Anime Midwest

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Anime Midwest Anonymous Sat Jun 21 11:54:22 2014 No.7628225 [DELETED]

Who's going? Less than two weeks away.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 02:02:17 2014 No.7629265 Pretty much everyone who lives in Chicago and goes to cons.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 02:25:41 2014 No.7629287 anyone hear back from BTSSB/indie modeling?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 13:46:31 2014 No.7629835 I hadn't planned on going to Viral Marketing Con, but TeamFourStar.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 13:58:16 2014 No.7629846 >>7629265 probably not, considering they're not even 40% sold

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 14:33:40 2014 No.7629901 File: 391 KB, 542x540, 1372977212699.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Been looking to see if there's any other Monogatari fans/cosplayers going. Would be nice to try and get a shoot in or something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 16:17:07 2014 No.7630133 >>7628225 It takes me longer to drive to work every day than it does to drive to this con and I'm probably still not going to go.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 21:30:45 2014 No.7630652 >>7628225 Nope. I refuse to support Kopf and his conventions.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 22 22:25:19 2014 No.7630764 I'm going. Probably just saturday, but I would like to see The Pillowcases on friday.

Anonymous Mon Jun 23 01:27:13 2014 No.7631119

Going for the first time, agreed to judge the masq before I saw all this shit on /cgl/ about Kopf... now not so sure. Is a shitty, rapey con chair really going to affect the average congoer's experience that much? Besides being horrible in principle, how does this one terrible guy affect the convention as a whole?

Anonymous Tue Jun 24 00:58:06 2014 No.7633374

>>7631119

he hires terribad staff
(no offense to you, you're probably not 16 and an asshole)
his rapeyness doesn't affect the con so much as his terrible organization and customer service skills. I spent most of last year running around the con trying to find panels that had been moved or I had stood in line at the wrong door for, as directed by staff. Pain in the ass.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 00:59:10 2014 No.7633377 >>7631119 Ooooooh! You're judging the masq? My partner and I are competing, for the first time! Does anyone know who happened to win last year? We didn't get a chance to make it to the masq, but I'd love an idea going in of what kinda costumes won.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 01:12:24 2014 No.7633393 >>7629287 Btssb just picked the models according to an inside source

Anonymous Tue Jun 24 01:36:37 2014 No.7633437

I was pretty bored at last year's so I decided to give it a second chance and staff this time in the hopes that I'll at least have something to do. However, this is starting to look like I made a terrible decision. Going to keep faith that things will prove me wrong and this will actually be fun.

On another note, anyone doing any of the gatherings?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 01:49:59 2014 No.7633464 >>7633437 I'll be at the Evangelion one!

Anonymous Tue Jun 24 11:38:26 2014 No.7634187

>>7633374
I can actually agree with you on the staff somewhat. Last year, the staff were nice but didn't seem to know where things were.

I also had a full-on panic attack on the last day of the con last year and paramedics had to be called in to check me out because con staff didn't have anyone with medical type exp nor did the hotel. The staff basically ignored me before the paramedics were even called and gave me like one cup of water to help me calm down. Their con-ops room which is where my friends and I were taken to try and help me looked like a tornado went through it.

As for the 'rapey' stuff about Kopf; I believe in innocent until proven guilty. It didn't affect my experience at all. I was only there for Steam Powered Giraffe anyway. There are honestly so many holes in the alleged rape story that went around that it's hard to know if it actually happened or not. All there is is a police report to state what happened but the girl didn't press charges or get a kit done so who knows.

I do recall at Youmacon 2012 when I first met Kopf he was kind of creepy, we sort of hanged out between a couple of late night panels together and he was nice and polite for the most part but when he pretended to bite my neck (he cosplays as Alucard btw) I told him to back off and he did so. We are no longer friends since I read about all the rumors.

Don't let one person affect your entire con experience by the way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 14:58:46 2014 No.7634517 >>7634187 I heard about you, by the way. Went on an angry-ass rant in the hotel room about how it was such bullshit that you only got a cup of water to calm down. Sorry that happened to you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 15:02:34 2014 No.7634520 >>7633393 So the models would have all been contacted by now? Damn.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 15:07:02 2014 No.7634526 I find it really shady that one of the girls waitressing at the BTSSB tea party, Sarena, is the same girl that got blacklisted on LM for scamming. What wonderful quality control this con has.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 15:19:49 2014 No.7634560 Normally I wouldn't go, but since they have BTSSB I feel like I have no choice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 15:22:30 2014 No.7634566 >>7634560 Only reason I'm bothering to go as well. Hopefully the other lolita panels aren't crap. What are your coord plans for the tea?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 24 15:47:21 2014 No.7634624 >>7634566 Most of the lolita panels are being run by the Midwest Collective girls, so they should be good. My coord isn't complete yet! How about you, anon?

Anonymous Tue Jun 24 16:07:29 2014 No.7634688

>>7634624
I don't have any experience with them, but I'll take your word for it.

I'm torn between three dresses, but I have full accessories planned for each. They're all recent releases so I'm a bit worried showing up in the same thing as everyone else.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 00:07:57 2014 No.7635700

>>7631119
>Going for the first time, agreed to judge the masq before I saw all this shit on /cgl/ about Kopf... now not so sure. Is a shitty, rapey con chair really going to affect the average congoer's experience that much? Besides being horrible in principle, how does this one terrible guy affect the convention as a whole?

I became good friends with the con chair well after hearing about those incidents. I have a pretty hard time believing them, I've never seen Ryan be pushy with women or anything less than respectful to pretty much everyone.

Though anytime I say that, some asshole on here just says "Hi Ryan". inb4 that.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 00:18:24 2014 No.7635714

No one should ever go to his cons.

>His programming for every con is the same (that he even copies & pastes his program books from other cons)

>His inner circle run almost all of the panels which are almost entirely the same every con

>He treats his staff poorly and never has enough food for them, broke child labor laws having young teens working for him

>He's a sleeze who's tried to force dozens of girls to sleep with him

>Personally he could give two shits about his programming/cons, he just wants money which is why he keeps running more and more new ones

>Also lied about how many people attended last Midwest, said triple the amount/lies about his ticket sales on his website

>Came to Anime Central 2014, stood there handing out things for his con without buying a table and said aloud "ACEN sucks come to Anime Midwest", staff chased him down and he dropped all his promotional shit

>His guests cancelled on him last minute because he's known to treat them horribly

>Overcharges for admission to his small cons ($45 for a con with 200 people? Seriously?)

>Last year half of his staff quit because he's a rapist (police report was confirmed by an officer)

>Anyone associated with anyone who quit and accused him of being a rapist were blacklisted from his cons, JUST because they were friends with people who hate him and were thrown out of his con, even if they paid for their rooming

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 01:02:14 2014 No.7635773 >>7634566 There's a "beyond basics" Lolita panel - I'm very curious to know what they will cover.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 01:37:40 2014 No.7635818

>>7635773
The "Learning about Lolita" panel will probably be worthless to anyone but weebs starting out, but I'll probably show up anyway to be supportive and scope out the comm. I'm hopeful that I can actually get something out of the "beyond basics" panel since the "affording" one doesn't really apply to me and my brandwhore ways. The lolita panels at Naka just haven't been that great, so at least there's a lot of variety at this one.

I'm mostly looking forward to the Q&A with Baby and the flea market so I can sell off some things that have been sitting around in my closet forever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 02:03:58 2014 No.7635857 >>7628225 How are the raves at this con in comparison to ACEN's 2014 raves do you think? Went to ACEN for the anime, loved it for Soap Bubble.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 02:10:11 2014 No.7635865

>>7635714
>>Came to Anime Central 2014, stood there handing out things for his con without buying a table and said aloud "ACEN sucks come to Anime Midwest", staff chased him down and he dropped all his promotional shit
How would this seem like a good idea to anyone who's not in 6th grade? Just what the fuck

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 11:35:40 2014 No.7636461 >>7635818 The "affording" lolita panel isn't by Lolita Collective peeps. No idea who is doing it.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 11:46:26 2014 No.7636479

>>7635714

>The girl in the rape report did not press charges nor get a rape kit done, so legally he is not a rapist.

>The alleged rape story came out a few days prior to Anime Midwest last year which seems like really convenient timing to me.

>There are several rumors surrounding the story to begin with, from the girl crying rape to staff who wanted to make their own con starting the rumor to try and make staff quit.

>Kopf stated that no guests dropped out of Anime Midwest (except Ellen MClain because she had a project, and one other guy because someone close to him passed away). Staff did not leave either.

>All of his staff were of age 16+. There was another thread that stated the birth years of all head staff plus second in command. The youngest was born in '96 and her mom was working at the con with her.

>He seemed to be very polite to people at the con from what I saw, was in a good mood.

