when i was 13 i...

- went to a 413 homestuck meetup at a park and a gamzee cosplayer attempted to push me in a river and excused it by saying he was just trying to be in character

- was constantly painting my nails yellow for troll cosplays (do trolls even have canonly yellow nails? or was that just a hugely popular fanon thing for cosplayers? i dont even know) and it got to the point where my nails got literally stained yellow. like. my nails were just always yellow tinted for a loooong long time and it looked gross lol.

- was posted to a "cosplay cringe" instagram account for doing a casual rose cosplay in public. like, it was considered super cringe that i had the gall to show up somewhere in a noncanon outfit

- wore horns out in public Everywhere and All The Time. i had the plush welovefine aradia horns and id just wear them casually to restaurants, parks, family gatherings, grocery shopping, etc. one time a group of older teenage boys tried to steal them right off my head in the middle of a costco

- witnessed my irl middle school friend group get in a near fistfight over dave strider kin drama. one was mad at the other for buying out the last dave shirt at our local hot topic and it literally ended friendships

i definitely have a lot more stories but these were the first ones that came to mind lol. wild times dude