GhettoCon Con Report
AnimeNEXT or as we called it over the weekend GhettoCon 2010 con report.
Thursday
✦ Working on cosplay
✦ Stressing myself out
✦ Giving up. We'll do the skit at Otakon or something
✦ Lolz no sleep
✦ Bought some food for hotel room
✦ Went to NY Penn
✦ Arrived around an hour early
✦ Whoops took feel asleep on the floor for a bit
✦ Woke up
✦ Just laying there for a while and some dude comes and tells me that this isn't a motel
✦ Asta text me saying she's here
✦ Lolz Asta is at a different Auntie Anns
✦ THE FRENCHMAN HAS ARRIVED
✦ Asta is here too now
✦ Time for some food. We're such fatasses
✦ Sonteen missed her flight, so we hang around in Penn until she arrives
✦ FINISH DEM GHETTO MAGNET HEADSETS
✦ Asta bought a large strawberry banana smoothie for us all to share. Stop spoiling us Asta. At least she took $2 of the dollars I threw at her
✦ Waiting still
✦ Lolz Hi Sonteen
✦ Express trains are evil. Two of them in a row, so we had to wait forever for a Trenton train
✦ Random train times were had
✦ Arrive in New Brunswick
✦ lolz Shuttle never came. Time for a cab
✦ Finally get to the hotel
✦ Throw stuff down, and change into Magnet
✦ Magnet shoot
✦ Oh look pizza. It's break time. Nom nom nom
✦ More Magnet times [Thanks Asta for the pretty pictures]
✦ We left and come back to see Kat has arrived. She spawned out of nowhere
✦ Lounging time. Watched some World Cup. Kat took some random pics in the hotel room
✦ Sleepy. Very sleepy. I think I was the first to pass out
Friday
✦ Get up and was being lazy
✦ Me and Asta watch everyone get ready
✦ Finally start getting ready after watching everyone else (and the world cup) for about an hour and a half
✦ K-On!!!!!!! I felt soooo moe. I also wore make up as Yui
✦ Quick K-On shoot with France and Amanda. No Ritsu since Maura didn't get there yet TT^TT
✦ Time to get ready for the first Hetalia panel
✦ ... or not Sarah has England and is arriving late
✦ Whip together Casual!England [Thanks for letting me borrow your vest and tie Alyssa]
✦ Katelyn is here!!!!!
✦ Awkward at the panel in casual clothes
✦ Mandy is late, so we were missing a portion of our materials. lolz whoops?
✦ Mandy arrives!
✦ Kate arrives!
✦ The asshole from Hetalia History pimped his panel in ours. I refrained from getting up and punching him.
✦ One day we will run this panel right and things will go according to plan
✦ TERESA!!!!!! IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE I'VE SEEN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
✦ Maura is here!!!!
✦ It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes. I am getting so hot. I'm gonna take my clothes off. [Our theme song for the weekend]
✦ Stressing out about the Summit panel. And lack of a Germany cosplay for France
✦ Crisis narrowly averted. Thanks to Kate and her quick thinking (and magical cosplay luggage)
✦ Changed into Russia
✦ Run to panel room! Run!
✦ Whoa. People are here already. #lolzwhut?
✦ Set up the room
✦ Begin panel
✦ MAURA IS AN AMAZING AMERICA. Just saying
✦ We ended a yaoi chant
✦ That asshole from the first panel who pimped his panel did it again. This time I said something. Seriously, it's not cool to pimp your panel at ours when we're seeing if people have any questions.
✦ Best panel ever. Summit panels are something we can do at least somewhat right.
✦ Got complimented on the panel by numerous people. A Liet gives me a Russia clay doll thing from the AA.
✦ Time to DRRR IT UP!!!
✦ Separated from Maura TT^TT
✦ Lobby times
✦ MADI! Hi!
✦ Order some Pizza
✦ Asta is here and Sonteen is still getting ready. lolz
✦ Maura is back! YAY!
✦ Nom Pizza
✦ Bring Maura and Pizza back to hotel room
✦ Run back downstairs after talking with my hotel roomies briefly
✦ DRRR SHOOT TIMEZ!
