KATSUCOLD
Here on Black Comedy Weekend, we all put on pink costumes and proceeded to run around like morons until our lips turned blue in the February cold. Did I take the color thing a little too far? KISS MY WHITE ASS.
Starring me, rktikfox and vocalcannibal, with special appearances by My Cousin Skepticarcher, Drunk Diana, and idk a bunch of other dudes.
THURSDAY
I had to work basically until The Dudes (that's Colin, Peter and Jesse) came to pick me up, so when they did that I got in their car, we stopped back by my house to get all my shit, and then we were off to Maryland. This sure was a car ride! The weather was vaguely unappealing and we were all starving so we stopped at Subway. The Subway was next to a fitness center whose logo was a little running man who looked like a swastika. Peter pointed this out but he kind of slurred it into "swashtika." I said that sounded like a Nazi pirate. We started pre-gaming the Katsutweets.
Subway was delicious and then we spent the rest of the awkward drive up to the Gaylord holding my two plates of cupcakes uncomfortably in the back seat lol. Hanging out with The Dudes for extended periods of time always kind of drives home to me how insanely not A Dude I am. I am so fucking girly. It occasionally makes it hard to make conversation or for me to feel like I fit in, even though I really like these guys. Sigh idk.
Oh also we listened to my absolutely terrible anime club mix CD from '06 and I think everyone hated me except for Jesse unless I was singing along dramatically. Fuck y'all I love Ike Ike.
We stopped at Rob's place to unload all their junk and then sans Peter they took me to the Gaylord like gentlemen. I got there like a billion hours before the rest of my roommates though and I found no one else to hang out with because I guess none of them were there yet either so I mostly sat around in the lobby waiting for them and trying to make sure nothing happened to my poor cupcakes. I was rull worried about them for some reason hahahaha I had basically no need to be because in the end they were all fine! But yeah. Texted Christina and they weren't there yet, Molly wasn't getting there till the next morning, and I didn't even have a number for Diana. So mostly I had to wait on Kristen and try not to punch in the faces of these horrible weeaboo homestucks I D E K people that were sitting next to me. Eventually Kristen showed up and saved me and we checked in and hooray. :D
I meant to shower that night but I was tired and having too much fun lolling around with Kristen being stupid so I just waited until the morning. Somehow the television got put on TBS playing some Black Comedy Weekend shit round the clock and it like. Stayed there. P much the entire con. I DON'T EVEN. Also Jacob made chana masala and brought a crapton of it and let me eat a lot of it which was awesome and he didn't have to do that. And we didn't have a fridge so I was still angsty about my cupcakes and I put the frosting bag in our ice bucket. My life, at this point.
Then SLEEPZ. With plans to get up kinda early so Joe and Jacob could get suited up in their brohou costumes and go to some meet or other somewhere I think? Meanwhile Kristen and I were just gonna laze around and wait for Avery. :3
FRIDAY
We all got up at like a vaguely reasonable hour even though several of us WOKE up much before then. I think I was actually awake by 7:30 but because we were waiting on Avery before we could rly do anything I had no qualms about lazing in bed till 9. We all took showers, Joe and Jacob Touhou'd up and went off to some panel or thing or other that they were doing, and Kristen and I just fucked around doing jack all but watching like, four episodes back-to-back of Tyler Perry programming and hating our lives.
I managed to get Diana's number from Jacob and call her about locating her, and it turns out she managed to forget a large part of her Rarity costume :( She was really upset about it but I, like, kind of wasn't? TBH in the long run I was content to just run around being fucking Pinkie Pie regardless of what anypony else was doing. And our Rarity plans thusfar had been so up in the air anyway that I hadn't gotten a chance to get super-stoked about it yet. So, bummer, but it so could've been way worse! I think I also managed to get ahold of Molly at this time and gave her our room number so that once she made it to the con (she was still waiting on Tim for drivan) she could pop up and give me the last pieces to my Pinkie earrings. Aaaaand speaking of forgetting things, Joe and Jacob somehow didn't have wig caps (???) so I got Avery to snag a couple for them before she left, and Kristen made it there without an SD card for her camera, so I let her use mine because her camera's way fancier than mine. (As a result of this I don't have any pics right now though. bawwwww waiting hahaha.)
Avery got there a little before noon, and after stopping off with the dudes to give them a bunch of their crap, came to our room for official partytimes!! We were suiting up for ponies but for some reason just like...not moving tremendously fast on it. IDK, Katsucon was lazycon. I guess our biggest obstacle to moving fast at this point was our bzonkers fake eyelashes, which I gave up on for Pinkie after a couple failed attempts but which Avery kind of HAD to do for Fluttershy, so she was wrestling with them I think, still, when Molly showed up to help with the earrings. Meanwhile Kristen and I were 100% pony and had started frosting the crap out of my cupcakes. And Joe and Jacob came back at some point, and we got a room number for Christina and Lauren &co. at some point, and Diana dropped off the face of the planet and IDK. LONG STORY SHORT: the hotglue didn't want to work on my earrings so we had to use some E6000 and then I only had one earring back so one of them was just stuck in precariously all day, and I got pink frosting all over the ironing board and a little bit on the iron itself because I'm a hot mess. But SOMEHOW AT SOME POINT we were all three of us ponies and Molly left and we flounced up to Christina and Lauren's group in search of our fwends~ :D
There were some people on the floor outside and the door was open but I knocked obnoxiously anyway and eventually Lauren came to the door half not dressed and looking presh as always. We hugged and rejoiced and uguu'd at each other and yay~ but Christina wasn't there yet so once Lauren got all of her costume on (she was accidentally cosplaying the hentai game version of her character and not the anime version or something?? haha OOPS) we shot some texts to Christina and then left to go downstairs and try to find her. Meanwhile I think Avery was looking for someone too? hahaha IDK. All I know is that one point we split up and it was just me and Lauren looking for Christina across weird parts of the con that I legit never went back to, and people kept asking me for cupcakes (which I refused because THESE ARE FOR MY FRIENDS) and, occasionally, asking me for pictures (which I accepted because I'm fuckin' kawaii). We went to a bunch of places that Lauren thought she might be but she wasn't in any of them, and since neither of us had badges we couldn't exactly explore any of the you-need-badges-to-come-in-here rooms, so we eventually just went back to where we'd left Avery and Kristen, where I think the three of us...did something...ran into someone else or tried to make some sort of plan or SOMETHING........?? But then we eventually got a text from Christina where she was apparently BACK IN THE ROOM and we'd completely missed her somehow on our way out.
So we went back! She was super-excited to see us and we chatted a bunch about shit and introduced Kristen and were introduced to some of their other roommates and gave them cupcakes which were apparently SUPER-DELISH, despite my fears that they'd be kind of awk and soggy because they'd been out of the refrigerator for so long. Lauren was like orgasming over them tho omg. She was like "please tell me you made the frosting from scratch" and I was like "yep." SCORE ONE FOR EMILY PIE. FUCK YEAH. We also then saw them using THEIR fridge which was IN SOME CABINETS and we felt dumb because apparently we had had a fridge all along lol OOPS. we are the dumbasses it's us.
So now that we'd finally rendezvous'd with bunches of folks, we scuttled off on our way to take some pics and shit! We were trying to find a good spot for ponytimes and kind of failing, so I suggested we go outside, but then outside was FULL OF HOMESTUCKS. Molly was there naturally tho and so I gave her a cupcake and shared a couple more with her chums. We saw a spot that might be nice to take pics in and went over there buuutttt it turned out it wasn't that great after all and Avery was getting too cold so we just went back inside. And then found a great place in front of this kawaii little yellow house thing!! We ran into Jacob again with perfect timing, too, so he was able to snap some with all three of us in them. God we were so stupid. But there are some cute ones of me+cupcakes, me+Gummy on my head and shoulder, Kristen looking sassily infuriated about not having a cutie mark, me braiding Avery's hair, Avery giving me and Kristen the creepy Fluttershy stare, me drawing a pretend cutie mark on Kristen's butt....this was a fun dumb shoot. Even if Kristen did keep stepping on my cupcake tin when I wasn't using it, and even if we were kind of in the middle of a place where people kept wanting to walk and we'd have to pause and let them through, haha.
I also saw another Pinkie Pie (I think this girl from tumblr?? but possibly someone else entirely) and gave her my last spare cupcake that wasn't for Diana, but then saw aNOTHER Pinkie and felt bad that I didn't have one to give to her too. AND ALSO THIS KAWAII SEXY BLASTOISE GIRL. They had a group of all three starters' final forms, and their Venusaur's leaves were made from craft foam and literally looked exactly like the ones I made for our 'saur costumes hahahaha. great minds think alike or some shit. But omgggg the Blastoise was so precious she was my favorite.
Avery was pushing it on time for her Mabrokas and all the shit they needed to do in time for the Madoka meetup, so even though Diana had wanted to see us all in costume, Avery left to get all that shit together and me and Kristen just hung out with Jacob for a little bit. Kristen went to pee and after she got out we found a CANNON!! outside this gift shop and I was like PARTY CANNON!!!!! and we took some pictures on that. There's one of me stuffing Gummy into the front of it that I think is really adorbz hahahaha. And then Kristen's sitting on it like she's going to ride it into the sunset. While we were doing that a wild Scot appeared and I was not 100% interested because idk awkward so he and Jacob scuttled off to do some Artist Alley shiz and Kristen and I just pony'd around some more. We were over by the fountains hoping something fun and interesting would happen when suddenly, there are millions of Tiger & Bunny folks there, and I was like WAIT, DIANA...... and sure enough we found her in like two seconds and I was able to give her her cupcake. Hooray!
(ALSO SOMEWHERE IN HERE BEFORE AVERY LEFT I ACCIDENTALLY PHOTOBOMBED MAGUMA. I mean, I was Pinkie so I'd been photobombing A LOT because it's just so in character, so I was just perfectly walking behind this shot and there was no way I COULDN'T so I did and then when the photog was done with the shot he whirled around with his hands on his hips and like, scolded me, all teasingly "Pinkie...." and I just kind of troll-shrugged and then after the fact me and Avery realized WAIT A HOT SECOND THAT...WAS MAGUMA. omg. but yeah.)
We hung out with Diana for I guess 20 minutes or so and then we realized (we thought) we were gonna be late for the Madoka meetup? Which Kristen and I were gonna go to so we could get pics of Avery and The Dudes because yes. But actually we were like half an hour early. And eventually Diana caught back up with us and we reclined against a planter and chilled for a while until people started appearing and things were actually happening.
God this meetup was hilarious. I think everyone was actually really excited to have a pretty substantial group of Mabrokas, espesh with costumes as good as the ones that Avery and The Dudes whipped up. Their one regret was not having weapon props but they made do great with what they had, and omg just...the lulz. There's pics of Jesse-Kyoko shoving apples in Colin-Sayaka's mouth, there's pics of all three of them holding Avery aloft showgirl-style; there's a pretty hilarious one of schoolgirl!Avery-Madoka, a magi!Madoka and then god!Madoka, and I was like IT'S LIKE THE EVOLUTION OF A POKEMON. So cracked out. I think at one point someone tried to get Jesse and Colin to kiss. And Jesse gave apples to like, EVERYONE. I was totally just sort of on the fringes of this meet, and I kept having to hold all of Kristen's stuff AND all of Avery's stuff when we were back-and-forth taking pictures, but it was pretty fun and I'm glad I could help Avery and The Dudes out with stuff and support them and shit. yaaaaayyyy~
IDK one hundred percent what happened after that, but I think the long and short of it was that we were all starving and so me, Avery and Kristen left to go de-costume and then go to POTBELLYYYYYY where we had already decided we were going to go for dinner. It was a quick walk from the hotel and when we got there Molly was already there with a bunch of her Hamsteak harem and I crept the fuck up on her and grabbed her knee under the table. AND SHE LITERALLY DID NOT REACT. I guess getting groped under tables is just par for the course when you're big pimpin' like skepticarcher. Then we went up and ordered and Kristen and I got LITERALLY the same thing (a "big" size chicken salad sandwich on white bread with lettuce and onions...she is my child) and I had an effing SANDWICH-GASM. OH JESUS IT WAS SO GOOD. And so I went to tweet about it and Avery was like "are you tweeting about how good your sandwich is?" and I was like "....maybe :<" and she was all "I can just tell by your face." STRAIGHT CALLED OUT. I SEE HOW IT IS. I ate the whole thing AND some chips because we'd barely eaten that day aside from like one cupcake each and some weird shit we'd just happened to have around the room at breakfasttime, so this was definitely our big treat of the day and it was worth it. (Speaking of eating the whole thing, we were walking back to the Gaylord and we saw some ponies across the way, a kawaii Rainbow Dash and then an unflatteringly-dressed overweight Pinkie Pie...and Avery goes "she ate the whole pie." AND WE LOST OUR FUCKING SHIT. WE LIKE DIDN'T STOP LAUGHING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE HOTEL omg we are horrible people. And then that became a joke all weekend. the ~whole~ pie.)
