I'm sorry I didn't write this earlier, I've been a bit lazy and I've also been waiting to see if I could find some photos of one thing during the convention..
Oh well, now on to the con summary.
Okay so me, my twin Jäätynyt Enkeli and Sairu-chan started our trip to Skellefteå on Friday morning. We woke up 07:00 Swedish time and put on our traveling clothes, took all our suitcases and shit with us and mom drove us to Haparanda town where she dropped us at the bus station while herself heading for work. We three sat and waited inside for the bus, which came 08:30. It was a Norrlandskusten bus, it's a nice dark blue double-decker. I think the trip took around 4,5 hours.
My new (internet) friend Ninjah got on the same bus further down but I wasn't sure it was her until we were in Skellefteå bus station and I saw she was wearing her Hajime Saitou (Hakuouki) wig and had two swords wrapped in fabric. xD We all four then found our way to the Skecon building, aka the Efyran.
We got our con bands and soon decided it would be better if we went to the sleeping accommodation place (which was on a class room floor of the nearby school) to dump our luggage and shit. Everyone of us four changed into cosplays there. I cosplayed Falkner, Sairu-chan cosplayed Erika and Jäätynyt Enkeli cosplayed Silver, all from Pokémon. Ninjah cosplayed a hakama version of Saitou from Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan.
We walked back to the con building and walked around a bit. Soon our "original trio" (aka me, my twin and Sairu-chan) found a nice blue painted wall so we decided to take turns and have a photoshoot of our Pokémon cosplays.
Cosplayer: Valkoinen Samurai
Photographer: Jäätynyt Enkeli
We mostly just chilled around and hung together and derped the whole Friday. The con atmosphere was relaxed, cozy and friendly and everyone seemed to have a good time. My favorite chilling place at the con was, without question, the bean bag chairs!! <3
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| "Life's tough being a Pokémon trainer" lol |
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| I tried to take some self-photos just for fun but the (red) lighting was rather bad... |
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| "såskopp" xD |
It reads in Swedish:
"Please!
No shoes in the changing rooms.
It's easier to clean that way."
But someone added "-skopp" to the last word which changed its meaning to:
"It's easier to clean sauce cup"
I found it funny. Even though I think it was made before the convention.
Oh well, we went back to the more main-ish part of the convention and derped some more. Walked around and stuff.. and of course I drank some coke.
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| COCA(INE) COLA :'DD |
METAPOD RAMPAGE!!
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| I don't even |
After the Metapod rampage I got exhausted and went to lie down on my place, on top of a fitness mattress. lol I can't say it was really comfortable.. at all. But it worked.. somehow. After we had finished talking about our cracky ideas like for example what Hijikata would hatch into if he slept overnight in Metapod... rasetsu anyone? XD
By the way this was the first time ever during any con when I slept at the sleeping accomodation place instead of at a hotel or at some friend's/relative's place. In Sweden and Finland anime cons pretty much always organize this budget option for congoers to sleep at some random school's floor or something like that.
Oh, and on the roof close to me there was a paper airplace which had gotten stuck.
Saturday morning came. Me, Jäätynyt Enkeli and Sairu-chan put on normal clothes, took our Hakuouki cosplays with us and walked to the con. We didn't wake up Ninjah because she was sleeping so peacefully. At the con we changed into cosplay because the toilets at the school was too small/narrow to allow for putting on hakama and stuff. I didn't bother to do any hardcore cosplay make-up because the con feeling was not the oh-mai-gawd-look-at-that-cosplayer kind and well, I was lazy.
Most of Sunday me and Sairu-chan just chilled in the bean bag chairs and occasionally wandered around. Actually, soon after we all had changed into Hakuouki cosplays I asked Chizuru (Sairu-chan) if she could braid my wig because.. Hijikata's hair is looooong and I wasn't very keen on having to make sure it doesn't tangle too bad for the whole day. She agreed ~
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| Braiding, braiding.. |
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| My expression.. xD |
I'm really sad I don't have any photos of my time in the dojo because I was there some hours and it was so damn awesome listening to Magnus-sensei's stories from their kendo club's Japan trips (some things which happened them in Japan were hilarious. I laughed so hard I almost cried many times XD) and his "ninja's didn't really exist" speech was very interesting, not to mention he also showed some jodo techniques and some moves with a naginata and stuff. It was so damn cool. We also got to hold this huge shinai and look closer on a sharp iaito katana. Me gusta mucho!!
