura died, Rin died twice and he just keeps bringing her back, yo get the picture. Sesshy’s life has been made complete hell in every volume, and this final volume was no exception. InuYasha married Kagome. Miroku marries Sango. Rin is taken away from Sesshomaru and sent to live with Kaede.

As the days go by and more and more people read the final chapter of InuYasha, and I go through blogs and forums reading people’s responses to it (me only being interested in people’s responses to the Sesshy x Rin part of course!), I am finding one thing a bit odd. Most people seem to be reading it as Sesshomaru left Rin behind, forcing her to live with Kaede.

I actually read the ending totally differently… weird… but I guess I’m weird so, yea, it figures, but anyways, the way InuYasha said that Kaede said Rin was to learn to live in a human village (note that he said, that Kaede said it, not Sesshomaru) I took that to mean that Keade took Rin away from Sesshomaru, not Sesshomaru left Rin with Keade… that is what it says after all, that “Kaede said it”…. not “Sesshomaru said it”.

It seems to me that if he had left her, he wouldn’t be coming back with the gifts either; it’s more logical that Kaede took her, thus now Sesshomaru is sticking around the village and bringing Rin gifts, biding his time, until she’s old enough, to take her away from Kaede without Keade or anyone else being there to say she’s too young.

Well, that’s the way I saw the ending as being.

Did anyone else see it this way, or am I the only one who does not think Sesshomaru left Rin behind?

And another thing… why is this bugging me in the first place? They are fictional characters, it’s not like these things really happened anyways, and yet, I’m all riled up over this! I just can’t get this out of my head. Weird.

I need to examine this farther. I don’t think Sesshomaru would do anything he didn’t want to, it’s not his nature, that’s true, but than all the fuss that went into protecting Rin, over a period of what, 460 chapters?, something like that, would be pointless if he suddenly said to himself, “It’s time to leave her somewhere.”

It’d have been nice if Rumiko would have shown us what triggered the sudden, send Rin off bit, because it is so out of character for Sesshomaru to do that willingly. And it’s out of character for him to not fit to keep Rin.

It seems easier to believe that it was Keade who took Rin away, rather than Sesshomaru who suddenly dumped Rin off on Kaede, and yet, his past actions tell us that if Keade did take Rin from him, he would have reacted but lashing her to pieces with his claws, and than walking over her bloody remains to carry Rin away from the village.

Logic tells us that if Sesshomaru suddenly decided to leave Rin with Kaede, that some event had to have happened to trigger such a dynamic change of character for him. The question is, what could have happened to cause him to do a full 360 degree turn like this?

On the other hand, we do know that Kaede has a soft spot for children, and has been seen on countless occasions to be caring for children from the village. We also know that until the death of Naraku, Kaede had no knowledge of the fact that Rin was living with Sesshomaru. Upon Naraku’s death, Sesshomaru and Rin ended up in the village because Sesshomaru was chasing Naraku and Rin was following after Sesshomaru on Ah-Un.

We now that Sesshomaru hates humans, but we know also that of all humans he reviles priestesses the most, esp. Kikyo and her kin. We have heard these words come straight from his lips on more than one occasion. He refers to both Kikyo and Kaede as “that woman”, with a deep tone of disgust and hatred that far outweighs the hatred in his voice when talking about half-breeds or regular humans. His hatred of human priestess is unfathomable. And yet, not only does he leave Rin in the care of a human, but also a priestess, and to make it one step worse Kikyo’s sister! We have a major mega triple whammy on our hands here, one that glares off the page at us like a hand with 20 sore thumbs on it.

If he had left Rin with anyone else, there would not be so many questions, but the fact that he left her with the human, priestess who was the sister of Kikyo, just goes against everything Rumiko has ever told us about Sesshomaru!

It is completely impossible to believe, knowing what we know about Sesshomaru, that he would ever by himself, come up with the idea of leaving Rin in the care of Kaede.

It would be so much simpler if Rumiko had just added one more page, to tell us why the dessision was made to leave Rin with Kaede. I mean, we all know Sesshomaru would die to protect his beloved Rin. Likewise we all know Rinfights like hell against the idea of either leaving Sesshomaru or worse, living with humans (her worst dreaded fear of all!)

So taking all these facts into consideration, we come to the conclusion that something must have happened in the three year period, something drastic, to change either Sesshomaaru’s or Rin’s mind.

So whose mind was changed and why? Let’s look at what we know and than draw some conclusions:

We see Rin (wearing Kagura’s kimono no less!) happily helping Kaede. Giving that Rin now seems to enjoy living among humans, we can assume that she has somehow lost her fear of humans. We can also assume that she is no longer 100% dependent on Sesshomaru’s protection, and no loner feels the need to run to him for help. In fact her reaction to his presence suggests a tone of indifference. She does not seem to care that he came to visit her, it seems to be just another thing that happens. She is neither pleased to see him, nor displeased. This is out of character for Rin, who normally is overflowing with bubbling joy at even the slightest glance from Sesshomaru. Rin’s outlook towards Sesshomaru has changed, and rather dramaticly.

And why is Rin wearing Kagura’s kimono? How did she get it? If it’s not Kagura’s kimono, than why is she wearing a duplicate of Kagura’s kimono? Kagura being the woman Sesshomaru loved and probably would have taken as his mate had she not died, we must question the change in Rin’s wardrobe and the motive behind it. We know that Sesshomaru gave Rin her golden Noh robes, and we know that he gave you yet another kimono in 558, so we can safely assume that he also gave her this duplicate one that is like the one Kagura wore as well.

Okay, so that’s Rin now, lets look at what Sesshomaru is doing now.

We know how obsessed with Rin, Sesshomaru is, so to see them sepperated, is odd to say the least. Giving that Sesshomaru is still lurking around the village, in spite of his outspoken hatred for humans and his avoidance of setting a foot within a human village, we can assume that he not only still cares about Rin, and still desires to watch over her and protect her, in spite of the fact that she no longer lives with him, but that he is now forcing himself to put aside his hatred for humans, just to be near her. How odd and un-Youkai like of him! To make this whole series of events just a little bit wierder, we now see Sesshomaru flying in to not only visit Rin, but also to bring her gifts as well! Now that is the most, un-Sesshomaru thing to do of all!

Sesshomaru knew that Rin knew he cared for her, and while he knew this, he was not giving her gifts. It seems to indicate now, that Rin is questioning the fact that Sesshomaru cares for her, and he is now overdoing it, by bringing her gifts to prove to her that he does still care for her. If one was to look at the old Rin and Sesshomaru and compare them to the new ones, it would seem that their roles have reversed. Rin is now the cold emotionless one, no longer bringing gift after gift to her lord, while Sesshomaru is now the one bringing gifts to the girl ho no longer seems to care.

Why, is Sesshomaru, bringing her gifts? That part is so odd. Is her afraid that she will forget about him and brings her gifts to keep him on her mind? Is he afraid she will never return to him, and live the rest of her life with the humans, and so is bringing gifts to try to sway her to come back to him? Is she angry with him, and he brings gifts as a way to ask forgiveness? Any one of these things is out of character for Sesshomaru. He’s showing emotion. It’s like the episode of Star Trek, when Mr. Spock started laughing. It stunned everyone because Spock is devoid of emotion. Sesshomaru shows no emotion. Emotions are a thing humans do that make them weak and pathetic… he has said this in the past. Yet now here he is showing emotion, by giving gifts. What emotion is he showing? Love? Fear? Guilt? Does it matter? Either way it’s still an emotion, something that Sesshomaru does not admit to having.

So while most fans are saying that Sesshomaru had a change of heart and left Rin, it seems to me, that the one who changed was not Sesshomaru, but Rin. It looks more like Rin left of her own accord, and while Sesshomaru did not want her to leave, he also does not want to hold her prisoner and so let her leave, but is now regretting that he did so.

Why would Rin leave him? What could Kaede have said that could have gotten Rin to leave? Did Rin leave because Kaede told her to? Or did Rin leave and seek refuge with Kaede? Is it possible that Sesshomaru some hoe scared or hurt Rin, to the extent that she no longer felt safe in his care?

What could have happened, I suppose would be affected by how you view their relationship: Master/servant-pet; father/daughter; or lolicon, being the three most commonly accepted theories.

The whole gift-giving thing, completely throws out the father-daughter theory, because, lets face it, how many dad’s go out of their way to buy gifts for their kids for no reason at all? Fathers have a hard time remembering to buy gifts for Christmas and birthdays, and rely on the mother to buy the gifts for them… it’s not logical that Sesshomaru would be buying gifts for Rin if he thought of her as his daughter, though it is logical to believe that Rin did look up to Sesshomaru as though he was a father. I think the father-daughter theory, would only hold true in Rin’s mind and not Sesshomaru’s.

The master-servant or master-pet theories are so similar that I’ll call them one and the same. It is this theory that I personally felt held true for this couple, throughout the series. Rin clearly looked up to Sesshomaru as her master, and obied his every command without question. His fierce protection of her, is no different than the protection one gives to a beloved house-pet. He protects her, keeps her safe, kept her feed and healthy, and pretty much did nothing else. When a dog runs away or gets lost, you look for it, and when you find it you are so filled with joy that you shower it with gifts and treats. This seems to hold true for Sesshomaru’s actions. He has lost his beloved pet to a new owner and is trying to convince her to return to him, through the bearing of gifts.

Than there is the lolicon relationship, which I have already read posts from fans who are pointing the dreaded lolicon finger at Sesshomaru. Actually, as much as I hate to admit it, this does seem to be the most logical and highly likely reason for this unexpected turn of events. Weird, I find myself agree on this point, because until now, I had never actually believed that the lolicon theory was even possible. It just seemed to unlikely and out of character for Sesshomaru. The Sesshomaru gone lolicon was a theory that I pointed at and laughed. However, after reading 558, I can see this being a distinctive possibility, and one that could have gone one of three ways:

One, Sesshomaru, did as most fans suggest, and sent Rin away against her will to live with Kaede. For this to be true in the lolicon theory, we would have to assume that Sesshomaru no longer trusted himself and sent Rin away to protect her from himself.

Second would be that, Rin left of her own accord after a lolicon confrontation between herself and Sesshomasru left her scared to live with him anymore.

Third would be that Kaede, accused Sesshomaru of being a lolicon and took Rin away from him. This one could go one of two ways:

One Sesshomaru is in fact lolicon and Kaede somehow found out and took Rin away.

Two, Sesshomaru is not lolicon, but Kaede just assumed that he was, and took Rin away.

Reading 558, I actually got the impression that the later was true. Kaede, saw Rin and Sesshomaru together for the first time, after Naraku’s death, and was not aware Rin lived with Sesshomaru, before that point (chapter 552). InuYasha said that it was Kaede who said Rin should prepare to return to a human village. (558). So we know that Shortly after Kaede discovered that 7 year old Rin was living with 700+ year old Sesshomaru, she told them that Rin should live in a human village. The question is, how did Kaede convince Rin to come with her, and why did Sesshomaru let Rin go?

We do know that more than once Sesshomaru has told Rin, she could leave if she so desired, so we can assume that it was Rin who decided to leave Sesshomaru, otherwise, I can see no way he would have let her go. He would not have sent her away. He would not have allowed anyone to take her away. The only way he would let Rin go, is if, Rin, left of her own accord. But why would Rin leave?

Have I gotten anywhere with all of this? No. But at least I got it off my chest and now I’ll let someone else unravel this mess and figure it out. I’d love to hear how other fans are taking this. Me? It’s safe to say that I am very upset over this and not taking it very well at all, otherwise I would not have spent the last 3 and 1/2 hours sitting here typing up this rant about it.

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InuYasha 558: Sesshomaru x Rin x Kaede

Okay, so if you’ve followed the books these past 12 years, you know that the final volume came out this week, and if you know me, you know I had all ready read it less than 3 hours after it hit the newstands. If you’ve read it you know that everyone lived happily ever after, except as usual Sesshomaru, who for the 7th time in this series has had yet another woman he loves, taken away from from him. Sara died, Kagura died, Rin died twice and he just keeps bringing her back, yo get the picture. Sesshy’s life has been made complete hell in every volume, and this final volume was no exception. InuYasha married Kagome. Miroku marries Sango. Rin is taken away from Sesshomaru and sent to live with Kaede.

As the days go by and more and more people read the final chapter of InuYasha, and I go through blogs and forums reading people’s responses to it (me only being interested in people’s responses to the Sesshy x Rin part of course!), I am finding one thing a bit odd. Most people seem to be reading it as Sesshomaru left Rin behind, forcing her to live with Kaede.

I actually read the ending totally differently… weird… but I guess I’m weird so, yea, it figures, but anyways, the way InuYasha said that Kaede said Rin was to learn to live in a human village (note that he said, that Kaede said it, not Sesshomaru) I took that to mean that Keade took Rin away from Sesshomaru, not Sesshomaru left Rin with Keade… that is what it says after all, that “Kaede said it”…. not “Sesshomaru said it”.

It seems to me that if he had left her, he wouldn’t be coming back with the gifts either; it’s more logical that Kaede took her, thus now Sesshomaru is sticking around the village and bringing Rin gifts, biding his time, until she’s old enough, to take her away from Kaede without Keade or anyone else being there to say she’s too young.

Well, that’s the way I saw the ending as being.

Did anyone else see it this way, or am I the only one who does not think Sesshomaru left Rin behind?

And another thing… why is this bugging me in the first place? They are fictional characters, it’s not like these things really happened anyways, and yet, I’m all riled up over this! I just can’t get this out of my head. Weird.

I need to examine this farther. I don’t think Sesshomaru would do anything he didn’t want to, it’s not his nature, that’s true, but than all the fuss that went into protecting Rin, over a period of what, 460 chapters?, something like that, would be pointless if he suddenly said to himself, “It’s time to leave her somewhere.”

