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FWA 2013 - A Look Back
12 years ago
Another year, another Furry Weekend Atlanta post-con wrap-up journal entry to clog up your message boards. Enjoy the read, suckers! :P
But seriously, this year's FWA has been a blast of a time for me, as always, especially with the great events, the people and the fun times had all around. This is even Code Red Dew Roo's first year in suiting up and running around this particular con, and was pretty well received. I heard about how the hotel was pretty high-scale for a con of our type, but my personal experience was pretty positive. I especially like the placement in the middle of Peachtree Plaza of Atlanta, where the high traffic of Atlanta folk warranted for some photo ops and some interesting confrontations. Here's a little run down of the great times...
Friday: This is my first day for the con since I had other plans going on Thursday to even be at the Opening Ceremony. Regardless, I have had fun romping around in suit. I even had my first try in the dance competition audition that day, which was fun but eventually I found out I wouldn't participate in the competition this year. Oh well, that's how things go. Better luck next time.
Much of the day was spent running around as Code Red and interacting with the fur folk. Nothing too special. Although I had my first hand at playing Artemis in the video game room. For those who don't know, think of it like a Star Trek-style spaceship simulator with 6 computers hooked up, each person taking a specific task in navigation, power management, radar and information scanning (which was what I did) and so on all overseen by the Captain who walks around and coordinates the actions to be done. It was fun, and it was a shame I didn't try to jump into the tourney while I was there. Maybe next year...
Saturday: This was the best of the three days for me. Much time was spent running around in the Fursuit Parade, followed by... well, making THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NMDvKUuNE
(Pssst, look carefully in the top right corner of the screen when the big dance beat drops)
I even tried a hand at the Pokémon Puzzle League Tourney, which I haven't played for years and naturally had my ass handed to me. The St. Patrick's Day Parade was fun to sit through, especially with all the fursuiters outside getting a lot of attention from the crowd and the parade marchers.
I didn't make it to the Dance Competition that night, but it didn't stop me from getting Code Red to show up and watch the show.
But that's not the most interesting thing of the night for me yet!
During one of the songs the dancers danced to while the judges compiled their decisions, one of the dancers of the contest decided to pull me right onto the stage and dance with them! I guess he must have remembered me from the audition and didn't want me to feel left out? I dunno, but for whatever reason, how could I not have my brief moment of fun, huh?
You can see it happen here in this clip: http://www.justin.tv/furryweekend/c/2038232
1) Scroll over to the 22:00 mark and watch for when I am yanked to the stage.
2) You can check out the whole dance competition and other videos recorded in the con at justin.tv/furryweekend
3) If anyone knows who it was who yanked me into the dance ring, help me out here...
I have to say, I wasn't expecting that at all, and I had my fun. To me, that's enough to put a smile on my face that lasts the night.
But if that's not enough, midnight was the Cards Against Humanity Tourney where I made my way to the very end, where the final round consists of custom questions themed on furries, the con and others of the like. That sure put a fun spin on things for the game, and it turned out that I won and got me my free registration for next year's FWA!... best prize one could ask for...
Sunday: Not much for this day. Just running around, being all CR until the closing ceremonies. Whoop-ee!
And that about wraps things up. A big shout out to my meermeer I spent the whole week with,
javameerkat, who I love a lot and miss everyday I am not in Atlanta, 
daxterdingo and 
puckthezennec for being awesome hang-outers!
princessrei, I hope you enjoy your coconut oolong tea, if you didn't shotgun it all down by now already. :P
Plus all the other folk, Odin, Dingoroo, Mangusu, Summershy, Brejar, ButtercupSaiyan, Fuchsia and anyone else I might have left out, and sorry to mention.
Great con, great times, and I'll be seeing it all happen again next year...
That about wraps up, so I'll shut up now.......
But seriously, this year's FWA has been a blast of a time for me, as always, especially with the great events, the people and the fun times had all around. This is even Code Red Dew Roo's first year in suiting up and running around this particular con, and was pretty well received. I heard about how the hotel was pretty high-scale for a con of our type, but my personal experience was pretty positive. I especially like the placement in the middle of Peachtree Plaza of Atlanta, where the high traffic of Atlanta folk warranted for some photo ops and some interesting confrontations. Here's a little run down of the great times...
Friday: This is my first day for the con since I had other plans going on Thursday to even be at the Opening Ceremony. Regardless, I have had fun romping around in suit. I even had my first try in the dance competition audition that day, which was fun but eventually I found out I wouldn't participate in the competition this year. Oh well, that's how things go. Better luck next time.
Much of the day was spent running around as Code Red and interacting with the fur folk. Nothing too special. Although I had my first hand at playing Artemis in the video game room. For those who don't know, think of it like a Star Trek-style spaceship simulator with 6 computers hooked up, each person taking a specific task in navigation, power management, radar and information scanning (which was what I did) and so on all overseen by the Captain who walks around and coordinates the actions to be done. It was fun, and it was a shame I didn't try to jump into the tourney while I was there. Maybe next year...
Saturday: This was the best of the three days for me. Much time was spent running around in the Fursuit Parade, followed by... well, making THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NMDvKUuNE
(Pssst, look carefully in the top right corner of the screen when the big dance beat drops)
I even tried a hand at the Pokémon Puzzle League Tourney, which I haven't played for years and naturally had my ass handed to me. The St. Patrick's Day Parade was fun to sit through, especially with all the fursuiters outside getting a lot of attention from the crowd and the parade marchers.
I didn't make it to the Dance Competition that night, but it didn't stop me from getting Code Red to show up and watch the show.
But that's not the most interesting thing of the night for me yet!
During one of the songs the dancers danced to while the judges compiled their decisions, one of the dancers of the contest decided to pull me right onto the stage and dance with them! I guess he must have remembered me from the audition and didn't want me to feel left out? I dunno, but for whatever reason, how could I not have my brief moment of fun, huh?
You can see it happen here in this clip: http://www.justin.tv/furryweekend/c/2038232
1) Scroll over to the 22:00 mark and watch for when I am yanked to the stage.
2) You can check out the whole dance competition and other videos recorded in the con at justin.tv/furryweekend
3) If anyone knows who it was who yanked me into the dance ring, help me out here...
I have to say, I wasn't expecting that at all, and I had my fun. To me, that's enough to put a smile on my face that lasts the night.
But if that's not enough, midnight was the Cards Against Humanity Tourney where I made my way to the very end, where the final round consists of custom questions themed on furries, the con and others of the like. That sure put a fun spin on things for the game, and it turned out that I won and got me my free registration for next year's FWA!... best prize one could ask for...
Sunday: Not much for this day. Just running around, being all CR until the closing ceremonies. Whoop-ee!
And that about wraps things up. A big shout out to my meermeer I spent the whole week with,
javameerkat, who I love a lot and miss everyday I am not in Atlanta, 
daxterdingo and 
puckthezennec for being awesome hang-outers!
princessrei, I hope you enjoy your coconut oolong tea, if you didn't shotgun it all down by now already. :PPlus all the other folk, Odin, Dingoroo, Mangusu, Summershy, Brejar, ButtercupSaiyan, Fuchsia and anyone else I might have left out, and sorry to mention.
Great con, great times, and I'll be seeing it all happen again next year...
That about wraps up, so I'll shut up now.......
brejar
~brejar
Was great seeing you, or rather Code Red, while at FWA. I was glad I made it, even if it was for a day. :)
Fuchsia
~fuchsia
I think that was 
bitshep who pulled you up! :P
bitshep who pulled you up! :P 