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Welcome to the New
Space Dock 13!
Helping Authors Write Weird, Bizarre, Absurd, Psychedelic Horror-Fantasy Since 1996!
(We've Moved & Changed URLs; Space Dock 13 is now EelKat.com)
(We are also novel-writing-tips.com, a-pink-unicorn.com, & of course are still SpaceDock13.com)
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Want To Meet EelKat and
The Dazzling Razzberry (Autism Awareness Car)
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Who is Avallac'h?
This is Avallac'h
(Note, this character comes from an "adult entertainment" video game Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, and you must be 18 or older to buy the game. Assume all videos and pages featuring Avallac'h are NSFW. This guy's a major pervert)
FAQs:
Yes, you can take pictures.
You don't have to ask to take pictures of the car,
but please ask first before taking pictures of me.
No, I'm not an actor, I do not do the masquerades. No interest in such things.
No, I will not join your group in a skit. I don't do skits. Sorry, I Just don't do them.
No, I do not enter the workmanship contests - I am a professional seamstress,
with a college degree in theatrical costume making and pattern design
and do not qualify to enter such events.
I am also driven by my love for the characters, not winning prizes
and have no incentive to enter such things.
While I'm not doing an official book signing at PortCon, you are more then welcome to bring books for signing,
and if you catch me in the hall, I'll be more than happy to sign them for you.
Thank you!
PortCon takes place in 4 separate buildings: the 2 DoubleTree towers, at the Maine Mall across the street, and starting in 2018, now also in the new Hilton building next door to the two towers.
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I will be there at all days of the event.
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Changes DoubleTree Hilton Hotel Made Because of My Injury At PortConMaine2017 - Handicapped CosPlayers - Avallac'h CosPlay - On Being a Handicapped CosPlayer |
In case you forgot or didn't know, I am OtherKin, ElfKin to be exact, I'm what is known as Genderfluid TransSpecies, a type of Transgender, and this is an Elf, and likely an Elf you will see me, fully "evolve" into, over the next 2 or 3 years. Though born a female Human, I've not identified as either female or a Human since I was 12. |
IMPORTANT NOTE:
PortCon is the ONLY convention I will be at in 2018!
I have been CosPlaying since 1987, 2018 is my 31st year as a CosPlayer. In that time I've done 200+ costumes and usually am seen at as many as 12 events each summer. I know, you usually expect to see me at lots of events throughout the year, however, I've been doing this for 31 years now, and both my age and my health are preventing me from being very active of late.
I have arthritis, hip dysplasia, Parkinson's Disease, Autism (Kanner's Syndrome), PTSD, have 3 ruptured discs in my spine, am blind in one eye and fast going blind in my other eye, am deaf in one ear and can not hear well in the other, and since being attacked by a stalker who left me paralyzed for 5 months and 18 months relearning to walk, I'm now on a cane. My health is not good of late and I am no longer able to make full season of event runs. While I have no plans to retire from CosPlaying, I will be doing far fewer events than you saw me doing in the past.
Since 2013, I've only CosPlayed disabled/crippled characters who use a cane or staff to walk, thus allowing me to incorporate my cane into the CosPlay. That is the case this year. The character Avallac'h is both elderly and crippled and that is why I picked him to CosPlay. The Avallac'h CosPlay includes a staff, which will be replacing my cane.
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE STAFF!
It is NOT a prop!
This is an ACTUAL MEDICAL GRADE staff
that I have had custom made for this costume.
I know people like to touch my extremely elaborate, over the top CosPlays, but please be aware,
I am EXTREMELY CRIPPLED and RELY HEAVILY on the cane to be able to walk.
The staff you will see with this costume is real, and I CAN NOT walk without it.
(If you didn't know I am a senior citizen, I'm not sure why, but most people tend to think I'm some 20 to 30 years younger then I actually am, but, yes, I'm old enough to be your grandmother, in fact, you're grandmother is probably younger than me. I seem to be older then most of my fans' grans these days. I does get tiring, young kids in their 30s walking up to me and saying "Gee I wish I was young like you, I'd date you." You're in your 30s, that's means you're a child to me. I was YOUR age back in the 1970s - 40 years ago.)
*sigh*
The emails I'm getting this past week, have made it necessary to add this notation:
No, I will not make a Witcher character costume for you for free and you likely can't afford to hire me to make one for you either.
