ALA needs to return to being a hotel party con. Have it back at the LAX Marriott, cap the attendance 10k, and charge $300 for a four day badge.

>>10965856
No its false. My 4 person ALA room is filled with me and 3 other people I met at either ALA or AX just this year. Simply have a nice cosplay and don't be afraid to interact!

>>10965845
>>10965853
It's true, it's easy to strike up a conversation for ribbons or to talk about cosplays. You probably won't make best friends or anything, but it's nice to swap socials and catch the same people at other events.

>>10965974
I don't talk to people at cons since Covid. I got sick the last person I talked to which was in 2023.

>>10965974
It's also really easy to make a group of new friends just by pulling up to any random table in the lobby after 9PM with a deck of cards and asking if anyone wants to play. If they say no, move on and hit the next table. Doesn't hurt if you have a beer or candy to hand out either.

>>10965696

omg no way, you added me on discord so ive seen it but i never knew that was the backstory behind it thats awesome

>>10965697
You can message me there then anon, I don't like making anons angry by derailing the whole thread to be about me unless the thread is already offtopic
I'll get on it later though, see you

>>10965698
/cgl/ is one of the deadest boards on the site I doubt anyone would care how much you post

but I suppose to keep it on topic make sure you are in some sort of cosplay, even if its just a closet cosplay

>>10964216
Who's this calcium cannon battleship?

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>>10965980
uwu__hours on ig?

>>10931472
every female cosplayer is a prostitute

>>10931421
so some police officers were caught soliciting sex and they arrested some innocent bystanders to cover it up?

I was pretty retarded when I was 16
in fact I still get reality checks about assuming too much good faith seeing some of the posts people make on this site

>>10931421
They tried to traffic me at a con in 2019. I was drugged, and sexually and physically assaulted. Fortunately, I'm was too much of a contrarian to get out of the venue so they beat me up and propped me in a corner. I still go to cons and party by myself. They should have killed me.

>>10965985
Hot

>>10965511
There are plenty of RW and adjacent lolitas and they're usually the better dressed. You just don't realize it since most online spaces, as well as every major corporation and government demonizes open traditionalist views.

>>10965225
>>10965348
truth bullets

>>10964546
>lolita is absolutely hideous to straight men
Holy fucking shit. This is the most deluded and out of touch post I've read this year. Congratulations. This is what frequenting those "left-wing" lolita circles does to a motherfucker's brain. Try stepping out of your echo chamber sometime, you stupid cunt.

>>10965577
I'm someone who is very cautious around men because of my area being pretty scuzzy but even I know this is an overbroad generalization. Like, I;m sure frat bros who wear knockoff Gucci hate the way Lolita looks, sure. But 'Men' is not a monolith culture, and I've met plenty of men who just appreciate the aesthetic because it's nice to see people with interesting outfits. I've certainly never been flirted with in Lolita, but that's not the same as men thinking it's hideous. They're just people, not walking dick machines

>>10965486
I mean, isn't this what also happened when every fucking dress and their Uber driver was either marine or jellyfish themed? For like... A year or so?

>>10964788
Honestly I got a bit of a con bore going on. I wouldn't say I have seen everything. But I have seen enough of what most cons can offer. Colossal con east was interesting with the party culture and water park alone.
I think I mostly go for cosplay. To cosplay and to see others unique costumes. But I find some con-goers kinda lackluster people with forumalic costumes. It feels like every guy has to do Leon Kennedy and most of them do bare minimum so it feels cheap.
I sometimes go to game but I can do that at home. Most panels have cringy presenters or topics so I don't bother. Especially since some of the people that attend are complete drama queens that can ruin your reputation. So I feel more hesitant to get close to new cosplay friends.
I usually do go if my friends go but otherwise I started going when i had fewer con friends and mutuals. So in a way I almost go because its just a nerdy event you can't find elsewhere that lets you embody a character you love. But its getting expensive and some cons seem to have become more lackluster now. Like Otakon having less profesisonal staff or the many controversies with Thy Geekdom con that at least for me shattered the prospect of going there now.
So yeah parties which I will look forward to doing this upcoming MAGFEST and debuting new costumes is always fun for me. always better with friends.