Our plans for the rest of the night were relatively wide open, aside from "possibly we should get our badges for Saturday maybe," "Avery has to style this wig for Jacob," and "hey wait let's get drunk." Two out of three were actually accomplished! Avery enlisted my help as "here hold this" bitch for making her gross Josuke wig look at least a little more presentable, and while we were doing that Kristen touched up her Roxy wig too. Then when that was over Kristen went down to Kyle Hebert's riff-the-fuck-out-of-Dragonball-Evolution panel that we'd gone to at Nekocon, and Avery went up to The Dudes' suite with the intention of getting drunk with them and the rest of the suite frogs, so I kind'f got left alone for a while. A mild bummer, lol. Especially because BLACK COMEDY WEEKEND WAS STILL MYSTERIOUSLY ON OUR TV it literally never ended. I am so confused as to what was going on and why our TV was on this one station the whole time. (Oh and somewhere in here I went on an epic quest for a vending machine selling Sprite because I wanted to mix it with my sour apple pucker booze I brought??? hahaha I don't even know. That happened though and I ended up with a Sprite, so.)
At some point tho Avery texted me telling me all The Dudes had left to go to the /cgl/ meetup??? FOR SOME REASON. So she was up there with all of the drunkest of the drunk trying to drink this Tron-drank that Page made for her, and she said she wanted to leave and bring it back, which I told her to do, but finally I was just like "or I could come up there if that's better?" Because Zac was lurking, I guess, or something, and so I went out on a mission to meet up with her in their sketch suite on the 19th floor. AND I COULDN'T WORK THE ELEVATORS BECAUSE I'M STUPID sigh lol but eventually I made it and it was good. She gave me the rest of her Tron, then she took a shot of gin which was a fucking stupid idea for her (she kept saying it tasted like pine trees, ahahah) and someone made me a rly good bright-ass green drink and then we were like, Let's go get drunk with Lauren and Christina instead because they're cooler. So we tried to find them and ended up waiting around the gazebo area forEVER because Christina took longer to get there than we did and then we didn't recognize her in her dogtier Jade outfit lolol. (While we were there we saw one of Jesse's apples that someone had been eating just...chillin' on the railing of the balcony...lolololol jesse clean your shit up.) Christina was looking for her Dave and so we wandered around MORE and ended up in that swank restaurant area on the same floor as the checkin desk? yeah yeah. Christina was draping her 4 Loko'd self on people we didn't know, but we did end up running into Kurt and talking to him a little bit about some California dramu that had yet to be illuminated to us and ugh ugh ugh I think I saw Andrew Page and I was like, BARF. And I finished my drank.
THEN SUDDENLY, EVEN THOUGH SHE HADN'T BEEN ACTIVELY DRINKING FOR A WHILE, ALL OF AVERY'S ALCOHOL KICKED IN. She went from being parallel to me on the intoxicated scale at like a 2.5 to suddenly being a 7 or 8 while we were talking to Kurt and I was just like WHOA, WTF HAPPENED TO YOU. Hilarious. We talked to him more and then were going somewhere?? And even though she was way more wasted than I was Avery still managed to have a better sense of gaylord-direction than me. Which I guess prompted me to call her Jack Sparrow, and then she started singing the Lonely Island song for the rest of the night, and I regretted it almost instantly. WHOOPS. Anyway idk there was some more drunk traipsing about and we were on an elevator with a really drunk girl in a Sonic T-shirt who told Avery she looked like Daniel Radcliffe and then hugged her and that was really funny, and I leaned against this place where a screw was kind of loose and put a hole in my SPACE hoodie which was sad, and then eventually we were back in the land of the suite frogs and they made each of us another drink as well as a drink for us to take back to Kristen because I wanted her to drink because I'm a bad father and a horrible influence on my son. (Yeah, in a weird twist of fate, Avery is actually the mom in this situation. I know, right.)
We get back to the room and everyone is there, Kristen still kind of fucking around with her wig (I think) and I try to get her to drink but she won't, and Joe and Jacob getting out of costume and channel surfing and then GET THIS, POTC 3 IS ON. DRUNK AVERY WAS SO EXCITED. She was like "Jack Sparrow!!!!" and went up and started poking the TV, poking his nose and Beckett's nose, and I tweeted about it (there are a lot of glorious tweets from this stretch of time, just go back aways and you WILL know it when you see it) and then she saw the tweet on her phone and was like, How the fuck do you even know his name? He doesn't have a name!! And I was like, Yes he does, it's Beckett.... and apparently me knowing that well enough to know that he has a name means to drunk Avery that I have a boner for him. I don't even know.
We fucked around a while longer laughing at drunk Avery and trying to find drunk Christina again, and she eventually showed up at our room with a handful of friends and we sat around on the bed laughing at each other and being pleasantly alcohol'd. This was just a really good night at a con. It was great because Avery was so drunk that everything she said was funny, and Christina was drunk enough that she found EVERYTHING funny, so they were like this perfect combination and some of the shit Avery said just made Christina DIE. Ahhh so wonderful. Especially the term "Fuckass O'Reilly." We also coined the disgusting phrase "shoosh-pap smear" and a lot of other gems and just ohhh, Friday night. Even if we eventually ended up back on black comedy weekend instead of Pirates by the time we were using the TV as a sleep-aiding white noise.
SATURDAY
First thing Saturday Jacob and I were supposed to meet up with Diana for some Diamond is Unbreakable shenanigans with her photog. Awesome! Except we all had to use the iron like crazy people and it WOULDN'T HEAT UP. I seriously ironed my Yukako fuku for like EVER and it accomplished nothing. Finally Avery figured out how to make it work a little better and yay, so she could iron her shit and Jacob and I could iron our shit and good. Kristen helped me with my fake eyelashes which I basically have to wear for stupid glamface Yukako, and after getting her own makeup shit together Avery did mine too for which I am very grateful. We left her still Maid-oka-fying herself, me as Yukako and Kristen as Roxy to get pictures, and headed down to the fountains where we found Diana and Kurt and everyone we were meeting up with (there was a kawaii Foo Fighters there too but I didn't catch her name/don't know her? But aaahhhh I saw you on Tumblr and you're super-presh). Eventually we decided we were going outside instead, since it was a fair bit warmer than Friday had been and we wanted better lighting and more Duwang-appropriate locales. Avery had told us to tell her if we moved anywhere since she was still preoccupied helping The Dudes for the Saturday Madoka meet, so I texted her.
Outside was so fun! We took some great pics, though the photographer had to leave for a while to get a new battery or memory card or something and that put a little kink in our plans and shit. Also, there was a really nice wedding party that we were trying not to accidentally photobomb, and a parade of Doctor Who cosplayers (it was their meetup I think) wandered through us twice, and stuff, hahaha. Got some great pics of me sneaking up on Diana, some of which she literally did not know I was there for, and then there are some of me attacking her with my hair and some of the four of us part 4 folks staggered up the steps where we were and some of the Foo Fighters girl spraying someone's water bottle all over her face ahahahaha. Then the photographer was back and we took some more up on this bench, and Scot showed up in Jotaro and we tried yet again to stage that one where they're all reaching up to the sky together in that clusterclump but we had NO reference so it's a little durpspecial, and Kurt and Jacob staged the Josuke/Kira headbutt picture which was pretty ffffff.
AND THEN, THE PRETTY BLACK LADY'S WEDDING PARTY CAME OVER AND WANTED TO TAKE PICTURES WITH US. I guess to commemorate the fact that they picked a WEIRD-ASS weekend to do their bridal party shots, but it was so hilarious and silly and awesome and nice of her! They were all super-friendly. So Kristen and Joe got in those too, and we posed a lot with this cute sassy bride and some of her groomsmen and even their photographers a couple of times, just this clusterfuck of Jojo cosplayers and normal people. It was so so sweet and wonderful, and we thanked her so much for being so courteous and friendly to the nerd freaks that kind of crashed her wedding shoot, and omg I can't believe this happened. Greatest Katsucon moment.
We took a couple last photos after that was over, like one of me leaving a big smoochy lipstick kiss-print on Diana's face, and then Kristen and I left so that I could change into Pinkie again and find Avery in time for the Madoka and MLP meetups, which were tragically scheduled at the exact same time, balls. I was a little bit late to ponies but it ended up not really mattering because it was not teerrrribly well-organized and I just look like a moron in most of the pics anyway because I didn't know how to pose because I didn't know ANYONE else who was there without my Fluttershy and my Apple Bloom. Kristen kind of bounced between the two shoots but spent most of her time with Avery and The Dudes. I did have a little bit of fun there though when I met the SUPER-TALL MAN!PINKIE, WHO WAS FABULOUS AND AMAZING AND I HAVE A BIG GAY CRUSH ON HIM OMG. He had suspenders and hipsterglasses and the cutest outfit ever and a BIG BUNCH OF HELIUM BALLOONS and he gave me a yellow one!! He was soooooo nice. Man-Pinkie, if you ever see this, I am in love. There was also a really sexy Photo-Finish and an adorable Rarity with an Opalescence plushie cat. Overall the shoot was fun I guess but idk I just look like a fuckass in literally every pic I've seen because I just kept durpily blowing up this pink balloon I had found in an elevator the night before. WHOOPS.
I abandoned the pony shoot to go check up on what Avery was doing and ended up running into a super cute joeyrichter!Ron cosplayer! Kristen and I talked with her some about how we were doing Draco and Ginny the next day and how we were sad that Avery wasn't doing Harry this go-round, and we all chatted about StarKid stuff and it was fun. Then Avery I think left her shoot too, but she still had these bazillions of strawberry cookies that the other Madokas hadn't eaten, so I was like "I can take them to the ponies to try to get rid of them" and she was like "THAT IS A GR8 IDEA." So I went around handing them out among the ponies and they were a big hit! Though everyone kept referencing this video or something online where apparently Pinkie makes her cupcakes out of her friends. And I was like noooo, Fluttershy made these! And they were so delicious that most people didn't care but it still got kind of annoying to get that reaction literally every time. Lol fandoms I'm not really in. (I tried to give a cookie to giant Man-Pinkie but he wouldn't take one! He was like aw no honey, that's okay and I was like BUT IT'S A PAYBACK FOR THE BALLOON! but he still wouldn't eat one. wahhh lol.)
We managed to get rid of like 85% of the cookies and then Avery wanted to go back and change into Fluttershy so she left, but the pony shoot was kind of still going on??? So I wove in and out of that a little bit getting in some more Pinkie + random other character shots but in general still being an asshole. Avery missed the Fluttershy/Big Mac photo and I told her and she was sooo sad, lololol. And she still wasn't back by the time Kristen needed to leave for the 3:14 Homestuck meetup, so I went with her to that and told Avery to come meet up with us later.
THIS MEETUP TOOK A VERY LONG TIME AND WAS VERY COLD. I gotta give props to the two or three people running it, because they did manage to make it go fairly smoothly, but the fact of the matter was I was waiting around to take pictures of Kristen and the alpha kids, and the alpha kids have LITERALLY the costumes with the LEAST clothing out of ANY OF THE CHARACTERS, so the fact that we had to sit out there for as long as we did in the freezing cold (and let me tell you my Pinkie costume is not the warmest shit ever either) was kind of miserable. The first few things we did went pretty well, and I was able to find and hang out with Molly and Chelsie and Justice, :D, but eventually it was so cold that Avery left us to go back inside and Chelsie and Justice did the same even though their characters (fairy!Vriska and Aradia, they were wonderful) were still getting called for shots.
(On top of how freezing it was, there was also this really annoying other-Roxy sitting next to us on the ground who would nooottt shut up. She kept like, repeating everything we said, and copping our ideas of trolling/photobombing certain shots, and we were trying to be nice because she was obvz like 12 but I just wanted her to go awaaayyyyy. LIKE, OKAY, WE WERE COLD, RIGHT, so I sat down cross-legged and was going to let Kristen lean back on top of my lap so we could huddle together and keep warm. AND THIS OTHER ROXY TRIES TO LAY ON MY LAP TOO EVEN THOUGH I DON'T EVEN FUCKING KNOW HER. Kristen was like "UM SORRY THIS IS MONOGAMOUS" and I was like "Yeah, I only have enough lap for one Roxy...." aksdjghasjg what on earth.)
The BEST part of the shoot, however, was this mad sexy Jake English chick who was literally just as obnoxious as we were and that was making EVERYTHING better. Right after the all-the-Vriskas shot she leapt out and screamed HUBBA HUBBA and then during the Jake/Dirk shot she actually just full on started making out with her Dirk. So when it was time for Jake/Roxy I was like KRISTEN IF YOU DON'T GET THAT JAKE and she was like I KNOW RIGHT but they ended up running right for each other like, simultaneously and everything was WONDERFUL and she became our new friend. in love with her tbh.
