So far, I've had a consistently awful time cosplaying MXTX characters in Germany. I just don't see eye to eye with the community and get nothing but the cold shoulder and stares. I swore not to do any more of them, yet donghua god Xie Lian won't leave my thoughts for a single moment. Oh, the misery. - ThreadSky

yabancreations.bsky.social • 15 days ago

So far, I've had a consistently awful time cosplaying MXTX characters in Germany. I just don't see eye to eye with the community and get nothing but the cold shoulder and stares. I swore not to do any more of them, yet donghua god Xie Lian won't leave my thoughts for a single moment. Oh, the misery.

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alunala.bsky.social•15 days ago

it's just germany. i did my master's degree there and guess what: i didnt make a single friend

yabancreations.bsky.social•15 days ago

The thing is that I cosplay from a wide variety of fandoms, and my experience here with all of them except MXTX has been very positive! While making German friends without being fluent is indeed hard and slow, I do think the problem here lies on the local fandom community, not the culture at large.

alunala.bsky.social•15 days ago

i am fluent, and yeah...so far it's been rough and i didn't have the common interest of the fandom or the event, only studies and jobs 🤔 i'm glad that you had positive experiences in other fandoms, but it only makes your situation even weirder 😳 if you do it again, i hope it will be better!

yabancreations.bsky.social•15 days ago

My bad, didn't mean to assume your proficiency 😵 Fandom or common interests definitely help, like they do everywhere, but yeah, even so, it's a struggle.

I've come up with some theories about the MXTX fandom hostility, based in the few convos I've managed to have, but nothing sure. We'll see...

alunala.bsky.social•15 days ago

oh, oh, i didn't take it like that at all! i just meant to say that not even the language helps at times 😅

i don't really interact with ppl in the fandom outside of the internet, so i have no idea what's going on there, but i do hope that it's not too bad! 😬

citronverveine.bsky.social•14 days ago

What are your theories? I think I have a friend here (so not in Germany) who has kind of a similar experience… I wonder if it’s for the same reasons

yabancreations.bsky.social•14 days ago

1-There's friction between younger and older fans. I'm on the older side, so the young fans, who are the majority, prefer to avoid me
2-It's a BL fandom for which I cosplay without a partner. It's reasonable to be suspicious of my intentions approaching cosplayers of my characters' significant other

caelancosplay.bsky.social•15 days ago

There's really only one solution, come to the Netherlands!😃 well be happy to see more dammei cosplayers here (I feel like there's an uprising lol)

yabancreations.bsky.social•14 days ago

Let's goooo 🏃 A few friends attended Kingdom of Elfia last year and said it was phenomenal. I could look into it~

caelancosplay.bsky.social•14 days ago

Elfia is great, personally I think Castlefest is even better xD but theres also comic and anime conventions that are super cosplay friendly

yabancreations.bsky.social•14 days ago

Googling as we speak ✍️ Thanks for the recs! If I end up going, I'll let you know, maybe we get a cool selfie out of it

caelancosplay.bsky.social•14 days ago

I would love to know! I'm not sure myself how many events I can attend (I'm waiting for 2 surgeries) but if we happen to go to the same one I would definitely want to meet up and take some pictures 😁

yabancreations.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ayyy, good luck with the surgeries! We'll go with the flow~

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