Okay I gotta say something about this.
I don’t know how many people are going to see this but I feel like someone at least needs to say something about this issue.
I’ve overheard a lot of people, mainly convention staff, talking about outlawing Troll and/or Homestuck cosplay at a few conventions in the TN area due to the behavior of several groups of younger cosplayers (13 through 16 seems to be the general age group) running around screaming, swearing around kids, honking bike horns in people’s ears, trashing the hotel and convention floor, getting their body paint everywhere and just generally being awful.
Please, for everyone’s sake, especially your own,
I get it, Homestuck has a reputation as a trash fandom. I was hyper and rambunctious when I started too, until Pellicon a small con, got canned in large part due to the awful behavior of a group of homestucks who were swearing a lot around kids, spiking Faygo bottles off the ground and getting their unsealed paint on furniture.
It’s up to you guys to prove the people saying you’re a garbage fandom wrong.
Please don’t leave messes behind after you eat; clean as much as you can off the ground or table. Pizza boxes, bottles and cans, wrappers, leftovers, bigger stuff. Don’t just leave the mess for someone else to clean up.
Please seal as much of your paint as you can. Even a bottle of baby powder will do in a pinch. Grey body paint is awful to scrub out of furniture.
You don’t have to scream across the con floor. Please take take it outside. A lot of people that go to cons have anxiety issues.
Same goes for honking. A friend of mine nearly had a panic attack after a random Gamzee cosplayer snuck up on her and honked a bike horn in her ear. Honk it outside and not in people’s ears.
Do not shout swear words in the vicinity of small children.
I’m not trying to be an asshole to you guys. I love homestuck. I may be on break from it right now but I still love it.
And I don’t want you guys to get banned from cosplaying the thing you love. Please, by all means have fun, but don’t make it horrible for other people.
