/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8575848
Should have said you think there's a fire in there.

>>8575848
OP confirmed for snitch

>>8575848
hang it up outside on a nice day all day. should get the smell out
fabric softener is your friend

>>8575848
Man OP, that's nothing.

My dog got sick a few days before a con, and throughout the con my mom updated me with his worsening condition. The tuesday or wednesday afterwards we put him down.

I was a fucking wreck that weekend.

>>8575936
my condolences anon. dogs are great m8s.

>>8575848
Sounds like a shitty hotel, what the fuck.

>Dragon*Con two years ago
>managed to get a room in the Hyatt with my two best friends
>multiple costumes for each day
>going to see some of my favorite actors and writers
>favorite tracks full of awesome events
>completely excited
>fly in Thursday morning, first time ever doing the 5 day
>get settled into room and start unpacking
>a few hours later get in first costume for first kick off party
>having great time
>check my phone at one point
>missed call
>it was my sister
>she's big in to costuming but had college stuff so couldn't come with us
>figured she just wanted to say hello or ask how I was doing so far
>I'll call her back tomorrow with pictures, party time now
>carry on into the evening
>get back to room at some point
>tired and inebriated
>go to sleep with no regrets
>wake up to early morning alarm
>well, let's get cleaned up and get in line for a badge!
>check phone
>dozens of missed calls and messages
>gracious, what in the world?
>first one
>"Anon, mom killed herself."
>what?
>more messages
>oh god
>reality shattered

I honestly don't remember a lot after that, but my friends told me I was just kind of on autopilot while I was getting dressed up. We lined up, got our badges, and wandered around all morning, but I wasn't really there. They thought I was just hungover until around noon when I just sort of went back to the room and started crying. They figured out what was going on and I was on a flight back home the next day... Not the con's fault, but the worst time ever, for sure. Second anniversary this weekend...

>>8575998
holy shit anon I'm so sorry about your mom. my condolences and best wishes to you

>>8575998
I really hope you didn't blame yourself, anon. I'm so sorry to hear about your mom and hope you're doing okay. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like...

Anime Boston 2008.

>Unorganized staff/volunteers
>Flawed registration system
>8-10 hour lines

>>8575998
Fucking hell.

Going to repost from an Anime North thread earlier this year:

Fuck. This was the worst AN I've ever had.

>No new cosplay this year
>Missed every /cgl/ meetup
>Missed every panel I wanted to go to except one
>Only photoshoot I participated in was garbage and I left less than halfway through
>Didn't get to drink
>Didn't get a seagull pin(but I did bump into Corky on Sunday, that was cool)
>Didn't find anything good in the dealers room(At least I didn't spend much this year)
>Hotel situation was insane

Brace yourself for hotel room tangent.

>The guy we were staying with told my friends and I "This year it's the three of you and me in the room this year, maybe two more"
>A little more than I'd like but whatever, only two randoms maybe and it's never been a problem staying with him before.
>Meet other two guys, they seem alright
>Get a text from him a few hours in to the con
>"I heard our room reeks of weed what the fuck is going on?"
>None of my friends smoke
>A little while later my friends went back to the room and there were five people in it they didn't know NOT counting the two randoms we knew about
>So at least seven randoms with access to the room
>Guy we're staying with has no idea who they are
>Fuck this
>Friends stayed at one of the guys house'
>Thankfully a couple I knew booked a room with two double beds and offered to let me stay with them.
>However since their hotel was a 15 minute drive away and I kinda had to go back with them when they wanted to go, I was in bed on Saturday night by 11:15
>I don't go to bed that early on a weekday this was Saturday at a con I'm still supposed to be out having fun!

Overall AN sucked for me this year, just complete shit. Well, there's always Okatuthon.


Otakuthon was actually much better this year, I had a lot of fun.

>Akicon

Nuff said

>>8575998
Oh my god
I'm so sorry anon

I typed up a greentext of when a 40-something guy made me give him head when I was 17 at a con, but I only feel like saying that much now. This thread is already a big downer.

>>8576296
Damn anon
Did you ever tell anyone? Like the cops?

>>8576306
No, I didn't want to wound my parents/family at all, nor did I want any sort of attention over it. I'm not concerned about justice either because I'm an ex-/b/tard who tries to live by "toughen the fuck up."

It does make me feel sad and shameful to think about, but I have a million awesome con experiences that outweigh the bad one.

>>8576296
Did he have a gun to your head? Was he video taping it and threatened to send it to your mom if you stopped because you suddenly had buyers remorse?


YOU DON'T FUCKING STOP AT HE MADE ME WITH NO DETAILS!

>>8576268
Same

>looking for hotel room
>best friend approaches me
>'hey anon, these girls are pretty chill'
>talk to them
>'you're okay with booze right?'
>yeah, just not too much, I can lose my job for it
>get there
>girls are 2 hours late
>I get my badge while waiting
>they hog the beds
>sleep on the floor
>phones ringing non-stop all night
>go about con
>come back to room
>trashed
>girl 1 painting boots on carpet, no newspaper beneath
>girl 1 also cutting wig, hairs everywhere
>clothes are covered in hairs
>go to get some of my snacks
>all but 1 juice bag left
>'you don't mind right anon?'
>they drank my juice that I had specifically for medical emergencies
>ate my snacks, also for medical reasons
>come back next day
>13 year old dudes drunk in the room
>'you didn't mention giving alcohol to minors'
>'sorry anon, you don't mind, right?'
>leave
>come back and sleep
>they come back at 2 am
>screaming, jumping on the bed
>kick my electric backpack that I borrowed from a family member

>talk to best friend
>'now that I think of it, they're pretty wild...'
My best friend felt awful about it. It was a nightmare and ruined con for me

>>8575998
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that you're doing okay. I've been dealing with my Mom's passing for a long time now, but it still hasn't gotten any easier.

Long story short, my Mom passed away in March of 2010 & I spent my time at Anime Expo teetering between trying to not cry (because something would just remind me of her out of the blue) & being joyful (bringing a close friend of mine to her first Anime Expo & seeing my favorite band at the Nokia). Also on the third day, my boyfriend's car got broken into & that caused a lot of trouble for us. I honestly want to wipe that whole con year out of my memory it was so bad.

>>8576372
Jesus christ you're as exciting as church think you needed that fun in your life

>>8576412

I cut out the stuff I did at con to save text

>I could lose my job if I'm caught in a room with minors drinking
>they ate and drank my food without my permission
>came back drunk and kicked my stuff

I needed those for medical reasons and there's no mini market anywhere nearby for me to purchase sugary snacks due to being downtown. I had every right to be upset. They also went through my stuff and we're handling my cosplays without permission.

>>8576412

> there were drunk thirteen year olds
> fun

You're an idiot.

>>8576420
> Believing 13 wasn't an exaggeration
Really

>>8576432
They actually were 13
One was 12
Their older brother was like 16? He came, took a few shots, and then they all left for the rave

>>8575848
These are all pretty shitty but honestly, most of this is stuff thats extraneous to the con.

I feel like the worst con experience stories should be directly be related to shit thats happening at the con.

Your dog getting put down or your mother killing herself would be horrible regardless of where you were and what you were doing.

>>8576447
Maybe, but I can see how a person can have their con ruined by it or will therefore have that memory forever associated with the con. Having your con fun destroyed can happen in a lot of ways.

>>8575998

maybe she couldn't deal with the fact that her child is cripplingly autistic and attends fucking dragoncon in costume

>>8576803
Anons like you should just die. You add nothing to the world.

>>8576812

you cry more often than you like don't you

>>8576210
8 hour line? what the fucking fuck??

It wasn't as bad as it could have been in this situation but

> several years ago
> first con I'll be going multiple days and rooming
> go with friends so I'm not too worried
> said friends are best friends, I haven't known them too long
> first day is tons of fun
> after day one they somehow get into a fight
> won't talk to each other
> get to play "ANON TELL THEM THIS" half the con
> back away when they argue
> they stopped being friends all together after the con

Could have gone worse, and it was still a decent con since I managed to not let myself get dragged into their issues too much. Playing negotiator at my first big con was kind of shit though.

>>8576803

>>8576328
I felt this way about some random photog I bumped into at a con. I drank a bit by the time I ran into him on the way back to my room and sadly it was in the wrong place - he shoved me into a bathroom, locked the door, and forced me to take less than ideal photos. He wouldn't let me out unless if I took revealing photos. I really wanted to leave but he kept guarding the door. He lifted up my top and started snapping photos as I tried covering myself. I've never felt so ashamed or embarrassed and I never once gave consent for those photos to be taken, I just wanted to get the fuck out of that bathroom.

This happened about 2 years ago and I haven't mentioned it to anyone. I constantly worry if those photos will pop up somewhere.

>>8576960
I should mention that I took photos with said photographer earlier that day, and when I crossed paths with him again, that's what happened. I barely knew him either way

>>8576256
No sympathy for you.

Book your own hotel rooms. Don't let randoms or even too many people stay in them.

I've always booked my own hotel room, no one is allowed to stay the night, if some randoms wanna hang out for awhile, they're getting out at midnight.

>>8575859
top kek. OP pls

>>8576803
how is your day anon? How are you doin'?

>>8575998
that is horrible. best wishes, hope you're okay.

>>8576210
r u like 30?

>>8575998
you should've went home instead of continuing the con.

>>8577261
Maybe anon carpooled and couldn't get home?

>>8576372
>electric backpack
what is that?

>>8577287
Powerbag
It has a battery in it so I can charge my phone, camera, tablet, etc. From it. I charge my friends' 3DS off of it as well

>>8576414
I can't stand having to share a living space with people I don't know. .. Even people I do know is hard for me.

Do what I do and pay for the room yourself and that way you can choose who gets to stay with you, having them pay a share.

>>8577300
This is the way to do.
I normally make sure I can afford the room alone, book it, then pick people to stay with me to make it cheaper for me.

>be at AnimeExpo .. 2004? ... Idk it was a fucking long time ago.
>one of the fist cons I get to be there multiple days
>also first time cosplaying and super excited about it
>at dance alone dancing up a storm
>foot step on the uneven part where the laid out dance floor ends and carpet begins
>ankle gets twisted to fuck
>have to spend the rest of the con in a brace and on crutches
>searing/agonizing pain for the next month or so

I've had other bad con experiences, but that's probably the worst and helps to keep anything bad that does happen into perspective.

>>8577295
Thanks. I'll have to look into getting one. Unless they're heavy. I don't like extra shit to carry.

>>8577318
It's not overly heavy
Tons of pockets, like pockets galore. It'll usually hold 3 sets of clothes, and my makeup bag, plus my water bottle.

It's perfect for cons and has a tablet pocket too

>>8575936
Speaking of death
>Drive from SoCal to San Jose for Fanime
>Decide to take a day from the con to visit grandparents in Mariposa that I hardly ever get to see
>Day of the visit, I call my grandpa to let him know we're leaving the con hotel
>He tells me over the phone, my aunt was killed by her husband in a drunk driving accident.
>Enjoyed visiting him but somber from news.
>Next day roommate tells me she was talking to her mom on the during the con and was told their neighbor hung himself in his garage.

>>8576895
shiiit your bestfriends broke up with each other at a con and you were in the middle of it.

I wonder if anyone's ever broken up at a con with their sig and having to spend the entire rest of the con with them or awkwardly trying to avoid them.

Another story your story reminded me of. :

>best friend's never been to a con before
>spend the year convincing him to go to AX with me (don't recall which year it was. First year AX was at LACC)
>comes closer to the date and he decides he's going to go
>I book the hotel room
>Con gets closer he still hasn't bought a badge
>no problem he can buy one at the con (this is before "line con")
>day 0
>we're walking up to the stand in line he stops
>"I can't do this. I'm going to go"
>Me: "What?!"
>him: "yeah sorry. bye"
>turns on heal. leaves

And he never offered to pay his part of the room that we had previously agreed upon. Luckily I happened on some friend that needed a room and I offered up the space so it wasn't as bad.
But ever since then I've felt our friendship sort of stilted. I'm sure he doesn't. But I sure as hell remember and have issues trusting people about cons to this day.

>>8577352
>I wonder if anyone's ever broken up at a con with their sig and having to spend the entire rest of the con with them or awkwardly trying to avoid them.

I witnessed something similar, I went with a group of friends to a recent convention, two of them were an item but they were meeting for the first time in person there. I guess they didn't hit it off or there were some issues, and after a weekend of awkwardly avoiding each other they broke up on the last day... it was pretty awkward

>>8577437
i had some friends that i was staying with at a con recently do something like this
they had been dating long distance for like a year and had only met once and it was before they started dating
and we were all staying in the same hotel room together
and the girl broke up with her boyfriend the night before the con started and was like i dont like guys im sorry and he had spent like 600 dollars getting there and paying for everything and he played it cool over the weekend but it was obviously hella awkward for everyone and he was crushed about it but girl was like no its all good he didnt mind
not to mention the girl was all over her ex the rest of the weekend and im pretty sure they hooked up at the con but if not they did like a week after

>>8575998
>2013
>not sending a single text
unless your phone doesn't support text messages there is no reason to not use one if the other party doesn't answer, even as a message containing "serious family shit going down, I need to talk to you now"

>going to a con at the last minute
>desperate for a room
>end up with some people I had just met at a recent con but seemed pretty cool
>they say there's 5 people and I get a bed spot sweet
>arrive Day 0 and text them to see when they'll be in
>"anon we don't have a room for tonight"
>well fuck that's my bad I should have double checked
>spend the rest of the day trying to find a spot for the night while also navigating a large city I've never been to
>next day is spent just trying to find them so I can move rooms
>they keep going back and forth from the con to the hotel which is really far
>finally find them really late at night and get into the room
>more people than expected
>whales everywhere
>toilet is clogged because one whale had diarrhea
>realize I'm the oldest person in the room and almost everyone is underage
>what have I done

The two girls I knew remained to be the only positive thing about that room and everything else was terrible. More people accumulated in the room each night, someone turned off my alarm before I woke up making me late for shit, and the con itself was also shitty so it was just a really bad time all around.

