My weekend, let me tell you about it.
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pockysquirrelPoint the first: I'm now more than a week post-op and have been feeling a lot more normal for the past few days. I've been back working since Wednesday, graduated from the hydrocodone to regular ibuprofen and haven't needed any pain medication whatsoever since Thursday night. The incisions are still a pain in the ass. They don't hurt at all until I do something to remind myself that they're there. And it's stupid stuff that sets them off, like...wearing most of my pants. Or trying to sleep on my side. It's super annoying, so I am not-so-patiently waiting for the damn things to heal up. On the flip side, I ate a bunch of junk food this weekend and had NO pain whatsoever, so I guess the surgery was a success!
Point the second: This weekend was Genericon weekend, ever and always the official kickoff to con season! And 2013 has got a BIG con season. Genericon is to be followed by PAX East in a couple weeks, then Couchcon in April, possibly Anime Boston in May (assuming my sister-in-law is able to make it), and then my husband's first ever Star Trek convention in June. I might be overcompensating for missing PMC last year JUST a little bit.
But yeah, enough rambling, have a con report!
So, Genericon is my city's local convention; it's student-run at the college right down the street from the hospital where I work, and has been around 26 years now. It's a small, quaint, poorly-organized excuse for a convention, but it's dear to me for a number of reasons. Genericon was the first con I ever went to. I was dubbed 'Pocky Squirrel' for the very first time at Genericon. I've been going with various combinations of people, almost every year, since 2006. My relationship with Genericon has lasted longer than a lot of my relationships with people. It's not a great con, but it's the con of my heart.
There is a prequel to this year's con report. Let me tell you a tale, an epic tale, of the quest for a last-minute cosplay.
This year's Genericon shenanigans star my husband Xyc (of course), my BFF and partner in crime Buggy (as ever), and my awesome sister-in-law, who we'll call Luna because that's what she called herself on Facebook for awhile. Buggy and Luna like teh ponies. I...am largely indifferent. (Though I admit, have stopped being actively hostile toward the series and watched several episodes without any adverse neurological effects since being informed that John de Lancie voices Discord, since I cannot resist fandomsmash in any form.) Buggy and Luna decided they were going to cosplay ponies this year, Pinkie Pie and Trixie Lulamoon, respectively. Wanting to be involved but indifferent toward the canon, I waffled on whether or not I was going to join them for several weeks, and then the surgery happened, and I bowed out completely because I lacked the spoons.
Well, Friday night I found myself with a surplus of spoons and an excess of wacky ideas, and Buggy and I went on the most radical cosplay shopping run EVER. For three solid hours, we tooled around Target and Walmart, we chewed on an assortment of pony cosplay ideas, and we ultimately assembled the most kickass Fluttershy outfit a couple of crazed fangirls could possibly assemble using three hours, a Target, and a Walmart. The entire fiasco culminated with me getting up at 8:30 in the morning on Saturday to go to the party supply store and buy a pink wig. And god bless America, god bless Latham New York, for being the kind of place where one can buy a pink wig on a random Saturday morning.
So with last-minute costumes acquired, it was off to the con! Xyc promptly abandoned all of us in favor of participating in a Magic: The Gathering tournament for 6 hours. He apparently ranked 13 out of 30 participants when all was said and done, so yay for that, I guess. Magic is a line that my personal nerdiness has not yet crossed. :P So that left us ponies free to frolic about the con, and WOW, the attention that these costumes got! Given that the vast majority of my fandoms are small and obscure, I am not used to getting noticed when I cosplay. Yesterday there was a LOT of "It's Fluttershy!" and requests for pictures and things of that nature. Probably the coolest thing that happened was that we ran into another Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy duo, and the Fluttershy randomly had the same name as me. *insert Twilight Zone music here* The real star of the show, though, was Buggy's handmade custom Discord plushie, who got more fan-love than all of us combined.
