Why No Colossalcon With Friends For Me



This weekend my fellow cosplay and personal friends Taylor and Jenni have departed for a Swimsuit, water parked themed convention in Ohio called Colossalcon. A very well known and popular convention heavily made for the cosplay community. There was a moment a few years back when I was curious and interested on going to something like this, but at the time had no one to go with, or anybody comfortable to be with at a convention like this. But after meeting my "cosplay crew" there was a chance of wanting to go, until a past GF of mine at the time attended Katsucon(one other heavily cosplay convention in Maryland) and Colossalcon just after our break up, ruining my interest of going to any of those Cons. Shoot she almost roomed with my crew even this past year for Katsucon that almost jeopardized my comfortability with my "cosplay crew." But beside this fact, I am just not the one that goes to a convention one weekend after another, back to back. And with the weight of my social anxiety going from Megacon and to Colossal would've been absolutely exhausting and stressful for me. This convention, because its mostly a cosplay themed convention it would consist of many arrogant, annoying, noisy, young kids. Yes I was like that one point in my life but now that I am older and no longer have that strength and motivation I once had as a youngen to party out and meet people I probably wouldn't have lasted one day there, and probably want to go home or rage and fight with people and the little punks. Agreed that all conventions have this kind of scenery, but again for me I don't go to conventions strictly for cosplaying. I go for my friends that I'm close with, dealers room, a panel if theres any good ones, and a convention has high tier guest and artists so that an all around type of people young AND OLD may attend such a convention. That's why cons LIKE Megacon, and Dragoncon are my favorite all around conventions. Colossalcon is definitely not all around which for me is not worth asking off from work, traveling long distance by car, and spending money for. As much as a small part of me would've loved to have spent more time with Taylor and Jenni but overall it isn't the type of con for me. Maybe if I had a significant other who loves cosplaying as much they do...then yea there could've been a possibility but definitely not not this time. This type of con is made for Taylor and Jenni who specifically fell in love with cosplay in cons first before all other things that the con provides, and but on the other side for myself its the other way around, that I've fallen in love with what the con provides in general and then cosplaying secondary. I hope Taylor and Jenni has a good time there.