Emerald City Comic Con

I’ve been horrendously busy for the past week and I haven’t had the chance to blog about Comic Con yet, nevertheless, I’d be remiss not to mention how wonderful my day of pop culture geekiness was! I loved, loved, loved the event and wish I bought the three-day pass now! After my first convention in October, I knew that I loved the idea of dressing up in a room of other people in costumes, but I felt a little out-of-place not understanding any of the anime content. This time around, I was right in my element, geeking out over costumes, browsing the dealer’s alley, and enjoying the panels. Overall, I felt much more suited for this convention, and I recognized more of the costumes.

There is always something wonderful about getting out of bed to get dressed in a floor-length, peach Victorian gown, opera gloves, and heels. (I would sorely regret the heels later). I had this grand idea to do a Victorian version of Princess Peach using the dress with a blonde wig, white lace opera gloves, a blue cameo pendant, and a gold tiarra. Unfortunately, due to my own procrastination, I ended up scraping the idea because not even expedited shipping would have gotten the items in time by the time I got around to searching on Amazon. It’s being saved for the next con. In the meantime, however, I had quite a bit of fun floating around the convention center in a big, puffy, period dress. The heels… not so much.

Highlights from ECCC:

-Reuniting with the steampunk clock locket that got stolen out of my cart on Black Friday. Luckily, Black Cat Jewelry, who is now my favorite stop in Artist’s Alley, had the necklace in stock and I got a replacement, a discount, and a much appreciated dose of sympathy. Favorite accessory retrieved :)

-Little girls coming up to me and wanting to take pictures/wanting to say hi/asking if I was a princess/all of the above. So cute! At the resturant after the convention, one mother mentioned that they had recently come back from Disneyland and her daughter was still in her “princess-spotting” phase. Hands-down best compliment received all day :)

-Attending the Natalia Tena panel. I (very) nearly missed this panel, and I’m so happy that I didn’t! Back in the day, I adored Tonks as a character and shipped Remus and Tonks quite hard. Seeing the actress for Nymphadora Tonks in the flesh brought back quite a bit of those shipper feels. Natalia was great: all around funny, personable, and enjoyable to listen to. She actually dyes her hair bright colors. Teddy Lupin was suppposed to be in the final scene! And, she likes Django Unchained!

-The costumes, the costumes, the costumes. Amazing! From the Mario with a friend dangling a block over his head via. fishing line, to a replica of Tim Burton’s Mad Hatter and Queen of Hearts, to some truly phenomonal group cosplays, the costumes were fantastic! And, I recognized more than five of them this time.

Favorite #1: Nintendo “prom” group, description entirely mine. Peach/Mario, Daisy/Luigi, Zelda/Link. (Sadly, forgot to get a picture)

Favorite #2: Once Upon a Time: Rumple, Snow, Red (better Red than my version), and Jefferson. And me, pretending to fit in with my dress. Although, a little girl thinking I was an honest-to-goodness Disney princess should count for something!

Other honoerable mentions: Catwoman who looked like Anne Hatheway, Bilbo Baggins with fuzzy slippers, Mario-with-exclamation block, probably more.

-Dinner. It was quite the after-con experience. My friend tells it better than I do here, but it involved a group of comic con people descending on a resturant and eating the poor management out of nearly everything in their kitchen. (You can probably guess which if the five I am.)