#katsucon 19

[savethewailes]

Thanks for another excellent Magfest, it was great seeing you all! Hope to see you next year!

Upcoming winter/early spring shows: Ohayocon January 20-22 2023 Katsucon February 17-19 2023 Gettysburg Reptile Expo March 18th 2023

[figmentrinzler]

20 Days of Cosplay

Day 19: What is your worst cosplay memory.

Either the time I was told I didn't belong at the Marvel meetup when cosplaying the ORIGINAL MARVEL VERSION of Big Hero 6's Honey Lemon FROM THE ORIGINAL COMICS

or...

This year's Katsucon.

I went to it alone for the first time and realized just how it is zero fun without friends.

I'm not the biggest anime person. I only watch a few here and there. Katsu is specifically focused on Japanese media, whereas other cons I enjoy more now are broader in focus. And without anyone to spend time with, plus the strict masking rules (only take it off for a photo/outside lest you get screamed at for an hour by staff), overheating in Dreamfinder, and having a panic attack in the bathroom over all the above... I left 5 hours into the con and went home. Canceled my hotel reservations and everything.

I'm going back to Katsu in Feb, but only because I know I will have two friends I haven't seen in forever with me.

[mortuaest]

SO UH

Before I forget. Other than replying to threads if I have any, my Queue might just produce memes that people can send in if they want until February 15th, 2024 until February 19/20th, 2024..

Ill be at Katsucon 2024 doing my sixth year as staff and will not be available between those times. Ill be having aesthetic stuff be posted from my Queue then, so as a just in case I cant get/wont get to the memes people may send.

JUSt like. Wanted to let yall know.

[indigowallbreaker]

All set to be Gaius this weekend at Katsucon! It'll be sweet to see you there ;)

[lotldraws]

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Holiday Matsuri ‘21 December 17-19

Katsucon ‘22 February 18th-20th

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Katsucon 2022 Panels & Cosplay

Katsucon 2022 Panels & Cosplay

Panels I’ll have this year: FridayDiamonds in the Rough: Anime EditionFriday, 2/18/2022 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Live 8 (Ann 1/2/3)Figures to the MaxFriday, 2/18/2022 |8:30 PM-9:30 PM |Live 7 (NH 6/7)Link the KinkFriday, 2/18/2022 | 11:30p-midnight | Live 7 (NH 6/7)Co-hosting with KurenaiKibaSaturdayViolence Solves Everything (18+)Saturday, 2/19/2022 | 9:30 PM – 11:00 PM | Live 4 (MD…

[cosplayinamerica]

Lio from Promare : sleepiboicos // Photo: marlo.louden

My trip to Katsucon almost didn't happen! It was snowing in Chicago and they cancelled my flight, I found out right in the middle of class and my students started to cheer me on to get a new flight. I was supposed to fly out Thursday morning but I ended up flying on Wednesday night, after we got delayed a few times.

Luckily the people I was rooming with were already there, got there right at midnight and was ready to Shoot Lio the next day at noon. That was the last con I have been to since Covid-19, if I had known that would happen, I would have stayed the extra day! So my two pieces of advice is; take that extra day with your long distance friends and even if something is hard, keep trying! 

People LOVED Lio at Katsu, I was so happy! I worked really hard on it, they really loved the holographic pieces of my costume. I did end up changing those parts when I returned home, they were falling off left and right. I think the most interesting thing at Katsu was ripping my pants seam in the middle of a photoshoot. I was jumping into Kit's arms for a photo and went a little too hard for how tight my pants were.

A lot of hard work, sweat and tears [went into making the outfit]. I had my friend Tiffany from Holicmode designs helping me figure out how to pattern a custom piece to my measurements, not only that but they gave me a ton of advice for using the materials! One of the hardest things was getting the fabric, it was sold out almost everywhere. I made a mock up and now the actual outfit twice to make adjustments.

My name is Roo and I have been cosplaying for over 8 years now but most of my growth has happened during the past few years. I am a full time middle school teacher. Cosplay has given me much more confidence than I ever thought was possible, it also has led me to meeting the most amazing people. Without cosplay, I probably wouldn't have as many amazing friends in my life.

https://www.instagram.com/sleepiboicos/

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[inverts]

late notice, but @yokaiy and I will be at Station Unity this weekend! Yokaiy drew us on this little map so you can find us. We have new prints!

Station Unity is at the same hotel as Katsucon and run by the same people; they will be requiring masks and vaccines (or negative covid-19 tests within the past 72 hours) for all attendees and vendors.

