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It's already apparent to me that cosplay femtists or he / they's don't like to party and aren't very good for conversation either. I know this. So why do I keep thinking it'll change?

Desu cosplaying looks like an attractive guy or average girl hobby, I wish I wasn't turning 27 this year, never got to try it.

I have to say the photos here look good though
Feels bad that they're way younger than me
Way to go wasting my youth

>see hardcore porn
>no boner
>randomly remember the 2019 con where my friend's sister needed help climbing onto some rocks for a picture and, as I lifted her, her bare cheeks ended up in my face
>rock hard

I have lost gallons to this memory over the last 5 years. She moved away and got married, however. My friend was arrested for DUI and stopped cosplaying. And the con organizer? Went on vacation to Australia and drowned.

>mfw got fat during covid
>stil haven't lost weight after
>look at plus size friendly burando releases (meta, atepie)
>listed measurements are a bit TOO large
at least some pieces can be tightened/laced up but blouses have been a pain to buy so far. considering this a sign to finally lose weight properly.

>>10941913 (OP)
Last cone I went to, I saw someone try to shoplift something by grabbing it and sprinting to the exit. He was caught, obviously.

Then he went to the Fb group and whined about being bant for 2 years.

I want her in my life

>>10942105
A 2 year ban actually sounds quite fair. A lot of the time they'll just do lifetime bans, but he gets a chance to improve without having his whole life ruined.

>>10942074
Why do you always make up weird shit about little sisters

>>10941913 (OP)
My son keeps calling the con shuttle the "bussy" and idk wtf igd.

>>10941913 (OP)
>finally got over my fear of women and asking women out
>managed to do it before I hit twink death
Next few years of cons are gonna be fun, hopefully I'll manage to find a wife at one of these before I turn into leather

>>10942167
Hey congrats + same + also congrats for posting this without regard for whether or not you'd be told to kill yourself

>tfw /cgl/ is dying
Where'd everyone move on to?

>>10942202
Nursing homes

i will forever be ita because i have the appearance of a motorcycle dude

>>10942146
>tfw travel several hours to cosplay all three days just for the chance of meeting someone who I want to talk keep talking to

>>10942202
lolcow
crystal cafe
instagram
onlyfans

>be me, planning my first self-made cosplay
>asking my mom if I can use her sewing machine
>now I have to explain why I need it
I plan to make a Gregor Eisenhorn cosplay
I also want to participate at a contest

>>10942167
>did that a few years ago
>all women said no

>>10942018
I'm 31 and plan to enter a cosplay-contest in February

>>10941913 (OP)
>new girl likes every one of my IG posts and stories
Is this what the kids call "down bad?"

chat would I be dumb if I quit my job, buy a luffy cosplay off aliexpress and go on a adventure looking for one of the five treasure chests in that treasure hunting book that just came out? I could probably hunt for aliens on the side too. idk if I need the treasures tho because once i find some aliens im gonna pk them and steal their spaceship. adulting is so hard you kids wouldnt understand

>>10942132
damn you got kidsss

Last year I decided to say hi at a con to some girls I've met 2 years early at the same con, while I was in line for the cosplay contest. At the time I was doing Asgor from deltarune, wigs, horns and everything.
Managed to meet only one, the conversation went some like this:
>say hi and ask her if she remembered me
>awkward silence
>"oh, but you're BALD"
>"oh, but you're OLD"
"Oh, but you're a furry too?"
I died inside that day

>>10942102
i believe in your health goals

>>10942318
"engagement farming"

>look at old lolita blogs
>western lolita blogs have good quality pics
>can see all coord details, the good and the bad
>japanese lolita blogs from the same era have the grubbiest blurriest potato-tier mirror selfies possible
>can't see shit

it's like japanese lolitas were stuck in 2004 for more than a decade. maddeningly poor quality pics.

>>10942328
>that treasure hunting book that just came out?
What?

>>10942393
there's treasure inside by jcb

>>10941913 (OP)
>How yo pussy? Mine in shambles.
This doesn't belong in the comm group chat. Just say you started your period, if you have to.

I quit lolita a few years ago but recently got that Ozempic hookup. Thinking of making a comeback just to wear to dream dresses of my enemies.

>Sunday's comm meeting was uphill
What a terrible day to wear a flannel thong.

Is it just me or are there more deadbeat sellers on lacemarket lately? People that don't fucking ship

>>10942468
Grow up, don’t ruin your health for people omfg, loosing weight in a healthy way is better

>Go to con
>Refuse to pay parking on principle
>Get a fine in the mail from a MORE than sus looking company
>Discover a local news report where the mayor says to never pay at their lots, and they're thieves
>Ask around, learn some of my guys have been duped by them too
>Dig again, see another popular con venue also uses them for an insane rate ($15 an hour)
>Waiting for their next empty threat so I can send them a check of $0.00 to the order of "Suck My Fucking Dick"
my feeling when I BLEW THIS CASE WIIIDE OPEN

>PAX in my town every year
>I should go this year
>it's months away, put it off
>check PA one day
>ramble mentions that it's sold out
no one to blame but myself

>watching AFO con videos
>camera pans to a vendor
>it's a smut artist
>visible dicks front and center
>camera holds for a good 10 seconds

>>10942804
They weren't "supposed to" do that desu, there were signs for it. Not that I care bu still

>>10942536
I struggle with severe binge eating and it actually helps to keep me at my daily caloric intake of 1200 calories. The ones that turn out unhealthy because of it are the ones not doing it right.

>>10942916
Unless you're a midget, 1200 is medically anorexia

>>10942925
No it isn't. There is not a single study that actually says this.

>>10942925
it literally depends on how much you weigh and how active you are.

My friend was a cosplayer and the smartest, funniest, cutest girl I've ever known, but she wound up homeless in LA after running away from a bad marriage. I let her stay with me on and off and tried to help her get her back to her family in another country but she never really wanted it, she was so determined to do everything on her own and not rely on any man again and she'd run off and end up on the street hanging around with junkies she met around the welfare offices etc., which led to horrible things happening to her, which led to worse and worse mental health issues, which led to worse and worse drug problems.

She last disappeared from my place in August and then hit me up out of the blue in early November asking for help but I wasn't able to offer it. I got a message from her dad early this morning and he told me that he'd heard from the coroner's office yesterday.

She was big into astrology, numerology, things like that, I guess she probably would have appreciated that it was Friday the 13th.

I strongly hate how in the cosplay / nerd / geek community there's so much people who have strong mental issues and they don't fix it, or they brandish it becoming a nuisance to people who just want to have fun and have good times. Goddamn. Now I understand the Austrian painter just removing those with disabilities.

>want to make a cosplay
>consider even entering a competition
>I have no idea how to sew and how to make coats
Damn it...

>>10943304
I at least continued on some other parts on it
Baby steps I guess

How do you count age? I mean say you were born a few months ago. Are you a one year old, or will you be a one year old once you have over 12 months under your belt?

>>10942192
>>10942295
I got two girls' numbers since I made that post (>>10942167), both of them ghosted and idk what to do now besides continue playing the numbers game

>>10941913 (OP)
Hotel experience was good. My friend's wife walked in on me watching TV with my hand down my pants, BUT then she farted while peeing. In terms of embarrassment, we are tied.

