GenCon 50
Wee hours of the morning and I find myself still trying to finish packing for one of the biggest gaming events of the year (I know our traveling companions are still packing too). We leave Friday, but that does not mean that my brain is not going into overdrive trying to make sure that every necessary costume piece is packed. I start thinking to myself..."I could do this for a living. Traveling somewhere different all the time, cosplaying someone who isn't me." My dogs pace around my feet, whining and sniffing my suitcase.
Gencon 50 is going to be the biggest it has ever been. They have had nearly all badges sell out (100,000+). I can not even imagine being stuck close quarters with that many people at once.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, SHOWER! Do not be the typical "nerd" stigma.
We are a proud community and we have built up this grand thing. Every person is there to have fun to their own level of satisfaction and it is such a wonderful thing to see everyone so happy with all of the activities going on, kids pointing and screaming "MOM, LOOK, IT'S ELSA AGAIN!". Gamers will plop down in whatever hallway they can find a little spare room and rip into the shrink wrap on a new game like a small child on Christmas morning. This is home, these are my people.
No one will quite understand your excitement over a new product in your niche more than someone who is in the same grouping. Share that excitement. Not everyone has people back home to geek out to. My family is not exempt from this problem. My husband and I are more or less the odd duck out of both of our families. They do not understand what the hype is about.
"It's just a bunch of nerdy people sitting around playing card games and buying the ones they don't have yet right?" Not even close....
I wish they understood. But at the very least we have already started exposing our kids to the interests we have and our older daughter has been very receptive.
She went with us last year and cosplayed Merida from Brave. This super excited 5 year old could be seen bouncing around the con floor in a green dress, bright red wig, even her bow and quiver, beaming the biggest smile I have ever seen. People would stop and ask her for pictures and she would say "Yes, but I'm not really Merida, I'm just pretending." I do not think she turned a single photo down, though we left it for her to decide.
In another lovely discussion with a family member "You are all just freaks, thinking Halloween is year round. Why can't you just grow up and be adults?" This hurt coming from my own family member. But, with some time to mull it over I have come to the conclusion that I am an adult. This is what I choose to have as my vacation. Everyone else goes camping or to theme parks. Those are fine and all and I like both options, but why not do something we love even more. Con is full of my interests, my friends from all over the world, and it is fun.
Wish me lots of luck avoiding the sweaty, smelly hugs of the unshowered. I'm dertermined to have the best time ever or maybe it's the blood wine talking...
Gencon 50 is going to be the biggest it has ever been. They have had nearly all badges sell out (100,000+). I can not even imagine being stuck close quarters with that many people at once.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, SHOWER! Do not be the typical "nerd" stigma.
We are a proud community and we have built up this grand thing. Every person is there to have fun to their own level of satisfaction and it is such a wonderful thing to see everyone so happy with all of the activities going on, kids pointing and screaming "MOM, LOOK, IT'S ELSA AGAIN!". Gamers will plop down in whatever hallway they can find a little spare room and rip into the shrink wrap on a new game like a small child on Christmas morning. This is home, these are my people.
No one will quite understand your excitement over a new product in your niche more than someone who is in the same grouping. Share that excitement. Not everyone has people back home to geek out to. My family is not exempt from this problem. My husband and I are more or less the odd duck out of both of our families. They do not understand what the hype is about.
"It's just a bunch of nerdy people sitting around playing card games and buying the ones they don't have yet right?" Not even close....
I wish they understood. But at the very least we have already started exposing our kids to the interests we have and our older daughter has been very receptive.
She went with us last year and cosplayed Merida from Brave. This super excited 5 year old could be seen bouncing around the con floor in a green dress, bright red wig, even her bow and quiver, beaming the biggest smile I have ever seen. People would stop and ask her for pictures and she would say "Yes, but I'm not really Merida, I'm just pretending." I do not think she turned a single photo down, though we left it for her to decide.
In another lovely discussion with a family member "You are all just freaks, thinking Halloween is year round. Why can't you just grow up and be adults?" This hurt coming from my own family member. But, with some time to mull it over I have come to the conclusion that I am an adult. This is what I choose to have as my vacation. Everyone else goes camping or to theme parks. Those are fine and all and I like both options, but why not do something we love even more. Con is full of my interests, my friends from all over the world, and it is fun.
Wish me lots of luck avoiding the sweaty, smelly hugs of the unshowered. I'm dertermined to have the best time ever or maybe it's the blood wine talking...
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