#supanova 2023

[lensflarenz]

The first time I've seen Hanako-san accompanied by his vassal outside school grounds.

Yashiro Nene: Mochietotti

(Sadly I never got Hanako-san's name. Please contact me 😭)

[ami-v-dragnire]

Park Date! happy season 3 announcement day!!! please enjoy these park photos we took at brisnova! __ 😇 : @storyartistmitty 😎 : Me 📷 : @stargia_

[thatrandombystander]

Help find his creator!

If anyone knows how to spread words through a fandom, I need to know who made this tiny clay Vash plush. They handed it to me at Supanova Sydney on Saturday and ran off before I could say thank you 🥺🥺

I want to properly say thank you and buy them a present at a future con if they're comfortable to meet like that 🥺🥺🥺

It was my first time cosplaying and I got him within an hour of arriving. It was the highlight of my whole weekend and I'm going to turn him into a pin to commemorate it and wear when cosplaying Vash in the future. I will cherish him 🥺🥺🥺🥺

If you know who made him, tell them to contact @thatrandombystander on Tumblr or @/AceBystander on Twitter!!!

[ethantheannus]

that’s a wrap on melb supanova for this year! here’s my cosplays from both days :)

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

From Lynette Noni's post:

I’m finally beginning to catch up on everything from the last few weeks, so here’s some fun pics from @supanovaexpo Gold Coast and Melbourne last month! I had the best time hanging with amazing authors @freyamarske, @trnapper, @longlukearnold, @say_shannon, and @gracechanwrites (plus @jameslindsayauthor and @marclindsayauthor) over the two weekends! And it was beyond incredible to see so many readers and talk about books! 😍

Huge thanks as always to the phenomenal Supanova staff and volunteers who go over and above to make the event/s magical (especially the literary manager @pagsbelfield, and of course the fab PAs like Teela and Kyle (among others!) who took such great care of us all). I wish I could thank everyone involved in making the event/s so special, but instead, I’ll just say I adore you all - and of course a MASSIVE thank you to all the readers who came out to see me/us! All the feels!! ❤️

Bonus from her instagram stories:

[noddytheornithopod]

Attending Supanova Melbourne 2023

So yeah, went to Supanova this year. Gonna put everything under the cut in case it gets lengthy.

First, how did the big thing go? Well, here’s the autograph I got.

Wasn’t too surprised the wait for Tem was a decent amount of time, but I was standing there for a decent amount of time. Honestly the worst part was having to hear the Jurassic Park theme blared over and over because of this anniversary attraction they had set up.

The meeting was fairly brief and impersonal, but he seemed pretty chill. Was too nervous to really say much or speak properly, but oh well, at least I got to meet him for a minute. XP

The line to get in wasn’t too bad, actually. I saw many people in cosplay at the train station so was expecting a lot to get in, but it turned out fine for the most part.

Lots of food stalls. I’m sceptical of con food so I just got a smoothie, though I was offered some cookie later on which was nice. One of the weirder things we spotted was what seemed to be... recruitment for Australian intelligence agency? No thanks, not joining the army. :v

Got to see many stalls too. Mostly artist ones, saw some stuff I recognised both fandom wise (MANY modern cartoons) and even one or two artists I actually follow. Didn’t really do much in that regard, but it was nice to see. Probably what was most amusing was that I saw a stand with body pillows, another with those boob mousepads, lol. A couple of other nice stands too, like one focusing on Polynesian heroes, and a lot of the expected fan organisations like I think the Mandalorian Mercs?

Anyway... the most fun part was definitely seeing all the cosplay. Here’s everything I can recall that stood out to me.

So to start, I met up with a friend I occasionally see IRL, and he knew some other people, and they were cosplaying from the Guilty Gear games. I don’t know anything about the franchise, but I just have to commend the effort, because this guy got a whole ass coffin made, and he was wheeling it around everywhere with us. From what I can find, the character’s name is Goldlewis Dickinson? Two of the others were dressed as this one blonde girl with a yo-yo, and another was an alien that would pose inside the coffin.