Basically there's a lot of stuff we don't know and its all he said/she said it seems like unless someone can actually confirm that the incident happened. The police report is indeed real but frankly the timing of the story coming out plus Tumblr being trigger happy in general makes me really skeptical.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 11:49:05 2014 No.7636482 >>7634517 Aww thank you anon. It was not fun. I ended up going home and falling asleep and feeling much better.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 13:59:33 2014 No.7636718

>>7635865
>Came to Anime Central 2014, stood there handing out things for his con without buying a table and said aloud "ACEN sucks come to Anime Midwest", staff chased him down and he dropped all his promotional shit

I'm in the Facebook group and I've never seen anyone on Midwest staff say bad things about Anime Central. I did hear that Central wouldn't sell them a table despite Midwest offering full price.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 16:07:54 2014 No.7636905 >>7636461 I've never even heard of this collective. Is it just Chicago-area girls despite the "Midwest" name?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 16:11:24 2014 No.7636908 >>7636905 Nevermind, just googled. Severely disappointed. Maybe their panels will be better than their designs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 16:54:17 2014 No.7636962 >>7636908 Designs? They are mostly indie brand resellers. They sell The Snow Field, Rouge Aerie, Baroque, etc. I think the girls that do Moss Badger and Dream Princess are in it but they are more accessory designer than dress designer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 16:56:30 2014 No.7636966 >>7636962 The Victorian Angel girl is in it too. I think so is Industrial Kitty?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 16:58:31 2014 No.7636970 >>7636962 Well whatever they had in the etsy shops linked look rather unimpressive. Are they the ones running the indie fashion show too?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:00:34 2014 No.7636972 >>7636962 Their website says "a grouping of chicago and detroit designers"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:01:03 2014 No.7636974 >>7636970 I don't think all of them have etsy stores linked? I know a few do but some don't. But yeah they are running the fashion show afaik.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:08:57 2014 No.7636985 >>7636974 Actually their fb is more promising than what they have linked on their website. I might actually buy some of their taobao resells if the price is reasonable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:11:51 2014 No.7636988 >>7636985 Which website are you looking at? All I am seeing is http://www.lolitacollective.com/brands.php which is far from unimpressive to me, so I'm hoping I'm not looking at the wrong thing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:45:09 2014 No.7637032 >>7636985 Yeah I was looking at their fb. It looks like some of these etsys haven't been updated in awhile? Yeah some are crap though I do like a few designs listed off the main page.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:53:09 2014 No.7637045 >>7636988 http://www.industrialkitty.com/mlcindex.html is what google came up with for me, which... is rather pathetic and left a rather blah impression. Their fb showed stuff from Rococo Soul, though.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:54:55 2014 No.7637049

>>7633437
I'm in the same boat. Man, I'm a little ticked off about the metra not in operation on Independence Day. I'm coming in from out of town and I'd like to go to Chicago to see the fireworks and maybe catch an improv show. I haven't seen those in a long time.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 17:59:08 2014 No.7637056

>>7634526
Hm. I know the Sarena you're talking about, but I don't think it's the same girl. There was another Sarena, a Vietnamese one, whom I only know by acquaintance and I believe that was the scammer iirc. It's a bit unfortunate that they share the same name and were from the same community.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 18:06:10 2014 No.7637080
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>>7637056
Derp, I didn't read your post very well; what I replied with is old drama. Damn. I don't know if I should confront this about her or try to ignore it, considering that she's in my comm.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 18:18:51 2014 No.7637108 >>7637056 Serena attempted and failed badly at scamming a few years ago and now works with AP. Sarena is a recent thing on LM. The name similarity makes it confusing.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 20:12:07 2014 No.7637301

>>7637045
Given the URL and copyright date, and three designers vs. a bunch, I'm thinking that must be an old page or something. Their booth at Acen had a ton of stuff (arguably too much as there didn't seem to be enough room on the table for all the accessories), and it was a mix of western indie brands and a couple korean and taobao brands. They also ran the fashion show at Acen and it was kind of a mix of borderline ita and a handful of really nice designs. Midwest has less designers showing so I'm hoping it's better curated. They ran a brunch too which I thought was really cool (there was no brand guest this year so no tea party and so they filled a void). Basically I think they are just starting out and trying to do a lot, and they probably need to edit a bit but I can appreciate what they are trying to do.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 20:13:31 2014 No.7637303 >>7637049 You can take the CTA (Blue Line) into the city which is a short walk from where the con is, you don't need the Metra.

Anonymous Wed Jun 25 20:21:39 2014 No.7637311

>>7637301
>>7637045
>>7636970
>>7636908
They are doing good things for the Midwest communities. They made sure that Acen had lolita events because the convention dropped the ball on guests. They are running the fashion show next week and hosting multiple panels. I appreciate the work they do.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 25 21:11:32 2014 No.7637400 >>7637303 Thanks, mang.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 26 10:23:33 2014 No.7638449 >>7637108 Its even more confusing since they are both part of the Kansas City comm.

Anonymous Thu Jun 26 13:10:20 2014 No.7638735

How easy is it to sneak around this convention with a one day badge (say i brought a Saturday badge but use it on Friday)? korp ain't getting all of my money and the only reason why I am going to this convention is to hang out with my Chicago bros and go to another city for the 4th (and get the Pillowcases, Patton, and Sonny's autographs)

Anonymous Thu Jun 26 19:32:33 2014 No.7639540

I feel like the Kansas comm in general sounds fishy... But i have met both Sarena and Serena. Sarena is kind of a slut and will do anything to get money so it doesn't surprise me that shes a scammer. Serena tries way too hard to have everyone like her...I know she was in SF recently. I just asked my friend who is a shop girl there and they said that she does NOT work for AP, but only is an intern? That to me is confusing because shes from Kansas....

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 26 20:31:17 2014 No.7639623 File: 36 KB, 650x433, staff-response.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7638735 I'm on safety and just saw the number of outside security officers they've hired. Basically, see the attached image if you plan to not buy a badge.

Anonymous Thu Jun 26 20:34:42 2014 No.7639627

>>7639623
(Same poster) Not serious though. I doubt the officers will be comparing the badge day, as long as you have one. I'm told they will be trained to kick out people without badges. The reasoning being "People without badges tend to be the worst when it comes to harassment, drugs, and alcohol."

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 26 21:36:14 2014 No.7639727 >>7639623 Is this a thing the Hyatt/convention center are requiring now? There seemed to be a lot of rented security at ACen too.

Anonymous Thu Jun 26 23:52:46 2014 No.7640009

>>7639540
Kansas comm girl here. What's so fishy about us? Maybe if you took the time to actually get to know us instead of speculating...?

I don't really understand why a person trying to be friendly is such a bad thing, either. Would you rather she snub you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 27 00:00:01 2014 No.7640019 >>7639540 They're right, she doesn't work for AP. Whoever's saying that is wrong. The Kansas comm isn't sketchy at all, and if you ACTUALLY met them (which I doubt) you'd see they're incredibly friendly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 27 00:12:39 2014 No.7640038 >>7637108 And you anon, you're one of Serena's friends because she hasn't told many people about her involvement with AP (NOT working for them)...so you're a fucking bitch.

Anonymous Fri Jun 27 00:53:00 2014 No.7640122

>>7640019
I don't want to get involved in all this and bring more negative attention, but the Wichita comm has always been incredibly nice and welcoming. The Kansas City comm is separate, but we all get along well. Most of the drama has come from outside the comm and separate groups, but not these girls.

>>7639540
I don't know Sarena, but Serena is sweet and contributes a lot to the area. Saying Serena "tries too hard" is stupid, at least she's being friendly and is a good friend unlike whoever is saying this shit behind her back. I'm sensing somebody is just jealous of how cute and popular she is. She likes to be involved, but how is that a bad thing? She's genuinely likable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 28 14:41:11 2014 No.7643187 Give it to me straight, I got talked into going to this con. I'll be helping in the dealer's room, so not exploring a ton, but is it a decent con? Of course it's not ACEN, but I'm used to East Coast cons, so I don't know what to expect.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 28 21:57:27 2014 No.7643723 >>7643187 If you're poor, it's a fabulous con. You can survive on the free food they give out. If you're rich, it's meh, because the dealer's room isn't very big.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 29 20:21:41 2014 No.7645146 >>7643723 You only go to cons to buy stuff?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 29 22:46:57 2014 No.7645375 >>7643187 It's shit tier for partying, most of the attendees are between 14-18 years old, tons of terrible homestucks, and the organizer is a total douche F-

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 12:46:03 2014 No.7646298

to the East Coast dude who was wondering about this con: the con is a poor man's ACEN from what I understand. The free fyod and drinks is a cool thing along with a few other things but thats just about it.

im just going to this con just because i just wanna be outta my hometown for the 4th of July and i wanna see my Chicago bros really.

Does anyone know of any parties going down. i know there's one that somebody posted on FB thats ten dollars to get in though (which i kinda sorta understand charging but they could had just ask for donations or something.)