>>10941913 (OP)
I don't know if I'm built for this hobby
>I've been to a few cons by this point
>I've always gone by myself, I have no irl friends btw, people act shocked if I say I came by myself and that I had nobody to go with
>I get along fine with people irl, have been invited to room parties and stuff
>But the people I've met all end up ghosting or being the most dry basic texters ever, that's if they actually even open my DMs at all, seriously how am I supposed to actually develop friendships with people if I'm the only one putting effort in?
>that goes for my entire social history btw, no matter who or what or when or where, people my age or younger are always one sided as shit with me. I've only ever been able to get along well with people way older than me
I said this stuff on /adv/ and I got told that I'm mature minded and yet I went to a place full of people playing dress up and pretend and am supposed to be surpised that they act immature as shit. It's so disappointing to feel like this since I always wanted to get into this hobby and I've only started trying to do so post-covid because before that I was living with very conservative parents who hate all hobbies, and in general it's very soul crushing to not have friends or a relationship. I have no idea where young people hangout and I literally never see people my age out in public. Night clubs aren't my thing and bars in my area at least are full of older people. I'm not religious so I'm not interested in going to church or anything like that either, but it just sucks so much that I don't have any kind of community at all that I am part of
>>10942167
>>10943407
trying to rizz up cosplayers just seems like more trouble than it's worth since they all end up ghosting and you're also competing for her attention with literally hundreds of other guys (but that applies to dating in 2024 in general)

>>10943176
they don't want to fix it when they instead get praise and validation for having it, it's why people fake mental and physical disabilities so they can get attention and sympathy from others

>>10943427
making friends at cons is kind of a crapshoot because you need consistent interaction, try going to hobby clubs

>>10943427
For any frustration you might be feeling, just you know you're already tried harder than "IT'S OVER" sadsacks around here. And I've been in a similar enough boat, at least as far as texting goes. After a while, it's less about being a luddite and eventually noticing...it actually IS way harder than just talking directly
>>10943439
>try going to hobby clubs
Seconding this, particularly if there's some local one day event that's cosplay adjacent. That filters down to the most committed regulars, automatically
>>10943407
So it goes. Given the dates, I don't suppose you were at AWA? Cuz I wasn't but got sidelined by two girls who did

>>10943428
>people fake mental and physical disabilities
It's ok, anon, you can say it. There's a word for this type of person, and everybody figures it out after a while: "Girls"

I was able to somehow paint the Skull for my cosplay decently
One step done
About over 100 still to do

>>10942925
I am really short. 1200 is what my primary recommended way before even going on it.

>>10943427
>I have no idea where young people hangout
ever since covid they just hangout at each other's houses, and everyone already has their own friend group. if you're not part of their friend group, it's virtually impossible to break into it. conventions are also full of people who are walking around in groups and not interacting with anybody outside their group

>>10943176
I doesn't help that the current media they base their cosplay off of panders to their mental deficiency harder than shows did 15 years ago. Like we all thought narutards were bad back in the day but hazbin and helluva spergs make them look tame in comparison.

Shit even furry and brony behavior is less cringe now compared to some other fandoms

>>10943176
>>10943651
IMO it's not just our communities, it's society at large right now. There's a serious problem with the way people have started treating mental illness and the people who have it, basically refusing to address the actual problems and instead putting the rights of the mentally ill ahead of everybody else's and demanding that we all just tolerate and play along with it. You see it everywhere from the homeless situation to all the gender stuff to completely wacko conspiracy schizo stuff entering the political mainstream to every toxic douchebag out there using it as a personal get out of jail free card.

>>10943439
>>10943441
Where do you guys even find hobby clubs? I'm American btw

>>10943703
I've unironically seen tons of people say that being murdered by a homeless person is "just part of the risk of daily life" aka do literally nothing about the violent schizo crackheads. And this entire thread honestly just shows how broken society at large is, with how nobody knows how to socialize and talk to people anymore
But don't forget that a lot of the mentally ill and wannabe mentally ill cosplay girls are or were part of spaces that promote self harm and eating disorders which totally didn't fuck them up even more

>>10943176
the good thing is that normal people are starting to get sick of em

>>10943706
due to the yassification of civil rights movements, (mostly white middle class) kids view oppression as a form of clout, so they try to rack up as many oppression points as possible by collecting identities like funko pops. every mental illness they fake or intentionally give themselves, every race they can claim to be mixed with, and every idiotic pride flag they can pin to their profile makes them feel more secure that they have the high ground compared to their peers. they know if anyone ever disagrees with them, they can play one of those cards and get some virtue signalling retards coming to to 'cancel' the offender. if they don't like someone or something, they can simply claim it's bigoted, and score woke points by being a hater. none of them actually give a fuck about brown people or fags or cripples (most of them will even attack on sight, since these groups make them look Less Woke by comparison), it's just because social justice is mainstream enough to be marketable. it's basically chuunibyou, except they've managed to trick most of the internet into playing along. i blame social media, flash death, and the defederation of the internet.

>>10941913 (OP)
Don't take kids to cons after 7pm. I still remember a little girl seeing a cos thot and screaming "I can see her bottom!"

>>10943176

people who are fans of the austrian painter are some of the most miserable people around and are often times just as mentally deranged as the scapegoats they attack

reactionaries are bottom tier people fighting to not be lowest

>>10943758
this

whereisyourchin.jpg

>go to con
>not autistic enough for the average con goer
>not normal enough to be a normie either

>>10943758
>>10943766
centrist gang wins again
>>10943840
I'm in this boat too, my bare minimum to interact with people is that they don't smell bad (which eliminates the actual autists) and I'm stuck trying to be a normie with people who's anime taste is whatever the top 5 most popular things are

>>10943705
>"just part of the risk of daily life" aka do literally nothing
This here is maybe the biggest cancer I've seen spread over the last few years. Not even virtue signaling anymore since it's pride in *explicitly* doing nothing. More like libertarianism, only everybody's allowed to tread on you. Just don't dare think you can return the favor, because that's out of line.
>We're all different
>They have their reasons
>It's not your place to enforce
>Karma will sort them out someday
Anyway, *zero drinks later*...

>>10943840
>go to con
>too autistic for the average con goer
>end up not interacting with anyone

>>10943704
Desu I'm just referring to con related events like planned events at an arcade or bar. Hobby clubs? Probably a board at the library or city hall
>>10943840
This is actually a superpower if you know how to wield it correctly

>self posted on /cgl once
>everyone asked if I had a wiener
> knowing they’d like me more if I did

>>10941913 (OP)
Am I getting too old for this hobby? Cosplay girls born when I was in middle school are already on OF with huge asses.

>>10944083
Speaking of older cosplayers, you've reminded me of the girl in our comm who complained about "Jessica Niggery" for like 10 minutes on Saturday, and yeah she pronounced it that way every time.

>>10943726
That's the main problem with wokeism brought to the point. Except that the only thing to blame is social media, especially reddit. It is an echo chamber and forces people to think completely alike, everyone who doesn't fit into the crowd gets hammered down and silenced. And so a system is created where everyone fishes for pity points, self righteousness is rewarded and everyone who goes against the stream gets filtered out. (Yeah I have to admit I went there to look what the hype was about and was repulsed, even completely shocked about this system!)

>>10944083
You think that's bad, I was in college when they were born.

For some reason being alone on New Year always hits the worst. Probably cuz it's been like that since I was even a little kid. I'll probably go out but no clue where, really
>cosplay board
It's related. There's an event at the arcade and the con frequenting weebs like hanging out there but the mood doesn't really strike for that either

>haven’t gone to a convention in age
>look at the official social media to see if the followers are people with similar interest to me so I can befriend them
>almost everyone are mainstream as hell, or damn teenagers who are probably way too young to have some cosplay social medias
I am just too niche or I’m just too old for this ?
Dammit I just wanted to find a friend.

I feel very lonely. I feel abandoned and futureless.
I typed this and left my phone down for one moment until the captcha loads, and the single worst person, my emotional abuser from whom I have been hiding my heart, picked it up and read these two lines. I feel like God has cursed me.

I want to cry but I don't have the privacy to do even that.

u sad bro?
everything looks perfectly smooth for me, sad that u sad though

>>10943877
I wish I could wife touko

>>10944530
>>10944531
Sometimes the facade of Versailles is hiding a house made out of webs.
I Congratulate those able to see through the veil and escape the Beldam.
The stories are just playing out as told, try not to lose your head over it.

Why don't lonely girls just get nice fulfilling bfs

10 years since lolita gooding event.i scroll through the empty facebook groups trying to think of something else but my path always leads to /cgl/. i stare at the screen for hours and try to end the greediness. i try other hobbies but it is no good. i flame wunderwelt in their Facebook page and try to resist them but it is all meaningless. the end is near.i then usually watch some old deerstalker vods and cry myself to sleep.

Niche copypasta aside, maybe I'm not looking in the right spaces but lolita communities have felt quite dead to me. I could barely name a new release outside of my substyle (classic). I appreciate burando efforts to announce their releases on social media, but at the same time, I miss the discussions that would happen because people would make posts about new releases. You know a community is truly dead when there aren't even people left to make the "is lolita dying???" posts.

