Smarter Than the Average Squirrel

Okay so a few days back I was puttering about Twitter with the idea of putting out a mass email for people who might want to accompany me on some nerdy tourist shenanigans for a day or two immediately before (or possibly after) next year's PMC. Well, long story short, there were a lot of responses, I decided I didn't want to eff around with multiple email addresses, and I decided to put it here instead.

At this point, obviously, nothing is set in stone. I'm roughly 90% sure, finances permitting, that I'll be tacking an extra 1-2 days onto my PMC trip for the purposes of doing stuff in California beyond just "Arrive, recover from jet lag, do con stuff forever, go home." Obviously I would really like some form of company for this. But I see it less as a case of "Let's get a big group together and Plan All The Things" because I hate having to coordinate people. HATE. It's more like "I wanna do X, Y, and possibly Z stuff, feel free to come with me if you're around and interested."

Possible stuff I would be doing with this time includes:

- Notorious Ameritoku site pilgrimage. I wanna go to the Command Center. I wanna take cosplay pictures at the Command Center. I would also not say no to a trip to the temple from VR Troopers. Bring your own vest.

- Beach trip. I want to splash around in the Pacific Ocean because I never have before. (Also POSSIBLY cosplay photos as Delphine, particularly if a Command Center trip falls through.)

- Random LA area touristy stuff IDK.

- If David Yost announces another pre-PMC Hiking With Fans expedition, I'm going. End of discussion. Don't care if other plans were made or not. My Billy fandom trumps literally everything.

And stuff that will be required in order to make any combination of the above events possible:

- Hotel space. Because the hotel(s) for PMC are stupid expensive when not at con rate and I doubt I could tack additional days onto my reservation at this point anyway, the plan would be to reserve a much cheaper room elsewhere and 'move in' to con space on (IIRC, Bats correct me if I'm wrong) Thursday night.

- Transportation. Guys, I have SUPER BAD driving anxiety. While I theoretically could rent a car and tool myself around the greater Los Angeles area, I REALLY do not want to. So if you're driving to the con or renting a car, and you're willing to have a Pocky in your passenger seat, you will be my hero. Also I will totally chip in for gas and/or car rental expenses. Failing that...IDEK anything about public transit in the LA area, but I'm willing to try. :P

So TLDR, nothing is set in stone as yet, this is basically me just shouting my thoughts into the void as usual for the sake of gauging interest. Hit me with a comment or tweet at me if you want in. Let's go have adventures together.

 ...Would any of y'all from the PR fandom be interested in an online-based, PR-themed, D&D-style roleplaying campaign?

Basically I had planned to run a one-off session of this at Couchcon, but that ended up falling through because reasons. And of course, me being the person that I am, the storyline from that session has evolved into a full-fledged plot bunny that won't leave me alone.  

To carry this off, I'm going to need 5-6 people who have the following:
- A general desire to RP as an OC Power Ranger
- Access to a chat program on the order of Google Hangouts or Skype
- Dice if you choose to, but an online dice-roller will also do the job
- Ability to be online for a few hours on a pre-determined evening roughly 2-3 times per month

And if you're thinking to yourself "I've never played a tabletop RPG before and I've heard they're hard", fear not. My platform of choice is Dungeon World, which is the single greatest RPG for people who don't know how to do RPGs that I've ever encountered. It is super user-friendly and requires WAY less math and bullshit than D&D or Pathfinder tend to. 

And also I've never DMed before so you can rest assured I'll be fucking up at least as often as you do. Probably more. 

(And for those of you already involved in Bouken!Pathfinder...this might be a cool thing to do on off weeks? Think about it.)

 Ah, spring. When a young nerd's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of cosplay. Con season is upon us, and the eternal question looms...what to WEAR?!

As many of you are aware, I am something of a novice cosplayer. I tend to veer toward things that require...well...minimal effort. Every once in awhile I get it in my head to do something more complicated. And I inevitably get intimidated and give up. I don't want to do that this time, so I'm making these posts in part for accountability and in part because I'm shamelessly seeking cheerleaders. If successful, the result will be showing up to Morphicon in August, the single most badass cosplay I have ever done. 

The HBIC herself, Delphine.

This is a character that means the world to me, and who I find is sorely underappreciated. I hope to do her justice.

Right now, the plan is to get the hard part out of the way first.  I'll be casting a latex mask using the process outlined in this tutorial. Stay tuned. :)

 rivulet027 asked about why I identify Yellow as my Ranger color. 

( Color theory and some other stuff )

 Oh yes. angel_negra , Transformers, and sentient Zords. 

( Robots in disguiiiiiise )

 So, tsukino_akume requested a general headcanon ramble post. Which...normally would not be that much of a problem, except for the fact that I've already covered a lot of my major headcanons in other posts this month. Oops? So I'm just going to go ahead and post some random bits and pieces here, and if anyone's curious about my thoughts on anything else, feel free to ask in the comments. 

( Some of this might also have been posted about in other places before )

Tomorrow's post is on the train wreck pairing that is Ji and Jayden's dad, as requested by punkpinkpower . And Day 14's post will be on Transformers vs. sentient Zords, as requested by angel_negra , whose thought process gets two thumbs up. 

 thesecondbatgirl requested a post on the best and worst mentors of PR.

( This is going to be a train wreck )

Tomorrow's post will be a general headcanon ramble as requested by tsukino_akume . Which...I have a lot of headcanon. And I have already posted about a lot of my headcanon this month. So if there's any specific fandoms/characters/things you'd like to see me opine about, feel free to let me know. And Day 13's post is on THE PAIRING THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME, AKA Ji and Jayden's dad, as requested by punkpinkpower , which is only fitting since that pairing is her fault in the first place. 

Also, I am in need of 9 more topics if I'm going to make this a complete month of spamming you all with meme posts. Let's keep the streak alive!

 thesecondbatgirl requested a post about color theory. 

( Ho boy, time to open the can )Tomorrow's post will be on why Rocky is awesome and Rocky-related headcanon as requested by rivulet027 . And for Day 10, punkpinkpower asked that I post about a favorite story or song from childhood and what it means to me now.