There was this MASSIVELY LONG gap between Jake/Roxy and Jane/Roxy and that was when our patience really started getting tested and I even tried to reason with the girl running the thing to be like "the alpha kids are freezing" and she was like "I have a preset list I'm sorry abuubuubuu" which like, I really appreciated because they were mad organized, so whatever. But Avery kept texting me from inside because she really wanted to do more pony pics and she was trapped near this giant bouncing circle of Hetaliafag insanity and the sun was literally setting and I was like WE ARE ALMOST DONE I SWEAR. So as soon as Jane/Roxy was over with we fucking booked it back inside. (Actually that's a lie. We ran behind whichever pairing was next which I think was Karkat/Gamzee and photobombed the crap out of it like assholes and THEN went inside.)
I HAD LITERALLY FORGOTTEN WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO NOT BE COLD. My legs were SHAKING when we got inside and it took us a couple minutes to find Avery but eventually we did and we took some more pics together and separately. I also took one of Kristen with this adorbz Marauders group, because she was like WIZARSDS!!11! and that was funny, but they were all kind of giving us the stinkeye like they were totes unimpressed? hahaha IDK. I had seen the girl who was Sirius earlier and she'd seemed nice enough but who knows what was going on. Maybe they were in a hurry somewhere? Weird.
We'd been making jokes about how Avery was kind of making a tawdry "come hither" face in a couple of her Fluttershy pics and then we started calling her Sluttershy and then we decided we were going to take lewd pony pics like we were porno stars (I was Pussy Pie, I think, but in hindsight Kinkie Pie is much better, ffffff). So we went up to this awkward velvet antechamber or something upstairs by the gazebo area? where Kristen and I had clowned around without Avery the day before and taken some pics, but all the lights were down so it was horrible picture-wise and we only managed to take a few before some guy ambled over and told us that area was closed. Boo. So we were gonna go find some other place to do it. Meanwhile Kristen left??? why did you leave? I think it was to make herself more beiuetuifiul~ touch up her lipstick and spruce up her wig and shit. Meanwhile Avery and I wandered aimlessly around this staircase (we'd tried to take a Pinkie-sliding-down-the-bannister photo earlier but it was mad blurry; we tried again with slightly better success) and down this hallway to some couches where we thought we might try porno ponies again. THIS WAS MILDLY COCKBLOCKED BY some really butthurt Sengoku Basara shoot?? who were literally trying to keep this WHOLE hallway empty so no one was in the bg of their pics, and fussed at us for not walking close enough to the wall. Whatever, I hope we're in your pictures being awful. Also, we were starving, so it was great to be able to get some water and just sit the fuck down. We flipped through a bunch of the pics we'd already taken and kind of looked at them, so I could show Avery some of the hamsteak pics, etc. Then we got
the most
magical
text from Joe
ASKING IF WE WANTED ANYTHING FROM SUBWAY. OMG IT WAS PERFECT. We'd been starving and then just like a fucking beacon he was getting us sandwiches. I texted him back our orders and told him just to put them in our fridge if he got back to the room before we did, but then we were like FUCK NO, SANDWICHES, so we took our appalling dirty pony pics and then started heading back. Literally WHILE we were taking those photos I got a text and then a phonecall from Kristen as to where we could meet her, and she was legit on the way between where we were and where we were going, so we just rolled her back into our posse when we got there.
We passed conveniently by this ATM and decided it would be a smart idea to get some cash to pay for our hotel room and shit while we were there, so we stopped to do that, and then suddenly this random brony was talking to us.
Um, this was gross.
He shouted "Fluttershy! Can I have a hug??" and then almost before Avery could answer he'd scooped her up and lifted her bodily from the floor. He then proceeded to do the same thing to me. And look, here's the thing about picking up big girls when you hug them - it's not nearly as cute as picking up small girls. Most people can pick up small girls. When you pick up a big girl, you're definitely doing it to show off, and it makes you look like a smarmy douchebag who feels the need to reassure the bigger girl that no, it's okay, guys can pick you up too! Just...no. That's actually not okay and makes you look creepy. But ANYWAY. He keeps talking to us like, the entire time Avery and I are getting our money, and oh my god:
Creeper Brony: So like where are you guys staying?
Avery: Um - here. (meaning the Gaylord)
CB: yeah but like...where? /hinthint
Me: /DELIBERATELY TALKS SPECIFICALLY AT AVERY WITH MY BACK TURNED SO THAT SHE HAS TO TALK TO ME RATHER THAN HIM
Me: /keeps getting money out of atm
CB: But hey, y'know, I don't know how the three of y'all got a hotel room considering none of you look like you're 18.
Me: Bitch I am 22, I'm gonna be 23 next month.
CB: Oh wow!
(awkward pause in which we finally think he is going to leave)
CB: So wait, you're 23, you're old enough to buy alcohol!
Me: Yep.
CB: ...can you?
All 3 of us: /IGNORE HIM AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF DODGE
Augh SERIOUSLY? It's like, when you thought we were underage, you still didn't have any qualms hitting on us, and once you found out we weren't, you immediately shifted gears into trying to get us to buy you booze. Whoever you are, if you're reading this? You're a cunt. Leave kawaii little girls alone, asshole. And if you want people to buy you booze, just be upfront about it. If you had gone "Hey, I'm not 21 but I really want some alcohol, are you old enough to get some?" and just come at me straightforward, I probz still would've said no but I at least would've been more likely to entertain the notion of saying yes.
So once we finally managed to leave that awkward situation behind, we were going to go take some more photos of us and maybe of Kristen before we went up to get our sandwiches, so we started fucking around in the gazebo area. There are bunches of pictures of us up there rolling around in one of the little panel windows, including Kristen fake-drunk off her ass throwing herself around, me hanging upside-down, and Avery posing a la class pictures or cameo headshots because she's fucking glamorous-ass Fluttershy. Nigga we're kawaii. Then I was like "OMG can we take a pic of me next to the pink-ass lights during the light show at the fountain" because it started up again and so we started scurrying down there only to realize that Avery had totally misplaced her phone. UM, WHOOPS. I tried calling it but no one answered, but then when I texted it someone texted back and said they were up around the gazebo (Avery had retraced her steps back and found nothing). So I scuttled off to retrieve it just because idk I can scuttle the fastest and most obnoxiously but I couldn't find it??? Retrieving it was a clusterfuck but eventually we did. Also somewhere in there this random photographer asked to take pictures of me, Avery, and this guy dressed as Discord that we'd arbitrarily ended up standing next to beside the fountain...who I think turned out to be Dymatrex. ACCIDENTALLY ALL THE COSFAMOUS PEOPLE WHOOPS. We did manage to find the phone though and then we were like fuck it, we need our sandwiches. So we went back to eat. (Oh and at some point we took hilarious pics of Kristen stuck in this revolving door. ROUGE OF VOIOD IZ SOG BWASHTED)
AAAHHHH GLORIOUS SANDWICHES THO. We stuffed our faces so hard it was kind of embarrassing. Black comedy weekend was STILL on the TV and I think this was around the time when we noticed they had stopped censoring the word "nigger"? I was like, what, are they even allowed to do that?? ahahaha.
Avery's wig cap was still running away underneath her Fluttershy wig like it had been all day, and she wanted to get out of costume, but I was like "remember Lauren and Christina are doing their Gay Bar/Gaylord video and we want to be ponies for that" and she was like "oh yeah." So we literally just lounged around as ponies like, forever. I had my yellow helium balloon from Man-Pinkie that was kind of losing floating power and had gotten super-charged with static over the course of the afternoon, so we were bopping that around still attached to the string it was on, and then I also blew up the pink one I'd found to bounce around and tried to blow up the blue one too but it literally exploded in our faces and we screamed, omg. This was some wonderful great family bonding time with me and Avery and our son Kristen that we hadn't quite gotten yet that weekend just the three of us, and we really enjoyed it, or at least I did, :3. I also told Kristen I'd probz come to the 10:25 Homestuck meet with her so I could take pics and she was like O____O are you serious, even after the 3:14 one, I wasn't going to ask!! But I was like noooo, I'd planned on it, and besides it will be INSIDE so we won't freeze to death and fewer people will be there because it's late and I want to see Diana since she never came to the afternoon one and yeah. So that was a thing.
Eventually we heard back from Christina that they weren't doing anything until at least like 11:30 and so Avery was like "yeah fuck this" and got out of Fluttershy. She tugged her wig and wig cap off and had like...PERFECT JAKE ENGLISH HAIR..... and we got this zany idea into our heads that we were going to rig her together a closet/hotel room cosplay so she could crash the photoshoot and be drunk and awful with Kristen's Roxy. We texted like everyone we could think of trying to find someone with a spare Jake English shirt, and we thought we had a serious lead on one in Chelsie's room, but it turns out they didn't have it... BUT WE WERE LIKE, SCREW IT, WE'LL DO IT ANYWAY. So Avery wore her Fluttershy socks, her denim miniskirt, and a tank top, and then tied my green bandanna around her neck like an ascot and clipped in my neon green vinyl hairbow, and then THEY GAVE EACH OTHER FAKE TATTOOS WITH EYELINER..... Avery had two pistols pointing to her crotch basically along her oblique lines and then wrote in "ADVETNURE!" with the R and the first E backward as if Roxy had done it. Then Avery wrote "JAKE WAZ HERE" with an arrow across Kristen's boobs, and we went down to the photoshoot. WE WERE ON CRACK IDEK WHAT HAPPENED HERE. IT WAS THE MOST GLORIOUS THING EVER THOUGH. And so we just went on down to the photoshoot and hoped for the best.
One of the first people there we ran into was the tiny Derse Dirk who'd been hanging out with our friend the sexy Jake earlier, and so I was like, What if we ask her if she knows someone with a spare? So I asked but no luck. We found Diana-Gamzee in the crowd and hung with her some and she was drunnnnk. Her Faygo was NOT Faygo, it was like 80% Bacardi Zombie, omg. It made her super entertaining because like EVERYTHING WAS FASCINATING TO HER. She is literally perfectly in character drunk Gamzee when she is drunk.
We asked a couple more people about Jake shirts to no avail, Kristen ducked into a few Roxy photos, and Diana ended up with this SUPER-AWESOME-BEST-TITS-EVER Highboob cosplayer to take some Gamzee pics. That evolved into Gamzee + Highboob + normal Highblood, which evolved into borrowing a Dad's hat and Kristen's martini glass for "Gamzee family" pictures of the three of them, which eventually became a photo op proper for the shoot with all the other Gamzees crowding around their "parents." That was pretty awesome lololol but like everyone was CREAMING THEIR PANTIES over Diana. They were like, But you're THEEEE Gamzee, and like I almost didn't even want to try any more after I saw you omg omgomg alkjsfdghalh, and she was like hanging her head in self-consciousness and I was just laughing at how bzonkers it is that two of my best confriends have become Homestuck BNFs even though I knew and was friends with both of them before Homestuck even EXISTED. The ironies of this world maaannnnnn
So we're taking dumb stupid pictures and I see that our friend the sexy Jake has returned and I was like um. Hm. What if we. Maybe she would just like for two seconds let us borrow her shirt? SHE LIKES US RIGHT, WE'RE FRIENDS RIGHT??? So against my better judgment I guess I went up and was like "lol so this is a weird and awkward question but" AND SHE JUST TOTALLY DIDN'T EVEN HESITATE TO STRIP RIGHT THE FUCK OUT OF HER CLOTHES. She had a black tank top and whatever she was binding her chest with on underneath so it wasn't even that big of a deal, and when I wormed out of the crowd and over to Avery and Kristen with the shirt in my hand they were like ARE YOU SERIOUS??? and Avery stripped right down to her bra in the middle of the convention center and put it on.
Sexy Jake (whose name we had discovered by this point is Claudia) came back out over to us along with her Derse Dirk and was like "Do you want the jacket part too?" and gave us that, too, and Avery was FREAKING OUT and we were all DYING with laughter and she tucked it up underneath her boobs so her stomach was hanging out and we could see her fake double pistols tattoo. And Kristen tugged the front of her top down too so we could see the "JAKE WAZ HERE" and her bra straps and I took pictures of them SOMEHOW. I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW HOW CONSIDERING I WAS PRACTICALLY CRYING WITH LAUGHTER. And hilariously in the middle of all of this other people we didn't even know snapped a couple too. This is literally the greatest thing we did all weekend and I have zero regrets other than the fact that I couldn't join them as Drunk Jane Crocker. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN. PREPARE YOURSELVES. ESPESH IF YOU'RE COMING TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Then we're hanging out waiting to see if we're gonna talk to Diana any more and Kristen basically goes "So yeah I'm gonna go puke now" and we were like WHAT. But yeah apparently she'd been feeling yucky for a while so she scurried off to the bathroom. I was like GO IN A PLANT IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT FAST ENOUGH. Bawwwwww my poor bbKrischten. :( We waited pretty much only as long as we had to for her to come back (she didn't end up actually puking thank goodness) before we decided to leave and go back to the room, since she was feeling cruddy and we needed to sort some things out with the people who were sneaking us into the panel room for Guests Uncensored. SINCE, YEAH, AVERY AND I NEVER ACTUALLY REGISTERED FOR KATSUCON??? We'd been planning on registering just for Saturday but we put it off and put it off and at one point we were like, Really the only thing we want to do that we need registration for is this panel and I bet we can get spare 18+ wristbands and borrow badges and just sneak in and not have to pay to register at all. SO THAT WAS WHAT WE DID. Avery got in contact with Jesse and he said he had an in for us on badges and wristbands so we fucked around a little more in the hotel room, mixed my Sprite from the night before + my sour apple pucker + the green drink Page made Kristen that she never drank and then went off to meet them in the line.
