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deza

LJI Week 17: Scare Quotes

Aug 12, 2014 17:59

I went to Otakon this past weekend. For those who don't want to click the link (clickyclicky!), Otakon is the second-largest anime convention in the US, and has been running for over 20 years. If you have any interest in anime, manga, gaming, science fiction, fantasy or horror, Otakon has your people in abundance. The attendance cap this year was ( Read more... )

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reprobayt August 12 2014, 22:43:51 UTC

I'm glad you had a good time. :)

deza August 13 2014, 17:21:41 UTC

Thanks! Just missed the Atlanta folks a bit.

reprobayt August 13 2014, 17:27:14 UTC

You are always missed, hotness.

grail76 August 13 2014, 01:53:06 UTC

I've never done one that big and it's been a while.
I've always wondered what being in costume would be like.

deza August 13 2014, 17:22:02 UTC

There's only one way to find out. DOOOOO EEEEET!

kehlen August 13 2014, 13:38:26 UTC

Wow. It never would have occurred to me before your story that such occasions my breed viruses.

I am one of the lucky people who don't get sick before or during a vacation, only afterward, and even though I have heard many stories from others who are the contrary and almost always either sick or just recovering during their time off, I never knew it could be like that.

deza August 13 2014, 17:22:36 UTC

Unfortunately that many people in that small a space has a petri dish effect.

theun4givables August 13 2014, 15:37:28 UTC

Iceeee Queeeeeeeen. :D

I kind of wanted to one day go to a con with myself and my child doing cosplay together, but I don't have the talent to pull off making my own cosplay. *sigh*

(At least Finn would be easy for me to do? Maybe we could one day go as Finn and Fionna, lolol)

deza August 13 2014, 17:28:47 UTC

You don't have to make one. I bought all the ingredients for my daughter's Fionna off of Amazon, and she looked great. Same for the baby's Marshall Lee. A lot of characters can be easily done using stuff people already have in their closets. Last year, my daughter's Misty (Pokemon) used a pair of shorts I'd had since high school, a $5 tank top and a $3 set of red suspenders.

theun4givables August 13 2014, 17:37:28 UTC

Oh, Fionna and Finn are the easiest to do without actually making anything. :) That's specifically why I mentioned them.

However, cosplaying say, Mikasa from Attack on Titan (with my son as Armin, lol) wouldn't be quiet as feasible. Because I'd have to make the jackets, and sew on the patches, and --

And that's not if I wanted to do Kenshin instead, or any others. :)

deza August 14 2014, 15:24:26 UTC

AoT cosplay is more mainstream than you think. http://www.amazon.com/Shingeki-Kyojin-Scouting-Cosplay-Custom-Made/dp/B00CVJQF2K
Even the movement gear belts are easy to get. http://www.amazon.com/Attack-Titan-Belt-Harness/dp/B00DA9SMRQ/ref=pd_sim_a_10?ie=UTF8&refRID=1TF9VKCCBTFE6A3E3W4D

Trust me, it's worth doing.

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roina_arwen August 13 2014, 18:29:19 UTC

That's an awesome outfit! I've never been to Otakon (I'm more a SciFi con goer than an Anime/Manga con goer) and I'm jealous you got to meet alycewilson!!

deza August 14 2014, 15:26:42 UTC

There is so much bleed-over now at cons that really anything goes. Anime has a heavy s/f influence as is -- look at Attack on Titan, for instance. They discuss how generations previously it was believed that if all the people of the world had a common enemy to face, then racial differences would be forgotten. So scientists created the titans to be that common enemy. Doesn't that sound like the kind of idiocy that modern science would look into?

Oh, you were a topic of discussion, btw. We both decided you would be an absolutely fascinating person to meet. :)