I like the vibes and buying art. Any panels I think are neat are a bonus.
Kinda getting the itch to put on a panel myself, and maybe it's the influence of my cosplaying friends but I'm starting to want to give that a shot, too.

>>10964788
I still go for artist alleys. That's also why I liked going to a Japanese con twice and would like to go back a few more times, buying doujinshi and reading them whenever I want makes it worth it. I don't care about other parts of cons anymore because I don't care about the cosplays I see or don't recognize them, guests are random tiktokers who just happen to like DBZ, there aren't anymore concerts by Japanese artists in the cons where I go, and professional sellers just sell bootlegs of anything you can think of.

>>10964788
I am more in my element with a bunch of nerds and weebs. My friends arent really nerds, so cons help me find a community with that side of things, if only for a weekend.

NGL I've only been to two cons this year, a smaller one and Dokomi, and for both I didn't need to pay for tickets because I was helping a friend with her booth or modelling for the J-Fashion show. I still bought regular tickets for Dokomi 2026 because the whole fashion show thing might not work out this year due to a change in how they handle volunteer helpers, as well as the new organisation team that got implemented this year for the fashion stage sucking major balls.

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>>10964476
Sorry for the delay, This is an incredibly busy time for me. (Pic related, I get to be a magazine cover again).

Anyways, I have some bad news. All the businesses that I was familiar with have gone under, or on hiatus. I don't know any new European producers who I can attest to quality or price.

>>10964762
Better than most American LARP kits. I hate how the gorget is just a pectoral, and the vambraces are hella oversized though. What are you wearing as a foundation garment?

>>10964993
There's a reason they didn't make them out of leather historically. You might want to try a pulled wool felt one instead.

>>10965901
>There's a reason
Which one?

>>10965917
Well, firstly the historic cost of leather compared to the utility in other uses, means that leather hats as represented in cheesy renfair outfits just aren't a thing.

Secondly, the construction would require substantial amounts of treatments in order to make it water and weather tight, as in general just doesn't have the longevity of wool felt.

Thirdly, the long-term comfort wearing of leather versus wool hats is quite noticeable, especially in heat or exertion.

Fourthly, it just looks like ass.

Basically, you're spending a lot of money, to make something that's over-engineered and less effective while also looking dumb.

>>10965946
>it just looks like ass
The only reason needed.

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>>10965901
>Better than most American LARP kits. I hate how the gorget is just a pectoral, and the vambraces are hella oversized though. What are you wearing as a foundation garment?
A black cotton gambeson. I got one before but it was partially polyester and too thick, hot and hard to wrap the straps of my armor around.

>>10965908
>If I don't like it and other people do they must be shills
I'd say "imagine being this much of a fart-sniffing self-obsessed faggot" but that sounds like a special kind of hell best avoided

>>10965909
Oh shit we got a mad one. Dude you're ranking of FL cons is complete garbage. Otakufest Holiday special and Otakufest A/S tier? Those are B at best and that's being generous because if you live anywhere not right in Miami it's not worth the travel related for a con in a glorified hotel-mall/2.5 star hotel. Your rating is so skewed it's clearly bias'd to the point the only logical conclusion is shilling.

I wish there was something I could meet you halfway on with your rankings but there just isn't.

>>10965910
are you really gonna say there and tell me florida has the best cons when almost every con here is a 2/10

i get you dont like otaku but damn everyone in this thread loves it and everyone in this thread despises mega

while we wait for holmat what else do we got

make your own list we're waiting

Holmat is the only good con in Florida.
Everything else is mid but you can still have a great time with friends if your drinking or have a cosplay to show off.

>>10965943
I didn't say it has the best cons, I said it has amongst the most cons for a single state. Thus, stating we are in a con drought is down right incorret.
>damn everyone in this thread loves it
It's clearly obvious it's just you given the typing style you've used, I hate to be that guy here but it's pretty clear this thread is dead outside one anon constantly and bumping it. So, it's pretty obvious that it's the same anon here also praising otakufest.
>make your own list we're waiting
Why would I do that? Given your tastes of cons for FL it would only serve to have you go ERM ACHKTUALLY. There are expectations I have for cons but I can't say I know anyone who has a tier list of them. I just judge them by, friends going, time off work available, the weather, and availability in my personal life.

