My heart break, finishing a TV show series

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Post-series depression

As I sit here writing this blog, I am also watching the final episode of the TV show series “The Office”. I have to say, I am feeling a bit conflicted. I had been binging on this show for about a little over a month and to say goodbye to it is a little sad. I actually find myself in this situation a lot. After I finish any TV series or anime I find myself lost and alone. Of course I’m being dramatic but it is still a bittersweet situation. The urban dictionary calls this state “Post-Series Depression”.

Why do we miss these shows so much?

You watch a few episodes and suddenly you find yourself invested in love triangles, story plots, and character development. you spent so much time watching these fake lives go on. Maybe it is that you find a character that you find relatable so you cling to their story line. Perhaps you fall in love with a character that is nothing like you, but you keep watching because they inspire you.  Seeing these characters fall in love, get married, have children, and even die takes you on an emotional roller coaster. I remember crying on a few episodes on Greys Anatomy. That show shows no mercy! I remember watching the anime series Naruto and being so proud of him. He isn’t a real character but I was so proud of all that he accomplished.

Next time appreciate what you have

I didn’t know how good I had it. When you see a series that has a solid 9 or 10 seasons you figure you have time to enjoy before the heart break creeps up on you. However, all things come to an end. If anything the longer the series the sadder it is when it is all over. May I suggest that we appreciate the show as we watch. Appreciate the gold that writers have gifted upon you and all of the wit the actors put into their acting. It may sound corny but some of these shows really help people out. Whether it be taking us to a fantasy world or showing us that there is a chance at love, these shows inspire us!

How to cope

I love Netflix, but at the same time I hate it because I become addicted to so many great shows that all eventually end. Resulting in my heart break. So what can we do to cope with the loss of our favorite shows?  When our favorite characters seize to exist? We can move on, remember the good times and perhaps give Netflix a break. Maybe some fresh air would do us some good, and help us forget the pain.

Then again, we can also click on the next series on Netflix and start the whole process of falling in love with the show then being heart broken when it ends all over again. Honestly, that’s what I do. Bates Motel, here I come!

Fun time at EPCON 2016

For my next blog I really wanted to talk about my experience at El Paso Comic Con, or “EPCON”. I had such a great time and I enjoyed talking to people about my experience.

Photo from EPCON's Facebook page

The only other comic con I have been able to attend was El Paso Comic Con in 2013. I have to say that this year’s EPCON was a much better convention all around. I would like to be able to attend a lot more around the country; however, they can get quite pricey sometimes and I am always out of cash. I often find myself looking up people’s vlogs on YouTube about them attending different comic cons. I may not be able to afford tickets for different cons, but I can still look them up on YouTube.

This year I was able to go to the convention on two different days. On Friday I helped out an old high school friend at his booth. He wrote and self-published 3 books, he was trying to get the word out there through the convention. So I had a great time helping him out and getting a preview of what was to come.

My friend Bryan selling his book series The Old Dominion Journals

 Friday was the first day of the convention and though there wasn’t as much people who attended the convention it was still a good turn out. I was able to talk to a lot of the awesome venders there and check out their nerdy merchandise. Saturday was the day that everyone showed up. When my brother and I showed up to the convention it was jam packed. I remember being in line for a rather long time but I didn’t mind because we were about to see all kinds of cosplays while we waited. For those who don’t know what cosplay is, it is basically people dressed up as their favorite characters from a movie, video game, TV show, anime, or book. So while in line it was neat to see things like a Harley Quinn and a Joker cosplay while waiting in line with batman right behind them (these people didn’t know each other). After my brother and I got our wrist bands we went into the main room. We felt like we were in nerd heaven. There were great vendors, cosplays, and art pieces. Even the batmobile and Adam West made an appearance.  We bought a lot of awesome merchandise, saw breathtaking Star Wars setups, and saw the cutest children in cosplays.

The cutest Rey and Kylo Ren ever!

Sadly, my brother and I weren’t able to finish a cosplay this year. We were actually very disappointed because the other year that we went we had fairly decent cosplays that we created. I feel like going to a comic con in a cosplay completes the experience. Needless to say I am going to start working on a great cosplay for Las Cruces Comic Con in September. Although my brother and I didn’t finish our cosplay we worked together to finish the sword that went along with the cosplay my brother was supposed to be. The swords name is samehada and it is from the anime Naruto. We decided to take it to the convention because we worked hard on it and felt it was the least we could do if we did not go in a costume.

The sword my brother and I made ourselves.

The thing I love most about Comic Cons or any other convention that are similar is the culture, the atmosphere, and the amazing community of people that come out to these type of events. I do not have a lot of friends that are into nerdy things like I am. However, when you go to a convention such as this you have thousands of people who understand you. I feel like there is an atmosphere of excitement and gratitude to see the cosplays. I remember the year I made my brothers cosplay and he went as Hercule from Dragon Ball Z and people were excited to see him. A random fellow came up to him and said “Thank you so much for coming as him man, it looks so cool”. Whenever I saw a cosplay of a character I really loved I would run up to them and ask if I could take a photo with them. These characters are not really people in real life so people like me get excited to see these characters come to life. 

Awesome Spirted Away and Batman cosplays.

Spot on hiccup cosplay from

how to train your dragon.

My favorite video game character Fox McCloud.