It’d have been nice if Rumiko would have shown us what triggered the sudden, send Rin off bit, because it is so out of character for Sesshomaru to do that willingly. And it’s out of character for him to not fit to keep Rin.

It seems easier to believe that it was Keade who took Rin away, rather than Sesshomaru who suddenly dumped Rin off on Kaede, and yet, his past actions tell us that if Keade did take Rin from him, he would have reacted but lashing her to pieces with his claws, and than walking over her bloody remains to carry Rin away from the village.

Logic tells us that if Sesshomaru suddenly decided to leave Rin with Kaede, that some event had to have happened to trigger such a dynamic change of character for him. The question is, what could have happened to cause him to do a full 360 degree turn like this?

On the other hand, we do know that Kaede has a soft spot for children, and has been seen on countless occasions to be caring for children from the village. We also know that until the death of Naraku, Kaede had no knowledge of the fact that Rin was living with Sesshomaru. Upon Naraku’s death, Sesshomaru and Rin ended up in the village because Sesshomaru was chasing Naraku and Rin was following after Sesshomaru on Ah-Un.

We now that Sesshomaru hates humans, but we know also that of all humans he reviles priestesses the most, esp. Kikyo and her kin. We have heard these words come straight from his lips on more than one occasion. He refers to both Kikyo and Kaede as “that woman”, with a deep tone of disgust and hatred that far outweighs the hatred in his voice when talking about half-breeds or regular humans. His hatred of human priestess is unfathomable. And yet, not only does he leave Rin in the care of a human, but also a priestess, and to make it one step worse Kikyo’s sister! We have a major mega triple whammy on our hands here, one that glares off the page at us like a hand with 20 sore thumbs on it.

If he had left Rin with anyone else, there would not be so many questions, but the fact that he left her with the human, priestess who was the sister of Kikyo, just goes against everything Rumiko has ever told us about Sesshomaru!

It is completely impossible to believe, knowing what we know about Sesshomaru, that he would ever by himself, come up with the idea of leaving Rin in the care of Kaede.

It would be so much simpler if Rumiko had just added one more page, to tell us why the dessision was made to leave Rin with Kaede. I mean, we all know Sesshomaru would die to protect his beloved Rin. Likewise we all know Rinfights like hell against the idea of either leaving Sesshomaru or worse, living with humans (her worst dreaded fear of all!)

So taking all these facts into consideration, we come to the conclusion that something must have happened in the three year period, something drastic, to change either Sesshomaaru’s or Rin’s mind.

So whose mind was changed and why? Let’s look at what we know and than draw some conclusions:

We see Rin (wearing Kagura’s kimono no less!) happily helping Kaede. Giving that Rin now seems to enjoy living among humans, we can assume that she has somehow lost her fear of humans. We can also assume that she is no longer 100% dependent on Sesshomaru’s protection, and no loner feels the need to run to him for help. In fact her reaction to his presence suggests a tone of indifference. She does not seem to care that he came to visit her, it seems to be just another thing that happens. She is neither pleased to see him, nor displeased. This is out of character for Rin, who normally is overflowing with bubbling joy at even the slightest glance from Sesshomaru. Rin’s outlook towards Sesshomaru has changed, and rather dramaticly.

And why is Rin wearing Kagura’s kimono? How did she get it? If it’s not Kagura’s kimono, than why is she wearing a duplicate of Kagura’s kimono? Kagura being the woman Sesshomaru loved and probably would have taken as his mate had she not died, we must question the change in Rin’s wardrobe and the motive behind it. We know that Sesshomaru gave Rin her golden Noh robes, and we know that he gave you yet another kimono in 558, so we can safely assume that he also gave her this duplicate one that is like the one Kagura wore as well.

Okay, so that’s Rin now, lets look at what Sesshomaru is doing now.

We know how obsessed with Rin, Sesshomaru is, so to see them sepperated, is odd to say the least. Giving that Sesshomaru is still lurking around the village, in spite of his outspoken hatred for humans and his avoidance of setting a foot within a human village, we can assume that he not only still cares about Rin, and still desires to watch over her and protect her, in spite of the fact that she no longer lives with him, but that he is now forcing himself to put aside his hatred for humans, just to be near her. How odd and un-Youkai like of him! To make this whole series of events just a little bit wierder, we now see Sesshomaru flying in to not only visit Rin, but also to bring her gifts as well! Now that is the most, un-Sesshomaru thing to do of all!

Sesshomaru knew that Rin knew he cared for her, and while he knew this, he was not giving her gifts. It seems to indicate now, that Rin is questioning the fact that Sesshomaru cares for her, and he is now overdoing it, by bringing her gifts to prove to her that he does still care for her. If one was to look at the old Rin and Sesshomaru and compare them to the new ones, it would seem that their roles have reversed. Rin is now the cold emotionless one, no longer bringing gift after gift to her lord, while Sesshomaru is now the one bringing gifts to the girl ho no longer seems to care.

Why, is Sesshomaru, bringing her gifts? That part is so odd. Is her afraid that she will forget about him and brings her gifts to keep him on her mind? Is he afraid she will never return to him, and live the rest of her life with the humans, and so is bringing gifts to try to sway her to come back to him? Is she angry with him, and he brings gifts as a way to ask forgiveness? Any one of these things is out of character for Sesshomaru. He’s showing emotion. It’s like the episode of Star Trek, when Mr. Spock started laughing. It stunned everyone because Spock is devoid of emotion. Sesshomaru shows no emotion. Emotions are a thing humans do that make them weak and pathetic… he has said this in the past. Yet now here he is showing emotion, by giving gifts. What emotion is he showing? Love? Fear? Guilt? Does it matter? Either way it’s still an emotion, something that Sesshomaru does not admit to having.

So while most fans are saying that Sesshomaru had a change of heart and left Rin, it seems to me, that the one who changed was not Sesshomaru, but Rin. It looks more like Rin left of her own accord, and while Sesshomaru did not want her to leave, he also does not want to hold her prisoner and so let her leave, but is now regretting that he did so.

Why would Rin leave him? What could Kaede have said that could have gotten Rin to leave? Did Rin leave because Kaede told her to? Or did Rin leave and seek refuge with Kaede? Is it possible that Sesshomaru some hoe scared or hurt Rin, to the extent that she no longer felt safe in his care?

What could have happened, I suppose would be affected by how you view their relationship: Master/servant-pet; father/daughter; or lolicon, being the three most commonly accepted theories.

The whole gift-giving thing, completely throws out the father-daughter theory, because, lets face it, how many dad’s go out of their way to buy gifts for their kids for no reason at all? Fathers have a hard time remembering to buy gifts for Christmas and birthdays, and rely on the mother to buy the gifts for them… it’s not logical that Sesshomaru would be buying gifts for Rin if he thought of her as his daughter, though it is logical to believe that Rin did look up to Sesshomaru as though he was a father. I think the father-daughter theory, would only hold true in Rin’s mind and not Sesshomaru’s.

The master-servant or master-pet theories are so similar that I’ll call them one and the same. It is this theory that I personally felt held true for this couple, throughout the series. Rin clearly looked up to Sesshomaru as her master, and obied his every command without question. His fierce protection of her, is no different than the protection one gives to a beloved house-pet. He protects her, keeps her safe, kept her feed and healthy, and pretty much did nothing else. When a dog runs away or gets lost, you look for it, and when you find it you are so filled with joy that you shower it with gifts and treats. This seems to hold true for Sesshomaru’s actions. He has lost his beloved pet to a new owner and is trying to convince her to return to him, through the bearing of gifts.

Than there is the lolicon relationship, which I have already read posts from fans who are pointing the dreaded lolicon finger at Sesshomaru. Actually, as much as I hate to admit it, this does seem to be the most logical and highly likely reason for this unexpected turn of events. Weird, I find myself agree on this point, because until now, I had never actually believed that the lolicon theory was even possible. It just seemed to unlikely and out of character for Sesshomaru. The Sesshomaru gone lolicon was a theory that I pointed at and laughed. However, after reading 558, I can see this being a distinctive possibility, and one that could have gone one of three ways:

One, Sesshomaru, did as most fans suggest, and sent Rin away against her will to live with Kaede. For this to be true in the lolicon theory, we would have to assume that Sesshomaru no longer trusted himself and sent Rin away to protect her from himself.

Second would be that, Rin left of her own accord after a lolicon confrontation between herself and Sesshomasru left her scared to live with him anymore.

Third would be that Kaede, accused Sesshomaru of being a lolicon and took Rin away from him. This one could go one of two ways:

One Sesshomaru is in fact lolicon and Kaede somehow found out and took Rin away.

Two, Sesshomaru is not lolicon, but Kaede just assumed that he was, and took Rin away.

Reading 558, I actually got the impression that the later was true. Kaede, saw Rin and Sesshomaru together for the first time, after Naraku’s death, and was not aware Rin lived with Sesshomaru, before that point (chapter 552). InuYasha said that it was Kaede who said Rin should prepare to return to a human village. (558). So we know that Shortly after Kaede discovered that 7 year old Rin was living with 700+ year old Sesshomaru, she told them that Rin should live in a human village. The question is, how did Kaede convince Rin to come with her, and why did Sesshomaru let Rin go?

We do know that more than once Sesshomaru has told Rin, she could leave if she so desired, so we can assume that it was Rin who decided to leave Sesshomaru, otherwise, I can see no way he would have let her go. He would not have sent her away. He would not have allowed anyone to take her away. The only way he would let Rin go, is if, Rin, left of her own accord. But why would Rin leave?

Have I gotten anywhere with all of this? No. But at least I got it off my chest and now I’ll let someone else unravel this mess and figure it out. I’d love to hear how other fans are taking this. Me? It’s safe to say that I am very upset over this and not taking it very well at all, otherwise I would not have spent the last 3 and 1/2 hours sitting here typing up this rant about it.

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InuYasha 558: After 11 Years It Has Ended! :(

WHAAAAAAA!!!!

My fave series has ended!

I want more, Inu stories…. I’ll have to settle for fanfic now.

*crys* no more new stories about my Sesshy

Oh… love the ending though! Jumped into the future… weddings, babies and all! YAY!

Mad at Keade, GRRRRR, I do not agree with her. *fumes and throws poison venom at her*…

…seems Sesshy don’t agree with her either…. cool! *rushes off to write fanfic about Fluffy visiting Rin* We all know he doesn’t want her going back to a human village, or he wouldn’t be there, willingly being surrounded by all those pathetic humans! Sesshie’s glare at Kagome’s new title for him = Priceless! LOL! LOL! LOL!

I’m miffed over Kaede taking Rin away from Sesshomaru X( but, seeing how Sesshy is visiting Rin, we can hope they get together once she’s grown up. Looks like Rumiko is not going to be telling us either way , so I’m going to assume they will and be happy with that.

here’s the English online edition:

http://adinuyasha.thebrokenconsole.com/TOC.html

The end spread out over quite a few chapters, so it depends on how far back it’s been since you last read it, how far back you want to start reading.

In the 460′s we meet Sesshomaru’s mom, and by 516 he got his left arm back…which I thought was weird, but than Inu and Sesshy joined forces and set out together to battle Naraku.

Which took another 40 chapters! LOL! So tech. the ending starts at 549 and ends at 557, and than 558 is a final wrap-up that tells us what happened to the gang after they went their separate ways, which was this:

They killed Naraku, than Miroku and Sango got married and had a bunch of kids, Kagome wused her wish to destroy the jewel and got set back home and the well dissapeared, but than 3 years later, the well came back so she and InuYasha get married, kohaku goes off with Totosai and Mioga to train to become a demon slayer, … over all I liked the whole ending, except for what happened to my fave pair, and Rumiko didn’t tell us why it happened, but Kaede suddenly decided that Rin shouldn’t be with Sesshomaru anymore and took her away from him. But now he stays near by the village to keep an eye on Rin while she lives with Kaede.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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InuYasha 558: After 11 Years It Has Ended! :(

WHAAAAAAA!!!!

My fave series has ended!

I want more, Inu stories…. I’ll have to settle for fanfic now.

*crys* no more new stories about my Sesshy

Oh… love the ending though! Jumped into the future… weddings, babies and all! YAY!

Mad at Keade, GRRRRR, I do not agree with her. *fumes and throws poison venom at her*…

…seems Sesshy don’t agree with her either…. cool! *rushes off to write fanfic about Fluffy visiting Rin* We all know he doesn’t want her going back to a human village, or he wouldn’t be there, willingly being surrounded by all those pathetic humans! Sesshie’s glare at Kagome’s new title for him = Priceless! LOL! LOL! LOL!

I’m miffed over Kaede taking Rin away from Sesshomaru X( but, seeing how Sesshy is visiting Rin, we can hope they get together once she’s grown up. Looks like Rumiko is not going to be telling us either way , so I’m going to assume they will and be happy with that.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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InuYasha 558: After 11 Years It Has Ended! :(

WHAAAAAAA!!!!

My fave series has ended!

I want more, Inu stories…. I’ll have to settle for fanfic now.

*crys* no more new stories about my Sesshy

Oh… love the ending though! Jumped into the future… weddings, babies and all! YAY!

Mad at Keade, GRRRRR, I do not agree with her. *fumes and throws poison venom at her*…

…seems Sesshy don’t agree with her either…. cool! *rushes off to write fanfic about Fluffy visiting Rin* We all know he doesn’t want her going back to a human village, or he wouldn’t be there, willingly being surrounded by all those pathetic humans! Sesshie’s glare at Kagome’s new title for him = Priceless! LOL! LOL! LOL!

