/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>Have a small cosplay competition group
>We're okay and we have fun so I enjoy it despite usually being in charge
>Two college friends (a girlfriend and boyfriend) move nearby and want to join
>We were in the same competition group in college, they can sew well, and seem pretty responsible, so yeah, please join!
>Decide on a series to cosplay from, and despite me wanting to just do a walk-on (it was getting hard to schedule practices with everyone's schedules) we decide to do a skit
>No one that wanted to do the skit wants to actually figure out a skit, so I get saddled with writing it, finding music, and choreographing it (with some cleanup help from the others when I presented what I had)
>Oh, this skit's actually pretty good. Kinda funny too. I'm proud!
>Get going on costumes; I bust my ass on my costume and my husband's, two friends do a splendid job on theirs, friend who couldn't really sew teaches herself and seriously knocks it out of the park
>College friends lag behind with excuses at every practice
>We practice, modify costumes, con is getting close
>We need stage props but no one want to make them, so since it's "my skit" (I only wrote it because no one else would) I "get" to make all the props
>Feeling seriously drained, I've sort of become the group leader again and now everything is on my shoulders
>College girl takes me aside a couple weeks before the convention and asks how to make a very large prop that needs to be ATTACHED to her costume.
>WTF this should have been made FIRST
>Still, show her some tutorials, tell her the most important thing is that it needs to be VERY LIGHT.
>She shows up to judging with this prop made of WOOD, then takes up about 75% of our judging time (our group was like… 8 people?)
TBC