>>8577318
they make USB batteries nowadays. they're all over the place and I'm surprised you haven't seen anyone with one

>>8576803

>go to favorite con
>con staff reroutes everyone for some reason
>trying to get to my panel
>friend asks for help, think OK, I can help
>cross con to help friend
>get lost because staff didn't know the right way to reroute people
>end up walking about a mile in horrible shoes
>miss lunch, walk way too fucking much
>fall and twist ankle on ramp
>run panel, feeling ok until 3/4 of the way through
>suddenly Not Ok
>literally collapse outside panel
>throw up 4 times in bathroom
>miss cosplay meet
>friend runs meet, barely knows series, everyone thinks I just flaked
>friends find me and bitch me out for missing the meet and continue to yell at me in hotel room
>miss concert and composer I wanted to see
>end up napping in hall to avoid shitty drama in hotel room

next time someone needs help they can come to me basically

>go to tiny con alone
>wander about people watching and waiting for interesting panels to start
>wander past security guy a couple times to pee and come back
>security man asks if i'm okay
>say yes, why?
>says he's seen my walk past him twice
>reply, "I had to pee."
>he asks if I'm alone
>say yes, you've never seen a woman by herself before?
>refuse to make eye contact with him rest of con

>>8577318
I have a few USB batteries. I use them to power the electronics in my cosplay. Really convenient because I can recharge them with my phone charger at night and If my phone dies during the middle of the con I can keep going and plug in. They have small ones that are about 1" wide that cost less than $10. I got my big ones for $15 each and they are 3x the small ones. Can easily recharge my phone or run my electronics for a full day

>>8577352
My brother didn't really officially breakup with his girlfriend at a con but they did get into a fight which turned out to be the straw that broke the camel's back. I had his phone due to mine screwing up and got a call from my parents that he had "Go in a fight". I took off running had the longest elevator ride ever to get to him thought I was going to have to fight somebody/cops would be there. Turns out it was a fight with the girlfriend. I almost laughed (whole family hated her). He went to find her since we were all in one hotel. I went off to a panel but got called back about 15 min later they were ready to leave. End of the con. Awkward night in the room and even more awkward car ride home. Great first con experience :(

>>8576821
You weren't there for linecon? They fucked up their reg software and people were in line for up to 14 hours... and the con didn't refund for the days missed being in line.

It was a shit show.

>>8576970
This is me too. My first few conventions I let other people book the rooms. It was mostly ok but some stuff was not ok. I book my own rooms now and I have a say in what goes on. The friends I choose to room with are respectful as well. I think part of it is growing up, too. You have to go through a bad experience or two in order to learn and grow from it.

Is AAC any good? I missed Connecticon this year and I'm dying to go to another before off season.

>>8575998
My deepest condolences, anon, really, I hope it goes as well as it can for you this weekend.


>had to put down my babyman
>super cancer
>been with me since middle school, am career adult now so it's been a very long, very fun run, and a tough and emotional decision
>decision had to be made the day before driving to my first out-of-country con with a loligaggle of locals
>literally hold his paw for the very last time the night before the drive

Damn, I still don't know how I didn't fall apart, my final coord was cat themed, too. Waterproof makeup, frequent breaks, witchcraft, and amazing friends.

I accidentally had sex with a 14 year old at a convention.

>>8577749
>accidentally
You can't "accidentally" have sex with a 14 year old. Somewhere, her body will show her real age, even if she "looks 18" or says shes 18.

>>8577752
He honestly looked older. I was 16 and I was dumb and drunk.

>>8577756
>he
BOYS ARE WORSE
THEY DEFINITELY SHOW
HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN ADULT BALLS ANON
even drunk, that's inexcusable...fuck off

>>8577759
I agree anon. Please calm yourself.

>>8577759
He was cosplaying this cute blonde boy in a navy swimsuit. I honestly thought he was a girl at first. He said he liked my cosplay and it went from there. He got icecream on me and started eating it off me. And then soon enough, yeah I realised it was a dude.

>>8577699
AAC is small but it's a good time, good to meet people. Better than Connecticon unless you really like comics. Not worth the price of the host hotel, though, so stay somewhere else and drive in.

>>8577352
>>8577437
Kinda sort of did!
>My first con was with my ex, and this girl i was friends with. We all got along great.
>Anyway our relationship was getting weird before the con. he seemed bored with it, but i was still way into it.
>so at the con, he acts like a super amazing boyfriend which he hadn't for the past few months which really threw me off but i just figured he got out his funk or something.
>anyway a week after the con he reveals to me he hooked up with the girl who helped us with our cosplays
>it pretty much tore me apart because it was a first serious relationship. shit sucked nuts.
>also went to next three cons alone because that group of friends were my only nerd/geek friends


I've always been weary of dating geeks after this. normal fags all the way.

>>8577497

Way to broadcast your young age anon.

I've also gotten news similar to this, and you do NOT want to receive them over a text, no matter how long it takes.

>Second day of con, first day we weren't able to do much.
>Wake up early to prepare my cosplays
>Really excited to go
>Get half ready but no friends in sight
>3 hours have passed no answer from friends or anything
>2pm, they call me, they have been arrested and charged with DUI
>go to con anyways, alone, arrive at 4pm
>halfway the con my friends call me because they have been released but no car since it was towed
>Had to go with half cosplay for them
>The idiot who wasn't even my friend starts crying loudly
>WTF you are like 20, stop making a scene
>Friend is scared, he had to pay like $1000 fine and no money
>Lend him con money
>No con, no money
>They are my friends and we laugh now, but that day I was pissed because it was supposed to be my first "big" con

>>8577347
What the fuck, that's some spooky shit man

>At con the summer before I left for college
>Mother is super OCD and controlling
>Having a good time for the first time in a while because I am hours away from home
>Phone rings, it's my dad
>Answer it
>Screaming at me about breaking the house computer.
>Ask him wtf he is talking about
>Freaking out because the computer isn't working. Screaming at me for being a brat. I hang up.
>Get a call from my mom. She starts screaming at me about the computer. Demands that I drop everything and come home right away and fix our piece of shit PC that is like 10 years old.
>Stand there and get berated by my mom at a photoshoot with my friend, I'm mortified.
>Excuse myself from the group since I'm about to cry in embarassment.
>Parents keep calling and yelling at me, can't enjoy anything because they keep guilting me. Finally turn off phone, I'll deal with the reprecussions when I get home.
>Entire day is ruined, try not to let it ruin my second day at the con.
>Whatever self confidence I managed to build up pre-con is now ruined(I'm very shy).
>Can't work up the courage to go to meetups or talk to anybody.
>Friend eventually ditches me to go do his own thing, I tag along with some other acquantences since idk what else to do.
>Misreable the entire con and lonely.
>Get home and get screamed at, have an anxiety attack.
>I look at the computer. My dad went on a bunch of unprotected gambling sites and downloaded a shitton of viruses and malware. Spend a few days when I'm not working cleaning the computer up and fixing things. Install a child lock on internet browsing to ban porn and gambling websites.
>Not even 20 minutes later I have to leave the house because dad loses his shit at me.

That had to be the shittiest weekend I've ever experienced, mainly because I kept blaming myself for being too much of a coward to talk to anybody. I guess I have pretty bad self esteem issues from my parents idk... After those phonecalls I was too mortified to even make conversation with anyone.

>>8577780
Nigga...did you fuck Pico?

>>8577934
OH MY GOD

>>8576210
I was there

>>8577895
Yeah. I told my roommates if we got one more bit of bad news, we were calling Fanime cursed.

>>8577823
>>8577823
Not them, but texting "there's serious shit going down we need to talk" when they won't pick up isn't the same as texting something like "Dad's dead."

>>8576960
>>8576964
I hope you namedrop him in the "worst photogs" threads, Anon. With or without context, I'd still be wary of people posted in those threads. I hope the pictures never surface for the sake of your con life and work life.

>>8577352
went to a con once with a family member and her ex who was still considered a friend. honestly i had no idea why he was in the room, it was such an uncomfortable experience. the entire weekend he was showering her with gifts and one night when i was in the shower he gave her a love letter and tried to get with her again.
same con two of our roommates partied too hard or some bs and didnt come to the room. we were left with no one to fill the slots and the two dudes didnt pay up their share. jesus christ that was a wreck.

>>8577924
You sound like a friend of mine. Both her parents are dead now and she's done things like suck her GM's dick in WoW to get gold (they lived close-ish) and she's currently in an abusive relationship that has managed to isolate her from pretty much all of her friends. Try and get some help before you end up like my friend, parental issues can really fuck you up.

>>8577756
If you were 16 and he was 14 I'm not sure what the big deal is, unless there's some kind of consent laws in your area about that.

>>8577352
>I wonder if anyone's ever broken up at a con with their sig and having to spend the entire rest of the con with them or awkwardly trying to avoid them.

My buddy's girlfriend got mad at him for spending time with his other friends at Ohayocon one year and kicked him out of her hotel room. She did this after we had all left, so he had nowhere to go. Spent the whole night + early morning stumbling around the convention center looking for a place to crash, and getting hassled by security.

>>8577934
Holy FUCK

>>8577780
>/cgl/ will fall for this

>>8576803
3edgy5me. Idiot.

>>8577823
Okay, I'll bite. How old are you? I'm thirty.

My mom? She likes voice mail. Long, chatty voicemails. I won't listen to them for a while because they take time and there's no transcript. I even avoid news bits on websites that are video only for the same reason. I can read a whole lot faster than she can speak, that's for sure. She could have transmitted the same info in a text or series of texts.

My dad? He picks up the phone maybe 1 in 4 even with multiple calls. Never listens to voice mail. He's retirement age, by the way. Must be a young people thing, right? I leave him texts because I know he'll read it eventually and can then respond.

Am I saying you should text "hey, mom killed herself ttyl bye?" No. But if you want someone to realize that something is important you sure as hell have to put it in front of them. A text with "URGENT CALL ME NOW I AM NOT JOKING" is going to sound off emergency sirens in someone's head if you've never sent that before. The moment they look at their phone they'll see it and go "oh fuck." As we've seen in the situation at hand voice mail can take a while to be heard.

>>8576372
I'm a type one diabetic too anon (at least that's what I'm assuming you are with the emergency juice and snacks and a backpack for what I assume is for insulin)

That's pretty shitty, did you demand repayment? I would have gotten cops over the minors thing.

>>8577618
>14 hours...
>no refunds
reminds me when i went to a con and it got canceled (after 7 hours in line), at least they let us trade the tickets for the next edition or get the cash back.

>You weren't there
if i wasn't a poorfag in south america...

>>8577352
>I wonder if anyone's ever broken up at a con with their sig and having to spend the entire rest of the con with them or awkwardly trying to avoid them.
Not really a worst con experience (honestly it was my best con experience), but this reminded me of something.
Narcon 2014, everything was closing up on the last day, like around 4-5 something and at the entrance this girl starts SCREAMING at a guy she's standing next to who's standing there completely silent. She's going like "OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I -TRUSTED- YOU!!!!" at the fucking top of her lungs.
I understand that she was upset with him for whatever had happened, but who does that at the main entrance/exit with hundreds of people around them??? What the hell.

>>8577261
Did you miss the part where anon flew home the next day?

>>8577529
Did they seriously not believe you were sick?

>>8576970
>how are you trust a friend who has given you no problems before
Cool stuff. OP doesn't say how old they were or anything. Reacting to one story of something going wrong like the person is utterly undeserving of your sympathy due to their stupidity is ridiculous.

My worst con experience wasn't the con's fault at all, but still.

>just broke up with long term boyfriend (who I still think of as the love of my life 4 years later)
>dealing with those feels and also a few "friends" being aggressive assholes about trying to get in my newly single pants
>agree to go to con last minute because fuck it I need away
>having a great time hanging out with guy friend I don't get to see often
>he's normally sensitive to others' feelings
>knew I was having a hard time and had expressed disgust at the way those "friends" were treating me
>we drink and roam all night as per usual when we get to hang out at a con
>around 4am, out of nowhere, he asks me to be with him
>what the fuck dude no way
>he immediately starts BAWLING
>sobbing, snot dripping, face all wet bawling
>insisting that he'd be good to me, he'd treat me better than anyone else could, etc etc
>spend the next hour or so trying to calm him down and get him back to his room
>don't sleep, just keep drinking because fuck it I'm not the one driving us home anyway

He apologized a coupe days later via e-mail, but it put a strain on our friendship for a while and made me wary of pretty much all of my single, male friends from that point if my "not that guy" guy friend turned out to be That Guy after all. And a weepy, slimy That Guy at that.