I could go on for a LONG time about all of the stuff that happened on Saturday, so have some highlights in bullet point form:
- There was a guy in a Bane mask who was attractive ONLY because he was wearing a Bane mask. He took off his shirt during a skit in the cosplay contest for reasons that are still not entirely clear to me, and my brain kind of exploded.
- People dressed as Yu-Gi-Oh characters singing a song about leather pants to the tune of Lady Gaga.
- Nerd comedian extraordinaire Uncle Yo seranading a Sailor Moon cosplayer with the Sailor Moon theme song adapted to the tune of the national anthem.
- Pony shenanigans in the cosplay photobooth.
- The Doctor Who trivia panel. Oh dear god. First one of the contestants turned out to be possessed by Cybermen and disrupted the contest with an attempted hostile takeover. Then the lights cut out, a DALEK crashed the panel room through the backdoor, all hell broke loose, a Weeping Angel showed up, and ultimately the Doctor himself (the Tenth) saved the day courtesy of a dramatic entrance, a sonic screwdriver, and a very convincing British accent. No one..ever actually won the trivia contest.
- This was immediately followed by the "Pony Should Pony Pony" panel, which involved VERY challenging trivia, anagrams, thrown candy, a LOT of bronies, and four Pinkie Pies in one room.
- There was an MMPR Red Ranger that showed up to a lot of things and participated in cosplay chess. He was also dating one of the Pinkie Pies. The guy in the suit was kind of a douche, but I had major toy envy because he was rocking the original morpher and bladeblaster.
- The Hulk got a racy text message from Tony Stark during cosplay chess. I may have squeed a little. Okay, a LOT.
- Xyc at one point was wearing my pink wig. It actually looked quite good on him.
Usually we only do the Saturday of Genericon, but we went back today for round two! Buggy and I ressurected our YST Shin and Ryo costumes, and Luna was Greece from Hetalia. We attended Iron Cosplay, which was awesome as usual, and Cosplay Deathmatch, which turned into a complete shitshow when people got WAY too emotionally invested in whether the final winner should be Italy or Deadpool. Then we got bored and built towers out of D&D dice until it was time to part ways. We also saw an awesome Discord cosplayer, who REALLY should have been around on Saturday so he could be properly bothered by ponies, and I blew a bunch of money to complete my collection of Houshin Engi manga. It was a good weekend for old fandoms.
Point the second: This weekend was Genericon weekend, ever and always the official kickoff to con season! And 2013 has got a BIG con season. Genericon is to be followed by PAX East in a couple weeks, then Couchcon in April, possibly Anime Boston in May (assuming my sister-in-law is able to make it), and then my husband's first ever Star Trek convention in June. I might be overcompensating for missing PMC last year JUST a little bit.
But yeah, enough rambling, have a con report!
So, Genericon is my city's local convention; it's student-run at the college right down the street from the hospital where I work, and has been around 26 years now. It's a small, quaint, poorly-organized excuse for a convention, but it's dear to me for a number of reasons. Genericon was the first con I ever went to. I was dubbed 'Pocky Squirrel' for the very first time at Genericon. I've been going with various combinations of people, almost every year, since 2006. My relationship with Genericon has lasted longer than a lot of my relationships with people. It's not a great con, but it's the con of my heart.
There is a prequel to this year's con report. Let me tell you a tale, an epic tale, of the quest for a last-minute cosplay.
This year's Genericon shenanigans star my husband Xyc (of course), my BFF and partner in crime Buggy (as ever), and my awesome sister-in-law, who we'll call Luna because that's what she called herself on Facebook for awhile. Buggy and Luna like teh ponies. I...am largely indifferent. (Though I admit, have stopped being actively hostile toward the series and watched several episodes without any adverse neurological effects since being informed that John de Lancie voices Discord, since I cannot resist fandomsmash in any form.) Buggy and Luna decided they were going to cosplay ponies this year, Pinkie Pie and Trixie Lulamoon, respectively. Wanting to be involved but indifferent toward the canon, I waffled on whether or not I was going to join them for several weeks, and then the surgery happened, and I bowed out completely because I lacked the spoons.