>>10944730
Yeah, it's sad that there's nowhere really to discuss new releases.
I think a lot of it is that the westerners who are really into lolita are too fat and poor to buy the Japanese brands, or just have bad taste. Plenty of people to discuss egglien and other non lolita trash.

Maybe ozempic will bring some people back. I honestly miss the covidlitas.

>>10944489
>thinking of hitting up cons for nostalgia
>look at guest lists of cons for the year
>all of them invite drag queens now

I remember when people got mad when Storm Troopers showed up to cons because they were not anime. What the hell happened?

>>10944747
the cost to run a convention has become too high. back in the day, anime cons were anime-only, because any other stupid nerd hobby could just make their own convention. drag queens at one point had a convention. now those small, niche cons can't afford to continue, and the long standing anime cons are struggling to stay afloat, so they've been casting a wide net trying to pull in normies and other bullshit hobbies that 10 years ago would've been at their own convention in a desperate effort rake in extra badge cash and save money on cheap guests. the problem is anime cons have also started watering down what veteran con goers liked about them in the first place to avoid alienating these new demographics.

it's the same reason modern social media is fucking insufferable compared to the hundreds of niche forums the early internet had. when you try and make a space appealing to everyone (or at least, several large groups that have nothing in common), you end up with a space that doesn't really appeal to anyone.

you could also blame the fact weeb merch is now available in mainstream stores and easy to get online, or the rise of copyright strikes and crunchyroll rendering viewing parties obsolete, but i really think the de-federation of every single social space is the main culprit here. not every convention has to be "for everyone", especially if it comes at the cost of alienating the original audience. we need to relearn this.

>>10944588
Nice isn't fulfilling. Hell, nice isn't necessarily good either. Nice is usually a way for people to either get something out of you or to shield themselves from being thought ill of.

>>10944730
You see me now a veteran
Of a thousand flame wars
My money's spent to last
And my burando is destroyed
I've used up all of my prints
And I'll lonely and I'm bored
Dead groups are all I stare at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwh-C5w7II

Shitposting aside I know how you feel and you have my sympathy.

>>10944753
There is a part of me that wants to make the space for the new era of kids getting into anime that I had or as close as I can. Go back to the era of single hallway in a cheap hotel single day event.

>want to try cosplaying
>get told its a waste of money

My grandma just died. My emotional responses are delayed so I am not feeling the loss just yet. She was over 100 years old. Throughout my life I was reluctant to visit her due to a personal trauma but I feel ashamed I let it prevent me from making someone I loved happy. Lately I was feeling so ashamed and worried that I wanted to go down and dedicate all my time to her. But I got sick over the weekend and even now I can't get out. I am typing this on my phone in bed with a thermometer up my armpit. Last night I woke up drenched in sweat but feeling better and I thought today I would be well enough to run to the store and pack some stuff so I could leave tomorrow morning.
She was "running out of time" for the last twenty years but lately she started telling me "how long will I last". I used to be told the same by an aunt I rushed to the hospital and who died there, which alarmed me. I hadn't seen her face to face for years. On the phone I would tell her that I am strong as the mountain and that everything is going fine to not worry her even though my body is falling apart and mentally I am in such a perpetual state of despair that I wish I had died instantly in an accident back in the late 2000s. She would call every time she heard there was a flu or a riot in my city. Other relatives on the other hand would call her daily to play a circus of tears and they would literally worry her sick.
However something in me is suspicious that she was trying to manipulate me in some way. Her mind was sharp and cunning till the end. She would adopt a miserable voice on the phone and she would never tell me that she had contact with anyone else but she would tell others about being in contact with me.

>>10944956
She would make it seem like she was all alone and forgotten despite my father having moved in with her to look after her years ago, and she would occassionally plead with me to go down and see her regardless of my circumstances. And whenever I was visiting she would do nothing with me, even as a child. She just wanted to have me next to her. She wouldn't talk about anything or ask about anything and she would tell me to come back inside whenever I would chill on my own in the garden for too long. In a way she was the nicest stranger I knew. My mind says this is possessive and stifling but my heart knows what it's like to be crushed by loneliness and alienation, and being afraid of the ticking clock.
At least I got to tell her I loved her over the phone on Christmas. That will have to do as closure. I would like to attend her funeral but depression has gotten me so fat that all my formal and semi formal clothes don't fit me anymore and I don't want to spread deseases to my relatives, most of whom are old.

>>10944921
Perhaps people are telling you that because they don't value what you'll get out of it as much as you do.

>>10944921
It is. But that's what hobbies are. You waste time and money on them and get fun in return.

It seems like I won't get my cosplay finished in time...
Well yeah, whatever...

>>10945232
I am jelly of how often americans have cons but at the same time the level of the average cosplay is so high that you can't really stand out if you aren't award-winning tier.

I hate the American lolita community so much it's unreal

>>10945249
If you're in Europe, I think you might actually have more cons within a reasonable distance than we do in most parts of the US. Even in California, where there are the most cons, there are only three major anime cons a year and one of them is 6 hours away from the other two. Everything else is a minor one- or two-day local thing that's hardly worth thinking about. Anywhere else is an even worse situation too, where I live the two nearest major cons in the year are six hours north of me or nine hours south.

>have autistic meltdown if i menstruate
>birth control prevents menstruation but kills my libido, can't even properly orgasm anymore
being born female is a curse. what the hell is the answer here

>intersex
>everyone tells me I look like stevonnie from steven universe and should cosplay her

I dont know why but it bothers me

>>10945376
Get pregnant, fixed.

I'm broke as shit so good cosplay is impossible
How the hell can so many afford this shit

>>10945466
jobs

>>10945431
being pregnant includes menstruation-like issues plus a million other problems

yeet ur ute, problems solved

I was always spergy/anxious and used to be kinda chubby so I was incredibly unsuccessful with women while growing up and I had very few friends. I got in shape & got passable enough social skills just in time to hit twink death. I usually make friends at cons I go to now but I still have no idea how to flirt with women (though women do definitely treat me better in general) and I'm pushing 30 at this point so I don't even know where/how to start.

>>10945467
yet each con I go there's some random teenager with professional cosplays, it's like they are given those for free

>>10945535
most kids at cons are funded by family, this isn't new

>>10941913 (OP)
>goofing around /vt/ archives
>see pics of my irl friend's cosplay
>posted many times, all by one guy with some variant of "PLZ convince her to do Onlyfans!!"

Some people are too horny.

>>10941913 (OP)
all the toilets at the venue clogged...

Well I, for one, am glad that zoomer girls started calling themselves "demure and mindful" instead of "submissive and breedable."

>savannah animazing gets postponed the day before
>mfw the coast cities didn't even get hit by the deep south snowstorm
I hate January

Damn, Resin is a b*tch to work with

But I guess I just suck at it

>>10945249
I'm actually european

>Gooned to a ero-cosplayer getting fucked by her husband
>thought she was cute so i decided to check her twitter
>shes 8 years younger than me
>Post nut clarity and "oh my god im old" ephinany 1-2 punch hits so hard I vomit up my dinner

>>10946356
dude I'm 38, I've got 15+ years on most of these cosplayers. It is what it is.

>>10941913 (OP)
I’m a bit pissed. I didn’t go to a convention in a while so I check the social media page and accounts following, to see what kind of people there is.
But not only there’s almost no one with common interest, but it’s almost all women, many still teenagers.
Dammit where the hell are the men and the older women. I just wanna find someone who is into niche stuff I don’t care about FOTM cosplayers and youngsters. Are all the older folks gone ?

>>10946416
After attending a few gatherings, I think this is very tied to the fandom, some skew very young but older series seem to also attract older folks. Older people might also self-select themselves out of these events due to growing commitments and responsibilities or just want to do their own thing during them.

I can relate to your pain, I want to nerd out with people but they're all too young.

>>10941913 (OP)
I knew sneaky crossplayed, but what the fuck did I just watch, is he actually full homo now or how does that work?

