#lvlup

[mesmercosplays]

My Lvlup Expo lineup! I can't wait to go!

#lvlupexpo #lvlupexpo2024 #lvlup #cosplaylineup #lvlupexpolineup #meyrin #shang qinghua #cheerleader idv #lvl up expo #mey rin #black butler #svsss #scum villian self saving system #idv #identity v

[ttayy]

🖤🐈‍⬛

#rawr #meow #catgirl #kawaii #lvlup #cyberpunk

[esctoydotcom]

New colorways! More Bots! The @lvlupexpo x @erickscarecrow collaboration continues with more LVLUP BOTS! Now available https://lvlupexpo.com/shop/

#lvlup #erickscarecrow #esctoys #lasvegas

[subconsciousrealms]

I’m in Las Vegas this weekend for #LvlUpExpo - come find me in the artist alley table A125. I have a limited selection of my layered Shadowbox Artwork as well as some new Desk Mat designs! . . . #lvlup #lvlupexpo2023 #lvlupexpoartistalley #artistalley #subconsciousrealms #fantasyart #landscapeart #dreamscapes #videogamelandscapes #fantasyartist #whimsicalart https://www.instagram.com/p/CoxmA7LvGCA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#lvlupexpo #lvlup #lvlupexpo2023 #lvlupexpoartistalley #artistalley #subconsciousrealms #fantasyart #landscapeart #dreamscapes #videogamelandscapes #fantasyartist #whimsicalart

[ocdaniel]

Fitness Football Family Faith 💪🏈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🙏 Can’t wait to start building with these HAWAII HAMMAHS 🔨🔨 @chadowens2 @rena_owens @pearlcountryclub #hammahsonly #brickbybrick #lvlup (at Pearl Country Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiwamiCLU3X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hammahsonly #brickbybrick #lvlup

[davidapringle]

Looks like an interesting day for me #dice #dicecollection #adventure #lvlup #nerd #nerdlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CcikK9SJoXQGGkaDesWz2ZeOD4il8VvKvDCBMA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#dice #dicecollection #adventure #lvlup #nerd #nerdlife

[satoumafuyuss]

First (real) date 🤗

based on this text post

#finished my like 563498543th rewatch a couple days ago i miss them so much. just 12 days till lvlup #i miss stolitz tails #i miss them a lot #im simultaneously so ready for full moon but also not at all #also shoutout to everyone whos been waiting since OCTOBER for a new episode ive only been waiting like 2 months and i already feel insane #nillyart #nillyfanart #stolitz #stolas x blitz #stolas #stolas goetia #blitzø #helluva boss #hellaverse

[blitzo-x-stolas]

I am actually losing my shit rn

I'm going to be in Vegas in less than 30 hours. What the hell?? I'm so excited!!!

#lvl up convention #lvl up expo #lvlup expo

[not-obsessed-with-jinx]

Some of my favorite LVLUP shots I took. There were so many great cosplaaaaaayers ˚▱˚)

⁽ᵀᵒᵗᵃˡˡʸ ᵈᶦᵈⁿ'ᵗ ᶠʳᵉᵃᵏ ᵒᵘᵗ ʷʰᵉⁿ ᴵ ˢᵃʷ ᵗʰᵉ ᴹᵉᵗʳᵒᶦᵈ ᴰʳᵉᵃᵈ ᶜᵒˢᵖˡᵃʸᵉ��⁾

#lvlup expo #lvl up expo #vita mea #will i share the jinx cosplayers? mayhaps...

[matamisin]

Dunno about any art this week cause it's gonna be a little busyyyy just a liiiitle 🤏

#got a project to work on and a presentation to stress about till next week #and then i got like a semi-wedding #and with that they talking about me making the cake and i was like ya fsfs but they never really confirmed if they were being fr or not lol #so i MIGHT need to make some kind of wedding cake sometime in my schedule #and then i have to go to an extra class the same day of the wedding so i can get an alcohol license 😭 #AND THEN we got LVLUP Expo on the weekend?!?! #still not sure about the expo tho cause like id love to go but i have no moneys 🥲 #lol just ranting #i had a bad day at class yesterday and im stressing out a lil bit askfjdjjsjs i must scream somewhere #me n my boyf kept joking around like oh shit happy valentines day *high fives* #we are both on a bidget so we agreed to make up for it on another day 🤭 itll be our personal valentines day hehe #budget #hmmm maybe ill draw us as an extra lil thing 🤔🤔 #anyways lol akdnsbsks ranting again #delete later

[thenoodlenews]

Are Conventions Still Relevant?

Show of hands, who has Twitter? Instagram? Discord or Tumblr? Seemingly everyone on earth nowadays has some form of social media, and does a significant amount of their socializing on it. 

