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Anthrocon in Review- 2025
4 months ago
From the Desk of Jack the Gorilla....
I felt this year's Anthrocon was a bit rocky. As I spoke with my best friend upon my return, he said it was more pebble, pebbly.
My Drakal
SpykeTyranno came down Wednesday night. We had our dinner and hit up a few local stores for the last things we may have forgotten. He spoiled me with some belated birthday gifts from March. We ended the night with a related Golden Girls Episode.
Thursday I was up early, ate breakfast and read some funny Harley Quinn comics. Spyke got up and
Makaio joined us. We set out to Pittsburgh and really enjoyed the trip. The Fort Pitt Tunnel is always a highlight. Even with additional traffic, our time was only delayed about 9 minutes.
However, parking was a bear, and we scrapped our rental car. Very distressing. Registration was a breeze under eight minutes. Saw the awesome
Tiptoe We walked around and lamented the closure of both The Standard and August Henry's. A good first day.
Friday the 4th rocked me. I was up and at 'em, told my companions goodbye and set out. Bumped into Alkalai at breakfast and continued on. I know it's not related to Anthrocon at all, but my favorite stop: Eides Entertainment, was closed Friday and Saturday for the holiday. I returned to the convention center pretty dejected, and found a seat with other furs. But I couldn't help but feel I was intruding. In the past I would pull out my sketchbook and practice and pic their brains and just hang out. This is the first year that seemed problematic.
I waited my turn to enter the dealers den and made a beeline for
Gideon He has cheered me up at past cons, and is a awesome dude. I was a little disappointed that his upcoming Fang Gang was delayed again.
I met up briefly with
Dracovar and made him cry with a piece of fanart that I did for him. We vowed to hangout some more. And we had some late night furnando's.
I spent the day with my buddies and trying to meet people. I only had a minute in the hall with meeting
Quintree and the awesome Anthrocat puppet. However a stop at con-ops devestated me. I was informed that Anthrocon would no longer be providing acrylic fursuiter badges. Now as an older fur finding it harder to get into suit each year these were a great incentive. I would always admire my new badge each year on the ride home, that badge was a huge piece of ANthrocon to me and this really hurt.
That night when I was having a drink I ended up sitting next to one of the assistant directors and chatting for a while.
Saturday was more low key with signing up for the charity raffle and visiting friends. I got a great seat for the parade and took a lot of photos. It's been nearly a decade since I just watched as opposed to taking part in it. I called out and threw my support behind
twicat 
fiona 
braeburn 
wilgeon and others. During the midst of it I did see a very unusual suit which would come back to cringe later in the evening.
I rushed to the end of the parade meeting room to check on a number of friends I wanted to make sure were beating the heat.
grimdark 
redstripecougar I also learned the difference between barbles and nose noodles here.
I did a photoshoot for my ghostbuster buddy spyketyranno and we spent the evening relaxing at the block party. I made it to a movie with dracovar before some vexing instructions by constaff about the fat fur meet up.
Sunday was a gorgeous sunny day. I finally made it to Eides where the guy seemed to think I wasn't serious about my comic purchase. My roll of $50s showed him. I continued and lost my 10th Anthrocon raffle in a row. This day was just spent getting good vibes, enjoying the con and the friends I could talk to. I did miss out on several of them. I was also smart and made my dinner reservations at 2pm for 8.
Closing Ceremonies were my first time at the main stage and I can see where so so so much money went, I was impressed. 18K+ attendees. And a lot of negative social media commentary that I think was overly harsh.
While it may not have been the best Anthrocon, it wasn't BAD. No Anthrocon has been bad. BUT the good vibes of this con have lasted a lot longer than cons past, even my two favorite 2018 and 2024.
I think thats everything, but I know I'll have to go back and tweak everyone's icons in this post.
My Drakal
SpykeTyranno came down Wednesday night. We had our dinner and hit up a few local stores for the last things we may have forgotten. He spoiled me with some belated birthday gifts from March. We ended the night with a related Golden Girls Episode.Thursday I was up early, ate breakfast and read some funny Harley Quinn comics. Spyke got up and
Makaio joined us. We set out to Pittsburgh and really enjoyed the trip. The Fort Pitt Tunnel is always a highlight. Even with additional traffic, our time was only delayed about 9 minutes. However, parking was a bear, and we scrapped our rental car. Very distressing. Registration was a breeze under eight minutes. Saw the awesome
Tiptoe We walked around and lamented the closure of both The Standard and August Henry's. A good first day.Friday the 4th rocked me. I was up and at 'em, told my companions goodbye and set out. Bumped into Alkalai at breakfast and continued on. I know it's not related to Anthrocon at all, but my favorite stop: Eides Entertainment, was closed Friday and Saturday for the holiday. I returned to the convention center pretty dejected, and found a seat with other furs. But I couldn't help but feel I was intruding. In the past I would pull out my sketchbook and practice and pic their brains and just hang out. This is the first year that seemed problematic.
I waited my turn to enter the dealers den and made a beeline for
Gideon He has cheered me up at past cons, and is a awesome dude. I was a little disappointed that his upcoming Fang Gang was delayed again.I met up briefly with
Dracovar and made him cry with a piece of fanart that I did for him. We vowed to hangout some more. And we had some late night furnando's.I spent the day with my buddies and trying to meet people. I only had a minute in the hall with meeting
Quintree and the awesome Anthrocat puppet. However a stop at con-ops devestated me. I was informed that Anthrocon would no longer be providing acrylic fursuiter badges. Now as an older fur finding it harder to get into suit each year these were a great incentive. I would always admire my new badge each year on the ride home, that badge was a huge piece of ANthrocon to me and this really hurt.That night when I was having a drink I ended up sitting next to one of the assistant directors and chatting for a while.
Saturday was more low key with signing up for the charity raffle and visiting friends. I got a great seat for the parade and took a lot of photos. It's been nearly a decade since I just watched as opposed to taking part in it. I called out and threw my support behind
twicat 
fiona 
braeburn 
wilgeon and others. During the midst of it I did see a very unusual suit which would come back to cringe later in the evening.I rushed to the end of the parade meeting room to check on a number of friends I wanted to make sure were beating the heat.
grimdark 
redstripecougar I also learned the difference between barbles and nose noodles here.I did a photoshoot for my ghostbuster buddy
spyketyranno and we spent the evening relaxing at the block party. I made it to a movie with dracovar before some vexing instructions by constaff about the fat fur meet up.Sunday was a gorgeous sunny day. I finally made it to Eides where the guy seemed to think I wasn't serious about my comic purchase. My roll of $50s showed him. I continued and lost my 10th Anthrocon raffle in a row. This day was just spent getting good vibes, enjoying the con and the friends I could talk to. I did miss out on several of them. I was also smart and made my dinner reservations at 2pm for 8.
Closing Ceremonies were my first time at the main stage and I can see where so so so much money went, I was impressed. 18K+ attendees. And a lot of negative social media commentary that I think was overly harsh.
While it may not have been the best Anthrocon, it wasn't BAD. No Anthrocon has been bad. BUT the good vibes of this con have lasted a lot longer than cons past, even my two favorite 2018 and 2024.
I think thats everything, but I know I'll have to go back and tweak everyone's icons in this post.
kidding. <3 ONE DAY