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Ahhh! Hello everybody and welcome back to yet another
Cosplay story time, today I'm doing things a little bit different. This is gonna be kind of like a high school
nerd
chronicles Story, I guess I don't know what to call it, high school
drama, not really high school -
It's gonna be like a high school story, a lot of my cosplay stories that I've shared like happened while I was in high school
But this one happened like while I was actually like in high school not like at a convention
But like physically in high school not like in high school, but like at convention. Was in high school
But also physically in my high school. So yeah, it's still like a cosplay story time is still relevant to cosplay
But it's going to be more about kind of like my experiences
In high school, and I thought that sharing this
might resonate with some people who have gone through the same thing or are going through the same kind of thing right now because
I know that a lot of you watching are still teenagers and are still in high school. So, I don't know. Maybe this will be
Therapeutic or helpful or just like knowing that somebody has kind of had the same experiences, you might
Be helpful - I don't know.
I'm just gonna stop yammering about what this story is what was get into it and tell you guys so this is the time that
One of my high school bullies/Mean Girls wanted one of my cosplays wanted to borrow one of my cosplays
So - a little bit of background, all throughout my school career. I was never a cool kid. I was always
like picked on and bullied and didn't have a whole lot of friends and everybody thought that I was weird and that my interests were
Weird and that I was a "baby" for liking cartoons and stuff. So like I was never a cool kid
I was always like the stereotypical like nerd that all the popular kids just like thought was a dork basically. In my high school class
There was this group of girls and one of the girls in that group
We're gonna call her Chanel. Chanel and her friends
They bullied me all throughout high school, but not in like the you know
Shove you into a locker and call you names kind of way, but in the kind of like
Mean girl way right where they would like ignore me or they wouldn't really acknowledge me. They would talk down to me
They're always very condescending. They made it very clear that they thought that I was
very much "Uncool" and that my interest, you know, cosplay, anime, cartoons
and all that stuff was just like
dumb and juvenile
and they would only really talk to me when they had to
and whenever they would talk to me they'd be snarky and they would definitely be like
You know them talking down to me. For instance. We were in the school play together in
Ninth grade and I think 10th grade as well but specifically in ninth grade
It was Midsummer Night's Dream and we played a group of fairies and so we were working together
like whole lot
we were basically like all a group because of like the roles that were playing
and even like within this group where we had to get along
I was very much like counted out I guess you could say like they very much did not want to include me, you know
When they were having their lunches or anything, like I was very much by myself throughout that entire production
So that kind of puts things into perspective
Another thing that happened with Chanel just to kind of again set the stage we were on this field trip and part of this field
Trip was we went to this museum and then we went to this big mall afterwards
We had traveled to another city and there's this huge mall
and so we went to this museum and then we went to the mall afterwards and so I went off by myself and I found
this huge anime store in this mall and
That was during like my early days of being an anime fan. I had just gotten into Fullmetal Alchemist
I loved Fullmetal Alchemist
Like my main jam was Fullmetal Alchemist, and I never seen Fullmetal Alchemist merch
This is also actually before my first anime convention
So I guess I just never seen like anime merch period this is before anime merch we like super widespread
kind of like it is today
So you really had to go to a convention or like a specialized store to find it and there were no specialized stores
um - in my city at the time so like basically what I'm getting that is like
Super into Fullmetal Alchemist don't have anybody show this interest with don't have anywhere to get merch from and I find this store
That's just all anime merch and I find all this Fullmetal Alchemist stuff, and I'm just like over the moon. I'm so happy
I'm this like excited little solo anime nerd, right?
Because it's really cool to see you know
A whole business based around this thing that you like and don't really have anybody to share that interest with.
so - I got some Fullmetal Alchemist Posters and I was so ecstatic. So we're on the bus ride home
the girls are talking about what they got and I'm like, oh I got all these posters from Fullmetal Alchemist and like
I don't know
I just kind of was so excited about it that I'm like
Oh, these girls probably like aren't gonna know what that is, or you know, they're not gonna be super familiar
But I just want to say it because I'm just so excited. You cannot even picture how giddy I was over this
so Chanel is sitting in front of me on the bus and I'm like, oh I got these Fullmetal Alchemist posters and she's like,
oh, Fullmetal Alchemist, yeah my sister used to like that show
and just very much has this like tone of voice and like body language of like
Oh my gosh, that's so uncool and then her friend who sit next to her was like oh, what show is it?