>>8578832
I'm not diabetic, but I have blood sugar problems to the point that I faint. I got really upset at them and they just shrugged it off.

>>8579130
Sure you do anon.

>Just a fatty chan mad someone ate her snacks.

>>8579163
If you bought food and your inconsiderate room mates ate it without even asking, wouldn't you be mad that your money was wasted and you have nothing to eat?

>>8579163
Sounds like hypoglycemia actually

>>8579193
That's exactly what it is, I wasn't sure anyone would know what it was, so I didn't say it

>>8579189
People shouldn't be eating food that isn't theirs. Is it really so difficult to ask before touching/using/consuming stuff that doesn't belong to you?

>>8579210
If they had asked, sure, I would have let them each have a juice bag and a mini package of donuts to carry with them.

>>8575848
>>8575859
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqla_qUGiT0

rip

>>8578108
I did get help, when I went away to college I made a lot of friends with similar interests as me and wound up snapping at a professor that was incredibly controling and screamed at the students (kind of like my parents). That kind of pushed me over the edge so I started speaking my mind after that and wound up telling my parents off one summer. I have a bunch of really bad self confidence issues though and can't handle yelling, being in a large group, or sudden loud noises, but I have a few good friends who I can just text for moral support now. Thank you, though! I haven't been in a relationship before because I'm still trying to learn how to love myself, I don't know if I have it in me yet to handle that sort of thing.

>>8578280
anon, people in the thread already figured it out, scroll up. It's still funny though

>>8578881
As someone who has been in that situation. At the moment you find out someone cheated on you, you don't care where you are or who's around you.

Not exact worst but still
>First time cosplaying at con
>wear two half assed incomplete cosplay
>had lots of fun
>ppl ask for pics, ego boost
>after, aw nobody posted pics of me
>I didn't take any pics myself
>:'(

1 year later
>thinking about old cosplay
>wait I looked terrible
>omg I looked HORRIBLE
>I made so much stuff innacurate b/c I was a snowflake
>I DIDN'T BRUSH MY HAIR WTF IS WRONG WITH ME
>HOLY SHIT THANK GOD NOBODY POSTED PICS
>I FELT SO HAPPY AND CUTE WHAT ON EARTH
>I LOOKED LIKE SHIT
>FUCK YOU, PAST ME

Now that I'm actually trying and making quality shit a small part of me still dreads the idea of a pic from that con showing up somewhere

>>8576895

>being the middle-man/messenger for two friends who are fighting

Man, I never put up with that shit. If someone ever tries to pull that on me, I'm always like "tell them yourself." I'm not getting dragged into shit like that because I know they're gonna eventually try to make me pick sides.

>>8579130
Med Student anon here.

If you are having issues with hypoglycemia (low blood pressure) and you do not have diabetes, you best get your kidneys/adrenal glands or liver checked for some congenital bullshit.
Otherwise.
bullshit is bullshit.

>>8580282
Thanks anon, I go back to the doctor in a few weeks for a check up, I'll bring it up to him!

>>8575936
Was at a con once, knowing my dog was being put down 2 days after I got home.
Mentioned it to someone 'cause they asked why I was looking sad, and they had had to put their dog down 2 weeks earlier.
As we were having this conversation another guy got a phonecall that his dog was after getting really sick and admitted to the vets overnight.
We all had a little drunken cry.

Forever bonded with these people.

I hate that I was somebody's worst con experience.
When I was 13, I 'glomped' a furry my some-what friend knew and they twisted their ankle and couldn't wear their suit after that and stayed in the hotel for most of the con. I'm so shit.

>>8580900
at least you only did it to a sub human anon

>>8580900
For some reason the first time I read your post I thought you said you glomped someone's dog and the dog got hurt, I was about to scream

>>8580189
>FUCK YOU, PAST ME.
I can relate, none of my projects were good way back when. I'm so glad no one cared.

>>8580282
>low blood pressure
I assume you mean low blood sugar?

>>8577352
>I wonder if anyone's ever broken up at a con with their sig and having to spend the entire rest of the con with them or awkwardly trying to avoid them.
That's happened to me before. It was awful.
I met this guy at a previous con before, and after we talked for a while, we ended up in a long distance relationship. (We were both in the same state, though.)
So we figured the next con I'd go to, I would stay with him. Good idea, right? No.
>Friend and I get to the place.
(Friend is totally cool with the whole situation, by the way. She's my con buddy and ended up tagging along with me.)
>Guy greets us, gives me flowers, other little gifts. I'm kind of thrown off by this point, but it was sweet.
>Night before the con, friend ends up sleeping on the couch, I have to sleep with this guy in his bed. Reminder: I haven't actually seen this guy for a while. It was kind of awkward for me.
>He starts putting his hands all over me and rubbing me. Feeling really uncomfortable by this point.
>I tell him to stop, but too tired to fight back. Cue really sloppy, unpleasant make-out and a really bad fingering job. He rolls over and goes to sleep.
Thank God he stopped there.
>Next day driving to con and he won't stop touching me, rubbing my thigh, it was really getting on my nerves.
>Spend the day constantly helping him adjust his costume and holding his props.
>At night tries to do the same thing, I tell him I'm not into it, and that he should tone down on all of the touching as nicely as I can. Still mention that cuddling is okay. He goes silent, turns over and goes to sleep.
1/2

>>8581251
2/2
>Second day of con and my friend and I have coordinated cosplays, guy awkwardly tags along, doesn't contribute to conversation, just is there.
>Ignores me the entire time, will speak to my friend but not to me, and is really pissing me off.
>He finally fucks off and navigates the con by himself. I'm fine with it, because he's done it before, he's a big boy, I know that he can handle himself.
>Time to go home, can't get in contact with him, won't answer his phone, we are getting worried when he finally shows up and we drive back.
>Can't stand being around him, so my friend and I go out to eat. He was standoffish all day, and wouldn't speak to me/acknowledge my presence. Spend the whole time venting to my friend, really don't want to go back to his place.
>We do, and I end up sleeping on the couch with her.
>Last day of the con, and he thinks we're going to ride up with him. My friend leaves the room, and I have a talk with him.
>He just expected things would move a lot more quickly, while I still needed some time to adjust, said he didn't want to bother waiting.
>Fine, fuck you, I'm done here. Go to con with friend.
It was a really awkward and anxiety-ridden weekend. Forgot to mention I was 20, and he was in his late 30's. I know, I'm an idiot for even trying.

>>8581265
You're not an idiot for trying, but it looks like you got out of a bad situation. What a fucking jerk, glad you had your friend with you.

>>8576803
Here's your (You) you joyless cunt

>>8581002
Oh god, I would never do that anon. I'd rather jump off a cliff than hurt an innocent dog.

>>8580189
Oh my god, I'm in the same boat. It's been maybe 5-6 years though, so I feel like if any pictures were doing to show up, they would've by now. And I haven't seen myself in any of the bad threads on here, so I think I might be in the clear.

>>8576803
throw yourself off a cliff and never reproduce thanks

>>8577726
I don't even have a cat (I'm a dog person) and reading "hold his paw for the very last time the night before" made me tear up. My condolences, anon.

Not really my experience, but still a shitty one.

>Have male friend who is complete beta
>Obsessed with me, I have no interest
>Firmly tell him numerous times I don't like him that way
>Still keeps following me like a puppy
>Discovers I have a best friend he's never met
>Suddenly becomes obsessed with her
>Arranges to go to con with my friend
>Decide to split a hotel room to save money
>He booked a double
>Told me he booked a twin, told her it was a hotel mixup
>She tells me he was super creepy, trying to grope her and literally climbed on top of her in the night
>mfw bestie nearly got molested by my beta stalker
>Confront him about it
>He's genuinely shocked I knew about his behaviour
>Didn't know girls actually talk to each other
>Kick his fucking ass

7 years later he's still creeping. Goddamnit.

>>8582816
>He's genuinely shocked I knew about his behaviour
Has he done this before, then? A lot of people who get raped/molested do keep their mouths shut because of the stigma. This part is actually what creeps me out the most about the story, why does he feel that way? Do most molesters feel this way? What sort of societal implications do thoughts like this have?

>>8582834
>Didn't know girls actually talk to each other
I think you missed a line.

>>8582856
Yeah, that doesn't dismiss anything I said. Why would he think that?

>>8577352
One of the funniest things I've ever seen at a con was some dude dressed as Robin getting dragged by his girlfriend because apparently he cheated on her at the con. He was so quiet and every so often go "baby please..." and she'd go back to losing her shit all over again.

Things seem so much more humiliating when you're in a costume.

>>8577752
How would you know?

How many 14 year olds have you had sex with?

>>8577352
>I wonder if anyone's ever broken up at a con with their sig and having to spend the entire rest of the con with them or awkwardly trying to avoid them.

My ex did this... we had been on the edge of breaking up for some time since there were stuff we didn't agree upon. But we went to a con together, he started to ignore we from the start and only hung out with some other friends (two of them were girls he had crushes when we dated, he had told be about it)
When I confronted hima bout ignoring me and only spending time with his other crushes he broke up with me. On the first day of the con, so we still had to share bed for the rest of the days...

Here's mine

>Staying at freinds house during con because he lives a 10 minute buss ride away or 30 minutes by foot.
>About 6 people at his house
>starting to get an urinary tract infection during the first day of con, shrugs is off as a minor problem, just hurts a bit while i go to the bathroom.
>First day is alright, no real problems
>Second day, Unirary tract infetion is getting worse, it's starting to get really painful to pee now.
>Still goes to con, drinks a lot of water, hoping it will go over.
>starting to get painful for me to sit down and stand up now.
>In cosplay competition, need to have a chair with me all the time while waiting to on stage.
>Go on stage in real pain but I really didn't want to drop out.
>That evening I'm starting to get real ill, feeling very faint.
>Tell me friends I want to go back to the house, noone wants to join me even though i feel really ill.
>They offer to get me a cab to the house, but i don't wanna be there alone while ill.
>Faints late at night , end up staying the night at the cons medical department while the others go home, they didn't even bother to come by and ask how I felt.
>Last day, take an earlier train home with a friend because it still hurts a lot to go to the bathroom and I don't feel like staying much longer.

Day after con I ended up going to the emergency due to the pain. Got put in hospital since the infection had spread up to my kidneys and I could've gotten a blood poisoning. Stay a few nights at the hospital and go antibiotics.
Never ignore if you feel ill. It will ruin your con anyway, and it could be real serious...

Got an award for craftmanship in the cosplay competition though

>first MAJOR cosplay, a suit of armor
>I work for 6 months on it using aluminum and foam, looks bretty gud
>con coming up
>costume only halfway done, one month away
>switch to a faster form of gluing the foam, it starts working
>going with 2 friends that I've been slowly losing connection with
>cosplay falls apart from the crowds bumping into me
>get recognized a few times, but cosplay is disintegrating faster then American culture
>left with armor leggings and shoulders, the rest literally came off, there's a trail of foam and metal behind me
>decide never to work with armor cosplays ever again
Don't shit on me just yet, I learned my lesson well with never to use certain materials and stuff together, and to never rush a project.
I don't blame anyone other then my own incompentence, but I still chalked it off as an unpleasant con.

>>8584749
>Never ignore if you feel ill. It will ruin your con anyway, and it could be real serious...

At least you weren't patient zero for con plague.

>>8584779
>first MAJOR cosplay, a suit of armor
>cosplay falls apart from the crowds bumping into me
Are you literally me? My first ever cosplay went exactly like this, haha. I was pretty bummed out about it afterwards since I had worked so hard on it.

>>8584545
Anon, there is a good chance that anon is a girl. A girl who has been through puberty and seen her own body change. Use some common sense

>>8584797
UTI based con plague. lol

>>8584813
And what happens to her body is the same as what happens to everyone's body?

I didn't notice the changes in my body between 14 and 16, since they were gradual.

And we all know at least one girl who sprouted D-cups by the time they were 14.

mine is shit and from 2013 but oh well

>get out of semi-abusive relationship on morning of con, feeling really shitty
>also very ill (it was like flu but 10x worse)
>con was already paid for so we had to go
>ex-friend (we were on good terms at the time) ignored my messages about where we were meeting the night before and got pissed at me for "only telling her the arrangements that morning"
>should mention that she text me a few days earlier, knowing i was ill and deliberating whether or not to go, and essentially said "hey, i know you've paid for train tickets but i might just get a lift with my other friend if that's okay? she wants to go too and if you aren't going she can have your ticket"
>you got some nerve, buddy
>so ok, whatever, we get the train and i'm really quiet and subdued due to illness and breakup and she gets annoyed at me for this
>i apologize and say that maybe it wasn't a good idea for me to come, but we're nearly there and tickets are paid for so we might as well
>her: "you could've told me that earlier, my friend could've had your ticket"
>ok fuck it fine whatever

>we get to the con
>nothing really interesting me
>all the panels and signings i want are on the next day that we aren't going to and i didn't realize
>friend keeps getting fed up when i stop to ask people for photos
>i end up leaving early and i apologize for not being more fun
>she doesn't say bye or hug me or anything, instead she pulls out her phone and calls her friend and tells her to "get the train in, I'm on my own and today's been boring so far"
>she doesn't make sure i get back to the station okay or even text?
>ten minutes later she update facebook with a fuckton of pictures with her totally cool bestie happy con tymezz!!!
>of course i'm salty you didn't even say bye and you already dragged your friend in to replace me

>she texts next day
>"you ruined my day anon, thanks for nothing"

we haven't spoken since. i get she didn't have to care but...

