I read through everyone's advices, and to be honest, I'm so disappointed. I know a lot of otakus don't understand what's socially acceptable or not, but "be yourself" is such a poorly construed advice. While finding friends who have similar interests with you is good and all, you have to understand that there are other topics rather than just anime/games that you can/should talk about. Also, most of the time, it's not because you're a nerd that people are off-put at, but how you handle yourself. Quite a few of my close friends are not into anime at all, but they know how shameless I am (I have too many figurines in my glass cases, a 150cm dakimakura of my husbando, multiple keychain straps of my husbando, other merch of my husbando, etc.), but because of how I compose myself and I can talk about other things besides nerd stuff, they like hanging out with me. I noticed a lot of otakus can't control their urges and immediately go into weeaboo mode, and scream, "Nya!" or "That's so kawaii!" or "Neko desu~" which scares/weirds out people (even if they are anime fans).

Woah, looks like you were in a long ride for each ex(s), Vampire Neko. It surprises me that you met and dated those girls with dark past. Thanks for sharing, it was interesting.

Attack on Titan pun: Hey, some would argue that Marco isn't that reliable, but if you give him the destination, he'll meet you halfway.

I usually do a vegan diet and/or no sweets (minimum sugar) diet and increase my daily workout load for about a month or two depending on situation (or which con it is).

Yar har har had me known it were pirate day i would have me lackeys pillage the town and kidnap all the girls all so we can make them walk the plank....if ye know what i mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Never really been into Western comics, although I did enjoy Grant Morrison's meta-series Seven Soldiers, Garth Ennis' The Boys and the Wish You Were Here webcomic based on his Crossed series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Soldiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_%28comics%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossed_%28comics%29#Crossed:_Wish_You_Were_Here