Yes, I've done AggieCon, but people, you need to go to an anime convention to really get the feel of it. There's a lovely vibe to these conventions. Everybody seems quite tolerant of each other's preferred cosplay. None of that "SF vs. Fantasy" crap, at least around me. The only argument I saw the Sunday I attended was a player POed because someone showed up very late at a meeting site.
I met Misty Holder, a proud anime Mom planted in the downstairs trolling her Facebook while her fifteen year old daughter Haley and Haley's friend Kim had fun upstairs hanging with one of their cosplay gangs. Misty's mom Sherry was also there -- Sherry went upstairs with food a few times, to leave offerings near the players. They were all starving but refused to give up their seating area to search for fodder. Misty likes her daughter's cosplay friends -- she remembers sneaking into bars to dance when she was sixteen, and likes this a lot better.
People were patient with the elevators, and packing the dealers and artists rooms. Hope everyone made some money! Misty shared some Ikkicon pics -- I have posted them on my Facebook photo area. I have some great pics of a Lolita duo on my camera, and some grandmother pics of Sherry in her pinstriped shirt that looked like a mechanic's racing shirt, covered with ad patches. She could be the grandmother in my manga. Hope the pics come out, I will try download tomorrow when I can think. I'll post the Lolita ones if they come out and/or Misty sends her shots.
And now...time to nebulize the cat!
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