Also any cosplay plans finalized yet?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 13:32:21 2014 No.7646350 >>7646298 I'm thinking about throwing a party, but I don't think I'd advertise on /cgl/. Or facebook, honestly. And I wouldn't charge to get in. Shit's dumb.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 14:31:34 2014 No.7646435 >>7639627 I would love to see them try.

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 14:52:40 2014 No.7646470

>>7646350
throw one anon. it'll be nice to party it up and not have to pay. tips, byob, and donations are cool but cover charges aint unless its like $3-5 bucks.

$10 just for a party i may or may not like or stay long? na son. (i still going to that party cuz a few people i know are
going)

anyways, were would be a great spot in rosemont or chicago to view the fireworks? also any green connects?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 10:18:33 2014 No.7648245 File: 1.30 MB, 2200x1370, Oshino.Meme.full.1427686.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7646298 Doing Oshino Meme for Friday and Space Dandy for Saturday. More or less just using this as a gap filler between ACEN and Otakon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 15:50:41 2014 No.7648782 Hey, I'm going. I'm 20/f/nyc If anyone wants to hang out or talk my skype is bloopewpew be cool to talk to some people before I head out there

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 16:29:32 2014 No.7648864 >>7648782 Woah dude, same asl as you. May contact you if I can remember my Skype login....

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 19:32:27 2014 No.7649212 >>7648864 yeah. i have a kik and gmail if thats easier.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 20:51:37 2014 No.7649320 >>7646470 if I do, I'll advertise when/room number on this thread. Keep an eye out. I won't even say if, I'll say when. I'm thinking saturday night, in lieu of the rave. I'm too old for that shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:01:53 2014 No.7649332 >>7649320 Hey, I've never been. Whats up with these raves? All the convention parties I've gone to have been weird

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:14:57 2014 No.7649342 File: 482 KB, 500x268, tumblr_lq3i1fndPM1qbvovho1_500.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Still looking to see if there's any Monogatari fans going

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:50:27 2014 No.7649537

>>7649332

I mean raves at conventions are usually pretty cool, but since the target audience for this con is like, 14-19 it's kind of awkward if you're any older.
Last year my partner and I went and we were blocked from the water table by a pair of homestucks SQUATTING on the floor making out. Grey paint everywhere. It was horrible. I'd rather drink and party with people my age.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 00:46:25 2014 No.7649880 >>7649537 That sounds pretty gross. I'm 20 so I guess I'm passed that age range. Maybe I'll check it out for a bit or just skip it all together if I can go to a party.

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 11:03:15 2014 No.7650662

>>7649537
Oh. Ew. I was thinking about going to the rave for shits n giggles but maybe Im better off partying with a few friends. Hotel bars are a total wallet drain but it would be nice to chill there with some seagulls. I wonder how the karaoke will be.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 11:05:38 2014 No.7650665 Man. I'm a bit disappointed that the Japanese horror panel is during the fashion shows. It would have been perfect on a Saturday night

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 11:15:05 2014 No.7652811 >>7650662 I'm thinking about chilling at the hyatt bar for a while. Seagull meetup?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 11:27:20 2014 No.7652831 >>7652811 I'm down. The one at ACEN got taken over by Fetlife, but with such a young crowd I don't see that happening this time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 17:33:39 2014 No.7653520 >>7652811 Oh, yes, please. What time? Should there be any indication of said seagulls? Chicago's

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 17:53:12 2014 No.7653567 Oh, yes, please. What time? Should there be any indication of said seagulls? Chicago area's weather is looking pretty good - comfortable, even for lolita.

Anonymous Fri Jul 4 08:44:27 2014 No.7654912

Tip for any lolitas attending:

- Someone is going to be carrying around a Btssb banner for lolitas to sign throughout the convention (she'll probably be at the lolita panels) and then give it to Isobe & Kano at the end of the convention.
- If you stop by the tea party room (O'hare Ballroom) from 1-2:30pm tomorrow, someone will be taking polaroids of lolita coords to be included in the Btssb scrapbook

Anonymous Fri Jul 4 12:49:34 2014 No.7655157
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Ah....nothing more patriotic this Independence Day weekend than attending a Japanese pop-culture convention.

>>7654912
Ooh, I saw that. Damn, I guess I'll have to change my outfits for the weekend. I actually won't be able to attend AM until tomorrow, so I guess I can do that.
>>7652811
Ngl, if the bar at the Hyatt is airing the World Cup games tomorrow and there's downtime, I would not mind catching the Arg/Belgium or Holland/C.Rica game(s). When are you thinking about going, anon?

Funk Brothers !!sEQILr75Rya Fri Jul 4 19:44:23 2014 No.7655698

Judging from the photos I have seen, it seems the BTSSB tea party was successful with everyone's coordinates looking great. I'm not holding out hope on the quality of food served. Probably on the same tier to last year's Chantilly and Atelier Pierrot tea party at ACen.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 20:35:51 2014 No.7655830 >>7652811 this anon here I'm probably not gonna go tonight, but tomorrow after the masq? My partner and I have a huuuge cosplay that isn't even done yet so I'm not gonna get out much tonight how are we gonna indicate seagulls?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 20:50:36 2014 No.7655890 This con fucking blows. My group and I left after 7 because it was so mismanaged.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 20:57:00 2014 No.7655898 Going as Coach for the rest of the night. Feel free to say hi.

Anonymous Fri Jul 4 21:09:33 2014 No.7655928

>>7655890

Con staff was so fucking rude to me today. Was told by registration to go to the concert hall area tomorrow morning for pre-judging, but I saw that there was a separate "cosplay judging" room so I went to ask to be safe
bitch was like "WELL, what did they tell you? duh."

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 21:21:24 2014 No.7655963 I'll be there mostly Saturday as Aiden Pearce from Watch_Dogs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 21:43:25 2014 No.7656039 I have to ask: have any of you seen somebody cooking their ramen in Mountain Dew at the con? I read about the ConSweet, and now I'm scared that someone will try it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 21:58:46 2014 No.7656064 >>7656039 That's disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 23:20:03 2014 No.7656358 Thinking of going saturday. Just how young does it skew? Do they at least have a game room? What should I expect compared to acen?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 23:31:15 2014 No.7656407 >>7656358 It's all ages. The stuff after like 10pm is 18+. Yes, they have a game room. It's like ACEN except way smaller.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 23:33:45 2014 No.7656414 >>7656407 Worth the $55 the site says it would cost to register for one day? Anything you can recommend I check out while there? Any tips, etc?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 23:38:36 2014 No.7656428 >>7656414 Ehh not really. Unless you REALLY want to see people from TGWTG or Team Four Star. Not really recommending anything if you've already been at ACEN, it's pretty much the same.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 00:02:35 2014 No.7656521 Are there still badges available? The counter isn't online anymore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 00:04:51 2014 No.7656533 >>7656521 That's what I was wondering. I would ASSume you could just physically go there & buy a badge, but you never know...some clarification would be nice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 00:06:40 2014 No.7656539 >>7656533 I mean, I don't think they're going to sell out any time soon, and I could probably just hand off my badge with a friend.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 00:28:01 2014 No.7656628 >>7655698 It was more than I was expecting. Mix of sandwiches and small desserts. Everyone got about 3-4 of each.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 00:30:59 2014 No.7656641 >>7655698 It was fun.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 02:58:08 2014 No.7656859 >>7656414 >Worth the $55 the site says it would cost to register for one day? It's just $40 for one day

Anonymous Sat Jul 5 08:49:20 2014 No.7657190

>>7656628
Yeah much better than Chantilly/AtPi food. Selection of sandwiches (tuna salad and ham) and actually decent selection of desserts (tiny mousse cups, cream puffs, lemon bars, custard tart thing, chocolate covered strawberries, cannolis). Not enough for each person at the table to eat one of everything but a good enough selection. No scones and they weren't great about refilling the water (tea was teabag, Tazo and some other normal brand) but definitely better than last year. I guess the cafe maids were supposed to waitress it but it didn't happen cause their uniforms are Bodyline. Instead a couple of them were there to help take photos with peoples phones, which was cute. No raffle but Designer-san have each of us a necklace. They gave best dressed prize to a girl from Milwaukee who wore one f those special expensive dresses that Designer-chan designed, Isobe cried when they gave them the scrapbook the comm made, it was really endearing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 08:51:10 2014 No.7657191 >>7657190 Wow my phone autocorrects san to chan

Funk Brothers !!sEQILr75Rya Sat Jul 5 09:40:21 2014 No.7657212

>>7656628
>>7656641
>>7657190
Sounds like I missed a good tea party with better food. If I came, I would have worn my Versailles Rose Bouquet JSK. I know BTSSB will be coming to AWA later this year.

Hopefully I'll get to see a number of Chicago and Milwaukee lolis at the megameet next month.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 11:22:01 2014 No.7657291 >>7655928 That isn't even that rude anon. You were told exactly where to go for pre-judge. She was asking you if you were told to go to the right place or not - though her response was rather blunt.

