/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

that picture looks totarry unrelated

UK loli. Love my comm, full of the nicest, best dressed girls around. Really lovely.

>>7135616
Illinois here. Horrible. Community just got thousands of dollars stolen from it by a psycho girl.

Former Chicago lolita. No comment.

I've just moved to the UK for school though, so I'm excited about the comm here.

My comm has a handful of well dressed girls and we've been overrun by cosplayers and "models" who think Bodyline is a brand.

>yfw this is your comm

Most of it is 3 bullies, abusive friends who manipulate and control people and shit on them, and their cronies. I can't wait to move out of this small town after I lost a good friend to the biggest bitch a SECOND time. So done with it here.

Mostly younger girls in my community. I wish we could have a decent meet but half the girls usually flake at the last minute.

>>7135768
Oh god, I just joined this comm on Facebook, should I run away now?

>>7135769
This isn't denver is it?

Milwaukee lolita! Everyone is super friendly and we always get stragglers from around the state at various meetups. Most of us are in our twenties or older. We also carpool to Chicago for bigger meetups. (The good part about joining comms is to join in on group orders and save on shipping.)

>>7135710

Where in the UK, friend?

>>7135837
Ah nope, think super small logging town community lol

AZ here. Comm is pretty great, every couple months or so we get a wave of new girls who are either ita as fuck and not looking to improve who eventually disappear from the comm, or (and there are significantly fewer of these) girls who show a sincere interest in growing and participating in the community and end up becoming well-liked regulars.

As for the regulars themselves, they're all sweet, helpful, and they don't really gossip, though that's not to say there isn't some talk when someone does something frustrating or says something stupid. But no one is picked on, and we have a great mod team. I love you bitches, stay fab.

How's Leeds? I might be moving there next month for school, and I'd love to make some loli friends. I'm only a beginner myself and only have a tiny wardrobe, though, so I'm a bit worried about not fitting in with an established lolita community.

>>7136970
I'm not in the Leeds comm but know a few girls in it, they all seem pretty friendly to me.

>>7136970
The Leeds girls are absolutely lovely! They're very friendly and welcoming, no matter how well dressed you are. Don't worry at all about having a small wardrobe or being a beginner.

>>7135657
>best dressed
>all wearing hijabs
hail Britannia

I'd rather not say where I am specifically, but I'm from a mid-sized city in Canada. I've been part of many different communities and this is easily the best one I have ever taken part of. The comm is surprisingly big, 5-15 people usually come to the meets every month, with 30 or so total active members. Everyone is very nice, there is no drama or grumpy members. We can even have proper discussions on replicas and other controversial things without it turning into an argument or anyone getting insulted. There aren't any major 'fakeness' with anyone either.
I'm really happy to be part of my local comm.

>>7135769
Not Australian are you???

>>7137073
>>7137074

I'm not in leeds, but I travel to see them sometimes, they are a lovely lot and quite active! :)

>>7135927
>AZ Comm
>Regulars don't really gossip

Not in front of you apparently.

Seattle comm here. It's rather large, so sub-groups sort of form within smaller meetups, but they're pretty organic. I haven't actually seen any interpersonal drama within the comm. The members are mostly well-dressed. We also have one designer who runs an indie brand, il Sangue. She used to be based in Texas; so glad we got to steal her.

>>7137117
nope

I just moved from Colorado, but our (I still consider it "my comm") community is extremely welcoming, fairly well-dressed, and very fun. We have pretty much zero drama (we joke around saying we get our fill by reading other people's drama here), and what does appear is squelched quickly.
Definitely join the Facebook group!

>>7137117

Ha! I thought the same anon.
What city were you thinking of?

when browsing the Catalog, i feel like skipping this thread because of OP's macro. but then i remember it's a lolita thread and open it after wasting 2 seconds on confusion

anyway my community is great once you take away the hyper, underage sweet lolitas who ruin meets by incessantly squealing over anime and speaking in broken nihongo. but they are all nice girls at heart, and tolerate the gothic and classic members without incident.

pic related. OP should have used this image instead. no one has used it recently, and it's the best.

