[DarkFujin]

Doing some prop-work today, I was being retarded with scissors, slipped, and ended up taking out a huge chunk of my finger. COSPLAY SUCKS YOU GAIZ

[_Tsunade_]

I can't believe I forgot to mention THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE. I must have forgotten because it wasn't at a con, but I was in cosplay at the time.

Australian Idol had recently decided to hold auditions in my town. I can't exactly sing to save myself, but they had prize money up for grabs for best costumes. Being pretty desperate, I rang up friends who promised they'd come with me in costume so I didn't feel out of place - since I hadn't been cosplaying for long and was extremely embarrassed about it. My parents had refused to come because they didn't want to be seen with me, so I got dropped off and they drove away with tires squealing.

Guess what happened? Yep, nobody turned up like they'd promised. So there I was, in a frilly pink waitress outfit with bunny ears on, the only person in costume with people staring at me like I'd grown a second head, and horribly freaked out of my mind by it all (probably doesn't help I have something of a fear of being alone). I ended up hiding down the back of the theatre for most of the day and lost out on the prize to some girl in bad make-up who wouldn't get off the stage. I think they gave her the money just so she'd get lost.

It didn't get any better from there. I auditioned, went to the front lobby where I was hoping to get picked up straight away... and nobody. I couldn't get in touch with my parents because they wouldn't pick up the phone. Nobody else would answer either, so I was stuck in the lobby for hours and hours while I kept getting hit on by creepy security guards. When I finally got hold of my parents (it turned out they had been in the movies and had seen I'd tried to ring them MULTIPLE TIMES), but had decided not to answer it.

Definitely the worse day of my life.

[BlindIo]

Yipes. That's awful, Tsunade. D:

As long as you didn't make the crazy audition episodes...

[_Tsunade_]

BlindIo, on 01 November 2009 - 12:17 AM, said:

Yipes. That's awful, Tsunade. D:

As long as you didn't make the crazy audition episodes...

I only ever saw one camera there and it was in the main hall to do a quick sweep of the crowd. I never saw it after that. I think perhaps the producers were psychic though because not one single person from the whole northern region of NSW made it. They didn't even bother to bring any of the proper judges in, and only one of the hosts turned up, quickly said 'HEEEY, YOU GUYS, DO YOUR BEST!" and then left.

[Sukijanai]

Probably being at Takii (anime thing in Philly) and having KojiroJames try to hug me and socialize with me...and then he stalked me the whole time and even brought me a can of Red Bull...I put it down right after he gave it to me and avoided him as much as possible. HE CREEPS ME OUT.
Not the most horrible experience but for me it was.

This post has been edited by Sukijanai: 14 November 2009 - 05:59 PM

[Polaris]

Sukijanai, on 14 November 2009 - 05:58 PM, said:

Probably being at Takii (anime thing in Philly) and having KojiroJames try to hug me and socialize with me...and then he stalked me the whole time and even brought me a can of Red Bull...I put it down right after he gave it to me and avoided him as much as possible. HE CREEPS ME OUT.
Not the most horrible experience but for me it was.

Yeah, that was something close to my worst memory at Zenkaikon in 07 I think? So I feel your pain. Definitely not going to go into it, that guy turned me off from ever talking to people at cons honestly.

[taiki]

Sukijanai, on 14 November 2009 - 02:58 PM, said:

KojiroJames

Can we declare a winner for this thread?

[Aettryne]

Not the worst, but it still chafes my ass:

This chick and her BTVS rp group at Yulecon last night. Well, her group was fairly chill, didn't really mind that my group and I were taking photos elsewhere in the room and generally being a bit goofy. We all bantered a bit, were loud and generally having a good time.

At one point I react in-character to a comment that the GM jokingly directs at me, which is a wail on my part and some general "DNW" which generates laughs... except from this chick. I didn't hear her because I was pulled aside by another group for a picture, but the gist of it I got from my friends was:

"omfg you do NOT YELL behind a law enforcement officer unless you want to get punched in the FACE."





O...kay, princess. Good to know that your reaction to a "omg NO" terror!sob is to attack that person.

Now, later on as we were on the other side of the room, figuring out our plans for the evening and packing it in to meet others somewhere else, I was fiddling with the American flag I'd brought with me as part of my costume (Stephen Colbert bitcheeees). Another friend who went back to grab her stuff, which was nearer to the other rp group, overheard LEO!chick hissing to a friend "I swear to God if she lets that touch the floor I'm kicking her ass". I actually didn't find out about that until later on in the evening, but it seriously pissed me the fuck off.

What a tight-sphinctered, nationalistic jackass. It's a fucking FLAG. I don't give a fuck if it is the national flag, it's still a piece of screen-printed polyester that I purchased for my own use and I can do whatever the fuck I want with. Seriously, I own a pair of American flag print swim trunks, for crying out loud! I've worn them! My ass has touched the ground while wearing them! The horror! The universe will EXPLODE and America will DIIEEEEEE because a flag touches the grooooound!*

My friends had to stop me from going back and demanding her name, her badge number and the city she works for so I could file a complaint. Cops who think they can lord their authority over other people when they're off-duty is completely out of bounds and so fucking grotesque. I'm not about to be cowed by some asshole hiding behind her badge, who has to announce her screwed-up intentions to the world as though threatening harm to someone she has a clear physical advantage over makes her cool or something. Somehow I don't think "the reason I beat this girl's face into the ground is because a corner of her flag touched the carpet" is going to fly with any SANE police officer.

It's not going to ruin my weekend, but it did put a damper on it for a bit.



