A member of our con staff got arrested at the con, and still nobody knows why. He was walked out yelling "That was YEARS ago!"In happier news, I was in the hospital with appendicitis and my bf came to visit me dressed as Shinji Ikari. The nurse with Tokyo Mewmew tatts thought it was hilarious.
>>10974032None of this happened btw
Anybody else have zero cosplans for the first time ever? I didn't even bother to dress up at the last few cons. I did have a big family loss recently, though.
Moved to Europe where all the streets are bumpy uneven cobblestones, any Lolita shoes with even a slight heel are hell to walk in here, what do
>>10974129Carry a pair of flip flops on your purse or whatever, or git gud and learn to walk with them. You could also look for shoes that are comfortable to use and avoid ones with heels
I still haven't finished my cosplay...>>10974032>I was in the hospital with appendicitis and my bf came to visit me dressed as Shinji Ikari.Did he also started to masturbate in front of you?
I miss the /cgl/ of my youth.
>>10974139After covid, all the slutty millennial catgirls left cosplay and the slutty gen z puppygirls took over. It just hasn't been the same.
>>10974266>slutty gen z puppygirls took overthey didn’t really take over, this place is dead
>>10974032Remember one of our con staff got served with papers (restraining order IIRC) made out by another staff member at one of the planning meetings
>>10974307I meant they took over the cosplay scene, not necessarily this board.
>>10974032Well... I met a Juggalolita
>>10974933Were they ita or was the coord maddeningly cohesive
My gf really likes doing couples cosplay but the couples cosplay she picked out was a little too much of a surprise I think. She wanted to do bowsette / booette, but the dress she lent me was a little too large and the accessories were a little closet. I had fun but dating other women with the same nerdy interests seems to trigger in me some kind of undocumented foid neurosis.
I'm 38 and finally got it together. Finally on all the meds I need to function, my body would impress my teenage self, about to finish trade school, been going to all kinds of events marketing myself so I have clients lined up when I get my license, even going to little micro cons around to the point where people recognize me and wave me over to chat. Even doing things I always wanted to do like fly across the country just to hang out with friends at a con.every day i do the fun things i've always wanted to do I feel a deep sadness. a sense of mourning. I shake it off but it always happens. I lost most of my life to physical and mental health issues. I never had the money to do anything I wanted because I was too physically fatigued or mentally unable to hold jobs for very long.I'm going to see some friends soon and I'm overjoyed about it. I love them so much. but there's still a sense of bitterness. If only I met these people sooner. If only I had an adult in my life that cared for me maybe they could have helped me avoid losing 20+ years of my life to sludge. I'm happy I escaped NEET prison, I'm lucky to come out of it well adjusted thanks to a loving patient gf keeping me sane. but having 20 years amputated leaves a deep scar. the phantom pain of years lost, of what could have been starts screaming at times.
>>10974960that feeling does not go away, but it is alleviated by helping others avoid a similar fate.
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>>10975007Did you really just reply to a 9 year old post?https://warosu.org/cgl/thread/9524780#p9529252
>>10975008Board so dead we are replying to decade old posts KEK
>>10975008anonymous never forgets
>>10975007She probably got stoned at the rave and told her mom she was crying to cover it up.
Dipped my toes into an EGL Discord server and everyone seems to be angry, backbiting, vindictive assholes pretending to be Nice Woke* that all worship the cult of the person that runs the server... *The "I will blame my mental illness/disabilities/queerness/minority status on why I'm an asshole so I can't be held accountable for my actions, and suggesting therapy for any of it is ableist and classist and etc etc etc, and the group will triangulate Relational Aggression on you and ostracise you if you call any individual one of us out on it" kind of peopleIs it just better to be a Lonelita?
>>10975096Unfortunately. Unless you just enjoy playing office politics with autistic women.
>>10975099I like being a gossipy bitch and knowing all The Business but I don't want to be involved in drama myself. Like for sure tell me when some BTSSB Ironing Board or 14 right sleeves in a Lucky Pack shit is happening. Other than that I just want to drink tea, eat pastries, be frilly, and take some pics.
How long until we see the first cosplay of Swords and Slippers in the wild?I already found at least premade Snowwhite cosplay to buy on the internet at least(I kinda prefer Red Riding Hood so far)
Damn. My obese friend dressed up as the Spy x Family dad and everyone thought he was Trump.
>>10975215I guess he knows his next cosplay now
>>10974134Most overused footwear ever
I hope Soufflesong crashes and fucking burns, and every YouTuber that shills them loses their following. Waited too long to file a chargeback with PayPal and now they can just fuck off with my money with no consequences and send me nothing that I paid forFuck you Soufflesong I ordered this shit in January and I was too patient with you bitches
SoI found out recently that the leather I bought for my cosplay is meant for sofas, not for clothingAnd one leather I need wasn't available anymoreWell, I guess I start at least one coat from scratch
Instagram's suggested reels really just showed me some Spidey cos-thot with her pussy lips hanging out the leotard's sex-hole. But they deleted my post with a nude statue.
I swear, if you are normal weight, have a slightly defined stomach and you are tall, you will almost get sexually harassed as a guy at a large enough cosplay gather. I am kinda a germaphobe, when it comes to STD, so it feels too fucking weird to take advantage of that situation. But there must be organized groups of girls out there, who are only there to fuck or something.
