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Surviving The Show
A map I found taped to the wall when I was wondering where I could nurse my baby
Madeline Vega
SURVIVING THE SHOW
Maybe you read all the tips. Maybe you brought cash, a water bottle, and your own food. But where can you take a break?
The lines for the women’s bathrooms are ridiculously long at this convention. Even the VIP area required a wait in the past. Other people bring strollers, but I’d rather not. Unfortunately, walking around carrying another person all day gets old. No one is supposed to sit on the floor or stairs, but there aren’t as many chairs as there are people. Here is how we all coped with trying to make ourselves comfortable... —MV
I tried to inconspicuously capture why I had no interest in sitting on the floor
Madeline Vega
I went to Babies 'R' Us in Union Square to use their nursing station. The next day I stopped at Toys 'R' Us Times Square for pictures to memorialize the adventure
Madeline Vega
There’s no way to hang out in a bathroom stall and nurse a baby at NYCC, and I wasn’t keen on sitting on the floor anywhere to try, so I went to Babies ‘R’ Us at Union Square on Saturday. I did not take any pictures of there, so Sunday I got out at Times Square and stopped in at that Toys ‘R’ Us because it seemed more in line with NYCC even if their nursing station was a sketchy office on the upper floors.
Times Square Toys 'R' Us
Madeline Vega
Madeline Vega
Madeline Vega
Ash vs. Evil Dead was not a food truck
Madeline Vega
Real Starbucks employees at the Javits Center, not cosplayers
Madeline Vega
A new weapons rule meant you might not be walking in with your armor
Madeline Vega
Madeline Vega
Now that I had a baby in place of a press pass, I didn’t feel like asking people to pose. I chased after the comic book skirt, but I was bullied into asking the Storm Trooper by people who saw me take a picture of the back of the costume. Asking people in costume to pretend the camera isn’t there doesn’t usually work.
When I didn't think I would catch up to her, I snapped this
Madeline Vega
Lady Thor adjusts her laces
Luis Vega
The Pope uses an ATM
Luis Vega
