I have to take notes on paper, or it's completely out of my head. Phone, computer, etc is so ingrained in my day-to-day it becomes lost in an afterthought, so physically jotting stuff down engages my brain in a different (arguably better, for me) way.
It all just seems like a fantastical distraction. This keeps popping up over and ever, and there's never any meat to it. Would be pretty interesting, albeit terrifying, if there was.
"Con crud" is this apparent illness where you cough up gunk. Idk if it tracks regionally but where I was from it was a thing and absolutely terrible.
Also wow, that's great! Hirokatsu Kihara wrote two of the Ghibli movies I recently introduced my partner to!
Yes, I did not approve of said "glomp" and it was super uncool to just leap onto someone. I was too stunned to do much, but other people told them off. It didn't stop them from following me around the con for some time after, but I didn't let that ruin things.
Unfortunately, I did mostly walk around, haha. Actually didn't end up spending too much, as I was part of one of the con's performances, being part of the aforementioned cosplay pair. I ended up befriending a group of people seemingly outta nowhere who invited me back to their hotel (I promise it doesn't get bad lol). They were all using this big room as a sort of hub to meet up, do costume repairs, swap out cosplays as some had 2-3 planned per day. A nice person bought me food and the evening ended with 4-5 of us sitting around on this patio outside the hotel sipping fancy drinks and beers.
It wasn't bad, and I feel like I got to experience people more like me than not. Somehow I didn't get the "con crud" so that's cool.
I've been to a few with friends, although I'll say I'm more of a casual anime dabbler than a full on fan. Normally, I don't much care for social gatherings or large of events of any kind. I found I didn't have much issue with the conventions though, as everyone was really focused on their own things, costumes, interests, etc.
There was one time I went in cosplay with a friend, as a sort of pair. It was not a cosplay I created, but a really well-made loaner. Anyway, while walking down a hallway someone sprinted, running up to me and jumping completely onto my back... clung to me like a wild gibbon or something! I had no idea who they were, what they wanted, and just sort of stood there confused / shocked.
So anyway, that's when I learned what a "glomp" was and that some people get really into the anime characters and stuff. 😅
My very first post on lemmy.world was raided by trolls from an alt-right instance(?). It was not a good experience, and a big reason why I immediately migrated here to beehaw.
I'm a travel-weary drifter from the festering ruins of "that place", where I spent most of my time lurking.
I enjoy herbalism, mycology, bushcraft, botany, nature, and consider myself a student therein. I'm unfortunately pretty timid, and my grasp on language is tenuous at best, but I'm trying to open up more and (hopefully) be a part of a community.
I hope we can all treat each other well and make something neat together.
I know of at least one orange dude that just about nothing has happened to for what... seven years now? So yeah, guess it tracks.