Wondercon 2013

  Where do I start?! There's so much!


M a r c h  29, 2013  | Friday | Day 1

That morning around 9:15 I waited outside Chris's apartment for them to come down. We arrived around 11ish. Check in wasn't until 3PM, but we tried out luck and failed. She said to come back around 1PM. We got our parking pass and split for breakfast. IHOP! :D

I'm sad we don't have one around here. Or at least within 10 minutes of driving. Delicious!

We were there for a bit and headed back about a quarter til one. We still couldn't check in, so we just split for the convention and get our passes. BOY WAS IT CROWDED.

So cooooool

This guy's Ganon cosplays were amazing. I think I have a new cosplay crush.

YOU GUISE. IT'S CHEWBACCA. 

I saw Pedobear.

Logically, I had to go up to him and kiss him. Duh

Yup, total crush on him.

This little kid was bad ass. I swear he pulled out every pose ever done in the Star Wars universe and WORKED IT. 

And that's when my phone died.

We hung out a bit outside and as it got dark, we went to Denny's to go eat. Then back to our hotel. SORE FEET.

I love this shirt so much omg.

M a r c h  30, 2013  | Friday | Day 2 

 We woke up and headed back around 10ish. Trent was all about panels that day, while Chris and I wandered around looking for loot, (and for Harley's Joker). One of the first cosplays I saw that morning caught my eye and made me think of my dad.

El Chapulin Colorado! He's from a vintage Mexican comedy show. My parents and I used to watch it all the time when I was little. My dad loves it. When I saw him, I squeaked with joy and showed as much appreciation as I could that he was there. It was awesome!

...RIGHT?!

Cubone! ^_^

CUUUUUUUUUUUUTE

 

Those guys are awesome. They really commit to their characters!

you guise it's fucking BILLY, THE BLUE RANGER.

 IIII'M SOOO HAPPPYYY

 MMPF!

Look who it iiissss!

 I found him! I waited a little bit before I approached him. Everyone and their brother was trying to go in an capture him. At this Con he was here with Harley Quinn! They've worked on the costume for a few months now. The detailing was really cute ^_^

He told me that he saw me on Friday, when they were out of costume, and he said hi to me. I didn't hear/see him! D'oh! I was actually looking forward to seeing him on Friday. Oh well! YAY SATURDAY HELLOS

Can I keeeeep him?

^_^

GUESS WHO ELSE I SAW?!

Kent! Bar Sinister's MC. It's funny, we run into each other every now an then at the weirdest places. IT'S SO SURPRISING THAT WE FOUND EACH OTHER HERE.

JK, no it's not. haha <3 br="">

 LOVE HER. I saw her walk by at the food court and my jaw dropped to the ground and died.

Then I found her again! ^_^

Professor Putricide thinks I'm beautiful ^_^ heheheheheheeh!

 eeeeeee! ^____^

 GIR

SQUEE

I like him. He's awkward ^_^

 He was cosplay Ganon from Wind Waker. le sigh

 Yup. Crushing.

So... these guys were there. They caused a lot of commotion and at one point, some chick flashed her boobs.  I felt bad for them because people started getting really obnoxious. Like there was this one chick who kept yelling out something about a spaghetti monster. It was more like shrieking. Over and over and over again. People were shouting other things, and it just became this loud, obnoxious environment for a little while that was just as off-putting as the sign holders.

This guy looked really cool. He said I looked familiar. No idea!

 After a while we went back to the hotel and napped. The masquerade was at 9 I think, so we headed back there to check it out. It was basically a costume contest, but only cosplayers that hand made their costumes could enter. It was pretty neat.

We didn't stay long after they were all called out. Chris was sore, and we were hungry. So we split. 

Denny's.

M a r c h  31, 2013  | Friday | Day 3

 The Deadpools were hilarious all weekend.

I love them, lol.

 I remember you!

 I took this one for Autumn.

 SIGH.

 He asked me a riddle! I probably answered it wrong, but I got a free t-shirt out of it! :D

Best taco stand ever. mmmpf

Oh, internet...

 D'awww.. I messed this up. The sun made it difficult to see what I was aiming at. OH WELL THEY'RE ADORABLE.

 There were a group of chill dudes that were having a discussion with one of the 'missionaries' and everyone was respectful of each other. It was good brain food.

