my computer is dead :(... it survived a flood, it survived a fire... it was killed by cat hair

hardrives are still okay, but the motor is dead, over heated due to cat hair being sucked into the fan

I am now typing this from a brand new computer... Vista (ick), I want my old XP back :(

new computer set up, everything is different... all my 30,000 pictures are on my old computer... I'm pissed

on a better note, this new wide screen monitor, doubles up the background pic of Sessh on my Twitter page... cool! (more Sesshomaru is always good)

the pictures on on a backup drive, so, I'll have them on this computer soon

well, while I'm setting up everything else, I figured I might as well try out Google Chrome... I actually like Chrome better than FireFox

I am so glad it did this NOW and not 5 weeks from now during NaNoWriMo!

I've been embroidering Sesshy's kimono for 4 months now! This is taking FOREVER! Oh well, I knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to embroider it instead of dye it. Than again, I embroider everything I see, so yeah, I'm not complaining, I just wish it would go faster. I love embroidery! I also chatter about embroidery on Squidoo. So, while I should be working on my embroidery right now, instead I am on Squidoo writing about embroidery! http://www.squidoo.com/EmbroideryHandVsMachine I need to start doing more embroidery and less internet or I'll never get this finished!

I walked home, through down town Biddeford last night at 2:30AM because our car broke down :( No car for a week at least, walking everywhere; walking and taking my sewing with me... interesting, considering what I am sewing; my first look at public reaction! LOL!

A guy started following me and talking about me..uhm..."choice of cloths", he wanted to know if I was going to a party...nope, just my normal cloths... yeah... You dress like this everywhere? Yes thank you..

I can't wait till this new one is finished... oh, they think I dress funny now! LOL!

so who dresses weirder: Naraku (what I'm wearing now) or Sessho Maru (what I'll be wearing next year)? I think it's easier to pass off Naraku as "normal" cloths than Sessho Maru will be.

Well, I finally got around to joining Twitter. Spent the past week figuring it out. Here's my profile if anyone wants to follow me. http://twitter.com/EelKat

You can leave a link to yours here too.

LOL! LOL! LOL!

I just love it when people leave mean comments without first reading the article they commented on! (See article in question here: http://www.squidoo.com/LordSesshomaruHistory)

LOL! LOL! LOL!

My opposing Sessho followers have found me on Squidoo, niiice.

http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko


I need at least 15 pounds more wool to make the Mokomoko... that means it's going to weigh 15 pounds + 10 pounds for the inner skeleton, that means it's gonna weight a minimum of 25 pounds.. . and the weird shape of it, it's not gonna be easy to wear either.

hhhmmm, and the battle armor isn't going to be too light either.... 30 pounds at least... this is going to be a heavy costume.

And hot, wool is hot, it traps and holds in heat, wonderful for wearing in the winter, and I plan to wear this to a convention during the summer... I must be crazy.

Good thing I'm very strong and can lift that kind of weight! most girls my size can't lift the things I can... :) comes from being a farmer, the heat however, that may bother me.


Read more info here: http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko


Okay, so now I know what type of wool to buy, next step is to figure out how much to buy.

My wool came last night...took 2 hours to separate the locks and 6 hours to wash it! I am now waiting for it to dry so I can start sewing it. I am writing this while I wait.

I have to figure out how much wool I will need to cover a 14 foot long tail for a demon lord. To do that I must determine how much tail area the wool I bought will cover. Keeping in mind here that wool shrinks, which it did, when I washed it.

Me and Buddy (my 13 years old blond Cocker Spaniel... see picture at right ) spent 2 hours sorting the wool. Buddy loves the smell of it. I think he thinks I've brought home a new pet for him. He loves it when a new animal joins our farm. Buddy plays "mother hen" to all of them.



For this project sorting the wool involved separating it by locks. Each individual lock equals one 6" to 8" long tight curl and a pound of wool has maybe 400 of them. A rough guess because I didn't bother to count them as I separated them. In order to make the fur fabric for Sesshy's tail, I will be sewing each lock one at a time to a backing fabric, thus the need to separate each lock from the fleece. And that is how I spent my afternoon: carefully separating locks.

