Fur Party!

周五晚上有兽友请整个渥太华的兽群开party耶!人出奇的多!至少有30只。大家聊天跳舞泡澡都很高兴呢。某只哈士奇还喝醉了,哈哈~不过卡库尔呢?缠着兽装穿着者和DJ不放~一定很讨厌吧?不过竟然也能够做出完美的乐曲转换,看来学到了什么呢。

郊外晚上的星星好多,不过端着运行Stellarium的电脑绕了七八圈,也没看出来哪颗到底是哪颗。

On Friday night another furry invited the whole Ottawa furry community for a party. There were surprisingly many people! At least 30 critters attended. Everyone chatted, danced, ate, gamed and spent a bit of time in the pool, all enjoying the event. There’s also a husky furry who got himself drunk, nyahaha~ As for Kakur me? Chasing around fursuiters and DJ all night~ must be annoying, no? But I did a perfect song transition too, seems I’ve learned something.

So many stars in the suburban night sky, but couldn’t figure out with one is which even after turning myself around several times holding a computer running Stellarium.

嗯~这次来的兽装穿着者是 Da-Fox。嗯……在 Howie 和 Deoge 搬走之后 Da-Fox 似乎是渥太华兽群中剩下的不多的兽装表演者之一了。穿着兽装在节奏中摆弄荧光棒的 Da-Fox 很帅哦。Zets 也来了这次聚会,不过没有穿兽装,好可惜~ 另外带兽装来的还有 774狐(误),被生活中缺少兽装的 Da-Fox (在早晨六点) 抱来抱去。 Da-Fox 早晨还做了香肠呢,但是卡库没吃到,残念…… 早晨卡库拉迪放了一些FursuitTV,大家似乎都很爱看。

丈量房间 (绝不是简单的任务) 的结果是我的房间是奇怪的五边形。这样橱柜放哪里啊?兽装的存放,大家似乎都有自己的方法。Da-Fox 用的是塑料容器,很适宜飞机行李的那种大箱子。774狐(误)用的是大麻袋垃圾袋。Zets就简单地找了把椅子把兽装架在上面。

Hmm~ Da-Fox is the fursuiter who came this time. Hmm… after Howie and Deoge moved away, Da-Fox seems to be one of the few fursuiters left in the Ottawa region. Pretty handsome was Da-Fox in his suit playing the glowsticks in the beats. Zets came to this meet too, but didn’t wear his fursuit, so disappointing~ Also came with a fursuit is 774fox (no, it’s actually Nanashifox), who was hugged over and over by Da fursuit deficient Fox. Da-Fox also made sausages in the morning, but Kaku didn’t get to eat it, zannen… In the morning Kakurady played some FursuitTV, everybody seem to like watching it.

Measuring the room (not an easy task) yields the result that my room is a strange pentagon. Where do I put the shelves like that? When it comes to fursuit storage, everyone seem to have their own ways. Da-Fox uses a plastic container, one of these big boxes very suitable for airplane luggage. 774fox used large linen garbage bags. Zets simply got a chair and propped the fursuit on it. (Which gave his mom, who was expecting a much larger head, quite a surprise.)

今天去布艺店买别针,因为想做兽装的尾巴,可是别针找不到了。看到我带来的兽装制作指南,店员竟然问 “你是不是furry”?原来有兽竟然委托她制作兽装!不过可惜的是店里还没有进毛毛布呢。分享了一些兽装制作网站。

Went to buy safety pins at the fabrics store today, because I want to make the tail of the fursuit, but can’t find the pins. Seeing my fursuit construction guide, the store staff surprised me with the question, “are you one of those furries”? Turns out a furry has commissioned her to make a fursuit! Unfortunately the store haven’t stocked fur rolls yet. Shared some fursuit construction websites.

最后尾巴还是没有开始制作。
And yet in the end, work on the tail still haven’t started.

Fursuit construction progress / 兽装制作进度:0% (0/9)

Wahoo!

A spiral-bound book atop a brown hat, which have two chocolate colored bunny ears extending from it. The cover of the book displays Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits.

