Metrocon 2025 – Saturday

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I went to Metrocon on Saturday and saw lots of great Steven Universe cosplayers, as well as many others from shows I like!

The Metrocon Album has them all, but here are a few faves:

Glimmer (She-Ra)

Me as Garnet

Scorpia, She-Ra, Catra

Me as Garnet with Princess Bubblegum and Marceline

Jeaux as Dib

Blue Diamond & White Diamond (Steven Universe)

Me as Garnet with Blue Diamond & White Diamond

Rose Quartz & Pearl (Steven Universe)

Marcille and Laios (Delicious in Dungeon)

Senshi (Delicious in Dungeon)

Mabel, Soos, Dipper, & Wendy (Gravity Falls)

Me as Garnet with Stevonnie & Pearl

Me as Garnet with Rose and Greg

Me as Garnet

Lars & Ronaldo (Steven Universe)

Me as Garnet with Lars & Ronaldo

Jeaux & Ronaldo

Fun Highlights!

  • I got to try out for an open audition at a voice acting opportunity! I super didn’t care for any of the character types in the audition, though, so I auditioned as a robot and wasn’t surprised at all that I didn’t get a callback 😀
  • Jeaux, dressed as a conspiracy theorist (Dib from Invader Zim), kept pointing at me and yelling SHE’S AN ALIEN! AN ALIEN!!!
  • Ronaldo from Steven Universe is also a conspiracy theorist and we saw someone cosplaying him. Had to take a photo with Jeaux.
  • We had a great lunch at Jackson’s. I had avocado sushi.
  • I got to play some music for people and that was super fun.
  • Someone handing out Halloween Horror Nights fliers in a line was startled by my costume’s third eye!
  • Lots of people recognized both our costumes!

Metrocon 2025 – Friday

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Friday at Metrocon! I decided to go on a whim (though I had PLANNED to go on Saturday and already had a ticket). I went because there was a panel I wanted to see about voice acting, which I have gotten into in the past six months. I just wore a cute Steven Universe–inspired outfit and brought my uke.

My Friday convention outfit

My Friday convention outfit

Steven Universe

Invader Zim

She-Ra & Catra (She-Ra)

Audition Tips Panel

Eda (Owl House)

Gaz (Invader Zim)

Dib (Invader Zim)

Nickelodeon meetup

Fun moments to note:

  • I hung out with Steven Universe nerds a couple times to play music and enjoy what they were blasting on the boom box.

  • I went to Bang Zoom’s “how to audition” panel for voice acting and took a bunch of notes. Very informative!

  • A nice lady that I bought food from at the convention asked me where I got my “little guitar” and liked my dress. She asked to take my photo.

  • Someone saw my ukulele, told me they remembered me being dressed as Steven Universe last year, and said they had wanted to come to this con this year dressed as Steven because of me but couldn’t find the shirt. They had brought their ukulele too.

  • One person complimented my Steveny outfit and said she would be dressed as Pearl and coming with a Rose Quartz tomorrow. I will definitely look for them.

  • My Lyft driver on the way home requested a song on the ukulele and she and I ended up singing car karaoke the whole way home. She told me I had a chill vibe and that the singing had been therapeutic.

San Francisco Day 4

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San Francisco Day 4 involved wandering out to Golden Gate Park and watching the dog hunt gophers.

Yoshi ate his food!

Family goofin’ around

Hit with the NO stick!

Feet and peace

Sister Cookie Selfie

Cherry Blossoms

Yusuke hanging with Yoshi

Yusuke hanging with Yoshi

Yoshi in the shade

Yoshi in the shade

Leaving Marx Meadow

Leaving Marx Meadow

Leaving Marx Meadow

Leaving Marx Meadow

Leaving Marx Meadow

Yusuke & Ash walking ahead

Yusuke & Ash walking ahead

Yoshi hunts gophers

Yoshi hunts gophers

San Francisco Day 2

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It’s Patricia’s birthday! She got a new chair from our dad as a present.

Patricia’s new birthday chair

We had some nice time in the garden and Patricia gave me a tour of her plants.

Patricia in her garden

Patricia in her garden

Patricia in her garden

Yoshi found a shady spot. He’s a shady dog.

Dog likes shade!

We had yummy soba and tempura vegetables at Miki before the concert!

Had soba with my family!

Ash’s Drama

And They Might Be Giants was great, as always.

They Might Be Giants!

They Might Be Giants!

TMBG concert

TMBG concert

TMBG concert

 

Intermission at TMBG concert

 

A wall at the Fillmore

TMBG concert

TMBG concert

San Francisco Day 1

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Heading out to San Francisco to hang out with my family! My knees have lots of room on planes because I’m short.

My knees on the plane

My sister’s household has a new member: Yoshi the dog! I got to finally meet him. My sister is his favorite person so he always wants to be next to her.

P petting Yoshi

Yoshi is comfy

We had some sister time at a café sitting in the sun with lattes.

Lattes at the Blue Danube

Latte at the Blue Danube

I can’t believe it but this doggie tolerated me enough to sit next to me on the couch!

Being cozy with Yoshi

And we had home-baked pizza for dinner. Yum!

Pizza time!