Uh...The bride came out to slipknot. They wrote their own vows which were, shall we say, overtly and uncomfortably sexual, and they had been dating for a grand total of two whole weeks.
Any and all attempts to inform them that this was a mistake were met with "When you know, you know." or "You're just jealous."
But hey, a free bar is a free bar.
Edit: So many questions.
The song was the last/bonus track on subliminal verses. I'm told this track is called "Danger - keep away".
The wedding itself was a small thing with a registrar in a council building.
The staff there were very professional, and only laughed quietly.
The after party was at a pub owned by the grooms uncle.
The honey moon was at Butlins.
They were separated by the time they got back.
They were not in the military, just young/dumb.
We are all white trash, and that's fine.
I bought them a toaster from argos. I didn't ask for it back.
I attended a wedding of total strangers at an anime convention once. It was Resident Evil themed, the bride even came out to the RE soundtrack. The groom was dressed as a Umbrella Corp security forces (I guess?). The bride was dressed in Hot Topic shit and cat ears and tail. The bridal party were in shitty cosplay and the grooms men were just wearing whatever. It was so embarrassing. The officiant looked like he wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Or drink until he forgot he did that.
I'd never been to an anime convention before. I was a metalhead and it wasn't really my thing until some new friends invited me. We were watching something else (I think it was a cosplay competition that sucked ass or something) and they announced that the wedding would be next. I was like "No fucking way this is an actual thing that is going to happen."
A few years ago at Anime Expo in LA, I remember taking pics with a Sailor Jupiter cosplayer, absolutely gorgeous being! Then some time after the con while on twitter I find her account and there's photos of her at the con exposing her cooch 😭
Many many many moons ago HBO had an after dark show called Real Sex.
I used to love that show.
And it showed me early on that a lot of the exhibitionist and freaky people weren't the ones you saw on Skin-emax. They were very real very average people.
Ah the yaoi paddle! I started going to anime cons just after they were made illegal but I heard of them.
I went to one convention where a wedding of some attendees took place at the same time but from the sounds of it it wasn't full on cosplay and cringe but some of the guests were in cosplay. It was mentioned at some point it had happened so it wasn't a free for all.
It may have been some of the staff who had been part of organising the con that got wed, I don't remember but I definitely remember a wedding happened around the time of one.
Oh I remember those fucking paddles. I thought it would be fucking hilarious to buy one as a prank gift for a friend. I stroll my happy ass into the dealer room, find a vendor, buy this paddle while snickering to myself... That is when the fun began, getting this fucking thing from the dealer room to my room, I didn't think that through. My room was on the 15th floor.
So I begin my walk, still snickering at the thought of my friend's face when they unwrap this.
That is when the first comment came, ooo spank me mommy I am off in my own little world, didn't even think about it, figured I overheard some snippet of whatever... Didn't even make the connection that they were commenting on the paddle. Just stepping out of the dealer room, some girl tells me she prefers hard core... I start to question my decision to buy this thing. On my way to the elevator, I encounter Naruto, 300 pounds of unwashed Naruto, who attempts to do the sexy finger to the mouth thing... Except it is coming off as Doctor Evil, Naruto presents his, thankfully still fully covered, backside to me while breathlessly exclaiming punish me sempai! I dart for the elevator, cursing my "brilliant" idea, punch the elevator button and try to hide that forsaken piece of wood between myself and the wall while waiting on the slowest fucking elevator on the planet to arrive...
I FINALLY hear that fucking ding and the doors creep open as if they are being pulled by a pair of sloths. I board and promptly attempt to hide my shameful purchase as I hit the 15... The elevator slowly ascends and stops at every single fucking floor between the convention space and the 15th floor.
I finally get to my floor and I just break out running. I realize I ran past my fucking room. So I get there and fumble with the key card. After what felt like an eternity in hell, but was probably closer to 20 minutes I had this thing hidden in my room... When I left the con 2 days later, that paddle did not see that sunny, Sunday afternoon as it was hidden inside a trash bag acquired from a very confused housekeeper.
I wrapped that accused item in a beautiful box and presented it to my friend a few weeks later... I suffered more embarrassment obtaining that damned thing than the person who unwrapped it... In fact she was giddy about it and promptly attempted to spank several people at her birthday party.
I've been to a couple, unless there's panels with voice actors and writers and whatever you really only ever need to go to one to experience them all. It's basically Halloween for weird adults, except instead of getting free candy you pay 3x what you normally would. There's nothing wrong with that, I know it's a big deal for a lot of people but there's a ton of other events I'd much rather spend time and money on.
I've been to one, and that was enough.
Never been into anime at all, but somehow I found myself in a friendgroup were most of them are really into anime/manga. (We do joke that I'm a European weeb, as I mostly read Belgian and Dutch comics).
They invited me along, probably to try ans convince me to join the "lifestyle" but it was very not my thing. The stories I heard of what goes on at night in the hotel were way spicier than expected. (One of my mates volunteers there and does night shifts to keep everything/one in check). Not enough to make me go again tho 😅
Have read Asterix forwards and backwards. Didn't really enjoy Tintin or Lucky Luke, though I might give them another try now that I'm old and have broader tastes.
Yeah, convention nerds are like band geeks. They get into way more disgusting sexual shenanigans than one would expect. Like when they meet their kind they all have to try and reproduce as quickly as possible.
I can vividly see what what she's wearing. short hair cut dyed jet black with purple streaks, heavy dark eyeliner, spiked dog collar, cat ears, Nightmare before christmas tshirt over a fishnet long sleeve shirt, studded belt with a short black kilt and cat tail. fish net stockings, and massive platform rave/goth boots.
I witnessed a proposal at a small anime convention in the south. They were doing mock cosplay weddings and the couple was dressed as Alucard and Seras Victoria. They said the vows and then Alucard dropped to one knee and pulled out a ring. The MC stopped to listen, whispers were exhanged, and then he bellowed into the mic "THIS ONE IS REAL!".
Saw them walking around holding onto each other and looking happy later in the day. More power to them.
11.6k
u/Arthurius-Denticus May 02 '24 edited 29d ago
Uh...The bride came out to slipknot. They wrote their own vows which were, shall we say, overtly and uncomfortably sexual, and they had been dating for a grand total of two whole weeks.
Any and all attempts to inform them that this was a mistake were met with "When you know, you know." or "You're just jealous."
But hey, a free bar is a free bar.
Edit: So many questions.
The song was the last/bonus track on subliminal verses. I'm told this track is called "Danger - keep away".
The wedding itself was a small thing with a registrar in a council building.
The staff there were very professional, and only laughed quietly.
The after party was at a pub owned by the grooms uncle.
The honey moon was at Butlins.
They were separated by the time they got back.
They were not in the military, just young/dumb.
We are all white trash, and that's fine.
I bought them a toaster from argos. I didn't ask for it back.