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.