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yumemigaoka2024-05-09 07:46 pm
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Happy Dreamerversary!
YUMEMIGAOKA
May is always a dicey time to have an outdoor event in Yumemigaoka but this year it seems like luck's on everyone's side. The morning of the 14th dawns with bright blue skies, beaming sunlight and a refreshing breeze - in other words, the perfect weather for an outdoor festival! As it does every year, the Dreamer Union is hosting its annual celebration of the first Dreamer Awakening now fifty-one whole years ago! Damn! Today's the day the entire community comes together to say happy anniversary, Dreamers!
Part of the DU has been opened to the public for the event - while the upstairs beyond the second floor are still off limits, a number of informational boards with quick and breezy rundowns of the DU's functions and how it supports Dreamers are set up around the atrium and on the second floor. Some are informational, some are educational, and a few have trivia quizzes on them that you can answer at the front desk to get a little token for some free food at the event.
The majority of the setup is outside, though - something between a pop-up market and a festival, with colourful sparkling banners and materials lining each stall. Some are small, independant businesses from around Yumemigaoka, some are larger organizations who sponsor the DU (they've gotta keep the lights on somehow!) and plenty of food and drink vendors. A few indie artists from the community are also selling merch and art catered to their fellow Dreamers, with imagery and in-jokes that wouldn't really mean anything to normal folks.
Some particular stalls to keep an eye out for include...
- ⧖ Dreamery Creamery are serving up scoops of their ice cream in all kinds of crazy flavours with a massive array of toppings and cones for you to choose from. To make things more exciting, Dreamers Sage, Soleil and Prisma are all helping out at the booth and serving ice creams themed after their Dreamer selves! How does Soleil Sorbet sound to you? Maybe Sherbert Sage? Or are you going for Prisma Pomegranate?
⧖ Dice and Dash have a shaded area set up for people to sit down, take a load off and chill out with some board games! They've got a selection of games to borrow, but so long as they're not too busy, you're free to take up a table with your own entertainment if you've got it.
⧖ Dream Weavers, famous for their position as the DU's go-to tailor, is strutting their stuff with recreations of some famous and well known Dreamers' outfits! As well as selling their goods, they're also hosting a little workshop where visitors can learn some quick and simple cosplay and sewing techniques to see how these outfits get made. Dreamers Luck, Gungir and Hanako will all be volunteering and... doing their very best at the cosplay workshop!
⧖ Hybrid Colours is selling portable wares like canvas bags, keychains and postcards of the various prints/paintings available at the gallery! Since they only just arrived at Yumemigaoka, all the locations are international or from other parts of Japan. (Aleena will do face painting or hand painted 'tattoos' for kids, teens, or the daring adult and has a small table set up with a catalogue or 'surprise me!' option for it)
⧖ The Yumemigaoka Cultural Museum has their usual setup! As well as a truncated version of their installation explaining the Dream Sphere and its history, they've set up several dioramas of places in the Dream Sphere, recreated in miniature! There's some moving elements like miniature Torments bobbing around here and there and some cute interactive gimmicks, like a button that will raise and lower the water level in the miniature Vale of Sorrow or a switch to make the volcano in mini Fury Peak go kaboom!
⧖ Finally, a soundstage has been set up just a little ways away from the rest of the stalls with plenty of sitting room for the audience. Dreamer Ai-Doll will be performing a small set of songs partway through the day and the rest of its time will be dedicated to hosting a Q&A panel of a rotating list of volunteers to answer questions about life as a Dreamer or day to day goings on at the DU. Please be aware that both Angelica AND Chloe will kill you if you post cringe on main so be on your best behaviour!
There's lots to do and plenty of time to do it in - the event runs from 10AM and starts wrapping at around 4:30PM so everyone's got time to head home for work the next day. Dreamers will be able to attend the afterparty in the Dream Sphere if they'd like to but for the most part, that's this year's event wrapped up!
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That's a lot of glitter. Like a Queen featuring Adam Lambert-esque amount of glitter. Dang!
She leans down to give him a hair ruffle--that might be slightly closer to a noogie than she intends, at the moment.]
You're not trying to drown yourself in glue, are you? Or huff it to dull the pain? Don't do that. That's not a good idea. Kills brain cells.
[Not that Sam would be much help. She's an advocate of duct tape--if you can't duct it, fuck it...and don't ask about the glue commentary.]
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There's a miserable groan as Sam goes to ruffle his hair, and he lifts his head up, bits of stray thread and sparkles stuck to his cheeks and forehead. A-At least the glitter seemed to be sticking to something?]
Bold of you to assume I still have any brain cells left to kill.
[THE STRUGGLE IS SO REAL HERE, SAM.....]
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[Yeah there might be some serious truth to that statement. Especially considering the source, though Sam doesn't usually go too crazy with getting drunk. Anyway.]
Don't suppose there's anything I could try to do to help? I've got a roll of duct tape and some safety pins, though the latter are really supposed to be decoration for my jacket. Still. Anything to help out a friend.
[Why, no. She's not twisting the knife there. Why would you think that?]
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Was he going to address any of that now, though?
Of course not. This is Amane we're talking about, after all.
So, instead, he's going to sit up a bit straighter, holding out the sparkly disaster in all its inelegant glory for her to see.]
I dunno... anything you can do to make this look less like a sad, glittery garbage bag with sleeves, I guess. But I'm probably asking for miracles here...
[... that was a pretty apt description of it, to be honest, with how formless and droopy the whole thing was. Even the rope on the back was sagging, as if it was too embarrassed to be seen with the rest of the ensemble.]
I mean... there's gotta be a way to at least get the bow to stay upright, right?
[AMANE.... THAT BOW IS THE LEAST OF YOUR PROBLEMS HERE....]
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But there's always later...]
You'd be surprised but...yeah. [It still involves the duct tape, though--mostly using it to strip excess glitter and glue away from the constellations proper. One might think Sam has done something like that before--though it probably doesn't have anything to do with cosplay, unless one wants to count metal attire as cosplay.
Maybe it is. Maybe there's a point to be made, there.]
Okay, how've you got the bow attached? There might actually be a way to get it to stay upright, yeah. Proper sewing or...hell, I don't know what it's called, but there's a fabric way to make things stiffer. I mean you could probably use spray starch in a pinch, too, but normally I don't cosplay, so don't quote me on that, okay?
If not I'll just figure out how to keep it poised with duct tape and safety pins.
[Because that sort of thing has worked for her before, and besides the roll of black duct tape, Sam has big safety pins as accessories on her jacket...]