A photography that's meaningfull for me

This photo here is one of my favorite photos, basically cause I like how I look in it (which isn't usual at all) and I'm doing something that I haven't done in many years (and might probably never do again) and made me learn a lot of things that inspire some of my projects nowadays: I'm making cosplay.

This is me! Back in 2016 (I had 19 back then, I'm currently 26), cosplaying Jolyne Cujoh from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in the Anime Expo 2016

Cosplay is getting dressed and acting like a fictional character. It's pretty popular nowadays, but it wasn't that much back in 2016, it was just starting to be something. My friends and I were currently obsessed with "Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken" ("Jojo's Bizarre Adventure"), a manga writen and drawes by Hirohiko Araki. Recently the animated version of the manga concluded in Netflix his 6th arc, called Stone Ocean, but in 2016 Stone Ocean's story was only disponible in manga scans. The protagonist of that arc is the character I'm cosplaying here: Jolyne Cujoh. 

Jolyne Cujoh, protagonist of the 6th arc of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and the only female protagonist in the whole series

That's was both my most hard-working cosplay and my last one: even though I got so many photos and had lots of fun, I inmediately knew that I wasn't cutted up for being a cosplayer. But I did enjoy to act like characters and to dress in special, fictional-like outfits, and the forced exposition made me develop some new skills that's I use a lot till this very day, like being more comfortable with pictures of myself and acting a character in front of many people. 

I still happen to have the wig, but I selled the clothes long time ago. Making cosplay can be pretty expensive if you don't manage to make some money out of it (which is possible), which lend me to stop doing it. But, God knows! Maybe I'll try it again sometime! There are many characters that I like a lot, and that I would totally enjoy to cosplay (Maybe, when I get a little money, I would love to do an Arcane Jinx Cosplay, what do you think?)

It's an important and meaningfull photo for me cause at the time I wasn't that used to photoshoots and stuff, lacked a ton of confidence and didn't even knew how to make up that well. But that didn't stopped me! I really wanted to go in that cosplay, and all my friends were doing matching characters too! It ended up being super fun and we got a lot of photos taken by so many people around the expo.

What about you? Would you cosplay your favorite characters? 

Blog post 3: My favorite Piece of Technology

 Honestly, at the first moment I though I would choose my mobile as the favorite, since it's the device I use the most and the more versatile one, but there is a little device that really is my favorite and that is so important for me. 

Game Boy Advance, my favorite device and my favorite game console

When I was young, I asked my mom for a GameBoy Advance. She couldn't buy it at the time, it was quite expensive and one of the newest Nintendo consoles. I has been a huge fan of Nintendo games my whole life, and the idea of playing in the GBA was just amazing for me. I had like, idk, maybe 6 or 7 years old? I guess so. 

The years passed over and I started growing up. My family has always been very poor, we work a lot and put a lot of effort in what we want to achieve. So I started working with mom and life went over. And then, My 16th birthday arrived. Tbh, I couldn't even remember at all that I asked for a GBA when my mother showed me a little box. The moment I opened it, I felt so happy that I started crying. It was a Game Boy Advance! Right like I wanted it! Even the same color I wanted (I have always loved the purple one). Right under the console inside the box, mom also had a "link cable" (that's used to connect two GBA together) and two games: "Pokemon Emerald" and "Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland". I did played those titles before, cause I used to play in the pc with an emulator, but playing them in the console was a completely different experience. My little sister also received a GBA, so we could play together, and we exchanged tons of pokemon!

In-game footage of Pokemon Emerald

the Pokemon Emerald game catridge is damn pretty, isn't?

Kirby: Nightmare in dreamland's game catridge

In-game footage of Kirby: NiD. 

After "Pokemon Emerald" and "Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland", I managed to get an older title for Game Boy Color (you see, the catridge are pretty much the same for the whole Game Boy line, and they can get crossed. So, If you have a GB game catridge or a GB Color game catridge, they can be played in a GB Advance or even a GB Special! it's pretty comfy!), and I played "Pokemon Crystal", which is by far my favorite from all the Pokemon saga. 

In-game footage of Pokemon Crystal. Exactly in the heart of the Ilex Forest, right in front of the shrine where the legendary pokemon Celebi lives.

The most beautiful catridge I'd ever seen (and played): Pokemon Crystal

Finally, when I got 18, my friends pulled up a surprise birthday party. In that party, one of my best friends gave me a present: "Sonic Advance" and "Sonic Advance 3", two new game catridges! I was so happy and surprised, since this kind of games and accesories had become expensier and rare to find over time. I played those game infinite times! I managed to even get the "100% done" achievement, more than once! 

The Sonic Advance catridge! This saga would have 3 connected games and then, more games with different stories

The Sonic Advance 3 catridge, so fun to play!

Sonic will always be one of my favorite games and half my childhood (The other half is Pokemon)

Even now, with 26 years old, I still play my old catridges in my pretty GBA. It's true that there are better devices, more comfortable and all, but I really enjoy the experience of playing in it, it's my favorite device so far.   

The whole Game Boy line. 

That's it! Did you played with this old consoles once? I'm reading you in the comments! ☆