>>10941913 (OP)
Well, I sat on my nuts at the con. And when I tried to stand up, some thot dressed as a bare assed Pikachu told me I had to "sit on them for a while." I was on them for six hours and she stared the whole time.

>>10943441
>So it goes
Based Vonnegut poster

>>10941913 (OP)
>been hitting the gym the past 2 years trying to look fit enough to cosplay Beam from Chainsaw Man
>part 2 has been so ass lately that I'm losing interest in cosplaying anything from CSM
Hopefully the Reze movie will be good and get me back in the mood to cosplay Beam, otherwise idk what I'm gonna do

>>10943441
>Given the dates, I don't suppose you were at AWA?
Nope

>>10943427
>that applies to dating in 2024 in general
Ghosting is apparently really common now. I've talked with people who are in relationships and got into their relationship after the covid lockdowns, and basically everyone said that ghosting is something you have to deal with and to keep playing the numbers game because you can't really do much else.

>how am I supposed to actually develop friendships with people if I'm the only one putting effort in?
In most friend groups I'm in, all the organizing is usually done by one or two people, so if you're finding yourself always being the only one putting hangouts together then you've likely been designated that person by the group.

>>10943428
>it's why people fake mental and physical disabilities
The physical disabilities part pisses me off in particular; I have to cope with a rare leg condition that makes it hurt when I walk and so I end up limping everywhere like I've been shot despite trying to hide it, meanwhile there are all these zoomers running around with canes even though physically nothing major is wrong with them. Maybe I should start canemaxxing too.

>>10943706
>>10943726
>>10944115
Whites are the least gay/trans race in the US though, "intersectionality" is the true faggotry
Non-whites will just take ANY excuse to blame whites for everything
Even right now you're specifically harping on this as always to avoid calling out terrible behavior from non-whites
And then if asked to pick a group of whites you would pick US whites in statistical ignorance of the absolute state of Europeans for decades now
And then you would invariably misattribute it to a derivation of Christian morality, or "neopuritanism" when it is very clearly the opposite of that.

It's crazy how even at this juncture even the "extreme fascist anti-woke" crowd on the internet CANNOT admit that marxism is fucking cancer

Well...... my son sharted in his $635.26 cosplay pants.

>>10941913 (OP)
>Millennial thots: "Nya, nya! Welcome home, master!"
>Zoomer thots: "Yeah boi, I fart loud as FRICK."
What happened?

Where can I find more cosplayers willing to be slutty

>>10946779
Tsumicon from what I've heard.
Wish I could go, girls with exhibitionism fetishes are my fetish, but I'm in escrow on a house that closes March 10th so I'll be in the middle of moving into it that weekend.

Made this meme a couple years back. Spoiler alert, Youmacon 2024 did suck, and despite it being my only local con I'm probably not going this year. Feels bad man

>wanted to go to a convention over the weekend
>got sick
Damn it
Well, at least I can save money

>>10946821
Go anyway.

>>10946824
The convention is at least 4 to 5 hours away with the car
And while I'm not that much sick (yet), I doubt I can enjoy it to my fullest


On other good news, I improved at resin-casting

>want to message someone from a con I met over a month ago
>feel like I'll just annoy them, it was a month ago, they probably forgot about me and don't care anymore

>>10946876
I have no sense of object permanence and forget about people all the time but I am absolutely delighted to chat with them again out of the blue. Go for it.

Did a cosplay, a pretty mediocre one but it was fun enough, I ended up VASTLY overestimating how known the franchise I wanted to cosplay was. So barely anyone recognized me.
Those who did, I made their day. Though they didn’t stick around for more than a picture. Is making new friends now almost impossible unless you cosplay more popular things ? It’s bittersweet.

>When you wanna get opinions on someone you know from a con
>Prolly shouldn't do that cuz literally everyone I can think of knows them too
>Even if I THINK they don't, they probably do
Had one too many incidents where I know two people through separate means and then find out later they're both great friend. Not makin that mistake again

>>10946907
Which series was it?

I'm tired of putting up an invulnerable front and keepinging everything bottled up. But whenever I show vulnerability, people mock me for it. Why are so many people so predatory and looking to destroy others for fun?

>>10946976
Try asking other people for their opinion without giving yours. Reply with stuff like "I don't what to think about this person, which is why I asked you" when asked.

Have not been to a con in years but I remember it being common for smaller comic and webcomic creators to have stalls at large cons ~2010. Is this still a thing? None of the people I used to read do cons anymore.

>>10947420
definitely still a thing, though it depends on the con. iirc san japan and kumoricon (last two cons i attended) both had an 'industry aisle' for comic artists and novelists. been to a lot of cons where there's only a few comic artists if any and they're confined to artist alley, though.

>>10941913 (OP)
>/cgl/ is slow as shit now

I know there's already a thread about it, but I'm still sad about it. I used to have a lot of fun coming here once a month to catch up on things, but something happened last year and now everything here just kinda stopped. I don't really use Discord to talk to people I don't know personally, so with this place dying I don't have a way to find out about new cons in my area anymore.

>>10947477
>last year
Brother this board has been dead for like 8 years

>>10947307
As a certified schizobro, I have an uncanny ability to make people speak verbatim, on my behalf without me asking any from them. By which I mean, somebody already took care of it for me.

But hey, good advice, I'll keep it in mind for next time. Cheers, friend

>>10941913 (OP)
My female friend bruised her tit with a seatbelt. She showed it to me and it looks like a damn potato with a nipple. Will it be healed by the con? It's definitely gonna peek out of her cosplay.

>>10947477
/cgl/ meets in 2006-2008 were how I made my main friend group that I still hang with today. I hope younger anons get to have that same experience

>>10947517
Just like concealing facial bruises she can use makeup. Or just give up and cook alive in a skintight high-denier top, leotard, or bodystocking. It's not like you have to be 100% accurate just make it look good.

>white spandex
>things that look like a garter belt
>purposed posing
>after all that proceed to speak about it like you don't obviously know all the posing and a lot of your costume is sexual or sexual-inducing like if you didn't knew the cosplay fandom is full of virgins, nymphomaniacs, sexual predators and high libido people in general

Why are cosplayers like this?

>>10947571
>Pristine armour (what little there is of it)
>Clean everything
>Flimsy fabric everywhere
>"Mandalorian Queen"
Get this bitch out of here.

>>10941913 (OP)
A regular at our cons died 10 years ago. She'd be 27 now. I didn't really know her, but I remember her every once in a while. The first few years, people would drop by her profile for the occasional "I still miss you, RIP" post. The past few years, nothing.

>>10947599
People move on, anon. You are a good person for still remembering them though. If they have any cosplay photos, get a physical copy and keep it as a memory for them, even if their profile gets wiped.

>>10947599
Shit, I hadn't even realized that this year is the 10th anniversary of one of my old con friends dying too. He and I were pretty good friends for about a decade before that, met when we both reached for the same piece of somewhat obscure waifu merch and I still think of him every time I see anything to do with that series or quite a few others. He was also an anon here, not sure if he spent much time on /cgl/ even though he was a pretty active cosplayer but he was on /a/ constantly.

>>10947477
>but something happened last year and now everything here just kinda stopped.
Not since 5 years?

>haven't been to a con in at least five years
>love cosplay
>had so much fun
>26 now
>all the girls I could meet are much younger
>almost zero meetups near me for them
Is it too late for me

>>10947699
shut up and go cosplay at a con you stupid idiot

It feels like no one wathces anime anymore, even though it's supposed to be more mainstream than ever. I've tried talking in my local cons discord, but no one knows any titles outside of OP, JJK, MHA or whatever is on Netflix.
It makes me really sad that the one place where my interests are supposed to be shared outside of online spaces has been watered down so much. I just want to be able to talk about anime at a fucking anime con, is that so much to ask??

>>10947703
Most cons these days have been watered down to just being nerdslop flea markets where there's also a rave; if you want to get meaningful anime discussions at most cons, go back in time 10+ years. You can also try your luck at 18+ conventions (not porno cons but just cons that ban kids such as UshiCon) since you're more likely to run into boomers there that are in it for the love of the game instead of zoomers who can't enjoy anything beyond a superficial aesthetic level.