Over all I would have to say I had such a great time. In the future I want to go to as many cons as I can, and make as many cosplays as I can. I encourage other people who have always wanted to go to a con to go and check one out. It is so much fun and you would not want to miss out!

The Twitter Assignment

When it was announced that the next assignments in class would be a competition I was excited, being that I am very competitive. The assignment being that we had to get as much Twitter followers as possible within a week. We also had to get more followers than our classmates. The winner received the extra points. I don’t know how well I did compared to the rest of the class, but I feel like I actually didn’t so well. I think part of the reason as to why this happened is because I was fairly new to Twitter. So I feel as if it was hard to build up followers. The reason I say this is because often when someone looks at your account they look at how many followers you have, and what kind of content you put out. If you don’t have a lot of followers, and if you don’t share interesting tweets you aren’t going to get a lot of followers.   

When I started off the assignment I had 22 Twitter followers. By the end of this assignment I had 84 followers. I feel like I could have done better, but at the same time I feel like I tried my best. I thought about strategic ways to try to gain followers. I thought about what kind of followers I wanted, and what would work.

What I ended up doing was following some of my favorite famous Youtubers and commenting on their tweets. I thought that would work, but in reality it did very little. I ended up getting a few followers because of one of my favorite interests, anime. I started following a few fans of the popular anime Naruto. After that the followers came rushing in. However, after I realized what my follower base was I think I tried too hard to win more of those type of people over. I commented on their posts and shared Naruto related vines with hashtags that I thought were related. Even though most of my followers are Naruto pages or fans, I feel like I had a hard time getting those followers.

I realized what I needed to do to get followers, but I realized what I needed to do a bit too late. I realized in the last hour that following everyone would help you get followers because they usually follow back. I also realized that retweeting helps a lot as well. And to be honest, I didn’t even realize all of this. My friend Randy told me all of this information at the last minute, turns out he could have helped me get more followers. #regret

What is funny is that I feel like I got the most likes on my tweets when I wasn’t trying as hard. When I posted for myself, and when I posted my interests I received the best responses. On one of my first posts I retweeted a funny picture of someone trying to hypnotize their crush. I retweeted the gif and titled the post “notice me senpai”. The phrase “notice me senpai” is used a lot in anime. It is used when someone wants a teacher, master, or someone they love to notice them. It is a very well-known meme in the anime community. As soon as I retweeted that, the account that I retweeted the image from retweeted my tweet. I got over 30 likes on it thanks to them. Today I also retweeted a picture of foxes running in the snow. Guess what? Rich Moore liked my retweet. Rich Moore is one of the directors who worked on Zootopia, my recent favorite movie. I guess we both have a love for foxes. Life is funny that way, twitter is funny that way.

The Midnight Surprise

Last night my friend came over around 12:30am so I could bleach and dye her hair, ironically the hair dye was called “After Midnight” Which was a really dark shade of blue #Latenight #Bluehair.

At this time, I heard my dogs barking and going insane. This is around the time my cat usually meows to come inside, so I told my 12-year-old brother to let the cat in.  #Meowmeow

My younger brother closed the door quickly with a shocked expression on his face I asked “Where’s Todd (the cat)?” He said “I don’t know but there is a guy outside.” My brothers have this habit of pulling pranks on me, so naturally I did not believe him, my 20-year-old brother is always telling me that people are outside when there is no one out there.  #Prankster

I called my little brother a liar, but he swore that there was a man outside. My friend didn’t believe him either but she checked outside just in case as she opened the door a man approached the stairs #Strangerdanger #Whodis

We had no idea who this guy was, my friend did all the talking because I was too scared to do it. He was asking for a ride, a phone charger, or for someone to help him with his car. The only ones who were up were two 23-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy so we didn’t feel comfortable letting him inside to use a charger or make a call. #Awkward

While my friend was talking to the strange man, many thoughts were going through my head. Thoughts such as what should I do should I get my dad should I get a knife, should I call the cops #Paranoia #WhatshouldIdo

I ended up waking my dad up and telling him there was a man that we didn’t know at the door. My dad asked what he wanted and he said his car broke down and he was asking for help. So my dad got up to go see what all the ruckus was about. He went outside to talk to the strange man and came back inside five minutes later for his keys. We asked what happened, he said the guy was just drunk and needed a ride. #Dadtotherescue #Daddyshome #Daduber

My dad was off to give the man a ride. My brother and friend and I said we would give them a time limit of fifteen minutes than we would call the cops. What was going through my mind was that he could be taking my dad to something dangerous, he could turn on my dad. We just weren’t trusting of anybody knocking on our door at this time at night. We are wondering why he did not go to anybody else’s house, why he was so trusting of strangers, and lastly if he actually drunk. The reason my dad gave him a ride was because he said he had felt bad for him because he was a young guy, he didn’t want to call the cops and get him arrested. #Generous #overthinking

My dad ended up getting home safe and sound fairly quickly. We locked the door and went to bed, as I laid in bed with my lights on I couldn’t sleep. Every time I heard a footstep or heard my dogs bark I thought somebody was coming. #nosleep #noonewasthere

Once the morning came I realized that I was being a little dramatic. However, I had been watching cannibal and serial killer documentaries lately so my imagination went wild. Still, it could have had been a dangerous situation, so I don’t want my dad giving strangers rides anymore. Maybe I just worry too much. #worrywart #THEend #callmecrazy #documentaries