I started at 2PM and ended at 5:30PM. The next hour was spent laying the locks out in a row side by side for 3 feet, than over lapping each row after that. When all the locks were laid out (deeply overlapping, as they will be sewed down to mimic the fullness of a real fur line), I had 7 rows covering an area 1 foot deep and 3 feet wide.

My final conclusion? I will need a minimum of 12 pounds more to complete the Mokomoko. I will buy 15 pounds "just in case". Happily Cotswold is about half the price of alpaca, meaning my Mokomoko is only going to cost $200 - $300 and not the $500+ I had previously estimated.


http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

My wool arrived yesterday an it has caused me to revise my plans. If you have read everything on this lens, than you know that for the past couple of months I was considering alpaca wool for this project. However, as you will also have read, I was inspired by the fur lining of my coat and I was looking for a wool that matched it.

A sad fact of the fashion industry is that contents are never clearly marked on the label. A blouse marked as "cotton" could be calico, gauze, batiste, canvas, velvet, or denim! That is how my coat is labeled "Mongolian Sheepskin". Well for starters the coat is not actually made from a skin, so we know that's wrong. The wool lining, is made of sheared wool. It does not even tell us that it is made of wool!

Well, my problem with making the Mokomoko has been from day one, that I wanted the same wool as the lining on my coat, which btw is a super soft, super fluffy 6" cream colored pile, with a "twisted" kinky "dreadlock" texture to it, with each lock curling into natural sausage curls. This is what I was looking for. This is what I searched high and low for. I even took the coat with me to show it to people so they knew what I was talking about.

Everyone I asked told me that my best bet was to get a fake fur, because they had never seen a real sheepskin with fur that long. Everyone pointed out that sheepskin had a short pile of 3" - 4", not this 6" - 12" shag that was lining my coat. No one was able to identify the breed of sheep which grows these long curly locks. That was what I wanted to know: What breed of sheep has wool like this, so I can find a farmer willing to sell some? I suppose a sheep farmer would have known the answer, but around here everyone raises cows and chickens. Maine has lots of milk and eggs, not much wool. Maine does has lots of alpacas, however... there are over a dozen alpaca farms right in the local area! So, I gave up my search for this super long wool and set out to looking at alpaca wool instead. Until today...

As you may or may not know, depending on which of my blogs you read, this past month, I started buying wool samples, so that I could get a close up look at different wools and see how they would work for this project. I've been buying this stuff off eBay, in small batches, because I don't trust my monitor to show me the colors and textures properly, and also, because I want to feel the softness and hand of the wool, before I buy large batches of it.

Another thing is... I'm allergic to most wools, my wool lined coat is the only article of wool clothen I own, because it's the only article of wool clothen I have not had an allergic reaction too! The Mokomoko is 14 feet long and will be wrapped around me and in contact with 65% of my body... I can't afford to have an allergic reaction to something I'll have wrapped all around me from head to toe like this...my NOT being allergic to the wool I use to make the Mokomoko, is a really SERIOUS consideration for me, and another factor in why I was looking high and low for a match to the one type of wool I've never been allergic to.

Well, as I said, my wool arrived, and I can't believe what I have found: an exact duplicate of the wool which lines my coat... those very same super soft, super fluffy 6" - 12" "twisted" kinky "dreadlock" curls, so soft to touch and oooh, I'm not allergic to it! YAY!

I now know that what I was looking for was the wool of a White Cotswold Ram. It is so unbelievably perfect! So the wool that the fashion industry sells under the name of "Mongolian Sheepskin" is actually Costwold Fleece.

My Mongolian Lord can real have Mongolian Sheepskin now!

You can read more about it here: http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

I couldn't resist



http://www.photofunia.com

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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.