Tuuuurrnns out Jesse was horrible at communicating and had A) only one spare badge rather that 2 and B) NO 18+ WRISTBANDS AT ALL. Fortunately we'd been re-attaching the one that Kristen had popped off in the hotel room with EYELASH ADHESIVE, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY FUCKING TAPE, RIGHT, so Avery moved that one to her own wrist and Jesse gave me his and then he and Kristen went down to get new ones while we stayed in the line. Jesse left his Kyoko ponytail clipin by accident and we stuck it to Drunk Rob's beanie. The line started moving before they were back yet but we got into the panel with literally no questions asked and oh god Greg had already started.
I just. Greg.
This was literally the drunkest I have ever seen Greg Ayres in my life. Something was WRONG with him. From the moment we started it was the Greg Hates Vic Mignogna panel, which turned into the God Hates Vic Mignogna panel and the Greg Wants Vic To Get Cancer In His Vagina panel and I just. Oh god. It was sad because it was SO over the top obnoxious that it kind of stopped being funny after a little while, and Greg would de-rail people actually trying to answer audience questions into him talking shit about Vic or about homophobes or talking about how much he loves to drink and take drugs. He also hated on Nekocon :( and the Protomen (The Dudes were OUTRAGED) and a bunch of other stuff and I just. Idk it wasn't fun after a while because he was just a hot mess. He also kissed two GIRLS because he promised French kisses to anyone who would bring him more booze after someone from the audience asked to taste what he was drinking and ended up chugging the majority of it. He was just rull belligerent and it kind of put a damper on the whole thing. (Tatum and Chris Bevins were thankfully hilarious and Chris Ayres and the guy hosting the panel did their best to rein Greg in.) But we actually ended up leaving after a while because Kristen was about to pass out asreep and Avery and I wanted to hook back up with Christina and Lauren for their Gaylord video. (We left almost right after Greg did, and apparently once we left it got a lot better because Greg wasn't there to make it disastrous. I almost felt bad, but my mood about the whole thing had already been soured, so eh. We just drank our not-Sprite and tried not to facepalm at all the questions people were asking about the zombie apocalypse.)
We dropped Kristen off and then were gonna head to Lauren-and-Christinatown for this video. Avery was like "eh but they're probably too drunk to make it" and I was like "surely ONE of them is sober enough" and she was like "but what if Scot is there" and I was like "oh I'll uh scout it out ahead of you." (Since apparently Scot was staying with them? IDK we found that kinda weird and Avery found it upsetting bleh D:.) Sure enough he was there but I managed to beckon Christina out into the hallway to talk to us more and she was like "yeah I don't think the video is happening because Heather is too drunk to film it" and Avery was like "TOLD YA." So we're talking in the hallway but people are kinda creepin so we move further away from their door for maximum advantage distance, and Avery's a little tipsy, and we're all just hanging out - Lauren comes out eventually - and we're having fun being bros and talking about how disastrous Guests Uncensored was when suddenly Page is walking down the hallway?? ahahaha. And Avery ran and leapt on him and he kind of carted her off, and while she was away a wild Scot emerged. That was okay because she wasn't around and I tried to talk to him a little but awkward. And then she came back and he was still there and she like, ninja'd away as fast as possible and just left me there ahahahaha THIS WAS WEIRD. All I know is A) I eventually stole a bunch of fries off someone's leftover room-service plate out in the hallway and IDEC if that makes me gross because they were delicious, and then B) Avery ended up back in The Suite and I ran up there to retrieve her and she was drinking with that bunch some more. After a while we made it back down to our room again and watched the SAME GODDAMN KATT WILLIAMS SPECIAL AGAIN (and it was so late that they weren't censoring "nigger" OR "fuck" any more, what the hell, cable television), and we rolled around mildly-intoxicated and played with my balloons and I changed out of Pinkie and ate three of our remaining unfrosted cupcakes and did my best to pack up everything I wouldn't need the next day and then went to bed.
Saturday. Yeesh.
SUNDAY
Sunday morning was a bit of a CLUSTERFUCK. Kristen and I literally had to both pack AND leave shit unpacked to change into and out of Ginny and Draco over the course of like, an hour. Despite all of this it managed to go surprisingly well. We just ninja'd the fuck out of there as fast as we could and left everyone else behind to finish all their packing and shit, and RACED down to the area where the Homestuck meet the night before had been (which was surprisingly empty!) to get some funny pics. AND THEY WERE FUNNY. She's such a glorious little Lauren Lopez I can't even. And she had like, a good portion of her Lucy Steel costume on underneath so she could change as fast as possible, so she had these quality green and white striped stockings and so some of the pictures are PANTLESS DRACO. And her robe was too big because it was made for Joe and not her and just askjdhgaskjg. Our one regret was that by leaving everyone else we didn't have anyone to snap shots of us together, but fortunately we were able to ask a nice man with a press pass and he took some great ones! Aaahhhh Ginny and Pinkie are literally my two favorite costumes now and doing them both in a weekend, even if I only did Ginny for like half an hour, was so magical that I could just die~~~
Diana needed to borrow my Ginny loafers for Johnny, so Kristen and I zipped back up to the room as soon as we'd gotten some quality Potter pics and changed like LIGHTNIN' (I left my wig on because dnw bad wig hair out in the real world ew no). I still don't know how we managed to do all of this AND pack and check out without fucking up??? WE ARE THE BEST HOTEL ROOM TBH. So we took all our stuff down to the gazebo area, left it with Avery, and then went back up to Diana's room so she and Kristen could get their Steel Ball Run shit together. A couple of Diana's roommates were up there, one of whom was literally a dude just sitting in his briefs, and they all had remnants of troll makeup smeared on them ahahahaha. They were talking about Molly when I walked in. STOP HAVING SO MANY HOS IN DIFFERENT AREA CODES, MOLLY. I SWEAR. Sadly while I was in there I got a text from Avery saying her dad was like, already coming to get her and she was going to have to leave soon, so I needed to come back down and watch all our shit. (TBH I was glad to have an excuse to get out of Diana's room, it was messy and smelled like con-hotel-room-on-a-Sunday-afternoon and ahahahaha.)
So I went back down to where Avery was and hung out with her until she had to leave, and eventually Molly joined up with us too which was awesome because I'd been wanting really bad to hang out with her Sunday morning since we'd barely gotten to hang the whole time we'd been there. I communicated vaguely with The Dudes about when we were gonna be leaving and they said sometime around 1 or 2 and I was like, gr8. Awesome. Avery left and I CRIED THE TEARS BAWW. But then it was me and Molly and that was nice too because we can literally talk about anything and so we shared some of our Katsucon experiences thusfar and talked about the Gaylord and how nice it was to have a convention in because it's basically COSPLAYER PHOTOSHOOT GOLD and all this other jank and aahhhhh it was nice. Then it turns out that it was fucking SNOWING in Lynchburg, so we were going to try to leave right at 1 before shit got even crazier, so I texted Kristen and Christina and told them that if anyone wanted to see me before I left that that was their conditions. Kristen responded almost immediately with "we're almost ready!!" and soon enough she and Diana came downstairs all SBR'd up and they looked fab~ my shoes were really working for Diana too, so that was great. So I said by to Molly and her friend (Sara? or Sarah with an H? or??) who'd joined her so that I could run off and snap some pics of Diana and Kristen (AND THE GIRL DRESSED AS THE MONEY DANCER GIRLS FROM NERIMA DAIKON BROTHERS THAT I WAS BONERING OVER OKAY) before I had to find my way to the parking garage and leave. We did a couple of them on a planter and then a couple on the CANNON downstairs and then I was like WELP BYE. Joe gave me very helpful directions to the parking garage lol. (Oh also a group of girls, one of whom was in Slytherin attire, wandered past very loudly quoting ROCKETSHIP POTTER, STARKID POTTER, MOONSHOES POTTER and I ran over and hugged them and aahhhh yes good.)
Then I...left! I was feeling kind of queasy as me and The Dudes hit the road, blech, so I texted Kristen all "how long did it take for your nausea to pass yesterday" and she was like "oh only about an hour, get some food and take a nap" so when we stopped at Wendy's I was like YESSSS. I peed and ate and that made it all better thank god. While in Wendy's we all engaged in some very srs discussion about Harry Potter and His Dark Materials and some other stuff and it was great, because it was so different from the ride up. Like, I finally felt like I kind of fit in with those guys. MAYBE IT WAS THE GINGER WIG. hahahaha idk.
So we got back in the car and I'm pretty sure I slept a fair amount and I woke up and it was SNOWING LIKE ORZ. LIKE, SERIOUS INTENSE SNOW, REDUCING OUR VISIBILITY AND SHIT. We kept driving, though, and we made it through the worst of it, but it was sticking AND starting to get dark and eventually I had to text my mom and be like "ETA is not 5:30, ETA is now like 7 because we have to not die in the BLIZZARD." Seriously, this was so intense and bzonkers crazy!! Like, the ONE DAY we have to DRIVE FOREVER and that is the ONE DAY it decides to fucking snow like it has never snown before. We were so confused and frustrated and wut. But Colin is like, an awesome snowdriver??? and we just kept taking it slow and making jokes about it and forming contingency plans with Peter's dad and WE SURVIVED. WE MADE IT ALL THE WAY BACK TO RANDOLPH COLLEGE IN THIS CRAZY DEATH BLIZZARD. We only kindasorta ran off the road ONCE and we didn't get there until like 7:15 or later but it all worked out like fucking magic! And so seriously when we got out of the car we all HUGGED Colin. YOU ARE THE HERO OF KATSUCON MAN. THIS WAS A RIDIC MIRACLE. They left Colin's car (which we ended up naming Panserbjorn [or just Bjorn] after a combination of the His Dark Materials conversation + Colin saying he always names his cars after animals + THE FUCKING SNOW) in the Randolph College parking lot, because Bill had warned us not to turn down onto Duval or we'd never get back out again, and Bill came and helped me carry my stuff back to the house while they waited for Peter's dad in a tougher car with 4-wheel drive to come get them.
AND SO THAT WAS THAT. Freezing-Con, Pink-Con, No-Registration-Con, Everything-Went-Better-Than-Expected-Con, Drunk-Con, Katsucon. This was so far and above MILES BETTER than my previous Katsucon experience that I don't even know what to do with myself. A++++ WOULD GO AND NOT REGISTER AGAIN. Uguuuuu I just wanna rub my face on everyone and never leave. D:
I guess constats? Do I do that still?
Purchases: NOTHING. NOT A DAMN THING. I didn't even get a badge! so suck ittttt Katsucon~
Cosplay: Pinkie Pie with fluttershy!Avery and applebloom!Kristen on Friday, then Yukako with koichi!Diana &co. on Saturday morning and Pinkie (+Fluttershy) again on Saturday, and then Ginny Weasley with draco!Kristen for a hot second on Sunday
Sources quoted: The Tale of Captain Jack Sparrooooowwww~ and also uh, LFMAO songs that we made into memes. Literally every combination of "Party _____ in the house tonight" happened as well as a large amount of "Girl look at that ______"
Food: SANDWICHES~ MAGICAL SANDWICHES~ also cupcakes and cookies and oh god I ate so much of Jacob's chana masala I mean god damn
Trolled: Fancy red velvet room, Homestuck cosplayers, the ponies meetup and especially this Discord who was really weirded out that I was blowing up a balloon near his face, this lovely woman's wedding pictures, Joe
New memes: the whoooolllle pie
MVPs: Colin and Claudia. THE END. Saviors of Katsucon, the fucking Page of Shirts and Boss of Cars. Without the two of you things would have been killed, like my fun, and MY OWN ASS. Thank you eternally omfg.
LVPs: annoying baby Roxy, Creeper Brony, and anyone who tried to ask a shitty dumb question about weird sex or the zombie apocalypse at the Guests Uncensored panel. Also, anyone who should've hung out with me but DIDN'T. D: HARRUMPH. oh and whoever took that weird picture of Avery texting me while dressed as Fluttershy what the fuck were you even doing.
