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   Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair. (gear@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:14 JST Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair.
   This is an extremely long post but will also double as a Community Impressions Post and how I feel about the over all direction of where we're going as an over all group.
   
   
   So I survived a 72 hour murder shift where I literally did not fucking sleep and was bitched out by my wife for not sleeping while inducing a fatal amount of ego death.
   
   Thursday :
   
   Extremely fucking tiring. Getting out of Columbus was fine but I was kind of pissed that priority boarding for first class was instead replaced with an extremely cucked and bourgeois system known as Clear, where only the filthy rich and pozzed can get through fast. It was fine until I realized I wasn't able to fucking eat until I got to Texas due to the only food place being opened, a fucking StarBucks taking fucking forever due to every normie wanting a smoothie at 4 AM in the morning. Atlanta Hub was bullshit. We got delayed on our arrival by like 20 minutes due to Monsoon season and it resulted in literally 10 minutes where Jugnel and I had to run through the entirity of fucking Atlanta to get to our flight. Day Drinking begins at 7 in the morning because I had already lost all control of my life. We get to Austin, get the car, and then realize that now that we're DRIVING and not fucking taking a Lyft everywhere that the road system is extremely good on paper, but extremely retarded in practice. Like the city was fucking made by some retard who played Cities skylines once, forgot that Diamond Interchanges are extremely useful for a high volume city.
   
   Anyways, so after wandering through HEBS and taking multiple pictures of Manmade Consumable horrors, we attempted to go to a Hookah Cafe only to find out that it only exists in name only. So we checked in early, and found out that our room got upgraded to a much more comfortable and appealing 2 bed room, one living room, 2 bathroom suite. This would come into play later as I get to literally mating press the rrat, AND we had established my room as the defecto Guild Hall for the weekend. It was interesting though, it was only 6 months since the first CCTX and a few folks actually recognized me because I didn't fucking cosplay last time. I intended to change that this con though (More on that as the story goes on.)
   
   
   So I took a nap and by that point, Rhyse, his wife, Kronometri and Ayakuu had showed up. We were all pretty hungry so we stopped by What a Burger because none of us have ever actually had What a Burger outside of me, once.
   
   That went by pretty good until we met the world's most autistic wagie. So I initially thought the Wagie was fanboying over Kronometri's Kiryu Coco Patch on her jacket until he pointed out that Rhyse was wearing a Kingdom Hearts Jacket. It pretty much boiled down to a Wagie trying to fight me for 30 minutes straight while going "HEY YOU KNOW WHO I THINK SHOULD BE IN SMASH?" and me roasting the dude for being a bad employee. We also witnessed an old lady have a mental breakdown over losing her kid when she was literally sitting in a corner dicking around with an iPad.
   
   That's the What a Burger Incident, and probably a really strong memory for most of the guildies who came on Day 0. (We didn't do a Day -0 and that's because I thought things wern't going to be busy, as you'll find out later, not the fucking case.)
   
   
   So we pretty much all did our grocery shopping at the HEBS I was just at and had a fair amount of drinks, fruits, and alcohol. It's always interesting that during con season you find various weeaboos shopping at the same place for party supplies. This would result in me going "OH GEE, LOOK, ANOTHER WATER PARK CONVENTION ENJOYER" which got a pretty good laugh out of a majority of the strangers who were there for Colossalcon aside from the usual Blue haired Zoomer. But those fucks will be a reoccuring theme of "No Fun Allowed, give me positive feedback only."
   
   Anyways by this point there were only two members missing, PoisonedRRat, my Wife who got her flight delayed, and Pingwhuu.
   
   Because I want to omit a lot of the personal dealings of my wife and I to myself, the short end of the stick is that she booked the wrong fucking hotel and I had to bail her and her brother out from literally a Ukraine Refugee camp because she was a dumb bitch who couldn't fucking read.
   
   Bonus points ; We ran into my ex several times who had gained COVID weight and kept getting mogged by an extremely tiny but fashionable, Gothic Latina.
   
   Pingwhuu arrived late Thursday but no one had the door opened for him. Thankfully Rhyse and his wife kept him company, which I was fucking greatful for. I wish I had more energy to be more friendly though, by that point I was emotionally, physically and mentally drained.
   
   That's Thursday Night.
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     Jkid the Otakugrapher (jkid@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:07 JST Jkid the Otakugrapher

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     @gear I see. I'm glad you have a good trip and convention. The news that a segment of the convention scene in the midwest (and by extension the west and east) are literally traveling out of state for normalcy and people aware of how bad the convention scene is makes me happy that there is hope left.
     Heavens Feel likes this.
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     Jkid the Otakugrapher (jkid@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:09 JST Jkid the Otakugrapher

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     >Marin Body Pillow
     
     Did you got it from Stuart from Loading Crew Crafts?
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     Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair. (gear@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:09 JST Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair.