*mind you, I DO understand the whole zomg no ground-touchy-respect-the-flag-and-thereby-what-it-symbolizes rule, but seriously? There's far better ways to approach that if it really gets under your skin. And if you turn a hair over something innocuous like that AT A FUCKING ANIME CONVENTION, I think you might just want to sort out your priorities.

[otome_no_policy]

Aettryne, on 21 November 2009 - 03:37 AM, said:

*snippage*

I still fail to comprehend why so many people get bent out of shape when a piece of cheap, screenprinted polyester skims the ground. It's one thing if someone intentionally ruins a flag, but a flag happening to touch the ground is nowhere near the same thing. I've notices these same self-righteous pricks have no problem putting flags on their cars, where they become filthy, weather-worn and tattered. Isn't that WAY more offensive?

Also, I demand to see these Stephen Colbert cosplay pics.

[l33t_lyk_wh0a]

Aettryne, on 21 November 2009 - 05:37 AM, said:

Colbert bitch snip.

Frankly, I wish you would have stomped over there and given her a piece of your mind, even if it probably WOULD have caused more drama than it was worth. The only reason I suggest this is because I want to see that shit filmed and uploaded to youtube.

Steven Colbert bitching out a cop about flag policy would be GRAND.

[Gnome.Boy]

I've seen a lot of people get bent out of shape over flag policy with regards to Hetalia cosplayers lately (i.e. "OMG LET'S TRACK HER DOWN AND TROLL THE SHIT OUT OF HER FOR DISGRACING THE GREAT NATION OF AMURRICAH"). I usually go ahead and show them 50+ pictures from Cure of Japanese cosplayers laying/sitting/STANDING on American flags, let alone allowing them to touch the ground, to see what their reactions are.

[KachieChan]

Gnome.Boy, on 21 November 2009 - 04:43 PM, said:

I've seen a lot of people get bent out of shape over flag policy with regards to Hetalia cosplayers lately (i.e. "OMG LET'S TRACK HER DOWN AND TROLL THE SHIT OUT OF HER FOR DISGRACING THE GREAT NATION OF AMURRICAH"). I usually go ahead and show them 50+ pictures from Cure of Japanese cosplayers laying/sitting/STANDING on American flags, let alone allowing them to touch the ground, to see what their reactions are.

This is slightly on-topic, because it was the worst bullshit I've ever had to deal with in cosplay involving harassment. It's also having to do with Hetalia cosplay.

On United Nations day (or as Hetalia fans have dubbed it 'Hetalia Day') there were gatherings going on everywhere. My local gathering for SoCal was in a public park in LA (Griffith Park). Other than the piss poor planning from the people responsible (IE not alerting the Griffith Park Rangers of plastic weaponry), there were birthday parties going on all around us with tons of children.

Well apparently some parents from next door came up to our gathering planners and literally bitched them out for flying a British and French flag in America, claiming it to be 'illegal to do in California'. Actually, it's not a law, it's only flag etiquette to fly the American flag above the other flags if they are flying next to each other. Except my flag was a tiny little flag (I was cosplaying Cowboy!America, thus the smaller flag, because it was a halloween-based gathering. I have the full outfit though.) so there was no way I could make it 'fly higher' than my girlfriend's (who was cosplaying England at the time, it was her flag they were bitching about in particular).

So yeah, the bullshit about flags with Hetalia cosplayers gets very irritating. I've had people tell my friends not to show their flags in public AT ANIME CONVENTIONS.

IDK wtf they would say about the actual Hetalia anime. They make America seem like an arrogant dumb ass obsessed with hamburgers. :/

This post has been edited by KachieChan: 24 November 2009 - 02:53 AM

[Aettryne]

KachieChan, on 24 November 2009 - 01:52 AM, said:

This is slightly on-topic, because it was the worst bullshit I've ever had to deal with in cosplay involving harassment. It's also having to do with Hetalia cosplay.

On United Nations day (or as Hetalia fans have dubbed it 'Hetalia Day') there were gatherings going on everywhere. My local gathering for SoCal was in a public park in LA (Griffith Park). Other than the piss poor planning from the people responsible (IE not alerting the Griffith Park Rangers of plastic weaponry), there were birthday parties going on all around us with tons of children.

Well apparently some parents from next door came up to our gathering planners and literally bitched them out for flying a British and French flag in America, claiming it to be 'illegal to do in California'. Actually, it's not a law, it's only flag etiquette to fly the American flag above the other flags if they are flying next to each other. Except my flag was a tiny little flag (I was cosplaying Cowboy!America, thus the smaller flag, because it was a halloween-based gathering. I have the full outfit though.) so there was no way I could make it 'fly higher' than my girlfriend's (who was cosplaying England at the time, it was her flag they were bitching about in particular).

So yeah, the bullshit about flags with Hetalia cosplayers gets very irritating. I've had people tell my friends not to show their flags in public AT ANIME CONVENTIONS.

IDK wtf they would say about the actual Hetalia anime. They make America seem like an arrogant dumb ass obsessed with hamburgers. :/

Hyper-nationalist Americans make me so angry. :/

Also I would have confronted cop!bitch if not for the fact that I had received notice of having a warrant that week. :/ which is a separate fail on its own- my city sucks for keeping track of paid traffic citations.

But yes. The irony in my cosplaying a rightwing uber-fundie blowhard and taking another fundie to task would have been too delicious.

ETA:

otome_no_policy, on 21 November 2009 - 04:54 PM, said:

Also, I demand to see these Stephen Colbert cosplay pics.

lol. Here you go, along with my Jon. Shitty photo quality is shitty. My wig's craaaap but I have other costumes on the burner to finish first, heh.

Our goal is to have a pundit!round table at A-Kon this summer for trollery and lulz.

This post has been edited by Aettryne: 27 November 2009 - 03:59 AM