These movie-set quality costumes cost several thousand dollars and 400+ hours to make,
with the standard dressmaking cost being $25 an hour + 3 times cost of materials,
while it is costing me around $3,000 in materials to make this, you've not counted in the time it took and the cost per hour I would charge you.
$3,000 x 3 + ($25 x 400hr) = $13,000.
You are looking at around $13,000 to hire me to make this Avallac'h costume on this level of craftsmanship for you.
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2018 April/May/June Update:
As you know, most of the year I publish 2 to 3 articles a day.
However, every year during convention season, I take a break from that to go full swing CosPlay.
From early April 2018 to late June 2018, article posting schedule will be sporadic, while CosPlay Season and Convention events are going full swing.
During this time period, you can expect most, possible all new articles to be focused on costume making, CosPlay, and the characters I'm CosPlaying.
UPDATE: It's now divided into 7 pages. The primary page "Meet Avallach" is now over 20,000 words long. At this rate, it'll cross 60,000 long before the costume is finished, and that's not including the other 5 pages. The primary page has now crossed 60,000 words and counting, the whole set of Avallac'h pages are now more than 200,000 words long, and more then 500 pictures of Avallac'h and his friends have now been uploaded on these pages, plus there are now 400+ hour-long videos f the costume making process as we record live, every second of this insanely elaborate, over the top CosPlay project.
As of May 19, just 29 days to PortCon we are embroidering his blue coat in a countdown against the clock to finish in time for the event, while we pray that The Dazzling Razzberry will be re-weilded back together and drivable in time for PortCon, after it's recent vandalism by Old Orchard Beach's ever growing Ku Klux Klan problem.
There will still be daily updates, but the BULK of the daily updates will be limited to the pages linked here:
- The Avallac'h CosPlay: Who is Avallac'h?
- Obsession: Meet Avallac'h
- [NSFW] Avallac'h & His Nude Women | Witcher 3 Game Screenshots
- Historical Accuracy vs Avallac'h (to go live later this summer)
- The Avallac'h CosPlay Costume Making Vlogs (will go live AFTER finishing the costume)
- How To Make The Avallac'h CosPlay (will go live AFTER PortCon)
- How Much Did It Cost? ($800+ will run to around $3,000) Budgeting The Avallac'h CosPlay (eing written as the costume is being made, will go live after completion of the costume)
- Why do children CosPlay rapists & rape victims? & WHY Avallac'h is a M18+ character.
- PortConMaine 2018
- On Being a Handicapped CosPlayer: A Look At Events of PortConMaine 2017 That Resulted In 3 Disabled CosPlayers Getting hurt at The Convention and How These Things Could Have Been Avoided
13 Black Cats:
About Us
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EelKat Wendy Christine Allen, owner of 13 Black Cats, with 12 year old Chihuahua, Marcy.Eelkat is the current reigning Queen of the Scottish Gypsy Clan of Old Orchard Beach (the Gypsy clan which was featured in Stephen King's The Thinner.) She is a Voodoo Priestess rank of Medsen Fey, Marji Loa to Dambala Weddo.
How long you have been running your online shop? Why did you start it?
I started my first website (Space Dock 13) in 1997. Now in 2016 and that site have 6,000+ pages. You can see it HERE.
In 2004, I added my first online store Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts, which is still online and now had more then 20,000 products. This shop features all art, paintings, drawings, and photography by me.
In 2005 I joined eBay and Amazon as a seller of used books. It was not a business I made money on, as I bought way more books then I sold and quickly discovered I could not bring myself to sell any of the books once I had bought them. I stopped selling books, but continued to buy them at a rate of about 200 books a week. Then I found out I could buy them bulk by the pound. Today I have two world records: the most Historical Romance novels in a private collection (8,000+) and the most Disney Duck comic books owned by a single person (10,000+), and at 300,000 books in my current collection, I'm fast closing in on a third world record: the most books owned by a single person.
In 2006, I started The Rabbit Hole. The idea never got off due to lack of start up funds. It had a Zazzle shop to raise money for the project but, never raised enough money to see the vision brought to life. The original plan, was to start a Gothic & Pagan CosPlay shop with an Alice in Wonderland theme, to be opened in the Arts district in Downtown Portland, Maine. At the time, rent for a tiny hole in the wall store front in this area, was going to cost $30,000 a month. Inventory for this niche would require $500,000 in start up funds. Market research soon revealed that Portland was not the right location for the project, resulting in changes to the business plan.
