/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9992802
Not those anons, but at least for me personally AA just reminds me of my crushing loneliness. My art is popular so there is constant traffic and sales, but if I'm alone at the table no one will stay to talk or hang out. If my friend is helping out or sharing a table with me, the whole duration there will be people chatting there. I guess I'm just not as easily approachable, but man it does feel a bit shit to talk with people all weekend and then remember they were actually there for someone else.
But obviously, different people will have different experiences and views on the subject. Not everyone is good at making friends, and not everyone even wants them.

>>9740630
>I'm tired of all the queers trying to turn conventions into gay pride parades
Fucking this. I'm gay myself, but it's not my whole personality and no one would ever know unless they asked. Acceptance is a good thing, but I just can't stand the glorification of all things queer and how everything has somehow to be turned into it, I just want to be able to live life normally without being shunned OR glorified based on who I'm attracted to. Being queer doesn't automatically make someone a good person and thinking that way is just asking for trouble when a rotten apple comes along.
Slightly related but I hate how sexualised all "representation" these days is. In the first place I don't understand people who hype a series based solely on how ~diverse~ the cast is, but even more I hate it when gay characters are portrayed as some physical manifestation of lust like that's the only part that comes with loving someone and these series are then glorified for being sooo progressive and best ever because of muh gay otp.

Sage for OT I just really really needed to rant about this since everyone around me irl is so fucking ~accepting~ and ~progressive~ they'd claim I'm actually straight if they heard this.

I really want friends (or just a friend) who appreciate(s) jfashion. Someone with whom I could get dressed up and take photos, go out to events, talk about outfits and purchases, etc. My best friend is great, but she's not interested herself and lives 1000+ miles away.
Our comm is a decent size, but it's spread out across the state. I've only gone to a couple of meet ups, and although I had fun, I never really connected with anyone.
I struggle to make close friends in general; it sucks. In a shallow sense, I find many people agreeable, and I think people would say the same of me. But at a deeper level, I frankly find most people unattractive and have an incredibly hard time connecting with them.
Most people sap the energy right out of me.
Then, if by some stroke of luck, they don't, I have no idea how to transition the friendship from good acquaintance level to friend level as an adult.

Basically I suck at making friends and am doomed to be forever alone in my weeb wear.