TL;DR WE NEED TO GO BACK.
Starring me, rktikfox and vocalcannibal, with special appearances by My Cousin Skepticarcher, Drunk Diana, and idk a bunch of other dudes.
THURSDAY
I had to work basically until The Dudes (that's Colin, Peter and Jesse) came to pick me up, so when they did that I got in their car, we stopped back by my house to get all my shit, and then we were off to Maryland. This sure was a car ride! The weather was vaguely unappealing and we were all starving so we stopped at Subway. The Subway was next to a fitness center whose logo was a little running man who looked like a swastika. Peter pointed this out but he kind of slurred it into "swashtika." I said that sounded like a Nazi pirate. We started pre-gaming the Katsutweets.
Subway was delicious and then we spent the rest of the awkward drive up to the Gaylord holding my two plates of cupcakes uncomfortably in the back seat lol. Hanging out with The Dudes for extended periods of time always kind of drives home to me how insanely not A Dude I am. I am so fucking girly. It occasionally makes it hard to make conversation or for me to feel like I fit in, even though I really like these guys. Sigh idk.
Oh also we listened to my absolutely terrible anime club mix CD from '06 and I think everyone hated me except for Jesse unless I was singing along dramatically. Fuck y'all I love Ike Ike.
We stopped at Rob's place to unload all their junk and then sans Peter they took me to the Gaylord like gentlemen. I got there like a billion hours before the rest of my roommates though and I found no one else to hang out with because I guess none of them were there yet either so I mostly sat around in the lobby waiting for them and trying to make sure nothing happened to my poor cupcakes. I was rull worried about them for some reason hahahaha I had basically no need to be because in the end they were all fine! But yeah. Texted Christina and they weren't there yet, Molly wasn't getting there till the next morning, and I didn't even have a number for Diana. So mostly I had to wait on Kristen and try not to punch in the faces of these horrible weeaboo homestucks I D E K people that were sitting next to me. Eventually Kristen showed up and saved me and we checked in and hooray. :D
I meant to shower that night but I was tired and having too much fun lolling around with Kristen being stupid so I just waited until the morning. Somehow the television got put on TBS playing some Black Comedy Weekend shit round the clock and it like. Stayed there. P much the entire con. I DON'T EVEN. Also Jacob made chana masala and brought a crapton of it and let me eat a lot of it which was awesome and he didn't have to do that. And we didn't have a fridge so I was still angsty about my cupcakes and I put the frosting bag in our ice bucket. My life, at this point.
Then SLEEPZ. With plans to get up kinda early so Joe and Jacob could get suited up in their brohou costumes and go to some meet or other somewhere I think? Meanwhile Kristen and I were just gonna laze around and wait for Avery. :3
FRIDAY
We all got up at like a vaguely reasonable hour even though several of us WOKE up much before then. I think I was actually awake by 7:30 but because we were waiting on Avery before we could rly do anything I had no qualms about lazing in bed till 9. We all took showers, Joe and Jacob Touhou'd up and went off to some panel or thing or other that they were doing, and Kristen and I just fucked around doing jack all but watching like, four episodes back-to-back of Tyler Perry programming and hating our lives.
I managed to get Diana's number from Jacob and call her about locating her, and it turns out she managed to forget a large part of her Rarity costume :( She was really upset about it but I, like, kind of wasn't? TBH in the long run I was content to just run around being fucking Pinkie Pie regardless of what anypony else was doing. And our Rarity plans thusfar had been so up in the air anyway that I hadn't gotten a chance to get super-stoked about it yet. So, bummer, but it so could've been way worse! I think I also managed to get ahold of Molly at this time and gave her our room number so that once she made it to the con (she was still waiting on Tim for drivan) she could pop up and give me the last pieces to my Pinkie earrings. Aaaaand speaking of forgetting things, Joe and Jacob somehow didn't have wig caps (???) so I got Avery to snag a couple for them before she left, and Kristen made it there without an SD card for her camera, so I let her use mine because her camera's way fancier than mine. (As a result of this I don't have any pics right now though. bawwwww waiting hahaha.)
Avery got there a little before noon, and after stopping off with the dudes to give them a bunch of their crap, came to our room for official partytimes!! We were suiting up for ponies but for some reason just like...not moving tremendously fast on it. IDK, Katsucon was lazycon. I guess our biggest obstacle to moving fast at this point was our bzonkers fake eyelashes, which I gave up on for Pinkie after a couple failed attempts but which Avery kind of HAD to do for Fluttershy, so she was wrestling with them I think, still, when Molly showed up to help with the earrings. Meanwhile Kristen and I were 100% pony and had started frosting the crap out of my cupcakes. And Joe and Jacob came back at some point, and we got a room number for Christina and Lauren &co. at some point, and Diana dropped off the face of the planet and IDK. LONG STORY SHORT: the hotglue didn't want to work on my earrings so we had to use some E6000 and then I only had one earring back so one of them was just stuck in precariously all day, and I got pink frosting all over the ironing board and a little bit on the iron itself because I'm a hot mess. But SOMEHOW AT SOME POINT we were all three of us ponies and Molly left and we flounced up to Christina and Lauren's group in search of our fwends~ :D
There were some people on the floor outside and the door was open but I knocked obnoxiously anyway and eventually Lauren came to the door half not dressed and looking presh as always. We hugged and rejoiced and uguu'd at each other and yay~ but Christina wasn't there yet so once Lauren got all of her costume on (she was accidentally cosplaying the hentai game version of her character and not the anime version or something?? haha OOPS) we shot some texts to Christina and then left to go downstairs and try to find her. Meanwhile I think Avery was looking for someone too? hahaha IDK. All I know is that one point we split up and it was just me and Lauren looking for Christina across weird parts of the con that I legit never went back to, and people kept asking me for cupcakes (which I refused because THESE ARE FOR MY FRIENDS) and, occasionally, asking me for pictures (which I accepted because I'm fuckin' kawaii). We went to a bunch of places that Lauren thought she might be but she wasn't in any of them, and since neither of us had badges we couldn't exactly explore any of the you-need-badges-to-come-in-here rooms, so we eventually just went back to where we'd left Avery and Kristen, where I think the three of us...did something...ran into someone else or tried to make some sort of plan or SOMETHING........?? But then we eventually got a text from Christina where she was apparently BACK IN THE ROOM and we'd completely missed her somehow on our way out.
So we went back! She was super-excited to see us and we chatted a bunch about shit and introduced Kristen and were introduced to some of their other roommates and gave them cupcakes which were apparently SUPER-DELISH, despite my fears that they'd be kind of awk and soggy because they'd been out of the refrigerator for so long. Lauren was like orgasming over them tho omg. She was like "please tell me you made the frosting from scratch" and I was like "yep." SCORE ONE FOR EMILY PIE. FUCK YEAH. We also then saw them using THEIR fridge which was IN SOME CABINETS and we felt dumb because apparently we had had a fridge all along lol OOPS. we are the dumbasses it's us.
So now that we'd finally rendezvous'd with bunches of folks, we scuttled off on our way to take some pics and shit! We were trying to find a good spot for ponytimes and kind of failing, so I suggested we go outside, but then outside was FULL OF HOMESTUCKS. Molly was there naturally tho and so I gave her a cupcake and shared a couple more with her chums. We saw a spot that might be nice to take pics in and went over there buuutttt it turned out it wasn't that great after all and Avery was getting too cold so we just went back inside. And then found a great place in front of this kawaii little yellow house thing!! We ran into Jacob again with perfect timing, too, so he was able to snap some with all three of us in them. God we were so stupid. But there are some cute ones of me+cupcakes, me+Gummy on my head and shoulder, Kristen looking sassily infuriated about not having a cutie mark, me braiding Avery's hair, Avery giving me and Kristen the creepy Fluttershy stare, me drawing a pretend cutie mark on Kristen's butt....this was a fun dumb shoot. Even if Kristen did keep stepping on my cupcake tin when I wasn't using it, and even if we were kind of in the middle of a place where people kept wanting to walk and we'd have to pause and let them through, haha.
I also saw another Pinkie Pie (I think this girl from tumblr?? but possibly someone else entirely) and gave her my last spare cupcake that wasn't for Diana, but then saw aNOTHER Pinkie and felt bad that I didn't have one to give to her too. AND ALSO THIS KAWAII SEXY BLASTOISE GIRL. They had a group of all three starters' final forms, and their Venusaur's leaves were made from craft foam and literally looked exactly like the ones I made for our 'saur costumes hahahaha. great minds think alike or some shit. But omgggg the Blastoise was so precious she was my favorite.
Avery was pushing it on time for her Mabrokas and all the shit they needed to do in time for the Madoka meetup, so even though Diana had wanted to see us all in costume, Avery left to get all that shit together and me and Kristen just hung out with Jacob for a little bit. Kristen went to pee and after she got out we found a CANNON!! outside this gift shop and I was like PARTY CANNON!!!!! and we took some pictures on that. There's one of me stuffing Gummy into the front of it that I think is really adorbz hahahaha. And then Kristen's sitting on it like she's going to ride it into the sunset. While we were doing that a wild Scot appeared and I was not 100% interested because idk awkward so he and Jacob scuttled off to do some Artist Alley shiz and Kristen and I just pony'd around some more. We were over by the fountains hoping something fun and interesting would happen when suddenly, there are millions of Tiger & Bunny folks there, and I was like WAIT, DIANA...... and sure enough we found her in like two seconds and I was able to give her her cupcake. Hooray!
(ALSO SOMEWHERE IN HERE BEFORE AVERY LEFT I ACCIDENTALLY PHOTOBOMBED MAGUMA. I mean, I was Pinkie so I'd been photobombing A LOT because it's just so in character, so I was just perfectly walking behind this shot and there was no way I COULDN'T so I did and then when the photog was done with the shot he whirled around with his hands on his hips and like, scolded me, all teasingly "Pinkie...." and I just kind of troll-shrugged and then after the fact me and Avery realized WAIT A HOT SECOND THAT...WAS MAGUMA. omg. but yeah.)
We hung out with Diana for I guess 20 minutes or so and then we realized (we thought) we were gonna be late for the Madoka meetup? Which Kristen and I were gonna go to so we could get pics of Avery and The Dudes because yes. But actually we were like half an hour early. And eventually Diana caught back up with us and we reclined against a planter and chilled for a while until people started appearing and things were actually happening.
God this meetup was hilarious. I think everyone was actually really excited to have a pretty substantial group of Mabrokas, espesh with costumes as good as the ones that Avery and The Dudes whipped up. Their one regret was not having weapon props but they made do great with what they had, and omg just...the lulz. There's pics of Jesse-Kyoko shoving apples in Colin-Sayaka's mouth, there's pics of all three of them holding Avery aloft showgirl-style; there's a pretty hilarious one of schoolgirl!Avery-Madoka, a magi!Madoka and then god!Madoka, and I was like IT'S LIKE THE EVOLUTION OF A POKEMON. So cracked out. I think at one point someone tried to get Jesse and Colin to kiss. And Jesse gave apples to like, EVERYONE. I was totally just sort of on the fringes of this meet, and I kept having to hold all of Kristen's stuff AND all of Avery's stuff when we were back-and-forth taking pictures, but it was pretty fun and I'm glad I could help Avery and The Dudes out with stuff and support them and shit. yaaaaayyyy~
IDK one hundred percent what happened after that, but I think the long and short of it was that we were all starving and so me, Avery and Kristen left to go de-costume and then go to POTBELLYYYYYY where we had already decided we were going to go for dinner. It was a quick walk from the hotel and when we got there Molly was already there with a bunch of her Hamsteak harem and I crept the fuck up on her and grabbed her knee under the table. AND SHE LITERALLY DID NOT REACT. I guess getting groped under tables is just par for the course when you're big pimpin' like skepticarcher. Then we went up and ordered and Kristen and I got LITERALLY the same thing (a "big" size chicken salad sandwich on white bread with lettuce and onions...she is my child) and I had an effing SANDWICH-GASM. OH JESUS IT WAS SO GOOD. And so I went to tweet about it and Avery was like "are you tweeting about how good your sandwich is?" and I was like "....maybe :<" and she was all "I can just tell by your face." STRAIGHT CALLED OUT. I SEE HOW IT IS. I ate the whole thing AND some chips because we'd barely eaten that day aside from like one cupcake each and some weird shit we'd just happened to have around the room at breakfasttime, so this was definitely our big treat of the day and it was worth it. (Speaking of eating the whole thing, we were walking back to the Gaylord and we saw some ponies across the way, a kawaii Rainbow Dash and then an unflatteringly-dressed overweight Pinkie Pie...and Avery goes "she ate the whole pie." AND WE LOST OUR FUCKING SHIT. WE LIKE DIDN'T STOP LAUGHING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE HOTEL omg we are horrible people. And then that became a joke all weekend. the ~whole~ pie.)
