Hi, I will be returning. I’ve had to step back the last year due to health and my friends and family have been kind of enough to join in to help me. It is such an important, fun event. We will be making treats, not sure which one yet. Glad to see such a great crowd already.
Introduce Yourself
Hi everyone!
I’m Ben, and joined up recently. This will be my second PAX West, the wife and I came for a Saturday in 2013 with our 15 month old daughter. I noticed the cookie brigade while sitting in the line for Major Nelson’s podcast. Having been a cookie maker for a long time, and having briefly had a cookie business out of my home I thought I could help bake some cookies for a great cause.
I’m hoping we can get Friday off from work so that we are in Seattle from the start of PAX, but our work may not let us off until noonish (we will be coming from Portland).
Great to be here!
And now I shall reintroduce myself, as I’ve been MIA since 2009.
I’m chibidani. I baked/distributed cookies at PAX West in 2008 and 2009, when it was the only PAX. I even did so with a 5 month old baby in 2009! I was also involved in making the buttons way back then.
We are finally headed back to PAX West for Saturday and Sunday, and I want to help out a bit. I’ll admit I’m more interested in doing stuff for me, since it has been so long, but I can’t abandon you guys entirely. Most likely I’ll bake lots of cookies, and then distribute some of them.
Happy to have you all!
Hello Everyone! I’m Skyqween, though I’ve also been called Erin.
This PAX West was my first PAX, and I promptly went about giving away cookies on my own because… I had cookies. Then I tried to give cookies to a cookie monster, who brought me to the joys of the cookie brigade. Then the rest of my PAX was all worked out!
Let’s see… I’m a Seattle local, I bake and give away cookies, but seeing the recipes here I need to up my game… and this is a wonderful, magical, place.
Hi there!
I am omega! Having the cookie brigade offer me cookies was almost my first experience at my first PAX a million* years ago, and while I have gotten more involved with PAX (enforcing etc.) in the interim, the CB are some of my favorite moments of the show. I really appreciate everything you wonderful folks do and am happy to be a part of something so delicious!
I will only be able to bake for the first little while, but hopefully I will be better able to help in more ways soon.
If you see me (and my lanyards) at the show, stop and say hello, and I will offer you a hug!
- Omega
*slight exaggeration
Hi, I’m Athene. I live in Austin, TX. I love to bake. Almost every time I see Paul and Storm I bring them cookies. My family attends PAX South every year. I’ve never seen the Cookie Brigade there, so I’d love to help out!
Hi everyone! I’m Nicole, and I’m an avid Texas cosplayer and con goer. My home PAX is PAX South! I’ve seen brigadiers around before and I love, love, love all their hard work and delicious cookies. Y’all are seriously one of my favorite parts of the convention. I’m hoping to be more involved this year to help spread the love!
Omega! So glad to see you joined. Happy to have Raven and Athene as well. We’re so happy to have more people.
Hi peeps! I’m Melissa and I live in the Austin, Texas area. Gave my boyfriend PAX South tix for Christmas and this is the first time either of us have attended. I heard about the Cookie Brigade on the PAX South forums and was instantly intrigued. I love to cook and bake, and really like sharing that with others to bring a little happiness to their lives. I volunteer with a group called Bake a Wish here in Austin, where volunteers bake, decorate, and deliver birthday cakes to people who are in need and otherwise wouldn’t have one. (Mostly kids in group homes or shelters, some adults as well in similar situations.) So you guys seem pretty much right up my alley.
The bf and I are planning to help distribute (just submitted my application!) and I will probably bake some cookies, too.
/wave
I’m Katie, and I live just outside Boston. I like baking cookies almost as much as I like eating them.
Hello everyone, my name is Alicia. I live in southeastern MA. This year, I am excited to say, will be my first PAX experience. I’ve heard such good things about the Brigade from friends who have attended East in the past, and I love baking (especially for a good cause) so I really had no choice but to sign up. Looking forward to meeting the PAX East crew and spreading joy through delicious baked goods!
Welcome Everyone!
Greetings friends!
My name is Lindsey. I have been attending PAX since 2013 and decided it was finally time that I take the plunge and become a member of the Cookie Brigade! Last month, I took my first steps and baked over 200 cookies for the Cookie Brigade, which my friend then took to PAX South. I plan to do the same again since I will be attending PAX East in just a few weeks. I look forward to working with you all and helping raise money for the cause!
