june 6, 2019
Art by Julia Sidorenko
“You must tell yourself, ‘No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.”
— Les Brown
Sakura Sunday 2025
It was so nice this year. We finally got pink trees after like 3 years. the past couple of years the trees have bloomed 2 months before the fest,so all the tress would be green instead lol. I love regular trees, but something bout that pink on trees, it's like they're dressing up for us, so pretty. I was so happy to be surrounded by pink trees that I started walking while looking upward at the trees lmao. my siblings kept walking away from me.
The weather was not so great, it rained most of the day. the sun never came out sob 😫. We also didn't see any cosplayers, but i assume its because we left early.
We got to see the Taiko drums performance which is always great. I got almost sentimental thinking about how I have been going to the festival since I was in high school. Back then it was so niche and not as packed. I miss that lol. I use to volunteer with my classmates and goof around making origami 🎏🎐🏮and calligraphy🖌. Then we would walk around window shopping because we were broke teens lol. The Taiko performance would have like 10 drummers and last an hour long, and we could meet and talk to the performers after the show. lmao I am going down memory lane.
But this year was really fun. We started a little tradition where we sit under a tree and eat lunch.We realized how unprepared we were this year. Our blanket was to small and the ground was cool from the morning rain. But we made it work and the food was really good. We sat under a pink tree and petals kept falling on to us and our food🍡, I think we ate some lmao. One fell on my nose at one point. It was dreamy.✨🌈Next year we have to bring a bigger blanket lol and maybe bubbles, that would be fun. 🪁🔮
I also spent way to much money lmao, I was so sad, I gave myself a budget of 200 and I spent most of it on merch and TGCF, always TGCF 😫. The artist alley was small this time but I managed to get some small artist goods. I love buying from artist lol. I was so excited to get home and decorate my desk with the goods lol. I got that Buu plushie, to me it's a rare find lmao, Buu is my absolute fave from DBZ, him and Shin. and Vegeta lol. and Piccolo. and Bulma. and everyone else lol.
The gloomy ☁☁ weather really zapped our energy. On are way out of the fest it rained on us lol, just light drizzle. We were zombies by the time we got home.
~sigh I really rambled in this one.
The small business art is by LiangArts
Zimmermann ‘Luminosity’ fall 2023
a draft from 2016 (i need this)
by astrailor_jp