Nerds, Costumes and Epic Diem

September 26, 2013 by littlewonder2 Leave a comment

Just recently, back on the 21st of September, I went to a nerdfest called Epic Diem. I got a bag of stuff, bought some things, saw some cosplayers and got to experience things like seeing Queenie-chan, watching a cosplay competition, and seeing people fake swordfighting in the medieval style.

It was the first convention I’d been to since I was a little kid, going to a Pokemon convention, just around the time Game Boy Advance was coming out.

It was cool. And I was there all day, 10-6pm. A lot of that time, I was on my own. But look, I bought some gloves, and I got some Slytherin garb.

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Unfortunately, I forgot to charge my camera, so by the time my parents arrived, my camera was out of juice. But I’ll show you what I can.

First things first. I saw Queenie-chan at the very start of the day. Wanna see?

: The entrance to The Vault. This is where special presentations happened all day. Queenie was the only one I saw that day.

: And here’s Queenie, at the start of her presentation, just now talking about The Dreaming. She also talked about the manga process, about her discovery, and about other things she’s done, including a Zelda manga. I also read a short manga story called The Pickwicks, a sensible family who lived next door to the Darlings from Peter Pan.

: She passed this around. It’s the paper she would always use. She doesn’t use it anymore, so we were welcome to take some. I didn’t.

: Here’s her demonstration of drawing a face. The only further questions she got were how to do hands and feet. “There’s no magical formula,” she explained. She simply drew shapes that make up a hand and said that’s the best way to do it.