I’m miffed over Kaede taking Rin away from Sesshomaru X( but, seeing how Sesshy is visiting Rin, we can hope they get together once she’s grown up. Looks like Rumiko is not going to be telling us either way , so I’m going to assume they will and be happy with that.

here’s the English online edition:

http://adinuyasha.thebrokenconsole.com/TOC.html

The end spread out over quite a few chapters, so it depends on how far back it’s been since you last read it, how far back you want to start reading.

In the 460′s we meet Sesshomaru’s mom, and by 516 he got his left arm back…which I thought was weird, but than Inu and Sesshy joined forces and set out together to battle Naraku.

Which took another 40 chapters! LOL! So tech. the ending starts at 549 and ends at 557, and than 558 is a final wrap-up that tells us what happened to the gang after they went their separate ways, which was this:

They killed Naraku, than Miroku and Sango got married and had a bunch of kids, Kagome wused her wish to destroy the jewel and got set back home and the well dissapeared, but than 3 years later, the well came back so she and InuYasha get married, kohaku goes off with Totosai and Mioga to train to become a demon slayer, … over all I liked the whole ending, except for what happened to my fave pair, and Rumiko didn’t tell us why it happened, but Kaede suddenly decided that Rin shouldn’t be with Sesshomaru anymore and took her away from him. But now he stays near by the village to keep an eye on Rin while she lives with Kaede.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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Have You Ever Worn a Costume, That No Body Recognized, and Every One Thought Was Someone Else?

A few years ago, I made a humanized version of Scrooge McDuck (I just couldn’t get into the whole feather and duck bill thing), which at first, everyone mistook as me just being a Victorian gentleman, and giving my having already done all the women from Sense & Sensibility, every one thought I was now making the men, but than after the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie came out, everyone thought I was Willy Wonka. As it turns out the only time anyone ever gets this costume right is when I’m shopping at the Disney Store… the workers recognize it as Uncle Scrooge instantly.

My Uncle Scrooge costume is my most worn outfit, and the one which most locals recognize as my “signature look”, as I’ve been wearing it as part of my daily street wear for some 5 years now.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

Have You Ever Worn a Costume, That No Body Recognized, and Every One Thought Was Someone Else?

A few years ago, I made a humanized version of Scrooge McDuck (I just couldn’t get into the whole feather and duck bill thing), which at first, everyone mistook as me just being a Victorian gentleman, and giving my having already done all the women from Sense & Sensibility, every one thought I was now making the men, but than after the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie came out, everyone thought I was Willy Wonka. As it turns out the only time anyone ever gets this costume right is when I’m shopping at the Disney Store… the workers recognize it as Uncle Scrooge instantly.

My Uncle Scrooge costume is my most worn outfit, and the one which most locals recognize as my “signature look”, as I’ve been wearing it as part of my daily street wear for some 5 years now.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

Have You Ever Worn a Costume, That No Body Recognized, and Every One Thought Was Someone Else?

A few years ago, I made a humanized version of Scrooge McDuck (I just couldn’t get into the whole feather and duck bill thing), which at first, everyone mistook as me just being a Victorian gentleman, and giving my having already done all the women from Sense & Sensibility, every one thought I was now making the men, but than after the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie came out, everyone thought I was Willy Wonka. As it turns out the only time anyone ever gets this costume right is when I’m shopping at the Disney Store… the workers recognize it as Uncle Scrooge instantly.

My Uncle Scrooge costume is my most worn outfit, and the one which most locals recognize as my “signature look”, as I’ve been wearing it as part of my daily street wear for some 5 years now.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

Do You Ever Run Out Of Blog Topics To Write About?

Nope, I am never out of topics!

I have a lot of hobbies and lead a very busy life. I get my ideas for topics to write about from my life, my hobbies, my jobs, my family, things I do, places I go, etc. I have 32 different blogs, when I get bored with one I start writing on a different one. I go back and forth between them, because I try to keep each one on it’s own topic. Here is a list of the things that inspire me most:

* I am a writer. I write books. I write short stories. I started writing in 1978. I have been writing for a very long time. I have a million and one fictional characters running rampant in my brain, begging, no not begging, demanding I write about them. I write so much so often, that I get a lot of emails asking for advice on how to be a better writer, and thus I currently have 32 Squidoo lenses devoted to helping writers write and publish what they write, all of which started out as posts from my “Writing Blog”.

* Comic books. I love comic books. I own more than 7,000 comic books. I collect comic book memorabilia. I collect autographed comic books from my fave comic book authors and artists. I email most of said authors and artists constantly. I am a CosPlayer. I dress up in my daily life as my favorite comic book characters. I am a freelance writer who writes comic book scripts for Danish comic books. Did I mention I love comic books and that my favorite Squidoo lens of all the lenses I have ever made is completely devoted to a comic book character and resulted in nearly 20 other sub-lenses spun off of it, and that all of the content found on those lenses originated off of 4 different blogs of mine?

* M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E spells Donald Duck! And I’m still loving comic books. I love Disney. I love Disney Ducks. I own one of the world’s largest Disney Comic book collections. I have gotten a lot of them autographed. I collect Disney comic books, Disney DVDs, Dinesy picture books, Disney toys, Disney cloths, Disney socks, Disney totebags . . . hell I’m a walking Disney advertisement half the time! LOL! I got A LOT of Disney related Squidoo lenses, and again, those all started out as posts off my blogs.

* Manga. What is Manga you ask? Why it’s Japanese comic books of course! uh-uh, even more comic books. You know, I’m seeing a pattern here . . . comic books strike again! Three of my highest ranking Squidoo lenses are devoted to Manga and Anime (cartoons based on Japanese Comic Books), all of which were created using posts off of my CosPlay blog.

* I’m a costumer-fashion designer-Glam-Goth-CosPlayer-Historical Reenactor: big hair, bright colors, fishnets, sparkles, sequins, gowns fit for an 1300′s princess from France and elaborate kimonos any Japanese demon would envy, capes, hats, frock coats, all that glitters is better than gold, esp if it’s purple. I make all of my cloths myself from drawings I created and patterns I made from scratch, a result of having a seamstress for a mother and taking a two year course in Dressmaking and Fashion Design. I write about CosPlay, fashion, and sewing, often yapping about my projects as I create them.

* I live on a farm. I own and run The Pidgie Fund, a shelter that rescues feral cats and pit-fighter cocks (roosters). My home is currently the home of 13 formally stray no-longer feral cats, and 60+ now tame and peaceful roosters, and one 13 year old dog who loves all his cats and birds. I write about animals as a result.

* I have a garden. Me and my dog and my cats and my birds all spend hours in the shade of my rose bushes and lilacs and hostas and lilies and orchids. I have a few posts about plants and gardening.

* I like to cook. I am a vegetarian. I love Asian food. I love pizza. I have posts on cooking and foods.

* I read books. A lot of books. I read books A LOT. I collect books. I own The Twighlight Manor Library. In The Twighlight Manor Library collection is more than 10,000 books which took me nearly 30 years to acquire. I have library cards at 4 local and one state library. I take out an average of 15 books each week, from EACH of those 5 libraries. When those 5 libraries have book sales, they provide lots of big boxes just for me, because they know I’ll be the first one through the door, and I’ll buy them out in the first hour of the sale, so long as I can keep packing more books into my dad’s car, my mom’s car, and my boyfriend’s car, and the cars of anyone else I can convince to tag along to help me carry home the hundreds of books I buy each time I go to a library book sale. Yes, I really do buy books at a rate of hundreds a week and by car loads. . . you don’t end up with more than 10,000 books by buying one or two books at a time! I love all of my books and I have several posts devoted to them.

* I like music, movies, and video games. I write posts about singers, music, actors, TV shows, movies, and video games.

* I obsess very obsessively over the things I like best in this world and end up with massive collections and lots of lenses about those collections. I have 32 blogs and 264 Squidoo lenses because like everything else in my life, I could not join Blogger or Squidoo without getting obsessed over it.

Everytime anything happens in my life it inspires me to write something about it, so I never run out of ideas, and don’t expect I ever will.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Do You Ever Run Out Of Blog Topics To Write About?

Nope, I am never out of topics!

I have a lot of hobbies and lead a very busy life. I get my ideas for topics to write about from my life, my hobbies, my jobs, my family, things I do, places I go, etc. I have 32 different blogs, when I get bored with one I start writing on a different one. I go back and forth between them, because I try to keep each one on it’s own topic. Here is a list of the things that inspire me most:

* I am a writer. I write books. I write short stories. I started writing in 1978. I have been writing for a very long time. I have a million and one fictional characters running rampant in my brain, begging, no not begging, demanding I write about them. I write so much so often, that I get a lot of emails asking for advice on how to be a better writer, and thus I currently have 32 Squidoo lenses devoted to helping writers write and publish what they write, all of which started out as posts from my “Writing Blog”.

* Comic books. I love comic books. I own more than 7,000 comic books. I collect comic book memorabilia. I collect autographed comic books from my fave comic book authors and artists. I email most of said authors and artists constantly. I am a CosPlayer. I dress up in my daily life as my favorite comic book characters. I am a freelance writer who writes comic book scripts for Danish comic books. Did I mention I love comic books and that my favorite Squidoo lens of all the lenses I have ever made is completely devoted to a comic book character and resulted in nearly 20 other sub-lenses spun off of it, and that all of the content found on those lenses originated off of 4 different blogs of mine?

* M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E spells Donald Duck! And I’m still loving comic books. I love Disney. I love Disney Ducks. I own one of the world’s largest Disney Comic book collections. I have gotten a lot of them autographed. I collect Disney comic books, Disney DVDs, Dinesy picture books, Disney toys, Disney cloths, Disney socks, Disney totebags . . . hell I’m a walking Disney advertisement half the time! LOL! I got A LOT of Disney related Squidoo lenses, and again, those all started out as posts off my blogs.

* Manga. What is Manga you ask? Why it’s Japanese comic books of course! uh-uh, even more comic books. You know, I’m seeing a pattern here . . . comic books strike again! Three of my highest ranking Squidoo lenses are devoted to Manga and Anime (cartoons based on Japanese Comic Books), all of which were created using posts off of my CosPlay blog.

* I’m a costumer-fashion designer-Glam-Goth-CosPlayer-Historical Reenactor: big hair, bright colors, fishnets, sparkles, sequins, gowns fit for an 1300′s princess from France and elaborate kimonos any Japanese demon would envy, capes, hats, frock coats, all that glitters is better than gold, esp if it’s purple. I make all of my cloths myself from drawings I created and patterns I made from scratch, a result of having a seamstress for a mother and taking a two year course in Dressmaking and Fashion Design. I write about CosPlay, fashion, and sewing, often yapping about my projects as I create them.

* I live on a farm. I own and run The Pidgie Fund, a shelter that rescues feral cats and pit-fighter cocks (roosters). My home is currently the home of 13 formally stray no-longer feral cats, and 60+ now tame and peaceful roosters, and one 13 year old dog who loves all his cats and birds. I write about animals as a result.

* I have a garden. Me and my dog and my cats and my birds all spend hours in the shade of my rose bushes and lilacs and hostas and lilies and orchids. I have a few posts about plants and gardening.

* I like to cook. I am a vegetarian. I love Asian food. I love pizza. I have posts on cooking and foods.

* I read books. A lot of books. I read books A LOT. I collect books. I own The Twighlight Manor Library. In The Twighlight Manor Library collection is more than 10,000 books which took me nearly 30 years to acquire. I have library cards at 4 local and one state library. I take out an average of 15 books each week, from EACH of those 5 libraries. When those 5 libraries have book sales, they provide lots of big boxes just for me, because they know I’ll be the first one through the door, and I’ll buy them out in the first hour of the sale, so long as I can keep packing more books into my dad’s car, my mom’s car, and my boyfriend’s car, and the cars of anyone else I can convince to tag along to help me carry home the hundreds of books I buy each time I go to a library book sale. Yes, I really do buy books at a rate of hundreds a week and by car loads. . . you don’t end up with more than 10,000 books by buying one or two books at a time! I love all of my books and I have several posts devoted to them.

* I like music, movies, and video games. I write posts about singers, music, actors, TV shows, movies, and video games.

* I obsess very obsessively over the things I like best in this world and end up with massive collections and lots of lenses about those collections. I have 32 blogs and 264 Squidoo lenses because like everything else in my life, I could not join Blogger or Squidoo without getting obsessed over it.

Everytime anything happens in my life it inspires me to write something about it, so I never run out of ideas, and don’t expect I ever will.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Do You Ever Run Out Of Blog Topics To Write About?

Nope, I am never out of topics!

I have a lot of hobbies and lead a very busy life. I get my ideas for topics to write about from my life, my hobbies, my jobs, my family, things I do, places I go, etc. I have 32 different blogs, when I get bored with one I start writing on a different one. I go back and forth between them, because I try to keep each one on it’s own topic. Here is a list of the things that inspire me most:

* I am a writer. I write books. I write short stories. I started writing in 1978. I have been writing for a very long time. I have a million and one fictional characters running rampant in my brain, begging, no not begging, demanding I write about them. I write so much so often, that I get a lot of emails asking for advice on how to be a better writer, and thus I currently have 32 Squidoo lenses devoted to helping writers write and publish what they write, all of which started out as posts from my “Writing Blog”.

* Comic books. I love comic books. I own more than 7,000 comic books. I collect comic book memorabilia. I collect autographed comic books from my fave comic book authors and artists. I email most of said authors and artists constantly. I am a CosPlayer. I dress up in my daily life as my favorite comic book characters. I am a freelance writer who writes comic book scripts for Danish comic books. Did I mention I love comic books and that my favorite Squidoo lens of all the lenses I have ever made is completely devoted to a comic book character and resulted in nearly 20 other sub-lenses spun off of it, and that all of the content found on those lenses originated off of 4 different blogs of mine?

