Omg, could you tell us more about your experience at the con? how did they find out about the manga development?

Uh, okay, so some context is necessary here. lemme just copy-paste what I told my friend in the chat real quick.

This weekend I had the pleasure of being a guest handler for the cosplay contest judges at Tora-Con this year (look them up - they're all incredible!) and after the awards ceremonies, me and one of the judges hit up the day-ending Yaoi for 300 panel, which was hosted by the cheerily gay cosplay contest emcee dressed as Alfred Fire Emblem - er, mostly. The panel began with him kicking up his feet, looking to his co-host, ripping off his wig and saying, "It's been a day. Pass me the yaoi!"

Basically, the panelists had organized BL, yaoi, and “yaoi” titles and popular ships into goofy categories (wholesome, doomed, toxic, Baby's First Yaoi, divorced, old man, rivals, toxic and doomed, Komaeda, musical, etc.) with a different pairing (fanon, canon, whatever) per slide. As each popped up, the audience laughed, cheered, booed, whatever-ed in response. “Yaoi” was used loosely and of course there were slides for stuff like Supernatural, Sherlock, the red and yellow M&Ms, Bert and Ernie, Metal Gear Solid, Homestuck, Genshin Impact... Very broad and meant to garner reactions. In many ways it was a retrospective of the Greatest Hits of popular guyxguy ships on Tumblr, so for a lot of attendees it was really more like a walk down memory lane.

So like. They had several “My Hero yaoi” items in there like DabiHawks (which got a big reaction! The people love HotWings!), TodoDeku (got a polite reaction), KiriBaku (a mild reaction and some awwwwwws.) (The guest with whom I was attending with politely claps but shakes their head at TodoDeku, so after I was polite and was like, “I just like Todoroki to be included”, I then was more honestly like, “but dude it’s BakuDeku or nothin’!” and they were like, “Thank you. Thank goodness.” I didn't realize it then, but this moment heralded what was to come.)

Finally, near the end of the panel, BakuDeku comes up (with the anime still of Izuku as Katsuki's cane, of course) and the room FUCKING ROARS.

Our hosts (who evidently don't closely follow the series) go wide-eyed and then, after a pause, wigless Alfred Fire Emblem tries to take back the energy and goes, “Oh, so you make a big reaction for THAT?!” and it turns out I am not the only manga reader in attendance because then like half the room - myself, my escorted guest, and two other folks at our table at the center-front of the room included - scream in perfect synchronicity, “THAT ONE’S REAL!!!!!!!!!"

A person at my table - clearly also an anime-only - says with the playful innocence only an individual with a kind and sugar-sweet romantic heart can possess, “No! They were right with the KiriBaku! :)” and then turns to meet me and my guest's and another girl's eyes, and I watched as theirs widened in fear as we all looked them dead-on and said, “No, you don’t understand. THIS one is real.”

And the room got REAL quiet until the hosts changed slides to, like, I dunno, Gravitation or Yugioh or something and the energy picked back up.

Tora-con’s over now, but that was so rad. I got a bunch of art prints and pins- Not to mention Gianni Matragrano signed my fucking laptop, which was funny as hell.

Yesterday my husband and I went to Tora-con for the first time since 2019, it was a good time! We had fun and enjoyed seeing all the cosplayers!

Andrew always loves to cosplay and he worked really hard to make it ready on time, this year he was Pokeball Man from Sword/Shield!!

Alot of people recognized him and asked for his picture, he was so happy. If you got any pics of him and you were there, could you please tag me so I can show him? Thank you!!

richard lipschitz, 18, found dead at tora con

edit: it has a tumblr now so im crediting @loganschwarzy for taking this photo of me

im going to be at tora-con this weekend!! with arknights, orv, hsr, tgaa, and more!!! come say hi if ur in the area ^_^

heading to tora con with @11osamu ＼(＾▽＾)／♡

So I'm going to be in a couple ask character panels in March. Making keychains for the panels to hand out and to give to my fellow panelist. The panels are for Hetalia and Ouran Host Club. It's like a dream come true for little Tobi, but like I'm really not into either anymore. Anyways I'm redoing the Ouran Keychains because I don't like the first set, but uh... my tablet broke so I'm designing them on paper so when I get my new tablet I can just scan in the drawings and line and colour them that way. Issue being... I still kinda hate how the twins look. Which doesn't bode well for the other 6-8 keychains. ((Doing a keychain for each character we have: Haruhi, Tamaki, The Twins, Honey, Renge, Nekozawa, Ritsu.)) We are still looking for Mori and Kyoya for the group. Each panelist gets 2 keychains to give to the audience and one to keep. Anything left over uh... I guess I can sell on my Etsy, but I hope we can just pass them all out in the end. Anyways I have the Twins done-ish and their previous design. I like the new one better now I look at the old one. Then I have the 4 Hetlia ones I got done.

my Mishima goods have LANDED

Thank you so much @middaymoon!! 🥹💘

I had an amazing time at Toracon this weekend! I wish I had more time to meet other vendors, but chatting with attendees was really fun.

TORTA VERSATA TRE STRATI CON LA NUTELLA. Le torte versate sono quelle con la cottura in due momenti e con la farcitura proprio al centro che cuoce all’interno della torta stessa. Oggi ho voluto esagerare e ne ho preparata una a tre strati con la doppia farcitura alla Nutella.

Siete curiosi? Volete sapere la ricetta? Allora seguitemi in cucina.

My looks for tora con 2023

Saturday ~ sailor moon inspired lolita coord

Sunday ~ human flurry cosplay

My sympathies to the anime-only BNHA fans at the Tora-Con Yaoi for 300 panel that had to find out about the manga developments regarding Katsuki Bakugo and Izuku Midoriya like that

First day of Tora-con was such a blast

WAIT orochimaru and tora had a daughter??? how did I miss this??? also how did it happen? did tora finally wear him down one night lol

Tora gets what she wants 99% of the time and that includes Orochimaru’s attention even if that means paying the village to NOT assign him a mission for a couple of weeks

missing kazutora hours 🥺

Warning: Spoilers

Title: Love Persevering

Editor: Rider4Z - Otaku Lounge Productions

Song: Lift Me Up

Artist: Rihanna

Anime: Ride Your Wave (film)

Category: Romance/Drama

Awards: RICE 2023 - Finalist Tora-Con 2023 - Best Romance Zenkaicon 2023 - Best Romance Anime Boston 2023 - Best Romance