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you rock Yulia!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yulia
I clearly need to redo this everyone wrote great big things and I looked back and realized I uncharacteristically wrote like 2 sentences lol
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I do quite a bit of things and will be starting more next year.
I larp, from fantasy to scifi and to horror. I do Lorien Trust and a few smaller larps mostly I crew the smaller ones, I quite like crewing larps. Next year I hope to start photographing various larps too.
I reenact, I'm in a medieval group training to be a fighter. At the moment I'm training in axe and a knife but hope to learn various other weaponry. I'm also starting in a WW2 group where I hope to get an ATS uniform and a nurses uniform. I'm also a newbie for the SCA, hopefully have a tudor dress and maybe a viking dress one day.
I sing in a sea shanty group, who happen to dress like pirates. We do it for charity, and it's been amazing fun. For other charity work I'm a fledgling member for the 501st Legion where I'm planning on Darth Nilihus, maybe one day a Jedi.
I'm also a furry :P and a massive gamer.
Well that's all for now, I'm sure end of next year I'll be adding new interests and hobbies to my list of things.
Okay, I wanted to re-do mine :) because you all put in so much work
Sometimes, when I'm not a Mer. I'm a teacher. Teaching work is scarce around here, so it's not an *always* thing. I don't usually tell my students I'm a mermaid until the last day of classes, because depending on the school it can become a conflict of interest. Here's a grade 5 class of mine from a few years ago finding out I'm a mermaid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZyXIEEA2g8
I also love Karaoke... haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyZU6sNPSLY
I play the sims 3 a lot, though it's so buggy these days I've sort of given up. I bought the expansion with mermaids and it's pretty much unusable
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I play guitar and sing, I've been in bands, and before mermaiding took off for me, it was my life. I admittedly don't have much time for it these days and miss it a lot. But it's hard to do mermaid gigs during the day and music gigs at night.
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I've also done artistic and commercial modelling for a decade now. (which freaks me out when I think about how long it's been!) a lot of modelling I do currently ends up being mermaid related, but I tend to get in 1 commercial shoot and 1 art shoot at least a year that's not mermaid related. Again, once mermaiding took over my life this stuff sorta got pushed to the back. But i'm proud of all I've accomplished and have quite a few publications under my belt :)
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I also do professional photography. I sell prints and stock online, and do the occasional wedding and family portraits etc. Haha and you guessed it! I don't get to do it as much because I'm so busy as a mermaid, but here's a few shots! I've been at it for a decade and I actually started with film, so there's a mix of film and digital here
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Honestly, I wish I could say I had a life outside of being a mermaid but it has sorta taken over every aspect of mine, haha. Which I'm totally okay with for now ;)
the clip with your students was so amazing! I know they will all love YOU from now on! :D
Oh man I am so jealous. Little kids are so fantastic. I mention sometimes to my high schoolers that I have a mermaid tail, but I wouldn't dare show them a video. It is so hard to keep high schoolers under control these days (I don't know how it is in Canada, but in America kids at good schools tell teachers to fuck off and try to publically humiliate them in class and nothing happens. We have to allow them as many chances as it takes to makeup failed work and there is no form of punishment that makes an impact. I am afraid if I ever showed them my mermaid side that I would either lose respect of be sexualized by the teenaged boys (who already do this to all young pretty teachers). I wouldn't really want to teach elementary, but I am jealous of their innocence and the way they get so excited over things.
I wish you were my teacher, Raina :)
I am a student. I do some volunteering at a local botanical gardens and spend a lot of time exploring my city. I actually force myself to get lost because then I find I discover things that are not on the main drive like my towns first fire station. I also spend a lot of time working on cosplay related stuff and things relating to science and transportation and mermaids. And of course I spend time on various forums dedicated to various subjects
When I'm not a mer I'm a faun :D
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I have a degree in Contemporary Art (Majoring in Visual Art and Photography). I am an artist and do a bit of everything. I used to prefer to do conceptual gallery stuff but I recently started painting mermaid themed things and people are buying them! Now I'm dabbling a bit more in performance. Mostly paint and sculpt but also do textile work.
Mermaid Amelia and I met doing the same degree and this is how we started to do mermaidy stuff together! And now we are a duo!
I also work in the Theatre as an Usher. I get to meet lots of creatives, dancers, performers, musicians, actors etc. It is an old style edwardian theatre that is over 100 years old so it is so beautiful to work there. I get to watch the ballets and the opera. It is wonderful.
And now being a mermaid is starting to become my job too! And being in the theatre, a mermaid and an artist seem to go so well together. Things are really coming together for me after a couple of years of struggling with my health!
So glad I found mermaiding and so glad I found this forum!