Well, Friday night I found myself with a surplus of spoons and an excess of wacky ideas, and Buggy and I went on the most radical cosplay shopping run EVER. For three solid hours, we tooled around Target and Walmart, we chewed on an assortment of pony cosplay ideas, and we ultimately assembled the most kickass Fluttershy outfit a couple of crazed fangirls could possibly assemble using three hours, a Target, and a Walmart. The entire fiasco culminated with me getting up at 8:30 in the morning on Saturday to go to the party supply store and buy a pink wig. And god bless America, god bless Latham New York, for being the kind of place where one can buy a pink wig on a random Saturday morning.
So with last-minute costumes acquired, it was off to the con! Xyc promptly abandoned all of us in favor of participating in a Magic: The Gathering tournament for 6 hours. He apparently ranked 13 out of 30 participants when all was said and done, so yay for that, I guess. Magic is a line that my personal nerdiness has not yet crossed. :P So that left us ponies free to frolic about the con, and WOW, the attention that these costumes got! Given that the vast majority of my fandoms are small and obscure, I am not used to getting noticed when I cosplay. Yesterday there was a LOT of "It's Fluttershy!" and requests for pictures and things of that nature. Probably the coolest thing that happened was that we ran into another Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy duo, and the Fluttershy randomly had the same name as me. *insert Twilight Zone music here* The real star of the show, though, was Buggy's handmade custom Discord plushie, who got more fan-love than all of us combined.
I could go on for a LONG time about all of the stuff that happened on Saturday, so have some highlights in bullet point form:
- There was a guy in a Bane mask who was attractive ONLY because he was wearing a Bane mask. He took off his shirt during a skit in the cosplay contest for reasons that are still not entirely clear to me, and my brain kind of exploded.
- People dressed as Yu-Gi-Oh characters singing a song about leather pants to the tune of Lady Gaga.
- Nerd comedian extraordinaire Uncle Yo seranading a Sailor Moon cosplayer with the Sailor Moon theme song adapted to the tune of the national anthem.
- Pony shenanigans in the cosplay photobooth.
- The Doctor Who trivia panel. Oh dear god. First one of the contestants turned out to be possessed by Cybermen and disrupted the contest with an attempted hostile takeover. Then the lights cut out, a DALEK crashed the panel room through the backdoor, all hell broke loose, a Weeping Angel showed up, and ultimately the Doctor himself (the Tenth) saved the day courtesy of a dramatic entrance, a sonic screwdriver, and a very convincing British accent. No one..ever actually won the trivia contest.
- This was immediately followed by the "Pony Should Pony Pony" panel, which involved VERY challenging trivia, anagrams, thrown candy, a LOT of bronies, and four Pinkie Pies in one room.
- There was an MMPR Red Ranger that showed up to a lot of things and participated in cosplay chess. He was also dating one of the Pinkie Pies. The guy in the suit was kind of a douche, but I had major toy envy because he was rocking the original morpher and bladeblaster.
- The Hulk got a racy text message from Tony Stark during cosplay chess. I may have squeed a little. Okay, a LOT.
- Xyc at one point was wearing my pink wig. It actually looked quite good on him.
Usually we only do the Saturday of Genericon, but we went back today for round two! Buggy and I ressurected our YST Shin and Ryo costumes, and Luna was Greece from Hetalia. We attended Iron Cosplay, which was awesome as usual, and Cosplay Deathmatch, which turned into a complete shitshow when people got WAY too emotionally invested in whether the final winner should be Italy or Deadpool. Then we got bored and built towers out of D&D dice until it was time to part ways. We also saw an awesome Discord cosplayer, who REALLY should have been around on Saturday so he could be properly bothered by ponies, and I blew a bunch of money to complete my collection of Houshin Engi manga. It was a good weekend for old fandoms.
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