Dragon*con
Sep. 9th, 2009 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Back from Dragon*con. I'm glad I did it, not sure I'd do it again. It's a LOT of stress for a con that's so big you can not possibly do everything, or even much of it.
I did wear Freya to a gathering, so there should be photos of the new mask floating around the internets. I'll start looking later. Feet are still healing from all that walking, and well...the Freya feet are the most uncomfortable shoes EVER. I also wore Caprice, but not a single person recognized it. Or at least, if they did no one commented. :(
Lots of interesting panels, the hall costuming was incredible, I didn't even go to the masquerades (multiple!) A quick bingo list of costumes I saw. Spaceman Spiff (with tiger), various Justice League members, LOTS of steampunk, pirates, a REALLY GOOD Big Daddy from Bioshock, an entire Inuyasha cast, various from Bleach, Link and Zelda, various from World of Warcraft, TWO Ward Zabac, a Kefka, the typical FF7 cast, an actually really good Siax, so very much corsetry, and Jesus.
There was also a REALLY TASTY Indian food restaurant that if not for the commute would go again.
Let's see...swag. I picked up: a plush spider puppet with not enough eyes, a rock'n bustle coat, two prints, a d20 bag, some star trek tos pins, a very pretty necklace, a MC Esher dayplanner (thank you, ot_atma!), and a The 9 art book (free!).
I did wear Freya to a gathering, so there should be photos of the new mask floating around the internets. I'll start looking later. Feet are still healing from all that walking, and well...the Freya feet are the most uncomfortable shoes EVER. I also wore Caprice, but not a single person recognized it. Or at least, if they did no one commented. :(
Lots of interesting panels, the hall costuming was incredible, I didn't even go to the masquerades (multiple!) A quick bingo list of costumes I saw. Spaceman Spiff (with tiger), various Justice League members, LOTS of steampunk, pirates, a REALLY GOOD Big Daddy from Bioshock, an entire Inuyasha cast, various from Bleach, Link and Zelda, various from World of Warcraft, TWO Ward Zabac, a Kefka, the typical FF7 cast, an actually really good Siax, so very much corsetry, and Jesus.
There was also a REALLY TASTY Indian food restaurant that if not for the commute would go again.
Let's see...swag. I picked up: a plush spider puppet with not enough eyes, a rock'n bustle coat, two prints, a d20 bag, some star trek tos pins, a very pretty necklace, a MC Esher dayplanner (thank you, ot_atma!), and a The 9 art book (free!).
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Date: 2009-09-10 12:14 am (UTC)And you have...a bustle coat. And thus my envy. I need a bustle coat.
Get any good pictures?
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Date: 2009-09-10 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-10 12:57 am (UTC)There was one Sephiroth cosplayer. ONE. Not a dozen or sixty or one hundred. ONE.
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Date: 2009-09-10 01:35 am (UTC)The lack of The Popular Costume has been a noticeable thing at this year's cons. Lots of Ls, but that's just because L is the easiest cosplay ever. But that's it.
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Date: 2009-09-10 07:44 pm (UTC)The silver hair with black coat and shoulder pauldrons, and being entirely too popular a character for a lousy game. >.>;
And yes, I was rather amused that there were more Wards than Sephiroths. XD
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Date: 2009-09-11 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-15 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-18 07:48 am (UTC)2) The first time I played the game, I COMPLETELY missed the actual PLOT of the game. Missing out on like...two...hard to find, and completely optional scenes makes the entire plot make even less sense.
3) For a game that is so very rigidly linear, there are entirely too many things that are essential to the plot yet hard to get. Like, the mere EXISTANCE of Vincent. Or Zack. Both are very important figures both the the backstory of both Cloud and Sephiroth, but are completely hidden characters.
On the plus side, cross dressing. XP
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Date: 2009-09-18 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-10 07:48 pm (UTC)http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p222/crippled_muse/DragonCon%202009/?action=view¤t=DSCF1204.jpg
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Date: 2009-09-11 01:14 am (UTC)