Anonymous Sat Jul 5 19:21:23 2014 No.7657995

>>7657291

Having been told "exactly" where to go for other stuff at this con before and missing stuff because it was the wrong place, I was just looking to clarify. The friend I was checking for ended up no showing like a jackass anyway.
Did anyone go to the masquerade?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 19:48:29 2014 No.7658039 What the hell is with all the cops here?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 20:00:05 2014 No.7658056 >>7658039 What about them?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 20:13:07 2014 No.7658080 meanwhile anime midwest was going on, there was a con for some rich arabian people and it felt more like anime middle east

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:29:00 2014 No.7658215 room 2006 Hyatt all u can drink for ten bucks

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 23:50:36 2014 No.7658463 >>7658080 Was wondering what went through their heads as they saw all these people dressed up in cosplay.

indie anon !!gduXTuPrAo+ Sat Jul 5 23:51:43 2014 No.7658465

>>7658080
There was an Indian convention going on at the same time? I guess it works for most of them since they don't celebrate 4th of July.

All the lolitas were very cute! The Btssb staff are very nice and Isobe-san and Kano-san were very nice and allowed people who asked to take a picture with them. We had a very cute translator/guest too. It is definitely a nicer small convention and I appreciate that the prereg badges line only took 5 minutes to get on Friday! I don't think any other con has done that.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 01:06:58 2014 No.7658564
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Not a /cgl/er or convention goer here, just browsing to see what attendees thought. I, by random chance, ended up eating at one of the expensive restaurants around the block for a family thing. When I got to Rosemont, I saw all the cosplayers on the sidewalk and had to explain to my tipsy father and elderly grandmother what all the people were doing. I saw the brightly colored Indian women as well...

I had assumed it was Anime Central as that's the only con I knew of (back in college a cute classmate used to invite me to go, I always turned her down, now I kind of regret it as I've lost contact with her over the years). Looking at the roster of events and guests, this one didn't look too interesting. Is the general consensus that Acen is better?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:41:35 2014 No.7659263 >>7658080 CurryCon 2014

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 11:28:37 2014 No.7659310

>>7657995
I think the problem is that not all staff of the con are told everything to do with all the locations of things at the con. I think they only deal with whatever area they are assigned. Her response was rude, I'll grant you that - but at least she attempted to try and direct you somewhat. I do get you were just clarifying though, sorry your friend didn't show.

I'm just curious how they handled Steam Powered Giraffe - related events this year. Last year I remember it was an absolute nightmare to get into the photo ops and they split the massive line into six mini lines to try and gain control.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 12:26:43 2014 No.7659391 >>7659263 My sides

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 15:12:58 2014 No.7659675 >>7659310 There was some sort of issue backstage at the masq where they were looking for their props but they weren't there, but that's all I heard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:16:49 2014 No.7660396 There was definitely not 10,000 people there this weekend.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:30:51 2014 No.7660435 >>7660396 I'd be surprised if there were 2,000

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:52:41 2014 No.7660490

>>7660435
And most of those were between the ages of 15-18 due to Steam Powered Giraffe and an influx of homostucks. Was my first Midwest and while I still managed to have fun (thank you based alcohol) it was a bit of a let down. More of a stop gap between ACEN and Otakon than anything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:56:13 2014 No.7660497 File: 1.78 MB, 2448x3264, IMG_0217.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Daily Lives of Highschool Boys cosplay

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 22:29:09 2014 No.7660561 File: 2.13 MB, 2448x3264, IMG_0228.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The only monogatari cosplayers

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 22:41:54 2014 No.7660590
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>>7659263
toplel

1/2
>>7660490
I'd say my con experience with AM this year was pretty similar. I mostly went solo which was fine considering how small this con was. I'm glad that I was able to share a room with friends and that I was able to party with them later on (and yes, thank you based alcohol).

I'm a little sad I missed out on the maid cafe since I've always been a bit curious of those (plus, they never have those at ACen, iirc) and my friend was in it. In spite of how tiny the dealers/artist alley was, I found it to be ok and I think that if I weren't into lolita, I'd be a lot more disappointed. The Midwest Lolita Collective was comparatively impressive to Baby's booth (or lack thereof).
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Anonymous Sun Jul 6 22:46:18 2014 No.7660598
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>>7660590
I went to the maid cafe it, it was...alright. I went with two friends and had one random at our table so things were actually kind of awkward. Wish they would have made filled our table out seeing as there were plenty of people there. Will say the maids were adorable, the cake was tasty, and the music was nice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 01:07:01 2014 No.7660928 >>7660561 I know that due! He had a wicked Baja blast and vodka combo for a drink going.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 09:01:06 2014 No.7661846 >>7660928 It was the only way I was going to make it through the weekend with all those homestuck fans crowding up the place

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 09:34:52 2014 No.7661871
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>>7660590
It was a great con for lolitas. Almost everyone from all the surrounding cities came because Baby was there as a guest. It was a good chance to see lolitas that don't come to Chicago meetups. The Lolita Collective girls ran good panels and had a good booth. It was a great weekend to be a lolita.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 11:02:24 2014 No.7661951 >>7661871 Seconding. Amazed there's not any pictures from the tea party or the fashion show in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:32:21 2014 No.7662249 anyone get any cosplays that were worth while?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:37:47 2014 No.7662258 >>7662249 I saw an Asuka with a deliciously fat ass and her bf in a 10-foot Unit 02 outfit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:42:21 2014 No.7662266 >>7662258 saw that guy at the Masq, him and the Cloud were the only things that really impressed me, the rest was just so bad...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:42:24 2014 No.7662267 >>7662258 did anyone see the shitty Asuka cosplayer with a Ramiel shirt and plugsuit leggings? She seemed super high or drunk and talking super loudly, she was annoying a bunch of us having a quiet drawmeet near the hotel elevators late saturday night.

>>	Funk Brothers !!sEQILr75Rya Mon Jul 7 14:44:25 2014 No.7662273 >>7661951 Because someone will start drama. Find a friend who went to the Con and you can get pictures there. >>7661871 Come to the Midwest Megameet on August 9th if you can! I'm skipping Otakon for a weekend in Chicago instead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 15:18:39 2014 No.7662335 >>7662273 >>7661951 This. If you were meant to see pictures, you'd see them on facebook. They're everywhere. Here is the picture Baby posted on twitter: https://twitter.com/BABY_THE_STARS/status/485655700173901825

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:01:51 2014 No.7662415

I worked for Safety at AM, we were understaffed and there was a shitload of drunks, probably had to pull 40 badges from attendees because of public intoxication. My favorite story was when Ops dropped the ball and somehow didn't notice two ghoster DJs set up their gear in the hallway and start playing until after the fact.

The owner really needs to do better quality control for the people he hires to runs his cons.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:05:22 2014 No.7662427 >>7662267 She was drunk, and it was kind of irritating. I was with the group of people on the benches behind her and she was sitting and talking very loudly.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:07:42 2014 No.7662437

>>7662415
heard about that. what the fuck.
AM is so disorganized and that makes staffers jobs even harder. got sass from two members of staff this weekend for trying to go sideways through registration lines to the elevators, got accused of cutting when I already picked up my badge the day before, and from trying to pick up my badge when they almost didn't give me my tea party ticket and had no idea what i was talking about when i asked.

at least the consweet people were super nice. love those staffers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:09:30 2014 No.7662442 >>7662415 I managed to get away walking around the hotel drinking both firday and saturday night with out so much as a weird glance lol

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:14:36 2014 No.7662460

>>7662437

I'll contribute with another positive staff story just because I feel like the handful of staff that were super amazing deserve props for it.

I was the Asuka accompanying the Unit 02 mentioned >>7662266
>>7662258
and the staff working the masq were absolutely incredible, especially the stage manager. She was super nice about our huge cosplay and even helped us get my boyfriend into it without throwing the masquerade off too much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:18:18 2014 No.7662473 >>7662437 The moment you give people any authority and they haven't been used to it, they'll act like assholes and abuse their power. Shit happens with any con that doesn't have a professional security force.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:19:53 2014 No.7662482 >>7662442 You can walk around the hotel proper with an open drink. Moment you go into a convention area, any staffer who's brain is semi functional would bust your ass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:20:04 2014 No.7662483 >>7662473 Didn't they have rosemont auxiliary all over the place though? There were definitely officers directing traffic at the elevators, which was something that IRT did at ACen and made a mess of. Was the security not at other places in the con?

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:25:49 2014 No.7662508

>>7662483
Half of the people who were supposed to be on safety didn't show. We had Rosemont police and security pick up the slack in the convention center itself along with anyone who volunteered. Last year Safety watched the elevators as well, and that was a giant clusterfuck, so that was turned over to the hotel and police which was one of the smarter moves.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:28:47 2014 No.7662524

>>7662508

I totally agree. I can't really remember much of last year in terms of the elevator situation since we stayed back in the executive wing, but at ACen this year we were in the main block that overlooks the lobby and the elevators were so poorly managed it was insane.
Maybe conventions should just leave that to professional security staff from now on?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:29:31 2014 No.7662529 >>7662482 I did actually manage to walk around the con center with a flask and didn't have any issues either. Even managed to get a discount at one of the tables in return for a swig

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:30:31 2014 No.7662533 >>7662335 I am, my feed is blowing up, which is why I'm surprised.

