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Tips for Masquerade Contestants
1. This is a science fiction and fantasy convention. Don't wear something that anyone could see on any mundane walking down the street. If you simply HAVE to wear that plain brown dress, at least stick a fucking antennae on your head and call yourself an alien!
2. No one except the workmanship judges will care that you used 3.48478 cm beading with a left-handed rawler and genuine alpaca-hide feathering. Make a costume that's interesting to look at, or show us some skin.
3. This is a costume contest, not a dance competition. Stop dancing. Show the damned costume and get off the stage.
4. Stop hurting our ears. Record your music at a reasonable level.
5. Don't bore us with your interminable narration. We don't give a shit about the history of Queen Aphasia, Empress of the Sixth Scrotumverse or whatever the hell she is. We know damned well that she's your LARP PC, and we don't care.
6. Have a sense of humor. One good laugh is worth ten thousand hand-crafted beads. On second thought, make that ten million.
7. Take it easy on Marty. Give your entry a pronouncable name. And if your own name is unusual, include a phonetic translation.
8. Speed it up! Any entry that takes more than ten seconds to present had damned well better be REALLY funny, feature an incredible special effect (and no, special beading doesn't count), or be modeled by someone seriously hot.
2. No one except the workmanship judges will care that you used 3.48478 cm beading with a left-handed rawler and genuine alpaca-hide feathering. Make a costume that's interesting to look at, or show us some skin.
3. This is a costume contest, not a dance competition. Stop dancing. Show the damned costume and get off the stage.
4. Stop hurting our ears. Record your music at a reasonable level.
5. Don't bore us with your interminable narration. We don't give a shit about the history of Queen Aphasia, Empress of the Sixth Scrotumverse or whatever the hell she is. We know damned well that she's your LARP PC, and we don't care.
6. Have a sense of humor. One good laugh is worth ten thousand hand-crafted beads. On second thought, make that ten million.
7. Take it easy on Marty. Give your entry a pronouncable name. And if your own name is unusual, include a phonetic translation.
8. Speed it up! Any entry that takes more than ten seconds to present had damned well better be REALLY funny, feature an incredible special effect (and no, special beading doesn't count), or be modeled by someone seriously hot.
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I was right, too. :-)
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nice :)
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(says she who missed most of the Masquerade because she was wrangling 19 kids... I'll just have to buy the video.)
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You need to do more.
GRIN!
Liam
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We met for 30 seconds in ConSuite Friday afternoon.
/friendsfriends
DEAR GHOD YES. PLEASE. MAKE. IT. STOP.
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Of course several people (including you, I believe) eventually came to our rescue. So that was okay. It's just...you know, even just a quick "here's what to do" sign on the wall next to the door would have been nice. We didn't know if we should just grab cloth and go nuts, where we could find pins, what the procedure was for using the sewing machines, etc.
Just to repeat, I really appreciated everything you did. I'm just combing my mind to come up with something that might be helpful for next year. I certainly mean no offense!
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PS: Liam is good people
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9. You and your friends are not actors (well, unless you ARE professional actors, of course). Don't inflict your "courtly ritual" on us, and spare us the histrionics.
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The scary thing is that that sort of costume probably makes up 50% of all Masquerade entries, ever.