My First Con

This last weekend I finally went to my first anime/comic convention ever: Sac-Con. It's nothing big like Comic-Con or Fanime or anything. Hell it only lasts a day compared to a whole weekend. But it was still as awesome and I even was able to buy something as a memory of my first con: an England plushie.

I went as Lady Bruce Banner and I went with my sister, who dressed up as Lady Loki, and her friends who were Thor and Lady Deadpool. Sarah, the girl dressed up as Deadpool, had a lot of people ask to take photos of her, even professional photographers. Give her credit she did have an awesome costume. Got to see a lot of other great cosplayers including Storm Troopers, Hetalia and quite a few Adventure Time cosplays which actually fit because the lady who voices Princess Bubblegum was there that day. Unfortunately, it was very crowded and very hot, and Sacramento's two hours from home, so we had to leave early. But it was great seeing all the great cosplays and all the stuff the vendors were selling, including some fantastic artwork.

I have to say out of all the cosplays I've seen, I'm not really fond of Homestuck cosplay... It's just really overrated and lazy. When you really look at it, it's mostly just wigs and T-shirts and some accessories. It doesn't look like much effort is put into it. It's just really boring when a lot of people do the same cosplays. It just looks so dull. I'm also not a Homestuck fan either. I tried getting into it but there's WAY too much going on for me to understand. I appreciate that it does have fans, but it's just so overrated and I don't like seeing a crap ton of fan art and cosplays from it. Especially when there are other great cosplays out there that are beautiful and complex.

Anyway!

They gave us fliers of another Sac-Con that's gonna be in December on a Sunday which is actually gonna have Steve Blum as one of the guests. That, I wanna get into. Plus it's only six dollars to get in so it's cheap. But there's also the big SacAnime convention in January that lasts the whole weekend and includes more celebrities like Liam O'Brien and the one and only Todd Haberkorn. THAT I want to go to. It's a lot more expensive because there are more events but I hope I get enough leftover Christmas money to go. And it's the last weekend before I go back to school from Christmas break so I can have a bit of fun before going back to school. Hopefully I can get more decent cosplay before then.

I never really have enough time to plan out for stuff like go to anime conventions which sucks because there is one just thirty minutes away in San Jose every Memorial Day weekend, and I still haven't gone to it. My Lady Bruce Banner cosplay just consists of jeans and a purple button up shirt. I tried getting an Italy cosplay a couple summers ago but it's pretty cheap and I only wore it once. On top of which my mom won't let me buy stuff online so I either gotta buy stuff from the closest GoodWill or sew it myself. Again, I don't have enough time because school just stresses me enough, and I'm too busy thinking of wanting to do other things but always forget to bring them up. Like, oh I don't know, getting a job or getting my license. Ugh..

I'm still somewhat stuck in post-con exhaustion except now I'm getting a cold. Actually that's just from school. It seems like it's that time of year where most everyone at school is starting to get sick at the same time. Always fun, huh? Having your nose stuffed up with goo and feeling like a pile of dog crap is probably the best feeling in the world. I took a Nyquil a short while ago so I may just pass out and sleep like a boulder. Ah well. Enjoy the pics of the con.