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I need you folks who are going back to school to understand this, sleep deprivation is not something to be proud of. You are being fed capitalist propaganda to make you believe that working yourself to the bone is a good and smart business model from a young age. If all you do is “get 3 hours of sleep” because you’re studying, you’re just gonna burn out quicker, forget the information you’re trying to cram, and cause your brain to cannibalize itself.

Do not compete by making unhealthy habits. This will only fuck you up in the long run.

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Found a video of one of the folks doing video and photgraphy at JoMoCon so I thought I would share.

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I had a good time at the convention I was volunteering for. Jomocon was a great one day convention. I just wish I could have cosplayed but circumstances made me make the (correct) decision to go 'nah comfy clothes instead'.

I felt my panel went well for my first panel in a decade, I just wish I had walls.

My only big complaint is that I didn't take photos because I was at the registration table the entire day it felt like. Which wasn't a big deal, I offered to stick around when asked. We were down a lot of volunteers from the sounds of it.. AND I got to be there when I gave out the very last wristband and break out the paper ones!! (Ignore that we found like 30 wristbands in the back oops)

I also got elected to the board so I will hopefully be more involved for the next year.

Was there anyone else there?

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perfect

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truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

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Revenge!

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truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

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Simplicity having another pattern sale again

Ends 7/31

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I didn’t take many photos this weekend, but you can enjoy this one that made me laugh.

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I've seen too many people go 'I've decided to make a cosplay 3 day before the con' on purpose and film it for content and part of me knows they either already have the cosplay finished.. or they're glorifying the burnout. And both are bad. We've all been there and went 'oops I mismanaged my time/something happened' but that's a different convo.

In my many years of going to con, sewing in the hotel room was seen as normal. And thus I've stepped on needles or we had so much thread on the floor. Or, in one case, my roommates sprayed sealant on their props IN THE HOTEL and gassed us out. We've cut wigs and styled wigs in the hotel (not just a touch up) and it leaves a mess and makes everyone have to wait or stay up late. It's rude to your hotel buddies.

It's okay if a cosplay isn't done for a convention. You can wear what you have if it's wearable (be a casual/street/modern version of it) or just wait until the next con or debut it on social media if that's your vibe. The fandom will still be there. Your love for the character should still be there.

Probably my most controversial take but I think we should stop glorifying con crunch. It's not cool to purposefully stress yourself out. Especially to keep up with 'trending' fandoms.

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*This is more for informative panels about subjects or niche hobbies

Edit: I should specify that related images but no words means images on a projector while the speaker TALKS.

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*This is more for informative panels about subjects or niche hobbies

Edit: I should specify that related images but no words means images on a projector while the speaker TALKS.

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Probably my most controversial take but I think we should stop glorifying con crunch. It's not cool to purposefully stress yourself out. Especially to keep up with 'trending' fandoms.

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anyway in the hopes that i can save just one person from living the horror of my 20s: if you have a friend that seems a little too invested in callouts i hope you can get out of there safely

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a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesn’t even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.

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Anyway this disability pride month I would like to shoutout disabled folks whose creativity has suffered because of their condition. I’m talking people with hand tremors and pain that stop them from drawing, knitting, and playing instruments. People whose thinking has become so disorganized that nothing they write makes sense to other people. People with chronic pain who can no longer dance. People so over medicated in a fruitless attempt to maintain stability that the wells of their imagination have run dry.

I see you and I love you. You are more than your creative output. You are not a shell of what you used to be. You are a whole, complete person, regardless of what your creativity has been, is now, or will be in the future.