Con!

(I did the same costume on Friday as Sunday but don’t have any photos on my phone)

Featuring: @simulatedstars @betterthanforever @burningthemxdnightoil @bazemayonnaise @churrochirrut and @at-heart-a-gentleman

This was generally a really good weekend, even though I managed to loose both my phone and my wallet (I got them back) at different points, with two costumes that came together really well in the end. Really nice to meet more people doing Borderlands and Rogue One and obviously spend time with the usual suspects.

Also, someone gave me little stickers of cassian and k2so and a drawing of baze on sunday, which are fantastic but I have no idea who you are??

Things mcm expo really needs to work on for the future in a convention centre that annoyingly has a lot of trouble dealing with a large amount of people: accessability and fire safety.

meaning: not having your only entrance up a flight of stairs, having enough places to sit down and not putting barriers in front of your main exit mostly

(also ventilation but not sure theres really a lot that can be done there)

Home now

Got back from MCM late last night, after a great weekend at expo.

Les Mis meet was great, first time I’ve cosplayed something popular enough to have a meet and everyone was brilliant both in costume and generally being awesome people, hope it happens again in october! (or earlier, if any of you go to any other conventions…paticularly jcon or alcon as they are about 30mins from me so I will probably go this year)

plus new people to stalk on here (I’ve followed a bunch of you, though I’m not entirely convinced I’ve put all the right names to faces yet, got some bits of paper with tumblrs written on to find as well) and in real life (as some of you live in/nearish nottingham so you aren’t getting rid of me)

Could deffinatel get used to having Enjolras yelled to get my attention (saw a very excited and very good jack frost cosplayer that way and I think some supernatural people? sorry I’m not far enough into the series to know if that’s correct – saw loads of other great cosplays this year too)

It was insainly busy (particularly saturday) but got some freebies and paid for stuff (urgh..money) and some presents for people (so if you know me in real life be vaguely excited…which is ust tasha i think as my sister wont tell me her blog)

sometimes i just really want a suit that’s properly tailored and fits me perfectly…..then I realise I have nowhere to wear one and it’d be pointless to make (that’d be a challenge) or buy one.

Then I realise that that’s what steampunk is for.

And I just refound my goggles

Which means…I might be doing something steampunky for one of the days at expo