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Another FC Con Report by a first time con goer.
18 years ago
Alright, time for another con report I'm sure no one will read! I was lazy and copy pasted an IM conversation I had with my friend and edited it to make this report...and surprisingly it worked out well enough to post. Some peoples names were left out to protect the innocent, and a whole lot more was left out to keep it as short as possible. This was my first con, and if you don't read past this paragraph at least read this part: I had the time of my life, and after going to my first con I believe every furry should experience at least one con in there lifetime. I love this fandom so much more now, I have so much more respect for everyone and everything in it, even if I already did respect it before my love of furry has only grown. There may be pictures up later when I find a place to host them, tell now here is my report full of people I forgot to mention, misspelled names, possibly wrong names and tons of bad grammar. XD (I tried to proof read it twice, but I know that it still has mistakes but it should be good enough to read.)
Well it started out interesting because I lost the contact information for the person I was supposed to room with, so I was going up there just hoping I could find the guy without even knowing what he looked like. However one of the people in the car new my roommate, I guess he is kinda well known, so that was good. When we got there he was actually helping with the registration line so the person I rode up with introduced us (he was in a bull fursuit at the time...he has 7 suits!) I had to wait around for a bit after that, registration took forever to get through and I had to wait longer for my roommate to finish helping registration so I can go to my room. Sheryl, one of the people I got a ride with that helped me find donkey, also introduced me to her roomie BlueDragon. He found me waiting for donkey and we decided to eat.
When we came back from Denneys I went up to BlueDragon's room and he showed me his fursuits and a bunch of funny videos that he had. He had two fursuits, a BlueDragon (duh) and a dragon named fox killer. He had a trophy of fox ears and tails for that one. He was a pretty cool guy with some funny ass videos.
I was up there tell it was pretty late when Sheryl came back. I didn't want to be rude and I was tired so I left for my room. When I got there my key didn't work, Doh. so I went to find Donkey. luckily I found him right away leaving the dance. When we came back that is when we found out Mutt was trying to contact him for 2 hours and was stuck out in the lobby because his name was spelled wrong for the room and he couldn't get his key. After all of this we all finally went to bed.
When I woke up on Friday both roommates were gone, left for food. I woke up kinda late and hungry so I got dressed and headed to Denny's to go eat, I also wasn't feeling too good from something I ate earlier. I just tried to eat what I thought was supposed to be a small breakfast I ordered and ended up being gigantic. I then went and chilled in the room a bit because I wasn't feeling so good.
Around noon time I finally got out and got some money and hit the dealers den. It was PACKED! And I was SHY! There were so many amazing artists there! I walked by Kaiven's table but she wasn't there so I couldn't get my badge yet. Later I came back and picked it up, and wore it proud. Right next to her was...DARK NATASHA! I looked through her stuff and found a nice matted print all ready to hang and picked it up. Then I shook here hand and said "so your the great Dark Natasha?" and she said "Nope, I'm here mom"!!! I was so embarrassed, Dark Natasha was sitting right next to her mom, Dark Mumsy I believe. It was awesome that her mom comes with her, I guess her daughter does too sometimes.
I saw so many great artists its not even funny. I bought a giant pencil original from Meesh that was part of the "Good Bitch" set he did. I wanted to get his gay CD but for some reason I was too embarrassed. I then went back to my room to keep that stuff safe. I came back again and got a pencil piece from Amber Hill. I finally made it to the Hathen City table where I got a preview comic book, a Tee Shirt and a free condom. The release date for the comic is AC, I can't wait! I walked around the dealers room, looking at things, being nervous as hell around the big artists. I was looking at Shiuks table, and those undies I wanted were on there, but when I looked up and saw Shiuk looking at me I got scared and left.
After my second time around I still couldn't find Skulldog to pick up my piece I had waiting for me at the con. So I went through again and finally found her table. Skulldog was cool, she loved Thylacines and had picked up a thylacine plush at the con. I wanted one so bad but it was 60 bucks and by this time I had bought so much stuff I was running low on cash! So, finally after going through the dealers den three times I went back to my hotel room and put everything in a safe spot. By this time it was after two.
I went over to the cafe in the hotel to eat. I was half way though when a couple people sat at the table right next to me. I was staring at his badge and and realized it was an artist who's work I loved. I saw that him and his friend were staring at me when his friend (bj) said "I know this kid, he looks familiar" I asked if she was from Oxnard or anything but they weren't so we didn't really know each other. But we got to talking and when they found out I was at the con alone they invited me to hang out with them. So after dinner we left to go find something to do, we walked around a bit then he took me to the artists room because he wanted to do tin artist. When I walked in there I nearly peed my pants! There were so many bad ass artists there! So we found a table and were sitting there, but I was so shy and so nervous I couldn't find anything to talk about for the life of me. I think I bored the hell out of them. *Sigh* They kept trying to get a conversation going but I just couldn't keep one going.