>tfw no communities in the Inland Empire area of SoCal
brb sudoku

>>7137154
You sound upset for some reason.

My definition of "gossiping" might vary from yours, but I think of it as twisting facts or intentionally misinterpreting events in order to stir up drama. Just discussing things that actual people actually did is not gossiping. It can turn into gossiping if it goes down the "I heard she bought 50 dicks on ebay and sucked them all" route, but if it's just "christ can you believe this bitch is defending milanoo?", "yeah well what do you expect from someone who says that Bodyline is too expensive" (THIS SCENARIO IS IMAGINARY AND MADE UP FOR AN EXAMPLE), that's not gossip, that's discussion. I've never known any of the inner circle to be anything but tactful and generous when it comes to drama. Actually, the most sniping and rude of the group are the girls who barely wear the fashion and feel insecure about it.

>>7137986
is octavekitten as big an attentionwhore as her facebook postings make her seem? i don't know if she's very active in the seattle comm, but she seems give off that "ooh I'm super edgy, must be the center of attention!" vibe.

>moved recently to Southern California
>excited for new community and new friends

>absolutely terrified and have bad experience with lolitas in previous area

>saw them being bitches online and am now terrified

what are they really like? I've heard they were nice but I just saw their behavior online and it was just.. ech

>>7138163
Go away Nia

>>7135869
Sorry for getting back to you so late... My friends wanted me to try playing League of Legends, but I have a macintosh, so running such a thing on my computer takes a lot of fussing and fighting.
Dundee, Scotland.
I like it a lot, but back in Chicago I was spoiled with many, many giant fabric stores (I make my own clothes), and here there's hardly any of that.
I'm here for school, but postgrad schedule is kind of strange, so for the next few weeks I have lots of time for activities outside of school. There's a lot to do here though, so it's all right!
I'm already in the facebook group here as well.

NE Lolita here. I know two Lolitas our here IRL but the FB and LJ comms are dead. At first I was really sad about it being so inactive but as time has passed I've grown not to mind so much since I'm a terrible "online Lolita" and mostly just dress up as it suits me. i.e. Lolita at the grocery store weirdo here. Hope you enjoy your new community, OP.

>>7138163
Yes yes we're a bunch of cunts. Don't join our comm. We don't need your sorry ass whining at meetups or fucking up our dynamic with your dramu. Anyone who says they had a "bad experience" with their previous comm is obviously a needy speshul snowflaek who is in fact the problem. Gtfo.

>>7138016
oh wow, where did you move to? How did you like living in Colorado? I have a few interviews there so it's looking like a real possibility right now!

>>7138165
who the fuck is this? The SoCal comm is awesome, I don't know what her problem is.

>>7138141
different seattle anon here. lolitas online always make things more dramatic than they really are, i mean seriously overboard and hyperbolic whenever they can. i have met her once and she never gave off such a vibe to me, she was like any other person. she isnt stuck up as people make her out to be.

>>7138135
More like state! QLD!

You really have no room to talk about others behavior online. You literally cannot make one post without saying how horrible your old comm was. And you wonder why you get negative comments from other lolitas, that's not how you make friends dude.

And I dropped the damn link

>>7138163
See
>>7138242

I love my comm! It's quite small (about 6 of us right now) but everyone's so lovely! Granted around four of them are about 16, but I've found my lolita twin in my comm. We get on like a house on fire, and discovered our taste and dream dresses is exactly the same~

We're having our first 'proper' meet in a few weeks time where all of us can attend, and I can't wait.

My comm planned a meet this Sunday for a show, then another girl in the same comm suddenly created her own meet on the same Sunday for tea at a cafe. The second girl said in her post that everyone is welcome to the tea but she made the event friends only and hasn't accepted my friend request. Don't know if I should still go for the show. I've been to a few meets but made no actual friends. Maybe they hate me.

