/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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i suppose a lot of the stuff around selling books etc would depend on whether or not there's a comics/manga store near where your shop would be that would fill that niche.

>mfw the first english edition lolita bible has a candy violet ad in it

you could stock vintage-inspired stuff, swing is sort of back and i know 50s fashion has crept into normie radar for a while(see modcloth.com)


i remember of a story of when one of those promo things went wrong, though
it was a local comic store's anniversary. they said it would be a party via email, and you could bring in cake? and if you got there early enough there would be free shit.

i get in and i'm next to the cash register. there are people dressed up outside. it's not a party. not even close. it's some balloons taped up and a busy store. everything was 10% off, which is good, but calling it a party isn't accurate. i see a young woman, clearly having had the same expectations as me walk in, and say hi, and say 'i baked some muffins for the party' or something like that to store lady. lady takes the muffins. there's nowhere for her to go. there is mutual awkward. cake lady makes her excuses and leaves the store. she is my age. perhaps i am her in another timeline. i don't know if she ever went back for the container, or what happened to the muffins.
i still think of it and wince, sometimes.