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     @Jkid
     
     No I got it from animeextra.stickers on instagram.
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     Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair. (gear@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:10 JST Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair.

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     Sunday / Monday -
     
     There really wasn't much do it. My wife had fucking left, I woke up to an Empty Bed, and spent my time with Kronometrii and Ayakuu as we plan the 6th Gearlandian Meet up. Our goal is to get a real cook out going for that con and we figured out a proper room set up for that come next year. Sapphire Alter actually showed Jugnel and I some actual REAL Texan shit last minute, and it made me completely re-evaluate food places and where to and not to prioritize for next years Dinner meet up.
     
     Other than that, I had a pretty indepth convo with a dealer (where I got my Marin Body Pillow and License Plate Cover) where we discussed how the purity spiral and the zoomer uprising has literally made a majority of modern anime cons go to complete shit. It's really nice to see my little side of the internet isn't the only ones rebelling against the norms but there's other folks at it as well.
     
     Other than that I finally got to hear Rrat tell me "I love you" and I've just been in kind of a loop after that.
     
     20/10 con, people made it more than the venue itself. We're returning again next year with hopefully more fedi people who are interested in joining us, and are definitely ready to go back to Weds - Monday on the timeline. I'm fucking exhausted, the only thing really keeping me together now is literally the power of love and riding off of the high of the community right now, and onto the more important part ; Impressions.
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     Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair. (gear@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:11 JST Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair.

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     SATURDAY, THE BIG PHASE CONNECT GROUP.
     
     
     So we went out for Breakfast at this nice Soul Food place called Cotton Pass next to the HEBS. We learned more about Rhyse's wedding and the possible good news between him and his wife, to keep it extremely brief. I give both of them my blessings on their pursuit, and wish nothing but the best for both of them moving forward. Mainly because by this point, they're family to me, as well as the rest of Gearlandia is.
     
     Anyways, it's myself (Urukanye), Rrat (as Hime), Ayakuu (as Sakana), and Kronometrii (as Pippa) running around shit posting. I decided to do an extremely dog whistle tier photoshoot with Pippa, which resulted in a few cosplayers giving us a side ways look when they realized I was being extremely transphobic in public. It was fucking great. There was that, this moment that fucking Holo Live Cosplayers don't fucking know what Phase Connect is, and actually... Getting fucking NOTICED? being a thing. Shit got me excited seeing other PC fans in the wild. I fucking love Phase Connect, I swear by that corporation, the content is extremely high quality, and I have a fuck ton of VODS to catch up on. Anyways, we did an actual photoshoot,and I uploaded that to Twitter. We actually got retweeted if not noticed by most of the PC Vtubers. Shit was pretty cool.
     
     Oh also, Rrat wanted to do a Photoshoot where she wanted to make fucking PILK and broadcast that. So she's actually the first Himemiya Rie cosplayer, and the only comment from Rie was "You've got it right but you're missing the CUM shirt." That fucking snow balled to Tenma noticing us, and then *EVENTUALLY* both Pippa and Uruka noticing us.
     
     I got fucking cucked by the Outdoor pool schedule as both Saturday and Sunday were "Yeah you're here but the place closes in 15 minute so get your shit done." I was kind of upset that I didn't really touch water until Sunday. But I digress, we got to try some obscene milk shakes before the end of Saturday and watched an Irishman get cucked out of alcohol because of the difference in drinking ages between Ireland and the USA.
     
     Rest of the time was spent roasting cosplayers infront of a bon fire and literally having to tell my wife to clean her fucking bed because her flight had to leave Sunday at 6 in the morning.
     
     That was Saturday.
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     Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair. (gear@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:12 JST Gawr Gura sitting on a lawn chair.

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     - Down to Pingwhuu literally forcing everyone to EAT THE FUCKING CRISP SANDWHICH (WHICH CONSISTS OF BUTTER, BREAD, AND FUCKING TAYTOS). All of us having extremely disgusted but "Hey this is pretty good" at the end of it.
     
     It was nice, I think by this point was when I was able to look at my community and go "I fucking made this happen. I built this shit by my fucking hands, I want to grow it. I want to see my community GROW." Not sure if it was the alcohol or the emotional influx but I kind of teared up during the middle of a rant regarding it. I was fucking proud that everyone was getting along with each other famously. It made me realize that I had indirectly created a moment where I got most of the community to disconnect from the fucking internet to literally hang out with each other in real life, and I wanted more of it.
     
     Oh and also I got bitched out by Zettour and my wife for not fucking buying Dominion because people wanted to play IRL. There was a moment where you had a tiny Latina tomboy, and a shaved Asian Gorilla yelling at each other for 10 minutes straight over card games. Kind of like watching your mom and dad fight.
     