>>10947721
why would i want to talk to boomers instead of hot girls tho?

>>10947703
What are you currently watching, anon?

>>10947727
You're not gonna be talking to girls either way

>>10947751
looking at a mirror bud?

Here is a story that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

>My friend's son's are big MegaMan fans because of me.
>Oldest is 10 youngest was about 6 or 7
>The youngest really liked watching his brother play MegaMan II on a plug n play toy I bought for them during the holidays.
>Halloween is coming up, I want to surprise his brother with something big.
>I spend the end of August all through the beginning of September making him a heatman costume since I didn't have the money to make armor, so I used 2 cardboard boxes.
>Ended up spending more than I expected on it but every penny was worth it for such a sweet child.
>Before giving it to him, I upload the costume in its separate pieces to /cgl/ and get a lot of supporting comments.
>The next day, I show him his costume.
>Seeing his happy excited face made all of the hard work worth it.
>He wants to wear it to show mommy and daddy.
>Me and his brother help him out it on and we walk over to his home.
>Parents are taking photos and are so grateful.
>We make a plan for next week to all go trick or treating because I will be there with him to hold his hand help him walk since the costume was a bit heavy.
>4 days later, his heart starts to give out (he had heart issues since he was a baby and they would get worse during the fall, I wasn't aware of this until it happened.)
>He gets rushed into the hospital.
>He passes away.
>Parents call me to break the news
>Felt a feeling that I've never felt before.
>I throw away the costume because with him in it it's a box with yellow duct tape plastered on it as well as I reminder that the little angel you made this for is in God's hands.
>The grief was unreal and I visit with the parents everyday.

I'm definitely am probably leaving out some details but it's hard for me to write this. I'm almost positive the heat man costume picture I mentioned before is floating around on a cgl archival site if you're interested. It was hard to type this out. We just miss him

I am so tired of failing at everything I do.

>>10947785
You are a good person. You put some happiness in the kid's life. I hope you and his family pull through the grief.

>>10947826
You aren’t a failure. We are all on a journey and you will get there someday. Don’t isolate yourself and reach out to people, someone will show you love.

I've developed an ambivalent opinion on "line cons", as they're called around here. As much as we might gripe about them...why?
>It's gonna take a long time to do anything
Well, yeah but how bout the opposite?
>No lines for anything, anywhere
If that's the first thing I see, I wanna leave immediately. So I guess by necessity, line con is the preferred choice

>>10947483
>>10947664
I think I only started being a regular on /cgl/ in 2018 when it was already slow, so I never got to see it at full speed, but last year it feels like things seemed to have slown down dramatically. I guess just that many people abandoned /cgl/ for the 'cord in 2024, maybe because so many cons started having official discords post-covid.

>>10947984
It's just not necessary for cons to be like this. It's a choice and shows bad management
I've been to literally hundreds of cons for all sorts of things. Only anime cons have line cons, and it's not all of them. It's bad management.

>>10948017
That may be true for some cons, but others are just fucked. AX is the obvious prime example, the LACC is just woefully inadequate for an urban area with nearly 20 million people, and SPJA are in a catch-22 situation with it because if they move anywhere bigger they might not have the local attendees to actually justify the size, plus anywhere else is going to be harder to fly international guests etc. into.

>>10948017
AYRT and it's less about lines for me, more what they represent. They're ""good"" because I'd rather feel there's some enthusiasm than pitiful empty hallways or bored people twiddling their thumbs in the corner. (It also doesn't hurt that monster lines are for things I don't care about like autographs or industry panels)

sadge

>>10941913 (OP)
My friend is mad at me. I told him I only have Twitter because his sister posts slutty cosplay pictures sometimes. I was being honest.

i love her cosplay

>at a small but open air anime convention
>with my tacticool cosplay with friends
>see spider-gwen in the distance with a Wolverine guy I know
>I notice the imprint of the tattoo she has on her ass
>later on I end up mustering the courage to talk to her
>since i'm well acquainted with the guy she's with, we get to sit down and he kind of 'parades' her, allows me to compliment her in more explicit ways
>she's really naked under the costume
>a little later when we split off she comes to me and says she weants to give me her number and her boyfriend's (the wolverine guy)
>i take it, send them a hi
>mfw i realize all the situation

I wonder how many times I was gatekept of such things. I hear so much about how people get laid while when such a thing happens to me, it's like the rains falling upon a land desperately needing them. Sex is so much easier to come by for some, but for me, it's a lifetime achievement i'll remember for years to come.

>>10941913 (OP)
>comm president is showing us pictures of some ita and telling us to make fun of her
>just shrug and say "I think she looks okay"
>whole comm turns to glare daggers at me
>ohshit dot jpeg
>mfw the president grabs me by the wrists and pulls me onto the table
>mfw the other girls flip my petti, pull down my bloomers, and take turns spanking my bare ass
I got a 2 week ban, which is about how long my black and blue cheeks will take to heal

>>10948211
how do i find a woman like her?

>Needed a con mystery solved three months ago
>Literally no one I asked could help
>Bumped into a rando on Friday and he solved it for me
Feels good man, and it's also a continuation of this post >>10946976

I'm still surprised how I never show up in any background photos despite being 6'2" and 250lbs

I am a fuckin linebacker-ass ghost

I hate going to conventions and seeing the prettiest girls in cosplay with their normie boyfriends. Why couldn't it be me...

>>10948446
shoe them ur favrite animu, no jouk it might even work

>>10948446
just take a picture with the cosplayers and put your hands on them

>>10948446
Actually, it's worse when the boyfriend is in cosplay too. Especially some comparatively low effort one from some normie anime, like Luffy. Or matching cosplays like "Gojo and Marin" or "Okarun and Momo". Honestly I just hate seeing couples in public.

>>10948463
skill issue

not sure if this is the right thread for this but do any of u guys remember cadaverqt / muffy? she was around early to lateish 2018 and was the first person who really got me into lolita, she wasn't very popular but i do remember her being discussed on here a bit, but much more on /r9k/

>>10948565
I remember her, she got me into lolita as well! she was pleasant to talk to and I liked her coords/aesthetic. is she still active online somewhere posting coord pics? or even just posting her drawings?

>>10948446
that could be you, just go to more cons!

>>10948446
Do u want to be the boy or the girl

>tfw I got depressed after undergrad and got fat
>tfw it's going to take several more months, probably the whole rest of the year to get close as lean as I want to be
>tfw I might not be able keep the weight off because grad school is is stressful

>move to Asia for work
>have no idea where to find convention information, only ever see stuff posted after it's already happened
>eventually find one to go to
>very obviously the only foreigner there, pace around for three hours completely unable to approach anyone to ask for a picture, let alone anything more than that
>go home and feel utterly miserable, don't leave my apartment for the next week
I don't think I'm built for this.

>>10948734
do you speak the language? just go up to them and compliment them and then ask them if you can take their pic

>>10948735
No, that's part of the problem. English is an official language here and everyone in my field is fluent, but outside of that whether someone actually speaks it is a crap shoot, especially if they're visiting from China (which is quite common).
My crippling shyness doesn't help either.

>>10948736
我爱你,我想给你拍照。

Say that and you should get a very good success rate.

>>10941913 (OP)
>tell my friends I want to do a DDLC cosplay
>they agree
>con day arrives
>show up as Sayori
>they show up in diapers
>"Oh. We thought you said DDLG cosplay."
>hang myself

>>10948737
Would it be weird or endearing to have that written on a sign I could flash?

>>10948784
endearing, thats what i do to the chinese cosplayers in my city

Living your best life as a form of revenge isn't giving me satisfaction. There's a son of a bitch across the ocean that I want to do mexican cartel things to.

>>10941913 (OP)
I lost my fucking Oreo brooch! The pregnant girl from our comm sneezed and the baby grabbed it. I don't want to wait for his due date to get it back.

>>10948802
What did he do?

>>10948862
Your fanfiction is getting worse, this makes no sense

>>10949049
Should I pick up their slack by making >tfw no lolita gf posts out of Van Halen and ZZ Top lyrics?

Continued on my cosplay again
I guess I can finish it in time
I hope

>>10941913 (OP)
Two girls from our comm who we thought drowned a few years back randomly showed up to tea last weekend.