I have honey bees now! a whole hive... they kind of moved in and I left them there, a big queen and her babies, so cute... uhm, no idea what to do with them now though. I need to move them, cause they moved into my chicken brooder and built a mass of comb in it. I'm not using the brooder this year so I'm leaving them there for now, at least until I can figure out how and where to move them.

I just found them this afternoon... what a surprise that was! I was cleaning up around the yard and found some of the brooder equipment in the garden and went to put it back in the brooder...

I opened the roof and all of a sudden there's all these honey bees flying up! I guess they didn't feel threatened cause they just hovered around, but than right in the center of the brooder was this big comb full of half grown babies, and one big queen bee, and a few worker bees... it was really neat, cause I've never seen a real hive before. I figured since the brooders out back out of the way, no one will bother them, so they can stay there for now.

I guess I'll have to get/build a hive for them to move into. Looks like my next trip to the library will include looking up beekeeping books.

I just realized that my InuYasha 558; Sesshomaru x Rin post now has 31 comments on it. Cool beans!

Boy did I ever get wound up over the ending of InuYasha. It's weird cause I read comic book and manga endings all the time, and usually I just read it and agree without question to whatever the author wrote. But this time, this ending REALLY got under my skin... it's been what a month now and I'm still ranting over it?!?! OMG! How did I get so obsessed with Sesshomaru?

Happy La Kermeese!

I'm watching the fireworks right now. We got front row seats to the concert and fireworks and we don't even have to leave to house! Can't get out the front door right now, cause there's a Slush Puppy machine and a hot dog stand in the sidewalk. The radio stations are set up in front of my bedroom window. Such excitement going on. I love it.

Wondering: Are any of you guys here tonight? I'm the gal in the purple kimono and white hakam... if you see me wave! :)










For Those who don't know, it's a French festival celebrated in Maine. It celebrates the peace between Maine and Quebec and the mixed heritage of everyone that lives in the area. It's headquarters are in Biddeford Maine, which is a predominately French town, and they close off all of Main Street and the off streets and turn the entire city into a giant carnival.

It looks like the entire population of Quebec is here right now, you should see the traffic!

A green frog is the symbol of the festival, and everyone has got frogs on their shirts and frog hats, and kids are winning stuffed frog prizes at the game stands.





Dog (my cat named Dog) is sitting in the window watching the fireworks... he's fascinated by them.

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, you 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 priestesses 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 decision was made to leave Rin with Kaede. I mean, we all know Sesshomaru would die to protect his beloved Rin and that Rin is more important to him than anything else in the world. Likewise we all know Rin fights 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 Sesshomaru'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 dramatically.

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 orange 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 overly-obsessed with Rin, Sesshomaru is, so to see them separated, 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 weirder, 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.

And than there are the gifts. Gifts! From Sesshomaru! Really?!? This icy, emotionless, cold hearted, cruel, blood-thirsty, murderous demon is seen flying in bearing gifts!

*THUD*

How more out of character can we get?

Why, is Sesshomaru, bringing her gifts? That part is so odd. Is he 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? Did Rin leave because Kaede told her to? Or did Rin leave and seek refuge with Kaede? Is it possible that Sesshomaru some how scared or hurt Rin, to the extent that she no longer felt safe in his care?

If Rin left on Kaede's say so, than what could Kaede have said that could have convinced Rin to leave Sesshomaru?

If Rin left on her own, than what could have happened to make Rin feel the desire to leave Sesshomaru? Did she leave out of fear, if so what scared her? Did she leave out of anger, if so what could they have fought about? Did she left out of "homesickness" for village life? Did she leave out of boredom? Did she leave, with the intention of going off to learn the skills of a homemaker, so that she could return to Sesshomaru years later to rule in his empire at his side as his wife? Rin planned to hold a position of some sort in Sesshomaru's empire, once Naraku had been defeated, she said so often.