[adorpheus]

I’m digging into the throwback archives again for #31daysofcosplay day 19. I feel like these pics really represent early 2000s cosplay: the shiny fabric, the shiny wig, my wonky handmade dress, and the fact that I’m cosplaying Anthy from the Utena movie. These pics are from Katsucon I think 2005, and this was the first costume I made that won an award. I think it looks sooo hideous in retrospect but at the time I was proud of it. 🤣 I remember it being one of the first times I ever drafted a pattern for a dress, the first time I worked with paper clay, and the first time I entered a con masquerade. I think my sewing skills have come a long way in the past 15 years!

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[morethanaprincess-a]

@galaxybeginnings​ said:  ✨Effervescent

Pretty Word Asks (Please specify if this is for the mun or muse! Otherwise, it’ll be answered by the mun for Munday)

✨Effervescent: What would make you happy right now?

I really had to think about this, but the small things that would make me happy all kind of revolve around a bigger thing: finding a vaccine for COVID-19 and opening up the world again.

I’m not really excited to go back to working in an office (I’m much more productive at home, I’m an extroverted introvert, I’m very blunt when colleagues don’t do things the right/best way), but everything else? I’m really missing right now.

I miss seeing my RL friends, I miss going to conventions and traveling, I miss being able to plan my courthouse wedding with my fiancé (and the honeymoon, which is the real draw besides just being married to each other. Neither of us are wedding people), I miss doing cosplay and fashion photoshoots (especially now that I’m feeling much better, emotionally and physically). But all of those are contingent on a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, really. 

So I guess in the short-term, having all of my recent cosplay purchases arrive would be wonderful. I’m waiting on a new ballgown that I’m so eager to embellish for an upcoming con, as well as the corresponding wig, and starting to work out props I can carry as well. My RP hobby crosses over into my cosplay hobby, because why not just write the muse when you can dress as them too? Not that I know when I’m going to wear my upcoming outfits next, but I’ve had cosplay groups for Danganronpa, Castlevania, and Mobile Suit Gundam put on hold for over a year now and that just makes me sad. I’d also be thrilled to finally attend some cons out of my city/area for the first time in years. I love my local events, but in the past I’ve been to Otakon, Anime Central, Anime St. Louis, and some other now-defunct events. I’d like to say I’ve attended Katsucon at least once in my life (and likely have to drive to it, because flying with all of my outfits is near-impossible. So many skirts). 

And Christmas cheer. I love Christmas RP threads, terrible Christmas romcom movies (and recycling such plots over here), decorations, music, presents, staying cozy and comfortable. 

Instead, I’m just taking advantage of all the weekend sales and trying to ignore the temptation to do IG stories unboxings.

[cr0wprince]

Now I’m afraid my name might be brought up though. I did some shitty things with her when we were friends. It’s been five to almost seven years (five since the last time I spoke to her and almost seven since I met her). I was 17-18 in the time I knew her and I’m very easily influenced by the people around me, but I’m ultimately responsible for my actions. I saw another ex-friend of hers brought up (not by name) and now I’m kind of scared.

I’m gonna be a little vague and my memory isn’t the best (I try to block things out as a defense mechanism), but I’m going to try to recount it, just for my own benefit. I’m not even going to name her, but will refer to her as LR. I don’t think anyone cares tbh lmao

I met her in 2014. It was probably February or March, so I was 17. We were both cosplaying Attack on Titan, very big at the time. Someone posted in a con Facebook group that they made a cosplay group for the area/con for Attack on Titan. I only had my jeans, shirt, jacket (that I made), wig, and glasses for Hanji at that time and I posted a picture, “I’m not too confident in how I look, but here’s my cosplay.” and she commented that it was a good cosplay. We went from there, started chatting, and made plans to meet at the con. She was 19 at the time, of it really matters, but we were still age appropriate friends.

The con comes by. I didn’t wear Attack on Titan the first day, felt kind of left out when we started meeting other people from the group. She’s always been a social butterfly (I think it’s an attention thing more than she actually enjoys it tbh, but I might be biased??) and I’ve been really shy about approaching people after being bullied in middle school. The next two days I wore my unfinished SNK cosplay, didn’t have the belts, but had a fun time.

She ran a panel and promised that I could be Hanji in it and let someone else be Hanji as well, and this person got more attention because she was more outgoing, which kind of bummed me out, but at 17, I was a very jealous cosplayer and would get jealous about people cosplaying the same thing as me. Not a healthy mindset, but it is what it is and you grow from it.

She had told me she was in pre-med (I’m going to remind you she’s 19 at this point, not unusual but it’s what she tells me next which is the questionable part) and that she’s going to start on the medical stuff the next year. I’m 17 and naive and don’t question it. I know now pre-med takes four years. This is an example of her lying to me/holding things in.

