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I hope so too -- we would love to have you!! :D

[FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST GATHERING]

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST GATHERING

This Gathering Includes:
Any version/canon of FMA that you want to cosplay!

Day: Sunday, May 24th (confirmed!)
Time: 12:00PM (confirmed!)
Location (L): G7, between the main con center and the Hilton (confirmed!)

Cosplayers:
Drop me a line here or on Facebook (see below) if you're planning to attend!  I'll be keeping both this post and the FB event up-to-date as much as possible. (We usually average around 30-40 amazing people.)

Photo Order:
Bring your ideas, and I'll bring the paperwork, the cats, the endless opportunities for short jokes, and the Philosopher's Stone. ;)

Link to Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/589476391785326/
(Everything's tentative until we get the go-ahead from staff, which probably won't be until April or so!)

Legal Statement:
Fanime will be taking group pictures during the Gathering/Event this year. If you do not want to be included in those pictures please step aside for those photos. By remaining with the group when the pictures are being taken you give your consent to be photographed.

News/Updates:
1/19/2020: Hello and welcome to 2020, everyone! Can't wait to see my Fanime FMA fam (join me in trying to say that three times fast) again for more shenanigans! Check out last year's gathering photos if you haven't seen them; we had a blast! :D https://www.facebook.com/events/354848595292841/?active_tab=discussion
3/7/2020: The gatherings team outdoes themselves for us ever year, y'all. We're all confirmed and ready to go!

Hi, guys! Just wanted to check in so everyone knows I'm alive, and this business is 100% still on for May. As always, I'm really looking forward to it, and so excited to get some awesome shots with you guys!

[FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST GATHERING]

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST GATHERING

This Gathering Includes:
Any version/canon of FMA that you want to cosplay!

Day: Sunday, May 26th
Time: 12:00PM
Location (L): G7, between the main con center and the Hilton (same place as the last 2 years!)

Cosplayers:
Drop me a line here or on Facebook (see below) if you're planning to attend!  I'll be keeping both this post and the FB event up-to-date as much as possible. (We usually average around 30-40 people, and they are all my favorites.)

Photo Order:
Bring your ideas, and I'll bring the paperwork, the cats, and the Philosopher's Stone. ;)

Link to Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/354848595292841/
(Everything's tentative until we get the go-ahead from staff, which probably won't be until April or so!)

Legal Statement:
Fanime will be taking group pictures during the Gathering/Event this year. If you do not want to be included in those pictures please step aside for those photos. By remaining with the group when the pictures are being taken you give your consent to be photographed.

News/Updates:
1/6/2019: Happy New Year, Fanime fam! \o/ Join us for the usual shenanigans! We had a huge, amazing group of cosplayers last year (seriously – https://fanimecon.slickpic.com/albums/FanimeCon-Sunday-9am-1am/?wallpaper), and I'm sure this year will be fantastic, too!
4/6/2019: We're all confirmed by staff and ready to go!  Same time, same place, same energy, more shutter shades than ever. 8)
If you're not familiar with the location, here's the map! We're in G7: https://apps.fanime.com/2019/gatheringapp/images/Gatherings_map.jpg?fbclid=IwAR3dkqy9FtEvB05OEvhE3j7vTlcfl-gej0puLc7GMoNvXSqSN20b6W-Xb8I

@cidcrow AWESOME!!  That gives me some photo ideas already... :D

[YURI ON ICE GATHERING]

YURI ON ICE GATHERING

This Gathering Includes:
All of the extended skatefam and their friends, frenemies, fans, etc.!

Day: Friday, May 25th (confirmed!)
Time: 3:00PM (confirmed!)
Location (L): G6, i.e. the stair area near the entrance, backing against the windows (confirmed!)

Cosplayers:
Drop me a line here or on Facebook (see below) if you're planning to attend!  I'll be keeping both this post and the FB event up-to-date as much as possible.  Last year's gathering (which I missed, but I saw the pics!) had an awesome turnout.

Photo Order:
Bring your ideas, and I'll bring a backup list!

Link to Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2105112053053554/

Legal Statement:
Fanime will be taking group pictures during the Gathering/Event this year. If you do not want to be included in those pictures please step aside for those photos. By remaining with the group when the pictures are being taken you give your consent to be photographed.

News/Updates:
4/1/2018: It didn't look like anyone was planning to make this gathering happen, so HERE IT IS. :D I'm not possessive about this at all, so anyone who'd like to pitch in and help out is welcome and encouraged to!
4/28/2018: We're official, skatefam! I think I explained the location very poorly, but it's the big one that's impossible to miss as you're on your way into the convention center. :) Check out the map!  We're at G6: https://imgur.com/zxH60fR

Still alive!  Unlike several of our faves, who died in the name of dramatic tension. </3

Hey, guys, I hosted (well, co-hosted with an angel dressed as Lance, but officially hosted) the gathering last year – but I am in no way committed to doing it this year, so please feel free to go right ahead, whoever wants to!

Hey, guys!  Checking in on this thread to make sure the mods know I'm alive. :D

I've submitted the form for this bad boy, so we should be on our way to being official.  I'll let you know as soon as we lock down our date, time, and location!  Likely that won't be for a couple months yet.

In the meantime, was anybody else at Katsucon?  The crash is super real right now... @____@

[FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST GATHERING]

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST GATHERING

This Gathering Includes:
Any version/canon of FMA that you want to cosplay!

Day: Sunday, May 27th (confirmed!)
Time: 12:00PM (confirmed!)
Location (L): G7 (confirmed!)

Cosplayers:
Drop me a line here or on Facebook (see below) if you're planning to attend!  I'll be keeping both this post and the FB event up-to-date as much as possible. (We usually average around 30-40 people, and they are all my favorites.)

