Okay, I just want to put this out there: I’ve seen several instances of this attitude that parts of the P4 fandom on Tumblr are somehow “closed off” or like an exclusive club or something, and it’s really not. I made the friends I have by going to cons or just interacting with people as much as I can through here, and part of it is just staying visible in the fandom space and continuing to talk to people like they’re people. I’m also a pretty shy person; there were moments when I was anxious while sending someone a message, but I sort of just powered through it, because in the end, they’re all just another fan of this game. Sometimes I ended up not clicking super well with someone, but that’s cool, I just watch their work/headcanons/contributions from afar and that’s pretty neat.
That said, I’ll admit to being lucky in terms of having a group near me that’s all into P4 to some degree or another, but that was either happy coincidence (they’d all played it by the time I met them) or our own influence (“Hey we’re getting into this game here play it”) so! Also, my Investigation Team group of friends is pretty scattered all over the country, not all of us are in immediate physical proximity; the closest one to us is sakura-ouji and he still lives an hour out. So a lot of us being together only really happens at cons, I guess?
I dunno, man! If you’re ever at Fanime, AX, or Katsu, that’s where we all tend to congregate. But don’t just sit back and feel bad, chat us up! I know Tumblr’s a pretty limited space for that kind of thing but I do notice repeat commenters/usernames/etc. and while I haven’t had time to reply to all my messages as quickly as I used to, I still try to respond to them.
Hell yeah! 8D I didn’t mean for it to sound too self-depreciating or anything like that - just that like, I find the hangouts that you guys have to be super rad, and I wish I was a part of ‘em! You guys seem like you have a blast, and I’d love to cosplay with you all one day - unfortunately, I’m on the east coast, so I don’t ever get to any west coast cons… So it’s like “MAN, lookit these cool peeps! I will just have to spoop on them from afar”. (But I do hope we could meet one day, :D That would be awesome!)
Like what you mentioned, it’s hard to start that initial conversation with new people, so I figured this was a good time to do so.
SO HELLO, yes, I’m Kris, and I love P4, and I love all the stuff you and your friends post, and I think you’re all hella cool, : ) Thanks for all the content to laugh with and appreciate~
I wanna meet all of you, too! Can I join the fun? I live in the Midwest but we’re trying to go to all of the cons to promote our stuff ;__;