/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Only events I plan to attend this year outside my comm meets are Kei-Con and that Neant Glass Vampire EGL night.

I reeeeeeally want to go to Labyrinth of Dreams but I'm already traveling two times that month...

Has anyone been to Keicon before? Is it worth the trip?

Can anons give me some events to avoid? I waisted my money on a horrible experience to one recently in LA

>>10855200
Royal Vegas Retreat and anything the LA mods scrape up last minute.

>>10855124
It's worth the trip because everything is in canadian dollars and their monopoly money is worthless in the exchange rate.

Is anything happening in Europe?

>>10855207
How was Royal Vegas Retreat? I heard about it and it seems they postponed it?

>>10855207
It’s all ran by the same staff that runs other shit events.

>>10855247
did they give refunds? This sounds so scammy to just say it's postponed until god knows when with no mention of refunds/ticket carry over.

>>10855256
It already happened, anon. They're talking about future events. I don't think they took presales on anything, so there's no refunds to give.

>>10855247
I would never go to Vegas for any reason.

>>10855298
You're missing out, it was really fun.Half of these conventions are in.

>>10855207
>>10855247
I'm surprised that now everyone is bitching about this? Did you actually go, and if so, what issues did you have with it?

Everyone I know who went, including myself, enjoyed it. The only issues it had was the BS with Tyler where they disinvited her and then didn't even announce she was no longer a guest. But it had the best tea party that I've ever had at a comm/con event, and obviously the location was so fun that everyone split into groups and had a blast

>>10855218
I mean is it worth my time?

>>10855301
Way to out yourself as a seagull discord chan. I bet you thought Paradiso was also a good time with all the shit stirrers gossiping at the event.

>>10855200
Anon why would you go to an event hosted by girlytoot lol she isn’t even a lolita.

>>10855322
What? I don't even know what Discord you're on about. Have you taken your meds today?

Also, Paradiso was mediocre. The tea was pretty bad and Kansas City itself is incredibly boring.

I would love to go to events/meets if they were guaranteed to be free of fats/sjw/trannies/itas. That’s not ever going to happen though, shit sucks

>>10855345
It’s stated right there you brainless twat. The seagull droppings chat had logs dumped and it came to light that everyone in there was a bully. Members from there went to Paradiso and RVR

>>10855351
That's why most of the good lolitas just go out with their own friend groups and don't go to meets, the only exception being things like actual brand tea parties.

>>10855351
>>10855322
take your meds

>>10855322
>>10855352
take your meds

>>10855362
Hi seagull chat chan. Is it groundhogs day? You post “take your meds” whenever Texas or that discord is mentioned

>>10855377
So what’s the Texas lolita conventions like? It seems like a majority of seagulls are Texans

>>10855379
Autistic now that all the well dressed lolitas had left and fatties are the new wave

>>10855379
I'm a Texan and it's pretty good, though admittedly I haven't been to one in over a year. Overall, it's a pretty weeby state so you get the good, the bad and the ugly which is better than just getting the ugly as I have seen more so in other states.
There are enough people that you'll find your group whatever your group is.

>>10855377
you're talking to multiple people who all think you're crazy, ESL-chan

>>10855392
Sure Jan

>>10855352
Ayrt. I'm saying I don't know what that is so it doesn't make a difference if you "state it", retard.

If you think that some people in a mean discord chat going to an event means that everyone else who went to the event is in on it, then you are a genuine schizo

>>10855377
kek if random anons are repeatedly telling you to take your meds, it might be for a good reason

>>10855379
I’m not from Texas, but I only drive in for cons like Okashicon, A-Kon, Crunchy Roll, and Colosseum Con, being from Oklahoma. I will say that A-Kon for the past 3 years has been a total letdown. The venue wasn’t the best, and the tea service was bad. For the amount they charge, you could easily just reserve a tea service somewhere else that’ll actually give you a tea service for less. For the A-Kon 2022 tea party, it was a big disappointment and a joke. They only served us lukewarm tea and a small macaron bought from Costco. It was outrageous that the Tea Party was such a waste of time and money. They did have brands like Angelic Pretty and Baroque that did small raffles and gave little gifts. A-Kon is only worth it if you want to shop at the brand if you don’t want to do the shopping online. If you're visiting A-Kon, be prepared to reserve tea service elsewhere with Lolitas.

