This year's FC was one of the best I've been to since I started many, many years ago. The con was way, WAY more organized than in previous years. While large, it suffered from a lot of long lines, broken elevators, and crazy crowds. This year the lines moved swiftly, far fewer elevators broke thanks to an army of volunteers organizing the number of folks getting on and off, and everything worked really smoothly. I was worried FC was getting too big to handle itself, but the staff seemed to have really made an effort to improve it.

I obtained a lot of great art from some wonderful artists, which I've slowly started to post. Over the next month you should see the remainder of sketches.

But the best part of the con was meeting some folks I've know about and followed for a long time, but never had the chance to meet in person. Most especially  defenbaugh ,  Smudge ,  dragonsintheattic , and writer/animator Chris Savino. The above artists I've been following for years, and were each among the first artists I discovered and introduced me to furry art and anthro dragons. They all turned out to be absolutely wonderful people. I'd been tweeting back and forth between Chris Savino for awhile, introduced largely through him writing my favorite episodes of Friendship is Magic, and he also turned out to be a super cool, friendly guy. When one meets their heroes, they usually don't turn out to be such kind and fascinating people. This made FC one of the best cons I've been to yet.

Well, that and getting completely sloshed on the party floor with  kazen101 :) .