>>	I4mDwjpAlw !I4mDwjpAlw Mon Jul 7 16:59:19 2014 No.7662613 File: 60 KB, 543x960, 10456019_10203973720490665_7670687257932014849_n[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7662258 Shitty pic.

>>	I'm Dwjp !I4mDwjpAlw Mon Jul 7 17:28:21 2014 No.7662697 File: 72 KB, 488x865, IMAG0218[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7662415 >>7662437 You can see them getting busted a bit in the background of this photo.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:43:49 2014 No.7662745

>>7662437
lol I have a good story
>thursday at prereg
>line went by quickly
>split our 1 large line into 3 smaller ones, we ended up in about the same spot in a different line w/e
>right before we got our badges, a group of 12 people cut in front of us and register
>not pick up their badges for prereg but legit registering
>wtf
>takes like...20 min for them to go register 12 people

gets worse

>finally my turn
>get badge
>"oh hey what about my tea party ticket?"
>"youre not in our records for having one"
>I was like one of the first people to buy one
>"yeah well youre going to have to show us confirmation or else youre just trying to scam us"
>wtf did you just say that to my face?
>had to waste like 10-15 min looking for my confirmation email among my 2000 other emails

they didn't even check names or tickets at the tea party.
I could have walked in and no one would have said anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:45:45 2014 No.7662754 >>7662745 They didn't put the tea party ticket on my badge either. Good thing they didn't check names at the party!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:47:34 2014 No.7662757 >>7662745 >not having your email printed out you deserved this.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:51:38 2014 No.7662764

>>7662757
sorry, I figured they would actually be decently organized and not accusing me of scamming.

>>7662754
They gave me 2 badges, some people only got one, and then some people didn't get any because they said "there would be a list". There was no list.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:04:48 2014 No.7662788 >>7662697 That supposed to be Sailor Whore?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:10:55 2014 No.7662809 >>7662788 In the name of the skank, she will punish you.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:31:19 2014 No.7662858

>>7660590
Oops, I didn't realize that my post dropped.

Cosplays were not as bad as I had expected. I liked the two Madoka girl groups - the younger girls did a good job in spite of being less experienced. I didn't stay for the Masquerade for long. The rave was decent (minus a few bungholes, but can't be helped since they were guests). I liked the music and there was room to dance, so there wasn't any overwhelming l'eau de confunk. Sometimes the energy was a little lacking. I can't tell if it was it was a Saturday when I went or because the crowd was younger.

>>7662508
This was definitely a smart move.

>>7662460
Oh yeah, I ran into some amazing staffers. I went to the Inconvenient Romances panel, but then the guest couldn't arrive, so staffers Paul and Tobey (they were baby sitting the room) turned it into an open forum. The staff members for the swap meet did an excellent job getting the room set up on the last minute, and they were good about getting us informed about the fashion show's delay.

I did notice a little power-laden folks, but I'd say that it wasn't as bad as some folks at ACen, and I think it was partially due to having hotel staff take care of business.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:01:31 2014 No.7662927 >>7662858 >I did notice a little power-laden folks, but I'd say that it wasn't as bad as some folks at ACen ACEN is just full of staffers who do it for their own ego and not for the attendees or the con.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:04:55 2014 No.7662939 >>7634566 >>7634688 What did you guys think of the panels? I went to the Lolita 2.0 and J-fashion panels and was pleasantly surprised.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:11:27 2014 No.7662964

>>7662939
I know it's not a lolita panel but the only one I attended all weekend was one of the most cringe worthy things I've seen in a while. It was a Watamote panel and the panelist didn't show. Two people jumped up to try and run it and one was actually pretty cool. He worked on the translations for the manga and was pretty well versed. The other guy though. Literally spaghetti personified. Very lound, very rude, swore constantly and just oozed pasta. 2/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:13:42 2014 No.7662974 >>7662939 I went to the Lolita 2.0 one. Most panels with that name are awful but they talked about actual Lolita 2.0 topics like trends and how to dress for your size.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:20:20 2014 No.7662988 >>7662939 They were much better than lolita panela at other cons I went to. I wish the lolita 2.0 had more time to cover more topics. Both panels were well researched and had a lot of good commentary. Jfashion was hilarious and really informative.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 21:10:47 2014 No.7663297

>>7662764
They kicked out one girl who wasn't wearing brand at all (I think she was in normal clothes at the back of the line). And it was weird that they didn't have a list, but the main girl in charge of lolita events was there to be a quality checker? Still doesn't make sense that they didn't double check. Everyone who was there for the tea showed up though.

>>7661951
look on closet of frills for coords & the lolita collective had pics of their booth up

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 21:29:58 2014 No.7663348
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Pic of the Baby tea party... anybody notice the girl in the front row wearing a captain america "lolita" outfit? how did this get in? any body have full body pics of this chick?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 21:39:44 2014 No.7663378 >>7663297 If there was a quality checker, why was >>7663348 allowed lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 21:44:22 2014 No.7663400 Anyone get any pictures of the Ahri cosplayer on friday? The costume was meh, but the girl was a looker.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 23:02:38 2014 No.7663694 >>7663378 I thought you were supposed to wear Baby to the teaparty. It seemed really disrespectful. Why would you wear a cosplay to a brand event?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 23:23:15 2014 No.7663790 >>7663694 technically you only needed one baby item, with a lolita-esque outfit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 23:46:19 2014 No.7663894 >>7663790 Then what Baby is she wearing? Socks? It's still tacky to do that at a brand event.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 23:47:52 2014 No.7663901 >>7635857 this year i didnt like them too much. too much trap/house and not enough chiptune/j-core

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 23:55:42 2014 No.7663938 >>7655157 my mother doesnt have any fireworks so bleh also >Racist imperialist holiday

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:00:00 2014 No.7663955 >>7662437 one consuite girl was a bitch with 'go out using the exit' snarky BS

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:32:29 2014 No.7664064 So my friend was telling me how someone's mom went to the Free! panel on Saturday and flipped her shit. Anyone got the full story?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:51:08 2014 No.7664135 >>7662267 >quiet drawmeet >hotel lobby Seriously, you were expecting anything different?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:58:51 2014 No.7664163 >>7662697 Hey is that Uncle Phil in the background?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:08:25 2014 No.7664186 > Went expecting mini-ACen. > Realized they weren't bullshitting on the free ramen and pop > New annual con Srsly where was all the shit that was supposed to go down? I didn't meet one rude staff... but I didn't really interact with staff anyway

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:18:56 2014 No.7664208 File: 298 KB, 500x500, 1350194124047.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7664186 i spent 2 hours looking for a con store before having to get an administrator to tell me that there wasnt one

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:20:49 2014 No.7664213 >>7663894 I'm not defending her, I totally agree with you, but the rules didn't state "You must be head to toe in BTSSB", just that you needed 1 baby item and supporting coord.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:42:44 2014 No.7664266 >>7664135 hotel lobby on saturday night during the peak of the rave, no less like meet up in someone's room or on the lower levels. It was dead silent in the basement at that time of night and there were plenty of people just chilling in the hallways.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 02:26:53 2014 No.7664394

>>7664208
>spent 2 hours looking for a con store

Didn't the website say something about not having a con merch booth unless they reached some goal? That "con store"??

Also the con is barely a day over and they already have updated the website for 2015... with fucking guests already WTF.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 02:32:40 2014 No.7664412 >>7664394 have you seen the way that website is designed? you can barely find fucking anything it looks so horrible.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 02:49:47 2014 No.7664454

>>7663955
the people doing the in-out control in the consweet were usually pretty rude but the people making all the rice were totally awesome

disappointed by the "advanced" lolita panel, didn't tell me anything new about trends. one girl talked the whole time and the other panelists hardly got a word in. the "beyond lolita" jfashion panel was great though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 03:05:54 2014 No.7664491 >>7661846 Sup dude. I'm the guy with the NERV flag. Also the Homestuck fans don't really bother me as I can go whole find and barely notice them

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 03:06:34 2014 No.7664494 >>7664454 Which trends would you have discussed instead?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 03:09:55 2014 No.7664506 >>7662460 Hey there Asuka. You may or may not know who this is. Still really proud of you and Unit 02 on the win. We'll get another UCC coffee at Ramencon if I go. Also to everyone complaining about the Ramiel t-shirt Asuka, get over yourselves.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 06:06:51 2014 No.7664798

Anyone know what happened at the end of the samurai dan madlibs panel saturday night? My friend & I won & we decided to head home since it was getting late, & we're waiting at the elevator & samurai dan comes along with a guy under one of his arms & a police officer. Did someone get really drunk at that panel or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 10:43:07 2014 No.7664992 >>7664454 yeah Abby sure likes to do the thing where she talks about herself for an hour

>>	Anon's Sister Tue Jul 8 10:56:52 2014 No.7665010 >>7629265 I wanted to go, but Acen drained me too much. I only have enough for a badge, that's it. Useless if I can't get anything at the con or my own hotel.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 11:33:52 2014 No.7665049

I went and thought it was alright, didn't see as much cosplay that I was really interested in, which was kinda sad for me. Although I wish that I had caught those -monogatari cosplayers. Maid cafe was nice, our maid was kinda nervous the entire time, which was pretty cute.

