Obviously, it helped that this was the first time Awesomely Bad had BEEN at AWA for quite a few years, but still. Any time we find out there’s a room full of people who don’t realize what they’re about to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mean, for all I know, there might have been SOME Digimon cosplayers meeting up with each other SOMEWHERE in the vast, sprawling expanse of the Washington Convention Center, but nobody ever told me about it. But that’s not what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, of COURSE we wore the Manos ponchos at Awesomely Bad again. Why would we possibly NOT do that? By the way, the AMV Theater was in a completely different room than any of the previous times I was in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just saying, out of all of Shoujo Rock Heaven, the single biggest pop of the whole panel was for a keytar solo. Like, by a VERY wide margin. Also, it’s a reference to “Unbreakable Wings” by FATE GEAR, if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, just to be clear, most cons that know what they’re doing deliberately enforce a buffer zone between the end of one panel and the beginning of the next one, specifically to ensure that the host of the next panel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, let’s be clear that I’ve seen FAR weirder scheduling in my time, including for panels I was actually on. Also, this was far from the first time Awesomely Bad had been scheduled for just one hour. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, just to be clear, it’s not so much that the con just didn’t realize that panels might need sound AT ALL. Rather, the plan seems to have been for panelists to just plug straight into the speakers in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fun Fact: The notes for just about all these ConCONcon pages actually came from REAL cons I’ve been to since lockdowns eased up, so I’m not COMPLETELY making this up off the top of my head. I just realized that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I need to make these two statements one right after the other, because leaving one to hang on its own without the other to provide context would end up being very misleading: 1. I was more BORED during Cosplay[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did indeed get the picture after the panel was over, but I’d have to go digging through my Twitter feed to find it… and I’m posting this right after mowing the lawn, so I don’t have the energy to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…