Last weekend I was at Twin Cities Con! I have been to Twin Cities Con several times, and it’s one convention I always try to make every year. As per usual, I was volunteering at the Twin Cities Geek table, which I look forward to. One thing I have always found interesting is that when I talk to people who stop by our booth, they mention that Twin Cities Con is their first convention. I love that. I’m happy to see Twin Cities Con bringing more people to attend conventions.

At our booth this year, we were handing out Chainsaw Man hats. Since Twin Cities Geek is an online magazine, we get sent promotional items to hand out, which we usually reserve for conventions. These Chainsaw Man hats were rad. I don’t usually have a ton of interest in the promotional things we hand out, but these were an exception. I’m not sure the exact number of hats we handed out, but when I was walking around the convention, I saw people wearing them. Someone had stopped by and put a Chainsaw Man hat on their baby, which was really cute. It’s always fun to offer free stuff.

As far as cosplay, I cosplayed both Friday and Saturday. On Friday, I cosplayed as The Punisher. Several years ago, I bought this Punisher bodysuit from Amazon. I only wore it once to C2E2 years ago. As I was contemplating what I wanted to cosplay, I found this at the bottom of my cosplay dresser, and forgot I had it. This bodysuit is really comfy! There’s enough room that I could wear leggings underneath if it were cold out. The bodysuit comes with white gloves and a white belt with velcro pockets. On Saturday, I cosplayed as an NPC (non-playable character) from our D&D campaign. I don’t have permission to share her character art since I don’t own the image. She has red hair, is wearing a black bralette, tight black leggings, and a dark, navy blue cardigan. She’s a Bard, so she also has a Violin. I wore the same wig that I wore for Scarlet Witch, and instead of wearing a black bralette, I wore a black, cropped athletic top. I found a navy blue cardigan online that’s not an exact match, but I think it’s a close resemblance. I didn’t take any photos on Saturday, so I don’t have anything I can share, but I was happy with how it came together.

The final thing I wanted to mention was the changes from this year’s Twin Cities Con and last year’s Twin Cities Con. I wrote about this last year, but the security line wasn’t set up the best. This year, the security line was set up differently. Once you walked through security, you had access to pretty much everything. The exhibit hall, panel rooms, and the gaming room where Badwolf Adventure Studios was set up. The only thing outside of this area was the main panel room. I was reading posts online, and everything was really positive. People said that everything ran smoothly. I’m glad that Twin Cities Con made these changes, and the changes made a difference.

It was another successful Twin Cities Con, that’s for sure. I can’t wait for next year.