If Rin left on Sesshomaru's command, than why would he have thought to send her away? Did he fear she'd be hurt if she stayed with him, because of his violet warrior's lifestyle? He couldn't have thought any demons would be a threat seeing how Naraku was the only demon to ever threaten Rin (other than his mom that is) and now Naraku was dead, so we know that isn't the reason. Was he afraid he'd hurt her himself? Did Sesshomaru's mom reappear and some how finally convince him to get rid of Rin once and for all? Did Sesshomaru suddenly realize that his mother's words were true, that he was becoming like his father, and so sent Rin away to protect his pride and honor? Does he love her and still hate the idea of demons taking human mates so sent her away?

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.


Now I've come to the conclusion that Rin left of her own accord, because it seems more logical than any other option, though I have yet to come up with a satisfying answer as to why she would leave. I can't see Sesshomaru leaving her, and I can't see him letting anyone take her, but I can see him saying she could leave if it was her wish, thinking she would not go, but than she did go and now he regrets it so is bringing her gifts. I'll stick with that theory for now, cause it sounds best to me. :)

How did I become so obsessed over a comic book character? This post screams of uber geekyness. :D


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!


Originally posted on the 21st, as a one paragraph question, this post was rewritten on the 23rd.

Well, I went ahead and built an inner skeleton structure for the Mokomoko just too see what it would look like and to see if it was possible to use inside a costume tail like this one, and have decided go ahead and use it. I also came to the conclusion that an 8 foot Mokomoko is not big enough, and am now making it 12 feet long instead.

Here's how I did it in case any one else wants to try it:

( I finally figured out how to add these hidden links! )

Oh, and I asked my original questions about making the mokomoko here, http://community.livejournal.com/fursuit/2433731.html because I thought these guys would be the most helpful (and I was right, they were... {{{{thanks and huggles}}}} for all the info!) but than later reposted that question on other forums I visit, on my MySpace bulletin, on a few of my blogs, and on FaceBook, and I ended up getting a lot of emails and messages about the Mokomoko not being a tail, so in response to that, I wrote up an essay on the mokomoko and what it is, and how I can prove it's a tail, that's posted on my personal LJ here, http://eelkat.livejournal.com/6851.html if any one wants to read it.


Thanks again for all you help with this, all of your ideas came in handy and are being put to good use!

~EK

ATTENTION MEMBERS OF FANFICTION.NET!

Story challenge! Stories wanted for new C2: Sesshy x Rin after chapter 557
New c2 looking for new stories, dealing with the new light shed on the Sesshy-Rin relationship!




http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Beware_Flying_Demons_Bearing_Gifts/59495/


This C2 is devoted to all stories that answer the question: After reading the final chapter (558): Why do you think Kaede took Rin away from Sesshomaru? And will Sesshomaru take Rin back?

I got to agree with the fans who call Sesshy a lolicon, at least to the point that I think Kaede thinks he is, cause I can see no other reason for her to take Rin away from him like that.

I'm miffed over Kaede taking Rin away from Sesshomaru X( but, seeing how 3 years have gone by, and Sesshy is still 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. :)

I now have a new motto: Beware of flying demons bearing gifts!

YAY! Kaede can't stop him from bringing gifts to Rin and regardless of what he says about hating humans, and in spite of Kaede, he certainly isn't going to let Rin forget about him. I want Rumiko to write the rest of this and tell us what happened to cause Kaede to take Rin away, what happened to Rin (and Sesshomaru) during those three years, how do they handle being away from each other now, and what will happen to them after chapter 558?

Well, since Rumiko isn't going to tell us, that means it's up to the fans to write their own versions of what happened/will happen. That's where you come in! If you have a story that deals with the Sesshy-Rin relationship and how it was affected by the events of InuYasha chapter 558, submit it here, cause we want them all!

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EelKat's InuYasha 20 Questions Survey...

I made this for my new InuYasha CosPlay LJ Community ()

Use this to post an introduction post in the community, and than copy and paste it to your blog/profile! :)

1. Who is your favorite InuYasha character(s)?
#1 Lord Sesshomaru
#2 Koga
#3 Naraku

(I loves hot demon bishie boys! Theys soo cute!)

