{"id":1783,"date":"2008-11-29T07:02:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T11:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2008-11-22T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T16:10:37","slug":"my-vampire-cheerleader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"My Vampire Cheerleader"},"content":{"rendered":"

WorldCon, the World Science Fiction Convention<\/a>, is kind of a big deal for the Shadow Family. Not just because we’re big fans of the genre (Shadow Jack and I met in an internet chat room devoted to SF), but because it’s held in a different location every year and it gives us an excuse to travel a bit. It’s also a big deal for me because I am in love with the Masquerade.<\/p>\n

Masquerade one of the big events at every WorldCon. It’s primarily a costume contest, but most entrants also perform a skit of some sort. The workmanship on many of the costumes is astonishing, particularly in the Master category (this site<\/a> displays some of the costumes from the last several conventions, although the photos aren’t large enough to show some of the more intricate details).<\/p>\n

When we attended the 2005 convention in Glasgow, Shadaughter and I decided to participate in the Masquerade. This worked out well for us because I like to make costumes and she’s a big ol’ ham. She was a cheerleader in high school at the time,* and she was also a big fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/I>,** so she requested a Vampire Cheerleader costume.<\/p>\n

We won in the Best Presentation category, and to our delight her performance turned up on YouTube a few months after the convention. So if you’ve ever wondered what a vampire would cheer about, here you go:<\/p>\n

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(The sound isn’t precisely synched with her movements, which I guess is an artifact of the video transfer.)<\/p>\n

There are a couple of still photos of her outfit in the costume.org gallery here<\/a>. Remind me to tell you some time about frenziedly trying to dye her hair black with Manic Panic in a backstage restroom five minutes before she was due to go on. Next time we enter, I’m bringing Valium.
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\n*Yeah. She’s a cheerleader and pink is her favorite color. The apple couldn’t have fallen any further from the tree if it was rocket-propelled.<\/p>\n

**Okay, maybe it didn’t fall that<\/em> far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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