I also do a bit of cosplay and steampunky stuff ;)
When I am not a mermaid? What do you mean? I am always a mermaid. I am very adept at wearing a human costume... is that what you are looking for? Well, I wont get into my human-leg costume business, as I am going to start selling legs to mermaid so they can blend in easier and achieve their dreams of being "Part of Your World," but I will share other things about myself.
Really though, this is just a better and more complete answer than I gave before:
I have my master's degree in Art Therapy Counseling. I graduated from grad school in 2012 and have been since working at a locked 16-bed crisis unit for persons with mental illness (they come to use due to wanting to kill themselves or having been off their medications and being unable to pay for them due to various reasons. We patch them up and send them out connected to resources in the community to help them be stable again.) While the work is something that gets me praise and can be fulfilling, I do not think that it is really for me. I have considered going back to school for graphic design, but I already have the bachelor's in Fine Arts, though my focus was painting. Either way, I'm a little lost in that area and floundering.
I like to attend Anime / Video Game conventions. I cosplay, and my two main costumes at the moment are Rapunzel and Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite. I am working on a third costume, Elizabeth in her blue and corset dress. I am hoping to wear that one to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this year. Really, any excuse I can get to dress up I will take.
I enjoy making costumes (though the Elizabeth one I bought as I try to also support other artists out there), and I have a habit of making expensive things for the sake of "Oooh! I want that!" then being offered money to make additional ones and being like "Nope." I really need to say yes one of these days. Case-in-point: My Rapunzel Tiara and my Magic Flower.
Which is a perfect segway into my (unhealthy) collection of Rapunzel items. I don't run out and buy everything that has Rapunzel's face on it, but I do have some things that are more hard to find or interesting. I have both the Tonner dolls (Rapunzel and Tangled,) all three 17 inch collector's dolls (including Mother Gothel and 2 versions of the wedding doll; one to keep as is for collector purposes and one to reroot her hair and fix that ghastly haircut,), the three design dolls, and some dolls I have 2 copies of because I got the European box sets that were different in product and box design. Let's not get started on the pins... oh, all those Rapunzel pins... I actually have a blog all about this stuff, which is in need up updating.
I love being crafty and making things, as if you could not guess. I also love dolls and try to make dolls occasionally that reflect something I love. I took a Pullip doll and transformed her into my World of Warcraft Night Elf Priestess Nehalennia. I also make crochet mermaid dolls, other dolls and items, and am thinking about making some more cloth mermaid dolls and offering them up for sale.
As you may have guessed from the previous paragraph, I'm a gamer. Not only do I play World of Warcraft (and I'm a roleplayer too, so I'm all kinds of nerdy!) but I also am a complete fangirl for Portal 1, Portal 2, the Bioshock Series (though I could rant about how Burial At Sea -should- have ended all day,) and other games here and there.
I have a desire to grow my hair to the ground. This has nothing to do with Tangled, actually, as I have been working on this goal since I was in my mid teens. I used to have really long hair as a little girl, then it was cut off by my aunt without my mother's permission. I kept it short for a long time since it was "hip," but after a while I knew what I wanted and have been working on it ever since. I've spent the last 5 years maintaining my current length and finally have grown out the dye.
Finally, the thing I had to give up but I don't know if I ever really gave up. When I got hired at my job full time, I had to leave my bellydance troupe. I've not danced with them in over a year, nor have I gotten to go to any performances. I still have all my costumes, zills, belts, veils, fan veils, and wings in hopes that I can go back some day.
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Recently the pirate group I'm in was on TV, we come in roughly about 7 minutes into it.
I pose as a human...
I'm usually hanging around these guys :P
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The one in the back is my best friend/brother and the crazy one beside me is my boyfriend. :) we were headed to Sakura-con, I was cosplaying Ariel
Which brings me to the next one, I cosplay a lot (both anime and Disney).
I'm an archer, I love archery and it's been in the family for a while (my grandfather used to compete).
I used to volunteer at an animal shelter and do beach clean ups.
I also love to act. I used to act on sets in L.A., mainly backgrounds and auditions, but landed a few minor parts in things such as My Name is Earl, Worlds Most Astonishing News (a japanese TV show), Big Bang Theory and a Microsoft informercial. Most of my on set acting was mainly from when I was younger and school wasn't so hectic. I used to be into dance for a little while as well and did Tap, Jazz, and Ballet.
Now I'm just a full-time university student studying film production, a friend and I want to make a mermaid movie someday and are currently trying to work on the book of it. I also love to write stories, I write almost every chance I get. I love to play video games or play with my pet rats on the weekends when I'm not a work and most of the time, I actually don't have the time or money to do anything else.
Also, this is my sister :) She's currently pregnant, so I'm going to be an auntie to a new nephew soon! :D
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