This year I went to my first con. It was an amazing experience and I wish I had more time to go. We went on Saturday  only, just for a day. I had scraped together my money to by a cosplay. It was Egypt, one of my favorite Hetalia characters.

I will say one thing, I am short, very much so, and at the convention, I told my parents I wanted to explore on my own. They agreed, so I went to explore, I stopped by Artist’s Alley and was looking around when someone tapped my shoulder. It was a girl.

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So I was at a con with my girlfriend about a year and a half ago.  We were out of state, waiting to meet up with some friends, but in the mean time we just kind of sat around and got a coffee.  While we were waiting a girl comes up to us with a companion. 

The girl had on bunny ears and looked pretty damn happy to see me and my girlfriend (we were dressed as John and Dave from homestuck.  The person she had brought with her was another Dave, except they had on a collar and leash.  She decided to introduce herself by saying, “Hi I’m ________, and this is my BITCH, Dave.”

After that we didn’t really know what to say, kind of trying to be friendly without knowing how to respond.  Luckily they didn’t stay around too long, but they continued to introduce themselves like that to pretty much every homestuck.

I went to a con near the beginning of summer as Dave Strider. I was at the Homestuck fan shoot (so no staff was there). While I was waiting for my character to be called, the cosplayer behind me, who I will call Dirk, introduced himself. He seemed friendly enough, and asked questions here and there. No big deal, it got creepy pretty fast after we had been talking, he started making perverted comments, saying I was a loli-con and ‘moe’.

When dirkdave was called up for the shipping part he forcibly grabbed my arm and pulled me up with him, though my group’s Dirk cosplayer was the one I was supposed to be with at the time, and proceeded to pose provocatively with me against my will. Mind you, I am a minor. After the pairing was done, I told him calmly and quietly that I was a minor, to which he replied “So?” and I followed it up with the fact I am not interested in men. He followed me around for the rest of the con, mostly from a distance, and in one instance tackling me in a hug when I was meandering without my group.

We’re going to start the story off with the kid I’ll call “KK”.

So the story begins with KK first coming to the school and joining my english class. I have some of the horoscope signs on my bag so he asked me if I liked homestuck. As a normal response that I assumed a normal person would take lightly I said I did and then proceeded to say “oh and you can call me Dave.” Granted I was wearing my Dave shirt that day and I probably should have thought before making a joke like that. Of course, afterwards I told him that my actual nickname was “Mells”.

The next day the kid is following me to my classes, following me around in the morning, and supposedly stalking me at lunch.

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my-life-is-strange:

I’m sure the title is a little misleading, but this is on a completely different issue - separate from the wank that has been going around tumblr today. 

I haven’t seen anything going around tumblr regarding what happened. It’s been posted on Facebook, but after some discussion with some friends, and one other friend being unable to post about the issue, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to bring this here and circulate it around tumblr. 

At the Saturday AnimeNEXT Homestuck photo shoot, the troll list had come down to Eridan. At that point, there was only one Eridan at the shoot, who I consider to be a friend of mine. After a few seconds of photo taking, for one reason or another, people started throwing buckets at him. Watching this happen from the sidelines, I go back and wish I had stepped in to say something, because not only was this completely uncalled for, immature, and out of line, but it was horribly dangerous to the cosplayer. 

This was posted on the Otakon photo shoot page yesterday after the convention:

“Okay, I know this doesn’t relate to photoshoot requests per se, but given the most recent debacle at AnimeNEXT, I want to say this as a fair warning. If I so much as see one person throwing a bucket at another person, I am going to take it away from you. You will lose bucket privileges, because you obviously can’t handle such power. You’ll obviously get it back eventually but yeah. Temporary loss of bucket.

In all seriousness, though, yes, I know none of the buckets hit him, but that doesn’t change the fact that people lobbed buckets at my friend, and seriously, we don’t want another person getting hurt because of shit like this. Someone (a Karkat cosplayer) at a different con got hit in the head with a bucket that had a serrated edge and ended up bleeding. You’re not being cute, and you’re not being funny.”

According to the actual cosplayer this happened to, he had also had buckets thrusted in his face, and that he had almost been hit with them throughout the day.

The biggest problem with all of this, is that this whole scenario in general should not be happening in the first place. It doesn’t matter that none of the buckets hit him, it doesn’t matter if you were “trying to be funny”, or that your interpretation of the character is that he’s forever alone and that he’s always trying to fill buckets with someone, etc. 

The thing that matters over all is that you shouldn’t do it. 

Don’t throw buckets at people.

Ever.

cliscia:

Dear fnohomestuck, I have a con horror story for you.