I don't know if i'd go back though, although it does have potential to be a nice slightly bigger con than my usual romp, Detour's hotel layout is much better for taking pictures. There was no good centralized area that I could find for finding folks.

Also, maybe it's because i live with someone who bakes cake an' shit a lot, but the cake at the maid cafe was only so-so, I don't get why everyone thought it was so good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 12:30:33 2014 No.7665144 >>7665049 I'm surprised you didn't see either me or the Senjo, we did happen to stand out a bit lol TBH I was surprised at how relatively unnoticed we went all weekend, though I guess that's expected with the younger crowd.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 12:52:27 2014 No.7665179

>>7665144
I could have just been at the wrong place at the wrong time.
It probably didn't help that for the vast majority of friday and saturday i was in my Hunk cosplay, the mask fogs up pretty damn fast and the fan stopped working. That and me having to wear glasses probably weren't doing me any favors

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:15:13 2014 No.7665225

>>7665179
I spent most of my time hanging around the Hyatt escalators. Though I'm glad we had more room with the con center I feel that it really thinned out the crowds and there wasn't a good place to just stand and people watch. At least at ACEN you could just stand in the concenter and see tons of people.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:32:21 2014 No.7665248 >>7664454 I felt sorry for the panelists that barely got to contribute anything.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 14:13:51 2014 No.7665304

>>7665248
I'm friends with all the panelists - Abby was the only one of the four who finished her powerpoint presentation so they agreed to let her take the bulk of the panel. The two girls who didn't talk much were mainly there to answer audience questions, so while they ran out of time for that part, it's not true that Abby "didn't let the other girls contribute".

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 14:28:56 2014 No.7665324 >>7665225 ahh, i was mostly just walking around all over the place. Yeah, i really felt the lack of any centralized location for people watching. It would have been nice if there was one big gathering spot/ a courtyard of some sort.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 14:29:02 2014 No.7665325 >>7665304 It just seemed awkward they were up there but not doing much.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:49:59 2014 No.7665473

>>7664454
Dude, it covered a lot though for people who aren't as internet savvy and tumblr/4chan all the time. It wasn't anything new to me either, but it was nice to see the topics discussed in a panel. I totally would have liked for the other sweet lolitas to have talked more too ngl

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:58:42 2014 No.7665484 >>7665325 >>7665473 Yes, it was expected that they would have more time for Q&A which was mostly what the sweet lolitas were there to contribute to - things just ran longer than planned, as is typical with the first time doing a panel.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 16:07:39 2014 No.7665498 >>7664454 ok, yeah. the filipino woman was kawaii

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 16:08:25 2014 No.7665499

>>7665473
I could think of a dozen or so more trends, but I think they highlighted the most important ones for the time constraints. Obviously they're going to be ones that more in-the-know girls already know about, because they're trends. They can't just pull new ones out of their ass. It is a shame that the Q&A portion was cut so short and there was little sweet contribution other than "sweet isn't trendy anymore."

I cringed that AP Misty Sky coordinated with a black underskirt was displayed for being "trendy" when it looked super tacky. I'm all for sack dresses, but the color combo was just bad.

I started tallying up how many "trends" some girls there could squeeze into one coordinate, and it seemed the more they had the worse it looked.

Kate looked like a hot mess the entire con.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 17:20:29 2014 No.7665622 >>7665499 didn't someone at con coord Misty Sky this way? I thought she looked cute Kate looked really cute IMO...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 17:43:09 2014 No.7665669 >>7665622 Two girls wearing Misty Sky stood up to demonstrate the dress shape. Anon must be referring to them. >>7665498 I thought she looked lovely every day. What were you wearing that was so great?

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>>7665622

She's a nice girl, but this outfit is just bad. The underskirt doesn't even follow the line of the dress, it just hangs under limply.

>>7665669

I wasn't wearing every accessory that I owned piled onto my ratty wig.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 19:28:57 2014 No.7665881 >>7665499 she stood up because she was following the trends discussed in the slide show (sack dresses, underskirts) how is the color combo bad? it's black x sax, looks well-balanced to me. I liked it. Underskirt is a bit long, though.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:01:13 2014 No.7665960
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I saw this girl at Matsuri and now at Midwest... her outfits are really cute by why does she always wear hipster glasses? I'm just nitpicking..... but she would be soooo much cuter without the glasses........

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:10:57 2014 No.7665984 >>7665960 I agree, I meet her once she likes to go by the name hoot. Shes nice enough... though I think shes going for an Owl look with the glasses (gurl got a crazy thing for owls)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:11:30 2014 No.7665989 >>7665960 Because she ~troll us~. Not even kidding.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:11:45 2014 No.7665990 >>7665499 So much salt in this post, you think you could have ran that panel better anon? I thought it was informative and interesting. Also Kate looked fine, I don't see why she gets so much shit, she was a very nice girl

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:14:55 2014 No.7666001 >>7665960 Her makeup is so unflattering too. Somehow she makes otherwise cute outfits look stupid.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:16:12 2014 No.7666006

>>7665881
Bonnet looks sad, underskirt looks bad, blouse (particularly neckline) doesn't work with the dress, and personally, I think the sax x black combo doesn't work here.

>>7665960
Her outfits are always off in ways more than just the glasses, and her creating a public figure page for herself is just ridiculous. What's with all of these mediocre lolitas trying so goddamn hard to be facebook famous?

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:23:29 2014 No.7666029

>>7665990
I was defending the content of the panel saying that people already know about the trends because trends are obviously popular things that most people in the fashion already are aware of. So people saying they didn't learn anything, well, they can't invent new stuff out of nowhere, and they can't list everything because it already went long enough. I just wished the Q&A portion was longer and a bit more sweet was discussed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:26:43 2014 No.7666039 >>7666006 It was hilarious that she claimed the designer was so impressed with her coordinate when all Kano did was use it as an example of a dress that sold out so quickly that it was rereleased and that she was lucky to own it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:48:19 2014 No.7666091 File: 24 KB, 500x348, tumblr_inline_mkjxeubMp31qiw26m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7666039 OMg Kano Senpai noticed me..... give me a break thats all she talked about after the baby panel

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:51:26 2014 No.7666099 >>7666091 yeah she noticed you bought a dress that got rereleased, lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:52:50 2014 No.7666105 >>7666091 It was a wonder anyone could recognize what dress she was actually wearing under that ugly overskirt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 20:53:05 2014 No.7666108 >>7666006 >>7666039 Meowwww. Were there any outfits you ~did~ like?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:00:18 2014 No.7666127 >>7666108 So many great coordinates, but a lot of girls I didn't know their names and I don't want anybody accused of self posting if I mention them specifically. Must say that Abby was gorgeous in her Carnivale dresses.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:03:55 2014 No.7666136

>>7666091
Such bitchery in this thread. She was perfectly friendly to everyone this weekend. Why do you begrudge her feeling happy that Kano noticed her dress? There's no need to be cruel about a girl you met in person, even if you didn't like her outfits.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:06:52 2014 No.7666140 >>7666136 Forget where you are, little girl?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:10:04 2014 No.7666146 >>7666136 Seconded. You guys are really sad.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:24:09 2014 No.7666175 [DELETED]

>>7666136
Being misinformed and posting about how a designer ~loved~ your coord and requested a photo with you when you're not dressed to a T rubs some people the wrong way and comes off pretty pathetic, imo.
She could have easily said something like "Got a photo with Kano at AM!" like everyone does when they snap a photo with Misako. I don't begrudge her, I just don't think she's that well dressed. Also, she needs to work on her makeup. Her face/eyebrows look weird in the photo with Kano.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:32:32 2014 No.7666188 >>7666175 Exactly. She's trying to come off as some ~public figure~ and exaggerating and bragging left and right about how special she is when overall she's mediocre at best. Her ego can stand to be taken down a couple notches.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:40:29 2014 No.7666205 wow there's a lot of vendetta in here

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:43:16 2014 No.7666214 >>7666205 >>7666136 WELCOME TO /cgl/ NOW GET OUT

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 21:50:26 2014 No.7666226
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Any opinions on the fashion show?