BJ got picked for iron artist and the other artist I was with didn't (only six can go) so when I was sitting there I apologized for being so quiet and he said "Don't worry about it, you can just stand there and look cute" !! I blushed so bad I had to look away. Talk about more pressure. Oh, and for the record he was hot, and drawing an incredible hot bear guy. So, here I am with this hot dude who does work I have always loved and I couldn't do a damn thing I was so shy. eventually the day ended and we all went our separate ways, BJ took my number and said she wouldn't let me go alone at the con....but they never contacted me again. And when I saw him again he just awkwardly looked away. I think I was just too boring for them or something. I am thinking of sending him an email thanking him for trying to help me at the con and apologizing for being so boring and telling him I hope things wont be awkward when I comment on his pics or when I see him at future cons. So, anyways that was my Friday
...
On Sat I got up late again and then went to the dealers room one last time. I figured "what the hell, I will get Meesh's gay CD, what is to be embarrassed about?" So I went straight to his table...and they were freaken sold out!! I walked around a little more and guess who I saw now? Foxer in his suit! I had to take a picture. I also got myself a copy of Heat Vol. 4 then I went to another table and got the last copy of Moving In! I went back to Meesh's table and had him sign it for me. I overheard Meesh talking about how fast the gay CD went though. So, anyways after that I walked around and got both of Aleron's CD's and a CD from Furfragged, who I never heard of before but art rocked.
Then I went to moody ferrets table, this time I could actually get to it (there were some artists I couldn't get to because there table was so crowded, and some artists I saw journals about them being there that I didn't even know where there because the crowds were so bad). MoodyFerret wasn't there (though I got a pic of her in her fursuit later) but she had a deal, an envelope that said "Old pencils fifty cents" I went through it and found an amazing full colored piece of a rat and skunk dressed up as the Moody blues, guitars and everything! I was stoked and bought that and a CD right away.
So, I went back to the room again and put all this stuff away. Then I left and took a bunch of pics of the fursuit parade. I wanted to take more though, I was shy to take pictures and throughout the con I only took 78, almost all of which were at the parade and the live animal exhibit. So anyways later that day I watched Fur-l in the blank, a game show that was funny as hell. Later was the mascaraed, and by this time me and Mutt had started hanging out. The mascaraed was FUNNY AS HELL! After that me and Mutt ate and hung out for a while just walking around.
...
Sunday was most bad ass. It was a slower day, there wasn't a whole lot going on at first, but it started with a wild cat live animal event. I took a ton of pics, most of which didn't come out, but it was so awesome! I was close to them and the Cheetah was purring! It was so loud and so cute the handler was petting it, it was just like a big kitty cat...then it did the most unexpected and cutest thing ever! It meowed!!! Just like a house cat, it sounded exactly the same, it was so damn cute.
Later that day the Critter Olympics were canceled due to rain so I got a bite to eat with my roommates then came back and I grab a beer with Mutt and we talked to a security guard about the con for a good long time and his story's were funny as hell. I guess he uses that con as training for new security guards because furrys are the only group of people that listen. He said it was the strangest thing ever when he first came to a furry con to do security and asked a bunch of mingling people to form a line and "whoosh" there was a line He was like...now can we have a...Figure 8, now a trapezoid. Hehe
Furrys are so laid back and so kind that you just kindly ask them for something and they do it, at concerts I have had so many issues with people, here not a one. Every one was so kind, even if you got in there way on accident. It was the greatest thing ever. And the random conversations that you would be part of, it was so easy to talk to almost anyone. The best part of all of it all is you leave your room and look around, everyone you see is furry, it was bitchen, I hated leaving those people. Even the hotel staff was bad ass, they were snapping photos and video of the parade and one got really excited when a fox fursuiter went by. She had an accent though and when the fox went by we all thought she yelled FUCK! so everyone went silent and stared at her, then she repeated herself "Its a FOX!" XD
The hotel, the hotel staff, and the security were bad ass and all so fur friendly. I guess a few years ago the hotel changed hands, and the new owner got worried and called that security guy we were talking to "there are mascots in the front lobby...there are people cuddling" The security guy was like "Ok we will look into it" then just rolled his eyes and walked away
Later that night we went and watched the Taiko drummers followed by Furry Night Live. That was the highlight of the con I think. The drummers were amazing, I was boggled how they could all play such difficult pieces together without one going out of rhythm or messing up. After that was FNL and It was so freaken funny. After that I walked around and mingled a little. Ate and went to bed. Monday sucked. Having to leave everything behind, I miss it already and can't wait for next year. As we were leaving a crowd had gathered outside the front entrance and they were singing a FA version of “Still Alive” from Portal, that was the perfect finish to the event. (I love you FA, don't hate me because the song was funny. :P)
If you made it this far please comment so I know I didn't just waste the last couple hours of my life writing all this and proofreading this. XD
Thank you,
-Justin
Well it started out interesting because I lost the contact information for the person I was supposed to room with, so I was going up there just hoping I could find the guy without even knowing what he looked like. However one of the people in the car new my roommate, I guess he is kinda well known, so that was good. When we got there he was actually helping with the registration line so the person I rode up with introduced us (he was in a bull fursuit at the time...he has 7 suits!) I had to wait around for a bit after that, registration took forever to get through and I had to wait longer for my roommate to finish helping registration so I can go to my room. Sheryl, one of the people I got a ride with that helped me find donkey, also introduced me to her roomie BlueDragon. He found me waiting for donkey and we decided to eat.