>>10855116
I wanted to go too but I think it will be impossible for me

>>10855416
Did they refund the tea party?

>>10855416
I heard it should be much better this year, but it's understandable if people want to skip. Its expensive and there's perfectly good tea options multiple places in dfw.

>>10855481
Nyart but I was there as well
No apology, no refunds
The tea was cold and they ran out of scones by the time they got to our table

>>10855488
That’s pretty shitty.

>>10855484
I don’t think anyone wants to go back to a tea party that they had horrible experience with.

>>10855416
I didn’t get to go because they ran out of tickets. But all I heard was how the organizer was lashing out after people complained about the tea party not going well. This wasn’t appropriately planned if some guests weren't served at all.

>>10855488
I heard it was self-serve and the earlier tables were greedy and took more than what they were supposed to. Not so much planning as it was one or multiple in the the first groups of people overserving themselves.

When you consider the bigger names for brands that A-Kon gets I can see where a lot of budget tends to go for j-fashion programming. I think people want tea party tickets to only reflect the food price and not the guests and brand appearances or the other aspects of everything but that's not always how the budget works at a con, plus often hotels restrict what outside food you can bring in to force organizers to overpay for their in-house catering and food services.

>>10855488
>>10855481
How would they even have money to refund anyone? It's not like they're making a profit.

>>10855984
The tea was cold ma’am.

>>10855984
It has been years since I went to A KON. I remember the lolita tea party in 2019 being great as we were fed fruits, sandwiches, croissants, and yummy treats since Btssb was the guest. I can’t believe the event planner fumbled the bag with the tea party having Angelic Pretty as a guest there. I mean, the park they hosted the tea party at was somehow better than the convention center? Whack

>>10855984
Looks like staff and guests were the only ones entering. According to kawaii fluffyjo Maybe they were greedy and ate the food?
https://youtu.be/x2gwWst_bZU

>>10855987
Ayrt yeah there's no excuse for that if true

>>10855989
Pre and post 2020 events are so wildly different sadly. COVID fucked up so much stuff.

>>10855989
Here’s the food they served nonny

>>10856000

>>10856000

>>10855989
AP USA, so not real AP. Such a crime has not been done to poor maki and asuka.
They still goofed up the tea party though. I assume it's a shitty Aramark type venue issue.

Tekko con is always known for it's tea parties and its huge J-Fashion show. Meta is a guest this year too

>>10855984
It wasn’t self serve, the waiters came around and gave everyone one of each thing.
The organizer did add extra tickets at some point though so maybe they were over capacity

>>10856000
I didn't realize how expensive the tea party tickets were when I went to purchase my A-KON tickets. $75 for something that looks like it was made by a toddler? I think I'm stepping this one out and just reserving tea somewhere nearby or use the $75 for the brand booth :/

>>10856078
Go to the French Room or Edith’s
Much better service and quality and similar price tag

>>10855984
There was a lot of fat asses so they probably ate everything

>>10856132
As a fat-ass who attended this tea party, I can assure you that we got as little food as everyone else did, it was just a shit tea party. lmao

>>10856000
This is embarrassing

>>10856000
>>10856001
This reminds me of that florida event that I can't remember the name of. I think they had haenuli as a guest and there were paper plates and skittles iirc

>>10856832
I kek’d. They gave us one small pastry desert and that was it. Before going out with others to karaoke we reserved tea at a local tea house. The lolita tea party was not worth the $50+

>>10856834
I attended it and allegedly the organizers run into a scamming scheme. At least we were fed stuff that don’t look like actual shit
>>10856000

>>10856886
holy fuck the starburst

>>10856000
>>10856001
It was such a complete shitshow that it got other comm moderators posting and being salty about the food portions after the tea party. This had to be the worst tea service yet, and I’m disappointed because AKon was one of the big cons for Lolitas. I attended the 2016 tea party and loved it so much. I can’t believe the event went into the gutter.

