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Zac Barclay concludes his Atlanta Dragon*Con ‘09 correspondence by wrapping up his suggestions for appropriate con behavior.  Read it, live it, learn!
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Picking up where we left off, I give you the final 5 things to do and not to do at the Atlanta Dragon*Con.

6)  Don’t run to a costume store and buy a $30, off the rack costume.  There will be people at the Con who spend thousands…yes…thousands of dollars on their costumes and put hundreds of hours into the construction.  It’s just not right to throw on a plastic Bender mask with a stretchy cord and then pose for pictures like you’re Hellraiser. 

7)  Underwear is NOT a costume.  If you can’t think of something cool to wear, simply being a girl with a good figure who leans on the crutch of skipping around in her underwear, is NOT enough.  Sure, you’re hot, your boobs look great, your stomach is flat…but…you can do that at the beach.  Are you really THAT desperate for attention that you’ll strip down to your Vicki’s Secrets and allow yourself to be photographed by hundreds of men with questionable intent?  That shit IS going to end up on the internets lady.  Think about it.

8)  Resemble the character that you dress as.  If you are 400lbs with fat flapping, don’t dress as a shirtless God of War.  You don’t look like Cronos.  And don’t just use red lipstick to draw emblems on your body.  That’s…just…schticky and corny.  I will put an addendum on this though.  I saw a heavy storm trooper whose costume fit them correctly.  I’ll allow it.  There was also a big boned Dr. Girlfriend who pulled off the costume just fine.  But a bleach blonde Laura Croft, or a bald Conan the Barbarian are simply, not acceptable. 

9)  If wearing off the shoulder, shave your back.  As a bodily hairy dude myself, I understand that there are things that folks do not want to see in public.  Trim that shit back Hedgehog.  Seriously. 

10)  Corsets.  Research them, wear them correctly.  The internet is a wonderful thing.  You can find anything you want on the internet.  Pornography, historical research, comic book art.  All three of these things show an abundance of corsets.  Keep in mind that ¾ of the pornography you see on the internet will show the IMPROPER fit of a corset.  Use that knowledge to your advantage.  The purpose of a corset in modern society is to make you look sexy.  If it does things to your body that make it resemble half congealed pudding, you are wearing it incorrectly.  If it shapes your body in a constructive way that accentuates your curves and lady parts, you might have it on correctly. 

      Bonus)  I am not Duff Goldman.  I do not make cakes. 

Hopefully this list of suggestions will help at least one new Dragon*Con visitor to a happy experience.  Even without any aid to ease me in to my Dragon*Con experience, I still had the time of my life.  A special thanks goes out to the Dragon*Con media relations folks, led by Dan Carroll (who was as accommodating and friendly as he could be.  Thanks Dan!), and to Stefan for setting us up with the press passes that allowed last weekend to be a success.  And last, but certainly NOT least:  Thank you to all of the volunteers and fellow Dragon*Con attendees.  You were all VERY friendly and helpful to a couple of guys who initially did not fit in, but left feeling as if they were a part of the Dragon*Con family!  Until next year… 

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