Cheers 
Howdy all,
My name is Lindsay, not to be confused with previous poster Lindsey.
I live in Perth, Western Australia. Pretty much the other side of the world to most Pax locations and 5 hours flight to the nearest. Not that it’s stopped me from seeing a bunch of them. Boston in 2010, every Melbourne PAX and San Antonio just this year with my wife, who some of you may know as Luckycharm from the pin trading.
That’s where I got the idea to join Cookie Brigade, in a roundabout way. We talked to Senno at Aus last year and the poor guy sounded run off his feet and wasn’t able to enjoy the convention itself so much. So I figure I could afford to share the load, so to speak.
I look forward to collaborating with you all in the future.
Hello! I’m Cat. Baking has been a hobby of me for awhile (mostly just cookies) and I often send them to work with my friends and they get raving reviews. This has inspired me to share more of them. I don’t care about making a profit for myself because I just enjoy knowing I made something people like and it makes me feel useful. As somebody who struggles with depression and PTSD on a daily basis, knowing that I can make somebody smile or feel good for even a moment is very fulfilling for me. I’m pretty introverted while I’m assessing situations but can become incredibly outgoing and the “center of the party”, if you will, around the right crowd. Unfortunately my social anxiety and resting bitch face can make me seem unfriendly but I assure you, I am not.
I am a Twitch streamer as well but I have only streamed about 10 times due to my anxiety, but 10 percent of my Twitch donations go to suicide prevention, and when I worked at GameWorks downtown I would always give my tips from the day to the first homeless person I crossed paths with on my way home. I look forward to being a part of this team as I have been an attendee since 2010 (even run a couple booths) and have seen the brigadiers around and always wanted to bake for them.
As Trump would say, I make the best cookies, my cookies are the greatest, I know everything about cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies.
I also do photography and would be more than happy to take pictures for the Brigade’s social media accounts.
We’re happy to have you. Sounds like you’ll fit right in. Make sure you know where HQ is, a lot of distributors deal with anxiety (me too!), PTSD, plain old introverts or what not and having a place to recoup that is semi-private is what keeps most of us going. For some reason PAX doesn’t tend to follow the normal rules in this area since being in your ‘tribe’ lets down those barriers. Keep asking questions and know that once you get on-site and have an hour or so under your belt you’ll be a lot more comfortable. If you want you can even get your feet wet distributing at the Pre-pax game night Thursday at the Sheraton. We run a cookie drop-off and if you let me know when you’re coming I’ll try to be on hand to distribute some with you to get started. If not we’ll work it all out Friday morning. Good luck!
Heya!
I’m Allie, and this is my… 8th? PAX (West/Prime/Whatever, the OG PAX :)) – and I’d rather use my downtime for good rather than evil (evil in this case being buying things I don’t need, ha ha). I usually tell people they can recognize me by my mermaid blue hair but, this being PAX, that’s not really enough to make me stand out I’m super excited that I finally got off my butt and applied to be a Brigadier this year – I’m looking forward to the cookie hustle!
Hello! I’ve been going to PAX West since 2009, but actually only saw the Cookie Brigade in person last year (it’s my fault; I’m not much of a wanderer once I find a place to settle at PAX). Aside from baking I also write, and run (but let’s be real for a second here: the latter is just so I can eat more cookies). Punzie asked if I was interested in joining CB over on the PA forums which kind of spurred me to just go for it (I haven’t poisoned anyone yet! …that I know of). I’ve actually been wanting to join you guys for years but I’m always afraid I’m going to accidentally poison someone/kill someone with allergies. (If you couldn’t tell from that last sentence, I can also be neurotic!)
I’m a big baker and love trying new recipes; I actually just remembered to come here and introduce myself because I was pulling these out of the oven. I also like making cakes and once in a great while, I try my hand at pies (with varying degrees of success).
If I’m not baking I’m playing games (Resident Evil, Legend of Zelda, Silent Hill until it died and went to video game heaven, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros. and Monster Hunter) or doing crafty projects (right now I’m driving myself slowly insane making custom Mickey ears). I also hang out on Twitch, because if I’m not playing a game I’m probably watching someone else play a game (or just watching the Food channel. That channel is great!)
(I’m also on the PA forums as RiDE, so if you hail from that neck of the interwebs you might recognize me.)
Welcome Ride!