We continued being friends with the SNK group, had meetups at a local park, and whatever. She lamented to me about not being able to go to Colossalcon because she couldn’t afford it or something and my parents pay for cons, so I talked them into letting her stay with us. I had started cosplaying Ymir to her Christa and I did have a cry privately to LR when another girl cosplayed Ymir to another girl’s Christa because the other Christa felt left out by me being LR’s Ymir. I felt jealous they got more attention, again, not a healthy mindset, but I was 17 and convinced I was going to be a professional cosplayer. I know now it’s a bad mindset. LR took my meltdown the wrong way, which I’ll get to later.

It wasn’t long after, maybe a couple months. She had stopped hanging out with the friend I had met her with at the con, which I realize now is kind of sus, but I didn’t think anything of it at the time. But anyway, a couple months later at most, she makes a post in the Facebook group that she’s been feeling left out of the SNK group. A few people from it got together to talk about it, she finds out, and I get pissed. I make a big post in the group about how they’re purposely leaving her out. I’m loyal to a fault, and sometimes it blinds me. It splits the group, they still keep together, but LR and I separate from them.

We move on to different series and start doing cosplay photos. It’s something I wanted to do for a while. She’s a little hesitant, but I hype it up and she eventually gets into it. At Otakon, she asks mentions if I’d be okay with her cosplaying Juvia (a big comfort character of mine, and one I’d failed to finish a cosplay of that con, but I’d gotten Levy done, which still worked with her Lucy) and I’m thrown off guard. I tell her no lmao. I mean really though, what would I do? But it’s important later.

I have big plans. I don’t always finish my big plans. I want to do a ton of different cosplays and she feeds into me. She finishes things while I normally don’t. I realize I shouldn’t have agreed to do so many, but also, the one’s she made aren’t unwearable? She can cosplay without me matching? But it’s something she internalizes.

We book lots of shoots. It’s fun! We don’t get the most expensive photographers (we’re 18 and 20 at the time) but it’s fun. There’s a particular photographer I wanted to work with and she books her since she’s dealing with it at this point since I have a lot of anxiety talking to people. By the time the con rolls around, my costume didn’t work out the way I wanted and my skirt is held up with safety pins. It shows in the photos, so does her back acne. She goes on a tangent on her Facebook cosplay page about how unprofessional the photographer is, how she doesn’t edit photos for anyone but her friends. I, unfortunately, share it. At that time, neither of us have a big following (I still don’t, she doesn’t really either, only 3,700 after she remade, but did have almost 10k at one point), so it doesn’t go far. The photographer and friends stick up for the photographer and it doesn’t go anywhere luckily.

I’m falling deeper into depression at this point. I’m not finishing projects I’m supposed to do with her, messages are spotty on my end. We still do a couple of cons together. The next con of the first we met at comes around, I don’t have anything done, I’m mortified. I skip a whole day. It’s in driving distance so it’s not like I was wasting a whole hotel day. She gets photos solo. It seems fine.

She messages me one day that her parents kicked her out. Something about a fight over her mom saying minimum wage workers don’t work as hard and LR snapping back. Her parents were really nice the couple of times I met them, which isn’t always indicative of how someone really is, but now I feel in my gut that there had to be something more. It feels like petty reason. She moves into her grandparents (and further selfies match that, so it seems like it had to be bad if she never went back). She messages me this and I’m thrown so off guard. Yeah, we called each other best friends. We didn’t talk to many other people as far as I knew at that point, but I had no idea what to say. It’s bad on my part, but I didn’t answer her for a week.

She didn’t message me or anything, didn’t delete me off Facebook, but vague posted me there about being there for people when they won’t be there for you, and people were hyping her up. I realized it might’ve been about me. I called her crying, terrified. Sent her messages. I don’t exactly remember what transpired, but did make up.

There was a point she told me she was dropping pre-med to become an accountant because it took a year and she wanted to focus on cosplay. Again, stupid 18yo me believed that that made sense and was like, “Oh okay!”

We went to a couple more cons, I’m pretty sure she was using me. We make plans for Youmacon, but I don’t message her for like a week in September of 2015. She asks if I’m okay (the only time) I tell her I’m doing really bad. We don’t talk until close to the con. I admit to her that I was thinking of admitting myself to the psych ward it was that bad, but though I didn’t tell her that, it’s ultimately a very hard, very personal choice. (I made it in May and it’s not an easy choice.) She tears me a new one, saying I should’ve went, that I was using her for companionship. She said she had plans to go to another con?? So the way I see it, she cared more about going to a con than anything else. She never checked in on me after I told her I was doing bad, just to take my time.