Is going alone worth it? Cant help but feel all the time like everyone has their own separate micro group of friends.
can't find the post featuring this pic related or something very close. The nonny was crying about how "Cons are dead and you'll be reported and kicked out if you wear this and PTHTBBB" Well having fist bumped a Pedobear fursuit cosplayer two nights ago, I can safely say he was retarded and wrong
>>10974032I hope you get arrested too and stabbed by gorillas you retard reddit bot
>Three cons in a rowFeels sleepy man. This isn't the first time but never this hard and two of them were more than a standard weekend. I must be all growed up cuz I really wanna get back to work now, and take a nice long break (like a month, maybe). I also oscillate between wanting to attend with either cool tismos or cool normies. Right now? I wanna do my next one entirely solo. No constraints anymore plz ok thank you
>>10974032That never, uh, happened, did it, anon?
Matthew..... what happened?
I contiuned on my cosplay a little bitBut I doubt I can finish it until the deadline for a cosplay competition
I also started to download Blender for my cosplayI hope I can make something passable
>>10975096I finally have the means to get into EGL after years of looking from the sidelines due to unemployment and short term shitty jobs.And finding /cgl/ dead with everyone having moved to Discord while servers have THAT kind of reputation fills me with dread and with the inescapable feeling that I'll never be able to indulge in anything EGL unless it's me, my sofa, my dresses and that's it.
>>10976371I joined an EGL sewing server and they're all plus sized disabled woke queers. They're all plunked somewhere in a venn diagram of those things. Which is to say, like the same kind of people that shit on that Covid-conscious lesbian bar. They are all morally pure and shit until they find some sort of loophole or have some sort of excuse and then they will fucking tear someone to shreds for the smallest infraction against the groupthink
came to the conclusion that i'm never going to find money in this hobby, it's just a money sink. that's fine. that's what hobbies generally are. but idk it hit me kind of hard yesterday morning. I was toying with the idea of getting back into modeling, even checking out if my old agency is still around so I started looking into if there's any prospects of using my interest in ouji as another way to get back into it.lol. lmao. beyond stupid.maybe if i was in china and personally knew people in chinese indie brands but otherwise no. absolutely not. ouji in general is a niche within a niche fashion with low social media engagement so looking into how ouji posts on ig were doing was dreadful. beautiful photos and coords getting miniscule engagement, no way it'll translate into any real work.i'll continue doing my Real Job that helps people and maybe get back with my agency for modeling work on the side but idk it wasn't just disappointing to see how unknown ouji was on socials, it was a little painful. it's ok if i'm a local nanocelebrity i don't need more but i feel bad for these people doing amazing shoots and getting next to no recognition.
>>10976371you guys are fucking losers who care too much about how people percieve you and if fatties r keeping you from learning how to sew or like engage with the subculture on a comm level, you dont need to be there, the community isnt neccessary to be a lolita. im not surprised you're on cgl complaining about the fat wokescolders who do things, half the "lonelitas" on this board dont even wear it anyway, your just lonely, no lita to be seen.
>>10976439yeah but I like going out and feeling like I belong somewhere.
Went to a small local con on friday and not only did I decide not to wear my Rintaro Okabe cosplay last-minute because my wig was falling apart and was nigh impossible to wear without large amounts of my hair showing and it looked like shit to begin with and idk if you could really even call it a proper "cosplay" as I bought all the clothes from Burlington, but while I was there, I saw two cosplayers.The first cosplayer was a girl in a wheelchair conversing with one or two other people in the vendors area who was cosplaying Chiaki Nanami of Danganronpa 2, who I saw while walking through the aforementioned vendors area. I immediately started walking a bit faster to escape from her vicinity before walking another lap or two around the area, as I do like Chiaki a lot. About 30 or so minutes later, I saw her not too far from the games area. This prompted me to walk over to said games area and begin playing F-Zero X on N64 with some kind of steering wheel controller. I briefly glanced up at her a few times while I was playing but before long, she was gone. I wouldn’t see her again for the rest of the day.The second one was cosplaying Futaba Sakura of Persona 5 and appeared to have been attending with who I assume was her boyfriend, as he was also present wherever I saw her. I saw her in a few different places throughout the day, however, probably the one moment that day that made me wanna blow my head off the most occured when I was attending a sort of “guess that song” panel where she was also in attendance. One of the songs was Life Will Change from Persona 5, which prompted her to almost immediately jump from her chair, name the aforementioned Persona 5 as the origin of the song, and do Futaba’s little Naruto run thing up to the front of the panel room to collect her prize (con't)
>>10976691I’ve been making decent progress in many areas of my life lately, including some that may lead to me being able to attend some more cons/cosplay more in the near future, but my fear of women doesn’t seem to be getting any better. This past friday only brought on even stronger self-loathing as a result of said fear, as well as making me feel like even more of a creep after I spent so much time observing them from a distance like I often do. I do still enjoy seeing cosplayers at these events (the Terry Bogard cosplayer who complimented my Okabe cosplay at a previous, even smaller, local con was there and he was with at least two other, usually female, cosplayers every time I saw him on friday), but I really wish I could be normal about them and that I wasn’t a socially stunted autistic freak
>The overprepperThe type who can't even begin the journey to the destination. You're out for hours and then come back to the room to find they haven't left once. This is an archetype that becomes noticeable very fast when you start rooming with people. They aren't sleeping in or passed out from booze, just losing the forest for the trees. Burning daylight. There's an amusing side to it when it has no effect on my day since I can just drop em. The one detail that always gets me, is when somebody packs a mountain of food then when the final morning comes and it's time to pack. They didn't even break the seal of whatever it was. A worst of both worlds scenario
>be a cute grill>want to be someone's cosplay gf>can't find someone who's as weird as mehelp
>>10976849I've accepted that truly weird people don't really exist and that I'll probably die alone unless a miracle happens
