At long last, here they are. Introducing the Boston Kokonventioneers…
Now identified as (left to right): Electros, Armada, RoseQuartz, MissSwann, Sequoia, Bookworm, and SudoRandom
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Cool! Who is who? I think I recognize Armada, electros, Sequoia and MissSwann, but I’m not sure.
Here’s what everyone is wearing/looks like:
Me: pink hope t-shirt, long blonde hair
MissSwann: brown Srg. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band tee, long blonde hair
Armada: Green HPB shirt, short brown hair
electros: all black, black hair, glasses
Bookworm: brown hair in a braid, pink pants, striped long sleeved tee
SudoRandom: long brown hair, black HPB/flamablamablous tee, pink pants
RoseQuartz: black pants, white tee, purple sweater, brown hair in a braid
Hope that helps!
Wierd, nobody looks at all like I’d pictured them.
Sthweet. I don’t recognize anyone.
Not recognize as in have seen them before, but I presume that the boy on the far left is electros, e.t.c.
Woooow. I don’t recognize anybody. Daaaang.
Awesome!
awww you’re all so cute
that was my reaction too.
Gaah! Wherefore are we ‘cute’?????
*shrugs* I see cute. Cuteness all around. Cute everywhere. How old are y’all?
Honestly, it kicks in my motherly instincts.
-A
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *kicks head in* (gradster’s head, not mine)
*dodges* But seriously, actually, how old are y’all?
-A
We’re all twelve, except for Bookworm and electros, who are thirteen, and RQ, who’s fourteen. I’ll be thirteen at the next kokon, though! *feels little-kiddy just for saying that*
I never imagined Armada as having that hair color.
Do I look like anyone imagined me to? I know I didn’t imagine RQ, Bookworm, or SudoRandom the way they actually looked.
Actually, you’re the only one who looks anything like I imagined you!
Everyone was a big surprise for me-I don’t think I really pictured anyone as they were. Except for maybe electros…
Yeah, you are the one that actually looks like I imagined…..
I
Should
Have
Gone.
I
Will
Go
Next
Year.
Meh. I’m so unphotogenic. Oh, and BTW, you can’t tell, but the back of my shirt says ‘FIGHT THE BUNNIES’.
2, 3- Well, why would you? You don’t live anywhere near us, why would you have seen us before?
5-
I guess I’ll take that as a compliment…
6- Let me guess. You imagined me with red/orange hair. It seems like everyone on MB does… I wonder if it has to do with my BA character’s looks, or if it’s just the color people visualize Armada as.
7- You looked pretty much like I imagined you…maybe skinnier. I didn’t imagine RQ as having hair that curly, or SudoRandom as being that short with hair that long, ditto for Bookworm, and I kind of imagined MS…blonder….
Electros looked pretty much how I imagine him, though.
7.2-
Yeah. Electros is like that.
8- Why didn’t you come this year? You should have come! We’ll be really happy to have you come next year…maybe we’ll have another kokon in the fall or something. I’ll probably kokon with Bookworm and Brendan sooner than that, since I live pretty close to them, so if you live….well, anyway, let me just ask you: Boston area or Western Mass? (And yes, GAPAs, you can snip that if you feel the need to.)
I think you can see the back of your shirt in one of the pictures.
Yeah, but you can’t read it. At least I can’t.
Yes, in the fall would be GREAT. How about the week of Labor Day? (Just a suggestion)
I’m pretty sure that works for us….Would Boston work for you? RQ probably wouldn’t be able to come again (
), but everybody else is close enough, anyway…
Hey, maybe you guys could visit New York State sometime! And besides, we go to Boston pretty much every summer, so we could Kokon again then.
Oh, great! And it’s possible that we could visit New York, though admittedly not very likely….
We’re only about 4-6 hours away from you. I’m not sure which though.
You’re probably about 5 hours away. I don’t know how my parents would feel about that, though….but if we go to NY to go camping or something I’ll try to convince them to stick some kokoning time in.
Yeah, I
live outside of Bostoncan see it from a hill near my house. I could come in the week of Labor day, or this week.This week as in…this actual week? I think Labor Day works better for everyone, probably.
I’m not allowed to post whether we can or not, but my dad is saying “only if it’s a few people”
As in, not many people, or as in, more than one other person?
