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11 years ago
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🎃 -- 🎃 -- 🎃 -- 🎃 -- 🎃 -- 🎃 -- 🎃prepare for a LOONG journal. lolol
I was away at my first anime convention and holy hell.. It didn't even feel real to me.
first of all being home is weird in itself, I haven't talked to hardly any of my friends, here or anything because I would just wake up and get ready and be late for the first panel AND GO.
First thing, I did not go in cosplay, I didn't have money to finish my kigurumi (i'll still finish it tho it's still hella cute)
OKAY LETS DO THIS
So Thursday we picked up my friend, Kalie and immediately when she got to my house "ALRIGHT ANIME TIME" and we watched the rest of SAO, Corpse Party, and part of Kill la Kill, we didn't finish it because I had to dye my hair and pack and ya know get ready because whatever episode we were on we left off at like friday and my mom got home early so we just left. and we had no internet and time to finish it. She has no wifi at her house or Netflix..... so she can't watch new anime unless it's on TV.
FRIDAY: like I said my mom got home early and we packed the car and left in like ten minutes, just way too excited. the two hours it took to get there was probably the longest drive but she drove us to the convention since we left at 4, we got there at 6. there was still 2 hours in the vendors hall, and there wasn't really any events going on that we were sUPER INTERESTED in so we just walked around and got the feel for the place.
this is going to take a LONG time to write and I'm like "I NEED TO CHECK ON MY WEBSITES SO I CAN FOCUS ON THIS" I'm probably going to keep this journal (which if you don't know what I'm talking about, I deleted A LOT of my journals because .. ehh I mean it's good to look back and reflect but I just think in my case I try to hold on to things and I become attached to my past and want to recreate it)
ANYWAY we left at like ....I want to say 10 or around that on Friday, we were bored, vendors closed, people were leaving.
I tried to go to sleep hella early, I'm talking like 11:30-12:30 but my aunt WAS SNORING SO FUCKING LOUD. ALL NIGHT. I couldn't sleep or get comfortable because the bed was too comfortable, I have back issues and when I found my current bed, I learned that I have to have a harder bed, not no soft shit.
I probably passed out around 3:30am and woke up at 7:30am. I had to be awake at 8 but I just sat through a half an hour straight of just snoring. My aunt is a big lady, she doesn't take care of herself, and I told her "aunt shell, I could not sleep at all last night because of your crazy loud snoring" and my mom thought I was just being a bitch to her because you can't help that sort of thing but that's something to seriously consider when sharing a room with 3 other people.
OH I completely forgot to mention that I actually bought a few things friday... I couldn't help myself. I got a collar (FINALLY RIGHT?), and a pair of ears that are so fantastically made, a phone charm (friday)
OKAY ANYWAY SATURDAY. We didn't get ready in time to see Japanese pop culture and Hatsune Miku, which we were okay with because we just didn't know where shit was and we were still really tired, we got there at 9:30am OKAY?
We did a Japanese DIY candy demo, like the hamburger, french fry, soda all that stuff kit made from powder and water? I tried that stuff. And it was actually pretty fantastic.
Then after that we met Ian Sinclair, voice of Space Dandy, director of the english Black Butler. When I say we met, we all just sat in a room with this guy and just talked to him about stuff and his voice acting, life, stuff like that. I did not watch Space Dandy, I haven't seen it yet so I knew absolutely nothing in that panel but he was still so nice and weird in all the good ways? Kalie wanted to see him and stuff.
um, after that we basically followed him to the autographs room and there was this HUGE LINE, like we waited an hour to NOT get his autograph. like there was just too many people. It ended up being okay because the person I wanted to see was next so we just waited in the same line, BY THE WAY SHE'S THE VOICE OF NONON JAKUZURE IN THE ENGLISH DUB AND SAYAKA MIKI IN MADOKA MAGICA. SO I WAS EXCITED.
I sat through THE MOST BORING PANEL IN THE ENTIRE WORLD FOR TWO HOURS.
I LOVE lolita, I wanted to learn about it, so I did, I went to a panel and I learned about it for an hour. But the person who was talking was SO UNGODLY BORING BUT I SAT THROUGH BECAUSE I WANTED TO LEARN GODDAMMIT. Plus after that there was a fashion show of some dresses that this local designer has made so WHY NOT STAY?
but she just went on and on and on. "If you like being spooky and black and white, or just black, or navy blue, gothic lolita is for you, if you like living the dark "Oh I gotta go home and feed my bats" gothic lolita is for you" and she did that for the main styles of lolita. which I knew I liked sweet but I guess I JUST LIKE THEM ALL 8D. The "fashion show" meaning basically this girl showed a few dresses off that lasted literally 10 minutes after the panel started was so awkward. I mean it wasn't a waste of my time, it was just.. long.
OKAY. We had time until the next panel and we just walked around, charged our phones, ate. I knew one of my friends was at the convention, so I was freaking out (it's a person I've talked to on and off and recently I sort of I THINK freaked him out (I told him i liked him a few months ago LOL) and he doesn't really talk to me much anymore) BUT I KNEW HE WAS THERE and I didn't exactly know what would happen, i'm actually reliving the emotion and like it's hard to breathe. I sort of have an I don't want to say hyper imagination but it's definitely active and I day dream a lot and they're always so vivid and give mE FEEEEELS.