The group most prolific for this are known to the world as nerds, geeks, dorks, or sometimes just weirdos. They’ve been there since the beginning of conventions, the internet, and most other things you’d associate with traditional media. 

The image you think of when you hear the word nerd is not what it always looked like. The invention of the internet kickstarted it into what we perceive now, but before it looked more like social clubs, political groups, and of course cults. 

The precursor to modern conventions were purely political ones, where majorly older white men gathered to discuss the world and politics. These date back to the 1800’s and continue to this day. 

Now we have conventions for anything and everything. My personal favorites are for vacuums, clowning, mermaiding, and oddity selling. 

But the first notable nerd convention is San Diego Comic Con. Though not the first nerd convention, it is the one that would become most famous and successful. 

Started in the 70’s by a devoted group of comic book, film, and science fiction fans, it is our starting point for what would become nerd culture as we know it today. For the first time, a group that had otherwise always felt othered and ostracized, as evident by their depictions in pop culture at the time like the film Revenge of the Nerds, had a place to embrace themselves and their communities. 

Nerd gatherings, and thus, their culture, began to explode. More conventions started, communities expanded, fandoms were created, and lifelong friendships were made. 

By the 80’s, the nerd was practically a subset of human beings with their own codes, cultures, languages, and more. Many now remember this as the golden age of nerds, with the commercialization of their culture coming soon after. 

Because there is no longer anyone on the planet who hasn’t seen a Marvel movie, which in fact used to be a comic company if you didn’t know, and Twitter arguments over who’s stan is more valid are commonplace, we tend to forget our roots and what it’s all about. 

So what is it all about? Conventions were the birthplace of the nerd, but with the invention of the internet, Discord servers, and Amazon merch what’s the point anymore? 

An image of convention goers at LVL UP Expo, from Eventbrite.com 

To answer this question I took myself to LVL UP Expo, a local Vegas convention for gaming, anime, and everything dorky to ask some dorks myself. The hustle and bustle of these conventions and of course my own nerdy shyness made it difficult to get some answers, but to those brave souls who spoke to me, this is what they said. 

“I just wanted to buy real bladed swords and to get autographs,” said Gaby Benities, 19. 

“I only want to cosplay,” said another nerd. 

“To me it just feels more real or legitimate when you’re in a physical place surrounded by people who share your interests; it’s easier to have spontaneous moments of ‘oh hey I recognize your outfit!’ or ‘you’re in line to meet this actor too?’ that you just can’t get anywhere else” said Jake Palmas, 25. 

For my part, it’s the only place I feel like I can be my real self and be seen. Just knowing everyone there is there for the same reasons, they’re all like me, makes me feel at home like no other place could. It’s also the best place I know to easily get your hands on cute, creative and interesting art from all kinds of people I otherwise would have never heard of. 

Conventions matter. They are an incredible way to support local art, engage and meet people for those that struggle with that, expand communities, and feel like yourself. 

Every one of the things I listed, and those given by guests and LVL UP Expo can be done on the internet, but from what I’ve heard and my own personal experience, it’s just not the same. Nothing could ever truly replicate the feeling someone can get from being surrounded by people who understand you. 

I’m sure that’s something everyone has struggled with and can relate to. So instead of asking why, ask why not? Why not support something that has only benefited people? (Except that one furry convention from the 90’s, I’m looking at you). Support the artists, the communities, the companies and creators who want to engage with you! 

So if you’ve never  been to a convention, not just the nerdy ones, go. I promise there’s something for you. But if you don’t like large crowds and can’t stand body odor, maybe just stick to Facebook.

#lvlup expo #sofi writes #nerds #conventions #my articles

[olive-schmolive]

Qifrey the witch

at your service. :)

Qifrey from Witch Hat Atelier by Shirahama Kamome

📸 @/instatroid on IG

Wearing this cosplay brings me so much gender euphoria. It also won me my first best-in-skill-category award at LVLUP this past February!

#qifrey #witch hat atelier #wha #atelier of witch hat #cosplay #my cosplay

[ttayy]

me-ow

#rawr #cyberpunk #cyber at #lvl up expo #lvlup #wazzyphotography

[n3felibata]

Hellaverse fans going to lvlup expo better have their phones ready because if they show a Full Moon sneak peak and no one recorded it and posted it, I'm gonna EXPLODE

#helluva boss #hellaverse #helluva #stolas #stolas goetia #blitzo #blitz #blitzø #blitz helluva boss #blitzo helluva boss #helluva boss blitzo #helluva boss blitz #stolitz

[slutty-spider-talk]

So my Mod can't help but wonder...anyone here goin' ta Lvlup Expo?

