all in all, super fun to go despite the venue change and general vibe shift. was great to catch up with people from last year and meet a whole bunch of new friends. will be exciting to go to both gen 5 AND phase con next year on top of that. need to stay motivated on all my damn projects!!!!!

now that im home, im feeling some sort of weird mix of post con depression and turbocharged motivation to do projects to prep for next year. time to get this fuckass hot mess back on the road

anyways uhhhhhhh

so immediately after the m&g, i stumbled into the cutout auction and had this moment of insanity. it's the only race queen version and it'd match with... a thing im planning

(side note: im ngl, her outfit looks less race queen and more like she mugged kaiba for his fit)

short derailment to be cringe and sappy, but it's been wonderful to be in the bc community and endlessly fun to watch streams, no matter what the topic is. i was probably too much of a nervous wreck to be coherent, but i hope i got to express that. here's to many more years

blessed to have managed to make the meet and greet for meemaw. i thought i was being a paranoid schizophrenic showing up 45 minutes early, but it turns out guys that showed up an hour and a half early wouldn't have made it if she didnt completely blow past her timeslot of 30m to almost 2 hours...

next up is a bunch of photos of loosely related stuff because i never remember to take pictures.

had my first concert where i waved a lightstick around - it's surprisingly exhausting???

blown away by how many people played densha de go here because of dooby

also i need to make ribbons next year

another big improvement was incorporating the itasha display indoors by artist alley. last year, it was banished to the corner of a parking lot outside. highlights were seeing the hime 86 and the minto pinto. fantastic commitment to the bit, owner was also super chill to talk to

one marked improvement was the cutouts: i was absolutely geeking seeing official race queen art of clara and airi after having drawn them in rq outfits myself. and the fan made cutouts were incredibly funny to see

new venue had its pros and cons. its way bigger and that took stress off getting into concerts and stuff, but the free mingling vibe of gen 3's atrium is very dead. i had a lot more fun chatting with people in artist alley or the unending phase booth line than "atrium 2.0"

drive up was relatively uneventful. bathroom stop in LA required buying some garbage from a thrift store, so I got a friend a laser disc of mandarin karaoke songs and a vinyl of canadians singing stereotypical italian songs...? then there was whatever the hell caused this detour on the I5

(real reason is im no longer doomscrolling from samsung making their ui so tragically fugly with the last update that i pick up my phone, retch, and set it back down now whenever i get a twitch to watch brainrot)

Hey you leave him alone he's just a lil guy

No u

pretty please

I've been really enjoying these jazz fusion mixes a guy going by Findout Records on youtube puts out, maybe you've run into them?