>>8584832
>And what happens to her body is the same as what happens to everyone's body?

At one point or another, yes?

>>8584832
Yeah it's gradual, but you can still look at yourself and go, "That wasn't there when I was 14."

>>8584871
>>8584876
Now, if you're a guy, and the only girls you've ever seen naked in person were over 18, and some were large and curvy and some were slender and flat, and some were tiny and had baby faces and looked like they haven't hit puberty when they're edging on 30...

How the fuck are you supposed to tell that this particular girl is 14?

>>8584867
I do understand her end, being with someone boring dragging your con experience down, but I also don't blame you for your attitude. Breakups are hard and an unrelated illness takes a lot out of you. You probably shouldn't have gone, but as a friend, the least she could've done was help you cheer up while you were there.
Glad you're away from her though, she seems selfish as fuck.

>>8584884
(we're completely neglecting the reference OP was making right?)
That, I can see happening. Pubic hair might be the only indicator, but 14 year olds can still have that.

>>8575848
>he goes to cons

>>8584779
Think thats bad.
>Live in cold climate
>at least I won't overheat in armour
>Use cheap hot glue
>Finish costume
>super expensive
>Con comes
>Hottest day of the decade
>Costume comes apart as I'm putting it on
>Cry
>cry
>Do photoshoot with help from friends helping me keep things in place
>had to use tape to keep things on
>Thank god the phototogs took out the tape and melting hot glue
>Only wear to shoot
>Group wants to re-shoot
>Cry at thought of going near the costume again

>>8584894
Yeah, she may have been joking, but I'm honestly curious what sort of actual tells there might be to differentiate between a well-developed 14 year old and an underdeveloped 21 year old.

I guess that goes for guys, too. I had full facial and public hair by the time I hit 14 and I was hardly the first one in my class.

>>8584884
Buddy, if you interact with a girl and cannot tell that she is 14 then you need to get out more. There are other ways to detect someone's age than just looking at her naked.

>>8584905
I want to say girls are less curvy when they're 14, but it depends on the girl. I have seen girls with tits and ass by the time they were 13.
Teens in general have squishier faces that make it obvious, but so do some adults (coughs 21 year-old me).

>>8584902
The fuck kind of hot glue melts in a "hot" day for a cold climate..
That's awful anon, though.

>>8584911
Maturity doesn't work either, especially when you're on a con high dealing with other people on a con high.

>>8584913
I know that feel. Every time I shave my beard I get carded and treated differently then before I shaved.

>>8584916
It didn't full on melt. But it lost it strength so that if anything moved it would just come off. Like parts of the shoes came off the second I took a step. They had been stress tested in normal weather and did fine.
90 degrees outside. Just didn't expect that weekend to be so hot.

>>8584920
Otakon weather, coming to a Nordic country near you!

>>8584920
Ohhh 90. I was thinking you were from those weird places where it's normally 50F and anything above 75F is considered hot.

>>8584931
I AM FROM ONE OF THOSE PLACES

>>8584931
>>8584926
>>8584938
Bonus the con hall didn't have air con because it is super old. It hit 105 inside

TO ALL THE CON STORIES INVOLVE UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANCES

it's totally okay to tell someone no. even if it hurts their feelings.

if you felt it was somehow rude or impolite to be that direct about sexual stuff, it's not. not at all.

the cosplay community have a BIG problem with having no idea where boundaries are, and the more people learn to vocalize where their boundaries are, the more potential creeps will get that's its not okay to just touch people because everyone's drunk and skin is showing

to wrap up:
>it's okay to lay down boundaries
>love yourself: it's your body, your money, your time, and your decision,
>if you get rejected or are called a creep, forgive a little (them and you), no one's here to hurt anyone. you just crossed someone's boundary, you didn't fuck the sun out of the sky. be your own friend and let yourself learn from it and move your life on
>711 was an inside job

>>8584951
To add to that - directly turn someone down. Don't just hint at it. A lot of con goers are bad with hints.

>>8577759
She was 16, I certainly hope she didn't know what adult balls looked like.

>>8580282
>hypoglycemia (low blood pressure)

I hope you're not really a Med Student. I really, really, REALLY hope so.

>>8584966
yuuup.

it doesn't really help that cons/the culture give mixed messages about boundaries, the most popular/ heaviest advertised anime n comics aren't suppose to be equipped with the skills to depict real social engagement and relationship dynamics :/

>>8584966
This is the most important part. I've noticed a lot of girls tend to laugh when they're nervous or casually change the subject when guys get creepy, and men don't take that as a bad sign.
You have to be really upfront and blunt about it. Be mean, if you have to.

>>8585209
>be mean
Be honest
it's not mean to not want someone to touch you
it's actually pretty common

>>8584913
I was recently in the grocery story and saw a girl I could have sworn was 12-13 at first glance. Then I realized she had a tattoo on her thigh and piercings. She had to be at least 16+ (here you can get tats at 16 with a parents signature) but she seemed to be on her own so she was probably over 18.

Got to be careful. I try to look for 18+ bands or at least try to bring up what college she's going to .

>>8585288
Some people interpret it as mean though.
"Ohhh I don't want to hurt his feelings :(" sort of thing.

>>8584867
She sounds like a godawful person and a horrible friend. I honestly can't wrap my head around how people can be that selfish. Good thing you aren't friends with her anymore, jesus.

>>8584951
This entire post I was expecting a "!!!!!SIGNAL BOOST!!!!!!" somewhere.

>>8585325
there's a big difference between being honest and being mean, mainly in it's intention and actions

but framing the situation as "i don't want to hurt their feelings" doesn't let there be a difference between wanting your personal space and decisions to be respected, and being deliberately mean and hurtful towards someone.

>>8585325
Ah, college freshman me could have used a few more kicks in the ass to hammer that idea home. This isn't anything too dramatic, but another tale of a convention fuckboy.

>Had an awful experience at a con with a dude I went on one (1) date with months before
>He kept trying to get me away from people, hung out in my hotel room despite not being asked to
>Wouldn't stop asking people where I was when I started avoided him
>Friends unknowingly invited him to eat with us one night because I couldn't find a good time to tell them I was getting bad vibes
>Ended the con with him attempting to kiss me in front of my older brother
>I awkwardly dodged in a way that forced him to settle for the top of my head, which I now find kind of hysterical in hindsight
>I had to break up with someone I was never actually dating in the first place and this is still confusing to me years later

>>8584867
sounds like an old friend of mine. be glad she's gone.

>>8585444
hahaha
freshman you handled that best theycould, i'll give them a thumbs up for trying

>>8584902
Anon did this possibly happen at AX2014...?

>>8580189
Could be worse, the pictures could have been fucking everywhere because you struck a trend at the exact right moment and now have to live with seeing your 19 year old self in incredibly shitty facepaint forever.

Hypothetically speaking of course.

>>8582816
Fuck did we have the same beta fucker
>know dude through internet/conventions
>he has vague interest in me
>also introduces me to another friend who lives very close to me
>we are very similar and hang out often
>he has been telling me that she is very religious and doesn't like talking about dating or men
>after like 2 times hanging out this is discovered to be pretty bullshit
>we start comparing notes on this dude
>he's been trying to get with both of us for the entire time
>has been handsy on both of us and frequent 'jk lol' hinting that we should fuck
>guess he figured if we were friends it would seem less suspicious when he went off alone with us individually or some shit?
>we confront him
>"what the fuck why were you talking about me goddamn crazy bitches"
>you literally introduced us

>be 17
>go to first con with (now) ex
>he doesn't let me talk to anyone and tries to make himself the center of all conversation
>Keeps talking to girls WAY younger than him
>later literally breaks down in tears telling me he didn't want me to talk to or get to know anyone because what if I ended up liking them more than him?
>says he's afraid I'll find someone better than him
>says he can't trust me
>spend the rest of the con on edge trying not to set him off
>he steals my money plus some other shit I brought with me to the convention while I'm asleep
>break up with him
>later had to get a restraining order because he was stalking me, telling me he was in love with me but also that he wanted me to get into a car crash and die
Wish I could warn the local con scene about this guy because I know he still guilts people into buying him badges but I don't want him finding me again. My second convention was great though despite him saying nothing could stop him from going to cons and "the police couldn't stop me if I really wanted to hurt you"!

>>8585444
All the same except instead of it ending well it ended up with him Angry at me (pouting in the corner like a child)when I started talking with other people I actually was interested in. Awkward but harmless

>>8584749
I don't even know how you managed any of the con, when I get UTIs I'm running to the bathroom every 10 minutes. You have my sympathy though anon, when one of mine turned into a kidney infection I just had antibiotics and lay in bed feeling like shit, you must have been in a dreadful state to be hospitalised. Ouch, glad you got better though.

Speaking of medical:

>Have problems with anxiety
>First ever proper con
>Go with bf and meet up with internet friends
>Have cosplay I love, shit is going to be so cash
>Start feeling ill at con
>Feel like I'm going to collapse/faint
>Have to go back to hotel room
>Friends and bf come back with me to make sure I'm okay
>Feel like shit and want to cry because I'm missing con/they are too

I realise now I probably wasn't ill, it was my anxiety. Everyone forgave me but I still feel really bad about it.

>>8580090
Not the other anons responding to you but this hits home for me. My mom was super intimidating and aggressive when i was little.
>would throw a fit like a 3 year old screaming, crying, and jumping up and down if we, as kids, wouldn't listen
>charged us like a bull, would lean forward and run at us screaming and shouting
>sheltered us from so much stuff and refused to let us figure things out
>would get mad if we made mistakes
>got extremely mad at me that I wasn't doing well at math
>Always got annoyed i took 'so many art classes'

most annoying story
>at 18/19, i hung out at my friends house on weekends
>she'd call up and threaten to call the cops if i didn't go
>this happened for weeks in a row
>eventually grew more bold to tell her off but it took years

Worst story:
>Brother,22, gets thrown in jail for being caught in sex sting operation
>he thought it was a 14 year old girl at the house
>Turns out it's police
>He gets brought to jail
>mom calls me tells me this then adds more
>Mom: Your brother has had sex with your sister for the last 5 years. I think i've almost caught them a few times but I wasn't sure.
>she rattles on about how she doesn't know who to believe because we've all lied to her
>find out after 3 weeks of bro being in jail he's bailed out
>living at home with sister
>wanted to call cops but worried about potential abuse since there was so much going on

Words cannot express how angry i was at that point. I wanted to call the cops and pull my sister out of that situation. My sister was 20 at the time and could have easily left. I told her she could stay at my place. It was just a godawful mess. Turns out her boyrfriend had called about the incest and my bro was kicked out. There's alot more to this but fuck...i'd be here for days.

>>8576803

>>8582875
... because he's dumb and thinks people don't talk to each other? Or that the other person wouldn't find out? If you spend all your time without friends, it's easy to forget that normal people with normal relationships communicate.

>>8585796
It must be a conspiracy or something because I had one too:
>friend introduces me to co-worker because we both play LoL
>through a series of unfortunate events he knows my address and phone number
>wake up to 13 texts one morning, all sent between 9 am and 10 am while I was sleeping (all very lengthy, and all assuming I was anything but asleep)
>shows up unannounced one day expecting me to drop everything and hang out with him
>gave me the most pathetic look when I told him "lawl nope I have things to do"
>eventually stop talking to him and block him because I got tired of all these fedora neckbeard messages
>find out from friend he had originally liked her (they actually have things in common) but he liked me better because I was hot

He was such a fedora it's not even funny.

>Go to first far away con
>My boyfriend and I decided to room with a group of friends we knew from the cosplay scene and my best friend was going to be there too
>Get to con a little later than everyone else on Day 1
>Everything is okay the first day nothing happened
>Friend who booked the room said she was gonna let her two friends room with us because they need somewhere to crash and would leave by the night of Day 2
>We all agree nothing bad can happen right?
>Wrong
>They come and take the air mattress I brought for my boyfriend and I to sleep on
>They were incredibly messy, never cleaning up after themselves. I would go to the bathroom and see smears of lipstick all over the mirror and make up just all over the place.
>Very loud talking about doing drugs in the room even though we all agreed we wouldn't do anything to make anyone uncomfortable
>Boyfriend, best friend and I decide to go to dealers room before it closes for the day
>Get to room knocking and no one is answering
>Friend who has key is not answering her phone and even though she said she'll be in the room anyway
>Wait outside the room for at least 2 hours so we can go in, we were incredibly tired and needed to rest up to go see friends later on.
>After a while someone opens the door
>It's the girls
>Thrashed the room, someone ruined prints I bought earlier
>Some of best friend's things were missing
>Ate some food my boyfriend bought
>Two random girls were making out on the bed
>The two girls who were rooming with us were high off their ass and watching Steven universe
>We were incredibly uncomfortable and went to go look for our friend who booked the room because we couldn't take it anymore

She told us she wouldn't invite them ever again but I just won't room with those group of people ever again and book my own rooms for now on.