     That was Friday.
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     FRIDAY -
     
     We begin this part of the morning of Gear waking up to his wife practicing her BJJ on him in his sleep. I fucking woke up to PoisonedRRat putting me in an arm bar and using my arm as a fucking teddy bear. I had to fucking lift, and she wanted to join me, so power lifting with one good arm was a fucking nightmare. Gym was alright, most of the Gearlandians came in and said hi to me while I was busy teaching Rrat how to properly lift. It was like an extremely surreal mob boss moment, like imagine a bunch of people coming in a stream saying Good Morning and "Hey we're off to do 'x'. " But got to a point where some of the con gym goers were taking notice. I guess this is where you see the infamy points in a video game go up, because even the /fit/ bros who were... drinking fucking Starbucks while on a Tool Assisted Weight Machine were getting frustrated with my antics. Bonus points to the Lesbian Couple who were fucking mad I was using the power cage for it's proper useage, actual lifting, as opposed to doing sit ups or push ups on a rubber mat, and got mad when I said "It's better if girls start off learning the 45 lb Olympic Weight as opposed to the 15 lb female bar."
     
     Anyways we all went to the breakfast buffet. By this point, the only one who didn't arrive yet was Zettour. (Who would take a lot of us by surprise, a very PLEASANT surprise.) It was pretty good. I don't usually like breakfast but loading up on protein for the day was pretty good. A majority of it was watching Pingwhuu receive culture shock and us going "DO EUROPEANS REALLY DO 'x'". I did the nice thing and offered grocery shopping for people who didn't show up on Day 0 because I fucking get it. So my day didn't get started until like... 2 in the afternoon. We ended up fucking finding Kerrygold and fucking Bimbo for Pingwhuu's Abomination, the Crisp Sandwhich.
     
     Anyways, so Zettour was complaining about how bad the panels were, which led to Poisoned Rrat and I going "Why the fuck did this guy show up on a Friday and went directly to Panels? That's like two rookie mistakes right there." It was fucking overcast still which resulted in the Outdoor section of the water park (and part of the inside) not being opened. So Rrat and I decided to get into Dress up Darling, which I have been too fucking busy to not watch because I am married to my fucking job + I hate watching seasonal anime when it's still starting out. Her Marin was fucking great though and more or less mogs most of the Marins there. So I guess Gojou actually does photoshoots for Marin a lot of the time? One of the main comments I got while we were doing photoshoots was "Holy shit, you two are like the best Dress Up Darling Cosplayers here." It also doesn't help that I have bags over my eyes still and was permanently tired, which just adds into authenticity.
     
     Anyways so while we were getting an idea on how to tackle her swimsuit Marin shoot, a literal non descript tall white man shows up and goes "Hey Gear, I really like your Dress up Darling Cosplay" and it takes me like 2 minutes to digest the compliment and not go "Wait woah how the fuck do you know me" before I realized it's Zettour. Which lead to the very funny "ZETTOUR REAL O_O" comment we kept saying. By this point, the Gearlandian Comm is divided into two groups ;
     
     >The Married / Dating Couples
     >THE BOYS.
     
     Which breaks down to me playing Dad for multiple Fediverse users and cleaning up after their shenanigans in the Guild Hall, and them generally having an extremely good time. So while we were shooting, the rest of the fedi instance goes to a BBQ place nearby. Rrat and I were finishing our shoot when we ran into a Dress up Darling cosplayer who we had met earlier, and talked about the state of the con scene for a good hour or so. It's interesting, everyone's fucking off from the Midwest because of it becoming a literal pozzed zoomer mess for Texas or Florida because they're the last non cancerous con scenes. It mirrors the irl political divide too, so that was an interesting thing for me to notice. It's also to note, a lot of weeaboos are pretty concious of the real estate market too, or want to start families but fucking can't because of how bad inflation has gotten. I... can't fucking talk either, I want to get married and get a house too, but fuck me if I'm paying 120k for a shanty essentially.
     
     But yeah we had a choice to meet up with this Marin for dinner or go hang out with the boys. We chose the boys only to find out that the kitchen of that BBQ place closed in 15 minutes. Rrat and I did get offered a fuck ton of left overs though. So by this point, I just walk in, flat out say "Guild Hall Meet up in my room in 10 minutes." and Just walk on my way out. So we're all in the room generally drinking, sharing how our day went and... talking about everything from politics, to /biz/ related memes, and having a mini cultural exchange-
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     Heavens Feel (heavensfeel@letsalllovela.in)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2022 23:03:39 JST Heavens Feel

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     @Jkid @gear I'm attending a smaller anime con in Florida instead of AWA because the Florida con has no clotshot/face diaper requirements.