October 18, 2006 a grease fryer bomb blew up my house and a string of race & religion-related hate crimes and vandalisms, lead to my putting The Rabbit Hole project on a back burner, as a group from a local radical church marched around town claiming "God" had told them to drive out "witches". Opposition of my starting a Pagan shop in the area lead to my looking into starting an online store instead of a brick & mortar one.
On December 16, 2006, my boyfriend drove up in my driveway to deliver my Christmas present a few days early: a black 1992 Volvo 240 GL that had belonged to the Irish Mafia and was rumoured to be haunted. (I collect haunted items and this would go on to become my trademarked item).
My beautiful Dazzling Razzberry, as it looked in 2010. EelKat & Marcy with The Dazzling Razzberry aka The Autism Awareness Car (with 2.5million marbles glued to it.)Close-up of the marbles on the Razzberry
While I had dabbled in Voodoo off and on since 1983, in 2010, my life saw a dramatic change when I became an ordained minister. My practice of Voodoo, suddenly went from a passing fancy and side line hobby, to become the center of every aspect of my life. I would go on to become a Medsen Fey and Marji Loa to Dambala Weddo. With this new focus on my spiritual path, The Rabbit Hole saw a change in goals. No longer an Alice in Wonderland CosPlay shop, it was now planned to be a Voodoo, Hoodoo, Rootwork, and Pagan Ritual supply shop.
Plans for The Rabbit Hole continued to expand and evolve over the next few years. In 2012, the business plan saw a dramatic change, when an idea to create a private lable direct sales home party business went underway.
February 21, 2012 I bought retired monster truck race car, No Hurry, and set about designing plans to turn her into a travelling storefront. Construction of The Rosebud Reading Room started summer 2012, as the inside of No Hurry was rebuilt into a travelling pagan supply store.
Alan Berry's Pace Car the famous monster truck "No Hurry" as she looked the day I bought her.No Hurry as she looked inside February 2015 - 2 months before the vandalism.
After a year of work, No Hurry's Rosebud Reading Room was unveiled to the public September 2014. Sadly, local religious hysteria struck again in October 2014 when the first of a series of very violent attacks started against my family, my cars, my farm, and then in April 2015, the worst attack yet struck:
On April 10, 2015, I came home to find that vandals had broken into No Hurry, filled her with sewage and feces, three feet deep, smashed up every bit of furnishings, and kidnaped my 13 cats. 10 months and more then $10,000 of work were destroyed by small minded haters in the space of 3 hours.
2015 was spent in a nightmare spiral of trying to locate the kidnapped cats, while simultaneously, gutting and rebuilding ALL OVER AGAIN, The Rosebud Reading Room inside of No Hurry.
Inside No Hurry today:The Rosebud Reading room, inside motorhome, No Hurry.Client reading in progress in No Hurry's Rosebud Reading Room.No Hurry's kitchenClose-up of No Hurry's overhead cabinets. No Hurry's Alice in Wonderland murals.
In October 2015, plans to go forward with The Rabbit Hole Shop resurfaced when an online friend contacted me to share his story of how he was finally able to get his business up and running. Following the information he gave me, I set about contacting suppliers and at long last, The Rabbit Hole finally began to take shape, changing from a pipe dream to a reality.
January 15, 2016 the time had arrived to buy a web domain and after 10 years of planning finally bring The Rabbit Hole to life.
However, when I went to buy the domain, it occurred to me, that The Rabbit Hole name, no longer fitted the vision of the store. While the plan was still for the store to include CosPlay items, it had evolved into a more New Age, Wiccan, Pagan, Hoodoo, Voodoo, Ceremonial Magic theme shop, plus the search for the 10 remaining kidnapped cats goes on.
Now in 2016, 2 cats have been returned, 1 was murdered (her belly gutted and eyes cut out, and left hanging on my door), 2 were beaten and were last known to be in critical condition requiring life long medical treatment, and 10 of the 13 cats remain missing.
In a last minute change of plans, I decided to rename The Rabbit Hole, naming it in memory of my 13 kidnapped cats (most of whom were black), and thus I bought the domain 13BlackCats instead of TheRabbitHole as originally planned.
13 Black Cats officially opened to the public on February 21, 2016
If you have any information about the whereabouts of the 10 kidnapped cats, please contact me.
EelKat's travelling Gypsy Reading Room: former monster truck, turned Gypsy Reading Room: No HurryFront view of No HurryOther side of No Hurry
You can meet EelKat and see The Razzberry and No Hurry in person @ 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
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