I am sorry I didn't let anyone know I was even going to this! The past week+ has been so hectic! I am also still really wiped out from con-death today. x___x

Anyway! I went to Yaoicon for the first time ever! Aside from the fact that the whole con was cursed just for us, it was fun. You know, around the crappy parts.

Plans that we had cemented for months started getting changed last second, we didn't know who was coming, who was staying where... what was going to be going on at con... the cosplays weren't done, either! All the stores that sold the supplies we needed were all suspiciously closed every time we tried to go get some or just weren't anywhere nearby. The wigs that were ordered in advance didn't arrive until con was half over... supplies kept going missing when there was no reason for them to, and just nothing seemed to be working out! Got to con on Friday, and even though me and *gyakuten-no-megami pre-registered... they had no records of that. :| They got this look of horror when we were trying to tell them we were freaking pre-reg'd, like this didn't ever happen. The only reason the con-head who was in charge of registration let us in was because Megami had e-mailed her beforehand making doubly sure she was reg'd, and the woman responded that yes, she was. But there was no record of it anymore. She let me pay the pre-reg fee instead of the full at-the-door price, but still... ugh. So unnecessarily hectic! Also, me, Megami, and ~Erandir were all at a Chinese restaurant, and we were given six fortune cookies. We split them among us, and upon opening them were a little unnerved. Out of six fortune cookies, three of them were the same fortune, each of us just happening to get one each.

"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Talk about foreshadowing. xD;;

But ANYWAY. Friday, I cosplayed Canada from Axis Powers Hetalia. Megami's America cosplay never got finished, because she was making the patches herself (...which somehow wound up at the bottom of a glass full of milk that was nowhere near it, and were almost ruined because of it), but found out someone at con would be selling basically professionally made ones for that cosplay. We got there, and of course they weren't selling on Friday, so she wound up going as Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing while Erandir went as England. Sold stuff at Swap Meet, left to go grab ~Anti-puff, and then worked on cosplays until way too early into the morning. I was up styling Megami's Bakura wig, and never got to finish styling it, but it came out at least decent enough to tell who she was. I'm still bummed about not finishing both of our wigs. D:

I went to bed after the sun came up and got about two-to-three hours of sleep before getting up for con again. We tried to get the America patches, but it turned out the peoples' shipment got messed up, and didn't get delivered to the hotel and they couldn't get to it where it was being stored. Of course. xD;;
I went as Duelist Kingdom Ryou Bakura, but I felt pretty sick, and we all (me/Ryou Bakura, Megami/Duo Maxwell pretending to be Trowa Barton, Erandir/drunk punk England, and Youji/Rocket Grunt) left con early to go back home. D| It sucked. Also, I sat in some wet grass/mud before we left. :| So I looked real snazzy with my whole butt soaked through with brown spots. Fml.

Sunday was by far the best day. We actually got to go shopping and bought things. I got a good Yu-Gi-Oh! doujinshi and some clothing accessories, the cosplays came along pretty well even though they were unfinished as far as wigs go (and Megami's shoes for that cosplay totally went missing right as we were leaving because we were running late and couldn't look for them). There was a small Yu-Gi-Oh! meet where we got some funny pictures. It was originally only me as Ryou, Megami as Bakura, Erandir as Jyounouchi (also Duelist Kingdom), =slifertheskydragon as Seto, and I'm not sure what her deviantART name was as Yuusei who changed into Mokuba for the shoot. Then, Youji, ~CicadaNoise and his girlfriend showed up as Yazoo (Final Fantasy Advent Children), Light, and L. xD We had some weird crossovers going on then.

I'll post a few of the pictures up when I get them ready to post, since I never put up any from Fanime! (Never really got any good ones from Fanime, either...)

Also, Anti and I totally saved con from another disaster! Some dumbass had put a still-lit cigarette in the bushes outside of the front doors. It was hella smoking and the smoldering ash was resting on some leaves. Which were starting to turn black and burn. I grabbed it and stomped it out after Anti noticed it. Shit icing on the shit cake would have been for the hotel to catch fire, right?

Me and Megami are hopefully going to get better cosplay pictures later, but let's not bank on this. xD We all know how well those plans always go. Sort of like the pictures I was gonna draw for Halloween that haven't gotten done. >>;

~Cecilia




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