So much Star Wars. Was to be expected, but still. So many Mandalorians (and many Din Djarins specifically). So many Grogus I wish I had a tally to count how many I saw. There were a few Boba Fetts, a few Jedi and Sith (only ones from memory I think I recognised were Obi-Wan and Kylo Ren, yes he’s not a Sith but whatever lol). Noticed some stormtroopers and TIE pilots too. There were some clones, one or two Rexes, and at least one 501st clone. Got to see a clone scout trooper too, which was cool. the only thing on my bingo Saw a remote controlled R2-D2 and another remote controlled astromech I’m not sure I remember, but I think it’s the one Obi-Wan took with him to Utapau in Revenge of the Sith? The colours were close at least. Think I saw some Leias and Padmes too, and even a Narkina 5 prisoner. Besides the clone scout, probably the highlight was someone in a whole Gonk Droid costume. They had the box and everything.

This was pretty small, but a guy was dressed as a chef and had a raccoon on their head. Yes, that was Raccaconie from Everything, Everywhere All at Once.

There was a guy dressed as Ronald McDonald... with Colonel Sanders’ decapitated head. Even had “I’m killin’ it” on the back of the outfit.

Yep, I found some Danganronpas. No Tsumugis (come on guys it’s such a meta idea someone please do it), but I did spot a Komaeda. without a Sans I saw at least one or two Junkos, but I noticed a surprising amount of Mikans? And like, I even saw Nurse Joy from Pokemon around, so I was able to tell when the nurse outfit was hers. Also found an Ibuki and I think a Chihiro and a Toko? Also a couple of Monokuma style outfits, one guy had cool facepaint that mimicked the character.

Saw a couple of Owl House cosplays. One person was I think Willow, I saw a Lilith, and maybe an Amity too? Think I saw someone dressed as Luz too.

Noticed a few Doki Doki cosplays. There was one really cool Monika as I was entering I wish I was able to catch a photo of. There was a couple I struggled to be able to tell, but maaaaybe I spotted a Sayori and Natsuki... or two? I recognised a Yuri though, and she was with one or two other Monikas.

Some Doctor Who stuff I noticed. A purple Dalek, and one of the classic ones at a stand. Think I might’ve seen an Eleventh Doctor and maybe also an Amy Pond? Was hard to tell.

I saw a few of those blow up dino costumes, lol.

I’m CERTAIN I saw someone with their head covered with Red Guy from Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.

I did spot a group as MLP characters.

There were furries attending!

There might’ve been a Spyro? It looked like a Spyro onesie at least, but they were wearing something over it so IDK.

There were some She-Ras, I’m pretty sure one was even a guy crossdressing. And it was the old fashioned skimpy design too.

Someone had the Lord Farquaad dress up with the giant head, lol.

There was a Miles Edgeworth.

Lots of the expected superhero outfits, but one that stood out to me was Joker and Harley but it was the guy as Harley and the girl as Joker.

Many Pokemon cosplays, some Nurse Joys as I alluded to, but also a blow up Pikachu costume, and I think I saw this group of this one Pokemon I don’t remember the name of, but they looked like they had green hats or something? My friend I was with said they might be based on kappa.

I think there was one of The Last of Us zombies?

I didn’t recognise shit cuz I don’t know the franchise but apparently there was a lot of Genshin Impact?

Oh yeah... LOTS of Homestuck for some reason.

[bembwashere]

WENT TO SUPANOVA 2023 TODAY!!

GOT A PIKACHU PLUSHIE AND A PRINT SIGNED BY ASH'S ENGLISH VA!! SAW SOME AHIT AND TF2 COSPLAYERS AND IT WAS GREAT!!

My ankles hurt now

[sarah-rhiannon]

shiny stickers......... 2!!!

they're all ready for melbnova next weekend ✨