* M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E spells Donald Duck! And I’m still loving comic books. I love Disney. I love Disney Ducks. I own one of the world’s largest Disney Comic book collections. I have gotten a lot of them autographed. I collect Disney comic books, Disney DVDs, Dinesy picture books, Disney toys, Disney cloths, Disney socks, Disney totebags . . . hell I’m a walking Disney advertisement half the time! LOL! I got A LOT of Disney related Squidoo lenses, and again, those all started out as posts off my blogs.

* Manga. What is Manga you ask? Why it’s Japanese comic books of course! uh-uh, even more comic books. You know, I’m seeing a pattern here . . . comic books strike again! Three of my highest ranking Squidoo lenses are devoted to Manga and Anime (cartoons based on Japanese Comic Books), all of which were created using posts off of my CosPlay blog.

* I’m a costumer-fashion designer-Glam-Goth-CosPlayer-Historical Reenactor: big hair, bright colors, fishnets, sparkles, sequins, gowns fit for an 1300′s princess from France and elaborate kimonos any Japanese demon would envy, capes, hats, frock coats, all that glitters is better than gold, esp if it’s purple. I make all of my cloths myself from drawings I created and patterns I made from scratch, a result of having a seamstress for a mother and taking a two year course in Dressmaking and Fashion Design. I write about CosPlay, fashion, and sewing, often yapping about my projects as I create them.

* I live on a farm. I own and run The Pidgie Fund, a shelter that rescues feral cats and pit-fighter cocks (roosters). My home is currently the home of 13 formally stray no-longer feral cats, and 60+ now tame and peaceful roosters, and one 13 year old dog who loves all his cats and birds. I write about animals as a result.

* I have a garden. Me and my dog and my cats and my birds all spend hours in the shade of my rose bushes and lilacs and hostas and lilies and orchids. I have a few posts about plants and gardening.

* I like to cook. I am a vegetarian. I love Asian food. I love pizza. I have posts on cooking and foods.

* I read books. A lot of books. I read books A LOT. I collect books. I own The Twighlight Manor Library. In The Twighlight Manor Library collection is more than 10,000 books which took me nearly 30 years to acquire. I have library cards at 4 local and one state library. I take out an average of 15 books each week, from EACH of those 5 libraries. When those 5 libraries have book sales, they provide lots of big boxes just for me, because they know I’ll be the first one through the door, and I’ll buy them out in the first hour of the sale, so long as I can keep packing more books into my dad’s car, my mom’s car, and my boyfriend’s car, and the cars of anyone else I can convince to tag along to help me carry home the hundreds of books I buy each time I go to a library book sale. Yes, I really do buy books at a rate of hundreds a week and by car loads. . . you don’t end up with more than 10,000 books by buying one or two books at a time! I love all of my books and I have several posts devoted to them.

* I like music, movies, and video games. I write posts about singers, music, actors, TV shows, movies, and video games.

* I obsess very obsessively over the things I like best in this world and end up with massive collections and lots of lenses about those collections. I have 32 blogs and 264 Squidoo lenses because like everything else in my life, I could not join Blogger or Squidoo without getting obsessed over it.

Everytime anything happens in my life it inspires me to write something about it, so I never run out of ideas, and don’t expect I ever will.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

>Do You Ever Run Out Of Blog Topics To Write About?

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Nope, I am never out of topics!

I have a lot of hobbies and lead a very busy life. I get my ideas for topics to write about from my life, my hobbies, my jobs, my family, things I do, places I go, etc. I have 32 different blogs, when I get bored with one I start writing on a different one. I go back and forth between them, because I try to keep each one on it’s own topic. Here is a list of the things that inspire me most:

* I am a writer. I write books. I write short stories. I started writing in 1978. I have been writing for a very long time. I have a million and one fictional characters running rampant in my brain, begging, no not begging, demanding I write about them. I write so much so often, that I get a lot of emails asking for advice on how to be a better writer, and thus I currently have 32 Squidoo lenses devoted to helping writers write and publish what they write, all of which started out as posts from my “Writing Blog”.

* Comic books. I love comic books. I own more than 7,000 comic books. I collect comic book memorabilia. I collect autographed comic books from my fave comic book authors and artists. I email most of said authors and artists constantly. I am a CosPlayer. I dress up in my daily life as my favorite comic book characters. I am a freelance writer who writes comic book scripts for Danish comic books. Did I mention I love comic books and that my favorite Squidoo lens of all the lenses I have ever made is completely devoted to a comic book character and resulted in nearly 20 other sub-lenses spun off of it, and that all of the content found on those lenses originated off of 4 different blogs of mine?

* M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E spells Donald Duck! And I’m still loving comic books. I love Disney. I love Disney Ducks. I own one of the world’s largest Disney Comic book collections. I have gotten a lot of them autographed. I collect Disney comic books, Disney DVDs, Dinesy picture books, Disney toys, Disney cloths, Disney socks, Disney totebags . . . hell I’m a walking Disney advertisement half the time! LOL! I got A LOT of Disney related Squidoo lenses, and again, those all started out as posts off my blogs.

* Manga. What is Manga you ask? Why it’s Japanese comic books of course! uh-uh, even more comic books. You know, I’m seeing a pattern here . . . comic books strike again! Three of my highest ranking Squidoo lenses are devoted to Manga and Anime (cartoons based on Japanese Comic Books), all of which were created using posts off of my CosPlay blog.

* I’m a costumer-fashion designer-Glam-Goth-CosPlayer-Historical Reenactor: big hair, bright colors, fishnets, sparkles, sequins, gowns fit for an 1300′s princess from France and elaborate kimonos any Japanese demon would envy, capes, hats, frock coats, all that glitters is better than gold, esp if it’s purple. I make all of my cloths myself from drawings I created and patterns I made from scratch, a result of having a seamstress for a mother and taking a two year course in Dressmaking and Fashion Design. I write about CosPlay, fashion, and sewing, often yapping about my projects as I create them.

* I live on a farm. I own and run The Pidgie Fund, a shelter that rescues feral cats and pit-fighter cocks (roosters). My home is currently the home of 13 formally stray no-longer feral cats, and 60+ now tame and peaceful roosters, and one 13 year old dog who loves all his cats and birds. I write about animals as a result.

* I have a garden. Me and my dog and my cats and my birds all spend hours in the shade of my rose bushes and lilacs and hostas and lilies and orchids. I have a few posts about plants and gardening.

* I like to cook. I am a vegetarian. I love Asian food. I love pizza. I have posts on cooking and foods.

* I read books. A lot of books. I read books A LOT. I collect books. I own The Twighlight Manor Library. In The Twighlight Manor Library collection is more than 10,000 books which took me nearly 30 years to acquire. I have library cards at 4 local and one state library. I take out an average of 15 books each week, from EACH of those 5 libraries. When those 5 libraries have book sales, they provide lots of big boxes just for me, because they know I’ll be the first one through the door, and I’ll buy them out in the first hour of the sale, so long as I can keep packing more books into my dad’s car, my mom’s car, and my boyfriend’s car, and the cars of anyone else I can convince to tag along to help me carry home the hundreds of books I buy each time I go to a library book sale. Yes, I really do buy books at a rate of hundreds a week and by car loads. . . you don’t end up with more than 10,000 books by buying one or two books at a time! I love all of my books and I have several posts devoted to them.

* I like music, movies, and video games. I write posts about singers, music, actors, TV shows, movies, and video games.

* I obsess very obsessively over the things I like best in this world and end up with massive collections and lots of lenses about those collections. I have 32 blogs and 264 Squidoo lenses because like everything else in my life, I could not join Blogger or Squidoo without getting obsessed over it.

Everytime anything happens in my life it inspires me to write something about it, so I never run out of ideas, and don’t expect I ever will.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

The Silver Haired Warrior

The Silver Haired Warrior
Here is an interesting challenge for the CosPlayer: Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. Now, not knowing how tall he is, it is a bit difficult to say exactly how long his hair is, however knowing that his hair comes to about 3 inches above his ankles (nearly to the ground!) and assuming that his is 5’7″ – 5’9″ (he is very tall for a Japanese man, and stands 2 or 4 inches taller than any of the other characters in the series), we can come to a rough estimate of the fact that his hair is approximately a whopping 65 inches long!

To realize just how long 65″ of hair is, consider this: when you see a woman with long hair, usually her hair will be 15 – 18 inches long, or falling to just above her elbows. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair reaches down to his ankles and nearly sweeps the ground as he walks. This guy has got a lot of pretty silver hair to manage. Speaking as a woman with 20-inch long hair myself, I can tell you, that it takes a lot of care to manage long hair, and the longer it gets, the harder it is to care for.

For the CosPlayer who likes to really get into character, here is something to consider: Lord Sesshomaru is a warrior. He fights battles. He can fly. He does a lot of flying. He does a lot of fighting. All that jumping around in battle and than all that flying around in clouds (and clouds are humid), is complete and utter total murder on your hair, and yet, this guy has got the shiniest, smoothest, most perfect, silky smooth, untangled glossy hair the world has ever seen! There’s only one answer to that: this guy spends A LOT of time combing, brushing, and washing those lovely silver locks of his, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, we’re talking 4 or 5 hours a day here. Sure, we don’t see that in the show or in the books, that’d be boring, but think about it: we’ve seen him standing there bored out of his mind, twiddling with his hair, while he rolls his eyes as he listens to InuYasha yelling at him, than he flicks his hair in a very Cher-like manner, pulls out his sword, chops everyone up, flicks his hair again, puts his sword away, and than walks away like nothing happened. Uhm . . . how many other warriors in the show, do you see stopping to flick their hair between chopping people up? None, Sesshy is the only one who does that.

And let’s take this notion one step farther. Who here is a major fan of his? All hands raised? Good. Now I ask you, which one of you doesn’t know what a pompous peacock he is? Oh I know, fan girls don’t want to admit it, but come on, just listen to how this guy talks! I mean, he not only is the best looking most powerful demon, he knows it and he’ll tell you so while stomping you into the ground, because you are so far below his social standing. How many times have we heard him complain about half-breeds and low-lifes and his favorite phrase: “pathetic humans”? The first time we ever see him, he’s commenting on what a waste of his time it is to bother with anyone below him. This guy thinks way too much of himself, which ultimately becomes his downfall and results in the death of the only person he ever did care about.

Well, knowing how vain and smug he is to begin with and than combining that, with the fact that he’s got this mega-long ultra perfect hair . . . that sure spins a new light on his already undying vanity!

But how does all this affect you the CosPlayer?

Well, for starters, it affects how you would act while you are CosPlaying. The best CosPlayers not only look the part they are playing, but they act the part convincingly as well. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is just yet another sign, in a long row of other signs, that this guy has a major vanity problem.

Moving on.

Playing Lord Sesshomaru is a role of many problems. From a difficult costume, to a difficult personality, there is no problem harder for the CosPlayer to overcome than finding a wig that actually looks like Lord Sesshomaru’s amazing 65-inch silver hair.

Have you ever gone shopping for a wig? I have. If you are someone who wears wigs often, than you know that the longer the wig is, the harder it is to wear.

I was 12 when I got my first wig. About 15 when I got my second, third, and forth ones. My teen years I lived in them. A curly brown Tom Baker wig (Yes I’m also a mega Doctor Who fan, thank you.); a neon blue wig (later replaced with blue hair dye); a frosted Tina Turner wig, which btw was whopping 32 inches long and I wore it every day!); and my least worn wig: a Lily Munster wig, at a near Sesshomaru length of 40 inches long.

The Lily Munster wig was my least worn wig for a reason: it was hell, absolute and complete total hell to try to go outside wearing a wig that long. All it took was a breeze so tiny you didn’t feel it, to fill every strand with a million and one knots, and it was murder trying to brush them out of such an amazingly long wig.

Now that Lily Munster wig, is still a good 20 inches shorter than the wig you will need for an accurate Lord Sesshomaru costume, and believe me, finding a 65 inch long wig is not going to be easy. I mean, have you ever even tried finding a 65″ long wig? I have, and it’s not an easy task, and unless you are Crystal Gale, chances are you don’t have naturally 65″ long hair to dye silver, so you really do have to buy a wig to pull the effect off.

Your best bet will be to search for what is called a Lady Godiva wig or a Rapunzal wig, but even than these are hard to come by. Unfortunately these almost always come in only one color: a very fake looking golden-honey yellow, and for Lord Sesshomaru THAT JUST WON’T DO, NOT AT ALL, NOT AT ALL!

Never fear though, all is not lost. You will just have to settle for drastically shortening Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, that’s all. . . and than pray he doesn’t bite your head off because of it! LOL!

Finding a 30 – 40 inch long wig is not very difficult. You may have to do a bit of Googleing to find one, but they are common enough to find after only a couple of searches.

Here’s the thing: You may have a difficult time finding the right color. And what color do you need? A pale silver-blue-whisper-white. His hair is not white. His hair is not blue. His hair is not grey. His hair is pale silver. Have you ever tried to find a wig this color? I have searched and searched and searched and I have yet to find one. Don’t use a grey wig, cause you’ll just end up looking like an old man, and even though he is 250 years old, he did stop ageing at around 19 or 20 years old and so still looks very young, which he is, considering he has a lifespan of a few thousand years.

And even though his hair is silver, NEVER EVER use a silver tinsel wig! You don’t want to make him look like a Cyberman out to get Doctor Who!

Most CosPlayers opt for a white wig, and that is what I would recommend. If you can find one a white glow in the dark wig, would look even better, unless of course you can find a whisper blue one, which would be more accurate.

Another option is to dye the wig yourself. Get a white wig and some brush-in pale blue hair dye, and lightly brush in streaks of pale blue into the bangs and around the tips.