✦ In the end remained me, France, Nora, Kate, Asta and Sonteen. Chilling in the 2nd level lobby
✦ Oh the Hetatards are no longer around. Time for me and Kate Canada and Prussia it up XDDDDDDD
✦ Being our normal retarded selves
✦ Everyone is starting to get sleepy
✦ Walk Nora to her hotel room
✦ I keep Kate in our room
✦ Me and Maura share a pillow and blanket. D'aaaaaaaw. Cold War was obviously still in affect for the two of us
Saturday
✦ Woke up. Huh? Maura is gone. TT^TT
✦ Changed into England
✦ WHERE THE HELL ARE MY BOOTS?!
✦ Asta lends me her boots for Finland. Thanks Asta TT^TT
✦ Hetalia shoot
✦ A year later, and our group is still one of the better Hetalia cosplays at AnimeNEXT lolz
✦ Everyone actually listened to us. Wow. I am starting to respect random con going fans again
✦ Picnic times~
✦ Saw granddaughter, who fed me some delicious noms
✦ Story time with Maura on the study of communism and how it doesn't work
✦ Me and Cat continue what shall be a tradition of climbing trees in Hetalia cosplay
✦ Time for some Hetalia shoots
✦ We were short a China for Allies. I am so sad
✦ USxUK, FrUK, Ballet Shipping, and Allies minus China shoot timez were had
✦ So hot. Time for the pool.
✦ Changed into swimsuits and met in Cat's room for France and Amanda.
✦ Got distracted by food. Whoops. Sorry Laura
✦ Went to the pool for some fun times with Maura, France, Amanda and Laura
✦ Played toothpaste
✦ Hot tub~
✦ Well it's time to Vocaloid
✦ Go back to hotel room and shower with Maura
✦ We has swimsuits on, so no actual sexy timez were had
✦ It was still an awesome productive shower. It was one of the fastest ones I have ever taken to date
✦ Me and Maura became Len
✦ Down to hotel room of Cat and meet up with France, and Amanda
✦ Laura joins us in Magnet!Rin
✦ Had to leave them to meet Katelyn
✦ Time to get on the masquerade line
✦ Why hello there Sarah. Fancy seeing you here
✦ They move us outside
✦ I spy with my little eye, a Cat as Teto
✦ I also saw Helen as Chizuru. Sooooo cuuuuuuuute >////<
✦ Waiting waiting waiting with Katelyn, Mandy and Erin
✦ Finally! We head inside!
✦ Now we sit and wait
✦ Oh look I have a headache. God damn
✦ Oh my head is better after taking off my Len headsets
✦ Masquerade starts
✦ Time to turn on the DS. Let's see the assholes who are in the crowd
✦ Erin joins me in the chat room
✦ Lagging like a bitch
✦ Noooo my DS dies
✦ YAYz! Erin lets me use hers~
✦ Got what I expected. Only a handful of good skits, but I enjoyed my time there regardless.
✦ JENNA's GROUP WINS BEST IN SHOW
✦ Run over to Jenna and congratulate her, Tiffany and Ginny. You guys did an amazing job~
✦ Wished I got to perform my skit. Oh wellz. Otakon is coming up. We'll probably do ours then. More time to practice and rehearse everything.
✦ Head back to the hotel. My phone was dying so I went to charge it.
✦ Maura left during the masquerade. Baw. Crying for ever. I didn't get to say bye TT^TT
✦ Changed into Red since Nora was Yellow
✦ Waited for everyone in the lobby
✦ Talked to people already there
✦ Oh people arrive... in different cosplays.
✦ Gah Nora is too cute to care about the switch. RedxYellow~~~
✦ I wished I had a Misty though TT^TT
✦ Practice for the Vocaloid panel
✦ It's getting cold in here. So put on all your clothes. I am getting so cold. I'm gonna put my clothes on.
✦ Practice until God forsaken hours
✦ lulz After a serious discussion we decided to cancel the panel
✦ Me, Cat, Kate and Mandy stay up until the sun rises
✦ Sleep. Yeah, we actually did that
Sunday
✦ Whoops slept more than I wanted to
✦ Argh. I don't feel well
✦ Cancelled panel
✦ Cleaned room, and packed everything away
✦ Feeling better. Room was just probably way to cold for me
✦ Time to cosplay Prussia some more
✦ Waiting around for Jenna in the lobby to continue the tradition of signing her fan
✦ Hung out with Jenna for a while. Talked, and hit the AA as well.