And she's like Fullmetal Alchemist, like textbook like mean girl
Like that's what my experience with this group of girls was especially Chanel
So anyway, so now we know about Chanel now we know kind of about, like, how she treated me in school
so now for the actual... story
so I was sitting in my French class one day
this is pretty much like exactly one week before a school dance and I think
It was either the Halloween dance or it was this heroes and villains theme dance
I can't remember exactly which one it was, but I'm pretty sure was the heroes and villains theme dance
so I'm sitting in French class Chanel and her friends are sitting behind me and
It's it's study time or whatever or like the the class hasn't started yet or you know
For some reason we're allowed to talk in stuff. So I'm just like doing my thing and
She calls on me, which is weird, right?
because she never really acknowledges me unless she absolutely has to. The other thing about Chanel is that she had this very specific way of
Talking to me, which was completely different
From how she would talked to her friends and how she would talk to teachers and it was a very very condescending way. So
She would basically talked to me like I was a little kid
so she would slow down her speech and really annunciate
and talk to me like I was a little kid like somehow, you know,
Like she thought I was stupid or whatever which you know, is totally not okay,
please don't talk to people like that. Just talk to them how you would talk to your friends. Anyway, that felt real nice
She says do you watch Sailor Moon? And this totally catches me off guard because like up until this point
She's made it very clear that she thinks they like me liking anime me being into cosplay was like super stupid, right?
and so I'm like
Oh, maybe she's had a change of heart
Maybe like she wants to talk anime with me and she thinks that I'm a cool like, you know, maybe you know
We'll be friends or like, you know, better acquaintances or whatever in my mind is like running with this idea
And I think like what I really wanted in high school was to feel included within my classmates so I get really excited
Cause I'm thinking  maybe something cool is gonna come out of this.
So I'm like, oh no, I've never actually seen Sailor Moon.
She's like "oh, because for the dance, I want to be Sailor Moon's sidekick, Sailor Mercury"
So I was wondering if you had anything you could lend me
*clap*
That's like the ultimate punch to the face having someone make it very clear that they think that what you do like
You know cosplay, anime, all that stuff is dumb
Until it somehow serves them.
The notion of, like, coming to me and asking if I could lend her something and lend her something, you know
If I did have a Sailor Moon cosplay
Right. The thing about my cosplays during high school was that all of them were made, um, with the help of my mom
My mom actually did most of the sewing
During those early years of cosplay because I didn't know how to sew and she really enjoyed it.
So -
She would put so much love and effort into each cosplay and it was you know, it was such a passion project
You know
for the two of us and they were like these beautifully made very intricate and just lovingly made things
and just the idea of
Someone who obviously didn't think very highly of me. Obviously, you know, like bullied me made me feel small and all that stuff
I'm just like the idea of somebody just using me and like wearing this... this thing. That is so sentimental
I don't know if I'm explaining it well
but it's just it's a crazy thing to think about right? And like knowing what I knew about Chanel and
Knowing like how she felt towards me. I don't think she would have, you know taken that great care of it
I don't know. It happens
Like let me know in the comments if this has ever happened to you, but like, you know when the kind of like "your bullies"
Or like the "Mean Girls" in school or whatever give you a hard time for, you know, liking what you like
You know being a nerd, being into you know fantasy, sci-fi, anime, cartoons
Whatever, but then they like act like it's cool when they can get something out of it
But like outside of that context they think that what you're into is stupid
I don't even know if I'm really, like, explaining it that well
I hope you guys know what I mean, but it was just a real kind of like punch to the face moment
So anyway from there her friends were kinda trying man. They're like, yeah
Do you have any like Sailor Moon related stuff that she could borrow? I was like -
"Oh no sorry , like I don't have anything Sailor Moon related" and she's like,
"okay -
Well, thanks anyway." And that was that did not feel good did not feel good to have somebody basically ridicule and like, you know
Obviously disapprove of this passion this hobby that you have but then when it serves them they'll kind of ask you for it
There's a big moral to this story that I want to put out there and that is that there's no reason
Not to be nice to people in high school. I know that in high school
everybody's doing their own thing and this is not something that I hold against this person at all because
I know that like, you know, that was pretty much a lifetime ago
And she's probably a completely different person and so like I'm not angry at her. I don't hate her as a person
I just look back at this memory and think you know that was kind of a crappy thing in any sort of environment, especially school
It's very popular among kids to...
Ignore, mistreat, belittle, talk down, to other kids just because you don't share the same interests
or you think that they're somehow uncool or weird
and yeah, I was not a super cool kid
But that doesn't mean that I and everybody else in that school wasn't worthy of respect
There's no reason not to you know
Be kind of positive to other people even if you don't have the same interests as them or you think that they're kind of weird
Or eccentric or whatever
Um, you can still like acknowledge them as a person you can still like smile at them in the hallways
You can still talk to them and kind of like acknowledge them in a positive way and that doesn't make you super BFFs
You know friends forever like you don't have any close friends with the people
but you can be positive acquaintances and I think it's very popular within like
you know the drama hive that is high school to be like negative acquaintances with people just because -
You don't have the same interests as them there's absolutely no reason
For that.
Anyway -
That's my kind of cosplay "Mean Girl"
High school story I was not as eloquent as I meant to be but I hope that this was somehow
Like helpful for you guys or entertaining or whatever
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