A nice finishing touch would be to add some silver glitter flakes, thus making his hair look silver, without looking like tinsel.

Finding, Buying, and Costumizing a Lord Sesshomaru Wig:
Where to buy mega-long white wigs and how to customize them to match his silver-blue tint.

Searching for mega long wigs is a pain. Since I’m doing that kind of searching, I’ll show you what I found, so that you won’t have to spend countless long hours searching high and low for the near impossible.

While working with wigs you will discover they have many problems and frustrations; nothing big, just lots of little things. When working with a Lord Sesshomaru wig you well run into 2 rather nasty problems, that you would not have come across had you chosen to play some other character.

1.) Long wigs tend to run much thinner than real hair, giving it a desperately fake appearance, and the longer the wig, the faker it looks.

2.) Light colored wigs tend to “disappear in the light” and can give an unsightly appearance of of being near invisible. White is the worst color of all for doing this.

Both of these problems can be cured in one quick and easy step: buy 2 wigs and sew them together. Simple turn the upper wig inside out, and without cutting the hairs, cut the netting/lace along the weft lines. Now placing this wig over the other wig, hand sew through both layers, attaching the cut stripes to the netting of the lower wig. Finally, pull several of the wefts from the bottom wig, up though the hairs of the top wig, and brush them together.

This well make the wig much thicker, fuller, and give it a much more realistic appearance, and being thicker, the light does not go through it as well, either, thus curing both the problem of thinning hair and light go-through at the same time.

The links below, will take you to professional wig dealers, all of whom sell at least one wig suitable for use with a Lord Sesshomaru costume.

CocWorx Wig Shop
CosWorx by Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more:

Note: I recommend buying two wigs: one Ivy in white, and one Amanda in white. Sew the Ivy wig on top of the Amanda wig. This will give you the mega length of the Amanda wig, and the bangs of the Ivy wig. By doing this you will not need to cut either wig.

Sakura Wigs – Custom Cosplay Wigs: Unstyled Wigs Online Catalogue
Unstyled Wigs Product Catalogue

Welcome to our catalogue of unstyled wigs. Sakura Wigs offers unique and exclusive colors that other wig retailers do not carry! No more wasting time trying to color/dye your wigs to match a character!

We offer two lengths in a wide variety of colors: 60cm and 120cm.

NOTE: Their 120cm wig in white, has bands (an oddity for mega long wigs) and is near perfect as is and can be used without any editing at all; due to the thickness of Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, however, I would recommend buying two of these wigs and sewing them together to get the right fullness.

Also, if asked, they will create custom-made one-of-a-kind wigs, if you want to go all out and get the ultimate Lord Sesshomaru wig, but be prepared to pay the price required to have a custom one-of-a-kind wig made, they are not cheap!

High-Quality wigs for cosplay, Halloween, clubbing or just for fun.
High-Quality wigs for cosplay (manga and anime), Halloween, clubbing or just for fun!

NOTE: I recommend using their Enchantment wig, but buying 2 of them, both in white, and than sewing the two together one on top of the other, than cutting bangs into the wig.

CosWorx Wig: Amanda
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE!
48″ wig with skin top, made of the finest quality Kanekalon fibers. This is by far the best extra-long wig you can buy in party colors (red, blue, white, green, purple, etc) and it is only available here at CosWorx!
We had this wig specially made to our specifications, with cosplayers in mind!

NOTE: This wig does not have bangs, if you choose to use this one, you will have to cut it and style it to create Lord Sesshomaru’s spiky bangs.

CosWorx Wig: Ivy
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE In Stock! 37″ long from top of scalp. Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more.

NOTE: A bit on the short side, for Lord Sesshomaru, by a good 20 inches, however, the long bangs on this one are perfect for styling to match Sesshy’s. This would make a great topper wig if you plan to sew 2 wigs together, using a much longer wig underneath it.

…and what do I plan to do?

I’m still researching Sesshy’s wig, so I’m not entirely certain what I will do in the end, and I still have a year to go before I need to decide, however as it stands right now, here is what I plan on doing:

I plan to buy two wigs, both from Sakura Wigs, both the 120cm wig. I will be sewing the two together as stated above.

However, as Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is not white, but rather a blueish silver color, I’ll be useing wigs of two differant colors. The upper wig will be the Sakura 120cm in white, while the lower one will be the Sakura wig 120cm in lt blue #B05.

The following links are sites (including live chat message boards) where you can get advice, info, and help in customizing your wig:

Common Questions About Wig Styling – Cosplay.com
Common Questions About Wig Styling Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Amphigory: Customer Wig gallery!
Gallery of our customer’s custom wig creations! With brief info on how they created their costum wigs

Wig Styling with Ishida Uryuu by *behindinfinity on deviantART
Blog post about creating custom CosPlay wigs

Tutorial: Putting on a wig. – Cosplay.com
Tutorial: Putting on a wig. Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wigs in Action! – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wigs in Action! Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial – Cosplay.com
How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Dyeing w/ Sharpies – Cosplay.com
Dyeing w/ Sharpies Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Wigs Too Fake For You? Taking Drastic Measures
Living with Lord Sesshomaru’s Hair Everyday

If you are a life actor (one who lives in character, 24/7) you may want to go for the most drastic means possible: transforming your real head of hair into Lord Sesshomaru’s Rapunzal-like locks.

The best looking thing you could do, if you want your hair to look real, is to not wear a wig and have you natural hair altered to look like Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. (I am seriously considering doing this, by the way, as I totally love his hair and would love it if my hair was like his.) If by chance you decide to go without a wig and use you own hair, you will have to go through some drastic changes to your hair, which I would not recommend being done at home. Head to a salon that specializes in Gothic, EMO, or Punk hairstyles, taking along with you several pictures of Lord Sesshomaru, especially ones that show his hair from good angles.

What they will do is a series of bleach washes, you may only need one if your hair is light, but several will be needed if you have darker or black hair. This can result in serious damage (including 100% hair loss) to your hair if done incorrectly, so be sure that you are dealing with a salon that dose this kind of this on a regular basis, as a salon that does not, may very well do it wrong. It can not be over stated that you MUST find a salon that specializes in Gothic hairstyles as they do this sort of thing every day.

Once your hair is completely and totally stark white, they will next build up you hair length through the use of hair extensions. The next step will be the coloring, dyeing your hair in varying shades of silver-grey and whisper-blue. Finally it is time to actually style it.

Once you have transformed you hair, this look should last most people three month before you have to have the roots retouched and the extensions reattached.

If you know what you are doing and willing to take the risk, you can bleach your hair at home, however I would not recommend it unless you have enough experience is hair styling and dyeing to make such a drastic change to you hair on your own.

Manic Panic: Bleach
NOTE: This will only lighten your hair, not turn it white; you will need to use a whitener after bleaching.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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The Silver Haired Warrior

The Silver Haired Warrior
Here is an interesting challenge for the CosPlayer: Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. Now, not knowing how tall he is, it is a bit difficult to say exactly how long his hair is, however knowing that his hair comes to about 3 inches above his ankles (nearly to the ground!) and assuming that his is 5’7″ – 5’9″ (he is very tall for a Japanese man, and stands 2 or 4 inches taller than any of the other characters in the series), we can come to a rough estimate of the fact that his hair is approximately a whopping 65 inches long!

To realize just how long 65″ of hair is, consider this: when you see a woman with long hair, usually her hair will be 15 – 18 inches long, or falling to just above her elbows. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair reaches down to his ankles and nearly sweeps the ground as he walks. This guy has got a lot of pretty silver hair to manage. Speaking as a woman with 20-inch long hair myself, I can tell you, that it takes a lot of care to manage long hair, and the longer it gets, the harder it is to care for.

For the CosPlayer who likes to really get into character, here is something to consider: Lord Sesshomaru is a warrior. He fights battles. He can fly. He does a lot of flying. He does a lot of fighting. All that jumping around in battle and than all that flying around in clouds (and clouds are humid), is complete and utter total murder on your hair, and yet, this guy has got the shiniest, smoothest, most perfect, silky smooth, untangled glossy hair the world has ever seen! There’s only one answer to that: this guy spends A LOT of time combing, brushing, and washing those lovely silver locks of his, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, we’re talking 4 or 5 hours a day here. Sure, we don’t see that in the show or in the books, that’d be boring, but think about it: we’ve seen him standing there bored out of his mind, twiddling with his hair, while he rolls his eyes as he listens to InuYasha yelling at him, than he flicks his hair in a very Cher-like manner, pulls out his sword, chops everyone up, flicks his hair again, puts his sword away, and than walks away like nothing happened. Uhm . . . how many other warriors in the show, do you see stopping to flick their hair between chopping people up? None, Sesshy is the only one who does that.

And let’s take this notion one step farther. Who here is a major fan of his? All hands raised? Good. Now I ask you, which one of you doesn’t know what a pompous peacock he is? Oh I know, fan girls don’t want to admit it, but come on, just listen to how this guy talks! I mean, he not only is the best looking most powerful demon, he knows it and he’ll tell you so while stomping you into the ground, because you are so far below his social standing. How many times have we heard him complain about half-breeds and low-lifes and his favorite phrase: “pathetic humans”? The first time we ever see him, he’s commenting on what a waste of his time it is to bother with anyone below him. This guy thinks way too much of himself, which ultimately becomes his downfall and results in the death of the only person he ever did care about.

Well, knowing how vain and smug he is to begin with and than combining that, with the fact that he’s got this mega-long ultra perfect hair . . . that sure spins a new light on his already undying vanity!

But how does all this affect you the CosPlayer?

Well, for starters, it affects how you would act while you are CosPlaying. The best CosPlayers not only look the part they are playing, but they act the part convincingly as well. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is just yet another sign, in a long row of other signs, that this guy has a major vanity problem.

Moving on.

Playing Lord Sesshomaru is a role of many problems. From a difficult costume, to a difficult personality, there is no problem harder for the CosPlayer to overcome than finding a wig that actually looks like Lord Sesshomaru’s amazing 65-inch silver hair.

Have you ever gone shopping for a wig? I have. If you are someone who wears wigs often, than you know that the longer the wig is, the harder it is to wear.

I was 12 when I got my first wig. About 15 when I got my second, third, and forth ones. My teen years I lived in them. A curly brown Tom Baker wig (Yes I’m also a mega Doctor Who fan, thank you.); a neon blue wig (later replaced with blue hair dye); a frosted Tina Turner wig, which btw was whopping 32 inches long and I wore it every day!); and my least worn wig: a Lily Munster wig, at a near Sesshomaru length of 40 inches long.

The Lily Munster wig was my least worn wig for a reason: it was hell, absolute and complete total hell to try to go outside wearing a wig that long. All it took was a breeze so tiny you didn’t feel it, to fill every strand with a million and one knots, and it was murder trying to brush them out of such an amazingly long wig.

Now that Lily Munster wig, is still a good 20 inches shorter than the wig you will need for an accurate Lord Sesshomaru costume, and believe me, finding a 65 inch long wig is not going to be easy. I mean, have you ever even tried finding a 65″ long wig? I have, and it’s not an easy task, and unless you are Crystal Gale, chances are you don’t have naturally 65″ long hair to dye silver, so you really do have to buy a wig to pull the effect off.

Your best bet will be to search for what is called a Lady Godiva wig or a Rapunzal wig, but even than these are hard to come by. Unfortunately these almost always come in only one color: a very fake looking golden-honey yellow, and for Lord Sesshomaru THAT JUST WON’T DO, NOT AT ALL, NOT AT ALL!

Never fear though, all is not lost. You will just have to settle for drastically shortening Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, that’s all. . . and than pray he doesn’t bite your head off because of it! LOL!

Finding a 30 – 40 inch long wig is not very difficult. You may have to do a bit of Googleing to find one, but they are common enough to find after only a couple of searches.

Here’s the thing: You may have a difficult time finding the right color. And what color do you need? A pale silver-blue-whisper-white. His hair is not white. His hair is not blue. His hair is not grey. His hair is pale silver. Have you ever tried to find a wig this color? I have searched and searched and searched and I have yet to find one. Don’t use a grey wig, cause you’ll just end up looking like an old man, and even though he is 250 years old, he did stop ageing at around 19 or 20 years old and so still looks very young, which he is, considering he has a lifespan of a few thousand years.

And even though his hair is silver, NEVER EVER use a silver tinsel wig! You don’t want to make him look like a Cyberman out to get Doctor Who!

Most CosPlayers opt for a white wig, and that is what I would recommend. If you can find one a white glow in the dark wig, would look even better, unless of course you can find a whisper blue one, which would be more accurate.

Another option is to dye the wig yourself. Get a white wig and some brush-in pale blue hair dye, and lightly brush in streaks of pale blue into the bangs and around the tips.

A nice finishing touch would be to add some silver glitter flakes, thus making his hair look silver, without looking like tinsel.

Finding, Buying, and Costumizing a Lord Sesshomaru Wig:
Where to buy mega-long white wigs and how to customize them to match his silver-blue tint.

Searching for mega long wigs is a pain. Since I’m doing that kind of searching, I’ll show you what I found, so that you won’t have to spend countless long hours searching high and low for the near impossible.

While working with wigs you will discover they have many problems and frustrations; nothing big, just lots of little things. When working with a Lord Sesshomaru wig you well run into 2 rather nasty problems, that you would not have come across had you chosen to play some other character.

1.) Long wigs tend to run much thinner than real hair, giving it a desperately fake appearance, and the longer the wig, the faker it looks.

2.) Light colored wigs tend to “disappear in the light” and can give an unsightly appearance of of being near invisible. White is the worst color of all for doing this.

