Icon 24: First Impressions
Sara as Arwen
It's hard to explain a "con" to someone who hasn't been there. Conventions, particularly ones where cosplayers are in abundance, are safari's for people watchers. There are people of every shape, size, persuasion, sociability, and dress, all crammed into one geeky place together. It's incredible to watch the interactions, and fun to be part of them yourself.
This year, I volunteered to help with the con because I like to be active and busy (and I got a free ticket out of it), but I felt a bit like Steve Irwin jumping into a (geeky) crocodile swamp.
"Well, I've just subdued the angrusgeek, he was a really fiesty fell.. OH WOW, lookit that, ova there is a particularly rare breed - the bifurcated gothling! She's nearly cut in half by that corset, and you've just got to wonder where her organs are. I imagine it's only a matter of time before a swarm of hornigeeks start to... Oh look, here they come."This year, we decided to join in the fun and actually cosplayed ourselves. It was a lot of fun to put together the costumes over the past few months, and theres something wonderfully validating about being told that some thing looks "amazing" when you've worked really hard on it.
I'll be doing some more "side by side" shots in the coming posts so that you can see what people were going for with their costumes, but for now, you can flip through the truckload of pictures here.
