In my experience

It was expensive, some people were kinda rude, It's kinda pointless to go without a fursuit or a friend.

My last con visit was in 2019, I haven't been comfortable going again.

Your closest furcon for you would be Anthrocon in Pittsburgh, PA.

Oh I know it’ll be expensive. I thought the tickets would be like NYCC where you pay for seperate days but it looks like you pay once for an entire weekend. Now I understand why hotels are necessary now x)

I kind of expected it to be boring without wearing a suit so I’m not surprised about that at all. Thank you for the help and advice and I’m sorry to hear about your experience :(

Yeah, MFF in Chicago is this weekend. That' the only one I've been to, several times. I've not been in a few years, though. I think it's the biggest one, now. It was a lot smaller the first time I went.

I had a lot of fun with it. I went with a RL friend and we met and hung out with some of our online friends. I did the artist alley while I was there and took commissions, not so much because I needed the money but because I wanted to have something to do while I was socializing. I have to admit it was good for my ego to have people come by and recognize my art and get excited about it.

A lot of people go there to cut loose. It's a big party with a lot of drinking and debauchery and noisy chaos. So you have to be prepared for that. MFF in particular has grown a lot in the last decade, too, so I imagine it's getting pretty crowded. I liked to stay at a hotel somewhere away from the convention so that I'd have a quiet place to retreat to. The trade-off, of course, is that you are driving, walking, or taking a cab to and from the convention every day.

Meeting online friends is so much fun. I actually met two of them on my trip to New York Comic-Con this year on October.

I will admit the whole “drinking, debauchery, and noisy chaos” thing kind of worries me a bit(I get very uncomfortable around those situations) so maybe this con isn’t for me I guess???

If a convention were to be like half an hour from me I would happily just take the bus back home and all. Since the nearest con is over in Pittsburgh I can say bye bye to that x) Thank you, swift!!!