Con Recap!
Another quick break from Murderbot posting to talk about OZ Comic Con Melbourne - of which I was there for half of Saturday but I had a lot of fun! If you make it to the end of this post there's a surprise (and some pics of my artist alley haul)
I wasn't tabling this one sadly so I went as a normal attendee (which is rare for me, these days?) I started the day off exhausted from not enough sleep with all my shit stuffed into my bag because I was too scared to cosplay on the train into the CBD lol (I went as an SCP Foundation Scientist)
I'm am absolutely in the background of some rando's tik tok live doing my best Murderbot itself impression (it was a pair of them and they would not stop screaming, and occasionally yelling "THANK YOU FOR THE ROSE")
I mostly hung out with a bunch of SCP foundation cosplayers and we went and bought some goodies from the LivingLewd booth (it's a local brand which is cool!) and wandered around together. Saw some cosplay mutuals I hadn't seen since a few events ago, it was really lovely catching up! It's always wild when I see people in full MTF tac gear wearing something I've made ;_;
The Anime Girl sticker I got is huge (it's a great car window decal) but I'm not sure if I'm bold enough to put it on my actual car. I'm tempted though. Won't lie.
While I was waiting around outside as lunch plans were being organised (and I was zoning out feeling intimidated by the crowds) one of the friends of the SCP group turned and stared at me dead on and told me she thought I was pretty.
I inflicted mass psychic damage on the SCP Cosplay community (and friends) who are all gen z, when they found how old I was (I am a millennial-z cusper).
One asked my age, I told the group to guess. One got it right, I pointed at him, his jaw dropped and he said "IT WAS A JOKE!" everyone looked at me like I'd just told them I'd killed a man (none of them believed me, apparently I look younger) We were in the middle of Maccas at the time. They were all very loud (and demanded proof lol)
While we were just hanging out, discussing a sign relating to cosplay courtesy, some weird old woman came and took a photo of us, got angry when we said "hey you didn't ask?" and told us "you didn't even smile in the photo" which was like, prophetic timing. We all had a sensible chuckle about how the universe manifested us a living example of what not to do.
I then split to go speedrun the artist alley cause I was running out of time, and very luckily ran into two friends I was hoping to find. One was cosplaying Ghost (CoD) and the other was Biker (Hotline Miami) and we were stopped every 2 meters because someone wanted a photo of Ghost and it was fucking awesome. We kept joking about how far we'd get before we were stopped again. It was like clockwork.
I visited the table of an artist I deeply admire and when they saw me they said "It's you! the CEO of SCP!" and I was like haha yes I'm in scientist/site manager cosplay then they told me they loved my art and I was like W H A T
Screaming, crying, throwing up over the fact I'm now a minor list celebrity in the Australian artist alley as that one SCP person.
I visited a bunch of friends, had some lovely (but sadly brief) chats with peers and got some sweet goodies.
From @gritrook I missed out on a hot ticket item (an incredible Cad Bane zine) but I got there in time to snag this delightful zine that's chockers full of fantastic sketches - if you love monsters and you're not following her what are you DOING - get on it! So much more cool stuff is coming from her.
From hommie_ya I got one of the most unique charms I've ever picked up - made out of a real minidisk and I'm OBSESSED. It's so pretty and iridescent in real life. Photos do not do this justice. Each one is unique and it's such a creative idea.
I can thank ShadowRealmCo for my Site Manager badge and I grabbed one of her new magnets, she sent me a sneak peak of these bad boys and I'm so happy to say I helped inspire its creation! Next time I'm gonna have to go after all the new Resident Evil stuff she's doing because it's SO GOOD!
From my home-city legend DanielAngArt I got this gorgeous print I've been eyeing off and this perfect sticker. The phonebooth reference is from somewhere in Freo, back in WA and knowing that made this all the sweeter to me. It'd been far too long since I last saw him so I was SO grateful to get to catch up. What a bloody legend. It's nice to have a sort of piece of home with me here.
From minute_sarah I grabbed a humble haul of things I've been plotting to grab, including one of her new chao mystery boxes and god I'm so happy with the one I got! She's a fellow Sonic Adventure 2 enjoyer and her work is stunning. I'm gonna have to go for the whole chao collection now.
Last but certainly in no way least, this one's actually a gift from a cosplay mutual and friend herb_cooker_ and I'm not sure what I've done to deserve this thoughtfulness and kindness but I'm obsessed with this - it's glittery and the weird orbs in it look like eyeballs and when they said "I tried to find something that's your thing" I went ballistic when they handed me THIS. Like holy shit yes, thank you, it's perfect.
To cap it all off, here's the surprise, a rare but fun piece of photographic evidence. Pics or it didn't happen. riotvvitch found me in front of a friends table and we started excitedly yelling at each other, the vibes were immaculate. Look how much fun we're both having. (Massive thank you to Shaymonade for taking the photo, I don't get enough photos of myself at events)
Bonus (I don't know what this means but it has 173 in it. So.)
I swear I was just pulling that face for the photo op - character commitment. Dr. Sattler is a pissed off middle manager. Shy is just pissed off, no longer working in middle management.
I had a lot of fun, holy shit. It really reinvigorated me and I was devastated I didn't make more time to hang out with people more. It was so refreshing and I walked away with such a full heart, everyone I spoke to was so kind and so lovely and I don't know how I've gotten this lucky to be able to call so many incredible people my friends.
I'm so hyped for the next event, and I'm fired up to maybe dabble in some more serious cosplays too eventually.
I've been in a slump lately, but man, this was good for my brain.