✦ Jenna leaves to find Lucia to head home
✦ Find her in the lobby a bit later.
✦ Now Jenna actually leaves
✦ Mandy finds her wallet! We were all so happy for her.
✦ We finally go take some pics
✦ Stupid idea is stupid. I was dying in wool
✦ Got some shots with Mandy. Whoo for PrussiaxHungary Also got some PruCan
✦ Mandy changes into Meiko, and I played cosplay, and wig check for the pictures
✦ Change into Red. I am dying
✦ Take some pics with Nora. RedxYellow times. Hell yeah!
✦ Nora leaves. Good bye the most adorable Yellow ever
✦ Helped Mandy bring all her stuff to the lobby and say good byes
✦ Return to everyone
✦ Chill times. Laying on the ground, and talking to Alexis for a while. I love you Alexis, don't let yourself think otherwise. Feel free to always chill with me at cons
✦ Oh time to go to the lobby and meet with France, Asta, Sonteen, and the others
✦ See Helen in the lobby as Gold. YES! Platonic!RedxGold times~~~
✦ Say good byes to everyone
✦ It's time to shuttle
✦ At the train station
✦ Hooooot. Headache getting worse and worse
✦ Probably a bit dehydrated now that I think about it
✦ Train times
✦ Having a few heart to heart conversations with France.
✦ "In with the bad out with the good" Thanks for cheering me up France
✦ In NYC. Finally.
✦ Good byes to Asta, Sonteen, Angela and... IDK I forgot her name. >.>'''
✦ Me and France get smoothies. Such good smoothies
✦ Started and ended this con with a smoothie. I feel like a fatass... again
✦ Good bye to France
✦ Train home
✦ Home at long last
✦ We were suppose to go out and eat for father's day but lulz my mom wasn't home she was the one yelling at me Thursday about not getting home too late on Sunday too D<
✦ Internet for a bit
✦ Nap
✦ I still have this stupid headache
✦ Internet some more
✦ Screw it! Stupid headache. Sleeping some more.
And that was AnimeNEXT... I think. I probably left out some things, but let's remember my memory sucks, and you want me to remember 4 days of worth of fun.
Argh, Guys we need to hang out again sometime soon. I miss you guys way too much.
Thursday
✦ Working on cosplay
✦ Stressing myself out
✦ Giving up. We'll do the skit at Otakon or something
✦ Lolz no sleep
✦ Bought some food for hotel room
✦ Went to NY Penn
✦ Arrived around an hour early
✦ Whoops took feel asleep on the floor for a bit
✦ Woke up
✦ Just laying there for a while and some dude comes and tells me that this isn't a motel
✦ Asta text me saying she's here
✦ Lolz Asta is at a different Auntie Anns
✦ THE FRENCHMAN HAS ARRIVED
✦ Asta is here too now
✦ Time for some food. We're such fatasses
✦ Sonteen missed her flight, so we hang around in Penn until she arrives
✦ FINISH DEM GHETTO MAGNET HEADSETS
✦ Asta bought a large strawberry banana smoothie for us all to share. Stop spoiling us Asta. At least she took $2 of the dollars I threw at her
✦ Waiting still
✦ Lolz Hi Sonteen
✦ Express trains are evil. Two of them in a row, so we had to wait forever for a Trenton train
✦ Random train times were had
✦ Arrive in New Brunswick
✦ lolz Shuttle never came. Time for a cab
✦ Finally get to the hotel
✦ Throw stuff down, and change into Magnet
✦ Magnet shoot
✦ Oh look pizza. It's break time. Nom nom nom
✦ More Magnet times [Thanks Asta for the pretty pictures]
✦ We left and come back to see Kat has arrived. She spawned out of nowhere
✦ Lounging time. Watched some World Cup. Kat took some random pics in the hotel room
✦ Sleepy. Very sleepy. I think I was the first to pass out
Friday
✦ Get up and was being lazy
✦ Me and Asta watch everyone get ready
✦ Finally start getting ready after watching everyone else (and the world cup) for about an hour and a half
✦ K-On!!!!!!! I felt soooo moe. I also wore make up as Yui
✦ Quick K-On shoot with France and Amanda. No Ritsu since Maura didn't get there yet TT^TT
✦ Time to get ready for the first Hetalia panel
✦ ... or not Sarah has England and is arriving late
✦ Whip together Casual!England [Thanks for letting me borrow your vest and tie Alyssa]
✦ Katelyn is here!!!!!