After I had been there listening and laughing with Magnus-sensei and the other budo guys as well as the congoers who were interested my company came and was like "Hijikata-san we will go eating soon" and so I had to take my leave, haha. I'm sorry they probably waited for me all this time. :$
Oh well, all four of us made our way to the nearby Max - a Swedish hamburger restaurant. We sat in the same table and next to us was a kid family... the kids stared at us so damn much oh my god. But now for some shinsengumi hamburger time feat. Hijikata! 8D
DERP WARNING!
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| Hijikata eating fries! |
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| I just had to put these photos together into a hamburger "comic" XD |
Yah...
Enough of hamburgers.
We went back to the con and waited for the food coma to pass by in the bean bag chairs. That was when I heard an interesting sound coming closer.. it sounded like... geta... and then I saw a dude walk by with tengu geta (one-tooth geta) and I went
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| MOTHER OF GUSTA |
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| I want tengu geta so much!! *grabby hands* |
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| My idol. <3 err maybe not xD |
And in case you have no clue what we are talking about:
(Finnish only!)
(Finnish only!)
Later during the evening maybe 30 minutes or something before the cosplay competition was about to start I noticed Sairu-chan was shaking. She said she was freezing so I gave her my shinsengumi haori. We started walking slowly towards the second floor where the cosplay competition was to be held and while sitting on a couch up there a man came and asked if we were going to compete. I said that we weren't and then he said something about that we couldn't be there because the competitors were practicing how to walk on the scene and stuff. I think I asked if we could sit there because Chizuru wasn't feeling good and he then asked if we wanted to go to the con's health care. The "con nurse" came and led us up the stairs to his little health care room. He asked some questions and gave Sairu-chan a warm blanket-ish thing and told her to take it easy and drink water because she had some temporary fever. When the cosplay competition started it got noisy so we migrated over to the first floor's café where it was calmer. Me and Sannan-san tried our best to keep her company and comfort her.
Luckily her fever seemed to go away (or at least her forehead wasn't hot anymore) after a while and she said she felt much better; the shaking had gone away. It was a relief. Now we did miss the actual cosplay competition but I don't really mind.. my friend's well-being is more important. <3
After Chizuru had recovered it was my turn to derp. I started feeling my breathing was fucking up slightly and I just generally felt a bit.. dizzy.
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| Empty coke bottle storage.. |
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| I was tired.. and le wig is a mess |
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| "Fuck this shit, it's hot here" *takes off haori* |
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| Chilling together |
And then the obligatory self-photos...
Soon after these photos we three changed back to normal gear and went to sleep. We had decided to not go to the con on Sunday because it ended early anyway and if we took the bus home on the morning we would be back home before it got dark. So on Sunday we woke up, packed our belongings and left while everyone else in the class room were sleeping. We headed to the Skellefteå bus station.
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| I saw this Skecon poster on the bus station's bulletin board thingy <3 |
I'm wearing my Saitou wig because of (really) bad hair day. I noticed some people gave me dem looks. Oh, and the bus driver said to me after Sairu-chan had gone into the bus (she was wearing her Ciel wig) "oh, you also have such cool colored hair. Why have you colored it like that? :D" and I was all
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| Because it was a wig and he thought it was my real hair.. |
Oh well. We got home and the trip was successful. I hope there will be more Skecon events in the future.
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-Warning. Rant ahead-
Except that I got offended by some few people during the con who would call me "she" and when I or my friends corrected them by saying I'm a "he" (transgender) they would insist on correcting me.
I'm the one who knows myself the best. No one else has the right to define who and what I am, except myself. It's not my damn fault I'm born in the wrong body (and have yet to correct that mistake, I'm on my way though) so please understand or at the very least accept that not everyone and everything is what it might look like at first glance. If I correct you don't insist on correcting me, that's rude. You might not think it's a big deal but it's my identity in question and that is a big deal for me, I'm pretty damn sure no one wants to be mixed up with the gender they don't identify with. I want to have a right to be who I am and not be misgendered all the damn time. I've had to deal with it 19 years so you can guess how fed up with that shit I am by now. I just want to be seen as the person I really am.. is that too much to ask?
Of course I understand if someone who doesn't know me uses the wrong pronouns and stuff when they first meet me, but, after I correct them and they don't do those mistakes again it's fine. But. If they still insist on calling me the wrong gender after that then... they piss me off with their ignorance, very much. It's painful; I'm sick of being taken for something I am not and have never ever been. I'm a guy at heart. Thank you. /end rant