Photo Order:
Bring your ideas, and I'll bring a backup list!  There are so many ways to categorize the FMA characters that we usually have a great time. I will also try to bring some props again! :D

Link to Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/126759038120886/

Legal Statement:
Fanime will be taking group pictures during the Gathering/Event this year. If you do not want to be included in those pictures please step aside for those photos. By remaining with the group when the pictures are being taken you give your consent to be photographed.

News/Updates:
12/31/2017: I was getting super anxious thinking I was behind on creating this post, and then I saw that my first post last year wasn't until the 8th of January.  @me, why are you like this?? XD
4/1/2018: Zero fooling, we're all set!  G7 is a new name, but it's the same spot as last year's gathering. I posted more detailed directions on Facebook, but here's the official map, which is super helpful: https://i.imgur.com/zxH60fR.jpg

I totally meant to send in an ~official~ note to Fanime to make sure they heard it, but naturally one con led to another and my life devolved into a craft mess, and I never got to it...

The two things I most wanted to say were: Imperial, you (and B. whose cosplay name I cannot find for the LIFE of me right now!) and every staff member I interacted with were, as always, super cheerful and super helpful.  I especially tormented one poor person at the table on Saturday when I was stranded between having too much caffeine and not nearly enough and just rambled aimlessly, but everyone was always super delightful.  I vaguely remember (...caffeine) it being a bit tricky to find the table, but once we did, everyone was so knowledgeable and nice!

I also LOVED the staff photographer thing!  We had Emerald Hook for both of the gatherings I ran, and he was fantastic – not just the photo quality (excellent) and turnaround time (practically immediate), but he was also extremely helpful with actually running the gathering by helping me corral people, suggest poses, make sure everyone was staying in consistent light, etc.  Also, actually GETTING photos back was sort of a novelty, since my gatherings are usually a bit ad hoc on the photographer front.  All in all, I just thought that was the coolest thing, and especially given what a strain it had to be on the staff and the photographers, thank you so much to everyone involved for making it happen!

I haven't personally been to any of the other cosplayer spaces, but I have a friend from SoCal who's an epic cosplayer who came to Fanime in 2016 and said the hangout room was one of her favorite things about the con.  Having somewhere to retreat to that was quiet and stocked with water and so forth when she and her group were running low on spoons was a godsend, and she mentioned once that she'd never seen a con that was quite as accessible for things like that as Fanime.  Seriously major kudos to you guys for making that happen, too!

Also, now that I've run and seen gatherings at a few other cons... I really appreciate you guys even more.  Even with the occasional hiccups from gremlins in the technology, Life getting in the way, etc., you guys are a thousand times more organized than anywhere else, and we're the ones who benefit the most from that.  The cosplay community is a huge part of what makes Fanime such a great con, and all of the immense amount of work you guys do supports that!  Thank you!!

Hi, kids... looks like we're at T-minus OH MY GOD WHAT. XD

Here's the deal:

If you hang around until 12:45, I will give you a pair of shutter shades (while supplies last – I think I have 30 or so, and priority will go to cosplayers!).

Also, for anyone who's interested – I'm planning to try to drag a couple of people across the street to take a couple more pictures with some of the scenery we can get near the Discovery Museum... and there's a chance of a carpooling adventure to even more exciting locales after that.  If you want to get in on that, or even just get a couple nice portrait shots of your cosplay, stick around after 1!  8)

RealAnnabeth – super excited to see you either way!! :D

@everybody:
Did Fanime sneak up WICKED fast on anybody else, or is it just me?

This is the part where I need your help if you guys are down!  If you have any photo ideas, please post them here or at the Facebook page so I can add them to my (currently very meager) list!  This will help a ton to keep stuff organized on the day of, especially if we end up with a lot of people!

Thanks, guys!!  Really looking forward to seeing everybody's work!!

Hi, guys!

I made a post on the Facebook event including an updated map and a couple quick pictures of the G5 area:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1861144337495404/permalink/1921573788119125/

It is, in fact, where I thought it was. XD And if you don't have a Facebook account/can't access that page – here's the new map on its own! http://i.imgur.com/y3UMuuQ.png

[PSA to all:]

XennCosplay – OMG, that would be SUPER COOL!  Best of luck!  I'd love to see that! :D

PSA to all:
I put a map on Facebook, accompanied by a couple very poorly-angled photos I took walking towards the G5 spot last weekend!  Hopefully if you've never been there before, this will help you find it:

https://www.facebook.com/events/269967656755237/permalink/327315587687110/

(It does look like it will require you to log in to a FB account to see my post, so if you don't have one, here's the updated map! http://i.imgur.com/y3UMuuQ.png )

Hi, guys!  I'm pretty sure this is where G5 is... and I'll be at SVCC this weekend (as Pidge on Saturday, if anyone here is going!), so while I'm there I'll make sure that I'm thinking of the right place! ^^;

http://i.imgur.com/mquDmhz.png

Hey, guys!  I am... about ninety percent sure this is where G5 is supposed to be. XD  I'll double-check that I'm thinking of the right spot while I'm at SVCC next weekend and let you guys no for sure!

http://i.imgur.com/mquDmhz.png

omg, you guys are all awesome! :D  Super excited to see everybody's work!

We are now confirmed for Saturday at 4:00 PM in the G5 gatherings area – I'll make a map and post it here in the next few weeks to make sure everyone can find it! :)

No jokes OR April fool's pranks here – just confirmed date, time, and location, now included above! 8)

No bad joke today (I'm sure you're all devastated) – just a piece of fanart that deserves more love, because it's cool as HECK!

http://murasign.tumblr.com/post/158077518992/i-think-i-need-to-reanimate-my-tumblr-so-ill