A couple of friends and I went to a fairly small con about a month ago, and were having a great time until this ‘Terezi cosplayer’ (she was just wearing a teal floral print shirt and orange pants and red sunglasses) came up and started harassing the Karkat in our group, calling her her matesprit. She then left and cackled like a witch down the hallway (no really, imagine the wicked witch of the west). It made us ask ‘what the fuck just happened?’ but we thought it was over until she came up to us again later with money hanging out of her shirt (bra-less) and was just- really creepy wouldn’t leave us alone. She was just incredibly creepy and kept asking us to sniff/taste her pants. The next day she asked my prepubescent brother to touch her breasts.

Again, all was fine and good, except for us asking what the fuck had just happened. Until we went to another con 2 weeks later and she was there again. This was an even smaller con so her insistently following us was even more annoying and creepy. But this time she had covered herself in grey with crayola markers and used the black marker on her lips. She was hanging around a group of 3 13 year olds, but moved permanently to our group on saturday. Here’s a list of the shit she did then

• flashed us twice
• crawled away on all fours with her skirt hiked up over her back, giving us 30 seconds of vag shots
• put on grey clay for skin paint got it all over the hotel walls
• kept trying to lick us kept
• photobombing us

Eventually a guy from our group told her that she made us uncomfortable and to fuck off. I’ve been going to cons for 11 years and this is my first horror story. God bless Homestuck.

I’ve known this girl my whole life, and I guess I could have called her my best friend for most of my short, sixteen years of life. We’ll call her “Ciel”. Now, this girl is the one who really got me into anime—but recently, and by recently I mean in the past three years, she’s become quite the weeabo. Now, don’t get me wrong, I was in that dark moment when I was seven or eight years old, screaming “Baka!” at the top of my lungs, but it ended quickly. With her? No, it never ended.

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So I was at a con this past weekend. Every year I get at least one creeper. This years one beat out by far my first con creeper(long story short, drunk girl who made me touch the dildo she was packing). This year I was staying with a friend, he had gone to see a friend down the hall at the hotel when we arrived on Thursday. I happily got to work sewing a thick leather strap onto a wicker basket so it was hard enough to keep from poking myself. My cosplay waifu came over shortly followed by my friend and a guy who followed him back whom we will call mccreeperson. He didn’t ask my name or anything though he got everyone else’s name. I was on the bed and he sits on it next to me.

My waifu brings up that we have to finish a coat also. He asks what the coat is and says I should make one like one of the trolls from homestuck wears. I recognized it as hamsteak when he asked about if anyone got the reference(because I’m a dummy) and he instantly lights up. That’s when it got bad.

I dislike being touched by people I don’t know, if you want a hug I don’t mind but that is about it. He proceeds to try and tickle me. Mind you I am working on this basket still and I am extremely ticklish. I think maybe sheer will is what kept me from stabbing myself and not laughing. After he assumes it isn’t working he starts flicking my bra strap. At this point I figure, “if I ignore him maybe he will leave” as it was only a mild irritant and I didn’t want to ruin something for my friend(who was trying to get with mccreeperson’s friend). He then proceeds to grab my arm fat and proclaim rather loudly, “you’re so pudgy you feel like a giant boob!” I stop sewing and everyone looks at him dumbfounded. I ignore the comment and try to go back to sewing feeling extremely embarrassed as I am not comfortable with my weight. He continues, “yeah I can grab you anywhere and it feels just like a boob” and proceeds to grab my side, arm fat again, and then my thigh. He is dismayed that he can’t get any on my back because I am bent forward. I am not skinny, in fact I am what you would consider fat but I do have a shape and I carry it decently. He then tries to get me to move my arm and my basket so he could use me as a pillow and them forces himself onto my lap anyways. He only left me alone after I warned him that he is more than likely going to get stabbed with the needle if he stays there after which he left and I thankfully didn’t have to interact with him again but it was singularly one of the most disturbing moments I have had in a long time.

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I went to a big Homestuck shoot at my local con. I was the only one cosplaying Aradia at the shoot, so I got asked to do a shitload of pictures at the shoot, everyone wanted one of me and their ship. One girl asks for a picture with her, she’s dressed as her fan-troll, who has round ball horns that are very obviously just spray painted styrofoam balls and her makeup looks like she smeared slightly grey-tinged crisco on her face. I ask her what kind of pose before I say yes (I’ve learned that most people who cosplay their OCs are kinda nutty, I’m also into Hetalia) She goes on to explain how she ships her OC with Aradia, and how her OC is my character’s master, and mercilessly beats her until she orgasms, then fucks her with knives. She then pulls a SandM ball gag from her pocket and asks if I’ll wear it for the picture. I told her hell no and turned to leave. She tried to hug me from behind and I elbowed her in the gut and ran for it. I saw her a few more times harassing other Aradia cosplayers, but she didn’t bother me again.