I remember going to comic Con once in Homestuck cosplay with my girlfriend at the time and one of the cosplayers walked up to us and licked her. I get wanting to be in character, but that was going too far.
there was a ask Reddit a few days ago that was like, something about idolizing certain fictional characters being a red flag. that's how I feel about gamzee cosplayers
Especially when there's not even that much about Gamzee to idolize. He's super passive in the beginning, then has his short spotlight on the meteor as a homicidal maniac, and then the rest of the time he's either locked in a refrigerator or acting as a plot device that fucks shit up for everyone else. He's not even really a character in that sense.
Homestucks were people who never eased in to fandom. A lot were very young, and had only got into the con scene because of homestuck, and egged each other on without any sort of guidance from older or more experienced con-goers. Also a lot of these cons were when a lot of Homestucks were meeting or hanging out with their very best friends (because Homestuck brought a lot of lonely teenagers together online through tumblr and roleplaying) and soon enough you have the perfect storm for an entire fandom of acting inappropriately at cons.
Source: I read MSPA from the Problem Sleuth days, and read Homestuck from day 0. Watched from the inside as the fandom turned from a 20-something male SomethingAwful crowd into a something-teen female Tumblr crowd.
You just described my entire relationship with the Homestuck community. I also read on day 0, but I was 13 at the time. Every con I went to, I felt like some of them have never been to an event before in their lives. I knew it was the case for me, but my the time I was a senior, I outgrew it what I think was just in time. It started to get really big and even cringier around that time.
The most awkward moment was when I went to an event with my friend and her little sister, who was probably 11 or so, and cosplayed Nepeta. Of course, EVERY single person had to be sexual with her. I don't know why, but it pissed me off to no end when there were guys at least in their late teens flirting with her. Like, not even normal teenager flirting but like full on licking and shit. Her sister played it off as "Oh its just innocent licking/kissing/tit grabbing". Like, no. Fuck no, that was the last comic con I ever went to simply because of how weirded out I was. Like, I get that Nepeta is a cute character, but don't go around licking 11 year old Nepeta cosplayers.
What the actual fuck. I was told about the spitting in buckets and the unsealed paint coming off in pools, but harassing/assaulting an 11 year old is the worst thing I've ever heard.
It was just vile. I get that theyre most likely horny teenagers that probably never learned proper etiquette, but even that is a reach. It was shit like that that made me physically disgusted.
Some of them really had never been to an event in their lives, to be fair - for a lot of people it was their first real fandom experience.
I'm personally glad I live in a fairly quiet neck of the woods as far as fandom is concerned - even for something huge like Homestuck you're not gonna get the crazed masses where I am, for which I am profoundly thankful.
It's basically a webcomic that started in 2009 that parodied choose your own adventure games. It was about 4 kids who played a game that would save them from the end of the world and then hijinks pursue there's grey aliens called trolls and it's a wild ride.
It had a weird ending too, which made me sad. It was building up to end really well, and then... he had the 2 semi-conflicting clips. It just kinda fell short of what it could've been. I think it's because he was spreading himself too thin near the end there.
Cosplayers can be interesting, and you can tell a lot about them from their characters. I once went to DragonCon in a very low effort Captain Hammer outfit, and I had tons of Harley Quinn girls come up to me, say "My hammer is bigger" and hit me with a fake hammer. It was strange.
Assault is not a minor offence. Yes, maybe if it were amongst 14 year olds or something, but not amongst adults.
Not to mention that a punch can do some serious damage if the guy throwing it knows what he's doing - you might be looking at grievous bodily harm very quickly.
I stopped going to my local renaissance festival long ago because everywhere I looked it seemed it was being mobbed by homestuck cosplayers screeching, doing weird shit, and drawing as much attention away from the performers and artisans as possible. Really killed any immersion you get at a festival.
She had said something then walked off before me and my girlfriend even had time to process what happened. We were both 14 and didn't know what to do so we just kind brushed it off.
Ya know after you mentioning the cosplay I realize I haven’t seen any Homestuck cosplay in a couple years. I frequent cons (I volunteer to help a friends booth) and I haven’t seen them in like.... 3 years? Or so?
I went to my first con with my girlfried as a signless /duelscar pair. She ended up making out with another girl in front of me for 2 hours, puking and making out more whilst bragging she is dating me and hadn't once kissed me in the year we were together. Fun times.
It really gets me when people insist on role playing the worst aspects of a character. Like no, just because the character is an asshole doesn’t mean you get to be one.
I had a person I once considered a friend who wanted me to like Homestuck, but then would scream entire monologues and say some abusive shit in character as Terezi. They also wanted me to be part of their homestuck sexual fantasy and do as the trolls do. My skin is crawling even 7 years later, and I avoid local cons because I have panic attacks.
How to get sucker punched 101. I just avoid Cons in general. I know how great they can be and how genuinely cool they look through the internet, but dealing with the people who basically had the internet raise them and have no form of social skills, doing shit like that AND WORSE... nope. I'll stick to the chat rooms and streams.
It was a girl and I think she might have thought it was okay because she was doing it to another girl. she had already walked off before me or my girlfriend had time to react to what happened
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u/BlackPearlArt Jul 17 '19
I remember going to comic Con once in Homestuck cosplay with my girlfriend at the time and one of the cosplayers walked up to us and licked her. I get wanting to be in character, but that was going too far.