>>8586048
Jesus. A bad parent can really fuck the kids up, it seems.

> My sister was 20 at the time and could have easily left.

She's either cowed by abuse, or a willing participant. Given that she had a boyfriend on the side...

>>8577924
You should tell your mom that the reason why the PC is fucking up is because your dad won't stop diddling himself to fake titties and spending household money on gambling on malicious websites that mess up the computer.

(Who am I kidding? They know you're not the problem but narcissists do what they want and blame who they want regardless.)

>>8585026
>it doesn't really help that con/s the culture give mixed messages about boundaries

What do you mean?

>>8577084
Not them but I was in my first con in 2003 and I'm not 30 yet.

>>8586295
>this is landmine territory so i'll try being as flexible as possible

conventions are tricky psychological spaces, where most feel they're virtually interacting (on some level) with the fictional worlds of writers and artists.

however, these worlds of anime and comics are not accurate to reality. they aren't really meant to be, no media really is (even documentaries, by nature of their narrative), in frames and lines of dialogue, media can only offer a slice of life at a time

and while globally a large number of writers, artists, and production companies strive for being authentic to multiple emotions and environment, the highest selling content is mostly based around market-tested sex, violence, and hero complex/worship.

when this is advertised on a large scale at places like big, commercial conventions (AX, Comic-con), it's becomes tough to separate where exactly the media-party begins and 10,000+ individuals' personal spaces ends

add to this the internet's ability to bleed a little into head-spaces and build justifications for not respecting people's personal spaces (fangirls glomping, fuckboys romping,), and you've got yourself the underbelly culture of conventions for now

>used to be part of a skype group for a game
>the group fell apart but I still talk to a bunch of people in it
>end up dating one of the guys from the group (he lived nearby) for a little while
>a while after we broke up, a guy from another state who was basically his anime-style rival started to take interest in me
>he ended up coming to an anime convention nearby to try and win my heart or whatever
>im not really that interested in him, we end up just hanging out
>walking around the convention hall with him, he spots his rival from across the room
>like a scene from a western movie, they make eye contact and start walking towards eachother, going to try and fight
>me, a 5' girl, has to hold 2 6' tall guys apart from eachother
>spend the rest of my time at the convention either trying to squash fights or splitting up my time with them like they were my divorced parents fighting over custody

why cant we all just get along ;_;

Anime Boston 2009...I think it was

Got screwed out of my hotel room because friends told me I had a spot in their room and then closer to the con they were like "actually our other friends are staying with us now, sorry not sorry"

so i had bought my train and con tickets and had no where to stay. venting about this on fb, my ex who i was still on good terms with messaged me and said i could stay with him, and that it would be just us. i was happy about this because 1.) i don't like too many people in a room and 2.) i was still in love with him and he knew it

i get to the con and its not just us, his new gf that i didn't know about was there, and they kept trying to get me to have sex with them. i tried to have fun but the con was basically complete shit. i also ended up getting sick afterward.

>>8575848
LMAO
This is obviously fake. Pot smoke doesn't permeate. I smoke weed in my house all day erryday, very close to my lolita clothes, and literally the only thing you need to do is hang it outside for an hour or so and the smell is gone completely. And it's not like I have no sense of smell, the smell of cigarette smoke disgusts me. Items that have been violently permated with cigarette smoke are unusable, literally, the smell is impossible to remove completely from things like purses, clothes, and cars. Weed smoke is a different story entirely.

My stepdad passed away suddenly while I was at AX 2014. It was my first time going and it really crushed my mood, especially because I felt like shit because my mom was all alone at home to deal with it until I got back. This year was much better, but still, I think AX will always have a bit of a sad memory to it for me.

>>8587840
I'm sorry but no, not the case.
Tell us about how you're 420 trapqueen all you want, but you're wrong.

>>8587855
I've sold tons of lolita dresses second hand, even advertising them from being a "smoke free home" - I have 100% positive feedback. Pot smoke /=/ cigarette smoke. Unless they were smoking blunts or spliffs, which contain tobacco, there should be no reason the dress can't be aired out.

>Megacon 2013
>Go with group of friends
>All cosplaying as LoL characters
> We all split up because of a panel they wanted to go to featuring Vic "I thought she was 18" Mangina
>Go to the dealer's hall and look at some booth displaying Gurren Lagann toys.
>"Hey Ezreal!"
>Turn around to see this generic catgirl maid
> We take a picture together
>Turns out her friends "abandoned" her too
>We really hit it off
>Walk around all day together going to different panels and booths
> Go to the rave together
>Afterwards we head our separate ways
>Feel really bad that I didn't pursue her
>Text her and ask if she'll be at the con tomorrow
>She says yes, we decide to meet up somewhere
>Friends left early because work/school the next day
>We spend all day together
>Holy fuck I'm in love
>We actually go out to eat together
>She asks me to come back to her room and stay one more night
>Holy fuck I'm about to lose my virginity
>We get to second base
>Hear heavy breathing coming from closet
>It gets louder as we go
>Ask what it was and go to investigate
>"Wait, anon."
> She opens the fucking doors and right in front of me is a dude jerking off in a hatsune miku outfit with a chain around his balls
>She holds his face in her hands and squishes his cheeks together
>"My little slave must watch everything-"
>FUCK THIS SHIT
>get the fuck out asap
>run back to my car and drive home that night
>she still tries texting me to this day
>I've never replied

>>8575998
I'm so sorry anon. I had a very similar situation at a SoCal con two years ago. My mom called me and told me to come home immediately, and I ended up getting a taxi home because I was 17 and didn't have a license.
When I got home I found out that my father had overdosed (I believe it was ruled accidental, however) and been found dead around sometime after I left to the con that morning.
I wonder a lot what would've happened if I had gone to his house and stayed with him instead of going to the con.
Also kind of got totally shit on by my friends that weekend, they started screaming at me for not going Day 2 because of what had happened.
Even though the con is fine in itself, I really can't go to the convention anymore without feeling very guilty and nauseous. Kind of makes it one of my least favorite cons, even though there's nothing particularly wrong with it.

>>8587833
Anon that must of sucked, I would hate go through that holy shit.

>>8587884
Holy fuck anon, sorry about you going through that but my sides reached orbit.

srs though, losing your virginity is like dying: you only get to do it once, so don't fuck up by wasting it on some random cosplayer.

>>8588158

>>8586155
She was 15 when the incest started and didn't end until my bro went to jail right when my sister was 19 going on 20. She was with the bf around that point but it was a week after my bro was in jail that it all for brought up. My mom bailed him out 2-3 weeks later without telling any of the family except for my dad. I kept getting 'well what would you do if it was your kid.' My family wants it to just sweep it under the rug and pretend it never happened. My sister's a little... Slower with things. She's considered learning disabled but it's not enough that she couldn't hold her own. She had a really bad seizure when she was younger.

>>8587884
And to think, that would have been really kinky if she had just told you ahead of time.

>>8577786
I feel for you, anon. Similar shit happened to me just this past AX, but bf decided to be as shitty as possible all weekend rather than as nice as possible.

>>8587855
smoking pot = '420 trapqueen' title

anon pls

>>8587840
Yeah, I gotta agree with this. Pot smoke doesn't stick to stuff the way cig smoke does.

>>8587884
holy shit what

>>8587884
Horrifying but hilarious

My first con was shitty but not on the same level of shit as some of the others on this thread.
>2012, first con ever.
>Excited because it's my first con and I get to see my brother for the first time in months.
>Arrive at the hotel a day early, get checked in.
>Trying to sleep but can't because the neighbors next to us are having a god damn orgy.
>Call the front desk.
>Can't do shit. Which I should've known since I worked at multiple hotels.
>The second night we're trying to sleep again
>Nope time for another orgy.
>Pound their door in hopes that I can at least try to get them to stop.
>A fat fuck opens the door.
>Tell him to keep it down.
>Proceeds to slam the door in my face.
>Fell asleep finally at 7 in the fucking morning.
>Next day. Wake up pissed off that I woke up at 3 in the afternoon and missed a couple of panels I wanted to go to.
>Later that night I went to my room to take off my costume since I was exhausted.
>Get a knock on my door.
>Open the door to see two police officer and the head of con security.
>They tell me someone claims I was serving to booze to minors.
>Decided to let them search for evidence to that claim since I had nothing to hide.
>While they searched I mentioned that it's possible that my neighbors were the ones that were serving booze.
>After I said that there was a scream then a crashing noise next door.
>The officers thank me for my cooperation and the head of security apologized.
>I decided to leave my room to meet with my brother
>Officers were questioning the fat fuck next door.
>He was drunk.
>As soon as he saw me, he tried to punch me.
>The officers restrained him.
>Shortly afterwords a girl opened the room door.
>One of the officers took notice of her, it was his daughter.
>The fat fuck was railing her and she was 16.

Most of the cons I went to had some sort of shit situation. I'm hoping the con I'm going to this week won't be bad. I haven't been one for a while and I'm recovering from being sick for 2 years.

>>8588882
>finding your 16 year old daughter screaming from an orgy den with an old, fat, violent, beligerent drunk scumbag

This is the kind of shit that turns people into spree killers I'm telling you

>>8588882
>One of the officers took notice of her, it was his daughter.

One time at Sak my roomies and I brought a cooler full of food and I brought an entire loaf of Dave's Killer Bread and it got smashed and it made me sad.

>>8588949
It'd make an interesting drama, you have to admit.

>>8575848
>Be in high school
>Good friend and I plan to go to first local con together
>make plans to go
>she says she will meet me there with another one of our friends
>day of con she and other friend dont show because her father wouldnt let her go
>i had already purchased ticket so i went in alone
>end up seeing that one creepy dude from my schools anime club
>he is a creepy dude he just gives you the creeps because he is always trying to hug people and is annoying and about his interests
>he tries to follow me around making all these weird noises
>end up having to give hime the slip on the dealer hall
>end up just buying couple trinkets and going to some panels and leaving
>next week at school weird dude says he went to con with me and i get shit from other classmates and friends for rest of high school.
>friend i was originally going to go with con with apologizes for not going and eventually i lost contact with her

>>8580164
This. The feels are real. Guess I'll tell my story.

>At a con with the normal crew, finally dating my long time crush Who will be rooming with us. Everything looking good.
>everyone has a bed, everyone has money.
>I didn't really find anything anime or vidja to cosplay, as I prefer group cosplays, and everyone was doing there own thing this year. The con was steampunk themed so I just did that.
>Get to the con and not 30 mins into the room one of our mates says a girl he likes is here and needs a room. We say okay, y'all can sleep on the pullout couch. See needs to pay her share though.
>She doesnt. Doesnt pay a damn thing. Not even food.
>Next morning shes using my fucking cosmetics. I get upset and ask her to ask, and to please clean the brushes when shes done.
>She then changes in front of my bf. Like right there, facing him, down to her undies.
>YOUFUCKINGWATMATE.jpg
>"hey, anon, you know we have a bathroom right."
>"lol I know. It doesnt matter though. Why don't you change too." Grabs my shirt and lifts. Giggling and looking at my bf.
>Rustled.jpg. "hey can you fucking not, anon."
>Day continues, miss some panels because of group confusion. W/E. Got to see most of the ones I wanted. Bf dips at random intervals to go to his panels.
>Find crush bro, can't find extra girl. Has been looking for an hour. W/E, gather group for lunch. rest of day goes on. Later that night we all go to a party. Lose some of the group, chilling with other 3 roommates. Gets late and try to find bf. "Oh he said he wasn't feeling well, turned in early."
>Can't find extra girl anon. "I think she left for another party.
>get back to room. Bf and extra girl are in shower together. I left immediately and went back to party, a couple of people I know are there and I was going to ask if I can grab some floor space in their room.
>Crush guy eventually finds me, tells me one of the other roommates was pissed and banged down the door until they came out. Girl was kicked out.

>>8591296
Wait, crush bro/guy and bf are two different people?

>>8591296
continued

>He's upset that Bf would steal her when he knew he liked her. Was upset he cheated on me.
>iflookscouldkill.jpg
>we get drunk and wonder back to the room. Bf still not saying anything. Crush guy takes bed with roomie one, roomie two sleep with bf. I sleep on pullout. It was all really awkward.
>small knock on door after a series of texts heard from across room. Bf gets up and answers door, extra girl, Bf leaves with her.
>cant hold back the rain

>>8591303
yeah sorry. Crush guy was the guy that was crushing on the girl that showed up. BF was my BF, that I had a crush on a while before we started dating.

>>8591304
What a fucking douche. I'm sorry you crushed on him so long only to have your hopes lifted and then dropped like that. *hugs*

>>8591304
Your ex is a fucking loser, holy shit.
And fuck that girl too for her part in it. I'm sorry that happened to you anon.

