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Pre-MegaCon 2025: My plans & thoughts on the convention in the past

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 Hello Blossoms and random internet passerbyers!  πŸŒΌπŸŒ»πŸŒ·πŸŒΈπŸŒΉπŸŒΊπŸ’ It's been YEARS since I've written a post about going to a convention, so I'm really happy to write these next few blog post entries about my experience at Megacon Orlando 2025. But before that, I want to provide some background information about my experience with this convention many years ago. Ah Megacon... (a prelude) Megacon was one of the very first few conventions I attended when I was 18. In fact, it was the 3rd convention I ever attended. The first Megacon I officially attended was in 2012, but I got my first taste of Megacon back around... 2007.  7th grade me! I didn't attend it myself, but I was at the Orange County Convention Center as an attendee for an international Taekwondo tournament to cheer on a family friend. As we walked around the convention center outside of the boundaries of the taekwondo tournament, I saw cosplayers live and in the flesh for the first time in my life! Y'see, ba...

Barely anyone is around for you, yet here you still are!

After all these years, you're still here... BLOGGER. A blogging site with barely any community and incredibly outdated themes.  And yet, Google still hasn't shut you down yet.  I have been itching to write and blog all of last year, but figuring out which platform to go on was keeping me stumped. I tried substack, but man, idk. I feel weird being on that platform knowing the owner's stances. It's not like his stances are any different from most social media site owners though lol. I tried writing on Tumblr, but Tumblr feels weird for personal blogging. It seems like it's great for image sharing and writing that isn't... personal blogging?  What do I mean by personal blogging? I mean, the ancient pastime of just writing about your life and something you experienced in a light-hearted way with images sprinkled throughout the text. Thanks to Instagram, TikTok, and other sites, you can just make a post with a picture and write a bit in the caption, which constitutes...