Heya all of you smexbuckethead love muffins out there, yes we updated our journal because apparently in Tasmania we just can't keep keep up to date with you "Mainlanders" and your insanely awesome leet skills in updating journals more than twice a year WHOAHZ~!!!

Ok for a serious note;

Both of us have been really diligent in progression and improvement with our costumes, our interstate friends motivating us to push for crisper, cleaner and more epic results than ever before. We have assessed our weaknesses and strengths in our cosplay and have started to work on those improvements so that the next few years we will be able to be at the best we can be.

The WCS competition to us was above and beyond what we could have possibly expected in a thousand years, the judges even commenting how tough a competition it was! We felt our lack of preparedness and addressing all possible scenarios really didn't work in our favour. We were literally blown away by what everyone brought to the table, and Jess actually cried because of the euphoric awesomeness of it all. We realised just before we went on stage how greatful we were to even be judged as worthy to being up against all of the other competitors, and it filled us with delight just seeing how amazing Australian Cosplay really is. I don't think either of us feel we could be in a better country, you all are so remarkably talented. Each and every one who was on that stage we would have been proud of seeing represent this country we love so much, and we encourage everyone to compete again next year, regardless of where you placed, because you are all so amazing.

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what can we say about you girls, back in early 2006 you came to the first Ai-Con in Tasmania and it was you two and your talent that made a couple of poorly dressed teenage girls giddy with excitement about this amazing thing called Cosplay. We all know how much the two of you have inspired so many of us by by your skills and we will be supporting you in being Team Australia as there is no other team with as many years experience as you two ladies.

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I think we've told you guys time and time again how much you guys are the most brain-melting-malfunction pile of omgwants to be that epic, and to top it all off you're some of the loveliest people we've ever met. I don't think we can say anything more or else the internet will literally explode, but you know how much you mean to us. We love you girls.

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I love the fact you let us kidnap you and take you to our villiage Zimiel! Pandora Hearts is going to be amah-zing! You guys had the most awesome chair evarrrrrrrrr er! You are both so awesome and we are so glad to have met you! Please do a close up cosplay video of your skit because it's the only way to truly appreciate how amazing your performance really was.

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We did not get to spend enough time together, especially after how excited we were to finally get to meet you guys, but you are both gorgeous in every way and we really hope you re-enter again next year because we'd love the opportunity to see you again!

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Love you guys soooooooo much, Jas we think you're awesome and if we had it our way we'd let you enter with us as a threesome... ehem I mean, if the WCS was open to groups, but they're not, so please find someone to enter with because you're a sexpot. Will what can we say, you know we love you and we always look forward to seeing you. Your performance made us laugh until we cried. Best of luck to you both, and we're sure we'll see you guys again really soon.

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As far as our personal progression and development is concerned we have tried to give ourselves lots and lots of time to sit down and think about our strong talents, and how to improve on our flaws. One of our problems is that we really don't know how to make props, however we have an amazing new friend Barry Bryan, who has decades experience in industry. We are trying to establish a fortnightly workshop so he can teach us everything he knows. So props next year, we know will be proud!

Another problem is like most cosplayers in Asutralia, we never give ourselves enough time to do an immaculate job, this may be shown through our wigs, parts of costumes, and especially performance, as we'd like to ask anyone who hasn't seen our performance in our WCS skit to please avoid doing so for Jess' sanity's sake. We have let ourselves down too many times from not being prepared enough!

So we've worked out our cosplay lists for 2010 and have already started working on ideas for our performances, including having the storyline for both WCS performances for next year worked out and we have written our prelimenary script, yay for being months ahead of yourself!

Hopefully next year we will be able to really step it up a notch and show what we've got in us.