>>8591321
>What a fucking douche. I'm sorry you crushed on him so long only to have your hopes lifted and then dropped like that
okay, I'm going to tl;dr because either OP is terrible at green texting or there's people who can't read.

>OP and BF has a friend who's crushing on a girl (a.k.a "crush")
>invites other girl to room
>OP's BF cheats on OP with other girl
>"Crush" and OP hate BF
>BF walks away with other girl

>>8591334
Wow, jk, turns out I'm the idiot here.

>>8581251
Instead of being firm with ground rules and boundaries I'm just gonna be passive aggressive and send mixed signals until he gets confused and hurt, then get mad when he is having normal reactions to my shitty behavior. I continue to ignore him, or let him do whatever, instead of voicing my concerns because *le sigh* I'm just way too tired. In the end, after all the hot and cold mixed signals and ignoring, I finally talk about what I wanted out of the relationship. Even though we should have spoken about it in the beginning. I end up getting really aggressive. Because someone I had apparently never spoken a word about what I had wanted out of the relationship too, but I had not stopped when things got sexual, and was also almost 40 (p.s. older adults do the sex time line a bit different folks), and that I had been dating for some time now online anyways thought that maybe we can get busy. How fucking dare he. Don't he know he should read my mind!

Move over Sham-wow, this bitch's self-absorption would bring Billy Mays back from the dead.

>>8591296
>>8591304
I'm so mad I want to have you over, get drunk, rant to each other about our exes, and then have raging lesbian rebound sex.

>>8586173
Get therapy now, leave them as soon as you can. psychopaths and narcissist will suck the soul out of their children. Learn what they are, and leave. Don't let them back in your life. Its the only way to heal.

>>8591354
Yes, this pleases me.

>>8591349
...are you anons ex? Or a butthurt dude who was dumped by a younger girl??? Definitely something pathetic

>>8591395
You're right. Theres no way another human, let alone another female, could be empathetic and actually have an outlook on relationships that go beyond the words 'me' and 'high school'. Those creatures simply do not exist. I am but a knuckle dragging misogynistic neck beard. I will give you that, for the sake of your argument of course, because you have nothing else for it.

>>8577752
Yeah she should have cut off his arm and counted the rings

> go to out of state convention with friend who offers to drive because band I love is playing
> I pay for gas and badges and she sorts out rooming
>turns out mutual male buddy has room and she arranges for us to stay with him
> friend ditches me as soon as I pay for her badge
> spends entire day roaming around in her sexy no jutsu costume
> I don't cosplay yet, total jrock fanatic so I'm camped out for concerts
> end of first day, time to sort out rooming
> turns out male buddy only has room for one of us to sleep in a chair, the other has to stay across hall in another room with the rest of the group I don't know
> friend pretty much shoves me under the bus knowing I'm not good with strangers by saying I'll sleep across the hall
> male buddy says it's the party room and has alcohol so no minors
> friend is 21 and I'm 19 at the time
> friend is so pissed but agrees to sleep across the hall, too clueless to know why she put up such a fight
> room with male buddy fully expecting to sleep in chair
>turns out one person cancelled so I get to take their spot in buddy's bed
> male buddy knows I'm gayer than gay but don't mind cuddling dudes
> end up being snuggled all night in completely unawkward way
> woken up ass early by knocking on the door
> another girl in the room who is an artist lets in friend on her way out
> friend sees us and just shuts down
> still can't figure out why, maybe she's mad I got a bed?
> she spends whole day complaining about the party room and how she slept on a sleeping bag on the floor
> says she wants to go home even though it's only saturday
> pretty much threatens me that either she gets to sleep in buddy's room in the bed or we're going home
> not sure what to do cause I'm not allowed in party room so I guess I can sleep in the empty chair?
> end up awkwardly telling buddy that friend wants the bed spot and I'll take the chair
> buddy is way too nice and says we can take the bed and he'll take the chair

Cont

>>8591858
> friend is not happy about that
> keeps trying to convince him to share the bed with her because I'll be at a concert and then I'll be gone most of the night at the rave
> I don't go to raves why would I be up all night at one??
> quickly realize it isn't the bed she wants
> then realize that holy shit she's jealous of me? There's no reason to be but apparently I'm trying to steal her man?
> pretty sure buddy isn't even interested in her judging by how reluctant he seems
> know friend is my ride and we're two states from home. Pretty much at her mercy.
> agree that I'll be gone most of the night
> feeling awkward and annoyed but I leave and go to my concert and then just hang out in the convention
> don't even want to go back to the room
> going on three in the morning
> finally go to the room and knock
> no one hears me, I have no room key
> seriously upset and too anxiety ridden to risk waking up entire floor by being louder
> go back to the convention and just hide in a lounge room on my phone
> try texting friend
> screen shows she read my messages
> never replies to my pleas to let me in the room
> stay in the convention until morning, haven't slept, emotionally drained
> finally go up to the room again
> male buddy and friend are there
> male buddy seems surprised to see me, says he thought I was still asleep in someone's room
> what?
> friend tells me that it's okay, she told buddy about how I had gone to another guy's room for the night so he wouldn't worry about me. A guy I'd met at the rave.
> completely speechless and just beyond caring
> tell friend we're going home now
> friend whines about it and makes it seem like I'm impossible and annoying in front of buddy
> I'm the one who paid for everything!
> friend agrees to go and rolls her eyes the whole time and spends ten minutes saying goodbye to buddy

Cont

>>8591877

> buddy hugs me and seems genuinely sad to see me go
> feel like a bitch that by then I've just shut down but I just wanted to go home
> friend spends most of the drive gushing over buddy and sleeping in the same bed as him even though nothing happened but she made it sound as if only the people in the other bed were stopping them from having passionate sex
> finally get home and talk to buddy online soon after
> he's super apologetic and tells me friend has had a crush on him for months but he's not into her and he hadn't wanted to share bed with her
> finally cave and tell him what happened
> now he feels even worse which makes me regret telling him
> keeps trying to make it up to me by flying me out to a convention with him and saying he'll get a room for just the two of us
> start to think he's doing this out of more than friendship guilt
> outright ask him
> buddy tells me he doesn't have feels for friend but he does for me
> says he recently told friend that so she'd leave him alone
> friend won't speak to me at all, blocks me everywhere online
> this one convention ruins a friendship completely and fractures another pretty bad because now I feel awkward around buddy
> finally just stop talking to buddy
> the three of us just act like we're all strangers now at conventions

End

>>8577786
Had this happen twice. I'm with you anon. Never dating a cosplayer ever again.

>>8578419
Nwyat but you're thirty and still browsing /cgl/? Sad.

>>8591895
There are a lot of people here who are over 30, anon. The only requirement for using 4chan is that you not be younger than 18.

>>8587779
I want your anime life

>tfw no gary oak

>>8591895
Kek. Enjoy golf and watching the latest HBO series and ranting about your kids when you hit 30. The rest of us will continue enjoying what we feel like.

>room mates handling my stuff without permission
>hands filthy with hair gel or snack hands
>have garment bag over lolita just in case
>cheeto hand prints all over it
>they took all of my breakfast food and shared it with their friends
>randomly start screaming for no reason
>room trashed
>like, fucking trashed
>knew we would be charged additionally for everything to be cleaned
>have lolita fashion show in the am
>sneak out in the morning
>go on Facebook
>'we got charged extra for cleaning!?? That's ridiculous, the room was spotless'
>post pics of the room in the comments
>her mom gets on there
>'i told you to keep it clean, especially since you were rooming with a nice young lady that you've never met before'
>I was the nice young lady
> mom messaged me and apologized so much for her daughters room fiasco
>her daughter wasn't allowed to go to the next con because of it
>mfw they messaged me about rooming with them again next year
>nope.jpg

>met clockwork

>>8591883
Damn, shit like this convinces me it would be easier to just air your feelings. A straightforward rejection is better than everyone going through all that drama.

>>8591951
Friend was under the assumption that male buddy was totally going to be into her the moment she got a chance to be close to him. Male buddy seemed like he didn't want to upset her or make her go crazy.. but then again he also led me to believe that we were just friends and he accepted completely that I wasnt into guys, even him. So yeah, would've been better all around if people had just come out with the truth.

>>8591895
There's a 79 year old guy that goes on /diy/, 30 isn't surprising on /cgl/

not worst but
>working at con
>two friends attending too, it's their first con
>they're a bit younger than me, but not kids
>show them where everything is, leave to go work
>meet them later
>some older guy is with them, warning bells go off
>he keeps following us around, acts like part of our group
>says he's 18 and he looks about 36
>keep sitting between him and friends, not being friendly and hoping he gets the message
>eventually shake him, ask friends why they were talking to him
>mfw they said that they gave him their numbers, the town the lived in, real names, etc
>youre legal adults did your parents not teach you stranger danger

i made them block his number and he kept trying to hang out with us later. i kept being cold and curt and brought my friends back to the room to shake him for good, but i couldn't believe they told this random creep their information. we live in a really small town too so if this guy wanted to find them it wouldnt be hard.

>>8592107
Wat I didn't like this story very much, I'm more than 20 and almost always hang around girls that are around 17 at cons if I don't end up alone. No need to be rude, he could very well be a non-rapist and a completely nice guy.
And there are 18 years old people that look like they are much older, so you should not be mean just because someone looks older than they are.
Some of my best con experiences have been with much younger girls that have been willing to spend their day with me and seeing this makes me a bit sad.

>>8592142
why are you in such a rush to hang out with underage girls though? sorry about your sob story, but my friends look younger than they are, and when a guy won't take multiple hints to leave and that he isn't wanted, then he's being creepy and I'm not going to trust him

>>8592142
just meeting and hanging out with someone is different than giving out all your personal info to some random dude. It's dangerous, no matter how you put it.

>>8592161
Okay, maybe he should take hints. Unless they were hinting that he was wanted while you hinted the opposite then he'd get conflicting hints and it'd be more confusing.

And it's not like I seek out girls, I have spent time with boys too, but it just happens to turn out that way. We usually are fans of the same things so it's probably by cosplay or other fandom effects, and I often try to escape and they have to keep asking me to be with them and I don't always follow all the time. So maybe it's different in my case yeah, perhaps.

Let me just share one of my worst cons in a few lines, told the long story once before.
>go to best con in region, on bus there and it should be amazing
>on bus, meet friend from fandom group, tells me what I take as I'll be kicked out of group, really sad
>get there, walk around alone all the time, seeing people having fun together
>over the course of the evening go to bathroom to cry three times
>next day also lonely
Had some okay moments, and talked to some people once in a while, but it was so incredibly lonely, and it was supposed to be the best con, when I couldn't even have fun there I stopped going to cons. Didn't go to any other con for more than a year. Had some fun at cons this summer though.

>>8592193
that really isn't like my story at all then. ive been to cons along and met people there that i end up hanging out with, but i always stay aware of any social cues they send me just in case they didn't want to hang out all day. this guy received many not-so-subtle hints that we didn't want him as part of our group and he just kept following. my friends wouldn't even talk to him unless he spoke to them first after i arrived, so there's no chance that he felt confused or anything. he also wasn't cosplaying and had no shared interests like you did. and basically like >>8592187 said, if he wanted to chat about a shared interest, that would be different. but asking for phone numbers and literally the town you live in without having similar interests is a red flag.

>>8591967
Well, it's possible guy buddy didn't have feelings first, but developed them later.

It does suck to get a crush on someone who really can't reciprocate.

Got blamed for being the third wheel for a not-yet-dating couple despite one of the pair not being into convention stuff, and everything being in my name.

Apparently being the person who arranged the transportation/car rental, put down his cc for the hotel and did the snack/drink run the first night doesn't make up for the unforgivable sin of taking a nap when the other two people (who had not told me anything yet) wanted to get it on.

Like, I'm a little bit slow when it comes to this shit but I didn't hear about it until three weeks later when a mutual friend informs me the girl-roommate has been griping about me being a cockblock. And why the fuck did he attend a con that he clearly has no interest in if he just wanted to bone?

>>8592161
>why won't he take hints that "we" don't like him?
>after my other friends have all been really friendly to him?

see
>>8591951

Though in this case, saying what you feel outright might mean you wouldn't get your way, because it seems your friends were enjoying his company. (And if they weren't, they have a funny way of showing it.)

>>8592202
On the other hand, even if you hit if off so well with someone that you're going to start dating, spending all day with them at the con really isn't the way to go.

>>8591945
smart move anon

>>8592543
yeah, because i want to be confrontational to a guy that's obviously older and much bigger than me and my friends who's been following us all day and asking for personal information. also, they had 'been really friendly to him'? they just barely tolerated him because they were nervous at their first con and felt nervous about making a stink to this guy. my friends told me when they got back to the room that they didn't like being with him and kept trying to find excuses to leave. why are you assuming how my friends felt? unless you were there, you don't actually know how they behaved towards him

>>8592764
There's three of you and one of him.

Rake him with your talons.

Girls have talons, right?

>>8592441
Because hotels are clearly the best place for sex, what with the always questionable cleaning practices.

