Comic Con Portugal 2018 recap
I was supposed to do this yesterday, but I got distracted whoops.
Also reminder that this was my first convention! So my expectations were low, and even tho’ I diiiid notice some problems, I still had fun.
Anyway had to wake up super early that day so that me and a friend could meet up with the peeps we planned to go with at the con. Despite my directions and not understanding trains and getting confused, we managed to get there in time.
I also met up with a couple of my old classmates who were definitely being huge memers, and caught up just a tiny bit before we started getting into the con.
Oh and the weather in the morning was bad, it was slightly rainy and stuff, no surprise there.
But once we got in, I just... didn’t know where to start. So me and my friend were glued to the group for a bit. I did meet a follower for femmy there tho’!!! So that was really nice and made me happy!!!
But after me and my friendo tried to ask to take a pic with a cosplayer we got stuck with a survey person and from there our group just split. Afterwards we just said fuck it and explored the merch area and bought stuff by ourselves.
Also me and the friend got really nervous about asking people to take pics with cosplayers. Like, I know that they like dressing up and getting pics taken when asked, but y’know, I have a thing called social anxiety \o/
But after we managed to take a first pic with cosplayers, we went nuts afterwards and tried to take pics whenever possible. I’ll make a separate photoset post for that one right after this one. EDIT: They’re right here and here
Then we also went to the artist alley, which now that I think about it was kind of in a poor condition... But nonetheless I still bought stuff from there:
The pretty watercolor print is by beaBlodau, she has an instagram and a facebook, and has really pretty stuff!!
The Homura notebook up top is by marikyuunn, she has a lot of social media stuff so it shouldn’t be hard to find her! Her art is really cute!!
And the Beatrice picture was a commission I asked to boreahlis. I really liked how it it came out!! So far I only found a Twitter??? I dunno man, tracking down social media and researching is not my forte.
The hearthstone pin is just a thing a friend bought me, don’t mind that.
I also got two other things like
The drill that pierces the heavens. Cost me like 8 euros but so worth it... it even has a really nice weight to it!
Oh and my most prized possession...
My good boy Lelouch from Code Geass. Money well spent.
I wanted to check out more stuff, but I was so done and tired at the end of the day, my legs were dying from trying out a VR game (I’ve achieved a new highscore for the game tho’ so worth it.) and I just could go on man.
Then me and friendo attempted to go home, despite missing our bus and waiting until 10:30 pm for the next one. At least we had some company from our group.
I also got like... a ton of socialization experience from this, aaand I managed to add 2 peeps into my discord. Which is more than I got in the last 6 months. Now the hard part is actually keeping contact, but I’ll manage I hope.
But yeah, despite questionable decisions for the convention, I had fun as a first timer.
I’m gonna throw in a couple of photos I took from the even after the break, and sorry to mobile users if this doesn’t work!!