cornerofmadness

Unless you've always stayed at the hosting hotel you've probably seen the striptease. You stumble back to your car, covered in con funk, sweating body parts off under your cosplay and you start stripping it off right there at the car. The hardest part is trying to get pants on under your skirt without carrying everything back to the hotel/convention center bathroom. I don't always change but if I'm going out to eat I do (mostly because I do not want to trash my expensive cosplay)

I almost didn't go today. At midnight my phone rings. It's my parents. I thought 'my uncle died.' Dad starts with 'your mother' and I thought Mom Died! No but her bad foot (she already lost one toe) has a toe that lost it's skin and started swelling out of the blue (It was bugging her some this summer.) Should I go to the ER? Yes please. Can't I just call my podiatrist in the morning? Yes but you probably won't get past her front office people (because you never can any more). She decides to wait (so you call me for my medical opinion and midnight and ignore it). Sure enough she didn't get in this morning and went to her GP who DID squeeze her in. She has antibiotics and an appt to see podiatrist and to get an x-ray next week. I'm unhappy about this. I am a big proponent of hitting this shit with IV antibiotics (like I made her do last year with the other foot and there's still 5 toes over there). So here's hoping this is enough.

She told me to go this morning so I did. I almost regretted it because the wait was insane. I didn't preregister because of my health and the preregistered line was just as bad. 1 1/2 hours to get inside. I did like the dealer's room. It was odd though. For an anime con it was more fantasy, see it at a renn fest sort of thing. Just a couple people with Hazbin/Helluva Boss stuff...and almost NO other animes I knew. Pokemon still everywhere. I do not know why I didn't see more anime stuff. One person had their art as wall scrolls and beach towels but no where near as good as the artist I know (sadly in Spain where shipping doubles the cost) There was some D&D stuff (no dice goblin back the fuck away. This one young man was saying i have so many dice. Sweetie, Mama Con here has been doing this for 40 years, you have no idea how many I have)

I did get some pins and wall art I SWORE I wouldn't buy. The one big piece was also offered on metal which looked amazing but tripled the price (and if I'm getting into that price range I'd rather it be limited run stuff). I did get one Angel Dust that looked like an oil painting (The Vaggie one was outstanding but I'm not a giant fan of hers) but it was 3-D printed. I had NO idea you could do that and make it look like painted art. It was cool, had to have it.

I said I wouldn't buy a t-shirt. they had only ONE t-shirt vendor. I bought a t-shirt (hangs head in shame) I couldn't pass it by it says The Uncanny Valley Society. You'd never know we're not people.

On the other hand, I was incredibly disappointed in the panels. I mean they were BAD. I only got to two and the only thing worth it was the time off my feet. The steampunk one was just lists of things (musicians, anime, tv shows) and the owl house one was a group of friends telling us who they like and why (which okay IS a popular thing on Youtube too but I couldn't figure out who cares...like I don't expect you to engage if I list it for my Fannish 50 but it's not me doing it at a con. Given how many people bailed I wasn't alone in not caring (yes I bailed too but it was 530 and I was done for)

I did pick up the webtoon Lackadaisy in the traveling Manga Library and read about half of it (time) Betty has been telling me to give it a look. (going to see if I can talk the library into it) I did like it, 1920 speakeasies in St Louis and the characters are cats. I like Viktor (would really like to slap Rocky into next week)

Overall it was a good day.