>>8592578
I told then straight up I refuse to room with them ever again, it was the worst thing I've ever had to endure while at a con

All these horrible roommate stories are why I book the room before buying a ticket to the con. If I can't get a room, then I don't go. I refuse to deal with any of this roommate bullshit from having to stay with questionable people, strangers, or people I barely know.

>>8591945
Why do people act like pigs with no home training the second they step out of their house. Will just never understand the mentality people have to make these huge messes everywhere they go. Do they do that shit at home.

>>8591467
Hahahahaha wow you're trying way too hard

1/2
>room with a bunch of friends
>am only female in the room, room mates knew me since grade school and know I have a boyfriend, at the time he had work and couldn't escape
>we all agree not to smoke in the room as I had severe asthma as a kid
>they're all super nice so they let me take a bed to myself
>set my cosplays all organized in the closet
>help the guys organize themselves in
>fast forward to day 1, afternoon-ish
>we were semi separated from each other so we all meet back in the room so we can get a late lunch
>friend (we'll call him jason) introduces us to one of his classmates that he ran into at the con (we'll call her nancy)
>we obviously notice that he's head over heels for her but he's a beta so we know he hasn't made a move
>jason tells us that things happened and nancy had nowhere to stay that night and we agree to let her into the room as long as she pays up her part of the room
>she seems sweet enough and now I'm not the only girl
>she hands me half of what she's supposed to pay and tells me that I can get the rest of it on Sunday
>okie dokes
>throughout lunch though she seemed off. Like a smile was fixed to her face and she sat awefully close to one of our other friends
>I noticed that she kept touching my friends too, like putting her hand on their thighs and always hugging them
>luckily jason is oblivious
>she seems to not acknowledge my presence though, save for the money part
>even in conversations, it's like she purposefully ignores me or tries to leave me out of the conversation
>whatevs
>we all decide to tour the convention in a group
>she keeps trying to separate with us and take one of our friends with her, seemingly a different friend each time?
>we tell her she's free to leave but most of us wanna attend a panel we were all going to
>she complains and jason finally goes with her after urging from us
>we move to return for the night after sending a text to jason that we're going to be in the room
>continued...

>>8593108
2/?
>We play smash with the wii u I borrowed from my bf
>2am and no sign of them, we're getting worried
>finally at 3am they come back
>They both stink of weed and are covered in a sheen of sweat
>I settle for bed as I'm helping to run a panel in the morning
>nancy was supposed to sleep with me, but when the lights turn off, I hear grunt and sheets moving
>my bed rustles and it's not nancy but one of my other friends?
>he tells me she pushed him off his bed but we're both too tired to care
>I put a pikachu plushie between us and sleep

>next morning I'm groggy and everyone is still asleep
>I check my phone charging on the table
>It's almost 11:30 and there are tons of messages from my co-panelists
>I had a panel at 10
>Someone deactivated my phone alarm and ring tone
>I freak out and call my co-panelists and they assure me that it went fine, they were just worried about me
>my freak out wakes up my room mates and they too began to freak out at the time
>the only one still asleep is nancy and she's attached herself to jason's arm in her lingerie
>he shakes her awake and she mumbles something before getting up
>She says something like "Why did you guys wake us up? It's too early"
>Jason explains to her that I had an appointment that I missed
>she says that my phone annoyed her and she woke up to turn the sound off so that the whole room wouldn't wake up
>am seething in fury inside but I calm myself and I explain to her what I missed
>She says that I should not be so selfish and wake everyone up so early
>we all wanted to wake up early and grab breakfast
>I tell her this and she just turns her head and mumbles something before going into the washroom
>whatever I begin to change into my cosplay
>She's taking a fuck ton time in there so I go into the closet and change. I am a small person so it was okay, just dark
>I decide not to let this dampen my day
>We're all ready but she hasn't come out and my friend had to rush to use the lobby washroom
>cont'd

>>8584894
I absolutely has pubic hair at 14.

I think people really underestimate how early the onset of puberty is.

>>8593160
Same, I think I started getting it around 12/13.
This just adds to my freakout that now my daughter's 10 and I need to talk to her about sexual harassment and puberty and all that shit really soon. That's not /cgl/ related, though.

>>8587840
>smokes weed all day every day
>doesn't smoke cigs all day every day
>can't smell awful pot stank that everything she owns inevitably smells like
>can smell cig smoke

Gee I wonder why. Hint: it's called habituation.

>>8593160
>be 11 year old Valle
>in bathroom
>the fuck is this
>try to brush it off
>is it stuck?
>grab it
>yank it
I was not a wise child.

But yeah you don't magically sprout a bush at 14 all at once.

>>8593143
3/?
>we bang on the washroom door and she yells for us to go ahead and that she'll meet with someone later and lock the room
>Jason offers to stay with her to make sure of this
>We are super hungry at this point so we separate and eat
>we all had separate plans so we split
>I was mostly at cosplay events and the tcg room
>we hear nothing from jason and nancy but they're both adults
>small kid dressed like Kiki be praisin my Mulan cosplay
>I tell them that I have an Arrietty cosplay for the next day at the kid is excited and can't wait to find me
>cue late at night, we all decide to chill in the room until we feel sleepy, challenge all five of them to smash because I am a short asian girl who like to challenge tall people to fights
>we return to the room
>there's giggling and a smell is wafting out of the room, weed
>they tell me to stay outside while they check it out
>I peek in, they're yelling
>Jason is leaning back in a chair with nancy surrounded by unknown girls passing around bongs, cigarettes and tequila
>he is high out of his mind
>friends begin yelling about the alcohol since some of the girls looked underage and trying to wake up jason
>Oh but I don't really notice it because Fucking BITCH NANCY was wearing my Arrietty dress and there was a liquid stain going down it
>am seeing red
>It's a fairly simple costume, but I worked hard on it and she's way too big for it. I could see it bursting at the seams
>I stomp into the room, possible asthma be damned
>I start yelling at her to take it off
>she starts yelling back, or trying. She's so out of it that it comes off as garbled mess
>she's getting annoyed so she gets up, finally waking up jason
>room has gotten quiet, friends had confiscated the tequila and rushed the girls outside
>She looks so pissed so she takes a drag out of the cigarette and asks what my problem is
>I tell her that the dress is mine and she isn't supposed to wear it
>She screams and violently unzips the back, ripping it

>>8592161

>such a rush to hang out with underage girls

See this is the thing. Most people dont label eachother by age with who you can and who you cant hang out. Things just happen and you end up as friends.

I never asked people how old they were before i tried befriending them. And im 26 now, and still hang out with a bunch of 18y old punks (literally punks) mostly guys, girls included. Because you hang out and socialize because of common interests.

Why do people make such a huge deal if someone hangs out with an underage. Sure its not the best idea to go fuck them, but if they are not a seagull they might even be sane enough to hang out with and have a nice time.

>>8592783

They do, also apparently they are all innocent angels, while every single man turns into a rapist/murderer if they even dare to reject him or tell him off.

>>8593173

Depends on who you are. I had scary hairy guy friend in school who had a beard at 14. He was a totally bro, but looked pretty fucking intimidating.

Also, when was the last time you saw a girl with a bush? Especially when you go on a convention or anywhere where you expect to be sexually active. Most girls i know are extra smooth for such occasions.

>>8593174
4/5
>She throws it in my face as I'm so mad tears are streaming down my face
>"Why did you have to be such a bitch" she yells at me, standing infront of us in her underwear
>at this point I have no idea what my other friends were doing, I was just so mad
>at some point during her yelling she blows smoke into my face
>I hadn't realized how much I inhaled, but the room had a lot of smoke in the air from the girls
>as I'm arguing I start to cough
>my coughing gets more violent and my friend drags me into the hallway as I'm having a coughing fit
>my friend brings my purse and I calm down after a few minutes
>I hear yelling in the room
>security comes to me for a noise and smell complaint thank god that they meant to go to the party room down the hall
>nancy stumbles outside the room with my friends walking behind her in a robe with her backpack and glares at me as she walks past
>they stop at the elevator and they walk back to the room without her
>they take turns hugging me and apologizing
>we clean the room, open the window and blast the ac
>we leave jason on the floor snoring
>I regretfully throw away the dress. The wet stain smells terrible
>I call my boyfriend despite the late time crying, he consoles me on the phone despite hanging from a telephone pole for work
>I finally get to sleep after downing some water

>wake up the next day, jason is cranky and wants to sleep more despite us wanting to confront him
>we're so annoyed at this point so we leave him and go have fun at the con, didn't see kiki girl again
>bf surprises me and spends the day with me at the con. (just a note, he is easily the biggest in our group)
>technically con ends the next day but we decide to skip tomorrow and go to an amusement park the next day so we return to the hotel to get ready for early check out the next morning
>We see jason knocking furiously at the door
>he apologizes furiously
>apparently Nancy came to him while we were gone and wanted to apologize
>cont'd

>>8593222
5/5
>we finally get the door open and the room is trashed
>all of our clothes strewn on the floor, snacks everywhere
>on my bed the pikachu plushie's tail was ripped off
>she locked herself in the washroom again
>there's one thing missing?
>we kept the wii in a duffle bag in my friend's luggage but now it was wide open and gone
>fucking hell no
>bf is super pissed as it was a birthday present from me
>we bang on the door, it sounded like a bear trying to claw it's way in
>she opens the door slightly and peeks out
>we push it open hitting her probably
>we found the wii u
>it was in the bath tub
>that was being filled with water
>I run to try to save it while the guys take her arms and sit her down
>I hold it in my arms with a towel but I know it's futile
>she's yelling about how we hit her and how she was going to get us jailed because she would tell the police that we gang banged her
>bf in silent fury asks where her cell is
>Jason gives him the phone that was on the washroom counter
>he starts tapping away at the touch screen while nancy is screaming. Apparently she doesn't have an unlock password otherwise they would have smashed it
>bf asks jason what her last name is
>bf hands the phone to jason and he tells the person on the other side about what happened
>nancy suddenly scared looking when we tell her, her mom is coming to get her
>"I just wanted to enjoy my goddamn convention surround by hot guys and then this bitch had to ruin it!"
>we wait for about an hour for her mom
>she's furiously holding nancy's arm and dragging her to the car
>before she leaves she apologizes and hands me more than enough money to cover her hotel share and gives me their number so that I can tell her how much it would be to get the wii u replaced
>next day bf wins me a new pikachu plush

Jason was forgiven and acts jaded towards other girls. I haven't heard from Nancy except when we called her mother and she told us she's going through therapy. Fuck that convention.

>>8593274
That was a fucking roller coaster anon holy shit
It's awesome that her mom was so apologetic and helpful... also confusing as fuck b/c what the fuck made that girl so crazy.. maybe she has a mental health problem? That was drug addict level crazy.


So from many stories in these threads I've cincluded to never ever let anyone new into the hotel room....

>>8593274
>she apologizes and hands me more than enough money to cover her hotel share
I'm really surprised her Mom was that good, parents usually take their kids side by habit, poor woman to know that her child was in the wrong and to care enough about it.

These stories make me panic so much, it's easy enough to read them and say 'I'll never let a stranger into my room', but when you meet someone that's pretty bro and you're just hanging out like normal I imagine it gets difficult.
>"please friend, why are you making me wait outside your room whenever you go in it?"
>"well I read some stuff on cgl and so I'm sure you're going to rob my minibar"

>>8576268
>Went to Akicon 2013
>Friend at the time offers us a room for only 34 bucks the whole weekend
>Broke as fuck so hell yeah, great deal
>Catch is: 14 people in 1 room, some people sleeping in the closet and bathtub
>Hectic as fuck but TRY to make it fun
>Swimming in the pool, friend gets a call from person who reserved the room
>She wants to add three more Homestucks to the room without making them pay
>Fuckthat.jpg
>She proceeds to flip a bitch and lock herself in the bathroom and have a breakdown, meanwhile I'm telling my GF and friend to pack our shit and go home
>Turns out she wanted to have a threeway with two of the Homestucks. In a room with 14 other people sleeping in it.
>end up staying but the con was stressful and not even worth it.
>MFW I never even paid for the room

>>8593190


What I find funny is that when I read >>8592107 I thought the central message was about two naive girls who thought it was a good idea to tell a complete stranger they had just met their phone numbers and home addresses. She even mentions that they are legal adults, not young children. The description about the guy looking like a pedocreep, and the part where he kept stalking them seems to be cherry on the clueless cake rather than the whole story.

So it's pretty funny how all the anons come crawling out of the woodwork trying to justify why they would hang out with underage girls when the whole story was how two not-underage girls gave away private information to some weird dude they just met, rather than about 38-year-olds hanging out with 17-year-olds.

This happened a couple of years ago.