When we came back from Denneys I went up to BlueDragon's room and he showed me his fursuits and a bunch of funny videos that he had. He had two fursuits, a BlueDragon (duh) and a dragon named fox killer. He had a trophy of fox ears and tails for that one. He was a pretty cool guy with some funny ass videos.
I was up there tell it was pretty late when Sheryl came back. I didn't want to be rude and I was tired so I left for my room. When I got there my key didn't work, Doh. so I went to find Donkey. luckily I found him right away leaving the dance. When we came back that is when we found out Mutt was trying to contact him for 2 hours and was stuck out in the lobby because his name was spelled wrong for the room and he couldn't get his key. After all of this we all finally went to bed.
When I woke up on Friday both roommates were gone, left for food. I woke up kinda late and hungry so I got dressed and headed to Denny's to go eat, I also wasn't feeling too good from something I ate earlier. I just tried to eat what I thought was supposed to be a small breakfast I ordered and ended up being gigantic. I then went and chilled in the room a bit because I wasn't feeling so good.
Around noon time I finally got out and got some money and hit the dealers den. It was PACKED! And I was SHY! There were so many amazing artists there! I walked by Kaiven's table but she wasn't there so I couldn't get my badge yet. Later I came back and picked it up, and wore it proud. Right next to her was...DARK NATASHA! I looked through her stuff and found a nice matted print all ready to hang and picked it up. Then I shook here hand and said "so your the great Dark Natasha?" and she said "Nope, I'm here mom"!!! I was so embarrassed, Dark Natasha was sitting right next to her mom, Dark Mumsy I believe. It was awesome that her mom comes with her, I guess her daughter does too sometimes.
I saw so many great artists its not even funny. I bought a giant pencil original from Meesh that was part of the "Good Bitch" set he did. I wanted to get his gay CD but for some reason I was too embarrassed. I then went back to my room to keep that stuff safe. I came back again and got a pencil piece from Amber Hill. I finally made it to the Hathen City table where I got a preview comic book, a Tee Shirt and a free condom. The release date for the comic is AC, I can't wait! I walked around the dealers room, looking at things, being nervous as hell around the big artists. I was looking at Shiuks table, and those undies I wanted were on there, but when I looked up and saw Shiuk looking at me I got scared and left.
After my second time around I still couldn't find Skulldog to pick up my piece I had waiting for me at the con. So I went through again and finally found her table. Skulldog was cool, she loved Thylacines and had picked up a thylacine plush at the con. I wanted one so bad but it was 60 bucks and by this time I had bought so much stuff I was running low on cash! So, finally after going through the dealers den three times I went back to my hotel room and put everything in a safe spot. By this time it was after two.
I went over to the cafe in the hotel to eat. I was half way though when a couple people sat at the table right next to me. I was staring at his badge and and realized it was an artist who's work I loved. I saw that him and his friend were staring at me when his friend (bj) said "I know this kid, he looks familiar" I asked if she was from Oxnard or anything but they weren't so we didn't really know each other. But we got to talking and when they found out I was at the con alone they invited me to hang out with them. So after dinner we left to go find something to do, we walked around a bit then he took me to the artists room because he wanted to do tin artist. When I walked in there I nearly peed my pants! There were so many bad ass artists there! So we found a table and were sitting there, but I was so shy and so nervous I couldn't find anything to talk about for the life of me. I think I bored the hell out of them. *Sigh* They kept trying to get a conversation going but I just couldn't keep one going.
BJ got picked for iron artist and the other artist I was with didn't (only six can go) so when I was sitting there I apologized for being so quiet and he said "Don't worry about it, you can just stand there and look cute" !! I blushed so bad I had to look away. Talk about more pressure. Oh, and for the record he was hot, and drawing an incredible hot bear guy. So, here I am with this hot dude who does work I have always loved and I couldn't do a damn thing I was so shy. eventually the day ended and we all went our separate ways, BJ took my number and said she wouldn't let me go alone at the con....but they never contacted me again. And when I saw him again he just awkwardly looked away. I think I was just too boring for them or something. I am thinking of sending him an email thanking him for trying to help me at the con and apologizing for being so boring and telling him I hope things wont be awkward when I comment on his pics or when I see him at future cons. So, anyways that was my Friday
...