2. What is your favorite canon pairing(s)?
Sesshomaru x Rin
Sesshomaru x Kogura

InuYasha x Kagome x Koga (love the fights between Inu and Koga over Kagome! LOL!)

3. Which InuYasha character do you least like?

The Raccoon-Dog (I forget his name), the one that follows Miroku around and turns into a yellow flying thing. He's just annoying.

4. Ever CosPlayed InuYasha characters?

4a. If so, who, where, and how many times?

4b. If not, but going to, who?

No, oddly, not yet, but I could pass for Naraku most every day, cause I've got is long dark locks and I wear a blue-purple layered kimono combo more than anything else.

I'm working on creating a Lord Sesshomaru costume... sort of, it's not really a CosPlay costume, because I'm recreating his entire wardrobe (some 45 + articles of clothen!) including 6 different kosode/kimono, 4 juban, 2 hakama, 5 different sets of battle armor, the manga version of the mokomoko, and 7 heko-obi, plus all the little things, like shoes, obi-jimba, etc. I wonder what kind of underwear he wears...???;

I'm hand sewing everything, and hand embroidering all of the kosode in a traditional 16th century Noh theater style, than I've got to make a hand knotted wig (because I'm a detail freak)... the battle armor to be made of real metal and hand scaled leather, the kosodes of real antique Japanese silk, and months and months of historical research into the history of what a real lord from 16th cen Japan would have worn, and altering Sesshy's outfits to be historically accurate.

The whole project is estimated to take about 3 years and cost approx $4,000 to complete. When I get done, I will have a set that will not be your average CosPlay costume... comparing this set with a traditional CosPlay costume, would be like comparing a Broadway musical stage costume with a kindergarten school play costume.

5. Have you read all InuYasha manga chapters (1 - 558)?
5a. And which of the ones you've read is your fave? Why?


Nope, not yet, but I'm working on it. Mostly I've only read the chapters with Sesshomaru in them, cause the others are not as interesting, but now that it's over I plan to start at vol 1 and read the whole thing straight through.

Best chapter ever, was the multi part (about 7 chapters in the 460's) one where Sesshomaru went to visit his mom and she got mad at him for having the 2 human children with him (Rin and Kohaku) so she killed Rin and sent her soul to hell and Sesshomaru ripped a hole through the barrier between the world of the living and hell, and fought off the hell demons to bring her back, but than found out he couldn't bring her back to life again because he had already done so, and he started crying and said he'd lost the only thing that was important to him and didn't want to live if Rin had died. It's the ONLY time we ever see Sesshomaru show any emotion at all. Kills all the fan theories which says Sesshy doesn't love Rin. :P


6. Have you ever felt that you were destined to be with a InuYasha character? If so, who and why?

Sesshomaru, because he and I are so dang much alike it ain't funny. I think he's said more words in his lifetime than I have! Of course that doesn't include the amount of writing I do... I can write for hours, but just try getting me to actually speak to you! And boy when I do talk, I've never had very much nice to say about the humane race.... I think it was the things Sesshy says about hating humans that got me to liking him in the first place! LOL!

7. InuYasha or Sesshomaru? Why?

Depends on what the question is, and since I have no idea what the question is, I'll say Sesshomaru. Why? Because weaponless he can beat Inu's ass any day. Inu can't fight without his trusty sword.

They are both cute, but Sesshy is just drop dead gorgeous, so Inu can't compare at all!

Inu is better in that he's not nearly as stuck up as Sessy is, though. Sesshy has some major pride and vanity issues he needs to deal with.


8. Koga or Miroku? Why?

How can these two compare? No idea, they just seemed to be a good duo to pit against each other.

I pick Koga. Why? Better looking, better acting, a gentleman of sorts, even if he is a bit snobbish at times.

They are both so cute though!