 He hit on me when I asked to take their picture, to be part of the community! WEIRDO.

jk, idgf.

The eeennnd....

This con I came prepared with savings! lol
It was cool though, and I was glad to support the amazing artists that set up there. Now I just need to get some frames to hang up all this awesome stuff!

Those are the ones Chris got, lol. :(

Aren't they adorable!?

It was such an amazing weekend. I'm sad it's over but so so happy to have all these memories! I'm glad to be home, and I sort of am looking forward to work again. I also have commissions and more charmsies I wanna finish, so woohoo! 

As far as San Diego Comic Con goes... I can't go. I'd love to go, but the tickets have all sold out, and they are being scalped for far too much money :(

It's unfortunate... but on the bright side, it gives me time to design and maybe put together a cosplay all of my own for next year! We'll see :D

San Franny

   For readers who don't know, I used to live in San Francisco from 2008-2009. The reason I left was to be supportive of Rot rejoining Psyclon Nine (and we were offered somewhere to live, no deposit, considerably cheaper). It's extremely expensive to live in SF. To move back I'd have to have a bunch of roommates, or just live in a shitty part of SF. Neither one really has me rushing back.

My friend from High School moved there recently, who I saw on my last visit to PA a year ago. It was a great excuse to re-visit SF, haha. And to see him again, of course! :P AND SO I DID. We went halfsies on the plane tickets and I marched my ass into that airport and dealt with it.

That's Jordan. Weirdo.

I arrived late actually, Friday evening, because I had missed my flight. Well, I actually didn't, but I arrived a few minutes too late to check in. It was obvious to me the guy at the counter was enamored with me, and fortunately, of his own accord, gave me a nicer spot on another flight free of charge. No complaints. Unfortunately, he spent a lot of time talking to me and conveniently messing up the tickets, but I guess it was a small price to pay to arrive in SF before it got too late.

I had a connecting flight in San Diego. No problems with TSS in LA, but SD somehow saw something LA didn't and opened up my bag to check it out. Turned out to be a clutter of quarters in a smaller compartment that they thought was a gun or something. -__- actually I don't know that for sure, but that's exactly where they checked it.
The weekend there pretty much consisted of almost nothing but going out to eat/drink and socialize. Which is weird to me because I do everything but. I was introduced to some of his peers, who were friendly and not douchebaggy- always appreciated. I also learned how to play Netrunner! It's a two player game. Two factions: One's defensive, one's offensive. If the defensive side exposes the offensive side before offensive infiltrates defensive, Defense wins. And vise versa. But it's Corporations vs. Hackers themed. Very strategic and fun.

Ted is a pro Netrunner-er. He was coaching me against Jordan. 

Also, dreadstaches.

While I was there, already the atmosphere felt friendlier. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like people in SF are just all around nicer and friendlier than people in LA, who to me always seem to be in a rush and feel they're too attractive to care about anyone else.

Mateo and Irakli (left) both from outside the states, and Jordan. Irakli got really drunk that night, and I regretfully publish these without any footage of his hilarious stupor, complete with a Georgian accent and broken English. While we were on our way out to look for our taxi, Arakli walked out into the walkway, on his phone with the cab driver, as the light turned green. He was standing in the middle of traffic waving his arms in the air as cars drove around him.
Mateo and I were on the other side of the intersection shouting frantically, while Jordan helplessly watched from another corner, just then realizing that Irakli has wandered off into traffic. The whole cab ride back was mostly Irakli spouting random nothingness and thoughts, followed by "is fucking assole!"

When neared his street, it was an uphill drive with no parking spots on either side. He didn't like the street. "This street is fucking assole street!" The cab driver just laughed understandingly. It got real quiet when he left, haha.

GDC was also about to start that week, so Jordan took us to meet up with some of his peers from Philly who were attending GDC. I felt out of place, but had a full tummy and was content.

Other than that, we didn't do much. Like I said, we just went out to places and played Netrunner. Oh, apparently IPA's make me sick. I hadn't eaten all day and I had two of them = me throwing up. Never again. I don't know anything about beers, but they were suggested to me and it tasted better to me than some of the other stuff I've had. Nope. Never again. Also I think I forgot my belt at one of the spots we were at. :(

Those garlic fries were so good.

Anywho, SF was a nice escape. It made me nostalgic and really miss living there. One day, maybe. Not just yet, though.