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MFF '06
18 years ago
Ah, gotta love it. I know, that was last year. But still.
It was my first convention. Man, I was like a kid in a candy store when I walked into the Hyatt and saw fursuiters walking around everywhere. Of course, being shy, I didn't have the guts to confront any of them. So I walked around and took pictures of them.
Much to my glee, some of the fursuiters that posed for pictures for me walked up and gave me a hug afterwards. I loved it, but was still too shy to do anything about it. So I continued to walk around, taking pictures and wanting them to hug me, which some of them did of course.
By the second day, I had already made a couple of friends. And I started to come out of my shell to the point where I must have been talking their heads off. Heck, by the day's end, I was going around and taking the initiative to randomly hug fursuiters. Yay for fursuit hugs!
I love fursuiters.
Oh, and I have pictures of course.
http://amaroq.nintendocheats.net/album2.php
I'm in only two of them. At the top where I'm taking a picture of myself in the mirror to test the camera (along with a test shot of that tasty looking pizza), and down towards the bottom where I'm standing next to that blue cat outside. Oh, and the group shots with me, the cat, and his friends.
I didn't really catch anybody's names. xD But even though I'm bad at remembering names as well as faces, I don't think I'll ever forget the fursuiters I met. As well as some of the non fursuiters, because furries all seem to have their own sense of style that sticks out in my mind.
Entered the smash bros tourney there as well, by the way. The first round I played, I was fox. But alas, I was too rusty to use him to his fullest potential, and got my butt whooped horribly. In the second round, a team match, I was pikachu, and I did much much better. Our two teams' scores were pretty much tied up for that round. Or they would have been if my falco teammate hadn't gotten a negative score. We lost.
Let's see... what else... Oh yeah. I met 2 the Ranting Gryphon. If I spelled that right.
The comedy he and Uncle Kage did there, especially 2's part, was hilarous as hell. Suicide aboard the starship enterprise. "How about I put my head in a replicator and order a brick. Let them figure that one out. Or lay down across the trransporters and beam my head up someone's ass."
I met him later that day, I believe. I was wandering around with some other friends I made, whom I don't remember, and we saw 2 just sitting alone on the couch in the lobby. So we went over and sat down, and talked to him for probably 15 or 20 minutes, and then continued on our way. He's a pretty down to earth guy. You'd be surprised. He's not stuck up at all like you'd think someone well known like him would be.
I actually live within driving distance of shaumburg. So I figured I'd just drive back and forth each day of the convention. Not gonna happen! Once I got there, I was not about to leave until it was absolutely over. My first night, I slept in the lobby in one of the chairs. I was part of a conversation of other people sitting in nearby chairs and a couch (I think) till 3 or 4am, then curls up in the chair and fell asleep. The hotel workers didn't do anything because if they would have looked over, theyd've seen me sitting with people and thought I was awake and talking. The second and last night, I actually got to bum a bed in the room of the two friends I made there.
Overall, I had the time of my life. Post-Con Depression stuck with me for a few months after that. But hey, I am definately going to go to MFF '07, and every MFF after that as long as they don't move it out of my driving range, for sure. And don't worry. This time I intend to have a room so I neither have to leave nor impose upon my new friends for sleeping space.
Here's looking forward to the next MFF, and all the fursuiters I'll get to hug!
It was my first convention. Man, I was like a kid in a candy store when I walked into the Hyatt and saw fursuiters walking around everywhere. Of course, being shy, I didn't have the guts to confront any of them. So I walked around and took pictures of them.
Much to my glee, some of the fursuiters that posed for pictures for me walked up and gave me a hug afterwards. I loved it, but was still too shy to do anything about it. So I continued to walk around, taking pictures and wanting them to hug me, which some of them did of course.
By the second day, I had already made a couple of friends. And I started to come out of my shell to the point where I must have been talking their heads off. Heck, by the day's end, I was going around and taking the initiative to randomly hug fursuiters. Yay for fursuit hugs!
I love fursuiters.
Oh, and I have pictures of course.
http://amaroq.nintendocheats.net/album2.php
I'm in only two of them. At the top where I'm taking a picture of myself in the mirror to test the camera (along with a test shot of that tasty looking pizza), and down towards the bottom where I'm standing next to that blue cat outside. Oh, and the group shots with me, the cat, and his friends.
I didn't really catch anybody's names. xD But even though I'm bad at remembering names as well as faces, I don't think I'll ever forget the fursuiters I met. As well as some of the non fursuiters, because furries all seem to have their own sense of style that sticks out in my mind.
Entered the smash bros tourney there as well, by the way. The first round I played, I was fox. But alas, I was too rusty to use him to his fullest potential, and got my butt whooped horribly. In the second round, a team match, I was pikachu, and I did much much better. Our two teams' scores were pretty much tied up for that round. Or they would have been if my falco teammate hadn't gotten a negative score. We lost.
Let's see... what else... Oh yeah. I met 2 the Ranting Gryphon. If I spelled that right.
The comedy he and Uncle Kage did there, especially 2's part, was hilarous as hell. Suicide aboard the starship enterprise. "How about I put my head in a replicator and order a brick. Let them figure that one out. Or lay down across the trransporters and beam my head up someone's ass."
I met him later that day, I believe. I was wandering around with some other friends I made, whom I don't remember, and we saw 2 just sitting alone on the couch in the lobby. So we went over and sat down, and talked to him for probably 15 or 20 minutes, and then continued on our way. He's a pretty down to earth guy. You'd be surprised. He's not stuck up at all like you'd think someone well known like him would be.
I actually live within driving distance of shaumburg. So I figured I'd just drive back and forth each day of the convention. Not gonna happen! Once I got there, I was not about to leave until it was absolutely over. My first night, I slept in the lobby in one of the chairs. I was part of a conversation of other people sitting in nearby chairs and a couch (I think) till 3 or 4am, then curls up in the chair and fell asleep. The hotel workers didn't do anything because if they would have looked over, theyd've seen me sitting with people and thought I was awake and talking. The second and last night, I actually got to bum a bed in the room of the two friends I made there.
Overall, I had the time of my life. Post-Con Depression stuck with me for a few months after that. But hey, I am definately going to go to MFF '07, and every MFF after that as long as they don't move it out of my driving range, for sure. And don't worry. This time I intend to have a room so I neither have to leave nor impose upon my new friends for sleeping space.
Here's looking forward to the next MFF, and all the fursuiters I'll get to hug!
