/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I think I'm aging out of cosplay.

Granted, I'm a guy turning the corner on 30 soon, which means I have plenty of options for cosplays, but I'm just not "feeling it" anymore. I don't watch a lot of popular anime, I don't read popular manga, I don't even have time to play a lot of popular games, which is what I usually cosplayed. I've got a couple of easy semi-closet cosplays I wear at pretty much every con now because they're comfortable and I do like them, but it all feels increasingly hollow. I look at my closet where there's a handful of cosplays I made with friends and all I get are bitter memories about the sorts of people those friends wound up being.

And yet, I'm not sure where else I even remotely fit in, even if age makes it increasingly difficult to find people I can respect and hang out with at cons (I'm very over dealing with bipolar early 20-somethings in my rooms, it's not how I want to spend my vacation days). I was sick during a recent local con that I usually skip because it's always a mess, but I still found myself looking at photos from it and wishing I could've been there with people anyway.

I don't know how I should feel about it all. I just know it doesn't feel great.