9. Which team is your favorite? (InuYasha's, Sesshomaru's or Naraku's)
9a. And would you join them?

Sesshomaru's team, and I'd join them, except Jarken's yapping would drive me crazy, I'd probably bop him on the head a few times.

I'd consider Naraku's team too, except he has a bad habit of killing off his allies!

10. After reading volume 56: Do you think Naraku is REALLY dead, this time, at least, finally, (or will he come back at some point in the future, yet again)?

The youkai that confronted Inu (in 552) said that Naraku would be revived to fight Kagome, but than it didn't happen, so does that mean that Naraku is really under some sort of spell and not really dead? Does that mean that at some point in the future Naraku will be "reawakened"? It sounds that way to me, even if the jewel is gone and Miroku's wind tunnel vanished, it certainly looks like Rumiko left an opening to bring the manga back at some point in the future should she decide too.

11. After reading the final chapter (558): Why do you think Keade took Rin away from Sesshomaru?
11a. And will Sesshomaru take Rin back?

I got to agree with the fans who call Sesshy a lolicon, at least to the point that I think Keade thinks he is, cause I can see no other reason for her to take Rin away from him like that.

I'm miffed over Kaede taking Rin away from Sesshomaru X( but, seeing how 3 years have gone by, and Sesshy is still 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. :)

I know have a new motto: Beware of flying demons bearing gifts!

YAY! Keade can't stop him from bringing gifts to Rin and regardless of what he says about hating humans, and in spite of Keade, he certainly isn't going to let Rin forget about him. I want Rumiko to write the rest of this and tell us what happened-will happen.


12. Are you Pro-Sesshomaru x Rin or Anti-Sesshomaru x Rin?

I'm all for the Sesshy-Rin relationship in any and all forms.

13. Have you seen all InuYasha episodes (including the 4 movies)?
13a. And which of the ones you've seen is your fave? Why?

Yes... and more than once, with me watching the Sesshomaru epies even more than the rest... I recorded them all off Adult Swim (unedited versions! YAY!) so I can watch them when ever I want too!

My fave? It was the 3-part episode that introduced Sesshomaru, when he was trying to find the sword, and he and InuYasha battled over it. I love the fight when Sesshy turned into Fluffy, but sad that he got hurt and lost his arm. I've watched this one 7 times this month alone! (Using the excuse that I am research for my costume ;) LOL! )

14. Pro-Kikyo or Anti-Kikyo?

I can't stand Kikyo, she's such a grump all the time, never has a good or happy outlook about anything!

15. Do you like InuYasha fanfics? If so, which types are your faves?

Love them! I read all the Sesshy x Rin ones I can find, though some of them I completly disagree with. I prefer the G, PG, PG-13 ones, over the R, M, N-17 ones though.

I love any Inu x Kagome x Koga ones too. Again G, PG, PG-13 ones.

Actually I like most all Inu fanfic, though the only ones I read rated over PG-13 are the Sesshy-Rin or Sesshy-Kagura ones.

16. Do you write InuYasha fanfics? If so, what kind and is it online so we can read it?

Yep, I'm guilty of writing them. Focus on Sesshy-Rin, of course. Oddly ignoring my above preferances to the fanfics I read, the ones I write tend to be PG-13, R, and M rated. hhmmm, weird... but than my books tend to be R rated romances so it's only logical that my fanfics would be as well.

Nope, none of my fanfics are posted anywhere online, so nope you can't read them. Maybe, I'll post some of them, someday, on FanFiction.net (where I do have an account).


17. Do your parents know about the InuYasha characters? If so, what do they think of them?

My dad watches every episode when it comes on tv, because he started watching it with me and my brothers and it's like watching a soap opera, even if you don't like it you have to watch the next episode to see what happens!


18. Has InuYasha affected your personal life, work life, school life and grades, and/or your relationships?

Yep. It gets in the way of everything I do!

19. Do you have InuYasha-OCD?

Oh, yes. Big time! Actually, It's Sesshomaru-OCD, cause he's the only reason I started watching the show and reading the books.

