#katsucon17

[noctur-naly]

I love the way this pic came out even though I was the only one not looking at the camera oops #pokemongo #pokemongocosplay #blanche #blanchecosplay #candela #candelacosplay #spark #sparkcosplay #katsucon17 Spark: @hoshitonatsume Blanche: @yammrams 📷: @_nichronicles (at Katsucon)

[amenokitarou]

Thinking about how to eat my Katsudon tonight. 📷 Photo by @christines_cosplay #InappropriateCaptioning #butsoappropriate #yurionice #viktornikiforov #cosplay #Katsucon17

[rebloghogs]

Take some Princess Leia selfies from Katsu .3.

I have a few more selfies I wanna post but take this for now~! I had my friend Kat take some very nice shots of me at the con too ^^, so I’ll upload those later once they are edited. Again thanks to @neckfruits for letting me become Leia ;-;

[locustpoof]

Awesome borderlands cosplays from katsucon‘17!!! You guys rocked and totally made my con to see you!

pic 2: Rhys - spacechampion pic 4: Fishnet Jack - waterguardianlance

[spaced0utcyd]

[tenshinokorin]

So a moogle, a tonberry, and a fat chocobo go on an adventure...

[sparrowmoose-blog]

Lance is @bokutow It was nice meeting you at #katsucon !! #voltron #klance #lancemcclain #galrakeith #keithkogane #katsucon17 (at Katsucon)

[bythegoddess4]

I may police the world, still I must be a Queen!👑 X-Men: Storm 💨🌀 ⚡⚡⚡☁ #Marvel #Marvelheroes #weatherwitch #windrider #CapeQueen #gown #Katsucon #Marvelroyalty #Xmen #Storm #Ororomunroe #whitehair #Geek #Nerdgirl #posemaster #Cosplay #wakanda #katsucon17 #Comicheroes #Mutants #nerd #Goddess #Queen #model #XMen #Cosblack #Whiteeyes (at Katsucon)

[cookiesthegreat]

Me today #rwby #katsucon #katsucon17 #cosplay #queen👑 #Salem #rwbycosplay @roosterteeth

[cayannacarma-blog]

My Guren cosplay~~~ I'm ready for you Katsucon! ##owari #no #seraph #guren #owarinoseraphguren #katsu #katsucon #katsucon17 #katsucon2017 #vampireanime #vampirecosplay #feridcosplay #anime #fangs #nccosplayer #cosplay #cosplayer

[novelteanottes]

Forgot to post yesterday oof. Here are two lovely shots I can't resist showcasing! Feel free to use the full photo from my fb. Two rare kinshi knights 🏹 I've loved the design even without the kinshi, though I then personally regretted reclassing Takumi as such 😅 Still, I'm glad someone cosplayed softer pineapple boy. And Reina doesn't get enough love for being a badass lady. Also Robin and her lovely lights are back from when I first saw her with them in a masquerade! They're so pretty and hard to capture in a shot. I'm always excited to see #fireemblem #cosplay with a special twist to let you know just how much the characters mean to them, and wish I had the same skills to pull it off ❣ #fireemblemcosplay #Katsucon #katsucon17 #katsucon2017 #fefates #fireemblemfates (at Katsucon)

[rebloghogs]

Take a compilation I like to call “Princess Leia Messes Around in Photoshop”

These were photos of my Princess Leia Cosplay in our “test shot” location. We basically tested some photos in this spot and then moved onto a new location. However, some of these photos were wayyyy too good to pass up on! So here ya go~! I’ll upload the other set of photos after I’m finished editing them ^^

Cosplayer & Editor: @rebloghogs

Photographer: @enderbug

Creator/Owner: @neckfruit

[ryki]

Katsucon 2017 Report!

So this was my first Katsucon -- my second convention overall -- and let me just tell you how much I loved it.

Friday I was Phichit from Yuri! On Ice. Saturday I was Lance from Voltron. Sunday I was Hinata from Haikyuu!!