Both of these problems can be cured in one quick and easy step: buy 2 wigs and sew them together. Simple turn the upper wig inside out, and without cutting the hairs, cut the netting/lace along the weft lines. Now placing this wig over the other wig, hand sew through both layers, attaching the cut stripes to the netting of the lower wig. Finally, pull several of the wefts from the bottom wig, up though the hairs of the top wig, and brush them together.

This well make the wig much thicker, fuller, and give it a much more realistic appearance, and being thicker, the light does not go through it as well, either, thus curing both the problem of thinning hair and light go-through at the same time.

The links below, will take you to professional wig dealers, all of whom sell at least one wig suitable for use with a Lord Sesshomaru costume.

CocWorx Wig Shop
CosWorx by Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more:

Note: I recommend buying two wigs: one Ivy in white, and one Amanda in white. Sew the Ivy wig on top of the Amanda wig. This will give you the mega length of the Amanda wig, and the bangs of the Ivy wig. By doing this you will not need to cut either wig.

Sakura Wigs – Custom Cosplay Wigs: Unstyled Wigs Online Catalogue
Unstyled Wigs Product Catalogue

Welcome to our catalogue of unstyled wigs. Sakura Wigs offers unique and exclusive colors that other wig retailers do not carry! No more wasting time trying to color/dye your wigs to match a character!

We offer two lengths in a wide variety of colors: 60cm and 120cm.

NOTE: Their 120cm wig in white, has bands (an oddity for mega long wigs) and is near perfect as is and can be used without any editing at all; due to the thickness of Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, however, I would recommend buying two of these wigs and sewing them together to get the right fullness.

Also, if asked, they will create custom-made one-of-a-kind wigs, if you want to go all out and get the ultimate Lord Sesshomaru wig, but be prepared to pay the price required to have a custom one-of-a-kind wig made, they are not cheap!

High-Quality wigs for cosplay, Halloween, clubbing or just for fun.
High-Quality wigs for cosplay (manga and anime), Halloween, clubbing or just for fun!

NOTE: I recommend using their Enchantment wig, but buying 2 of them, both in white, and than sewing the two together one on top of the other, than cutting bangs into the wig.

CosWorx Wig: Amanda
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE!
48″ wig with skin top, made of the finest quality Kanekalon fibers. This is by far the best extra-long wig you can buy in party colors (red, blue, white, green, purple, etc) and it is only available here at CosWorx!
We had this wig specially made to our specifications, with cosplayers in mind!

NOTE: This wig does not have bangs, if you choose to use this one, you will have to cut it and style it to create Lord Sesshomaru’s spiky bangs.

CosWorx Wig: Ivy
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE In Stock! 37″ long from top of scalp. Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more.

NOTE: A bit on the short side, for Lord Sesshomaru, by a good 20 inches, however, the long bangs on this one are perfect for styling to match Sesshy’s. This would make a great topper wig if you plan to sew 2 wigs together, using a much longer wig underneath it.

…and what do I plan to do?

I’m still researching Sesshy’s wig, so I’m not entirely certain what I will do in the end, and I still have a year to go before I need to decide, however as it stands right now, here is what I plan on doing:

I plan to buy two wigs, both from Sakura Wigs, both the 120cm wig. I will be sewing the two together as stated above.

However, as Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is not white, but rather a blueish silver color, I’ll be useing wigs of two differant colors. The upper wig will be the Sakura 120cm in white, while the lower one will be the Sakura wig 120cm in lt blue #B05.

The following links are sites (including live chat message boards) where you can get advice, info, and help in customizing your wig:

Common Questions About Wig Styling – Cosplay.com
Common Questions About Wig Styling Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Amphigory: Customer Wig gallery!
Gallery of our customer’s custom wig creations! With brief info on how they created their costum wigs

Wig Styling with Ishida Uryuu by *behindinfinity on deviantART
Blog post about creating custom CosPlay wigs

Tutorial: Putting on a wig. – Cosplay.com
Tutorial: Putting on a wig. Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wigs in Action! – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wigs in Action! Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial – Cosplay.com
How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Dyeing w/ Sharpies – Cosplay.com
Dyeing w/ Sharpies Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Wigs Too Fake For You? Taking Drastic Measures
Living with Lord Sesshomaru’s Hair Everyday

If you are a life actor (one who lives in character, 24/7) you may want to go for the most drastic means possible: transforming your real head of hair into Lord Sesshomaru’s Rapunzal-like locks.

The best looking thing you could do, if you want your hair to look real, is to not wear a wig and have you natural hair altered to look like Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. (I am seriously considering doing this, by the way, as I totally love his hair and would love it if my hair was like his.) If by chance you decide to go without a wig and use you own hair, you will have to go through some drastic changes to your hair, which I would not recommend being done at home. Head to a salon that specializes in Gothic, EMO, or Punk hairstyles, taking along with you several pictures of Lord Sesshomaru, especially ones that show his hair from good angles.

What they will do is a series of bleach washes, you may only need one if your hair is light, but several will be needed if you have darker or black hair. This can result in serious damage (including 100% hair loss) to your hair if done incorrectly, so be sure that you are dealing with a salon that dose this kind of this on a regular basis, as a salon that does not, may very well do it wrong. It can not be over stated that you MUST find a salon that specializes in Gothic hairstyles as they do this sort of thing every day.

Once your hair is completely and totally stark white, they will next build up you hair length through the use of hair extensions. The next step will be the coloring, dyeing your hair in varying shades of silver-grey and whisper-blue. Finally it is time to actually style it.

Once you have transformed you hair, this look should last most people three month before you have to have the roots retouched and the extensions reattached.

If you know what you are doing and willing to take the risk, you can bleach your hair at home, however I would not recommend it unless you have enough experience is hair styling and dyeing to make such a drastic change to you hair on your own.

Manic Panic: Bleach
NOTE: This will only lighten your hair, not turn it white; you will need to use a whitener after bleaching.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods

Do You and I Read the Same Books? Read my reviews of the best Books on My Bookshelf.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

You may already know this, but in case you don’t, *I Love Phookas!*

I sell my art through Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Find out how to Create Your Own Writers Retreat.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Narration for Writers is explained here.

I’m a Doctor Who fan and so I have this Doctor Who Gift & Video Showcase for you to check out.

Rumiko Takahashi, Keith Laumer and Don Rosa are my favorite authors, read about them and find out why!

Conventional Writing Advice that Didn’t Work for Her (or Me Either!)…

Why Was My Manuscript Rejected?
NegaDuck is the best Disney villain ever!

We are all in danger Bunny Seeks To Take Over the World!

Etiole Swanzen, need I say more?

All about Rin and making Rin’s Costume
All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb and Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume.

Want to be a better author? First you need to ask yourself: What do you look for in a book? and learn to Accept Your Writing Style.

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

I buy my cloths at Drac-in-a-Box and so should you!

The world needs more men like JamesRetief, find out why.

Why the world needs Faith Not Religion.

I love to do Embroidery, want to learn more about it?

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use.

Copper Cockeral (My Art For Sale Online)

>The Silver Haired Warrior

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The Silver Haired Warrior
Here is an interesting challenge for the CosPlayer: Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. Now, not knowing how tall he is, it is a bit difficult to say exactly how long his hair is, however knowing that his hair comes to about 3 inches above his ankles (nearly to the ground!) and assuming that his is 5’7″ – 5’9″ (he is very tall for a Japanese man, and stands 2 or 4 inches taller than any of the other characters in the series), we can come to a rough estimate of the fact that his hair is approximately a whopping 65 inches long!

To realize just how long 65″ of hair is, consider this: when you see a woman with long hair, usually her hair will be 15 – 18 inches long, or falling to just above her elbows. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair reaches down to his ankles and nearly sweeps the ground as he walks. This guy has got a lot of pretty silver hair to manage. Speaking as a woman with 20-inch long hair myself, I can tell you, that it takes a lot of care to manage long hair, and the longer it gets, the harder it is to care for.

For the CosPlayer who likes to really get into character, here is something to consider: Lord Sesshomaru is a warrior. He fights battles. He can fly. He does a lot of flying. He does a lot of fighting. All that jumping around in battle and than all that flying around in clouds (and clouds are humid), is complete and utter total murder on your hair, and yet, this guy has got the shiniest, smoothest, most perfect, silky smooth, untangled glossy hair the world has ever seen! There’s only one answer to that: this guy spends A LOT of time combing, brushing, and washing those lovely silver locks of his, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, we’re talking 4 or 5 hours a day here. Sure, we don’t see that in the show or in the books, that’d be boring, but think about it: we’ve seen him standing there bored out of his mind, twiddling with his hair, while he rolls his eyes as he listens to InuYasha yelling at him, than he flicks his hair in a very Cher-like manner, pulls out his sword, chops everyone up, flicks his hair again, puts his sword away, and than walks away like nothing happened. Uhm . . . how many other warriors in the show, do you see stopping to flick their hair between chopping people up? None, Sesshy is the only one who does that.

And let’s take this notion one step farther. Who here is a major fan of his? All hands raised? Good. Now I ask you, which one of you doesn’t know what a pompous peacock he is? Oh I know, fan girls don’t want to admit it, but come on, just listen to how this guy talks! I mean, he not only is the best looking most powerful demon, he knows it and he’ll tell you so while stomping you into the ground, because you are so far below his social standing. How many times have we heard him complain about half-breeds and low-lifes and his favorite phrase: “pathetic humans”? The first time we ever see him, he’s commenting on what a waste of his time it is to bother with anyone below him. This guy thinks way too much of himself, which ultimately becomes his downfall and results in the death of the only person he ever did care about.

Well, knowing how vain and smug he is to begin with and than combining that, with the fact that he’s got this mega-long ultra perfect hair . . . that sure spins a new light on his already undying vanity!

But how does all this affect you the CosPlayer?

Well, for starters, it affects how you would act while you are CosPlaying. The best CosPlayers not only look the part they are playing, but they act the part convincingly as well. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is just yet another sign, in a long row of other signs, that this guy has a major vanity problem.

Moving on.

Playing Lord Sesshomaru is a role of many problems. From a difficult costume, to a difficult personality, there is no problem harder for the CosPlayer to overcome than finding a wig that actually looks like Lord Sesshomaru’s amazing 65-inch silver hair.

Have you ever gone shopping for a wig? I have. If you are someone who wears wigs often, than you know that the longer the wig is, the harder it is to wear.

I was 12 when I got my first wig. About 15 when I got my second, third, and forth ones. My teen years I lived in them. A curly brown Tom Baker wig (Yes I’m also a mega Doctor Who fan, thank you.); a neon blue wig (later replaced with blue hair dye); a frosted Tina Turner wig, which btw was whopping 32 inches long and I wore it every day!); and my least worn wig: a Lily Munster wig, at a near Sesshomaru length of 40 inches long.

The Lily Munster wig was my least worn wig for a reason: it was hell, absolute and complete total hell to try to go outside wearing a wig that long. All it took was a breeze so tiny you didn’t feel it, to fill every strand with a million and one knots, and it was murder trying to brush them out of such an amazingly long wig.

Now that Lily Munster wig, is still a good 20 inches shorter than the wig you will need for an accurate Lord Sesshomaru costume, and believe me, finding a 65 inch long wig is not going to be easy. I mean, have you ever even tried finding a 65″ long wig? I have, and it’s not an easy task, and unless you are Crystal Gale, chances are you don’t have naturally 65″ long hair to dye silver, so you really do have to buy a wig to pull the effect off.

Your best bet will be to search for what is called a Lady Godiva wig or a Rapunzal wig, but even than these are hard to come by. Unfortunately these almost always come in only one color: a very fake looking golden-honey yellow, and for Lord Sesshomaru THAT JUST WON’T DO, NOT AT ALL, NOT AT ALL!

Never fear though, all is not lost. You will just have to settle for drastically shortening Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, that’s all. . . and than pray he doesn’t bite your head off because of it! LOL!

Finding a 30 – 40 inch long wig is not very difficult. You may have to do a bit of Googleing to find one, but they are common enough to find after only a couple of searches.

Here’s the thing: You may have a difficult time finding the right color. And what color do you need? A pale silver-blue-whisper-white. His hair is not white. His hair is not blue. His hair is not grey. His hair is pale silver. Have you ever tried to find a wig this color? I have searched and searched and searched and I have yet to find one. Don’t use a grey wig, cause you’ll just end up looking like an old man, and even though he is 250 years old, he did stop ageing at around 19 or 20 years old and so still looks very young, which he is, considering he has a lifespan of a few thousand years.

And even though his hair is silver, NEVER EVER use a silver tinsel wig! You don’t want to make him look like a Cyberman out to get Doctor Who!

Most CosPlayers opt for a white wig, and that is what I would recommend. If you can find one a white glow in the dark wig, would look even better, unless of course you can find a whisper blue one, which would be more accurate.

Another option is to dye the wig yourself. Get a white wig and some brush-in pale blue hair dye, and lightly brush in streaks of pale blue into the bangs and around the tips.

A nice finishing touch would be to add some silver glitter flakes, thus making his hair look silver, without looking like tinsel.

Finding, Buying, and Costumizing a Lord Sesshomaru Wig:
Where to buy mega-long white wigs and how to customize them to match his silver-blue tint.

Searching for mega long wigs is a pain. Since I’m doing that kind of searching, I’ll show you what I found, so that you won’t have to spend countless long hours searching high and low for the near impossible.

While working with wigs you will discover they have many problems and frustrations; nothing big, just lots of little things. When working with a Lord Sesshomaru wig you well run into 2 rather nasty problems, that you would not have come across had you chosen to play some other character.

1.) Long wigs tend to run much thinner than real hair, giving it a desperately fake appearance, and the longer the wig, the faker it looks.

2.) Light colored wigs tend to “disappear in the light” and can give an unsightly appearance of of being near invisible. White is the worst color of all for doing this.

