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So! Supanova Brisbane 2013 was last weekend. Or as I liked to call it, Nintendo Streetpass Palooza 2013 with a side of cosplay.

Seriously I spent at least half of the time just collecting streetpasses, guys.

( Mostly cosplay pics under the cut )

Tenth Anniversary of Brisnova this year.

I remember going to the very first one.  I've been to ten of these now!  (And have been saying that this one will be the last one for at least six of those.)  /feels old

I dressed up as the traveller from Journey!

( Lots and lots of cosplay pics under the cut )

Brisbane Supanova is coming up in a few weeks - they've moved it to November, to make room for the Gold Coast one starting in April next year.  So this year Brisbane gets two Supanovas, hooray~!

Just posting to find out who's going?  Because I assumed nobody I knew would be, but apparently Colin Morgan (Merlin) and Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown, Back to the Future) have pulling power.  Here's the guest list.

In a fit of bad planning, I am still struggling to find summer-friendly cosplays in my closet, or at the very least something I can finish in the time remaining without somehow spending any money.  It kind of feels like one of those house renovation or Masterchef challenges.  Why hasn't Japan made a TV show about last minute cosplays yet?

I'm absolutely wrecked.  Sorry guys, I won't be able to make a Fifth Act update today, I had a look to see how much work the chapter still needed earlier and I found two enormous inconsistencies and about a million typos, which has made me paranoid and I'm really not in the mental condition to pick over it with the necessary fine-tooth comb.  But in consolation, here's a rather hastily thrown-together con report from Supanova! :D

I only got to go on the Saturday, as there were familial obligations on Sunday I could not gracefully wriggle out of after my blissfully family-free Easter.  :(  I pretty much cleaned up all the merch I was interested in on Saturday anyway - brought home a nice haul of old and relatively cheap Geneon-released soundtracks from Transreality.  *__*  And Supanova doesn't have heaps of things to do anyway, so one day is enough unless you're cosplaying, or spending most of your day standing in line to see a guest.  In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realise the primary activity at Supanova is standing in line.

Anyhow, pictures!  Cosplay!  That was the entire reason I went!  My cosplay photo-fu has become weak, so I didn't get as many photos as normal.  And a lot of them came out too blurry to really post, but here's a selection.  Cosplay attendance was down a little on last year - I think a portion of the anime audience has been driven off, a lot more of the cosplays were TV show and comic book related.  Or maybe they were slain by the heat.  But one fandom that turned up in unusually high numbers was Sailor Moon, of all things.  I saw at least three different Princess Serenities!



( More pictures under the cut! )