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stunt_muppet at 01:52pm on 07/01/2019 under conventions, cosplay, internet, magfest, tales of the muppet
stunt_muppet at 01:52pm on 07/01/2019 under conventions, cosplay, internet, magfest, tales of the muppetAs always MAGFest was a ton of fun, and my first year cosplaying seriously went really well! I was in costume Friday and Saturday until about 5pm each day and we parked nearby so we could change into regular clothes and shop/game/go to panels in the evenings. Didn't do a ton of panels, and I sadly didn't get in line soon enough for the Austin Creed panel, but I never do all that many panels anyway.
I didn't have the foresight to take photos of myself in costume, but a lot of people asked for my picture, so I've been checking Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr, and I'll post if I can find a good one!
Where the other part of the title bar comes from: I did take a few selfies that I posted to IG, mainly because there were other cosplayers in some of them and I wanted to give them credit, and that's where most of them were. However, my IG is tied to my real-life ID, since I mostly set it up so I could see photos of Mom's dog that she didn't put on Facebook. I've been keeping my real life and my fannish life pretty strictly separate for about fifteen years now, for a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons weren't great ones (internalized shame about my nerdy interests, old-internet paranoia about people on the internets knowing where I live), but it's been a habit anyway and one I wanted to keep up.
...and now I've tagged a bunch of people on IG in cosplay photos, and some of them are following me, and so if I post any photos to my Tumblr that'll tie my two online identities together and if I do any more cosplay it'll be this one nerdy hobby that's gated off from all my other nerdy hobbies, so that's even more separate social media to maintain, and I wasn't thinking about any of this until I realized that I can't post my MAGFest vendor hall haul on IG because a good third of it is smutty doujinshi that I don't want to explain to my mother.
(I'll put up a haul post here, though, once I've got pictures.)
So yeah. Going to try to be a bit better about responding/commenting now that I'm not spending every waking moment prepping my costume! I'll have plenty of time to do it, too, because I'm among the furloughed. *sigh* I'm fortunately okay as far as money goes for the moment; I can afford two months before I have to start dipping into savings, but I am absolutely still pissed. Glad I at least had the con to take my mind of it for a few days.
I didn't have the foresight to take photos of myself in costume, but a lot of people asked for my picture, so I've been checking Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr, and I'll post if I can find a good one!
Where the other part of the title bar comes from: I did take a few selfies that I posted to IG, mainly because there were other cosplayers in some of them and I wanted to give them credit, and that's where most of them were. However, my IG is tied to my real-life ID, since I mostly set it up so I could see photos of Mom's dog that she didn't put on Facebook. I've been keeping my real life and my fannish life pretty strictly separate for about fifteen years now, for a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons weren't great ones (internalized shame about my nerdy interests, old-internet paranoia about people on the internets knowing where I live), but it's been a habit anyway and one I wanted to keep up.
...and now I've tagged a bunch of people on IG in cosplay photos, and some of them are following me, and so if I post any photos to my Tumblr that'll tie my two online identities together and if I do any more cosplay it'll be this one nerdy hobby that's gated off from all my other nerdy hobbies, so that's even more separate social media to maintain, and I wasn't thinking about any of this until I realized that I can't post my MAGFest vendor hall haul on IG because a good third of it is smutty doujinshi that I don't want to explain to my mother.
(I'll put up a haul post here, though, once I've got pictures.)
So yeah. Going to try to be a bit better about responding/commenting now that I'm not spending every waking moment prepping my costume! I'll have plenty of time to do it, too, because I'm among the furloughed. *sigh* I'm fortunately okay as far as money goes for the moment; I can afford two months before I have to start dipping into savings, but I am absolutely still pissed. Glad I at least had the con to take my mind of it for a few days.
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Also with being furloughed, oof. I'm glad you aren't in immediately dire financial straits, but that does seem like the kind of news a person could use distracting from, wow.
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I just, you know, don't know that I wanted things to overlap to "people in real life reading my tumblr" extents. >___>
Boyfriend did point out the upside which was that, since the furlough technically started while I was still on vacation time, I'll get that vacation time back once it ends (assuming we get back pay...). So there's that, at least. Plus, a lot of banks (including the one I use) are offering loan forbearance or payment deferment for a few months, so I'll at least have that option if things get really tight. It's just been a very strange few weeks, sitting at home and trying not to do anything that costs money.
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That's a good thought about getting your vacation time back, but still, continuing sympathy, ugh. What an awful mess.
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I'm glad you had a nice time, though! And made other cosplay friends and took pictures, even! That's cool :D