>>10856834
The lolita event name was Crowns and couture. There was a video made on it
If you want to look back on it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHdlyC96klA&pp=ygUdTG92ZWx5IGxvciBjcm93bnMgYW5kIGNvdXR1cmU%3D

It was a Florida lolita convention that was dash con level of failure. There’s Archive of the event on the web. I just hope Florida opens up to having more lolita events that’s not ran by a nut job who lied her attendees out of $80 to 120 on tickets and left the VIP supporters dry. The VIP ticket holders didn’t get what was promised and was fed dollar tree candy

>>10856900
*cakes and couture

>>10856900
Wow she completely skipped the tea party

>>10856886
I'm grossed out that there's no food here. Nothing even remotely edible for a tea party. It's all just sugar with food coloring.

>>10856000
This is my first time going to projectakon. I wish I saw this soon before buying a ticket

>>10856900
I think this sort of thing usually happens because the organizers have no idea what they're doing and grossly underestimate how much money it actually takes to rent a venue and hold an event (and overestimate how much they will earn in ticket sales).

>>10856886
The things you were served there did look like shit you delusional idiot.

>>10857863
nta but she said ACTUAL SHIT. as in literal feces. learn english,

>>10857966
Nayrt and the food didn't look great but saying any food that is brown and not uniform in shape looks like actual feces is silly.

>>10856900
lol why is the troon in the pic giving it good reviews as if it wasn't shit?

>>10857966
There's literally a brown lump with no toppings in the pic she posted. It looks even more like shit than the other tea kek

Also "at least our food didn't look like shit" is such a dumb low bar to brag about. God forbid someone serve a chocolate mousse because it's brown

>>10855124
Only if you want to be surrounded by obese borderline homeless idiots with shit taste and tumblr pronouns

>>10858049
Those fat itas are at every lolita con anyway. But good to know it isn't worth jt

>>10857986
anon said atleast it didn't look like literal shit.
>>10858040
you have autism

>>10858179
But it did. Look at the top left pic. Stop trying to defend your faggot tea

>>10857966
They were served feces? And they ate it?

All I found was this video summing up the A-Kon 2022 Lolita Tea Party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7smcnoOCgl0 It just confirms everything about the tea being cold and the food being shit. If anyone wants a ticket to the tea party, it is up for sale to whoever wants it first. I just found out that i wasted a whole $80 for nothing, earlier anons stated, with the food proportion and shit service.

>>10858453
Thank you for the video marigoldvivian96

>>10858453
Didn’t expect it to be so drab. How did they not compensate for the service?

Anyone knows what drugs the bittersweet lolita was on at the atelier Pierrot booth

>>10859080
What did she do?

What time is the Akon fashion show?

>>10859094
7pm to 8

>>10859094
The A-Kon Fashion show is shit this year. There’s only like 2 good brands out of the 4 and that was it. Wtf was starcrossed lovies line?

>>10859147
One of the models can’t pose for shit. I think it was the haenuli line where she did the most cringy pose with bag. Out of the fashion show I really loved haenuli and atelier Pierrot, but it wasn’t wowing me this year.

>>10859185
Pics?

>>10859207
I can’t post pictures without outing myself and other people in the crowd. There was two models that had book purses from the Winnie the Pooh collection. The model in question was wearing Usakumya tea parties that threw off the coord. The walk this year wasn’t the best in my opinion.

>>10859217
Was it the brown one nonna?

The food this year at A-kon

Same venue as last year. There wasn’t too much options for those of us with food allergies.

