Next con on my agenda is CONvergence. Only one of my panels got accepted, and it's early Thursday when hardly anyone will be there. Boo. I don't want to be That Guy, but my panels are really good. 😭 Ah, well. You win some, you lose some. Maybe going solo is a strike against me? Do I need a crew? 🤔

Home from the con. Now I can get my house and garage back in order 😵‍💫 although I do have some polishing and embellishment tasks to do on VAN before July. #ACEN

Love is stored in the VAN. 💜 #ACEN #BT21 #BTS #VAN

Update: Hotel *not* burning down. #ACEN

Fire alarm at the Doubletree 😆 #ACEN

Both of my panels went great! I got a lot of compliments from audience members. 😊 It's odd how people are increasingly awed by my history and collection. It's just, like, my life. You know? And suddenly it's a relic of days gone by for a fascinated audience. #ACEN

Great time for the convention center to have put fresh fertilizer on the flower beds. 🤮 #ACEN

Got my panels today. Get Off My Lawn! at 1:00 and Sailor Moon at 3. They put a guest panel about Sailor Moon right before mine which is kind of odd but 🤷🏻‍♀️ #ACEN

So. I've been largely absent lately because I've been frantically working myself to the bone trying to finish my cosplay project in time for ACEN. I did it. 4 AM this morning. Not 100%, but enough to make it work. I'm at the con with it now. It's really happening. I'm really doing this. 😳

I'm not going to finish my new cosplay in time for ACEN. 😭 Yet I can't bring myself to give up. It's going to be SO CLOSE. But not close enough. That's so much worse than not being anywhere near done. ☹️

No Brand Con! Sadly I'm only here today, because I'm still panicking about finishing my cosplay in time for ACEN. But I submitted panels, and as a long-time Programming lead myself I wasn't about to cancel last-minute. I'm still thrilled No Brand is back and I'll be looking forward to next year. 😊

Living in America is overhearing people discussing potential costs as part of deciding whether an injury merits a trip to the hospital. 😕 Three third-world countries in a fucking trench coat, y'all.

Home safely from our adventure. My body did not take kindly to spending so much time sitting in a car. I'm sure it's hard to tell without a basis of comparison, but this is BAD. Looks like compression socks are in my future for road trips now that I'm an old lady. 😅 #BTSorBust

Watching the leaves gradually disappear again on our return trip to Minnesota. It was nice to briefly visit summer. #BTSorBust

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Well. That's a new one. #BTSorBust

Q-Pon strikes me as the last creature who should be having any energy drinks. I'll have more to say about the weekend later, but for now I'm just tired. 😵‍💫 #BTSorBust

In hindsight I realize there is something really cool about getting your first concert freebie. I've already given that experience to some people. 😊 #BTSorBust

Concert day! Got my freebies ready. 🥰 Although it occurred to me today that young ARMY might not be able to read them. 😅 I didn't even think about it, whoops. I just like how script looks for softer messages. #BTSorBust

Finally in Tampa after two long days of travel. My ankles are swollen from sitting in a car for so long. 😭

Breakfast in Nashville at Another Broken Egg. Pancakes with bananas and pecans topped with rum butter sauce. Mmmmmmm.

Stopped in Tennessee for the night. Even with three of us sharing the driving it's quite a slog.

What do you do when you can't get tickets to the only comeback tour stop in the Midwest? You go on an ill-advised cross-country road trip. (Gas was not this expensive when we decided to do this. 😅) As a bonus, I'll get to see an old friend from my online fandom days! And then... BANGTAN. #BTSorBust

Every single time.

Here's something that's bugging me about the perspectives of certain loud voices. Why are we worried about the declining birth rate if tech advancements are about to eliminate a ton of jobs? Those extra citizens wouldn't be taxpayers. Soldiers? Warfare is trending towards drones. Why the alarm?

Doing cosplay work at 2 AM: Pretty normal Doing cosplay work at 2 AM that requires being outside in the garage with the door open: Less normal Also, it's freaking cold. 🥶

Overslept and woke up too late to make it to the final Frost home game of the regular season. Damn it. I really wanted to go to that game.

Aaaaargh my hope of finishing my new cosplay in time for ACEN is dwindling

At SR Harris again. 😭

Another key step in any cosplay project: The ritual bloodletting. 😖 @$#& ouch

Wonderful speech. If only more lawmakers would listen instead of blindly doing what they're told. I don't think I could ever love this woman more. If she ever ran for president, I'd go to the mattresses for her. youtu.be/YCDqujP-CqI?...

Plan: Work on cosplay all day Reality: Sleep until 5 PM I am absolutely terrible at being a functional human being.

Damn, I hate generative AI but this is fucking brilliant.

After the Frost game today, I got to go to the reborn Festival of Nations! I'm beyond thrilled the long-running cultural festival is back, especially with all the xenophobic bullshit we've been dealing with. Food, demonstrations, and performances from dozens of cultures and countries. 🤩 (1/2)

When I get a new follower.

Working on cosplay at the end of the world. It feels silly sometimes, but my project is going to bring a lot of people joy. I want to give that to them.

We've shown the entire world that American military supremacy is an illusion. Who knows who will be gunning for us now?

I ran out of time and have to go aaaaaaaall the way back to SR Harris on another day 😭 but it's better than rushing and settling for something I'm not happy with.

Time for the landmark task for any cosplayer in the Twin Cities: The trip to SR Harris.

This is 100% real. On Easter. What even is reality anymore?

You'd think Minnesota would have an advantage when it comes to playing baseball in below-freezing temps against freaking FLORIDA, but no. 7-1 loss. 😅

At a baseball game in the snow, because Minnesota. Go Twins.

HEE!! Moonie alert at NASA mission control!! www.reddit.com/r/sailormoon...

Paneling update! No Brand Con: Accepted ACEN: Accepted CONvergence: Submitted Kitsune Kon: Submitted Where else do I want to go this year...

Yesterday: 75 degrees Today:

I'm so tired. It's one of those days where it's really hard to get motivated to do life.

Slept in my BTS shirt and woke up with my shoes on and a cup of milk.

If you see this, post a concert photo you took.

One of the things really pissing me off is that WE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE HERE. All the other bullshit of this war aside, there is no excuse for society still being so dependent on oil that the WHOLE WORLD is gonna collapse because of a single point of failure. Greed has kept all our eggs in one basket.

"They don’t imagine that you may have shown up many times already and learned, through experience, that a crowd can be emotionally enrapturing while remaining strategically thin and politically disappointing." I got into such a fight on FB recently for daring to say that marches alone arent enough.