>>7138240

Omg yes. I'm not even part of the community but yes.

>>7136970
Leeds Loli Here, we don't judge people on the wardrobe they have or how new they are to the fashion so don't worry.

If you join our fb group you can start talking to us, were all really open to new people who are up for a laugh. We have at least 1 or 2 meets a month so plenty of excuses for frillie shenanigans

I just joined a new comm and most of them seem lovely from what I've seen online but one of them is clearly batshit. The comm is one for girls from two cities and she moved all the meets to facebook so she could just invite the girls from her own city without the girls from the other city knowing, then when they complained, said she didn't care if they came to her meets or not anyway. Now she's telling people they can't arrange their own meets in her city in the thread she made for meets there, because she 'owns' those meets and they only count as official if made by herself and her crony. Just flat out said 'if it isn't arranged by me it doesn't count' and told her to go make her own thread. The worrying thing is that she seems to be head of that half of the comm, so I think I'll stay well away.

>>7138341
what in the even?? :/ ego much!

>>7135657
I first read >full of incest
my comm is quite divided, and most of it is full of petty, high school drama; not even worth it, it's not even entertaining, just annoying to hell and back. I don't exactly go to public meets because it's a mix of well dressed, normal girls and obnoxious, weird itas, aside from the drama llamas and a few of fucking crazy cunts that think they're god's gifts from heaven. Thankfully I have a group of cool lolita friends to dress up and do loli things with.

>>7138384
wow how do I fuck up greentext.

>>7138364
Yeah... not a good sign. It can't possibly be as awkward and autistic as my old comm though so oh well.

My comm has nice meets and overall friendly people but our Facebook is a mess. We have two FB comms and one used to be closed, so it was nice while the other had weebs and high school noobs running rampant. Then someone opened the good one and now it's been mostly overrun by the weebs and noobs and some old lady who doesn't know how to use a keyboard.

>>7138240
Aww I met up with them a few times and they were nice then. I had met some of the newer less famous members aswell but they were really nice, I did also meet a few of the ones that often have secrets about them.

Also not all of QLD is bad, if I remember right I think there was a small group of Gold Coast loli's who are nice. Some with very impressive wardrobe.

>>7138208
I just moved to Oregon.
I hated Colorado as a state, simply because I'm not at all an outdoorsy person (Denver I like though - there's other stuff to do there) and the weather drove me crazy and made me physically ill (2 feet of snow one day, 80 and super sunny the next - no exaggeration). But I get sun poisoning (the sun is very strong there due to the elevation) and grew up somewhere with no seasons other than rainy and dry, so my body couldn't handle it at all.
If you like outdoor things and can handle the temperature changing drastically daily, none of that will bother you. I just wasn't built for Colorado haha.

But like I said - the lolita community there is fantastic and probably a half dozen are reading this right now lol.

>>7138240
Any word on the Sunshine Coast? Probably moving there next year

>>7138425
LOL implying that QLD has "Famous" members
They're all fat as fuck and retarded.

>>7140026
They aren't all fat nor retarded, a few of the first Australian lolitas are still in the QLD comm others moved. Some of them are well known to people in the Australian and international scene. Although it seems like the Sydney and Adelaide comms have more 'famous' members.

I don't understand your hate anon.

>>7140026
>>7138425
>>7140115
Change famous to "infamous"...A great portion of Australian lolitas are widely known to either be massive trolls, mega cunts or plain retards.

>>7140144
Some are known for their wardrobe and co-ordination skills or films but I do understand your point. There are some fantastic 'un known' lolitas in Australia, too imo.

>>7138403
Which comm?

>>7135710
Hey where in the uk have you moved to?

>>7140172
NC

>>7135773
High schoolers?
/cgl warned me of their danger before I joined my local comm but I had a good laugh when I found out the members were pretty much all older.

>>7138272
Are you in QLD or a different state?