Things sure are not as going smoothly as I hope. The school year is started again, and I came back with three failed courses. As usual I still couldn’t fit courses I want to my schedule. Or, for that matter figure out what courses I want. I’m now worried that with a screwed schedule like this I might not even be able to finish my four year program in five years.  I also need to get high grades to offset effects of the last two years on my GPA. Sigh.
诸事进展并不像我希望的那么顺利。我带着三门砸了的科目回到新学期,像往常一样在课程表上找不到安放我想要的科目的地方。当然,前提是我知道我想要上什么课。我现在担心以这样乱七八糟的课程安排我大概五年都完不成我该四年完成的专业。而且我还要用高等第来拉平以前砸了的科目对我的GPA的影响。哎。

From the (three) Saturday garage sale I bought a grill and an microwave oven. … oh curses. Already run out of shelf space. Where should I put my new textbooks and fursuit now? This room needs a redesign badly! Adding insult to injury is the grill setting off the smoke alarm on the first use. And I didn’t realize I bought a book on Amazon for $50 (oh my wallet)…
从上周六旧货抛售中买到了微波炉和电烤盘。……可恶。已经没有地方放东西了。接下来新书和兽装放那里呢?房间急切需要重新设计!更讨厌的是烤盘第一次使用的时候就触发了烟雾探测器。

Which, on a happier note, is the only book on fursuits – Critter Costuming. It proves to be interesting, although not enlightening like A Theory of Fun. It was written five years ago, so things like head construction is somewhat out of date, and there’s a lot of stuff in it that is available in online fursuiting communities, but it has a nice overview of materials and also contains useful tips on performance. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention obscure-in-US stuff like the popular 502 resin glue.)

I also got this bunny hat in a furmeet. Cuuute ~

好消息是我在网上买的书送到了。这是目前唯一的一本兽装制作指南。它确实很有趣,虽然不像《快乐之道》那样醍醐灌顶。这本书是五年前写的,所以例如头部制作等方面的内容有些过时了,并且许多东西都可以在网上的兽装社区中找到,不过它关于材料的综述是我所很少见到的,并且也包括了一些关于表演方面的建议。(可惜的是没有提到像是502胶水这样的美国罕见的材料。)

并且我在周六的兽聚中买到了这个兔子帽子。可爱吧~


附注。是的,我回到渥太华了。八月份。
PS. Yes, I came back to Ottawa. August.

拉底被偷走了宝贵的东西之二

电脑被偷走以后……

还算是不错?计算机系有一个很大很大~的电脑房。屏幕也是不一般的大!而且,还可以把自己的绘图板拿过来插进去。(虽然还是当鼠标用,从来不画画……)虽然,每次启动的时候都要重新设置一下,一设置就是十分钟: 分辨率调整,安装Firefox、绘图板驱动软件、中文支持和Windows Live套装。不过装完了以后基本上就可以开始上网冲浪了,再加上楼上就有食堂,所以很舒服~

不过好像舒服得过头了。一开始还把家里整理得像模像样的……后来就不对了。就拿今天来说吧,昨天晚上没睡好,所以感觉很困,不怎么想做正事。结果上网时间累计8小时47分钟!(我还有作业要补交、条目要写、程序要翻译……)

睡眠不足大概是昨天玩游戏太多了吧?因为觉得家里没有电脑会很无聊,卡库尔就在Wii上下载了Opera浏览器,顺便下载了《最终幻想水晶编年史:小小国王与约定之国》(旁作的旁作……)。虽然游戏中的每一天就是发布宣告-派遣勇者-建造房子-和每个勇者与市民对话来快速提升好感度-上床睡觉这样很无聊,不知道为什么还是玩上瘾了。不做正事可不行!从臣民路人那里听说有“可以治愈懒惰的徽章”,如果找到那种东西的话,卡库尔一定会在自己身上使用吧。

当然这样一天下来并不是完全没有收获,也发现了一些很可爱的东西,例如在eBay上的很可爱的浣熊帽子(可惜按照当前的进度,恐怕要送货到中国才行),以及……一大堆很奇怪的中国上海(!)制造的布偶装,从刺猬Silver到虹猫蓝兔都有。大部分都很难看。少数很漂亮,而且价格绝对低廉!只不过毕竟是版权物…… 不管怎么说虽然质量不算高这也算是个兽装制作者吧?(汗)

 

 

周一整理了一下住处,原本乱七八糟的,一下子就感觉清爽多了。不过还是很乱……

第一次兽聚! Huzzyah!

上周日有兽跑到WikiFur聊天室询问渥太华有没有兽人爱好者聚会,卡库尔正好听说过一个渥太华兽控论坛,于是就告诉了他。后来看到周五就有这样的兽聚,心想也许能碰到那个人,于是决定——出发!
Last Sunday a fur came to #wikifur asking if there’s a furry meetup in Ottawa,  Kakur me happen to have heard of a Ottawa fur fan forum, so I told him about it. Later seeing that there’s such a meet on Friday, thinking maybe I would be able to meet that person, so I decided to – check it out!

最后很可惜没碰到,但是仍然非常开心——因为有6个穿兽装的。六个!(因为正好有从安大略省其他地方过来的兽。)以及一大帮其他的人来参加这次兽聚。
In the end it’s disappointing that I wasn’t able to find him, but I still enjoyed myself – because there were 6 fursuiters. Six! (Since there were furs coming from other places in Ontario.) And a bunch of other people, too, coming for this furmeet.