She has a new bff at this point. This is going to be so cruel, but her new friend isn’t as put together, which is fine! Cosplay is for fun! But I mention this because they get photos together. After my obsession with becoming a professional cosplayer, LR got into that mindset too. I’m so fucking sure that she used this other girl in photos to look better next to. The difference is so obvious in photos.

I make a cosplay that LR cosplayed when we were friends. I’m so proud. I haven’t finished anything in months. I cosplay a couple of things she did, but we were friends at one point, we like the same series, and there are a lot of big series. It’s bound to happen.

She vagues me on Instagram. She continues to stalk me on there (and I did her, not proud of it, but I’ll admit it). She posts things about how an ex friend had a breakdown over her having other friends (when I confided in her my jealousy over the Ymir/Christa duo), how I wouldn’t let her cosplay Juvia lmao (this still gets me. What would I do? Break your arm? You asked me on the spot and I was uncomfortable.). There was one Juvia cosplay post that I mentioned I had lost weight because while my uncle was dying, I wasn’t eating. I was helping with cleaning his house and I just wasn’t fucking eating. She took that as a jab about her because she has self image issues. There was also a big post she made how she KNEW I was cosplaying all the same things as her to make her jealous and to make her insecure, mentioning me by name even. I reported it and it got taken down.

I’d heard things through the grapevine. How she started shit in the Fate community and she was afraid of being beat up at Katsucon’s public photoshoot. How she tried to make a Love Live group, but when two girls couldn’t afford it and they would no longer have all nine, she threw a fit and cancelled the whole group. I’d also heard about her making a fuss over photos she got back when a cosplayer’s grandparent was dying. I stayed away after like a year, but a couple of people who knew me that knew I was friends with her would tell me things.

I wasn’t the best person, either. I’ll take responsibility for that. I wish I could apologize to the people I hurt while friends with her, but I no longer remember their names. I was a dumb teenager. I still get swept up in the people around me and get carried away when the people I are about are hurt. Maybe it’s something I need to work on. But, I ultimately don’t think she’s grown. I don’t think she’s gotten better. I think she’s only gotten worse over the year.

I’m not proofreading. There might be more, but it was a lot to go through, but I wanted to get it out. I hope the read more works, but I’m gonna throw on a long post warning too. If you read this, thank you, by the way. I just felt like I had to get it out.

[indigowallbreaker]

Got our badges and are at dinner. Let the Katsu fun begins!

[barnowlz]

Stong as the Mountain- (me as Zarya at Katsucon 19)

I'm really proud this cosplay and so happy with how this photoshoot went and cannot wait. To be Zarya again

[katsucon]

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[surrealmakeup]

The Katsucon crunch is real!! I can’t wait to see everyone there! . . . #Repost @scienceofcosplay ・・・ It's only 19 days until KatsuCon! How close are you to getting everything done? Or have you been leaving something til the last minute? I still need to finish Elsa (there's just so many rhinestones!!) and work out which Taako I want to bring to con. It'll probably be a combination of pieces from other Taako's and a new piece - I've been working on some stuff that isn't necessarily cosplay just to keep my brain occupied with fun things. Sometimes it's nice to just make stuff and not have a deadline! Although, my brains only been able to think about cloaks recently. Would anyone want a custom cloak? I might start listing them on my story if people would actually want them. . Wig @ardawigs Glitter @surrealmakeup . #elsa #frozenelsa #frozen2 #frozen #disney #disneyprincess #showyourself https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Hk7L-ne_2/?igshid=1oqkvomhd2wog

[cosplayinamerica]

Michael Burnham from Star Trek:Discovery: kijai9y0 // Photo: anexagoras.cosplay

I picked the character because she's a brave badass and risk taker. I don't think a lot of people know this but I also like badass characters that don't care and are strong willed regardless of any obstacle they encounter.

When I started to wear my Michael Burnham cosplay I was just walking around minding my own business and having a good time Katsucon with a group of friends I used to hangout with. In addition, I also had a photo shoot planned that day too. Until, I got approached by an Aizawa cosplayer which was unexpected and surprising because no one usually approaches me at all despite becoming so adapted to being alone for a long time by it came to a point where I suppressed my emotions and felt nothing due to personal issues I had faced.

My favorite part of cosplaying would be finishing the final pieces to the cosplay because not only you get to wear it but also accomplish and have fun into the costume too. During Covid-19 I managed to cosplay indoors to take costests before going in the costume process. I think I'll return to conventions once I'm fully vaccinated and a certain percentage in the country in the U.S gets the vaccine. I believe the issues the cosplay community are facing right now are accountability, performative activism, and racism.

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