Both of these problems can be cured in one quick and easy step: buy 2 wigs and sew them together. Simple turn the upper wig inside out, and without cutting the hairs, cut the netting/lace along the weft lines. Now placing this wig over the other wig, hand sew through both layers, attaching the cut stripes to the netting of the lower wig. Finally, pull several of the wefts from the bottom wig, up though the hairs of the top wig, and brush them together.

This well make the wig much thicker, fuller, and give it a much more realistic appearance, and being thicker, the light does not go through it as well, either, thus curing both the problem of thinning hair and light go-through at the same time.

The links below, will take you to professional wig dealers, all of whom sell at least one wig suitable for use with a Lord Sesshomaru costume.

CocWorx Wig Shop
CosWorx by Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more:

Note: I recommend buying two wigs: one Ivy in white, and one Amanda in white. Sew the Ivy wig on top of the Amanda wig. This will give you the mega length of the Amanda wig, and the bangs of the Ivy wig. By doing this you will not need to cut either wig.

Sakura Wigs – Custom Cosplay Wigs: Unstyled Wigs Online Catalogue
Unstyled Wigs Product Catalogue

Welcome to our catalogue of unstyled wigs. Sakura Wigs offers unique and exclusive colors that other wig retailers do not carry! No more wasting time trying to color/dye your wigs to match a character!

We offer two lengths in a wide variety of colors: 60cm and 120cm.

NOTE: Their 120cm wig in white, has bands (an oddity for mega long wigs) and is near perfect as is and can be used without any editing at all; due to the thickness of Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, however, I would recommend buying two of these wigs and sewing them together to get the right fullness.

Also, if asked, they will create custom-made one-of-a-kind wigs, if you want to go all out and get the ultimate Lord Sesshomaru wig, but be prepared to pay the price required to have a custom one-of-a-kind wig made, they are not cheap!

High-Quality wigs for cosplay, Halloween, clubbing or just for fun.
High-Quality wigs for cosplay (manga and anime), Halloween, clubbing or just for fun!

NOTE: I recommend using their Enchantment wig, but buying 2 of them, both in white, and than sewing the two together one on top of the other, than cutting bangs into the wig.

CosWorx Wig: Amanda
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE!
48″ wig with skin top, made of the finest quality Kanekalon fibers. This is by far the best extra-long wig you can buy in party colors (red, blue, white, green, purple, etc) and it is only available here at CosWorx!
We had this wig specially made to our specifications, with cosplayers in mind!

NOTE: This wig does not have bangs, if you choose to use this one, you will have to cut it and style it to create Lord Sesshomaru’s spiky bangs.

CosWorx Wig: Ivy
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE In Stock! 37″ long from top of scalp. Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more.

NOTE: A bit on the short side, for Lord Sesshomaru, by a good 20 inches, however, the long bangs on this one are perfect for styling to match Sesshy’s. This would make a great topper wig if you plan to sew 2 wigs together, using a much longer wig underneath it.

…and what do I plan to do?

I’m still researching Sesshy’s wig, so I’m not entirely certain what I will do in the end, and I still have a year to go before I need to decide, however as it stands right now, here is what I plan on doing:

I plan to buy two wigs, both from Sakura Wigs, both the 120cm wig. I will be sewing the two together as stated above.

However, as Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is not white, but rather a blueish silver color, I’ll be useing wigs of two differant colors. The upper wig will be the Sakura 120cm in white, while the lower one will be the Sakura wig 120cm in lt blue #B05.

The following links are sites (including live chat message boards) where you can get advice, info, and help in customizing your wig:

Common Questions About Wig Styling – Cosplay.com
Common Questions About Wig Styling Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Amphigory: Customer Wig gallery!
Gallery of our customer’s custom wig creations! With brief info on how they created their costum wigs

Wig Styling with Ishida Uryuu by *behindinfinity on deviantART
Blog post about creating custom CosPlay wigs

Tutorial: Putting on a wig. – Cosplay.com
Tutorial: Putting on a wig. Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wigs in Action! – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wigs in Action! Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial – Cosplay.com
How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Dyeing w/ Sharpies – Cosplay.com
Dyeing w/ Sharpies Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Wigs Too Fake For You? Taking Drastic Measures
Living with Lord Sesshomaru’s Hair Everyday

If you are a life actor (one who lives in character, 24/7) you may want to go for the most drastic means possible: transforming your real head of hair into Lord Sesshomaru’s Rapunzal-like locks.

The best looking thing you could do, if you want your hair to look real, is to not wear a wig and have you natural hair altered to look like Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. (I am seriously considering doing this, by the way, as I totally love his hair and would love it if my hair was like his.) If by chance you decide to go without a wig and use you own hair, you will have to go through some drastic changes to your hair, which I would not recommend being done at home. Head to a salon that specializes in Gothic, EMO, or Punk hairstyles, taking along with you several pictures of Lord Sesshomaru, especially ones that show his hair from good angles.

What they will do is a series of bleach washes, you may only need one if your hair is light, but several will be needed if you have darker or black hair. This can result in serious damage (including 100% hair loss) to your hair if done incorrectly, so be sure that you are dealing with a salon that dose this kind of this on a regular basis, as a salon that does not, may very well do it wrong. It can not be over stated that you MUST find a salon that specializes in Gothic hairstyles as they do this sort of thing every day.

Once your hair is completely and totally stark white, they will next build up you hair length through the use of hair extensions. The next step will be the coloring, dyeing your hair in varying shades of silver-grey and whisper-blue. Finally it is time to actually style it.

Once you have transformed you hair, this look should last most people three month before you have to have the roots retouched and the extensions reattached.

If you know what you are doing and willing to take the risk, you can bleach your hair at home, however I would not recommend it unless you have enough experience is hair styling and dyeing to make such a drastic change to you hair on your own.

Manic Panic: Bleach
NOTE: This will only lighten your hair, not turn it white; you will need to use a whitener after bleaching.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods

Do You and I Read the Same Books? Read my reviews of the best Books on My Bookshelf.

Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!

You may already know this, but in case you don’t, *I Love Phookas!*

I sell my art through Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts

Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles

This is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Find out how to Create Your Own Writers Retreat.

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Narration for Writers is explained here.

I’m a Doctor Who fan and so I have this Doctor Who Gift & Video Showcase for you to check out.

Rumiko Takahashi, Keith Laumer and Don Rosa are my favorite authors, read about them and find out why!

Conventional Writing Advice that Didn’t Work for Her (or Me Either!)…

Why Was My Manuscript Rejected?
NegaDuck is the best Disney villain ever!

We are all in danger Bunny Seeks To Take Over the World!

Etiole Swanzen, need I say more?

All about Rin and making Rin’s Costume
All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb and Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume.

Want to be a better author? First you need to ask yourself: What do you look for in a book? and learn to Accept Your Writing Style.

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

I buy my cloths at Drac-in-a-Box and so should you!

The world needs more men like JamesRetief, find out why.

Why the world needs Faith Not Religion.

I love to do Embroidery, want to learn more about it?

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use.

Copper Cockeral (My Art For Sale Online)

The Silver Haired Warrior

The Silver Haired Warrior
Here is an interesting challenge for the CosPlayer: Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. Now, not knowing how tall he is, it is a bit difficult to say exactly how long his hair is, however knowing that his hair comes to about 3 inches above his ankles (nearly to the ground!) and assuming that his is 5’7″ – 5’9″ (he is very tall for a Japanese man, and stands 2 or 4 inches taller than any of the other characters in the series), we can come to a rough estimate of the fact that his hair is approximately a whopping 65 inches long!

To realize just how long 65″ of hair is, consider this: when you see a woman with long hair, usually her hair will be 15 – 18 inches long, or falling to just above her elbows. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair reaches down to his ankles and nearly sweeps the ground as he walks. This guy has got a lot of pretty silver hair to manage. Speaking as a woman with 20-inch long hair myself, I can tell you, that it takes a lot of care to manage long hair, and the longer it gets, the harder it is to care for.

For the CosPlayer who likes to really get into character, here is something to consider: Lord Sesshomaru is a warrior. He fights battles. He can fly. He does a lot of flying. He does a lot of fighting. All that jumping around in battle and than all that flying around in clouds (and clouds are humid), is complete and utter total murder on your hair, and yet, this guy has got the shiniest, smoothest, most perfect, silky smooth, untangled glossy hair the world has ever seen! There’s only one answer to that: this guy spends A LOT of time combing, brushing, and washing those lovely silver locks of his, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, we’re talking 4 or 5 hours a day here. Sure, we don’t see that in the show or in the books, that’d be boring, but think about it: we’ve seen him standing there bored out of his mind, twiddling with his hair, while he rolls his eyes as he listens to InuYasha yelling at him, than he flicks his hair in a very Cher-like manner, pulls out his sword, chops everyone up, flicks his hair again, puts his sword away, and than walks away like nothing happened. Uhm . . . how many other warriors in the show, do you see stopping to flick their hair between chopping people up? None, Sesshy is the only one who does that.

And let’s take this notion one step farther. Who here is a major fan of his? All hands raised? Good. Now I ask you, which one of you doesn’t know what a pompous peacock he is? Oh I know, fan girls don’t want to admit it, but come on, just listen to how this guy talks! I mean, he not only is the best looking most powerful demon, he knows it and he’ll tell you so while stomping you into the ground, because you are so far below his social standing. How many times have we heard him complain about half-breeds and low-lifes and his favorite phrase: “pathetic humans”? The first time we ever see him, he’s commenting on what a waste of his time it is to bother with anyone below him. This guy thinks way too much of himself, which ultimately becomes his downfall and results in the death of the only person he ever did care about.

Well, knowing how vain and smug he is to begin with and than combining that, with the fact that he’s got this mega-long ultra perfect hair . . . that sure spins a new light on his already undying vanity!

But how does all this affect you the CosPlayer?

Well, for starters, it affects how you would act while you are CosPlaying. The best CosPlayers not only look the part they are playing, but they act the part convincingly as well. Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is just yet another sign, in a long row of other signs, that this guy has a major vanity problem.

Moving on.

Playing Lord Sesshomaru is a role of many problems. From a difficult costume, to a difficult personality, there is no problem harder for the CosPlayer to overcome than finding a wig that actually looks like Lord Sesshomaru’s amazing 65-inch silver hair.

Have you ever gone shopping for a wig? I have. If you are someone who wears wigs often, than you know that the longer the wig is, the harder it is to wear.

I was 12 when I got my first wig. About 15 when I got my second, third, and forth ones. My teen years I lived in them. A curly brown Tom Baker wig (Yes I’m also a mega Doctor Who fan, thank you.); a neon blue wig (later replaced with blue hair dye); a frosted Tina Turner wig, which btw was whopping 32 inches long and I wore it every day!); and my least worn wig: a Lily Munster wig, at a near Sesshomaru length of 40 inches long.

The Lily Munster wig was my least worn wig for a reason: it was hell, absolute and complete total hell to try to go outside wearing a wig that long. All it took was a breeze so tiny you didn’t feel it, to fill every strand with a million and one knots, and it was murder trying to brush them out of such an amazingly long wig.

Now that Lily Munster wig, is still a good 20 inches shorter than the wig you will need for an accurate Lord Sesshomaru costume, and believe me, finding a 65 inch long wig is not going to be easy. I mean, have you ever even tried finding a 65″ long wig? I have, and it’s not an easy task, and unless you are Crystal Gale, chances are you don’t have naturally 65″ long hair to dye silver, so you really do have to buy a wig to pull the effect off.

Your best bet will be to search for what is called a Lady Godiva wig or a Rapunzal wig, but even than these are hard to come by. Unfortunately these almost always come in only one color: a very fake looking golden-honey yellow, and for Lord Sesshomaru THAT JUST WON’T DO, NOT AT ALL, NOT AT ALL!

Never fear though, all is not lost. You will just have to settle for drastically shortening Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, that’s all. . . and than pray he doesn’t bite your head off because of it! LOL!

Finding a 30 – 40 inch long wig is not very difficult. You may have to do a bit of Googleing to find one, but they are common enough to find after only a couple of searches.

Here’s the thing: You may have a difficult time finding the right color. And what color do you need? A pale silver-blue-whisper-white. His hair is not white. His hair is not blue. His hair is not grey. His hair is pale silver. Have you ever tried to find a wig this color? I have searched and searched and searched and I have yet to find one. Don’t use a grey wig, cause you’ll just end up looking like an old man, and even though he is 250 years old, he did stop ageing at around 19 or 20 years old and so still looks very young, which he is, considering he has a lifespan of a few thousand years.

And even though his hair is silver, NEVER EVER use a silver tinsel wig! You don’t want to make him look like a Cyberman out to get Doctor Who!

Most CosPlayers opt for a white wig, and that is what I would recommend. If you can find one a white glow in the dark wig, would look even better, unless of course you can find a whisper blue one, which would be more accurate.

Another option is to dye the wig yourself. Get a white wig and some brush-in pale blue hair dye, and lightly brush in streaks of pale blue into the bangs and around the tips.

A nice finishing touch would be to add some silver glitter flakes, thus making his hair look silver, without looking like tinsel.

Finding, Buying, and Costumizing a Lord Sesshomaru Wig:
Where to buy mega-long white wigs and how to customize them to match his silver-blue tint.

Searching for mega long wigs is a pain. Since I’m doing that kind of searching, I’ll show you what I found, so that you won’t have to spend countless long hours searching high and low for the near impossible.

While working with wigs you will discover they have many problems and frustrations; nothing big, just lots of little things. When working with a Lord Sesshomaru wig you well run into 2 rather nasty problems, that you would not have come across had you chosen to play some other character.

1.) Long wigs tend to run much thinner than real hair, giving it a desperately fake appearance, and the longer the wig, the faker it looks.