One family, I think.
Oh… That’s rather suckish. Maybe all the kokoners but you could meet up somewhere else, carpool, and pretend to be one family to meet your dad.
Actually, I pictured you having blond hair, and I thought it would be really long, not short. (Although I have to say, I think that short style really suits you!!)
Also, like you, I didn’t picture SudoRandom or Bookworm that short. As for Miss Swann, I guess…I don’t think I ever pictured her in a certain way, but it wasn’t the way she really looks like, that’s for sure.
Whoops! I think I might not have deleted that picture in the email… one of the ones in there is me and my dad in front of MIT, right before the Kokon. Sorry!
It’s great to see you guys. And I like that in the top photo Bookworm is true to
herhis name — reading a book.(Pssst! Rosanne, HIS name. JSYK).
Oh, marvelous! I’m making a weird expression in every pic! Except for the one with myself and Sequoia… remember, those are girls who are pretty much EXACTLY the same age, save the 6 hours older that I am. *smug*
His, actually.
ACK. Sorry about that Bookworm! I think it’s the pink that threw me. Nearly 50 years of socialization that pink = girl is apparently hard for me to shake. And after effects of bunnification don’t help either.
Thanks for the correction, MissSwann and RoseQuartz.
It’s Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones. I told Bookworm that fireandhemlock would probably appreciate that.
And MS, you are not making a weird expression in every picture. You want to see weird expressions in every pic, look at me. I’ve said this before, I’m really unphotogenic.
haha thanks! sorry that I haven’t been on for a while, just got back from DC last night. It was cool, except for the metro crash first day of piano camp and Michael Jackson and Farrah dying the last day.
:O it was a weird week………… Made some good friends, learned some stuff, etc, tho!
Wow, cool! Which ones are you?
Kiga, please read the thread before asking that.
No one looks at all like I’d pictured them. It’s great to see you guys, though! What are the letters in the bottom picture made of?
Magnetic beads on a chain. They’re really fun to play with!
We made an HPB too, but the GAPAs didn’t post the pic for some reason…
You can see an HPB in progress in the background on the right. The solo photos showed more flash reflection than HPB and it was much more time-consuming to remove than the reflections in the other pictures. I figured there’d already been enough of a delay.
Oh, ‘kay. Will you post it at some point? Just asking.
Armada. Is. Tall. Really tall. And her hair is much shorter and darker than I would have supposed.
RoseQuartz is baffling because while nothing about her is something that would have surprised me, as a whole she is very surprising.
Sequoia and MissSwann look pretty much like I imagined, although MissSwann is taller and older-looking than I thought.
Bookworm is no shorter than I imagined him, but his hair is darker and longer and I always thought of him with glasses–round ones, and a faintly surprised expression.
SudoRandom is very short and has very long hair–the latter is more surprising than the former.
I’m not entirely sure what you mean… was that supposed to be a compliment?
Not particularly, but it wasn’t meant as an insult either. Merely an observation. I don’t know.
It’s hard to connect the pictures with the posts. Argh.
Yes, I am, aren’t I… But MS is actually something like two inches taller than me. I just look taller in the photos because of the perspective.
And I know what you mean about people equaling blog posts…. though actually, most of the photos of people on the blog are pretty much how I imagined them, except for the SoCal kokoners and these ones.
I actually wasn’t too surprised with Sudorandom and Rosequartz. Armada I was shocked with (imagined her a TON shorter), Sequoia I’ve known from birth, no surprises there, Bookworm I always imagined taller (and blonde for some reason). Electros I didn’t really know, so no big surprises.
Those are really not the best pictures of me at all, but Sequoia looks gud. ^.^
15- Aw, thanks! I think you looked fine!
Armada’s hair was shorter than I though it would be, but I already knew it was short. She didn’t surprise me much.
The only thing about RoseQuartz that I imagined (that was true) was that she had brown hair. She was a big surprise!
I’ve never seen electros posts, (actually, I had no clue who he was!) so I wasn’t expecting anything.
Both SudoRandom and Bookworm surprised me. SudoRandom looked nothing like I imagined him, but I imagined Bookworm’s hair as brown.