#hazbin hotel rp #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel roleplay #hazbin hotel ask #hazbin hotel angel dust #angel dust #angel dust hazbin hotel #hazbin angel dust

[lolottes]

Justice Poké league

So basically it was a reblog answer but it's LONG and not in the initial sudjet so I'm making it its own post

@radiance1

hum, I already think that some would be evolutions (superman or Oracle) and others not

clark ken - normal -lvlup-> superman steel flying (can return to normal type with the item Glasses)

batman - fighting dark (Infiltrator)

wonder woman - fighting fairy

Flash - normal electric ?

green lantern : then particular case I think that green lantern would be a talent which makes the type psychic with the ring

GL Hal Jordan: flying maiby flying steel -> flying spychic

GL Kyle Rayner: fairy (because Ion is an artist, nothing to do with his sexual orientation -_-)

GL John Stewart: psychic ??? for me architect = wall and it's psychic attacks maybe then he is twice psychic so double stab and resistance and double weakness?

so I don't know him, but I know things, he was accused of terrorism and has an occasional vision of the future, so fire if you want to have a bad sense of humor or dark because his vision reminds me absol soooo GL Simon Braz: Dark

GL Jessica Cruz .... I have NO idea what she was doing as a civilian before being pushed to be a heroine

Martian Manhunter: spychic ghost, why ghost, for the change in density, the invisibility but also because mourning is part of him and his writing

Aquaman: water (dum)

Green Arrow : normal (the pure normal type is legitimate! and is not just lame! please, the 1g meta was dominated by them, they often have a move set diversify and the move set aspect hyper difersify fits like a glove a green arrow) and if you are really anti normal then fighting

Zatanna: psychic (of course)

Constantine: Dark ghost (I mean… cursed and sold his soul + demon blood)

Cyborg electric steel

Shazam electric flying

Blue Beetle electric bug

Dr Fate : ghost phychic or an item that adds the ghost type on a spychic type and spychic otherwise

Booster Gold: Dark (he can go back in time and become thanks to the action of stealing the museum in which he works)

Hawkman flying dark (traitor / double agent)

hawkwoman flying fighting (or steel or electric with his mace)

batgirl: fighting -> Oracle: spychic

plastic man civil dark (voleur) -> hero: ground dark so I know that this choice seems strange BUT! he is a fan of puns and he tries to "bury" his thief reflex / his kleptomania … in addition the plastic is immune to electricity sooo ground

Starfire: fairy / fire all space related pokemon tend to be either phychic or fairy but as flying and psychic are already very representative and that his power comes from his emotions finally

Robin (Dick): flying fairy -> Nightwing: flying dark (with access to electric attacks)

Robin (Dick): flying fairy ->Red X: Dark fairy (so, i like the idea of a pokemon that always changes one of its types to dark as it evolves and that type has different aspects (wrongdoing / obscurity) depending on evolution and it's a different type that gets lost during evolution. Red X and above all a thief and not by real choice at first, I'm not going to dwell too much, but the image of him having his wings clipped is just too lively and poetic to pass up)

Jason préRobin : fighting dark (tire theft) -> Robin (Jason): fighting fairy -die in a fight after gaining a level (so in a trainer fight / serious fight)-> red hood Ghost Dark/Fairy like this one I think I have to explain it: for how it evolves, yep to make it possible only against a trainer who can kill it and after having already fought well, it's original, but given the methods of he evolution introduced in legend is not out of place either. For the ossilation between two types, dark is for rage pits and fairy because its goal is always the revival of the alley of crime, moreover the contrast seems cool to me :3

tim prés robin: Dark -> Robin (Tim) Dark fairy (-> stalker=Dark and so far fairy for all the robins because they supposed to represent hope) -> red robin : ..... dark losing robin's mantle makes him lose the fairy type without preventing him from learning fairy attacks, moreover it's an evolution that has been reversed so … red robin is a mega evolution?

Robin (Damien): Ghost fairy (I hesitated, but I wanted a different type for each robin and the al gull lineage is associated with lazarus and death. As long as he follows the blood heritage mentality he stays in the al gull mentality and therefore the ghost type for me)

Beast boy: normal protéen

Raven: Dark fairy (fairy and not psychic because its powers are dependent on its emotion (like starfire) and the aspect controls darkness and more obvious than the purely magical aspect

hum, I think we've covered this important enough or that I feel comfortable enough to have an opinion.

BUT I would like your opinion on how the DC heroes or characters would be as pokemon.

at firstI also wanted to give them ability and secret Ability but I've been there for hours and my pc has already overheated once ^^'

#justice league #dc comics #dc heroes #crossover #pokemon crossover #pokemon #Justice Poké league