Some of the models picked for Baby had no idea how to pose, but that didn't compare to the nightmare of weirdos from the indie show. It was clear they got stuck with the leftovers. Yikes.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 22:02:20 2014 No.7666258

>>7666205
I don't see vendetta. I see people honestly critiquing outfits, panels, and behaviour. Sorry we're not the hugfest or circle jerk like you expected.

>>7666226
The lighting was really weird and made most of the photos I've seen from it come out strangely. I agree that most of the models didn't know how to model. Some of the coords were meh, too, but I'm really not a big fan of a few of the pieces that were shown.
I've seen worse and better.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 22:17:20 2014 No.7666287
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>>7666258
This girl is so pretty, but her poses made me laugh.

I liked seeing a lot of the Baby clothes modeled since they looked a lot better than the online pics.

The only collections I liked from the indie designers were the first and last.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 22:25:09 2014 No.7666304 File: 103 KB, 960x640, 10488233_10202493134226676_4053362723474028682_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Another Model from the Indie show.... Idk if its just this pic but she scared me....not kawaii

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 22:26:15 2014 No.7666310 >>7666304 lol its looks like those flowers on her hair is covering her tits

Funk Brothers !!sEQILr75Rya Tue Jul 8 22:31:43 2014 No.7666322

>>7665960
I like her coords whenever they get posted on here. I don't understand the nitpicking over her glasses. I think wearing glasses makes her stand out from a lot of other lolitas and she seems to be a popular lolita, imo. Some people can't wear contacts and have to wear glasses.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 22:38:06 2014 No.7666336 >>7666322 I understand having to wear glasses... but really do you need huge hipster glasses that cover up the majority of your face?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 22:59:16 2014 No.7666368 >>7666322 I know her and she has really sensitive eyes. She can only wear certain types of mascara and can't wear contacts because there's something wrong with her corneas where they get infected/scratched easily.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:01:45 2014 No.7666377 >>7666368 So do her really sensitive eyes prevent her from picking out decent looking glasses?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:02:50 2014 No.7666380 >>7666336 This. I have horrible fucking astigmatism in both eyes and am terribly near sighted yet still manage to find decent glasses. The fact that she's been like "lololol i troll yuuu!!!1!" only makes it worse.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:14:36 2014 No.7666403

>>7666377
>So do her really sensitive eyes prevent her from picking out decent looking glasses?

Normies would be complaining that "does wearing lolita fashion prevent him/her from picking out decent looking clothes?"

I see no problem of her choices of wearing glasses especially that this fashion is considered odd by most people outside of this board. At least they're not from Bodyline.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:16:07 2014 No.7666407 >>7666304 I know this girl and she is honestly the most unfortunate looking lolita I've ever met.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:22:16 2014 No.7666422 >>7666407 I've seen way worse.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:35:27 2014 No.7666457 >>7666127 Jesus fucking christ stop posting about yourself. It's so painfully obvious. There weren't really any shitty coords that I saw other than the capt America girl but then again I was only there one day

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:51:17 2014 No.7666492 >>7666407 If you know her, why are you insulting her here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 23:55:50 2014 No.7666506 >>7666457 Not even that anon, but I saw plenty of really bad fucking coords. I'll upload some once I get ahold of my bf's camera.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 00:12:23 2014 No.7666542 >>7666506 yes, photographic evidence!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 00:14:59 2014 No.7666549 >>7666403 But they're still shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 00:20:41 2014 No.7666560 >>7666506 I only came for the tea party so I must've missed em. Do post anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:26:29 2014 No.7666798 >>7666136 Let me tell you, a lot of it is on the spot. Fuck her outfits. She had a foul air about her and definitely snubbed anything she felt to be beneath her. She was not pleasant to be around, and was not friendly either.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:28:48 2014 No.7666807 >>7666492 are you new to /cgl/ you definitely are

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:43:29 2014 No.7666842 >>7666798 girl's got a lot of health issues, you probably just caught her at bad times >>7666226 From what I heard the models weren't instructed in any way, and had to do their own hair, makeup, and come up with like 20 poses off the bat

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:44:54 2014 No.7666846 >>7666842 >From what I heard the models weren't instructed in any way, and had to do their own hair, makeup, and come up with like 20 poses off the bat That's pretty typical for a con fashion show

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:48:07 2014 No.7666853 >>7666846 for an indie show, yeah, but from a brand that does it all the time? Guess all the hair/mua ditched/didn't show up

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:55:49 2014 No.7666867

>>7636479
>>He seemed to be very polite to people at the con from what I saw, was in a good mood.
I dont like Ryan, but everything you said in that post was correct except for that one
Hes nice to pretty girls and people that he could use to get him more money
He's a bastard to his staff and has a short temper with everything
Have you ever actually worked with the man or are you just white knighting, anon?

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:56:52 2014 No.7666868

>>7666853
I''ve been in a few con fashion shows, both established brands and indie (only one time) and this is usually how it goes
>they ask you to bring your own shoes as well as hairpieces/wigs/makeup
>they tell you they have professional people to do hair and makeup
>the professional people take too much time on individual models so roughly 50% of models end up doing their own hair and/or makeup or each others
>you do one trial run
>they tell you to make up kawaii poses
>they give you brief feedback on the poses you tried
>the real thing happens
so yeah it's normal.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 03:05:42 2014 No.7666881 One of the models for baby showed up 2 hours late and threw a fit, it was pretty funny. They were nice enough to give her a spare outfit since they replaced her and then she complained about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 03:08:19 2014 No.7666889 >>7663348 I dont even lolita and thats a fucking eyesore

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 11:07:17 2014 No.7667424 >>7666304 >>7666287 >>7666226 Link to album? Some of the indie models weren't too bad. The Baby show was more tedious imo, each model did two circuits and looked like they wanted to die. It was actually pretty awkward.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 11:34:02 2014 No.7667451 >>7666868 I heard they barely had time to do a run through because Baby was running so behind schedule. The Baby fashion show started an hour late.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 11:52:41 2014 No.7667470 I just saw the email saying 8000 attendees. Is that really true?? It felt sooo small and low-attendance.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 12:26:08 2014 No.7667520 >>7667470 Probably closer to 5000 imo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 12:37:17 2014 No.7667535 >>7666881 Which model was that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 12:42:25 2014 No.7667544 >>7667470 >>7667520 AM's small feeling is nice after ACEN. There's room to breathe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 13:02:28 2014 No.7667580 >>7667544 I kinda liked the bigger feel of ACEN, there was just more to do and more chances to people watch. AM was nice but just lacked a certain pomp and circumstance about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 13:29:49 2014 No.7667607 File: 60 KB, 500x500, tumblr_n8dl11dKZV1qjz83no1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7666889 Found this off of tumblr. I can only imagine what Kano and Isobe were thinking...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 13:33:04 2014 No.7667613 >>7667607 well it was the 4th of july... what baby item is she wearing here exactly? the parasol, wristcuffs? rules should have been main piece must be BTSSB

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 14:12:34 2014 No.7667684

>>7667613
The wristcuffs and parasol are the only thing that look remotely brand, so that must be. It hardly seems enough to qualify. Didn't the rules say no cosplay? I just don't understand why she thought it was a good idea to wear to the tea party.

The girls she was hanging out with seemed decently dressed, I wonder if any of them tried to talk her out of it or were embarrassed to be seated with her.

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 14:49:53 2014 No.7667740

>>7667613
I'm plus size so I've been to a couple brand parties where it was hard for me to find a main piece that fit, and I went out of my way to load up my coordinate with accessories and small pieces from the brand to try to make up for it. So I think it's possible to be appropriate at a brand party without a main piece, but this isn't how to do it.

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 15:29:30 2014 No.7667816

>>7667740
I thought the point of a brand tea party was coming together to appreciate that brand and showing love of the products to the designers. What you did sounds fine to me, but clearly this girl has no fit issues as an excuse. The wristcuffs just seemed slapped on to meet the one Baby item rule. If she had nothing else Baby to wear, it seems like she wasn't there for the right reasons.

It just seems really rude. I'm glad I didn't have to sit with her and have her in my group photo with Isobe and Kano. Luckily everyone at my table was really well dressed.

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 15:56:42 2014 No.7667890
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>>7667535
This one. She was supposed to be in a gothic dress at first, and then because she was late, she was put in this pink dress. You could tell she was SO uncomfortable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 16:05:06 2014 No.7667908 >>7667890 If she showed up so late, why was she still allowed to model? That dress is WAY short on her. I remember thinking she looked angry on the runway, though.

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 16:31:16 2014 No.7667963

>>7667908
because they probably brought extra dresses for the on-call/extra models, but since some models dropped out all the on-call models got to wear the main fashion show stuff and the extra dresses weren't going to be used.

>>7667890
All she did was complain about it, too. It was really rude. Maybe you shouldn't have shown up two hours late, bitch?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 16:35:52 2014 No.7667979 >>7667890 'she' looks like she's rocking a five o'clock shadow

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 17:12:26 2014 No.7668050

>>7667470
>I just saw the email saying 8000 attendees. Is that really true?? It felt sooo small and low-attendance.