>>10961456
>>10963955
Literally super happy!!!!

>>10963955
Also super happy that someone decided to draw me I'm so happy

>>10963939
>>10963935
not sure i even want new photos of me associated with that beastly pic. i did post one but quickly deleted cause of the embarassment of the original

>>10963993
u look cute

post coords i feel like drawing someone

>>10965395
Amazing how low iqs on this board are. Clearly says that everything goth is just a fact of life now.
And to answer OPs question, yes. Anime is basically mainstream now and "cosplay" is no different than a bunch of sluts dressing up for halloween or dressing fancy for a formal event. It just a thing everyone does now. And while we're at it most conventions and events aren't even full of nerds anymore, just normalfags doing what geeks did 20 years ago.

>>10965507
>I guess maybe "e-girl" is a slur now
>now
e-girl has always been a sexist slur moids threw at women doing anything quirky.

>>10965843
even though egirl subculture was a term alt women on tiktok used to refer to themselves back in 2018-2022

>>10965964
they were reclaiming it

>>10965507
>2 years
I graduated in 2007, just in time to watch all my friends' life trajectories get annihilated in the 2008 crash when suddenly nobody anywhere was hiring. The current situation (starting with covid and continuing to accelerate to this day) has merely been a long-delayed second shoe dropping.

>>10965822
that happens to all 4chan posters eventually, no matter how far gone you are

>>10965822
she poisoned her friends with her smelly feet

Tomoko isn't supposed to be popular, nor canonically attractive, so wouldn't it be obvious why people don't cosplay as her?

>>10965822
They ruined tomoko by making her a yuri normie, and now nobody cares about the manga.

>>10964723
cosplay is inherently an attention seeking hobby, you actively want to be recognized for the character you are dressed up as

I don't really have anywhere else to post this or anyone to discuss this with. I'm hoping someone here will know how I feel.
https://www.style-arena.jp/newtribe/2025/128
I've been dressing this way since 2019 and feel like an idiot most of the time but especially at home, yet I see dozens and dozens of people who have been on the internet for a fraction of the time I have picking it up and looking a hundred times better and more suited to it than I do. I still persist in my own way, but it really does feel like a struggle when I'm outdone by people in cheap, mass produced polyester.

I was going to do a closet cosplay, but my stuff is just different enough from the character's clothes that I'd look like a guy with weird clothes. I was even debating buying a whole new winter coat because it would tie the outfit together but that's complete financial nonsense and would also defeat the point of a closet cosplay.

>>10960721
Very cool anon, good work

>>10965435
>can't imagine washing their clothes any other way without a washing machine
bleak

>>10964922
>bullying black qts
ngmi

>>10963603
Sad

>>10963603
>>10962481
Go to grown up cons like Dragoncon, you retards

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>go to a few cons in 2022
>meet some people from cgl
>one guy we will name steve is kinda weird but everyone is a bit off after covid
>steve decides to crash in our room during the con he was really drunks so we pass it off as nothing
>next con steve does the same thing
>hey man if you need a room you need to chip into the room fund everyone else here paid
>"Yeah okay I'll pay I just need to find an atm"
>alright
>never finds ATM and leaves without paying kinda brush it off as a whatever
>happens once more but he says he only fell asleep in our room because his phone died and he couldn't get an uber to his room
>okay dude but you have to go to the ATM
>okay dude I promise!!!1
>another con coming up steve is in the same hotel we find out ahead of time
>alright steve isn't allowed to crash with us unless he pays
>ask him about cash says he has cash(hands us like 40 dollars)

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>>10866256
lore accurate kel kek

After reading the entire thread I noticed how many of the stories involved alcohol or weed. I'm a straight edge who's never had weed and only drinks at home. Am I missing out?

>>10960831
>>10960832
very good

>>10960831
nice outfit. Please invest in a decent iron to get rid of those drastic wrinkles.

wow

>>10960973
How come they're not baggy on the JCs and JKs in Tokyo?

>>10960831
It's cute but my heart only beats for Konata.

Fuck it

>>10965884
serious questi9n, is piccolo a muslim?