On Sat I got up late again and then went to the dealers room one last time. I figured "what the hell, I will get Meesh's gay CD, what is to be embarrassed about?" So I went straight to his table...and they were freaken sold out!! I walked around a little more and guess who I saw now? Foxer in his suit! I had to take a picture. I also got myself a copy of Heat Vol. 4 then I went to another table and got the last copy of Moving In! I went back to Meesh's table and had him sign it for me. I overheard Meesh talking about how fast the gay CD went though. So, anyways after that I walked around and got both of Aleron's CD's and a CD from Furfragged, who I never heard of before but art rocked.
Then I went to moody ferrets table, this time I could actually get to it (there were some artists I couldn't get to because there table was so crowded, and some artists I saw journals about them being there that I didn't even know where there because the crowds were so bad). MoodyFerret wasn't there (though I got a pic of her in her fursuit later) but she had a deal, an envelope that said "Old pencils fifty cents" I went through it and found an amazing full colored piece of a rat and skunk dressed up as the Moody blues, guitars and everything! I was stoked and bought that and a CD right away.
So, I went back to the room again and put all this stuff away. Then I left and took a bunch of pics of the fursuit parade. I wanted to take more though, I was shy to take pictures and throughout the con I only took 78, almost all of which were at the parade and the live animal exhibit. So anyways later that day I watched Fur-l in the blank, a game show that was funny as hell. Later was the mascaraed, and by this time me and Mutt had started hanging out. The mascaraed was FUNNY AS HELL! After that me and Mutt ate and hung out for a while just walking around.
...
Sunday was most bad ass. It was a slower day, there wasn't a whole lot going on at first, but it started with a wild cat live animal event. I took a ton of pics, most of which didn't come out, but it was so awesome! I was close to them and the Cheetah was purring! It was so loud and so cute the handler was petting it, it was just like a big kitty cat...then it did the most unexpected and cutest thing ever! It meowed!!! Just like a house cat, it sounded exactly the same, it was so damn cute.
Later that day the Critter Olympics were canceled due to rain so I got a bite to eat with my roommates then came back and I grab a beer with Mutt and we talked to a security guard about the con for a good long time and his story's were funny as hell. I guess he uses that con as training for new security guards because furrys are the only group of people that listen. He said it was the strangest thing ever when he first came to a furry con to do security and asked a bunch of mingling people to form a line and "whoosh" there was a line He was like...now can we have a...Figure 8, now a trapezoid. Hehe
Furrys are so laid back and so kind that you just kindly ask them for something and they do it, at concerts I have had so many issues with people, here not a one. Every one was so kind, even if you got in there way on accident. It was the greatest thing ever. And the random conversations that you would be part of, it was so easy to talk to almost anyone. The best part of all of it all is you leave your room and look around, everyone you see is furry, it was bitchen, I hated leaving those people. Even the hotel staff was bad ass, they were snapping photos and video of the parade and one got really excited when a fox fursuiter went by. She had an accent though and when the fox went by we all thought she yelled FUCK! so everyone went silent and stared at her, then she repeated herself "Its a FOX!" XD
The hotel, the hotel staff, and the security were bad ass and all so fur friendly. I guess a few years ago the hotel changed hands, and the new owner got worried and called that security guy we were talking to "there are mascots in the front lobby...there are people cuddling" The security guy was like "Ok we will look into it" then just rolled his eyes and walked away
Later that night we went and watched the Taiko drummers followed by Furry Night Live. That was the highlight of the con I think. The drummers were amazing, I was boggled how they could all play such difficult pieces together without one going out of rhythm or messing up. After that was FNL and It was so freaken funny. After that I walked around and mingled a little. Ate and went to bed. Monday sucked. Having to leave everything behind, I miss it already and can't wait for next year. As we were leaving a crowd had gathered outside the front entrance and they were singing a FA version of “Still Alive” from Portal, that was the perfect finish to the event. (I love you FA, don't hate me because the song was funny. :P)
If you made it this far please comment so I know I didn't just waste the last couple hours of my life writing all this and proofreading this. XD
Thank you,
-Justin
Yeah, I also loved the live cat show--I was totally amazed to hear a Cheetah purr and meow just like a house cat. Only the meow was a lot lower pitch. But that purring was so LOUD I could hear it from the back of the room!
Yeah I also regret not buying a few things from the dealer's room that I wanted to grab. Too bad... :( I'm going to have to get to Califur and make up for it.
Thanks again for letting me borrow your camera batteries--I'll get them back to you somehow! :P