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cozylittleartblog · 13 days ago

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GRAAAHHH SORRY THIS IS SUDDEN BUT OH MY GOD I FINALLY FOUND YOU. IM THE BENREY THAT RAN UP TO YOUR BOOTH AR AMW THIS YEAR AND MY FRIEND BOUGHT ME LIKE ALMOST ALL YOUR VALVE STUFF, I LITERALLY CRIED WHEN I GOT BACK TO THEIR ROOM CAUSE LIKE DUDE. THAT MEANT EVERYTHING FOR ME, I WAS GENUINELY SO SO SO HAPPY TO SEE THE FANDOM IS STILL ALIVE AND IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR FANS IN THE WILD FOR YEARS. THE EXPERIENCE WAS ENLIGHTENING TO SAY THE LEAST AND IM SO SO JOYOUS ABOUT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH !1!11! :•3

:D !!!! HI!!! I REMEMBER YOU!!! THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY, I'M SO HAPPY IT WAS MEMORABLE FOR YOU!!

people who are so enthusiastic about the things i make and the fandoms i rep at my booth are THE #1 coolest part of the experience 🥺 i feel like convention artist alleys these days are mostly filled with the same 4 popular anime/mobile games and it's really hard to find less popular anime, let alone things like video games and webseries. you would not believe how many comments I got that people never see things like Team Fortress 2 or Portal in AAs, let alone stuff like Infinity Train or HLVRAI 😭 the people who recognize them are always SO excited and then I'M excited and we are BOTH excited and nerding out together. it's fantastic!!!

the hlvrai fandom is definitely still going strong! i still see a lot of fanart and community posts and my sales on my few hlvrai things on my etsy have Not slowed down lmao. i'm sure if covid didn't happen there would have been so many benry cosplayers in 2020. we were ROBBED </3 i've seen You and one benry cosplayer at ACEN last year and that was IT </3 </3 </3

#ask #agoraphobiclemons #at anime central i had an admin for one of the radiotvsolutions folks stop by my booth. they were also very excited #to see my art prints i had of the science team!! they were also very nice :3 and a neopets fan. big W #hlvrai is one of those fandoms where you might not meet them super often but when you do they're the coolest people #anyway hearing from people who saw me at cons is so so so fun #im booked for the same con next year already and fingers crossed i can get into acen again #anyway. fellow artists. bring some merch for things that aren't the biggest thing in the world #if everyone's selling genshit midpact you have to split the attention of every attendee who plays it #if you're the only booth selling something thats only moderately popular though. you'll get all that attention to yourself #and everyone that recognizes it will be really really excited about it. and then its not a Transaction its an Interaction and its FUN #i am saying this as somebody who never watches popular anime or plays gacha games pleeeeeeease diversify your catalogues dhjbdsfbhj #i started attending cons in 2016 and the 2016 ~ 2019 cons were completely different from cons in 2022 ~ 2024 #and 'oh well they're Anime Cons ofc they have an emphasis on anime' isnt even an excuse because before 2020 it wasnt like that #esp here in chicago where we have like. three pop culture cons total. and they all have Anime in the name. doesnt stop anybody #or at least it didnt used to #anyway i am mentally pinning this ask in my brain corkboard and i will look at it forever <3 fandom is beautiful #THANK YOU FOR THE MESSAGE !!!! <3

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