Warning, excessive steampunkery

Most of the pictures are stolen, but some aren't.

Bright and early Thursday morning I get picked up by Traci and Veronica to go get a good hotel room. Once there, you could tell the con-goers from the muggles and mundies. We get a room on the 7th floor of the Hyatt, which was the lowest they could put us. As we're walking to the room, who do I run into but rajsmith  and laughingmagpie  from my favorite steampunk crew, the Vertigo! I dropped my bag in my room and we went and had coffee. I then went home with the intent of going to class, but I quickly abandoned the idea, as there was zero chance I'd actually pay attention. So I went back to the hotel and went down to pre-reg to wait in the doom line. I actually really like pre-reg line, it's fun talking to people, trying to figure out what costumes people are doing, and running into people I've met at previous cons. I waited in line with bellutien and lordofhaladin  and a ton of others. I kept passing Zack in line and he passed me a bag of donuts, which I shared around. Apparently nobody realized I knew him and thought I had just stolen the donuts. Then I poked Laurie and Geena on the shoulder and the guy behind them thought I was just poking strangers. The K line was short and I got through quickly. I saw Mr. normal and Mrs. emiko , hung out with Zac and Lucas a while playing Zac's new game. But I tend to not stay in one place at cons, so we abandoned the game halfway through.
Hung out with Foe and Wade a bit Thursday, resisted putting on a costume, wore a mustache instead. We came up with a group costume idea for next year. Called it an early night.

I apparently missed Foe and Wade as big game furry hunters. I also missed Steampunkbuilder, who is a cool guy I met last year.

Friday
Hung out around con watching the people. Around noon or 1 I called to see where the Outlanders were. They assured me they'd call when they were getting suited up, but they never bothered to call me, so I wandered around in costume without them. That's the one thing I hate about group costumes, you have to hope you're important enough that they think to call you. The first half of the day I was dressed as a pirate. Had fun at the Three Quarter Ale show. Some old guys tried to talk me into the Dawn Contest, though I politely (and a bit confused) declined on the grounds that I have never read Dawn and do not waste my time with costume contests.



Later, I steampunked up for the meet up at the Hilton before Abney Park. It was a great meetup. I got to see Dr. Haggis's wrist-mounted telegraph, as well as really awesome Dr. Horrible named Eric who also dressed as a Stonecutter from The Simpsons.

Some of my favorite people! I met Ben and Noel last year at the pirate party and they were so cool that I just had to continue knowing them.


Jenna and Noel being the cutest badasses around!


Me a-wanderin'


Steampunks mulling about and mingling like so much wine.


Some American western steampunks that look suspiciously like some pirates I know.
See:

Sorry, that picture just cracked me up so much that I have to share it with the world.


Group shot!


Confetti and bubble gun working. Mr. Ian was so proud of those. Bonus ass-grab and automaton!




Saturday
Rolled out of bed in time to catch most of the parade. Long cat is long. Jayne hat is special.
Had lots of fun running around doing  whatever I did. Alas, I do not recall exact stuffs. But I know it was fun! I think maybe this was when me and Mr. Ian went into the dealers rooms, it would account for the loss of an entire day...
Anyways, at late afternoon we got dressed up as little red riding hood and the big bad wolf.

He wanted full face makeup, but I'm not crazy about how it turned out. He was saying that since his hair is black, his face should be too, but I think maybe he doesn't get what I was originally going for. Ah well, it looks vaguely like how I wanted it to.
When that costume got too hot (a few hours), we changed into latenight steampunk, which for me meant Pin Up Girl.


Hung out in the Marriot with Brute Force, Mrs. Force, and the Austin crew


Had a showdown with Jenna.




got to see steam Lincoln



A Lucas!

Sunday sunday SUNDAY!

Hung out as Draco Malfoy most of the day. Had fun chatting with people most of the morning.




Went to a Harry Potter photoshoot, had fun making everyone laugh, and then had to leave early to go do the Mr. Friskett show. The show went really well and we ended up with another running gag. The at some point I found the way to the Sheraton for the Yule ball. Man, that hotel sure did not like con-goers! They were glaring at us the whole time we were around any employees. The Yule ball was a lot of fun, I wish I had gotten to stay a little longer. I had to leave to go to the Pirate Party. Unfortunately, I was stuck behind a table the whole time for costume judging. I think I'm through with costume contests all together. At least at big cons, that's for sure!