>>7135616
The CO comm is nice. It seems that not many folks outside of CO are aware of the comm-- but we mostly try to steer clear of online drama, which is why. There is a facebook page you can join if you want. Meets happen every so often, but a lot of the members are spread out across the state. Most of the meets take place in/around the Denver or Colorado Springs area, on average. If you don't have a car, it's definitely harder to get around. Most of the members who attend meets regularly are well dressed and polite.

>>7138242
I haven't been to a comm meetup before?
I think you are confusing me with someone else.
I moved from CT if that will help clarify things

I haven't had a chance to see what my local comm is like, just because I am a complete beginner and I'd like to actually have a co-ord assembled before I go to a meet, but...

>>7137087
...that is exactly how someone described the comm to me. I also live in a mid sized city in Canada. It's not the one with "lots of trees," is it?

>>7140253

QLD. I don't associated with the community whatsoever.

>>7138141
She's pretty nice actually. I'm pretty shy at gatherings but she would go out of her way to help me with my order at a tea place.

What I don't understand is the amount of ravers in my lolita comm, I just don't think the two styles relate very well?

>>7140837
I can only assume you're in my comm. They are ravers who like lolita, so they like the look of the combination of styles. It's essentially just deco-sweet.

>>7140766
They aren't all bad. It'd best to just kind of lurk for a bit and get to know who the cray ones are before you befriend anyone.

>>7138141
>>7138231
Seattle op here; I agree, octavekitten is normal in person. I actually met her before I knew about the fashion having a large online community, much less that “e-famous lolitas" were a thing. She and one other person in the community have been targets in behind-the-bows, but the bad behavior that they are accused of have never, ever manifested in real life get-togethers.

However, there is one strange person who does try to bring in online shit into real life. There is a lady over 50 (maybe 60) who seems to have a mental disorder. She rarely shows up, though. I saw her in passing at last year's winter IRD in a Christmas-themed dress, bragging that she didn't have to pay $10 for its materials. (We like good handmade, but hers was not it.) Later other Seattle lolitas who were at her table complained that she was talking about the local lolita who committed suicide, and this was long after the fact and they had already finished grieving. Maybe it was her attempt at trying to talk about something in common with the rest of us... but yeah, it looks like she has stopped coming.

>>7138139
Feel you I.E. Anon, feel you. Are you unable to go to the meet ups around Irvine & L.A.?

>>7138163
Wait what? What group were you looking at? I joined the Orange county comm and haven't seen any negative behavior out of them. They've been open and helpful as far as I can tell.

>>7142290
I know who you're talking about. I have a feeling I know who you are...
Yeah, she definitely made everyone uncomfortable and I'm glad she no longer shows up.

>>7135768
>>7135774
Ooooooh sounds familiar.

You both Aussies by any chance?

>>7142468
She rarely ever came to meets before, so I wouldn't be surprised if she ended up showing for another at some point.

does anyone live in north carolina?

>>7142646
Which comm are you thinking of?

>>7143009
Perth.

>>7143001
I do!

>>7143133
I noticed the influx of cosplayers as well but most of these newbies aren't even active anyway.
We're bound to double in numbers again though if the Waicon show goes ahead.

>>7143135
what's it like?

How's the Austin Comm?

>>7144827
Really awesome from an outsiders view. I'm from the Dallas comm but I'm in their group and I'm always eyeing their meetups

>>7144817
Are you asking about the state or the comm?

I've only been to like 2 very small informal meets (I'm talking like 4 people)

I was talking with an online buddy about local comms and she claims that the Vancouver community is elitist.

Confirm or bust myth? So I can report back to her.

I like the ATL Comm. Everyone seems really sweet, and I haven't been told to stay away from anyone... There are some really pretty girls there!

>>7144871
the comm
what did you think?

>>7146712
It was nice. The girls I met were friendly, but again I didn't go to a large meetup so I can't speak for the comm on a whole