Every panel room was packed, and even across the street it wasn't empty anywhere. I kept expecting nobody to come to the main panel room in the convention center, but it was always full.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 17:13:54 2014 No.7668054 >>7666867 >>Hes nice to pretty girls and people that he could use to get him more money > people that he could use to get him more money Wouldn't this include basically everyone though?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 17:38:19 2014 No.7668104 >>7667963 Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing when you have the Baby staff calling you and leaving you a message saying that the call time was 8AM @ 9:15AM.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 17:40:02 2014 No.7668108 Any photos of the good coords you saw?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 17:42:15 2014 No.7668114 >>7666881 Replaced her with a shop girl nevertheless! I don't know how she even got in. She was so tall.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 17:52:14 2014 No.7668139 >>7668114 Skinny and western-looking. She certainly stood out in the lineup.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 17:54:14 2014 No.7668144 >>7668114 lol it's like the opposite of real runways. Was she supposed to wear one of the longer ones originally?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 18:11:40 2014 No.7668164 File: 45 KB, 960x640, 10526113_10202493023423906_7621989496673028588_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7668144 She was supposed to be in this one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 18:54:33 2014 No.7668233 >>7666867 Wouldn't surprise me, guy was groping some girls, I'm assuming friends or people who he's bank rolling. Plus everyone on his main staff are younger girls. I don't think any of them are over the age of 21.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 18:57:27 2014 No.7668241 >>7667580 Large and small cons have their pros and cons. Large cons like ACEN allow you to people watch better. Smaller cons like AM allow you actually meet people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 19:05:54 2014 No.7668260 >>7668241 While I do agree with the later about small cons I wasn't particularly interested in meeting a bunch of homestuck/SPG fans. Thus why I wasn't such a huge fan of AM. Still had fun and talked with a few people but I met WAY more people at ACEN

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 22:30:53 2014 No.7668651 File: 33 KB, 488x750, tumblr_n8gfhopsaL1qewdlxo2_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7668164 She was actually supposed to be in this.

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 23:04:24 2014 No.7668738

>>7667451
The Baby fashion show ran late because of technical issues. The music and visuals were on a Japanese DVD and the con didn't have a universal player. They eventually found something to get it to play. Usually this stuff is handled while the models are getting ready if not the day before, but the tech people weren't prepared until rehearsals. The models, except for the girl that was late, where ready early.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 01:21:15 2014 No.7669040 Fun fact, Ryan is monitoring this thread. Is he posting here? Who knows?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 02:13:10 2014 No.7669155 >>7668054 not a joe shmo attendee, and definitely not a part of his staff, no. i mean people that that are important/have a higher standing among other cons/have fans that would influence his sales if they say 'wow that was a good time' on social media

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 02:14:52 2014 No.7669157 >>7669040 Seems like most of the thread is about lolita, which im sure he knows 0 about. Maybe you're Ryan Maybe we're all Ryan

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 04:04:30 2014 No.7669415 >>7669157 >Maybe you're Ryan >Maybe we're all Ryan I'm Ryan! Hi Ryan!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 04:09:28 2014 No.7669426 >>7669415 >>>7669157 >>Maybe you're Ryan >>Maybe we're all Ryan >I'm Ryan! >Hi Ryan! Fuck. Am... am I Ryan?

Anonymous Thu Jul 10 10:48:11 2014 No.7669764

>>7666867
Never actually worked with him, but I met him at Youmacon 2012 and hanged out with his group a bit. We aren't friends anymore since all the rumors about him started up last year. The only "creepy" thing he did to me was pretend to bite my neck vampire style but he stopped when I told him to stop. I am definitely not a white knight anon, but I do want to make sure that proper facts are going around.

Though he did block me on FB after I politely told him I didn't want to be friends anymore and got blocked from Anime Midwest's FB page for making a joke about staff (Literally what I wrote was "How about getting staff that aren't 14?" and meant it entirely sarcastically). I did want to go again this year (SPG ftw) but not enough money.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 23:21:28 2014 No.7671050 >>7669426 >>7669415 >>7669157 One of these shitposters is Ryan. This post >>7636479 was definitely Ryan in damage control.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:31:28 2014 No.7672105 >>7663348 so many ham arms god, my country is fat

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:39:14 2014 No.7672111 >>7667607 I like the ideas of the comic book patches (I've seen that fabric at Joanns), but it would have looked better on a creme/neutral colored dress. I think these theme dresses can work but not with the gaudy colors she chose.

Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:46:07 2014 No.7672120

>>7663348
Is this what the average American lolita looks like when they're at their best (as I would assume they would be considering it was a brand tea party)?
If so, I'm doing a lot better than I'd thought, at least on the genetics and basic styling side of things

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:51:59 2014 No.7672125 >>7672105 >>7672120 talk shit post fit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 13:09:50 2014 No.7672146 >>7672120 >>7672105 It's the Midwest. These girls are much thinner than their regional average.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:00:43 2014 No.7672215 File: 167 KB, 701x936, 10550864.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7672146 Average fat midwestern ita.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:02:36 2014 No.7672221 >>7672215 wonder queen how

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:07:32 2014 No.7672226 >>7672215 Is that facepaint? Good lord. Also she needs to be wearing a better bra. What a waste, all that brand should be confiscated.

Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:24:05 2014 No.7672257
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>>7672226
>>7672221

No, that's not facepaint and if you want to know how, ask her. She knows that she's a plus sized lolita, but in being a talented seamstress, she's probably worked around it in one way or another.

She also happened to be poorly photographed (seriously, no one looks good in that angle and inside a dealer hall - a lot of my cell phone pics inside the con were blurry).

I know it's cgl and all, but godfuckingdammit, I'm a little tired of the bullshit that people are trying to stir up about the Chicago comm; we've already had to deal with folks like cancer-chan, so we don't need something unnecessary added to it especially among/to people who are genuinely nice people.

2/10 for making me reply.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:25:10 2014 No.7672259 >>7672226 No, she just doesn't know how to use contrast and saturation to make her pictures look light and fluffy. Look how dark and shitty her WQ looks.

Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:46:51 2014 No.7672309

>>7672259
She didn't take that photo and it might have been taken by a stranger - she just posted herself to CoF and the picture is much clearer, better color, and not a horribly unflattering angle. Tempted to post it as she looks a million times better but friends don't post friends to 4chan.

Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:54:35 2014 No.7672322

>>7672215
>>7672259
The girl who took this photo took terrible photos of everyone. Someone just is targeting this girl because she's fat. I saw her in person and the dress fit her fine except the straps were too short so she haltered it. I think it's just slipping down on her. This cut of WQ goes up to something like 115cm bust so if you've got a problem with a larger girl wearing it, then go complain to AP.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 15:17:47 2014 No.7672357 >>7672322 I cringed when I saw her picture of me. What the hell is wrong with her camera?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 15:30:49 2014 No.7672377 >>7672322 >>7672357 Do you think she was the one who posted >>7672215 ? I know she posts on here and it's a poor attempt at being Anonymous.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 16:38:50 2014 No.7672456 File: 77 KB, 720x960, lol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7672322 >>7672357 I do not know what is wrong with her camera but I really wish she wasn't the one that was in charge of pictures. This is her by the way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 16:50:13 2014 No.7672470 >>7672456 >>7672377 She would have to be pretty stupid to post a picture from her own camera here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 16:58:27 2014 No.7672489 >>7672456 good lord, what an ita

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:16:57 2014 No.7672514 File: 44 KB, 618x960, 10527556_2779685410021_6588881795498091_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] from the baby fashion show i think she is cute (be prepared for pic spam)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:18:33 2014 No.7672517 File: 47 KB, 611x960, 10429437_2779683329969_4348496866829955609_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] another girl from the baby fashion show

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:19:41 2014 No.7672519 File: 241 KB, 1201x1800, 10506724_323992864436720_940523643203637608_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] yet again another girl from the baby fashion show

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:20:54 2014 No.7672522 File: 148 KB, 915x644, 10401482_321457844690222_6432063378094847794_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pic from tea party

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:23:19 2014 No.7672528 File: 252 KB, 2000x1500, 10517321_10203453431669803_6939585544291140960_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] another pic from the tea party

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:26:17 2014 No.7672535 File: 287 KB, 1500x2000, 10498377_10203458695161387_1849765844836657045_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] another pic i found just floating around facebook

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 18:03:52 2014 No.7672591 >>7671050 That last post you are referring to is not Ryan, its just me, an anon. I was just saying facts that I recall from last year's Anime Midwest when all the rumors broke out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 20:14:14 2014 No.7672785 >>7672489 How is this ita?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 05:47:35 2014 No.7673599 >>7672489 old school, not ita. your summer is showing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 13 01:22:28 2014 No.7676298 >>7672215 There was another girl in WQ at anime midwest that was plusized that looked nice. I think she had blue or purple hair, I saw her in the lobby. This co-ord is just bad.

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