>>10859227
holy calves on that first one

>>10859272
It was brunch this time, right?

>>10859292
Yes, and for $75 it wasn’t really worth it. It’s was self served compared to last year it was served to us. Talked to the organizer for some bit and I will say it has improved a bit, but wasn’t really worth it

>>10857834
This is usually the case. Catering an event is crazy expensive. Venues like cheaper hotels will still charge out the absolute ass but offer something like continental breakfast with Bigelow tea bags. Venues that have good food and can provide a tea service are extremely expensive. What sets apart the good teas at events and the bad ones is purely money.

>>10859227
Blue one is the only one that looks nice.

>>10859348
I think that’s the designer

>>10859355
Not the designer.

>>10859272
You could get this at any motel for breakfast wtf

>>10859556
Most of us went because we feel bad for the organizer and her going off about her event being sabotaged kek. Every year seems to be a complete shit show and blabbing.

>>10859556
It tasted so bland. The tea was alright
We also got sparkling mimosas

>>10859566
Sabotaged?

>>10859566
I honestly thought the food was pretty good, though those around me seemed to disagree. The parfaits and dessert were definitely a highlight. The tea was great, but it’s hard to fuck up Harney & Sons.

All mimosas are sparkling kek - unless you mean the glitter, which was a fun touch other than the part where it made the drink fizz up so much that it overflowed.

Overall, I liked it and thought I got my money’s worth. The setting felt intimate with the designers seeming so warm and friendly and happy to be there, which matters more to me than food quality.

>>10859272
Terrible quality aside, the menu options look like a clusterfuck of mismatched leftovers. Ugh, the overcooker rubbery scrambled eggs look like something youd see in a hospital

>>10859185
Kek is this the model nonny?

>>10859612
Agreed that it felt worth it for the price. They also always do a really nice photo setup that people clearly love because almost everyone active online who attends the tea typically uses that as their profile photos for a year until the next tea.

>>10859627
It was self-serve so that's just what that person chose to eat nonna.

>>10859630
What are you talking about? And what pfp?

>>10859627
Picrel shows some other options. I stayed far away from the watery eggs, so maybe that’s why I felt my food was decent.

I really liked the tea choices. They had English Breakfast, Apple Spice, Mango, and Peppermint, among a few other options I didn’t catch since different assortments were brought out at different times.

>>10859634
Top kek this looks like shit.

>>10859633
They have a photo wall. I think it's been flower walls the last couple years, and many lolitas I follow who've attended Akon always seem to use their pics from the photo wall as their profile pics on various social media like IG and FB.

To me that means a lot of people really like the backdrops, and I like them too, that's all I was saying.

>>10859634

Food pics always look unappetizing so I’m not going to post but as someone who went last year, this year was a vast improvement. There was breakfast items as well as chicken, fish, and pasta. Idk about dietary needs but I would imagine if you didn’t alert the organizer before hand, you’re not going to get accommodated day of— and that’s on you. Otherwise everything was pretty good, and there was mimosas! I felt that it was worth the ticket price.

Reminder that if we don’t support local events, they can’t improve. So I’m glad I took a chance this year, overall it was a good experience.

>>10859634
This just makes me miss the 2018 Akon tea party food. The food was delicious and pleasing. What happened now?

>>10859642
Old fag here* I meant to put 2016 and 2018

>>10859272
Seems something a fatty would munch down on. They don’t care!

>>10859642
It could be budget, venues changing, their caterers shutting down because of COVID, or a number of other factors.

>>10859634
Food was tasty, warm, and mostly plentiful. Bottomless mimosas and hot tea. Programming at tea party was good. Freebies were nice. Only complaint from me would be that they ran out of the mini deserts. Maybe they could have put those at the table or something. But they handled it well and brought out other deserts that were good so nbd. Overall, the tea partys fund the costs of the guests coming so i dont mind overpaying for food.