They're mad that I now outrank them. Okay, well we thought you fat bitches were dead?? I am glad they're okay.

>>10941913 (OP)
>get any male attention at all
>get called pickme girl

Pic rel anon here again. It took years to put the idea forth but I did and got approved. Debuts next month. Feeling good man. Right now it looks like the lineup of topics is
>Contentious opinions on moe (K-On!)
>Dark theme stories / ironic weebs (diverging path of Attack on Titan compared to Game of Thrones)
>East vs West's takes on waifu dynamics (mostly Monogatari)
>The artist's drive to be an individual in a highly collective society (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)
>Why every other series is set in high school / culture of politeness (Kaguya-sama: Love is War)
>The lingering demographic crisis (Spy x Family, hail Abe-sama)
If there's time leftover, I'll include tidbits here and there like just how much context you lose without grasping honourifics or multilingual puns

>>10943176
like >>10942916 ?
>>10942962
>There is not a single study that actually says this
>study
I don't think a definition is something that requires a study, especially for something as basic as caloric intake... dumbass

>>10943427
Your post turned into whining about your life in general, but I'd have to say that you need to cosplay for yourself first. I cosplay characters where the amount of people at AX who'll recognize them can be counted on one hand. I throw so many man hours into making these costumes and I don't give a shit if I don't have friends to discuss it with afterwards. I've been going to cons for fifteen years by myself, so you'll either get used to it or stop blowing money on social efforts.
>>10943758
the only legit nazi I knew growing up wound up a gay furry-lite, so you aren't wrong on that front. But yes, people often need to have a difficult life to question the things around them. Happy people who see no problems in the world needn't question anything.
>>10943840
>>10943861
There's a phrase for that: failed normalfag
>>10944753
>modern social media is fucking insufferable compared to the hundreds of niche forums the early internet had
How did 4ch shutting down make you feel?

>>10946682
anon, it's a well regarded fact that white women are fucking crazy

>>10946993
Kamen no Miad Guy

>>10950345
4chan shut down?

>>10941913 (OP)
My friend got too rowdy at a BDSM con and broke his leg.

>>10941913 (OP)
Every lolita squad got the:
>Kuromi girl
>Snoopy girl
>fatty chan
>DDLG
>slutty girl
>MILF
>Snoopy girl's boyfriend
>50k IG followers girl
>girl who hates cosplayers
>other fatty chan
>girl who farted once
>ita

Anon from >>10946669, been thinking about canemaxxing again

>>10950990
The slutty girl from my comm just became an evangelical Christian.

>>10951124
Many such cases!

help nonas, ive got a bit of a confession TwT

last night i had sex with my partner while wearing a romantic cat jsk by AP. we came home from a bar in the early morning (and we were both really drunk) so eventually it just snowballed from talking & lightly flirting to full blown penetrative sex.

anywho, I'll spare you the details but the weirdest thing is? although i don't view lolita as sexual fashion it was strangely hot... do i have to burn in hell now and kill myself out of shame or am i fine as long as i'm not doing crazy DDLG shit and washing my dresses (because ew, obviously)?

>>10951378
You are (presumably) an adult, you are allowed to wear clothes and have sex in or out of them, even when sometimes those clothes are lolita dresses. It's normal and not weird.

>>10951378
>>10951383

>>10951432
how is it bait? some people actually wear lolita as regular clothes in their daily lives and don't treat it as sacred princess dress up costumes.

>>10951378
>romantic cat jsk by AP
could be worse

>>10951432
I want to pretend people post here with good intentions and are earnestly looking for advice, is that so bad? A lot of "purity culture" mindset has been seeping into lolita fashion

>>10951439
it's a good place for pretending, esp if you pretend you are the only pretender

I am in my mid twenties, and I am rooming with an old friend and some acquantances for an upcoming convention. My tastes compared to my friend's are largely "outdated" and I'm always accused of being stuck in the past. I don't mind being called that because I haven't been given a good reason to catch up with anything, especially given how spastic many zoomers are when it comes to anime shit, but the things I get excited over are usually lost on or only partially understood by my similarly-aged counterparts. I like the guy given our history but there's more and more dead air time in our conversations as he gets deeper into rythm-game, crossdressing, compsci faggotry while I watch my old shows and do other stuff with my life. I don't know the other people I'll be rooming with, but the most I can hope for in interactions is that I just make temporary impressions on people, especially nowadays given that zoomers make up the most uncurious people and poor conversationalists I know. Maybe there'll be a 30 year old dude there and we can talk about Aria.

"The third place" is one of those concepts I never gave much thought to till it got trendy with doompilling Youtubers. And nearly all of em will raise the point
>Lockdowns ruined third places beyond repair
Same thing that was said about conventions innit. But now that one of the more popular local cons is coming up I realized it IS the third place
>If you don't know somebody there, you know someone who does
>The spergy guys mingle with the party girls who mingle with the staff who mingle with the femtists
>Regulars are as young as middle schoolers and old as retirees
And we've also got enough con-adjacent events where you can hang with the same people during off season. Feels nice man

>was using mom's sewing machine for a cosplay
>mom tells me today, her sewing machine is broken
damn it, looks like I need to get my own sewing machine
and I doubt my cosplay will be finished in time

>>10951378
IMO it's only weird if you make it weird. I'm a guy who's dated multiple lolitas and finds it attractive but there's never been any kind of age fantasy or anything like that for me, I just think it looks good and there's something hot about subverting the normally very restrained and demure style.

I will say that I find goth and classic much more attractive and that's what my exes wore though, I might feel a little weird about pastel sweet stuff but that's just my personal taste.

>meet girl at con
>we click super well
>get her discord
>never speak again
why does this always happen

>saw a kigurumi in person for the first time
>creeped the fuck out
>hide in the toilets for a while

>>10952855
I have the same problem. I'm pretty personable IRL but fucking awful at online socialization, there's way too much opportunity to overthink everything.

>>10952875
I just get ghosted
I don't know what I'm supposed to do

>>10952855
youre supposed to send a kissy face to their phone then tell them you want to kiss them on the lips for real

>>10941913 (OP)
A friend thanked me for buying her lewd cosplay photos. I thought it was anonymous.

>>10952855
>get discord invite
>have to validate phone number before posting
Nope.png

>can't befriend anyone in cons anymore because everyone is either a deranged TIF or a boring, annoying normie
>just going to cons so I can shop in artist alleys and leave
Is this a sign I'm old?

I started cosplaying to try to make friends and hopefully find a cute girl or femboy to hit it off with and develop a relationship

So far, I've made friends but every girl I've befriended is already married or with a guy. Forever alone

>>10953378
You're not old, anime cons in the 2020's just kinda devolved into what you said. Since everyone's watching anime now, most people make their weeb friends outside of cons so there's no point in mingling with strangers there anymore. Having said that, the vidya cons I've been to in the past two years have been a blast, maybe try those?

Cons are fun as you can share an elevator with a generic ass Raiden cosplayer for 30 seconds and then think back about her for the next 3 months. I talk about how cons for me are about drinking with the boys while talking about eroge, and they are. But, sometimes my mind does negative things for no reason.

>>10953519
one of my best con memories is a bunch of us in an elevator
>one guy bouncing on his ankles up and down caused the elevator to shake a little
>some girl said "oh my god can you stop"
>another guy said LETS FUCKING GOOO and started jumping in the elevator making it REALLY bounce
>everyone else joined in bouncing and it was moving so much an alarm went off
i was laughing so much

>wanted to drive to a convention
>my car broke down
Damn it, I was even looking forward to the guest voice-actors

>>10953273
Who is that friend?

>>10941913 (OP)
Does anyone remember the guy who went to a rural con, the toilet flooded and some poops got into the gaming room?

I feel bad when cosplayers get fat.

There was a con this weekend, and I probably shouldn't have gone, it ruined my mood and I have exams in a few days and now I may feel too down to read.

As usual I'm completely alone, have no one to talk to. At least some people greeted me the first day, even if there was nothing else, but I ended up leaving early both days, really early today after only one or two hours. I don't think there's much I can say that I haven't said many times before, I'm pretty much the least popular person in the cosplay community by a pretty large margin.