✦ Awkward at the panel in casual clothes
✦ Mandy is late, so we were missing a portion of our materials. lolz whoops?
✦ Mandy arrives!
✦ Kate arrives!
✦ The asshole from Hetalia History pimped his panel in ours. I refrained from getting up and punching him.
✦ One day we will run this panel right and things will go according to plan
✦ TERESA!!!!!! IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE I'VE SEEN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
✦ Maura is here!!!!
✦ It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes. I am getting so hot. I'm gonna take my clothes off. [Our theme song for the weekend]
✦ Stressing out about the Summit panel. And lack of a Germany cosplay for France
✦ Crisis narrowly averted. Thanks to Kate and her quick thinking (and magical cosplay luggage)
✦ Changed into Russia
✦ Run to panel room! Run!
✦ Whoa. People are here already. #lolzwhut?
✦ Set up the room
✦ Begin panel
✦ MAURA IS AN AMAZING AMERICA. Just saying
✦ We ended a yaoi chant
✦ That asshole from the first panel who pimped his panel did it again. This time I said something. Seriously, it's not cool to pimp your panel at ours when we're seeing if people have any questions.
✦ Best panel ever. Summit panels are something we can do at least somewhat right.
✦ Got complimented on the panel by numerous people. A Liet gives me a Russia clay doll thing from the AA.
✦ Time to DRRR IT UP!!!
✦ Separated from Maura TT^TT
✦ Lobby times
✦ MADI! Hi!
✦ Order some Pizza
✦ Asta is here and Sonteen is still getting ready. lolz
✦ Maura is back! YAY!
✦ Nom Pizza
✦ Bring Maura and Pizza back to hotel room
✦ Run back downstairs after talking with my hotel roomies briefly
✦ DRRR SHOOT TIMEZ!
✦ In the end remained me, France, Nora, Kate, Asta and Sonteen. Chilling in the 2nd level lobby
✦ Oh the Hetatards are no longer around. Time for me and Kate Canada and Prussia it up XDDDDDDD
✦ Being our normal retarded selves
✦ Everyone is starting to get sleepy
✦ Walk Nora to her hotel room
✦ I keep Kate in our room
✦ Me and Maura share a pillow and blanket. D'aaaaaaaw. Cold War was obviously still in affect for the two of us
Saturday
✦ Woke up. Huh? Maura is gone. TT^TT
✦ Changed into England
✦ WHERE THE HELL ARE MY BOOTS?!
✦ Asta lends me her boots for Finland. Thanks Asta TT^TT
✦ Hetalia shoot
✦ A year later, and our group is still one of the better Hetalia cosplays at AnimeNEXT lolz
✦ Everyone actually listened to us. Wow. I am starting to respect random con going fans again
✦ Picnic times~
✦ Saw granddaughter, who fed me some delicious noms
✦ Story time with Maura on the study of communism and how it doesn't work
✦ Me and Cat continue what shall be a tradition of climbing trees in Hetalia cosplay
✦ Time for some Hetalia shoots
✦ We were short a China for Allies. I am so sad
✦ USxUK, FrUK, Ballet Shipping, and Allies minus China shoot timez were had
✦ So hot. Time for the pool.
✦ Changed into swimsuits and met in Cat's room for France and Amanda.
✦ Got distracted by food. Whoops. Sorry Laura
✦ Went to the pool for some fun times with Maura, France, Amanda and Laura
✦ Played toothpaste
✦ Hot tub~
✦ Well it's time to Vocaloid
✦ Go back to hotel room and shower with Maura
✦ We has swimsuits on, so no actual sexy timez were had
✦ It was still an awesome productive shower. It was one of the fastest ones I have ever taken to date
✦ Me and Maura became Len
✦ Down to hotel room of Cat and meet up with France, and Amanda
✦ Laura joins us in Magnet!Rin
✦ Had to leave them to meet Katelyn
✦ Time to get on the masquerade line
✦ Why hello there Sarah. Fancy seeing you here
✦ They move us outside
✦ I spy with my little eye, a Cat as Teto
✦ I also saw Helen as Chizuru. Sooooo cuuuuuuuute >////<
✦ Waiting waiting waiting with Katelyn, Mandy and Erin
✦ Finally! We head inside!