Our plans for the rest of the night were relatively wide open, aside from "possibly we should get our badges for Saturday maybe," "Avery has to style this wig for Jacob," and "hey wait let's get drunk." Two out of three were actually accomplished! Avery enlisted my help as "here hold this" bitch for making her gross Josuke wig look at least a little more presentable, and while we were doing that Kristen touched up her Roxy wig too. Then when that was over Kristen went down to Kyle Hebert's riff-the-fuck-out-of-Dragonball-Evolution panel that we'd gone to at Nekocon, and Avery went up to The Dudes' suite with the intention of getting drunk with them and the rest of the suite frogs, so I kind'f got left alone for a while. A mild bummer, lol. Especially because BLACK COMEDY WEEKEND WAS STILL MYSTERIOUSLY ON OUR TV it literally never ended. I am so confused as to what was going on and why our TV was on this one station the whole time. (Oh and somewhere in here I went on an epic quest for a vending machine selling Sprite because I wanted to mix it with my sour apple pucker booze I brought??? hahaha I don't even know. That happened though and I ended up with a Sprite, so.)
At some point tho Avery texted me telling me all The Dudes had left to go to the /cgl/ meetup??? FOR SOME REASON. So she was up there with all of the drunkest of the drunk trying to drink this Tron-drank that Page made for her, and she said she wanted to leave and bring it back, which I told her to do, but finally I was just like "or I could come up there if that's better?" Because Zac was lurking, I guess, or something, and so I went out on a mission to meet up with her in their sketch suite on the 19th floor. AND I COULDN'T WORK THE ELEVATORS BECAUSE I'M STUPID sigh lol but eventually I made it and it was good. She gave me the rest of her Tron, then she took a shot of gin which was a fucking stupid idea for her (she kept saying it tasted like pine trees, ahahah) and someone made me a rly good bright-ass green drink and then we were like, Let's go get drunk with Lauren and Christina instead because they're cooler. So we tried to find them and ended up waiting around the gazebo area forEVER because Christina took longer to get there than we did and then we didn't recognize her in her dogtier Jade outfit lolol. (While we were there we saw one of Jesse's apples that someone had been eating just...chillin' on the railing of the balcony...lolololol jesse clean your shit up.) Christina was looking for her Dave and so we wandered around MORE and ended up in that swank restaurant area on the same floor as the checkin desk? yeah yeah. Christina was draping her 4 Loko'd self on people we didn't know, but we did end up running into Kurt and talking to him a little bit about some California dramu that had yet to be illuminated to us and ugh ugh ugh I think I saw Andrew Page and I was like, BARF. And I finished my drank.
THEN SUDDENLY, EVEN THOUGH SHE HADN'T BEEN ACTIVELY DRINKING FOR A WHILE, ALL OF AVERY'S ALCOHOL KICKED IN. She went from being parallel to me on the intoxicated scale at like a 2.5 to suddenly being a 7 or 8 while we were talking to Kurt and I was just like WHOA, WTF HAPPENED TO YOU. Hilarious. We talked to him more and then were going somewhere?? And even though she was way more wasted than I was Avery still managed to have a better sense of gaylord-direction than me. Which I guess prompted me to call her Jack Sparrow, and then she started singing the Lonely Island song for the rest of the night, and I regretted it almost instantly. WHOOPS. Anyway idk there was some more drunk traipsing about and we were on an elevator with a really drunk girl in a Sonic T-shirt who told Avery she looked like Daniel Radcliffe and then hugged her and that was really funny, and I leaned against this place where a screw was kind of loose and put a hole in my SPACE hoodie which was sad, and then eventually we were back in the land of the suite frogs and they made each of us another drink as well as a drink for us to take back to Kristen because I wanted her to drink because I'm a bad father and a horrible influence on my son. (Yeah, in a weird twist of fate, Avery is actually the mom in this situation. I know, right.)
We get back to the room and everyone is there, Kristen still kind of fucking around with her wig (I think) and I try to get her to drink but she won't, and Joe and Jacob getting out of costume and channel surfing and then GET THIS, POTC 3 IS ON. DRUNK AVERY WAS SO EXCITED. She was like "Jack Sparrow!!!!" and went up and started poking the TV, poking his nose and Beckett's nose, and I tweeted about it (there are a lot of glorious tweets from this stretch of time, just go back aways and you WILL know it when you see it) and then she saw the tweet on her phone and was like, How the fuck do you even know his name? He doesn't have a name!! And I was like, Yes he does, it's Beckett.... and apparently me knowing that well enough to know that he has a name means to drunk Avery that I have a boner for him. I don't even know.
We fucked around a while longer laughing at drunk Avery and trying to find drunk Christina again, and she eventually showed up at our room with a handful of friends and we sat around on the bed laughing at each other and being pleasantly alcohol'd. This was just a really good night at a con. It was great because Avery was so drunk that everything she said was funny, and Christina was drunk enough that she found EVERYTHING funny, so they were like this perfect combination and some of the shit Avery said just made Christina DIE. Ahhh so wonderful. Especially the term "Fuckass O'Reilly." We also coined the disgusting phrase "shoosh-pap smear" and a lot of other gems and just ohhh, Friday night. Even if we eventually ended up back on black comedy weekend instead of Pirates by the time we were using the TV as a sleep-aiding white noise.
SATURDAY
First thing Saturday Jacob and I were supposed to meet up with Diana for some Diamond is Unbreakable shenanigans with her photog. Awesome! Except we all had to use the iron like crazy people and it WOULDN'T HEAT UP. I seriously ironed my Yukako fuku for like EVER and it accomplished nothing. Finally Avery figured out how to make it work a little better and yay, so she could iron her shit and Jacob and I could iron our shit and good. Kristen helped me with my fake eyelashes which I basically have to wear for stupid glamface Yukako, and after getting her own makeup shit together Avery did mine too for which I am very grateful. We left her still Maid-oka-fying herself, me as Yukako and Kristen as Roxy to get pictures, and headed down to the fountains where we found Diana and Kurt and everyone we were meeting up with (there was a kawaii Foo Fighters there too but I didn't catch her name/don't know her? But aaahhhh I saw you on Tumblr and you're super-presh). Eventually we decided we were going outside instead, since it was a fair bit warmer than Friday had been and we wanted better lighting and more Duwang-appropriate locales. Avery had told us to tell her if we moved anywhere since she was still preoccupied helping The Dudes for the Saturday Madoka meet, so I texted her.
Outside was so fun! We took some great pics, though the photographer had to leave for a while to get a new battery or memory card or something and that put a little kink in our plans and shit. Also, there was a really nice wedding party that we were trying not to accidentally photobomb, and a parade of Doctor Who cosplayers (it was their meetup I think) wandered through us twice, and stuff, hahaha. Got some great pics of me sneaking up on Diana, some of which she literally did not know I was there for, and then there are some of me attacking her with my hair and some of the four of us part 4 folks staggered up the steps where we were and some of the Foo Fighters girl spraying someone's water bottle all over her face ahahahaha. Then the photographer was back and we took some more up on this bench, and Scot showed up in Jotaro and we tried yet again to stage that one where they're all reaching up to the sky together in that clusterclump but we had NO reference so it's a little durpspecial, and Kurt and Jacob staged the Josuke/Kira headbutt picture which was pretty ffffff.
AND THEN, THE PRETTY BLACK LADY'S WEDDING PARTY CAME OVER AND WANTED TO TAKE PICTURES WITH US. I guess to commemorate the fact that they picked a WEIRD-ASS weekend to do their bridal party shots, but it was so hilarious and silly and awesome and nice of her! They were all super-friendly. So Kristen and Joe got in those too, and we posed a lot with this cute sassy bride and some of her groomsmen and even their photographers a couple of times, just this clusterfuck of Jojo cosplayers and normal people. It was so so sweet and wonderful, and we thanked her so much for being so courteous and friendly to the nerd freaks that kind of crashed her wedding shoot, and omg I can't believe this happened. Greatest Katsucon moment.
We took a couple last photos after that was over, like one of me leaving a big smoochy lipstick kiss-print on Diana's face, and then Kristen and I left so that I could change into Pinkie again and find Avery in time for the Madoka and MLP meetups, which were tragically scheduled at the exact same time, balls. I was a little bit late to ponies but it ended up not really mattering because it was not teerrrribly well-organized and I just look like a moron in most of the pics anyway because I didn't know how to pose because I didn't know ANYONE else who was there without my Fluttershy and my Apple Bloom. Kristen kind of bounced between the two shoots but spent most of her time with Avery and The Dudes. I did have a little bit of fun there though when I met the SUPER-TALL MAN!PINKIE, WHO WAS FABULOUS AND AMAZING AND I HAVE A BIG GAY CRUSH ON HIM OMG. He had suspenders and hipsterglasses and the cutest outfit ever and a BIG BUNCH OF HELIUM BALLOONS and he gave me a yellow one!! He was soooooo nice. Man-Pinkie, if you ever see this, I am in love. There was also a really sexy Photo-Finish and an adorable Rarity with an Opalescence plushie cat. Overall the shoot was fun I guess but idk I just look like a fuckass in literally every pic I've seen because I just kept durpily blowing up this pink balloon I had found in an elevator the night before. WHOOPS.
I abandoned the pony shoot to go check up on what Avery was doing and ended up running into a super cute joeyrichter!Ron cosplayer! Kristen and I talked with her some about how we were doing Draco and Ginny the next day and how we were sad that Avery wasn't doing Harry this go-round, and we all chatted about StarKid stuff and it was fun. Then Avery I think left her shoot too, but she still had these bazillions of strawberry cookies that the other Madokas hadn't eaten, so I was like "I can take them to the ponies to try to get rid of them" and she was like "THAT IS A GR8 IDEA." So I went around handing them out among the ponies and they were a big hit! Though everyone kept referencing this video or something online where apparently Pinkie makes her cupcakes out of her friends. And I was like noooo, Fluttershy made these! And they were so delicious that most people didn't care but it still got kind of annoying to get that reaction literally every time. Lol fandoms I'm not really in. (I tried to give a cookie to giant Man-Pinkie but he wouldn't take one! He was like aw no honey, that's okay and I was like BUT IT'S A PAYBACK FOR THE BALLOON! but he still wouldn't eat one. wahhh lol.)
We managed to get rid of like 85% of the cookies and then Avery wanted to go back and change into Fluttershy so she left, but the pony shoot was kind of still going on??? So I wove in and out of that a little bit getting in some more Pinkie + random other character shots but in general still being an asshole. Avery missed the Fluttershy/Big Mac photo and I told her and she was sooo sad, lololol. And she still wasn't back by the time Kristen needed to leave for the 3:14 Homestuck meetup, so I went with her to that and told Avery to come meet up with us later.
THIS MEETUP TOOK A VERY LONG TIME AND WAS VERY COLD. I gotta give props to the two or three people running it, because they did manage to make it go fairly smoothly, but the fact of the matter was I was waiting around to take pictures of Kristen and the alpha kids, and the alpha kids have LITERALLY the costumes with the LEAST clothing out of ANY OF THE CHARACTERS, so the fact that we had to sit out there for as long as we did in the freezing cold (and let me tell you my Pinkie costume is not the warmest shit ever either) was kind of miserable. The first few things we did went pretty well, and I was able to find and hang out with Molly and Chelsie and Justice, :D, but eventually it was so cold that Avery left us to go back inside and Chelsie and Justice did the same even though their characters (fairy!Vriska and Aradia, they were wonderful) were still getting called for shots.
(On top of how freezing it was, there was also this really annoying other-Roxy sitting next to us on the ground who would nooottt shut up. She kept like, repeating everything we said, and copping our ideas of trolling/photobombing certain shots, and we were trying to be nice because she was obvz like 12 but I just wanted her to go awaaayyyyy. LIKE, OKAY, WE WERE COLD, RIGHT, so I sat down cross-legged and was going to let Kristen lean back on top of my lap so we could huddle together and keep warm. AND THIS OTHER ROXY TRIES TO LAY ON MY LAP TOO EVEN THOUGH I DON'T EVEN FUCKING KNOW HER. Kristen was like "UM SORRY THIS IS MONOGAMOUS" and I was like "Yeah, I only have enough lap for one Roxy...." aksdjghasjg what on earth.)
The BEST part of the shoot, however, was this mad sexy Jake English chick who was literally just as obnoxious as we were and that was making EVERYTHING better. Right after the all-the-Vriskas shot she leapt out and screamed HUBBA HUBBA and then during the Jake/Dirk shot she actually just full on started making out with her Dirk. So when it was time for Jake/Roxy I was like KRISTEN IF YOU DON'T GET THAT JAKE and she was like I KNOW RIGHT but they ended up running right for each other like, simultaneously and everything was WONDERFUL and she became our new friend. in love with her tbh.