And it's not much better outside of cons either, no one likes me, in no part of my life.
I have one person in my class who's been super nice to me for a while now, and I'm super grateful, but I really don't deserve to interact with her or her friends, I'm just so vastly inferior to all of them. And now she's moving on in life so we're not going to meet in class anymore after next week anyway so I'd have to start asking if I am to maybe meet her again.

>>10953789
we get it you vape

I feel so... isolated, being an actual nerd in a community of people who only barely or half-care about the stuff they're cosplaying or the fanbase of it. I hate that everybody is so dispassionate nowadays and the concept of lurking has just completely disappeared in favor of forcefully trying to change things while knowing nothing about it.

I wanna keep cosplaying because I wanna cosplay characters I love or have fun with, am I just cursed to not have anybody to talk with about it or enjoy the experience with?

Where have all the passionate people gone? Why does everybody seem like they half-ass everything they participate in and consume low-quality garbage with no intention of understanding or appreciating on a deeper level? When did nerdy spaces get infected by so much of the lowest common denominator brainless apes?

>>10953519
I know what u mean about the negative things. Every con, out of nowhere, I'll dip into a really negative mental place. Thankfully I typically recover within a few minutes.

>>10941913 (OP)
The two guys I have a con crush on just went gay and got together, leaving me alone.

>>10953798
>When did nerdy spaces get infected by so much of the lowest common denominator brainless apes?
Around covid lockdowns when the normies were looking for hobbies to keep them busy it got really bad. But I think it was slowly getting infiltrated before that.

>>10953798
>Where have all the passionate people gone?
I've had pretty good luck with finding people passionate about their cosplay at convention meetups, try going to one about your fandom and there will be cosplayers there that actually know what they're cosplaying. From what I've read on this board, fandom meetups are currently the last places where you can still properly nerdgasm with other weebs at a con, since in most other places everyone's kinda hostile towards talking with strangers.

>>10941913 (OP)
New con is next weak and I've had diarrhea to finish my cosplays

>>10954695
Do you mean too much diarrhea?

>Spent exactly two weeks of the last month at cons
me when

>>10941913 (OP)
>girlfriend somewhat likes anime
>doesn't want to go to cons with me
>throws a fit if i go without her and accuses me of cheating
>if i convince her to come she just pouts the whole time and makes it a miserable experience all day

>>10955643
Set boundaries or dump her. She has been to cons with you, she should know what you do there now. If she accuses you of cheating, maybe you should cheat so she isn't wrong. Maybe the next gf will have more in common with you and will actually go with you to cons willingly.

Girl in my comm is getting breast reduction. Is it lesbian to ask for a squeeze before they go?

My sun sharted in his $190 cosplay pants

>>10941913 (OP)
Holy shit, is the artist alley threads dead?

>>10956378
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox4IRQVGsBU&list=RDox4IRQVGsBU&start_radio=1

I was returning home earlier tonight when a little girl blocked my path for fun and stared at me. I was passing next to a playground that I pass by every day for years now. There was no room to squeeze past her because she spread her arms between a tree and some chairs. I'm a bit of a cheeky guy and a manchild so I smiled, hugged her, lifted her off the ground, turned 180 degrees, put her down gently and went on my way. I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time but now I feel embarassed and I wanted to get it out of my chest.

>met a really cool guy last con
>on day 2 of the con while hanging out we were talking about our next cons and maybe going to some together
>got along really well on day 3 ranting about our interests and it went so well
>con is over now and we both live across the country
>wanting to keep in contact and keep talking to him without fumbling this or scaring him off

god I both love this feeling and hate the anxiety of it all I hate playing the game but GOD I WILL TRY
sorry just I have to vent

>go to a convention with a bunch of early zoomers
>stay in a shit AirBNB for meager savings compared to a hotel
>said zoomers barely interact with me, conversation is stunted, they can barely take care of themselves
>the times when we do talk is filled with nonstop, unoriginal jokes about me being "old" and a thinkly veiled disgust at my loli merch
>I eat by myself everyday and barely spend time around them
>the only one I know really well is a sperg
I wasn't even the oldest one in the group. I got along well with that guy when we had time to ourselves and got to discuss business outside of anime. I'm not going to group with them again.

>Extremely limited Cons in my country
>The few that are still around have you pay the equivalent of FIVE HUNDRED ($500!!) USD
>for a single 60x80cm table
And that's the cheapest Con left.
Fucking organizers, every year everything at the cons goes up by at least +20%.
No one books Artist Alley anymore, I only see studios (4+ artists splitting tables) but never individuals

>>10955667
>Break up with her over a hobby
>Or maybe cheat on her, idk
Anon...
He might actually like his girlfriend...

>>10956536
Ah fellow mexican, I feel you bro.
fuck La Mole

>>10955669
I don't know if it would be lesbian to ask for a squeeze, but it would certainly be gay not to

This is gonna sound really weird and autistic, but has anybody else noticed that a lot of cosplayers have very similar faces? At least in my region, among white female cosplayers, it's like there are only 3 different archetypes and everybody within them looks like they could be related. Maybe it's just an illusion created by tons of them choosing very similar makeup and hairstyles but I'm usually pretty good at seeing through that and I don't notice it in the general population.

>>10956694
>Maybe it's just an illusion created by tons of them choosing very similar makeup and hairstyles
this is the answer. say hello to:
>generic stacy
>ethnically ambiguous Kardashian look
>egirl

>>10954680
The things I like are all too obscure to have a group meetup

I hate twinks with a passion if I hosted a con
and it was a twink con id plant bombs in the basement and right when the twinks were having the orgy of their lives id set it off so the twinks and the twink enjoyers would go 5 big booms

>>10957297
op
boom boom boom boom boom

>>10956474
If both of you are responsible and careful enough then it can work. LDR went bad for me, but my cousin met his current gf online and she eventually moved to live with him over here and they've been doing great.

I hate my life

i want friends who aren't trannies but i live in a tranny zone so do i blow my head smooth off

like gay dudes are fine but it's all trannies i cant

troons ruined my life

>>10957369
>>10957373
the solution to this is not talking to the men in dresses

>doesn't look like I'm able to finish my cosplay
Maybe, next year

>>10944083
I've been going to cons since 2012. The kids I gave coloring sheets to at my first con are now 22 and doing slutty Digital Circus cosplay.

>>10948268
Middle school

I'm moving in a couple days and need to downsize hard. I've got decades of games and anime that I will 99% never use again, but if I ever want them back I probably won't be able to buy again. Worse is I've got things that are going up in value that I could make some good money on now, but I have a hard time selling it knowing it will keep going up in value. Anyone recover from being a hoarder of cool things?

I'm jealous of women because they can do all kinds of cosplay I can't
They can do both male and female characters, while as a ultra-mid dude I'm stuck doing full armors
>inb4 crossplay
I'm not doing crossplay and it isn't even allowed in most cons these days (except for women, of course)

>>10958152
Where do they ban crossplay at cons? Thats the first time im hearing this. And why would it be onesided?

I still won't be finish my Cosplay until the deadline
But at least, I continued on it

I really just want a cute girlfriend to do cosplay with, but I am a coward with girls that I find attractive and the times I actually push through my gut I just get nowhere its very tiring.

i've always admired cosplayers and lolitas but i've never had the courage to actually dress up and go outside. plus, i'm a huge perfectionist, so i'm probably never going to be satisfied with my costume/coord if i do. why am i like this
>>10943726
brought back memories of zoomer cosplay tiktok during the pandemic which was rife with people faking multiple personality disorder and tourette's and shit. the ones who were actually batshit insane put tampons in their wigs and smeared period blood on their figs. somehow, i miss that time

I forgot sex existed when should I kill myself

>>10958218
>plus, i'm a huge perfectionist, so i'm probably never going to be satisfied with my costume/coord if i do. why am i like this
the average con goer goes in a shitty aliexpress costume that they don't even bother ironing, if you actually put in effort to how you look both costume and appearance wise you'll mog 99% of the people there, though it helps if you're already good looking
one of the strangest compliments i've gotten while cosplaying is when a girl made me open my mouth and she asked if I ever wore braces, I said no and she said how sexy it is when people have straight teeth

I wish you’d fix your situation instead of wasting your life you’re such a loser

I swear, the generational gap between newer and older fans is always the most obvious when it comes to the waifu question. One girl was giving out ribbons and you got hers by answering "Who do you simp for?" I had to stop and think for a minute, which prompts her to say
>It's ok if you wanna keep that private
I don't care at all about telling someone which cartoon makes my pp hardest, it's the choice of words that irks me. "Simp for"

>>10958548
browse the internet more thats been a term for like at least 5 years

>>10958548
>Simp
It's derived from the world simpleton
It originally meant the actions of a man, who gives most of his money to an onlyfans-thot, and he usually thought, she really likes him
That's why he simped, cause he is/was a simpleton

>>10941913 (OP)
I was dressed up as Goku when I learned that my 15-years-older sister is actually my mom.

