I love that they carried the dragon doodle forward from last year, and I love the "crumbling ruin in a jungle" hotel makeover too.

OMGGGG!!!!! It feels like time is slowing down!!! I need DC to get here faster!!!! I absolutely can't wait to see everybody's wonderful costumes! I've only been to DC a few times (like..4 or 5 times?), and it's turning into the one time of the year that I truly look forward to! It's so hard not to talk the ears off all my coworkers right now! Feels like I'm a Chain Chomp at the end of their leash! My work hours are really long, so I gotta get all my last minute packing and prepping in tonight. It's not a lot of time, but I'll make it work! So excited!!!! I saved up all year so I could hit the Vendor Hall at full force! >:D I'm a huge Pokémon fan, so I'm on the hunt for all things Pokémon this go around (except the cards). Two of my cosplays are Pokémon themed too! I'm really hoping to run into more Pokémon cosplayers, because one of my costumes has some really fun gimmicks and references that go along with it! It's not an extravagant cosplay, but it's cute! Anyway.. I look forward to seeing you all in a few days!!! I hope you're as excited as I am!

Sorry for the long winded monolog, but I had to yell into the aether, so I could get it out of my system!

Finished up my Punisher Cosplay yesterday! Really happy with how it turned out! Not much of a painter but the tip I got from the sub about using black paint correct my mistakes was a game changer!

Not pictured here but I also will be taking my Cyberpunk 2077 Cosplay as well just in case! Think the Punisher outfit will get more mileage (based on the panels and photo ops I saw in the app).

Am I packed? No. But I got sweet nails.

Just got into the room and a little organized. Hit me up for details on how to acquire one of these lovely bags. Have a safe and fun con.

Come find the Pickle Sisters and get a lil pickle! 🥒

MARTA has their tap to pay gates running now. If you have a credit card or a phone with transit pass enabled, you can just tap the gate and go without having to stop at a kiosk. If you’re doing a bunch of trips, it’s probably cheaper to get a multi-day pass, but for those like me just going back and forth to the airport, it was super easy. Just breezed on through tapping in and out with my phone.

I'm going to the countdown, CANT WAIT!!!!!!!

It's my last couple of hours at work before picking up a friend from the airport, I just informed the rest of the group of the consequences for not paying me back for our hotel room (interest applied to their share, based on whatever my credit card rate is), and I'm almost completely packed! Anyone else nailing down the final details and hating the workday?

I’ve been living in Atlanta for 13 years yet this is only my 3rd con and my 1st time bringing trinkets!

….. and I am cutting and dyeing the wig today after work… and doing the boots likely at the hotel 😂😅

3D printed carpet badge ribbons.

Marriott Carpet design 3d printed badge ribbons! I have over 800 of these printed and am looking forward to handing them out to everyone (or at least 1% of Dragon Con attendees)

There's also a new way to decorate your Dragon Con Membership badge! Badge Buddies! This year I have over 160 Badge Dragons that will hold on to your badge!

Here's a sample of my swag for this year! 3D print and laser engraved for the win! I have a bit more that I'm keeping silent for surprises! I'll attend at least one ribbons event and be walking around with my roller toolbox filled with ribbons and other swag! Feel free to DM me and see if we can meet in public for you to collect any if it from me!

I wanna see how many streetpasses we can all collectively get, thanks in advance!

Now that I’ve throughly studied the schedule, I’ve decided Thursday around 5 or 5:30 is when I will be at Trader Vic’s. I’ll almost certainly miss the official Drunken Dragon meetup because there’s something else I want to do at 7, but if anyone wants to join me beforehand that would be great! Ah-ooooh!

First time doing one of these but this Gustave cosplay is the most serious I’ve done yet and I escape my last work shift before con in 20 MINUTES so why not!

(No I’m not borderline freaking out in anticipation, why would you ask?)

So my app just updated, it seems that the Wednesday night countdown event is no longer there. It was also supposed to be a onsie themed event. How many of you planned for onsies??

Does anyone else become an insufferable "bridezilla" with their cosplay the week of, or is it just me being the worst hahahaha

I found myself yelling THIS ISN'T THE EXACT SHADE OF PINK. But very excited to see how my suffering will look this week lol

my mom and a lot of her friends are Dungeon Crawler Carl fans, and she decided very last minute that she wanted to make a (nearly) true-to-size Zev puppet for this year and recruited me to help. i've never read DCC, no clue what its about, no clue who princess donut is until maybe one week ago. but we made it happen!

she sourced the materials (a kid's astronaut costume, a stuffed fish, and a wicked popcorn bucket) and did all the sewing and attachments. i figured out the body shape and built that out of pool noodles, a toddler onesie, and a mangled halloween decoration. she has bendable knees for sitting.

she still needs handmitts and minor adjustments. maybe some patches if we feel like it tomorrow. please say hi if you see her! my mom worked SO HARD on her and i think she is just the cutest thing in the world even if i don't know the source material.

:3 hi donut!!!!!!

Despite my family's early onset crud, we are nearing completion on all cosplays! ​​