✦ Now we sit and wait
✦ Oh look I have a headache. God damn
✦ Oh my head is better after taking off my Len headsets
✦ Masquerade starts
✦ Time to turn on the DS. Let's see the assholes who are in the crowd
✦ Erin joins me in the chat room
✦ Lagging like a bitch
✦ Noooo my DS dies
✦ YAYz! Erin lets me use hers~
✦ Got what I expected. Only a handful of good skits, but I enjoyed my time there regardless.
✦ JENNA's GROUP WINS BEST IN SHOW
✦ Run over to Jenna and congratulate her, Tiffany and Ginny. You guys did an amazing job~
✦ Wished I got to perform my skit. Oh wellz. Otakon is coming up. We'll probably do ours then. More time to practice and rehearse everything.
✦ Head back to the hotel. My phone was dying so I went to charge it.
✦ Maura left during the masquerade. Baw. Crying for ever. I didn't get to say bye TT^TT
✦ Changed into Red since Nora was Yellow
✦ Waited for everyone in the lobby
✦ Talked to people already there
✦ Oh people arrive... in different cosplays.
✦ Gah Nora is too cute to care about the switch. RedxYellow~~~
✦ I wished I had a Misty though TT^TT
✦ Practice for the Vocaloid panel
✦ It's getting cold in here. So put on all your clothes. I am getting so cold. I'm gonna put my clothes on.
✦ Practice until God forsaken hours
✦ lulz After a serious discussion we decided to cancel the panel
✦ Me, Cat, Kate and Mandy stay up until the sun rises
✦ Sleep. Yeah, we actually did that
Sunday
✦ Whoops slept more than I wanted to
✦ Argh. I don't feel well
✦ Cancelled panel
✦ Cleaned room, and packed everything away
✦ Feeling better. Room was just probably way to cold for me
✦ Time to cosplay Prussia some more
✦ Waiting around for Jenna in the lobby to continue the tradition of signing her fan
✦ Hung out with Jenna for a while. Talked, and hit the AA as well.
✦ Jenna leaves to find Lucia to head home
✦ Find her in the lobby a bit later.
✦ Now Jenna actually leaves
✦ Mandy finds her wallet! We were all so happy for her.
✦ We finally go take some pics
✦ Stupid idea is stupid. I was dying in wool
✦ Got some shots with Mandy. Whoo for PrussiaxHungary Also got some PruCan
✦ Mandy changes into Meiko, and I played cosplay, and wig check for the pictures
✦ Change into Red. I am dying
✦ Take some pics with Nora. RedxYellow times. Hell yeah!
✦ Nora leaves. Good bye the most adorable Yellow ever
✦ Helped Mandy bring all her stuff to the lobby and say good byes
✦ Return to everyone
✦ Chill times. Laying on the ground, and talking to Alexis for a while. I love you Alexis, don't let yourself think otherwise. Feel free to always chill with me at cons
✦ Oh time to go to the lobby and meet with France, Asta, Sonteen, and the others
✦ See Helen in the lobby as Gold. YES! Platonic!RedxGold times~~~
✦ Say good byes to everyone
✦ It's time to shuttle
✦ At the train station
✦ Hooooot. Headache getting worse and worse
✦ Probably a bit dehydrated now that I think about it
✦ Train times
✦ Having a few heart to heart conversations with France.
✦ "In with the bad out with the good" Thanks for cheering me up France
✦ In NYC. Finally.
✦ Good byes to Asta, Sonteen, Angela and... IDK I forgot her name. >.>'''
✦ Me and France get smoothies. Such good smoothies
✦ Started and ended this con with a smoothie. I feel like a fatass... again
✦ Good bye to France
✦ Train home
✦ Home at long last
✦ We were suppose to go out and eat for father's day but lulz my mom wasn't home she was the one yelling at me Thursday about not getting home too late on Sunday too D<
✦ Internet for a bit
✦ Nap
✦ I still have this stupid headache
✦ Internet some more
✦ Screw it! Stupid headache. Sleeping some more.
And that was AnimeNEXT... I think. I probably left out some things, but let's remember my memory sucks, and you want me to remember 4 days of worth of fun.
Argh, Guys we need to hang out again sometime soon. I miss you guys way too much.