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Saturday, December 15th, 2007 08:09 pm
Have had an utterly awesome day abut am very sleepy. First day's worth of photos are up including the terrible, dark, unzoomy shots I got of the cosplay comp. And here they are with commentary...

Took the new trainline, it's still kinda surreal.
There was an insanely long queue to get in, but I didn't get around to taking a photo. Once inside there were a lot of people (there's more round the corner), many of them in cool (and less cool, but well intentioned) costumes and outfits. (see, for example, Jovana's cool J-fashiony outfit)

There was a lot of anime-ish stuff for sale, some pretty awesome. Also LOTS of Pocky. Including giant Pocky! I got both FLCL manga for $10 second hand off Jess, yay!

My cousins were there! (That's my cousin Matt in the middle, his girlfriend on the right and her brother on the left. Cousin Bec was AWOL)

The panels were ok, but tended to be people with powerpoint presentations rambling self-consciously rather than the sort of thinky and/or audience involvey stuff I like. I got coopted somewhat unexpectedly for the webcomics panel, where as has happened on the last 3 webcomics panels, [livejournal.com profile] timtek and [livejournal.com profile] sonictail talked about what they do and don't like and I talked about Webcomics as Genre and Social Phenomenon :) Jess was fairly quiet, even when we all were all "No offense to Jess, but seriously you guys DON'T USE DEVIANTART OMG". This time I decided to try and get the audience involved more, which worked okish after an amusing start (kind of, I suck at remembering dialogue):

Jon: Hmm, you know it feels like you guys haven't read the stuff we have. What do you like?
*crickets chirp*
Me: Right. YOU! What webcomics do you like? (I am the queen of tact and delicacy)
Girl: Uh...
Tim: Dude, that's my girlfriend
Me: So I guess your favourite comic would have to be Refried then? (Tim's comic)
Girl(*): No.

(*)Who I've met enough times that I really should know her name or at least recognise her, but there you go :)

And then I snuck in to see the end of the cosplay. My photos SUCK since my camera sucks and I had a bad seat, but it was a heap of fun. [livejournal.com profile] harveystoat did a great job as MC (as he always does), and there were lots of fun little skits and a happy atmosphere. Here's Lois and Lauren's Phoenix Wright group, there were actually two both complete with "Objection!" signs. But I think my favourite was Riku complete with remote controlled cactuar (which had fallen over by the time my stupid camera took the shot. Sigh)

During intermission I took a couple more of people's outfits, here's Jen and Ewan. Missed Alix's outfit unfortunately, it looked really great. (EDIT: found a photo someone else took)

These guys won best group, I think. The green rope thing actually moved like a whip, it was pretty cool (Also Shasta had red contacts before her eyes got sore)

And then I went to the yaoi panel out of nothing better to do, it was a lot more "Squee! Boy make outs!" than the slash meta I'm used to :) I feel tempted to go to the yuri one if only because she put it down with such faint praise and implied any girl who liked it was a lesbian (I seem to be the only straight girl in the world who has a soft spot for lesbian romances since I can identify with both parties and there is less of that annoying gender crap you get in conventional romances. I'm not sure that applies to yuri though...)

And now my legs are REALLY sore, but I have nothing to do but sit so that's ok.
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Monday, December 17th, 2007 03:44 am (UTC)
Yeeeaaah. I had, uh, ISSUES with some of the gender politics when it came to mention of yuri at the yaoi panel. Dean made me NOT COMMENT, because... for real.

I may end up writing an extended rant on the subject in my own LJ, if I can remember what my big issues were.

Oh, right, I recall.

Right now I should go have lunch.

Glad you had fun! Day 2 was good too, I will show you pixes of our friends.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 07:54 am (UTC)
Oooh!

*eagerly anticipates both photos and post*
*doesn't pressure you to do them because oh do I understand the "I have all this stuff to post but am so not up to it right now" thing*