Intro
Hello. I'm Nautical. I'm a kid (legal age for using discord).
I do art.
I like Terraria.
I like Undertale.
I like Stardew Valley, but I just like the game and am not exactly in the Fandom.
I phase in and out of the Madness Combat fandom.
I have a Terraria AU named Fablebound where all of the unique enemy variants are characterized/personified.
I have an Undertale x Madness Combat AU named Undermadness.
I have and Undertale x Terraria AU called Terratale.
I plan to draw neither of the last 2 AUs.
I have a weird obsession with unique enemy variants in Terrararia, especially Doctor Bones.
Ambivert.
I cosplay. Mainly Undertale characters.
I've gone to 2 conventions (Calgary expo 2022, Otafest 2022) as of the time I posted this.
I'm from Edmonton (Canada).
I'm half Japanese and half Scottish.
I speak English and a tiny bit of Japanese.
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Anime Conventions give me the best excuse to travel!
Recently returned from Kumoricon 2022 in Portland, Oregon which I thoroughly enjoyed, and it was my first time ever to visit the city of Portland or indeed the State of Oregon at all. My friends drove down from Seattle to hang out with me for the weekend and we had a blast exploring and dining out together....above and beyond the fun of the anime con itself. I'm glad I finally got to see the "AMV Editors" documentary Synched Together which had screened at Anime Boston 2022 and did pique my interest at the time, BUT, at AB they screened it Saturday night at 11pm and it was a chilly night in Boston and even though my hotel (Boston Sheraton) was the official convention hotel and just around the corner from the Hynes Convention Center, when 10:30pm rolled around, I found I just didn't have the motivation to get more fully dressed and go to the convention center. I was enjoying myself just fine sipping on local craft brews and watching anime on my iPad, which I continued to do until a little past midnight then I turned in and went to bed.
I traveled to Portland without my CPAP machine and that was in hindsight probably a mistake, as my sleep quality during the trip was marginal at best....my patterns reverted back to a familiar pattern of disconnected short hour to 2 hour long naps then waking to pee then lying back down for another nap, wash rinse repeat until breakfast. I know it is possible to travel with a CPAP machine but FAA regulations are fairly strict about doing so and I just need to study up on those. Likewise my next Anime Convention out of town trip is going to be heading up to Otafest in Calgary, Alberta, and is Western Canada's largest Anime convention. The AMV Contest manager Vlad featured in Synched Together , besides running the AMV Contest for SakuraCon in Seattle also runs it for Otafest in Calgary and for Animethon in Montreal, Quebec. I look forward to what he has in store for Otafest 2023.
I've been obsessively studying Google Street view for downtown Calgary and am very excited. The TELUS Convention Centre is right next to my hotel and the Light Rail line is right next to the Hyatt Regency on the other side of the convention center, and my hotel is across the street from the iconic Calgary (TV) Tower that I would very much like to go up and have a look from.
I think I will also be hitting up Otakon 2023 in Washington DC in late July as well. One of my High School best friends just moved his family from southwestern Germany to Crystal City only this year. It's still a bit early to buy an Otakon 2023 membership but the official hotels are available for booking and I snatched a room closer to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown DC that unlike the Moxy DC has a hot breakfast served daily. I was willing to pay the little bit extra a night for that luxury. Sidebar, the breakfast buffet in Portland was HEAVEN. Yes, it was pricey, but no worse than the Boston Sheraton in the Back Bay area. I loved starting off every day in Portland with that hearty breakfast. I also loved the science-fiction like subdued lighting with motion sensors so every time I got up to pee it would give me just enough light to let me safely navigate the room but not so much light that I was temporarily blinded or had my circadian rhythms disturbed. They should install these standard in assisted living facilities and nursing homes, honestly. The elderly could really benefit from them.
With lessons learned from Otakon 2021, I will be endeavoring to fly out of Houston Hobby on Southwest Airlines straight to Reagan National (DCA) or with only 1 layover at most. It would make ground transportation that much easier for Otakon, since DCA has its own dedicated stop on the DC Metro Green Line....as does the Convention Center, so there's no reason to even switch trains!
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Conventions I‘ll Be a Guest at
I’m gonna link to this from the main page, this is so both you (and I) can keep track of which conventions I’ll be at and when.
If you want me at a local con near you, tell the people who run that con to contact me.
2024
March 23-24, 2024: Animarathon (Bowling Green, Ohio)
March 29-31, 2024: MTAC (Nashville, Tennessee)
April 20, 2024: Concinnity (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
2023
May 25-28, 2023: MomoCon (Atlanta, Georgia)
June 2-4, 2023: A-Kon (Irving, Texas)
July 1-2, 2023: SMASH! (Sydney, Australia)
August 3-6, 2023: Gen Con w/ Incredible Dream (Indianapolis, Indiana)
2022
April 15-17, 2022: Colorado Anime Fest (Denver, Colorado)
April 21-24, 2022: PAX East (Boston, Massachusetts)
2021
October 22-24, 2021: Anime Nebraskon (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
October 28-31, 2021: Youmacon (Detroit, Michigan)
2019
January 26, 2019: Cosplay Snow Festival (Rochester, New York)
February 22-24, 2019: Kami-Con (Birmingham, Alabama)
April 5-7, 2019: KaizokuCon (Cork, Ireland)
April 19-21, 2019: International Fan Festival (Toronto, Canada)
April 27-28, 2019: Castle Point Anime Convention (Secaucus, New Jersey)
May 17-19, 2019: Otafest (Calgary, Alberta)
May 23-26, 2019: MomoCon (Atlanta, Georgia)
July 5-7, 2019: RTX (Austin, Texas)
August 9-11, 2019: AniRevo (Vancouver, Canada)
2018
January 19-21, 2018: Otakon Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada)
February 9-11, 2018: AlmaCon (Alma, Michigan)
March 23-25, 2018: Shuto Con (Lansing, Michigan)
March 30-April 1, 2018: MTAC (Nashville, Tennessee)
April 5-8, 2018: Tekko (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
May 4-6, 2018: No Brand Con (Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin)
May 24-27, 2018: MomoCon (Atlanta, Georgia)
July 27-29, 2018: Radiant Northwest (Renton, Washington)
August 3-5, 2018: Anirevo (Vancouver BC Canada)
August 10-12, 2018: Otakon (Washington DC)
August 31-September 2, 2018: San Japan (San Antonio, Texas)
November 16-18, 2018: Daisho Con (Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin)
2017
January 27-29, 2017: PAX South w/ Truant Pixel (San Antonio, TX)
March 3-5, 2017: WTH!? Con (Greensboro, North Carolina)
March 24-26, 2017: AggieCon (College Station, Texas)
April 14-16, 2017: Shumatsucon (Columbus, Ohio)
July 1-4, 2017: Anime Expo w/ Japan Crate (Los Angeles, California)
August 25-27, 2017: Crunchyroll Expo (Santa Clara, California)
October 7, 2017: NyanCon (Kirtland, Ohio)
October 13-15, 2017: Another Anime Con (Manchester, New Hampshire)
November 18-20, 2017: Sabakon (Las Vegas, Nevada)
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