There was this MASSIVELY LONG gap between Jake/Roxy and Jane/Roxy and that was when our patience really started getting tested and I even tried to reason with the girl running the thing to be like "the alpha kids are freezing" and she was like "I have a preset list I'm sorry abuubuubuu" which like, I really appreciated because they were mad organized, so whatever. But Avery kept texting me from inside because she really wanted to do more pony pics and she was trapped near this giant bouncing circle of Hetaliafag insanity and the sun was literally setting and I was like WE ARE ALMOST DONE I SWEAR. So as soon as Jane/Roxy was over with we fucking booked it back inside. (Actually that's a lie. We ran behind whichever pairing was next which I think was Karkat/Gamzee and photobombed the crap out of it like assholes and THEN went inside.)
I HAD LITERALLY FORGOTTEN WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO NOT BE COLD. My legs were SHAKING when we got inside and it took us a couple minutes to find Avery but eventually we did and we took some more pics together and separately. I also took one of Kristen with this adorbz Marauders group, because she was like WIZARSDS!!11! and that was funny, but they were all kind of giving us the stinkeye like they were totes unimpressed? hahaha IDK. I had seen the girl who was Sirius earlier and she'd seemed nice enough but who knows what was going on. Maybe they were in a hurry somewhere? Weird.
We'd been making jokes about how Avery was kind of making a tawdry "come hither" face in a couple of her Fluttershy pics and then we started calling her Sluttershy and then we decided we were going to take lewd pony pics like we were porno stars (I was Pussy Pie, I think, but in hindsight Kinkie Pie is much better, ffffff). So we went up to this awkward velvet antechamber or something upstairs by the gazebo area? where Kristen and I had clowned around without Avery the day before and taken some pics, but all the lights were down so it was horrible picture-wise and we only managed to take a few before some guy ambled over and told us that area was closed. Boo. So we were gonna go find some other place to do it. Meanwhile Kristen left??? why did you leave? I think it was to make herself more beiuetuifiul~ touch up her lipstick and spruce up her wig and shit. Meanwhile Avery and I wandered aimlessly around this staircase (we'd tried to take a Pinkie-sliding-down-the-bannister photo earlier but it was mad blurry; we tried again with slightly better success) and down this hallway to some couches where we thought we might try porno ponies again. THIS WAS MILDLY COCKBLOCKED BY some really butthurt Sengoku Basara shoot?? who were literally trying to keep this WHOLE hallway empty so no one was in the bg of their pics, and fussed at us for not walking close enough to the wall. Whatever, I hope we're in your pictures being awful. Also, we were starving, so it was great to be able to get some water and just sit the fuck down. We flipped through a bunch of the pics we'd already taken and kind of looked at them, so I could show Avery some of the hamsteak pics, etc. Then we got
the most
magical
text from Joe
ASKING IF WE WANTED ANYTHING FROM SUBWAY. OMG IT WAS PERFECT. We'd been starving and then just like a fucking beacon he was getting us sandwiches. I texted him back our orders and told him just to put them in our fridge if he got back to the room before we did, but then we were like FUCK NO, SANDWICHES, so we took our appalling dirty pony pics and then started heading back. Literally WHILE we were taking those photos I got a text and then a phonecall from Kristen as to where we could meet her, and she was legit on the way between where we were and where we were going, so we just rolled her back into our posse when we got there.
We passed conveniently by this ATM and decided it would be a smart idea to get some cash to pay for our hotel room and shit while we were there, so we stopped to do that, and then suddenly this random brony was talking to us.
Um, this was gross.
He shouted "Fluttershy! Can I have a hug??" and then almost before Avery could answer he'd scooped her up and lifted her bodily from the floor. He then proceeded to do the same thing to me. And look, here's the thing about picking up big girls when you hug them - it's not nearly as cute as picking up small girls. Most people can pick up small girls. When you pick up a big girl, you're definitely doing it to show off, and it makes you look like a smarmy douchebag who feels the need to reassure the bigger girl that no, it's okay, guys can pick you up too! Just...no. That's actually not okay and makes you look creepy. But ANYWAY. He keeps talking to us like, the entire time Avery and I are getting our money, and oh my god:
Creeper Brony: So like where are you guys staying?
Avery: Um - here. (meaning the Gaylord)
CB: yeah but like...where? /hinthint
Me: /DELIBERATELY TALKS SPECIFICALLY AT AVERY WITH MY BACK TURNED SO THAT SHE HAS TO TALK TO ME RATHER THAN HIM
Me: /keeps getting money out of atm
CB: But hey, y'know, I don't know how the three of y'all got a hotel room considering none of you look like you're 18.
Me: Bitch I am 22, I'm gonna be 23 next month.
CB: Oh wow!
(awkward pause in which we finally think he is going to leave)
CB: So wait, you're 23, you're old enough to buy alcohol!
Me: Yep.
CB: ...can you?
All 3 of us: /IGNORE HIM AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF DODGE
Augh SERIOUSLY? It's like, when you thought we were underage, you still didn't have any qualms hitting on us, and once you found out we weren't, you immediately shifted gears into trying to get us to buy you booze. Whoever you are, if you're reading this? You're a cunt. Leave kawaii little girls alone, asshole. And if you want people to buy you booze, just be upfront about it. If you had gone "Hey, I'm not 21 but I really want some alcohol, are you old enough to get some?" and just come at me straightforward, I probz still would've said no but I at least would've been more likely to entertain the notion of saying yes.
So once we finally managed to leave that awkward situation behind, we were going to go take some more photos of us and maybe of Kristen before we went up to get our sandwiches, so we started fucking around in the gazebo area. There are bunches of pictures of us up there rolling around in one of the little panel windows, including Kristen fake-drunk off her ass throwing herself around, me hanging upside-down, and Avery posing a la class pictures or cameo headshots because she's fucking glamorous-ass Fluttershy. Nigga we're kawaii. Then I was like "OMG can we take a pic of me next to the pink-ass lights during the light show at the fountain" because it started up again and so we started scurrying down there only to realize that Avery had totally misplaced her phone. UM, WHOOPS. I tried calling it but no one answered, but then when I texted it someone texted back and said they were up around the gazebo (Avery had retraced her steps back and found nothing). So I scuttled off to retrieve it just because idk I can scuttle the fastest and most obnoxiously but I couldn't find it??? Retrieving it was a clusterfuck but eventually we did. Also somewhere in there this random photographer asked to take pictures of me, Avery, and this guy dressed as Discord that we'd arbitrarily ended up standing next to beside the fountain...who I think turned out to be Dymatrex. ACCIDENTALLY ALL THE COSFAMOUS PEOPLE WHOOPS. We did manage to find the phone though and then we were like fuck it, we need our sandwiches. So we went back to eat. (Oh and at some point we took hilarious pics of Kristen stuck in this revolving door. ROUGE OF VOIOD IZ SOG BWASHTED)
AAAHHHH GLORIOUS SANDWICHES THO. We stuffed our faces so hard it was kind of embarrassing. Black comedy weekend was STILL on the TV and I think this was around the time when we noticed they had stopped censoring the word "nigger"? I was like, what, are they even allowed to do that?? ahahaha.
Avery's wig cap was still running away underneath her Fluttershy wig like it had been all day, and she wanted to get out of costume, but I was like "remember Lauren and Christina are doing their Gay Bar/Gaylord video and we want to be ponies for that" and she was like "oh yeah." So we literally just lounged around as ponies like, forever. I had my yellow helium balloon from Man-Pinkie that was kind of losing floating power and had gotten super-charged with static over the course of the afternoon, so we were bopping that around still attached to the string it was on, and then I also blew up the pink one I'd found to bounce around and tried to blow up the blue one too but it literally exploded in our faces and we screamed, omg. This was some wonderful great family bonding time with me and Avery and our son Kristen that we hadn't quite gotten yet that weekend just the three of us, and we really enjoyed it, or at least I did, :3. I also told Kristen I'd probz come to the 10:25 Homestuck meet with her so I could take pics and she was like O____O are you serious, even after the 3:14 one, I wasn't going to ask!! But I was like noooo, I'd planned on it, and besides it will be INSIDE so we won't freeze to death and fewer people will be there because it's late and I want to see Diana since she never came to the afternoon one and yeah. So that was a thing.
Eventually we heard back from Christina that they weren't doing anything until at least like 11:30 and so Avery was like "yeah fuck this" and got out of Fluttershy. She tugged her wig and wig cap off and had like...PERFECT JAKE ENGLISH HAIR..... and we got this zany idea into our heads that we were going to rig her together a closet/hotel room cosplay so she could crash the photoshoot and be drunk and awful with Kristen's Roxy. We texted like everyone we could think of trying to find someone with a spare Jake English shirt, and we thought we had a serious lead on one in Chelsie's room, but it turns out they didn't have it... BUT WE WERE LIKE, SCREW IT, WE'LL DO IT ANYWAY. So Avery wore her Fluttershy socks, her denim miniskirt, and a tank top, and then tied my green bandanna around her neck like an ascot and clipped in my neon green vinyl hairbow, and then THEY GAVE EACH OTHER FAKE TATTOOS WITH EYELINER..... Avery had two pistols pointing to her crotch basically along her oblique lines and then wrote in "ADVETNURE!" with the R and the first E backward as if Roxy had done it. Then Avery wrote "JAKE WAZ HERE" with an arrow across Kristen's boobs, and we went down to the photoshoot. WE WERE ON CRACK IDEK WHAT HAPPENED HERE. IT WAS THE MOST GLORIOUS THING EVER THOUGH. And so we just went on down to the photoshoot and hoped for the best.
One of the first people there we ran into was the tiny Derse Dirk who'd been hanging out with our friend the sexy Jake earlier, and so I was like, What if we ask her if she knows someone with a spare? So I asked but no luck. We found Diana-Gamzee in the crowd and hung with her some and she was drunnnnk. Her Faygo was NOT Faygo, it was like 80% Bacardi Zombie, omg. It made her super entertaining because like EVERYTHING WAS FASCINATING TO HER. She is literally perfectly in character drunk Gamzee when she is drunk.
We asked a couple more people about Jake shirts to no avail, Kristen ducked into a few Roxy photos, and Diana ended up with this SUPER-AWESOME-BEST-TITS-EVER Highboob cosplayer to take some Gamzee pics. That evolved into Gamzee + Highboob + normal Highblood, which evolved into borrowing a Dad's hat and Kristen's martini glass for "Gamzee family" pictures of the three of them, which eventually became a photo op proper for the shoot with all the other Gamzees crowding around their "parents." That was pretty awesome lololol but like everyone was CREAMING THEIR PANTIES over Diana. They were like, But you're THEEEE Gamzee, and like I almost didn't even want to try any more after I saw you omg omgomg alkjsfdghalh, and she was like hanging her head in self-consciousness and I was just laughing at how bzonkers it is that two of my best confriends have become Homestuck BNFs even though I knew and was friends with both of them before Homestuck even EXISTED. The ironies of this world maaannnnnn
So we're taking dumb stupid pictures and I see that our friend the sexy Jake has returned and I was like um. Hm. What if we. Maybe she would just like for two seconds let us borrow her shirt? SHE LIKES US RIGHT, WE'RE FRIENDS RIGHT??? So against my better judgment I guess I went up and was like "lol so this is a weird and awkward question but" AND SHE JUST TOTALLY DIDN'T EVEN HESITATE TO STRIP RIGHT THE FUCK OUT OF HER CLOTHES. She had a black tank top and whatever she was binding her chest with on underneath so it wasn't even that big of a deal, and when I wormed out of the crowd and over to Avery and Kristen with the shirt in my hand they were like ARE YOU SERIOUS??? and Avery stripped right down to her bra in the middle of the convention center and put it on.
Sexy Jake (whose name we had discovered by this point is Claudia) came back out over to us along with her Derse Dirk and was like "Do you want the jacket part too?" and gave us that, too, and Avery was FREAKING OUT and we were all DYING with laughter and she tucked it up underneath her boobs so her stomach was hanging out and we could see her fake double pistols tattoo. And Kristen tugged the front of her top down too so we could see the "JAKE WAZ HERE" and her bra straps and I took pictures of them SOMEHOW. I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW HOW CONSIDERING I WAS PRACTICALLY CRYING WITH LAUGHTER. And hilariously in the middle of all of this other people we didn't even know snapped a couple too. This is literally the greatest thing we did all weekend and I have zero regrets other than the fact that I couldn't join them as Drunk Jane Crocker. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN. PREPARE YOURSELVES. ESPESH IF YOU'RE COMING TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Then we're hanging out waiting to see if we're gonna talk to Diana any more and Kristen basically goes "So yeah I'm gonna go puke now" and we were like WHAT. But yeah apparently she'd been feeling yucky for a while so she scurried off to the bathroom. I was like GO IN A PLANT IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT FAST ENOUGH. Bawwwwww my poor bbKrischten. :( We waited pretty much only as long as we had to for her to come back (she didn't end up actually puking thank goodness) before we decided to leave and go back to the room, since she was feeling cruddy and we needed to sort some things out with the people who were sneaking us into the panel room for Guests Uncensored. SINCE, YEAH, AVERY AND I NEVER ACTUALLY REGISTERED FOR KATSUCON??? We'd been planning on registering just for Saturday but we put it off and put it off and at one point we were like, Really the only thing we want to do that we need registration for is this panel and I bet we can get spare 18+ wristbands and borrow badges and just sneak in and not have to pay to register at all. SO THAT WAS WHAT WE DID. Avery got in contact with Jesse and he said he had an in for us on badges and wristbands so we fucked around a little more in the hotel room, mixed my Sprite from the night before + my sour apple pucker + the green drink Page made Kristen that she never drank and then went off to meet them in the line.
