/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>went to my first con yesterday
>had an amazing time going to panels, buying merch and just seeing all the cosplayers
>halfway through it hit me how much more fun it would be if I had actual friends with me
>I do art professionally but work from my house so my social life died after I left college
>had no cosplay so I felt like a ghost to cosplayers even though they're probably the only people a weirdo like me could connect with
If you want attention at a convention you need to cosplay, I understand this, but I wish I could talk to these people and make friends before the con..