>pretty small con, I live in middle earth so there aren't many here
>friends organize a sweet pool cosplay. I haven't read it but whatever
>goodsport.jpg
>decide to cosplay as makoto, we have a pretty similar face shape and I like yandere types
>photoshoot on third day of con
>decide to use fake blood because ruining cosplay is fun
>group has already set up photoshoot, some nice shots have already been taken
>initiating fake blood
>in one of the photos I have to lean against a metal handrail, lifting myself up with my legs and posing with arms
>shit fake blood is slippery
>tip backwards over handrail, smashing my face full force into the concrete stairs
>leg gets caught on rail, twist ankle
>disgusting real blood/fake blood mess
>4 cross dressers covered in blood have to ask a random normie to get us first aid
>broken nose+fractured ankle 2x combo

Moral of story: DONT COSPLAY SWEET POOL

>>8593408
oh god, thank you. my whole story was 'i cant believe my friends gave personal info to this honestly untrustworthy guy' (honestly i dont trust anyone off the bat, especially people i meet at cons) i have no idea why people are suddenly sticking up for this guy or sticking up for the virtues of having friends of different ages. they weren't friends, they had nothing in common and never wanted to be friends with this guy. but yeah, the story was more of a cringe on my part where i couldn't believe my friends gave out personal info when asked by some older stranger at a con

>>8593366
Shiiit anon this sort of happened to me at one convention too.

> friend makes rooming arrangements
> share is like $30 for entire weekend
> room is a suite with king bed
> over 15 people in it
> jfc I feel claustrophobic just being in there
>friend flirts with room owner dude to get a spot on the bed with him and two others
> tons of people on the floor
> multiple people in the bathroom
> people under desk and table
> one dude literally sleeping inside the closet
> nope nope nope fuck this
> don't sleep more than five hours entire weekend
> use room solely for luggage storage and showering
> room owner feels bad about charging me for that
> literally cannot sleep in that room, there is absolutely no room anywhere to lay down that isn't already taken
> beyond exhausted and borderline sick when we leave
> never went back to convention again, got anxiety at the very idea

>>8592977
in retail, housewife shoppers make the biggest messes because it makes them feel better to not be the one who cleans.

however, weebs tend to be children mentally at all times, not just while shopping. it is likely that they make messes at home and expect others to clean up for them.

Not exactly a terrible experience, since I usually have good cons, but this was just unbearable:
>friend does last minute cosplay as Phoenix Wright
>plays the character well, everyone loves him
>two faggots walk up to him
>"hey, it's Naruhodou Ryuichi!"
>"Wut"
>"Naruhodou Ryuichi!"
>"You mean Phoenix Wright?"
>"No, your name is Naruhodou Ryuichi. It's an anime convention so you have to go by your Japanese name"
>Dudes were dressed as Frank West and Chuck Greene from Dead Rising, but they corrected anyone who called them those names.
>"ACKSHYUALLY we're Furanku Uesto and Chaku Gurenu. GET IT RIGHT"

People who sperg over unimportant details are the worst.

>>8593615

>>8575848
>tfw tech staff at a con
>tfw I get to hear all the shitty congoer stories from friends in security without having to live it
>tfw guests talk to me as I'm setting up for panels

the best feeling in the world
worst part is the crunch time before and after the con, though

>>8593366
>having a dramatic breakdown just because you couldn't fuck two hamsteaks

This asshole right here and the internet meme he became when this shit could have put the convention in jeopardy if he had fallen. Him and every moron who does photoshoots on parking garage ledges.

>>8593615
>Putting a bad Japanese accent over romanized words (English or Japanese.)

Jesus christ I hate this. Like the faggots who called Light Yagami 'Raito' because 'THAT'S HOW YOU SAY IT IN JAPANESE!'

>>8594443
This was animazement right?

>>8593006
Why? by pointing out the obvious bullshit in the story, then pointing out the fallacious shit of the next person. If I was going by their rules I would just call everyone I disagree with a assmad 13 year old autist.

If you are the person who made the original post, why are you trying so hard to discredit me by using name calling (and really nothing else.) Is it because you know your behavior is shit and are upset that I pointed it out? No, that would take some introspection. Which given the story you posted, I really doubt you have the ability.

"Are you anons ex?....definitely something pathetic" = Since I cannot fathom other peoples perspectives or emotions I am blind to any other view point that do not exactly correlate with my own. If they do not agree with me they must be a crazy subhuman. I cannot articulate why a specific phrase or argument bothers me, so I'm just going to sling shit and simply hope none of it hits me.

"hahahaha wow you are trying way to hard"= I still cannot come up with an argument that isn't useless shit slinging.

Keep up the strawman and ad hominem.
Never change
Never improve
Because you are perfect and nothing is ever your fault, right?

>>8576803
what the fuck is wrong with you? i'm assuming you've never had anyone close to you commit suicide.even though you're a complete shit head i hope you never have to go through that.

>>8593170
Please see >>8587857

>>8592040
That made me smile. I love seeing older people hold interests that I hope to continue when I reach that age.

>>8592187
>>8592202
>>8592764
The guy is obviously autistic for not taking a hint, but you act as though all this information is sacred.
>Wow, I love your costume! Great job, what's your names? Where are you from?
>Oh, it's your first con, huh? Want to exchange numbers so we can keep in touch? I'll answer any questions you have.

>>8593518

Yeah, looks like some actual pedocreepers read your story too fast and decided to go full SJW retard defending their rights to stalk underage girls.

I'm glad that nothing worse came out of your story. Hopefully your friends are less clueless now.

>>8594555
Yep.

>>8594812
they weren't cosplaying though, i don't know why you assumed they were? and neither was he. they were all in normal clothes and had no fandom merch or any plausible way to start a conversation other than 'hey there's two much younger girls im going to ask for their personal info'
>>8594813
yeesh thanks. seems there's a lot more creeps on /cgl/ than i thought that really want to justify asking personal info from younger girls without precedent. i've made con friends before, but this guy wasn't a potential friend, and i have no idea why people are making assumptions when they weren't even there

>>8593170
>8593170
I have people come over to my apartment where I smoke weed everyday. They don's smoke. They don't smell shit. You don't know anything about weed or drugs. Please keep that ignorance to yourself.

>>8594812
>guys asks where they are from
>they give him their home addresses
Either they're double-retarded or he specifically asked for their address. Either way, nothing about this story is normal behavior.

>>8577699
It's a good time, all the staff are really keyed for the attendees having a good time. The con chair actively walks around the con and is really open to feedback.

It's small, so don't expect high key guests or great panels, it's more of a chill hang out with friends and have a really good weekend con.

>Running events at a con
>Lose voice on Friday
>No sore throat just figured I was shouting too much
>Power through all events
>Feel really tired Sunday morning
>End up sleeping through Sunday afternoon after my last event
>Boyfriend brings me to urgent care
>"Lol anon you have strep, here's some antibiotics"

I checked the forums afterwards and kept up with the friends I'd been socializing with all weekend and nobody appears to get sick, but I hate the thought that I could have been patient zero. Whenever I've had strep before I had terrible sore throats and it hurt to do anything so I didn't even think I was really sick.

>>8595114
oh my god, i never said home addresses. i said our home town, which is a pretty small town. they were dumb to give that away, but can people please learn to read what i said and not make assumptions

>>8595287
Damn where the hell did I pick that up.
Sorry.

>>8595099
>why are you in such a rush to hang out with underage girls
>hey there's two [sic] much younger girls im [sic] going to ask for their personal info
Your own prejudices are the reason why people are taking his side. The way you tell the story, it sounds like two young adults are having a conversation with a man who you size up based solely on his appearances. You then proceed to act as mother hen for two adults because of his assumed intentions and freak out over nonprivileged information (with perhaps the exception of numbers).

>>8595114
They didn't give out addresses, she said
>the town the [sic] lived in

>>8595110
My ex smoked every day, I never did but I could smell it on him and in his house every time I was aroundhim/visiting.

>>8595546
Your ex probably smoked blunts and/or spliffs. Or possibly used the nastiest, dirtiest piece in the world.

>>8576296
Why didn't you call the police if he made you?

>>8575848
you must've got a contact high and been paranoid, because theres no way they produced enough smoke to pass under their door, through the hallway, into your room and cling to your costume...

unless it was a motel without literally any ventilation at all. in which case you had bigger things to worry about

>>8594111
It was fucking sad. Like, a legit breakdown with screaming, crying and throwing shit in the bathroom

>>8593572
Fuck anon, I'm so sorry. Roomstuffing is an awful idea anyway. I have another one for you.

>Sakuracon 2014
>Be the one reserving the room this time
>strict 5 person rule. No exceptions.
>Friend who we'll call "K", who we roomed with at Akicon 13 is also rooming with us
>Friend drops bags on the floor and declares that because my gf "owed" him money, he didn't have to pay for the room
>OKaywhatthefuckthats$130dollars.jpg
>Decide fuck it since he's my GF's best friend and we've been fighting (because of his bullshit) and I don't feel like arguing at a con
>Broke as fuck because I shell out for three people (GF, me and him)
>Stressed as fuck as well
>K decides to have 6 costume changes in a day and proceeds to expect GF and I to adhere to his schedule and walk him to and from the room each time he changed because "crowds make him nervous"
>Yeah no, we have panels to go to.
>K claims my gf gave him a panic attack because she told him she didn't have time to do his makeup for him
> K finds two friends to stay with us who can pay, at this point I just want to make SOME of the fucking money back I spent.
>Get money up front this time, not playing around
>Saturday night was great, hung out with Persona cosplayers all night
>Sunday rolls around
>Cleaning up the room, find one of his bags that has a brand new Ryuko Matoi cosplay in it. It's obviously his because 1) He didn't have this bag at the start and 2) I'm a neat freak about rooming with cosplayers so I made sure to put everyone stuff in its own area.
> Con ends, K implodes and we cut ties

So moral of the story is, if someone says they can't pay for their room because of a debt someone else in the room owes them, kick their freeloading asses out.

>>8595999
I should also add onto this that K gave me a panic attack (the worst in 10 years) by calling me up while I'm in the dealers hall telling me that my gf has "been missing for 15 minutes in a really skimpy cosplay and isnt answering her phone" and then proceeding to ignore me when I called to ask if they found her.

I don't get close to many people, and the one's I'm close to, I'm really protective of (to a healthy level), so when I was told that I immidieately got worried.

He did find her, within 2 minutes of calling me, and decided to ignore my text and not update me that she was literally 10 feet away in plain sight.

I've posted this before, but one more time.

>Unable to room with friends at con. Can only go one day
>Ask on the official con forum if anyone can put me up for one night. Someone responds, let’s call him J.
>J says he has floor space and we agree on a set amount to pay him.
>Day of con arrives. Meet up with J after getting my badge to pay him my share of the room.
>First warning sign was that he tried to weasel out of giving me my change. “I thought you were nice and paying me extra.” No, we agreed on a set amount and that's it.
>Find out J is not staying in the actual room but acting as “room head.” He is staying in another room.
>J lectures me on room rules and to follow them or be evicted. These were generally good rules to follow (no smoking, keep your stuff in one area) but he was acting like I'd had never been to a con before.
>J takes me to the room and starts bitching about how messy it is.
>5 people are staying in the room and it's honestly not that bad. I’ve stayed in messier con hotel rooms with fewer people over the years.
>Trying not to provoke any fights I just get my room key from J and go off to enjoy the con, but not before I see J take two boxes of pocky that don't belong to him.
>Later that night I head back to the room to get some sleep and this is when I meet fellow my roommates, who are pretty cool.
>We all share our experiences with J and agree that he is a dick and that there is something wrong with him.
>Find out that J was being a creeper towards one of the roommates, let’s call her M.
>M is asexual and clearly not interested in J. M talks about how J kept hitting on her and trying to touch her when she was trying to arrange her stuff in the room.
>At one point J bursts into the room looking for M. We hide her under the bed until he leaves.
>Don't see J for the rest of the night.

>>8596021

The next day:

>Late in the afternoon I head back to the room to get my suitcase so I can take it to my car and then enjoy my last few hours at the con.
>J is waiting in the room alone. Someone must’ve let him in because he does not have a room key.
>J starts pestering me to room with him again at future cons. I politely turn him down. After the experiences I've had I want nothing further to do with him after the con.
>J then starts whining about people not talking to him in his room and how he wants to spend the night in this room instead.
>He just wants an excuse to creep on M.
>Luckily my fellow roommates arrive and shut his idea down.
>I then have to wait for J to leave so I can give my room key to one of my roommates because I know J would take it from me
>J dicks around in the room for 20 minutes trying to make awkward conversation while the roommates are trying to change and get their stuff together.
>J finally leaves the room so I give the roommates my key and leave.

>After the con ends J makes a whiny post on the con's fb about how he wasn’t trying to be a creeper. He had apparently been creeping on other girls besides M and several people called him out on it.

Never rooming with strangers again.

>>8595999
>>8596004
What a fagotron.

>>>8596034
Jfc. This is why I'm so glad I have a designated person I always roomshare with whenever I go to a convention.

Worst I've ever had with that person was one obnoxious cosplayer who brought like eight costumes and took up half the room with her cosplay crap and generally ignored everyone else's space and especially anyone trying to sleep. Now when I see her name on a room list I just nope and plan another convention she isn't already signed up for.

>>8594099
I know that feel, i also staff at a con and i mostly work behind the scene where i can't interact with anyone except other staffs.
My staff friends tells me great stories about shitty congoers every year at the end of con

>>8576296
Wow, so in another decade I'll be old enough to get head at a con from a 17 year old? And they won't report me? Sweet deal!!!!

>>8584876
Not me, I had c cups in grade 4, I wasn't fat just had a loooooot of early changes. Maybe I had too much estrogen?