/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Honestly just looking foward to the next con there are plenty of cons in California but anime and comic cons

>>9936819
I'm usually occupied with the hangover and attempting to figure out why and what merch I bought.

>walked so much it feels like my toe is broken
>Work an industrial job where I'm standing all day
Kill me

It helps if you have a healthy balanced life and don't use anime as an escape from your personal problems.

>>9936893
This is why I always plan my vacations around cons. Give myself a couple of days after to recover fully.

>>9936819
I usually jerk off with a loaded gun in my mouth and a noose tied around my neck. Then I order fast food and go to sleep.

>>9936819
Look through photos/albums as people share them, go through my merch, go through my own photos, and chat with con buddies to share stories and review how the con went.

Con depression is no joke. It hits real hard sometimes.

>>9937217
>Con depression is no joke. It hits real hard sometimes.
>was perfectly fine after and on the way to work
>get into work and the first thing a coworker does is crawl up my ass about something I left out Thursday that inconvenienced them for literally ten seconds the next day while I was off at the con
>I was even explicitly told not to touch the thing and leave it alone for someone else to deal with by the owner
That's when I wanted to go back.

>>9937201
Isn't that a little overkill?
Surely doing it with an exit bag would make it more interesting because of the time limit

>>9936819
The thing is I can't deal with post con depression. The last con I went to hit the hardest as it took a month to recover from it. It was really sad because I relied I will probably never see the people I met there ever again or ever meet anyone like them outside of the con.

>>9936819
why do i feel like cons are the only place to meet people my age nowadays. is everyone in their early 20s just socially awkward?

>>9936949
>have a healthy balanced life
Welcome to 4chan my friend this sort of life is rare.

I will never understand post-con depression. As much as I enjoy cons and all that goes into them, they are honestly just so overwhelming by the end of it all to the point that I feel like I need a vacation from what should be a vacation of sorts.

Do so many people really rely on a con or two for so much of their social interaction needs or is post-con depression caused from something else? I just don’t quite understand.

mostly what I do is I try to go all days of the con so that by the last day, my body is exhausted and I'm yearning to get home, thats how I stave off the pcd for the most part, though the immediate pcd isnt the big problem for me, its during the late December and January times far away from my main con that I go to where I absolutely crave to be back at animenext, my main con of the year.

another way to handle pcd would be to start preparing for another con, build new cosplays, make plans with other people for cons.

one last thing I would do would be to get with other people who are into the con and anime culture, currently I'm trying and hoping to go out for kakroke in Manhattan later this month with a friend group I met at animenext, so getting with likeminded congoers would help.

>>9936949

>if you have a healthy balanced life and don't use anime as an escape from your personal problems.

>>9937410

you should really get peoples contacts and social media from cons more often anon

No time for Post-con depression when Rise of the Beast is ongoing in GBF

>>9936819
I can't be depressed... not after finding out that Broly is now officially canon

>>9937790
I have a pretty active social life outside of cons. The problem is that I'm so normie outside of cons/the internet. I have a normal office job. My friends look like the group of friends you'd see on a commercial. Their hobbies are Netflix, eating out, and shopping, which I love myself. It's just that I'm missing friends who are into all of the other things I'm into. My friends don't ridicule me at all and they've even tried getting into anime themselves. Every once in a while, we'll all watch an anime series on Netflix together and that's really nice, but it's never enough. Cons give me that something more and that's what I miss.

I used to be a congoer and never got post con depression, not once. I don't want to make anyone else feel like crap, but I'm really interested to know what causes it. I want someone to tell me what I missed, because I do feel like I missed a lot.

My usual thing at a con was to go to a few panels, check out the artist alley, see if there are interesting guests, meet up with a few friends and go for food, and then come back if there's anything on in the evening.

Cons are exhausting, and the last thing I want to do at the end of a day is go back. Maybe I'm just an oldfag now, but there's nothing I miss outside of those activities. Kids and tweens sitting on the floor in the hallway screaming and trying to do ~uwu lewd!~ stuff of whatever characters they went as, fat gatekeeping nerds with no concept of personal space or social etiquette, overpriced food (we'd always go elsewhere for it), bootleg shit in the dealer room. I went out of habit, so I stopped and I haven't really missed it much.