2.) Light colored wigs tend to “disappear in the light” and can give an unsightly appearance of of being near invisible. White is the worst color of all for doing this.

Both of these problems can be cured in one quick and easy step: buy 2 wigs and sew them together. Simple turn the upper wig inside out, and without cutting the hairs, cut the netting/lace along the weft lines. Now placing this wig over the other wig, hand sew through both layers, attaching the cut stripes to the netting of the lower wig. Finally, pull several of the wefts from the bottom wig, up though the hairs of the top wig, and brush them together.

This well make the wig much thicker, fuller, and give it a much more realistic appearance, and being thicker, the light does not go through it as well, either, thus curing both the problem of thinning hair and light go-through at the same time.

The links below, will take you to professional wig dealers, all of whom sell at least one wig suitable for use with a Lord Sesshomaru costume.

CocWorx Wig Shop
CosWorx by Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more:

Note: I recommend buying two wigs: one Ivy in white, and one Amanda in white. Sew the Ivy wig on top of the Amanda wig. This will give you the mega length of the Amanda wig, and the bangs of the Ivy wig. By doing this you will not need to cut either wig.

Sakura Wigs – Custom Cosplay Wigs: Unstyled Wigs Online Catalogue
Unstyled Wigs Product Catalogue

Welcome to our catalogue of unstyled wigs. Sakura Wigs offers unique and exclusive colors that other wig retailers do not carry! No more wasting time trying to color/dye your wigs to match a character!

We offer two lengths in a wide variety of colors: 60cm and 120cm.

NOTE: Their 120cm wig in white, has bands (an oddity for mega long wigs) and is near perfect as is and can be used without any editing at all; due to the thickness of Lord Sesshomaru’s hair, however, I would recommend buying two of these wigs and sewing them together to get the right fullness.

Also, if asked, they will create custom-made one-of-a-kind wigs, if you want to go all out and get the ultimate Lord Sesshomaru wig, but be prepared to pay the price required to have a custom one-of-a-kind wig made, they are not cheap!

High-Quality wigs for cosplay, Halloween, clubbing or just for fun.
High-Quality wigs for cosplay (manga and anime), Halloween, clubbing or just for fun!

NOTE: I recommend using their Enchantment wig, but buying 2 of them, both in white, and than sewing the two together one on top of the other, than cutting bangs into the wig.

CosWorx Wig: Amanda
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE!
48″ wig with skin top, made of the finest quality Kanekalon fibers. This is by far the best extra-long wig you can buy in party colors (red, blue, white, green, purple, etc) and it is only available here at CosWorx!
We had this wig specially made to our specifications, with cosplayers in mind!

NOTE: This wig does not have bangs, if you choose to use this one, you will have to cut it and style it to create Lord Sesshomaru’s spiky bangs.

CosWorx Wig: Ivy
COSWORX EXCLUSIVE In Stock! 37″ long from top of scalp. Cosplay.com wigs, cosplay supplies, fabric, photos and more.

NOTE: A bit on the short side, for Lord Sesshomaru, by a good 20 inches, however, the long bangs on this one are perfect for styling to match Sesshy’s. This would make a great topper wig if you plan to sew 2 wigs together, using a much longer wig underneath it.

…and what do I plan to do?

I’m still researching Sesshy’s wig, so I’m not entirely certain what I will do in the end, and I still have a year to go before I need to decide, however as it stands right now, here is what I plan on doing:

I plan to buy two wigs, both from Sakura Wigs, both the 120cm wig. I will be sewing the two together as stated above.

However, as Lord Sesshomaru’s hair is not white, but rather a blueish silver color, I’ll be useing wigs of two differant colors. The upper wig will be the Sakura 120cm in white, while the lower one will be the Sakura wig 120cm in lt blue #B05.

The following links are sites (including live chat message boards) where you can get advice, info, and help in customizing your wig:

Common Questions About Wig Styling – Cosplay.com
Common Questions About Wig Styling Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Amphigory: Customer Wig gallery!
Gallery of our customer’s custom wig creations! With brief info on how they created their costum wigs

Wig Styling with Ishida Uryuu by *behindinfinity on deviantART
Blog post about creating custom CosPlay wigs

Tutorial: Putting on a wig. – Cosplay.com
Tutorial: Putting on a wig. Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wigs in Action! – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wigs in Action! Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY – Cosplay.com
CosWorx Wig Color Photos – IVY Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial – Cosplay.com
How to Cut Bangs Video Tutorial Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Dyeing w/ Sharpies – Cosplay.com
Dyeing w/ Sharpies Costume Discussion: Wigs and Hair

Wigs Too Fake For You? Taking Drastic Measures
Living with Lord Sesshomaru’s Hair Everyday

If you are a life actor (one who lives in character, 24/7) you may want to go for the most drastic means possible: transforming your real head of hair into Lord Sesshomaru’s Rapunzal-like locks.

The best looking thing you could do, if you want your hair to look real, is to not wear a wig and have you natural hair altered to look like Lord Sesshomaru’s hair. (I am seriously considering doing this, by the way, as I totally love his hair and would love it if my hair was like his.) If by chance you decide to go without a wig and use you own hair, you will have to go through some drastic changes to your hair, which I would not recommend being done at home. Head to a salon that specializes in Gothic, EMO, or Punk hairstyles, taking along with you several pictures of Lord Sesshomaru, especially ones that show his hair from good angles.

What they will do is a series of bleach washes, you may only need one if your hair is light, but several will be needed if you have darker or black hair. This can result in serious damage (including 100% hair loss) to your hair if done incorrectly, so be sure that you are dealing with a salon that dose this kind of this on a regular basis, as a salon that does not, may very well do it wrong. It can not be over stated that you MUST find a salon that specializes in Gothic hairstyles as they do this sort of thing every day.

Once your hair is completely and totally stark white, they will next build up you hair length through the use of hair extensions. The next step will be the coloring, dyeing your hair in varying shades of silver-grey and whisper-blue. Finally it is time to actually style it.

Once you have transformed you hair, this look should last most people three month before you have to have the roots retouched and the extensions reattached.

If you know what you are doing and willing to take the risk, you can bleach your hair at home, however I would not recommend it unless you have enough experience is hair styling and dyeing to make such a drastic change to you hair on your own.

Manic Panic: Bleach
NOTE: This will only lighten your hair, not turn it white; you will need to use a whitener after bleaching.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Lord Sesshomaru Costume

Wow, can it be that there is actually a comic book that I like BETTER than Uncle Scrooge????!!!! The answer is a resounding: YES! and it’s InuYasha. WOW! Never in a million years wow I have guessed that I would have a favorite comic book that was not an Uncle Scrooge comic book, but it’s finally happened. and a character I like better than Scrooge no less: Lord Sesshomaru. OH! I love this guy! He’s so evil!

Well, you know me, I can’t just be happy with liking a comic book or a character from it, nope, not me, I’ve got to go bonkers and do some half assed crazy thing to tell the world just how big a nut I really am. So out with the old and in with the new: no more red frock coats and black top hats, now its white kimonos and spiked battle armor! WOO-HOO! I’m making a Lord Sesshomaru costume! AWK! This is not like my other sewing projects though, this is one hell of a major sewing project. It’s gonna take me months to pull this one off.

Well, you know I can’t be content to just talk about it here, so I’m going to go and make me a Squidoo lens about it and I’m using my blog posts to work out the bugs on, so watch for me to just start spouting off about Lord Sesshomaru for no reason what so ever for the next few months… of years even, I can see this becoming yet another of my life long obsessions right up there with Disney ducks! LOL!

Okay…. here’s my start off on my lens info, you can just ignore the rest of this post if you want or you can keep reading, whatever.

Start With a Plan
What you should know before you begin.

A Lord Sesshomaru costume is probably one of the most advanced costumes you could make. Before you begin, you should set out a plan of what it is you want to do. Decide ahead of time, which items you will make by hand and which items you will buy ready made and which items you will have made on commission. There are many factors to deal with including:

Creating a pattern from scratch.
Learning to sew and wear a kimono.
Sewing slippery silk.
Dyeing and painting said silk.
Stitching long-pile fur.
Embroidering imperial crests.
You should have at least a minor understanding of Edo Japanese fashions and their construction.
Learning to pleat and fold a hakama and bind it at the ankles.
The creation of haramaki (battle armor) with battle spikes.
Not to mention the creation of not one, but two custom swords.
Finding or making a custom wig.
Also you’ll need to know about the application of theatrical makeup.

Keep in mind that the more accurate you plan to make the costume, the more details you will need to focus on, and if you plan to go a step past the comic books and cartoons, and strive for historical accuracy as well, than you will be opening up a whole new list of details you will need to add. The more details you add to this costume, than the more advanced your sewing skills will need to be. In short, this is not a project for a beginner, not to say a beginner should not attempt it, though. Overall this is not a difficult costume to make, just that it has a lot to it and it does require some prior knowledge in the basics of costume making. I would not recommend a Lord Sesshomaru costume, if this is your first time making a costume, but if you have already made a costume or two, or if you have sewed up a few smaller projects, say doll cloths, than you should have no major problems making this one. As long as you know what steps you need to take to complete your costume, you should be fine.

A major stumbling block here, is that no pattern exists for this costume and if you want to create it from scratch (rather than from a kit) you must have enough knowledge of fashion design to be able to make the pattern yourself, determine how much of which fabrics is needed, and than assemble them, all without the help of any instructions from anyone.

And yes, there are kits available for this costume, and if you are a beginner in the craft of costume creation, it may do better to start with a kit first, or try a less complicated costume before moving on to Lord Sesshomaru. Basically a kit version includes a white kimono and white harem pants, (which not by the way Sesshomaru does not wear harem pants) both already sewn, which you would than embellish as desired. Often these will include a black vest/corset without any armor attached. The kits usually recommend buying two yards of white fur and draping it over your shoulder like a shawl. I have never seen a kit that included the armor and never are there instructions as to how to make armor either.

One thing that stops many CosPlayers in their tracks before they even have a chance to get started is the fact that there are so many separate items in his outfit, and before they can start sewing, they must first seek out patterns and instructions for each and every one of these items. Often they are not ever sure what articles of clothing they actually need or what the names of each item is, and so they are not certain what exactly they should be searching for to begin with. The amount of research required before the project can even start, scares off many, and results in them instead creating an easier to make costume, even though they had their heart set on Lord Sesshomaru.

Why have I made this lens?

Well, because I am making a Lord Sesshomaru costume, and I know a commonly asked question CosPlayers have, is: Where can I find instruction to make a Lord Sesshomaru costume? The answer they get is: nowhere. Nowhere on the Internet is there a site that goes into any detail with helping CosPlayers to recreate a Lord Sesshomaru costume. There is a need for such a site and therefore I am going to make an attempt at filling in the need.

Why am I the right person to tell you how to do this?

I sewed my first cloth doll at age six. At age 12 I sewed my first ball gown. At age 14 I enrolled in a two-year college course in pattern making and fashion design. At age 16 I sewed my first dress made from my own pattern designed by me. Today, 13 years later 90% of my clothing consists of historical re-enactment costumes designed and sewed by me, made from my own patterns. And starting in spring of 2008, I will take on my most ambitious project ever: to create from scratch, the most accurate Lord Sesshomaru costume ever created.

To complete this goal, I have done what I have done in the past with my other projects and am consulting with history books. I am currently reading three dictionary-sized books on the history of Japanese fashions.

Lord Sesshomaru is a character born Feudal Japan in approximately 1240 – 1370 A.D., with the time of InuYasha books and show being set (according to author Rumiko Takahashi) during 1482 – 1558 and so from those periods I find myself doing the most research. (Sesshomaru is approximately 250 years old at the time of the story). My personal goal here is not, just to create a CosPlay costume, but to recreate the actual costume this man would have worn had he been real, so I’m taking the high road an going a much more advanced rout than the average CosPlayer would take. I estimate that this project will take a year or more to complete. Well, not a year or more to actually make. Once I have everything gathered up, it should take me less than a week to sew it up and assemble it, but finding the supplies to recreate this costume in historically accurate detail . . . that could take a while as some of the items I’ll need are quite expensive. The tail for instance, I don’t see any way around paying less than $400 for the fur, and the metal spikes for the battle armor will be $10 to $20 per spike, than there’s the leather for the armor itself: about $200 per yard. In short, this project could easily surpass well over a $1,000 before I get done, and that, could be a set back, but I can wait. I’m not in any hurry to get this finished, so long as I do get it finished. Slow and steady wins the race.

And so it begins.

~~Wendy C. Allen

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods
Do You and I Read the Same Books? Read my reviews of the best Books on My Bookshelf.
Do you think Lord Sesshomaru is a Cross dresser? Join the debate and tell the world what you think!
You may already know this, but in case you don’t, *I Love Phookas!*
I sell my art through Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts
Do you CosPlay? Here is A List of my CosPlay Aticles
For anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.
Did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?
Find out how to Create Your Own Writers Retreat
Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?
Narration for Writers is explained here.
I’m a Doctor Who fan and so I have this: Doctor Who Gift & Video Showcase
RumikoTakahashi, Keith Laumer and Don Rosa are my favorite authors, read about them and find out why!
Conventional Writing Advice that Didn’t Work for Her (or Me Either!)…
Why Was My Manuscript Rejected?
NegaDuck is the best Disney villain ever!
We are all in danger Bunny Seeks To Take Over the World!
Etiole Swanzen
All about Rin and making Rin’s Costume
All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb and Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume
What do you look for in a book?
Accepting Your Writing Style
Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!
I buy my cloths at Drac-in-a-Box
The world needs more men like JamesRetief
Why the world needs Faith Not Religion
I love to do Embroidery
Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use

Copper Cockeral (My Art For Sale Online)