Your name is ANASTASIA GOUCHTCHINA. You doubt that anyone will ever be able to correctly pronounce your last name the first time. Your are THIRTEEN years old and people always says you act much older than that.
You have many friends of various genders, both form the INTERNET and in REAL LIFE. All of them you would probably bomb a country for if they asked you to. Most are also very obsessed with the webcomic HOMESTUCK.
You love SCARY AND HORRIFYING VIDEO GAMES and have a thing for YAOI. You are shameless of these facts.
You enjoy WRITING STORIES that have no meaning and DRAWING SHITTY ART. In the future you hope to go into the WRITING OR ANIMATION INDUSTRY.
Did we mention YOU LOVE HOMESTUCK? Because you do.
This awesome theme was customized by your sexyrific MOIRAIL against your own will. You don't regret her decision though, even if it does make you look like a crazy JAKE ENGLISH FANGIRL.
like right outside of the convention these mega christians came and started protesting against gays and how they’re trying to be something they’re not and how we’re all sinning because we’re all dressing up as things we’re not and whatever
and then gamzee got on this tiny truck and slowly rode in front of the protesters and it was glorious and was probably the best thing that happened all day
All right, I have received permission to post these pictures. Thanks to the person at Anime North who sent me these.
This was the booth in question. As you can see they were selling ugly, poorly made HS bootleg items, plus lots of others (Adventure Time, etc).
Let me be really clear here: I don’t like it when people sell their fanart prints or handmade fan items, but I can understand. This, however, is an act of pure scumbaggery.
So okay so- I saw a couple of people yesterday walking around with these and when they saw that I was a Homestuck (being in Roxy cosplay and all) and they excitedly showed me their pillows, I sort of just smiled and nodded and asked where thy’d gotten them rather than confronting them about it.
But today I went the Dealer’s Room and found the booth selling them, and got down their name and contact info, which I texted to Colin to forward to Rachel (unable to send it directly; having no internet on my phone what with being in Canada and all).
I then went to the nearest staffer I could and asked who I should talk to to report plagiarism in the Dealer’s Room, and he sent me to another guy (who sent me to another guy, who sent me to another guy, who sent me to another guy- I swear, no one on the fucking Anime North staff knows who the fuck to talk to about anything), who finally got me to the head of the Dealer’s Room. So I tell him that Cosplay-FTW is selling plagiarized material and he doesn’t even let me finish when he says he already knows that there’s an issue with them, and that other people have already reported them. He then tells me that someone will talk to them tomorow.
What the fuck??
I realize that there may be outstanding factors which I am not entirely aware of, but this is kind of an issue!!! I mean, plagiarism is kind of illegal?????
To contrast, someone it seems actually reported me for the two Homestuck prints which I have hanging up, and the Comic Market head came over and talked to me immediately- at which point I pointed out my sign which very clearly reads ‘Homestuck prints are not for sale’ and explained that I have the prints up because I’m proud of the art and want to display it, and occasionally I randomly give them out to cosplayers if I like their costumes.
And see, I honestly don’t mind the fact that the Comic MArket head came over to talk to me- in fact, it makes me happy to see the rules being enforced and an immediate response from the staff. So why is it so impossible to do this in the Dealer’s Room??
Overall, I’ve quite enjoyed the attendees at Anime North- I’ve met a lot of really cool people and seen a lot of talented cosplayers, but… I’ve been having quite a bit of trouble with the staff. I’ve been yelled at, misdirected, and just generally treated poorly. Considering that I am a paying vendor, I sort of.. expect better than this.
Anyhow this somehow turned into a rant about Anime North in general but to sum up the con knows about Cosplay-FTW and their plagiarism and has elected to not take immediate action.