>>10958596
sucks

Just went to a con again and I felt really lonely, just wish I had frens to go with but alas
Occasionally getting spoken to regarding cosplay is fun tho but it goes nowhere, and the con has a rave at the end and it's fun to dance with people there but that's also just very briefly
I feel jealous of people seemingly being able to meet people there or I'm just delusional thinking I can meet people there
I did read the socialising thread and it was funny to see "drukmaxxing" but it didn't work for me
Also once again I managed to lose my wallet and either it slipped out my bag or someone just took it idk even know man im tired and done

>>10958596
>I learned that my 15-years-older sister is actually my mom.
And your "mom" is your grandma, isn't it?

I'm currently at an anime-con over the weekend, and my mom called my yesterday, that my grandma died
Damn
I have seen her the last time about 2 months ago

>>10958596
What situation where you in that you were dressed as Goku when this world altering news was broken to you lmao. Did you go to a con with your "sister" for her to then reveal herself as your mother there?

>>10958634
Cons these days, as you've read in the other threads, are more about showing up with your group and dicking around in dealer rooms rather than meeting new people. You're on the right track if you're wearing cosplay that gets people to talk to you since cosplay meetups are basically the last place at conventions where meeting new people is still possible, but at this point if you want to really meet people at cons you have to go back in time by 10+ years.

>>10958634
>>10958852
You guys just aren't trying hard enough I assure you. I go to cons by myself because my close friends don't want to go with me, and I always end up getting a room party invite by the end of the night. I constantly meet new people in the game room (especially in the DDR area. there are people who go to cons exclusively to play DDR), at the bar (if your con is based and has one), at group meetups, in line waiting for big panels, and at the rave. Not everyone there is with a group, there's tons of people by themselves who are more than happy for someone to hangout with them
>>10958596
I would love to see what your family tree looks like

>>10958849
The executor of my grandma's will called me about money, and referred to her as my great grandma. I told him he was wrong, but he insisted. I asked my sister and she confessed that she's my mom. She was cosplaying Teto Vocaloid.

I cut off a friend almost a decade ago when he got brainwashed by /pol/. I saw him again recently and he’s now bi, genderfluid, and dated a black femboy at one point.

>>10959172
idk if there's a term for people like this but they have massive identity issues and constantly hop between ideologies and identities. but my experience with this phenomenon is only with former femboys and trannies detransitioning and proceeding to become full /pol/

>>10959091
Next con, you should go as Trunks and Bluma
Or Son Gohan and Chi-Chi

>>10941913 (OP)
I'm planning on cosplaying Arino sometime. I already have a suitable wig for it. And I'll be carrying around a sign with pic related's text on it.

>>10959091
I'm sorry but this visual is incredible. Your sister, dressed as Teto (Utaloid, not Vocaloid), confessing to you that she actually gave birth to you is just too funny.

Is there any chance of this board coming back to life? It's so damn depressing here. Even the big boobs thread spammers seem to have given up, only threads that even hit bump limit are the AX threads and there used to be at least 5 of those and now it's barely one a year because nobody wants to dump photos somewhere that they don't get "likes".

>>10959642
>Is there any chance of this board coming back to life?
pretty much every low population board feels 10x as dead after the 4chan downtime earlier this year, i'm gonna a lot of people moved somewhere else
>because nobody wants to dump photos somewhere that they don't get "likes".
everyone wants to become famous nowadays, can you blame them? you're not gonna become a famous cosplayer or photographer if you post on an anonymous forum instead of on instagram. plus to normies this site has a very negative reputation so publicly associating here is a red flag to a lot of people

>>10959642
4chan sux desu

>>10941913 (OP)
Dude got mad he didn't win the coosplay contest. When we asked why he should have, he just kept repeating that he spent $1,000 on his costume.

>>10959642
>Is there any chance of this board coming back to life?
any chance of that happening got killed with the 4chan hack

Can you make an itabag out of a colostomy bag?

I will never shy away from asking for pictures of more lewd cosplays

>>10958968
You got some tips for this? Dragoncon's this week and I really wanna make friends. Went last year and it was fun but I hardly talked to anyone more than a minute or two.

>>10959825
Every activity I listed there is somewhere where you have more than enough opportunity to be around someone for longer than a minute or two, either because the line to whatever it is is ungodly long or because you're around these people for a long time (30 minutes to a few hours), but knowing how to small talk with people and having aura are two necessary skills you must learn. Being a skilled dancer is a high aura skill that's really good for rhythm games/raves, and DDR is a good example of something you have to spend time in line for and the line can get pretty big at major cons (like a dozen+ people), and it's a great opportunity to befriend whoever your dance partners are

>>10959825
Also, are you a cosplayer?

>>10953638
A little late but yes. The con badge came with a free meal, but the con chairs ate it all.

I love it when people think sexualizing cosplays is wrong. Bro, people are into fetishes. Some cosplays are deliberately designed in the source to be sexy or alluting in some sort of sexual way. I'm not talking about assault. People like that managed to make flirtation wrong. People are afraid to seek out flirtation, to seek out partners because they will get called out.

I fucking hate this. This is why we can't have nice things.

>>10959903
that's the consequences of zoomers growing up during metoo and the dominance of feminism, men think it's wrong to sexually desire women, they're afraid of being recorded and cancelled for being a creep, in the case of conventions they're afraid of a callout post/google dockey to drop. men are only allowed to convey sexual desire in a "safe horny" way aka "OMG MOMMY PLEASE STEP ON ME!!!", which just makes you look pathetic to the vast majority of women

>>10959912
Not to mention everyone at a convention seems to not have their shit figured out in the slightest, which leaves people having irrealistic, twisted views of reality and common sense. Common sense does not exist in convention culture.And where common sense does not exist, everything else fails.

>>10959913
>everyone at a convention seems to not have their shit figured out in the slightest
despite what people on here say about normies and tourists, the majority of attendees are some variant of mentally ill, whether it's something mild like depression, anxiety, and autism, or something severe like believing you're the wrong gender (funnily enough, most troons at cons are pooners) or faking disabilities. plus, a lot of gen z (especially said mentally ill types) have severe peter pan syndrome and are deathly afraid of being grown up, that's why so many teens (especially congoer types) are desperate to be perceived as children instead of as adults, and since they're "children", that means they get to do whatever cruel shit they want like harassing people for the slightest of slights and if they get pushback they can say things like "I'm 17 I'm a literal child I'm a minor, that's why I harass and send death threats to people uwu"
another huge issue is that these types of people can't differentiate between fiction and reality. probably the most retarded thing to come out of this is adult women getting harassed for cosplaying sexy versions of canonically "underage" characters like raven, misty, asuka, etc, you know something female cosplayers have done for decades, but suddenly it's unacceptable

>>10959917
Im so glad we dont have those first world problems in my shithole country

>>10959917
>the majority of attendees are some variant of mentally ill

100%, from a regular attendee to the CEO of the whole thing. About trans people, most I knw are pretty okay. So many "cis" people are assholes so it's not a related thing at least in my area.

Otherwise, i'm right along with you. Too bad the only way to fight these people is to harass them into not going to conventions anymore. Or to hope they'll figure out their shit.

>>10959917
So out of touch

>>10959912
That’s not safe horny lol, that’s just another fetish