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momijizukamori) wrote2022-02-23 05:47 pm
momijizukamori) wrote2022-02-23 05:47 pm
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Katsucon 2022
Back! Feeling fine so far (other than typical post-con tiredness anyway), though unfortunately I have no tests so I'm just gonna like, continue to not interact with other humans for a bit. Actually had time to clean beforehand, and there was only a little bit of last minute chaos before the drive down Thursday.
Overall, good, if a bit weird, I guess? The con was less busy than usual, though busier than I expected - less of a drop than I saw at Dragon*Con, I think. Very glad we decided to do a panel - panelist badge pickup was a separate location, with no line, versus the two-hour-plus wait in the main line. I have been really burnt out in general the last few months (and uh my iron levels are terrible rn) so I didn't have a ton of energy, and trying to understand people through masks sucked out more of it - Andy and I ended up sitting around the hotel room on Friday night drinking and playing Mario Kart on my Switch instead of going out, ahaha.
We did Bruno and Leone Friday for the JJBA photoshoot, which was outside in some intense wind - RIP all the Jolynes in sleeveless croptops, and also RIP my wig which is gonna need a lot of detangling. Nice mix of all the parts along with various AU designs. Friday night was our kimono-for-cosplayers panel which, uh, we realized an hour beforehand that Andy had been making edits to an older version of the panel, and we had to frantically reshuffle bits, and then at the panel room frantically hotspot the internet because I didn't download the panel and had preloaded the wrong version in google docs. The crowd was small, but most of them stayed to the end, and we were at a weird time anyway. Our pacing still feels off, but we filled the time well, which is a solid start.
Saturday was TGCF stuff - there was a 'danmei' photoshoot in the late afternoon which unsurprisingly ended up just being an MXTX photoshoot, lol. There was a loooot of TGCF wandering around on Friday and Saturday morning - more than I thought there'd be - but more variety came out for the meetup. MDZS definitely had the biggest spread of characters though, way more secondary characters there. Afterwards Andy changed from Xie Lian to He Xuan and we attempted to get photos in the extreme wind, and were only sort of successful. Grabbed dinner, and then went to an evening danmei meetup which uh unfortunately rapidly devolved into playing icebreaker party games which I was too tired, too sober, and too old to really enjoy, so we ended up wandering and doing some people-watching.
Sunday was checkout, which we managed without complete and utter chaos, somehow. Andy and I did Saiyuki cosplay because of the new series out, and also because Hakkai is like, 80% just normal clothes for me haha. Got a gratifying number of compliments, and then I dropped Andy off at the airport while my other friend and I started the long drive home. Got in before midnight!
I got almost no photos because again, dead, but I will try to post the handful I did get soonish?
Overall, good, if a bit weird, I guess? The con was less busy than usual, though busier than I expected - less of a drop than I saw at Dragon*Con, I think. Very glad we decided to do a panel - panelist badge pickup was a separate location, with no line, versus the two-hour-plus wait in the main line. I have been really burnt out in general the last few months (and uh my iron levels are terrible rn) so I didn't have a ton of energy, and trying to understand people through masks sucked out more of it - Andy and I ended up sitting around the hotel room on Friday night drinking and playing Mario Kart on my Switch instead of going out, ahaha.
We did Bruno and Leone Friday for the JJBA photoshoot, which was outside in some intense wind - RIP all the Jolynes in sleeveless croptops, and also RIP my wig which is gonna need a lot of detangling. Nice mix of all the parts along with various AU designs. Friday night was our kimono-for-cosplayers panel which, uh, we realized an hour beforehand that Andy had been making edits to an older version of the panel, and we had to frantically reshuffle bits, and then at the panel room frantically hotspot the internet because I didn't download the panel and had preloaded the wrong version in google docs. The crowd was small, but most of them stayed to the end, and we were at a weird time anyway. Our pacing still feels off, but we filled the time well, which is a solid start.
Saturday was TGCF stuff - there was a 'danmei' photoshoot in the late afternoon which unsurprisingly ended up just being an MXTX photoshoot, lol. There was a loooot of TGCF wandering around on Friday and Saturday morning - more than I thought there'd be - but more variety came out for the meetup. MDZS definitely had the biggest spread of characters though, way more secondary characters there. Afterwards Andy changed from Xie Lian to He Xuan and we attempted to get photos in the extreme wind, and were only sort of successful. Grabbed dinner, and then went to an evening danmei meetup which uh unfortunately rapidly devolved into playing icebreaker party games which I was too tired, too sober, and too old to really enjoy, so we ended up wandering and doing some people-watching.
Sunday was checkout, which we managed without complete and utter chaos, somehow. Andy and I did Saiyuki cosplay because of the new series out, and also because Hakkai is like, 80% just normal clothes for me haha. Got a gratifying number of compliments, and then I dropped Andy off at the airport while my other friend and I started the long drive home. Got in before midnight!
I got almost no photos because again, dead, but I will try to post the handful I did get soonish?