ANYWAY so I was like thinking oh god is he going to talk to me or am i going to see him.
Sidenote: I think I got home like an hour or two ago SO I WASN'T KIDDING I AM TRYING TO RELIVE MY ENTIRE EXPERIENCE WITH THE HELP OF MY HANDY DANDY SCHEDULE, because I barely remember. I was so tired this weekend, I feel like the whole thing was a dream
I went to an Everything Ghibli panel which was two hours AND MY BUTT AND LEGS HURT SO BAD. This was at 7 BY THE WAY SO UH 9:30 AM TO 7PM IN CREEPERS (platforms) IS HARDCORE, my feet don't hurt either. it was a really quick, funny panel. They talked a little about Hayao Miyazaki's personal life and the other directors, who names I cannot either pronounce or remember. I learned quite a bit actually.
After that we didn't really do a whole lot but hung out. AND I FRIKIN SAW MY FRIEND.. GUY .. PERSON. and I went into full panic mode, I do this if I see someone I know in public and I haven't seen him seen him in two years at warped tour and it was only like "woah I think I saw you" AND I DID IT AGAIN but I don't have his number now compared to back then. (I actually kick myself because I chose my last ex over this guy AND I'M STILL KICKING MYSELF. UGH MY HEART HURTS)
but he was sitting with this mikasa chick the entire time and he was Eren from AoT so I mean it made sense but damn they must have had a lot to talk about. UM i got handed an empty butter dish, randomly. I HAD A FUCKING PHOTOSHOOT WITH SOME GUY BECAUSE I LOOKED LIKE LUCY FROM ELFIN LIED (I did tho). My cat ears are straight white, and I have pink hair like her but the rest of it was just.. really random BUT I FELT SO BAD BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT I WAS HER AND WANTED A PICTURE, I mean I was honest but still got a picture and a hug HELL YEAH.
I just realized I think I photobombed SO MANY PEOPLE LOL. I'm going through pictures JUST WAITING TO SEE MYSELF. I hope I do.
But umm... I WENT TO MY FIRST RAVE. YES. we got free glow sticks and we put them on our lanyards and swung them around because we couldn't afford the neat stuff. I spent all my money in like 30 hours but I wasn't going to be there much on Sunday so I was cool with it. We walked around until 1:30 in the morning SO LETS DO SOME MATH HERE OKAY? 9:30am to 1:30am THAT IS 16 HOURS OF CON MY FRIENDS, 16 HOURS OF PLATFORM SHOES. it sounds atrocious but my feet really did not hurt, I actually liked walking around. As the night went on I realized that I had laughed and screamed so much that my voice became raspy and very easy to control, so I sounded really young and little to like an angry old man in one minute without hurting myself and I LOVED EVERY THING ABOUT IT. I was like " I WANT TO BE A VOICE ACTOR I COULD SO DO IT" I sound like a preteen boy too when I go deep BUT ONLY WHEN MY VOICE IS LIKE "yeah ok u can do the thing right now" and I walked in circles around that dude and I saw him at the rave and I THINK I HEARD HIM SAY MY NAME AND SAY HI BUT he might have seen me, and waved at someone else. I still waved anyway. OH WELL. When we got to the hotel I passed out almost immediately.
Sunday got up at 9, got ready MISSED ANOTHER FRIKIN PANEL Living in Japan AND THAT ONE SOUNDED NEATO. walked around a little bit, went to the madoka magica panel which was two hours of fun and ALL THE MAGICAL GIRLS EXCEPT ONE SIGNED MY BADGE SO. YEAH. OH and I got a kyubey plush, and two key chains, saturday.
Blue exorcist was playing so we watched that until we left and that was it... that was my experience at my first convention.
I got a lot of compliments, I got scared by some dude saturday night so I'll be on some video I guess.... if you see that then you see my reaction and.. just OH MAN.
I'm really sad it ended, I was feeling "post con depression" saturday night because I knew we would be going in for a few things and leaving. I'm not sure how to really feel about being home, I have some regrets, mostly not taking as many pictures or talking to THAT FUKIN DUDE. I always do that but whatever. I sorta.. feel like crying actually, I'm going through people's pictures and I mISS IT WHY CAN'T I HAVE UNLIMITED MONEY AND FOREVER CONS.
OKAY now the most cosplays I saw:
Homestuck
Marceline
AoT
MLP
some Disney
female Ciel
Kiki from Kiki's delivery service
OH there were furries there, I was extremely surprised. it weirded me out a lot actually
Sailor moon and the sailor scouts
lotta deadpool
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHAT DASHCON IS ALSO? LIKE.. PEOPLE WERE COSPLAYED AS THAT...
there was Kill la Kill cosplayers OBVIOUSLY only 1 person I saw had the boobs and the balls to cosplay Ryuuko and her transformed Senketsu
SO MANY KIRITOS SO LESS ASUNA'S
LOT OF FUCKING DOCTOR WHO STUFF
um i think that's it.
OH WAIT I WENT TO THE PET STORE IN COLUMBUS WHERE YOU GET TO PLAY WITH BB PUPPIES AND I FOUND MY SOUL PUPPY.
that is all now gudnite
And im glad you had an awesome time at the convention xD
DR WHO SHIT *flys away in the Tardis* >8)