No surprises with MissSwann, known her since the day I was born.
12.1. Okay, forget I asked.
Kiga, I’ve added names to the picture at the top so they’re easier to find.
Thanks. It is easier now, and you all look great. But really, I didn’t need to say that. It was just something to say. I do that a lot on impulses. Sorry again. I’ll try and read things before jumping in now.
FYI, SudoRandom is a he.
And yeah, I know. I thought he was Sequoia at first.
Don’t feel bad. I only knew he was a boy because his mom emailed his name to the other kokonvening parents. Otherwise I would have thought he was a girl too.
Nobody looks anything like how I picture them.
19.1- You thought SudoRandom was me? Well, I can see how you would think that.
Yeah, I did.
Look, my picture of him in my head was just not like that at all, and when I first saw him I didn’t even consider the possibility that he was a boy. Since I knew MS was 5’8″ and RoseQuartz had darker brown hair, you were the only person I thought he could be.
Wait……SudoRandom and Bookworm are both male but they’re both wearing pink and have long hair? Okay, cool. Just slightly confused.
I love mine. [/randomness]
SudoRandom appears to have the same pair of shoes as I do; lime green Keen sandals.
Anyway, it looks like fun you guys!
Everyone looks nice, though not exactly what I imagined. I always thought Armada would have longer short hair, if that makes sense. But wait, Armada is wearing jeans! I thought she said somewhere she never did?
MissSwann looks a bit taller and thinner than I thought, I don’t know, I always pictured her as shorter and, not plump, but roundy body type with dark hair a little shorter.
RoseQuartz I always thought would be tall, willow thin, pale pink skin and white blonde hair that almost appears pink and wearing light and floaty clothing.
No offense to but I had no guesses for appearance of anyone else.
Yes indeed, they are. There was much confusion over that.
I have never worn jeans before this spring. I got tired of sweatpants.
SWEATPANTS?! *falls over laughing*
Ok, are you like my “little bro” Andrew, (whom I just call that) who up to sometime last year always wore sweatpants and a sweater (unless we went swimming……..) I mean, even in the middle of summer! I wish I had been there to see him wear a t-shirt and shorts, though……… (his older bro, Nick, my bf that I’ve known since kindergarten told me about it.) Are you?
No, not really. I just had trouble finding jeans that would fit me, because I was sort of overweight until this year, so I didn’t wear them. I have also had my fashion sense gland surgically removed at a young age.
Me too! I just wore other pants. I don’t even know what to classify them as. Cargo pants? I was really fond of those. And shorts, actually. But never jeans until this spring.
-A
22.1~ Ah, now I see. I can imagine the confusion…..
Wee! The pictures are up.
22- You like our pink pants and flamablamablous hair? I was just at a summer camp *is back(squee!)* and everybody loved my hair.
About “en”- I was discussing God with someone and automatically used “en” instead of him/her. Then I realized no-one else would know what I was talking about. I met a Muser there, though.
24~ Yes, I do. You both look great.
Did you know each other before or were the pink pants coincidental?
Nice shoes, by the way.
Totally coincidental. I actually forgot that I had pink pants on.
I ♥ my shoes.
24- Who was the Muser you met?
Not a blogger.
Wow, it looks like it was an awesome Kokonvention and everyone had a lot of fun! As usual, some people look somewhat as I imagined them, while some are significantly different. Everybody looks great, though!
And this includes you, darling!
27~ Yes, now you actually get to see your charming bride!
Oh my bunnies- nothing what I thought they looked like. I’m not entirely sure about the gender of some of them from that picture, either. Electros and MissSwan look something like I thought they would, but otherwise…
Everyone is a girl except for electros, (you know who he is,) Me, (in the black t-shirt with a hot pink bunny on it and pink sweatpants) and Bookworm, (pink pants and pink striped shirt). Everybody else is a girl.
I really want to go to a kokonvention! Are there any in North Carolina? If so, do you know where and when they are?
Well, Lady Bunniful lives there.
I think Tesseract lives in NC……(?) I know I saw that someone did…… *can’t remember*
Are there regular Kokonventions? Where?
I ask again, as well – does anyone live near Vermont?
Third thing: My parents are more likely to let me go if 1. I bring a friend or 2. There are more than four people involved.