I’ll break it down into things I remembered and loved, and things that I had problems with!

Positives!

The people we roomed with were -- for the most part -- a real pleasure to be around. They didn’t judge and were actually very kind about complimenting my first cosplay that I made -- granted, it was really only the jacket I made from scratch but they were so nice about it, giving me compliments and saying it looked good. ;; It made me feel really good that people thought my first cosplay was good and it gives me so confidence to keep going.

I would totally room with most of the people we roomed with for next year, and I hope that we made a good enough impression to be allowed back into the room next year, too! ; w ; Hopefully between now and then, I can work harder on making my cosplays better and getting better at make-up so I can show off more.

Most people were really sweet and kind to us and were more than ready to help us in the AA/DR and be patient with our requests. We had to wait a while for some AA booths but that’s expected considering that they had a lot of fanart for popular series! The artists as well as other con-goers were really patient and understanding when we had to leave booths or making way for us when we came to a new booth so it was really nice just having so many people be kind to us. 

I really liked the Voltron shoot, too! It was just-- it was so nice being around so many people with the same interests and feeling a part of something, like-- not to quote the show, but feeling like I was a part of something bigger. Everyone was so kind, for the most part, and it was just fun being able to meet and adopt people into our group. 

We adopted a Pidge or two and adopted them into our group (we were only missing Shiro, d’aw!) so it was really nice to meet them and they were such sweethearts and adorable that I’m glad we swapped handles so I could be friends with them. I can’t wait to be able to cosplay with them again, they really helped boost the fun!

The Voltron shoot was just so much fun in general and even if there were obvious disagreements (age, discourse) no one was disrespectful about it, at least not out-right. For a meet, the maturity of everyone was really good, so I’m really glad my first fan shoot went as well as it did. The rules were to keep it discourse free and I’m so glad that everyone stuck to that or I wouldn’t’ve enjoyed it like I did.Everyone was really mature and I’m so thankful that I didn’t feel self-confident at all.

(I’m still not over the time we did a cheerleading pyramid to actually ‘form Voltron’ where I shouted, “THIS ISN’T WHAT I MEANT WHEN I SAID I WAS A BOTTOM!” or something like that. Wait, I think it was, “THIS IS NOT HOW I WANTED TO BOTTOM!”-- Something as equally as dumb, LMAO. I made everyone laugh. [Heart eyes.] Boost my ego, pls.) 

We also had a really pretty Princess Peach (I believe that’s what they were!) ask my fiance and I to take a photo of us and I was so happy!! (We were Klance and Klance was their otp, heck yeah.) That was the first time someone who wasn’t always cosplaying Voltron asked for a photo of us and it made me feel so proud and happy. To the point we even asked them if they wanted us to pose, LOL. I hope they enjoyed the photo, they really helped boost my confidence as a cosplayer and I can’t thank them enough for it. 

We met a lot of adorable individuals, too. Logan, Jem, Britany, Robin, Rebecca, Jensen and a few others. They really helped me feel better about my cosplay and everything. It was just so much fun being able to actually spend time with our friends at a convention and actually feel like we were part of a group. 

(Anime Fest 2016 was great but it was mostly us following our friends’ friends around and not feeling part of the group, always being neglected -- though to no fault of our friends, we understand that people enjoy their cosplays and they have a friend group that’s closer to them but it was just... a lonely convention and we didn’t branch out much because we had no one to branch out with. Katsucon was different because we felt like we were a part of something. ;; I really adore everyone I’ve met through Kat.)

And it was so nice to meet old online friends (Nikita and Ash!!!) and being able to plan for next year’s convention to do group shots and everything, I just really loved feeling like I had friends (I mean, I do have friends but it’s different feeling like you can actually meet up with them, take pictures, hug and stuff than just online things. ;;) and loved that I could make plans with people and have hopes for next year.

