It’s Friday, 12:15pm, and I’m tiptoeing in a bathroom stall, cautiously stepping on my shoes, one at a time, avoiding the floor as if it were lava, getting changed into my Kyouko Sakura (Madoka Magica) cosplay, preparing to attend Erica’s first panel at AnimeNYC. I’m 35 years old and I’ve never cosplayed in my whole […]
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