Tuuuurrnns out Jesse was horrible at communicating and had A) only one spare badge rather that 2 and B) NO 18+ WRISTBANDS AT ALL. Fortunately we'd been re-attaching the one that Kristen had popped off in the hotel room with EYELASH ADHESIVE, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY FUCKING TAPE, RIGHT, so Avery moved that one to her own wrist and Jesse gave me his and then he and Kristen went down to get new ones while we stayed in the line. Jesse left his Kyoko ponytail clipin by accident and we stuck it to Drunk Rob's beanie. The line started moving before they were back yet but we got into the panel with literally no questions asked and oh god Greg had already started.
I just. Greg.
This was literally the drunkest I have ever seen Greg Ayres in my life. Something was WRONG with him. From the moment we started it was the Greg Hates Vic Mignogna panel, which turned into the God Hates Vic Mignogna panel and the Greg Wants Vic To Get Cancer In His Vagina panel and I just. Oh god. It was sad because it was SO over the top obnoxious that it kind of stopped being funny after a little while, and Greg would de-rail people actually trying to answer audience questions into him talking shit about Vic or about homophobes or talking about how much he loves to drink and take drugs. He also hated on Nekocon :( and the Protomen (The Dudes were OUTRAGED) and a bunch of other stuff and I just. Idk it wasn't fun after a while because he was just a hot mess. He also kissed two GIRLS because he promised French kisses to anyone who would bring him more booze after someone from the audience asked to taste what he was drinking and ended up chugging the majority of it. He was just rull belligerent and it kind of put a damper on the whole thing. (Tatum and Chris Bevins were thankfully hilarious and Chris Ayres and the guy hosting the panel did their best to rein Greg in.) But we actually ended up leaving after a while because Kristen was about to pass out asreep and Avery and I wanted to hook back up with Christina and Lauren for their Gaylord video. (We left almost right after Greg did, and apparently once we left it got a lot better because Greg wasn't there to make it disastrous. I almost felt bad, but my mood about the whole thing had already been soured, so eh. We just drank our not-Sprite and tried not to facepalm at all the questions people were asking about the zombie apocalypse.)
We dropped Kristen off and then were gonna head to Lauren-and-Christinatown for this video. Avery was like "eh but they're probably too drunk to make it" and I was like "surely ONE of them is sober enough" and she was like "but what if Scot is there" and I was like "oh I'll uh scout it out ahead of you." (Since apparently Scot was staying with them? IDK we found that kinda weird and Avery found it upsetting bleh D:.) Sure enough he was there but I managed to beckon Christina out into the hallway to talk to us more and she was like "yeah I don't think the video is happening because Heather is too drunk to film it" and Avery was like "TOLD YA." So we're talking in the hallway but people are kinda creepin so we move further away from their door for maximum advantage distance, and Avery's a little tipsy, and we're all just hanging out - Lauren comes out eventually - and we're having fun being bros and talking about how disastrous Guests Uncensored was when suddenly Page is walking down the hallway?? ahahaha. And Avery ran and leapt on him and he kind of carted her off, and while she was away a wild Scot emerged. That was okay because she wasn't around and I tried to talk to him a little but awkward. And then she came back and he was still there and she like, ninja'd away as fast as possible and just left me there ahahahaha THIS WAS WEIRD. All I know is A) I eventually stole a bunch of fries off someone's leftover room-service plate out in the hallway and IDEC if that makes me gross because they were delicious, and then B) Avery ended up back in The Suite and I ran up there to retrieve her and she was drinking with that bunch some more. After a while we made it back down to our room again and watched the SAME GODDAMN KATT WILLIAMS SPECIAL AGAIN (and it was so late that they weren't censoring "nigger" OR "fuck" any more, what the hell, cable television), and we rolled around mildly-intoxicated and played with my balloons and I changed out of Pinkie and ate three of our remaining unfrosted cupcakes and did my best to pack up everything I wouldn't need the next day and then went to bed.
Saturday. Yeesh.
SUNDAY
Sunday morning was a bit of a CLUSTERFUCK. Kristen and I literally had to both pack AND leave shit unpacked to change into and out of Ginny and Draco over the course of like, an hour. Despite all of this it managed to go surprisingly well. We just ninja'd the fuck out of there as fast as we could and left everyone else behind to finish all their packing and shit, and RACED down to the area where the Homestuck meet the night before had been (which was surprisingly empty!) to get some funny pics. AND THEY WERE FUNNY. She's such a glorious little Lauren Lopez I can't even. And she had like, a good portion of her Lucy Steel costume on underneath so she could change as fast as possible, so she had these quality green and white striped stockings and so some of the pictures are PANTLESS DRACO. And her robe was too big because it was made for Joe and not her and just askjdhgaskjg. Our one regret was that by leaving everyone else we didn't have anyone to snap shots of us together, but fortunately we were able to ask a nice man with a press pass and he took some great ones! Aaahhhh Ginny and Pinkie are literally my two favorite costumes now and doing them both in a weekend, even if I only did Ginny for like half an hour, was so magical that I could just die~~~
Diana needed to borrow my Ginny loafers for Johnny, so Kristen and I zipped back up to the room as soon as we'd gotten some quality Potter pics and changed like LIGHTNIN' (I left my wig on because dnw bad wig hair out in the real world ew no). I still don't know how we managed to do all of this AND pack and check out without fucking up??? WE ARE THE BEST HOTEL ROOM TBH. So we took all our stuff down to the gazebo area, left it with Avery, and then went back up to Diana's room so she and Kristen could get their Steel Ball Run shit together. A couple of Diana's roommates were up there, one of whom was literally a dude just sitting in his briefs, and they all had remnants of troll makeup smeared on them ahahahaha. They were talking about Molly when I walked in. STOP HAVING SO MANY HOS IN DIFFERENT AREA CODES, MOLLY. I SWEAR. Sadly while I was in there I got a text from Avery saying her dad was like, already coming to get her and she was going to have to leave soon, so I needed to come back down and watch all our shit. (TBH I was glad to have an excuse to get out of Diana's room, it was messy and smelled like con-hotel-room-on-a-Sunday-afternoon and ahahahaha.)
So I went back down to where Avery was and hung out with her until she had to leave, and eventually Molly joined up with us too which was awesome because I'd been wanting really bad to hang out with her Sunday morning since we'd barely gotten to hang the whole time we'd been there. I communicated vaguely with The Dudes about when we were gonna be leaving and they said sometime around 1 or 2 and I was like, gr8. Awesome. Avery left and I CRIED THE TEARS BAWW. But then it was me and Molly and that was nice too because we can literally talk about anything and so we shared some of our Katsucon experiences thusfar and talked about the Gaylord and how nice it was to have a convention in because it's basically COSPLAYER PHOTOSHOOT GOLD and all this other jank and aahhhhh it was nice. Then it turns out that it was fucking SNOWING in Lynchburg, so we were going to try to leave right at 1 before shit got even crazier, so I texted Kristen and Christina and told them that if anyone wanted to see me before I left that that was their conditions. Kristen responded almost immediately with "we're almost ready!!" and soon enough she and Diana came downstairs all SBR'd up and they looked fab~ my shoes were really working for Diana too, so that was great. So I said by to Molly and her friend (Sara? or Sarah with an H? or??) who'd joined her so that I could run off and snap some pics of Diana and Kristen (AND THE GIRL DRESSED AS THE MONEY DANCER GIRLS FROM NERIMA DAIKON BROTHERS THAT I WAS BONERING OVER OKAY) before I had to find my way to the parking garage and leave. We did a couple of them on a planter and then a couple on the CANNON downstairs and then I was like WELP BYE. Joe gave me very helpful directions to the parking garage lol. (Oh also a group of girls, one of whom was in Slytherin attire, wandered past very loudly quoting ROCKETSHIP POTTER, STARKID POTTER, MOONSHOES POTTER and I ran over and hugged them and aahhhh yes good.)
Then I...left! I was feeling kind of queasy as me and The Dudes hit the road, blech, so I texted Kristen all "how long did it take for your nausea to pass yesterday" and she was like "oh only about an hour, get some food and take a nap" so when we stopped at Wendy's I was like YESSSS. I peed and ate and that made it all better thank god. While in Wendy's we all engaged in some very srs discussion about Harry Potter and His Dark Materials and some other stuff and it was great, because it was so different from the ride up. Like, I finally felt like I kind of fit in with those guys. MAYBE IT WAS THE GINGER WIG. hahahaha idk.
So we got back in the car and I'm pretty sure I slept a fair amount and I woke up and it was SNOWING LIKE ORZ. LIKE, SERIOUS INTENSE SNOW, REDUCING OUR VISIBILITY AND SHIT. We kept driving, though, and we made it through the worst of it, but it was sticking AND starting to get dark and eventually I had to text my mom and be like "ETA is not 5:30, ETA is now like 7 because we have to not die in the BLIZZARD." Seriously, this was so intense and bzonkers crazy!! Like, the ONE DAY we have to DRIVE FOREVER and that is the ONE DAY it decides to fucking snow like it has never snown before. We were so confused and frustrated and wut. But Colin is like, an awesome snowdriver??? and we just kept taking it slow and making jokes about it and forming contingency plans with Peter's dad and WE SURVIVED. WE MADE IT ALL THE WAY BACK TO RANDOLPH COLLEGE IN THIS CRAZY DEATH BLIZZARD. We only kindasorta ran off the road ONCE and we didn't get there until like 7:15 or later but it all worked out like fucking magic! And so seriously when we got out of the car we all HUGGED Colin. YOU ARE THE HERO OF KATSUCON MAN. THIS WAS A RIDIC MIRACLE. They left Colin's car (which we ended up naming Panserbjorn [or just Bjorn] after a combination of the His Dark Materials conversation + Colin saying he always names his cars after animals + THE FUCKING SNOW) in the Randolph College parking lot, because Bill had warned us not to turn down onto Duval or we'd never get back out again, and Bill came and helped me carry my stuff back to the house while they waited for Peter's dad in a tougher car with 4-wheel drive to come get them.
AND SO THAT WAS THAT. Freezing-Con, Pink-Con, No-Registration-Con, Everything-Went-Better-Than-Expected-Con, Drunk-Con, Katsucon. This was so far and above MILES BETTER than my previous Katsucon experience that I don't even know what to do with myself. A++++ WOULD GO AND NOT REGISTER AGAIN. Uguuuuu I just wanna rub my face on everyone and never leave. D:
I guess constats? Do I do that still?
Purchases: NOTHING. NOT A DAMN THING. I didn't even get a badge! so suck ittttt Katsucon~
Cosplay: Pinkie Pie with fluttershy!Avery and applebloom!Kristen on Friday, then Yukako with koichi!Diana &co. on Saturday morning and Pinkie (+Fluttershy) again on Saturday, and then Ginny Weasley with draco!Kristen for a hot second on Sunday
Sources quoted: The Tale of Captain Jack Sparrooooowwww~ and also uh, LFMAO songs that we made into memes. Literally every combination of "Party _____ in the house tonight" happened as well as a large amount of "Girl look at that ______"
Food: SANDWICHES~ MAGICAL SANDWICHES~ also cupcakes and cookies and oh god I ate so much of Jacob's chana masala I mean god damn
Trolled: Fancy red velvet room, Homestuck cosplayers, the ponies meetup and especially this Discord who was really weirded out that I was blowing up a balloon near his face, this lovely woman's wedding pictures, Joe
New memes: the whoooolllle pie
MVPs: Colin and Claudia. THE END. Saviors of Katsucon, the fucking Page of Shirts and Boss of Cars. Without the two of you things would have been killed, like my fun, and MY OWN ASS. Thank you eternally omfg.
LVPs: annoying baby Roxy, Creeper Brony, and anyone who tried to ask a shitty dumb question about weird sex or the zombie apocalypse at the Guests Uncensored panel. Also, anyone who should've hung out with me but DIDN'T. D: HARRUMPH. oh and whoever took that weird picture of Avery texting me while dressed as Fluttershy what the fuck were you even doing.
TL;DR WE NEED TO GO BACK.