I can’t wait already, and there’s nothing planned. Nor will there be, most likely.
-A
Is Boston close enough for you? We’re planning something for Labor Day week.
If it isn’t…I could maybe make Vermont. If I’m not too cute for you.
Not nearly. You can’t have too much cute! And that would be wonderful; I very much doubt I’d be allowed to go to Boston.
-A
Oh, I’m so sorry, Armada! I just read the Rants and Complaints thread… I didn’t mean cute like that; I’m sorry!
I meant cute… Endearingly. I in no way meant to put you down like that. I call my friends cute as equals – that sort of thing. <3 Sorry!
-A
Ah, ‘s’okay. I just get called cute a lot, and it gets to be sort of annoying. Cute as an equal is fine, it’s cute as in ‘oh, look at all the cute little kokoners!’ which gets to me. I mean, you’re four years older than me, you’re justified in feeling that way if you want to, but… anyway. It’s fine.
Judging from her photograph, I’m not sure I’d call Armada cute. I’d probably say something more like “formidable.” She does know capoeira, after all.
New Hampshire. In England.
Just kidding, in America.
New Hampshire. In England.
Just kidding, in America. But it might as well be that far away.
Hey, we might be going there this summer! I’ll let you know.
That’d be awesome! I’d love to meet you (Tu y uds.).
-A
Very true… Perhaps we could meet somewhere closer to you.
-A
So, do we have an almost-plan? How does one go about this, anyway?
-A
So…let’s see, what’s our almost-plan? We obviously need to kokon somewhere in either Vermont or NH, so we can all get there. The exact place, in the end, may be decided by where RQ is going, if she comes. It’s possible that MS and Sequoia may be able to come, depending on where it happens.
Are you in upper Vermont or lower? (And same for you, JW. I mean same for New Hampshire.) I’m in a part of MA pretty close to Vermont, and also close to some parts of NH. I really don’t know where the points of interest are in either VT or NH, so that’s up to you and JW, I guess.
Does this sound like a good almost-plan? It’s as specific as we’re going to get on the blog, I think…
Wow, three kokons this summer. *head spins* I’m not sure how my parents are going to feel about this….
You’ve already said as much as you’re allowed to on the blog. Next, all parents involved e-mail the GAPAs, and we send them all one another’s e-mail addresses. They take it from there.
After it’s all over, we post photographs (with parental permission).
We’re big on parents around here.
Mmm… I had noticed.
Hold up – they take it from there? I thought they would then put us all in contact with each other…
What if they don’t know what we want to do? I’m fairly sure mine don’t even know Museblog exists.
-A
No, I think we’re technically not supposed to be in contact with each other off the blog at all, though it’s standard practice, as far as I know, to collect each others’ email addresses at the kokons so people can stay in touch. Once our parents have each others’ addresses I suppose the GAPAs couldn’t stop them from emailing each other our addresses….but I’m probably going to get snipped for even saying that. Sorry, GAPAs.
Um…you might want to tell them about MB and kokons ect. a few days before you bring up wanting to kokon yourself. That’s my advice for all potential kokoners whose parents don’t know about MB.
Wait… SudoRandom is a GIRL?! O_o
No… and I quote: “FYI, SudoRandom is a he.”
No, he just has long hair. Ditto for Bookworm. And I’m a girl. Confusing, yes, I know.
OK, don’t bother coming to NH. My parents won’t let me, I live pretty far away from everything, and I’m really busy the rest of the summer with getting ready for high school.
Aw.
Maybe next year you can persuade them?
Okay, look. I have read many comments from Rq and Armada about looking dorky in photographs, but I have yet to see a photo that tops my dorkiness in the second group photo in the third row of pictures from the top. I that made any sense. (And for the record, you haven’t seen bad photos until you’ve seen some of my brother. he has a curse.)
Aw, whaddaya mean? That’s a fine picture of you.
Put it this way: there’s a reason why I haven’t bought a school photo in years. I always look horrible. I think it’s a common curse…
Yeah….it’s just unphotogenicity. And most people don’t look nearly as bad in pictures as they think they do. Really.
Woohoo! You can still post on this thing! OK, this is a PoPo. But Armada looks really grouchy in one of the pictures