The people? There's always facebook, instagram, whatsapp, tumblr, whatever you use. You can always keep in touch even if they're far away, they're not necessarily gone forever.
The merch? If it's not overpriced, it's probably bootleg.
The showings? Usually the anime of the year everyone has already seen.
The guests? Dub voice actors, and I don't mean to be snooty but unless it's a childhood anime (Pokémon, Dragonball, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors/CCS), few people watch dubs.

I don't mean to be a downer. I get why anime conventions would have been exciting before the internet was as fast, vast, and accessible as it is now, but outside of cosplaying I don't see the draw anymore.

>>9938261
You're not obligated to post in threads you know.

>>9938279
I just want to know what I did wrong. Sorry for the wall of text.

>>9938261
For some people, having a stretch of consistently high/happy emotions then having to return to the grind of life can make them depressed. I don't think anyone here wants to go to a convention forever, it's just the contrast of having a lot of fun somewhere then returning to regular duties. It's like being dissapointed coming home after a vacation. I have an ok life and I still feel bummed out when I come home from a con.
>>9938024
>going from postcon depression to no-drops-hell depression
Good idea

>>9938261
The atmosphere has a lot to do with it.

At least, the one large con I always attend is Anime North (inb4 AN sucks and I haven't lived life) and it just feels magical. The hotel lobby packed with resting cosplayers. Seeing people review merch. Eating onigiri. Rushing across the street and walking through a bustling parking lot, packed with cosplayers, people posing and people taking photos. There's so many of "us" in one place and just idk, I feel so happy and carefree and high on emotions all weekend. It's just really nice.

And then you go back to the real world where people aren't wearing wacky shit and waving nerd pride flags so to speak and people are mean and everything suck so emotions crash down and post con depression hits.

>>9938981
literally this. born, raised, work in los angeles. just finished AX and driving on the way to work, i felt so fucking down, like i got dropped into some different universe that i am not really a part of.

>>9938261
>The people? There's always facebook, instagram, whatsapp, tumblr, whatever you use.
But I don't like social media, all of my current friends I keep in touch through phone/text and I'd prefer future friends to be the same (actual friends and not just "followers")

Eat chocolate and have a meal with protein in it (preferably red meat). Ask off not only the weekend of the con but the days after so I can recover and be sad in the comfort of my home.

>>9942931
That’s what I’m going to do next year.
>put one day of PTO the day before I left for AX
>the day I left for the trip back, the traffic was just so unbearable, I had to sleep for the entire road trip
>my snoring pissed off my friends
>get back to my city and dropped back home
>immediately take a halfassed shower
>put on my AX shirt since all my clothes from the trip are dirty
>immediately went straight to work
Never again for AX 2019

A large 3-topping pizza and an almost lethal dose of cold meds as I try to recover from con flu.

>>9938260
I guess I can kind of understand that even though maybe I’m just not normie enough to fully get it. I like being with both my normie and non-normie friends, they can either hang out together or I can find time to do things with them separately. But I guess it also helps that my non-normie friends still have very normie interests alongside their weeb fuckery.

Are your weeb friends not local to you, anon?

What about pre-con depression? I always feel like I'm not going to have fun at conventions and it stresses me out. I keep going to cons but they're not really that great or that bad.

>>9943285
Pre con depression for me is trying to make sure I survive the final few days of work before going to (insert con here).

>>9936819
I go straight to work on my cosplay for next con. Seeing everyone’s passion and craftsmanship at the con inspires me to get working for like a week after.

I don't really get Post-con depression anymore since I keep in touch with some of my weeb friends. Now, I do however, get post-con fatigue.

>>9937426
it's not as rare as you think. The people I room with have normal jobs and normal social lives and just come here occasionally to look up cosplay tuorials

i like post con depression because it helps me lose weight

Anyone get the post con depression not after the con but months after the con dead in the middle of winter, i hate that shit

>>9943285

Pre con depression for me is realizing I only have so much time during the weekend and im going to face post con depression after the con is over

>>9945538
that sounds like normal depression

>>9936819
Post con depression during work isn’t such a big deal if you got weebs at your job, too bad it’s as rare as getting a localization for Yo-Kai Watch 3.