20. Looking back at some of your answers, do you think InuYasha has taken over your life?

Yep! LOL!

My fave game as a kid was the board game "Clue" and the card game "Authors" and the dice game "Yatzee".

As a teenager I still loved those games, plus video games got added to the list... first Atari: "Dark Chambers" (Legend of Zelda before it was known as Legend of Zelda"... tells you just how old I REALLY am! O.O, "Centerpede", and "Ms. Pacman" being my faves.

In my late teen years, all of the above where still actively played, but by than I had added Sega Genesis to the list, and my #1 game was now "Sonic the Hedgehog 2".

As an adult, all of the above as still actively played, as are such board games as are "Life", "Careers" , "13 Dead End Drive", "1313 Dead End Drive", and some 200+ video games for GameCube, Xbox, and PS2, my faves of those being: "Soul Calibur II & III", "Goblin Commander", every single game in the Sonic series, "Animal Crossing", "Worms3D", and my #1 fave of all is "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles".

Well, I just found this survey on http://community.livejournal.com/inuyashaaddicts/ , so I figured I better take it as I've joined the group... better late than never right? LOL!

((teh inuyasha survey))

o1. who is your favorite inuyasha character?:
Why Lord Sesshomaru, of course. Points to my avatar (all of them!). He's the only reason I I started watching the show, and once I realized the show was based on a book, than I went after every volume he was in, reading only those. O.O

o2. who is your LEAST favorite inuyasha character?:
The Raccoon-Dog (I forget his name), the one that follows Miroku around and turns into a yellow flying thing. He's just annoying.

o3. who is your favorite villain on the series? (due to mod's personal opinion, this DOES include kikyo.):

Well, early in the series Sesshomaru was a villain, so I always say, he's my fave villain, but as the story went on he became less and less of a villain and by the time it ended he became pretty much a good guy... a grumpy stuck up good guy, but a good guy none the less... So while he was a villain Sesshomaru was my fave villain, but once he wasn't a villain anymore, after that I'd have to say I like Kaugra best, followed by Naraku. I also like a lot of the "one shot" villains but I can't remember their names.

o4. what is your favorite episode in the series so far? (give a reason as to why):

Since you say episode and not chapter, I'll assume you mean the show and not the book, so I'm going to say the show. It was the 3-part episode that introduced Sesshomaru, ( *spoiler* )

Best chapter ever, was the multi part (about 7 chapters) one where Sesshomaru went to visit his mom and ( *spoiler* ) It's the ONLY time we ever see Sesshomaru show any emotion at all.

o5. what is your favorite pairing in the series? (miroku/sango, kagome/inuyasha, etc.):

Well, if you just read the rest of this post, than you know I'm going to say Sesshomaru and Rin. I liked the Sesshomaru and Kagura pairing too, but ( *spoiler* ) Boy he doesn't have to much luck with women does he? They all keep dieing before he tells them he loves them.

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!



Any one else had read the ending yet?



I need to blab spoilers to someone! :)

Interesting question. I'll answer this one. I think this is only the third one of these I've answered now.

Who introduced me to LiveJournal? No idea. It was over a year ago, around the time I was doing a major edit to Star Log White, adding a new blogroll to it, and one of the blogs I had found to add was an LJ. I went to leave a comment on their blog to tell them I had added them to my blogroll, but it was set to LJ account comments only so I signed up. I posted like 3 times that same week, and than somehow forgot all about having an LJ account, and so it wasn't until almost an entire year later that I posted again, or even came back to LJ. When I came back it was through through the SCA that I found LJ again. , I needed help with a costume, and their site said to go to their LJ community for help, which I did, and got some 30 answers in the first couple of hours, fixed my problem, and than stayed around to edit my account and start posting on my LJ, and now here I am. So, I opened my account over a year ago, but I didn't get involved until about 2 months ago.


Well, I'm off... I have to go to the library and find more books to research. I must be driving them crazy with all my book requests for Japanese history and stuff.