>>10859664
>I don’t mind overpaying for tea party
>complains that they ran out of food
>overall a great experience

>>10859668
Been observing this thread and what is with the same anons flooding in and making the same repetitive reviews of this event? Poster count has hardly jumped up within a few hours. Is this some type of image clean up or cgl publicity spam to promote a shit event?

>>10859668
>>10859673
And want to add in : judging how the food was year ago makes it show how they downgraded on the tea party. Food doesn’t look too appealing which will turn people the other way.

>>10859673
If an anon has already posted upthread about being excited for the event or nervous they may have wasted their money, or just asked questions and commented on some of the other events mentioned, posting again after the event to update everyone who is curious won't increase the poster count.

>>10859677
Drama = $
Dallas Lolitas are notorious for creating attention and been doing this shit for the 2nd year in a roll

>>10859680
Kek drama chans were at the fashion show and tea party. No surprise at all! They were live posting throughout the duration of the event and somehow thought everyone forgot about their unhinged drama. I’d give 4 of them the side eye for posting while at the fashion since they couldn’t stop giggling and laughing at the one fashion line.

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>>10859680
Ayrt, what I just said has nothing to do with drama and was only explaining why poster count would remain unchanged. The only one in the Dallas comm who would ever stand to make money from drama is Tyler, who voluntarily stopped attending lolita events. There's no money in drama for a regular lolita.

>>10859642
what were the other available options at the 2018 tea party? this looks gorgeous, but as someone who dislikes and won't eat sandwiches, the selection seems rather limited.

2023's tea party could be improved, but i don't think anyone left hungry at least. the baked goods in your photo do look vastly superior though.

>>10859668
nayrt but as anon mentions, the caterers brought out a selection of full sized desserts when they ran out of the mini ones.

>>10859673
This year was full of attendees that are known cgl posters. I’m not surprised

>>10859727
>getting upset about cgl posters
>on cgl

>>10859664
Let me guess: all the fatties took two small parfaits to fill up their tummies than taking just one?

>>10859734
Ayrt never said I was upset. It’s just a fact

>>10859703
>this looks gorgeous, but as someone who dislikes and won't eat sandwiches, the selection seems rather limited.

The food at an event like this can only be two of three: aesthetic, affordable, good variety. Most easily acessible and cute tea services serve standard stuff like sandwiches, scones, and sweets on each tier and that gets boring but is usually cute and tastes okay. To get something photo-worthy with substantially more variety than that you'd have to pay a lot more in ticket price. Or choose a nice restaurant instead of an anime convention lolita gathering.

>>10859634
>didn't get a single vegetable
Of course

>>10859688
I'm convinced its just some schizo at this point. They bring up Texans even when it's completely irrelevant (like the RVR discussion at the beginning of the thread).

>>10859825
>thinking Olivia and the Texas ham planets would eat a single vegetable
kek

>>10859826
Texan Lolitas are known to be in drama.
>>10859684 there were drama at Akon

>>10859861
The ones known to be in drama caused said drama within the Dallas comm and have since been banned. They would literally not have been allowed at the tea party.

>>10859865
That’s not true. There are still plenty of dramamongers allowed in for some reason

>>10859870
Kek and this is why people are no longer associating with the Dallas Lolita Community. I can’t imagine dealing with a bunch of unhinges that scares people away.

>>10859876
Im genuinely curious bc I went to the tea and the usual suspects were not there, so who are we even talking about? I also didn’t notice any drama but maybe I was just with chill people. Everyone I talked to seemed nice.

>>10859877
Lolitas can be too faced anon.

>>10859877
All the people whose group chat got leaked this time last year

>>10859878
>too faced
it's two faced, retard.

>>10859877
This. That person is pulling things out of their ass. No one was being overtly mean or causing issues that I could tell either.

>>10859861
The opinion that "RVR was enjoyable, actually" has absolutely nothing to do with Texan drama. Constantly accusing random people of that is schizoposting through and through.