约定集合的地点,是市中心的战争纪念碑,离住的地方只有20分钟的路程。陆陆续续地有兽开始聚集,聊天拍照。也有几位和卡库尔一样是新来的,所以经常会听到有人问名字。然后两个穿兽装的家伙出现了 (都是狗),然后就开始乱抱人。唔……真的好毛!虽然渥太华还没有完全入春,但是他们说就是这样的天气兽装里面还是很热呢。(好羡慕……卡库尔快冻死了……)
The meeting place is the War Memorial in downtown, only 20 minutes walk from where I live. Furries started coming one by one, chatting, taking photos. Some are new too, like Kakurady, so people asking each others’ names can be heard often. Then two people in fursuits appeared (both dogs) and started to randomly hug other people. Mmm…so warm and fluffy! Even though Ottawa has not completely entered spring, they told me that it is hot inside fursuits despite the cold weather. (Which makes me so envious… it’s freezing outside…)

然后众人开始向Byward Market进发!绕了一大圈,不时停下来合影拍照什么的。
Then everyone started marching towards Byward Market! Went for a loop, stopping to take pictures and stuff.

这天似乎有许多学校组织出来春游,市场有三台校车,反向前去议会广场的时候也有许多的学生。不少兽边走边扎堆儿聊天,卡库尔则是基本上缠绕着兽装者不放!还好他们似乎并不在意,还很高兴。
Many schools have arranged field trips for that day, there were three school buses in the market, and much students on the way back to parliament square. Many furs chatted along the way, but Kakurady basically just went around the fursuiters! They didn’t seem to mind, though, and instead were quite happy about it.

到了议会广场之后来了三位新的兽装者,原来三位跑去脱掉 (也是很热的呀),又打闹了一会儿。然后到Rideau Centre的美食广场吃了点东西,一天的活动基本上就结束了,有几位兽继续去吃自助寿司,剩下的则各奔东西。
After arriving at the parliament hill, three new fursuiters came and the original three went to un-suit (it is hot inside), and then everyone played a bit. We then ate at Rideau Centre food court, and that was the end of the day’s activity, with some furs going for sushi buffets and the rest going their ways.

值得一提的是超活力社工浣熊Zets。无论是穿着兽装还是没穿,都一直相当精力充沛。这一点有点像Torley Linden? 而且是扎马尾的浣熊,好可爱。(不知道棒球队还是什么队的吉祥物的鸡看到一只(竟然是!)浣熊跑来合影, 心里是什么想法呢?……)
Worthy of mention is Hyperactive Social Worker Raccoon Zets. No matter if he’s in suit or out of suit, he’s always very energetic. Reminds me bit of Torley Linden. And he’s a raccoon in a ponytail, how cute. (I wonder what the chicken mascot of was-that-a-baseball-team-or-some-other-kind-of-sports-team thought when he sees a freaking raccoon coming up to take a picture with him, though?)


贴图贴图!

Fail Neko is fail…

搞什么啊! 作业都没能按时交上, 别人在说什么话都听不清楚, 想做的事一点都没有动, 现在又带回家来一大堆绒毛? 卡库尔是不是脑子进水了?
What the heck?! Assignments missed the due date, can’t understand what other people are talking about, didn’t do any things I always wanted to do and now I take home a pile of furs? Is Kakur nuts or something?

A pile of grey and white faux fur on a bed...

看来卡库尔的计划是在万圣节之前把自己变成最可爱的猫受人猫兽人。不过,从7年级以后就从来没有碰过针线的卡库尔到底能不能在没有兽设的情况下在两个星期内完成一套完整的兽装呢? 更不用说还没有完成的事和下周的期中考试 (状态机? 那是什么? 好吃吗?)……
So it appears Kakur’s plan is to turn myself into the cutest nekouke kitten before Hallowe’en. But, can Kakur who never touched a thread or a needle since grade 7 complete a complete fursuit in two weeks without an existing fursona? Not to mention things not done and the mid-terms next week (State machine? What’s that? Does it taste good?)…

… just have to cutely do my best, then.
……总之今天也要很可爱的全力以赴吧。

今天也是很可愛地全力以赴!大井 昌和 (著), 一年生になっちゃったら

性转换确实很有趣。不过卡库尔喜欢的究竟是变性, 变身还是只是单纯萝莉控?
Transgender is quite an interesting topic, but what’s in it I like, TG, transformation or just lolicon?

总之是个读者服务很强烈的漫画……。
In all, it’s a very fanservice-y comic…


那么,全力以赴吧!(都拖了一个月了……)
Do my best then! (been ignored for a month at least…)

  • 贺图
    10000th hit
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    Cutter
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    SL Translation
  • 兽装?再说吧~
    Fursuit? Laterz I guess~