There was a moment during dinner that Kieran noticed our rings and istg, it was exactly like that moment in YOI when realization dawned on them, LMAO. (Which is funny when you remember Kieran cosplayed Phichit, too!!!) 

We got a lot of merch this time too, and we even cried over our wallets for it. But it was so worth it. +w+ A lot of stores sold out on Friday and Saturday but we managed to get most of the stuff we wanted to get, which was really great. We didn’t get everything we wanted because of money and out of stock but we definitely picked up business cards to hopefully buy stuff later. All the artists and their friends were so precious.

There was one booth that was the mom of the artist and she was so sweet and cute, and really nice and accepting. She was a blast! I’d totally want to support her and her child again in the future since she was so sweet. ;-;

Negatives!

The bus ride, definitely, is my top negative!

This convention was really big so it was awfully crowded but people were really understanding if you bumped into them by accident or needed to rely on their tables (AA/DR). So when I was struggling walking in my Lance cosplay, they understood perfectly that I needed to a break or I was having issues. But it was really crowded and at some points, people got really pissy/rude.

Like the Reinhardt for example-- yeah, the really tall one that everyone’s fawning over. They were in the AA and if you were there, you knew that crowded places with small walk-ways (probably fits three people at most between booths) are not the best places for massive cosplays. But this person, lord give me strength, was so rude about bumping into people. They bumped into me while my back was turned into them and almost knocked me over if I hadn’t grabbed on to the artist’s table we were visiting. He turned around and, so rudely, said ‘ExCUSE me.’ as if I was the one who bumped into him. And I’m still pissed off about that. 

If you’re going to do giant cosplays, for the love of shared interests, don’t bring them into the AA or the DR unless you know you’ll have enough space to get around without bumping into people. And don’t be rude when you knock people over, jfc. What if the person you knocked over was an older person or someone with anxiety or fears or injuries? You don’t own the damn place, so don’t act high and mighty just because people fawn over your cosplay, jerk.

Another problem I had with this convention was bathrooms. Which, I get this all the time when I use the restroom. I’m not male passing but I’m still male, and just because I’m trans doesn’t make me any less than a man -- but some people don’t understand that. There were some people who were good about apologizing (I’m still sorry for being rude, D!) and acknowleding their mistakes, but to the jerks who literally tried to block me off from the bathrooms or who loudly stated, ‘Why is there a girl in the bathroom?’ -- Fuck you. 

You’re at a damn convention where people are cosplaying, crossplaying, crossdressing or trying to enjoy a safe environment without judgement based of their gender, you have no right to be discriminative or rude because you assume this or that about me.

There was also this one person who kept latching on to us and making me really uncomfortable; all they would do is talk about themselves and their interests while following us around and -- I understand it’s nice having shared interests but if the only conversation you have to offer is about yourself, what you spent, what you have, what you did, then I’m sorry but I’d rather not wander around with you. Especially if you keep touching us without permission, I don’t care if wasn’t inappropiately but please keep your hands to yourself. (It took us a good 20 minutes to find a perfect oppurtunity to ditch them.) 

Overall!

That’s all I can think of for now but!!! I had a total blast, despite everything and it was so much fun just being able to hang around with my friends and everyone. ; w ; We’re definitely going to be more active in the con area because of how rewarding it felt and how much fun it was. We might try to go to local conventions, too, but it all depends on our finances! (It was so fuuuun, I cry. ;; w ;;)

Thank you everyone who made this convention a good one for me, despite everything, and for your kind words and help. Y’all are the best, y’all are what make conventions fun, and I hope that good things come your way for allowing me to feel great, even if for a few days.

[dailymomcellati]

katsucon line up and munday selfies ✌️

[spaced0utcyd]

[raiko91]

@Regrann from @papercube - A wild Snorlax appears! 😜 - #katsucon #katsucon2017 #katsucon17 #comiccon #animecon #manga #anime #comic #convention #cosplay #cosplayer #snorlax #pokemongo #pogo #niantic #snorlaxcosplay #nationalharbor #papercube - #regrann