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+_(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like navel-gazing today. If you're here for the insight porn, come back tomorrow. If you're here for Actual Philosophy, come back next week.)_
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 > ROSE: [...] we can't both exist. I'm going to become half of you. And I need you to know that every moment you love being yourself, that's me, loving you, and loving _being_ you.
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 > —_Steven Universe_, "Lion 3: Straight to Video"
 
-I cosplayed Rose Quartz at FanimeCon this year! It was fun, I think! I guess?
+I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) on Saturday at [FanimeCon](https://www.fanime.com/) the other month! It was fun, I think! I guess?
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+I'm not really sure what other people get out of fandom conventions. There are panels, but pop-culture analysis is better in blog form than live discussion. There are autographs, but there 
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+For me, it's my one socially-acceptable excuse for crossdressing in public.
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+colorful sandals
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+[thousand-dollar ultra-realistic mask](https://www.creafx.com/en/special-make-up-effects/taylor-silicone-mask/)
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+That I don't feel comfortable cross-dressing is important to notice
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+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTKL9LokHg (wait for the reveal at 0:44!)
 
-I'm not really sure what other people get out of conventions. For me, it's my one
 
+(_I will fight for the place where I'm free!_)
+(_I will fight for the world I was made in!_)
 
-(_I will fight for the place where I'm free_)
-(_I will fight for the world I was made in_)
 
+(previously: as Ens. Silvia Tilly at San Francisco Comic-Con 2018, as _Equestria Girls_ Twilight Sparkle at BABSCon 2018, [as Korra at San Francisco Comic-Con 2017](/2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/), [as Pearl at FanimeCon 2017](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/gems-will-be-gems/), as [Lt. Jadzia Dax (circa 2369) at the _Star Trek_ 50 Year Mission Tour San Francisco 2016](/2016/Dec/joined/), [as Pearl as San Francsico Comic-Con 2016](/2016/Sep/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/))
 
-(previously: as _Equestria Girls_ Twilight Sparkle at BABSCon 2018, as Ens. Silvia Tilly at SF Comic-Con 2018, [as Korra at San Francisco Comic-Con 2017](/2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/), [as Pearl at FanimeCon 2017](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/gems-will-be-gems/), as [Lt. Jadzia Dax (circa 2369) at the _Star Trek_ 50 Year Mission Tour San Francisco 2016](/2016/Dec/joined/), [as Pearl as San Francsico Comic-Con 2016](/2016/Sep/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/))
+Raven is cosplayed more than any other Teen Titan