/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Good things:
>Do first cosplay ever, a couple days ago
>I put tons of work into it, not wanting to set a bad habit, burned my fingers a couple times.
>It's Metro Last Light
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>People seem to dig it and snap lots of pictures of me, some even want me to do action poses and all sorts of stuff
>ask me lots of questions about how I built it and how long it took (do I tell them actual work hours? or the sheer amount of time I designated but dicked off and only worked intermittently?)

bad stuff:
>No one to really go to cons with, girly I used to go with with ran off with close friend, and neither of them do cons anymore. (how do I into cosplay friends? MUN friends are so straight forward to make compared to this)
>Stuck wandering around a lot at the con (inbetween panels that is, but hey, at least it netted more pictures I guess)
>Couldn't spend more than 20minutes at a time inside the building without cooking to death (Fuck EVA foam and a German flak jacket was a poor choice of attire for a late june con lol)
>I thought it looked like Dogshit to be honest (I seriously was surprised so many people wanted pictures, half of them didn't know what series it was from, so maybe it didn't look half bad)

worst thing:
Can only Find like 3 pictures out of at least 40

Best thing:
>Pic related
I got to say "do you want the helmet on or off?" sooo many times and I was aven' a giggle about it.

So many feels, but still, 10/10 would do again!