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MFF Con Report - So sexys, much con
12 years ago
Hi honey, I'm hoooooome!
This was a great con. I did not work the entire time, for once. Rare thing for me. Cons are usually a time for worky work work, but this time I got to actually kick back and enjoy myself. Totally worth it.
Thursday started out with driving down to the train station with Sumi and Nereza to pick up Makaze, and then heading off to Costco to pick up room supplies. After getting registered and stocking the room, that was pretty much it and I got to head back home to bed.
Friday, I went down to the opening of Artist Alley and Dealer's Den. I was gonna wait in line for the DD, but I got bored and wound up hanging out in the Artist Alley line with the cool artists instead. I got to meet Lyenuv in person, whom I hadn't seen in years, and I met Nutcase, and chitchatted with Skech and Fluffkevlar and several others. After schmoozing with the dealers and artists, we had a fiasco with trying to get lunch and walked a super-long way to a Mexican place with great food and lousy service, and I got to watch 2 and Kage by my lonesome. The whole day was a fun blur that ended in watching bad sci-fi movies and playing Cards Against Humanity and getting drunk in my friends' suite, then crashing with Fluff and co.
I had made arrangements with a friend to share a room at the overflow hotel, the Westin, but instead wound up spending all my time between my friends' suite with Luca, Daigo, Gravewalker, Ryoku, and a number of other people (god, there were so many people going in and out of that room!) and the room of Skech, Fluffkevlar, GunMouth and Mav, all of whom are awesome. (I hate not being able to just wake up and go right into the con.)
Saturday was more hanging out, schmoozing and meeting artists and dealers, and I got a sketch from dear Lyenuv. I kept trying to get a badge from ChibiMarrow, but she was never at her dealer's table the whole day long, so I said fukkit and drew a badge for myself instead (which I will post once I get it all cut out and stuff). I got to meet the lovely Shinigami Girl, and I had dinner with Mwalimu, and then I went back to Fluff and Skech's room with Cebelius and Wyla and had an amazing drunken art jam where I was officially 15 sheets to the wind (I was so drunk I couldn't remember what number of sheets there were supposed to be). While I was smashed, I got a fantastic piece by Wyla in my new sketchbook, finished my badge and did a piece for her, and had some deep heart- and soul-wrenching conversation with them all about love and relationships and hope (and the lack thereof).
Sunday was pretty rough. I wasn't hungover, but there was definitely some emotional "hangover" from the conversation the previous night, so I was pretty subdued. Even so, I found this wonderful artist in the alley (RougeCat) who SEVERELY underprices her work and got an adorable ferret sketch from her. Hanging out in the suite later, I got a sketch from Strype, who was a lot of fun to hang out with, and one from Skech, and I did a badge for Ryoku (who does the BEST dirty King Candy impression), and got trades with Gravey and Cooper. I got so much awesome art this convention, normally I don't have much time to trade or much money to buy art.
It was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad I got to see everyone there! Special thanks to the ones who made the con really special, you know who you are and why. I'm definitely a huge fan of MFF as a whole, and if you didn't make it this year, I hope to see you at the next!
This was a great con. I did not work the entire time, for once. Rare thing for me. Cons are usually a time for worky work work, but this time I got to actually kick back and enjoy myself. Totally worth it.
Thursday started out with driving down to the train station with Sumi and Nereza to pick up Makaze, and then heading off to Costco to pick up room supplies. After getting registered and stocking the room, that was pretty much it and I got to head back home to bed.
Friday, I went down to the opening of Artist Alley and Dealer's Den. I was gonna wait in line for the DD, but I got bored and wound up hanging out in the Artist Alley line with the cool artists instead. I got to meet Lyenuv in person, whom I hadn't seen in years, and I met Nutcase, and chitchatted with Skech and Fluffkevlar and several others. After schmoozing with the dealers and artists, we had a fiasco with trying to get lunch and walked a super-long way to a Mexican place with great food and lousy service, and I got to watch 2 and Kage by my lonesome. The whole day was a fun blur that ended in watching bad sci-fi movies and playing Cards Against Humanity and getting drunk in my friends' suite, then crashing with Fluff and co.
I had made arrangements with a friend to share a room at the overflow hotel, the Westin, but instead wound up spending all my time between my friends' suite with Luca, Daigo, Gravewalker, Ryoku, and a number of other people (god, there were so many people going in and out of that room!) and the room of Skech, Fluffkevlar, GunMouth and Mav, all of whom are awesome. (I hate not being able to just wake up and go right into the con.)
Saturday was more hanging out, schmoozing and meeting artists and dealers, and I got a sketch from dear Lyenuv. I kept trying to get a badge from ChibiMarrow, but she was never at her dealer's table the whole day long, so I said fukkit and drew a badge for myself instead (which I will post once I get it all cut out and stuff). I got to meet the lovely Shinigami Girl, and I had dinner with Mwalimu, and then I went back to Fluff and Skech's room with Cebelius and Wyla and had an amazing drunken art jam where I was officially 15 sheets to the wind (I was so drunk I couldn't remember what number of sheets there were supposed to be). While I was smashed, I got a fantastic piece by Wyla in my new sketchbook, finished my badge and did a piece for her, and had some deep heart- and soul-wrenching conversation with them all about love and relationships and hope (and the lack thereof).
Sunday was pretty rough. I wasn't hungover, but there was definitely some emotional "hangover" from the conversation the previous night, so I was pretty subdued. Even so, I found this wonderful artist in the alley (RougeCat) who SEVERELY underprices her work and got an adorable ferret sketch from her. Hanging out in the suite later, I got a sketch from Strype, who was a lot of fun to hang out with, and one from Skech, and I did a badge for Ryoku (who does the BEST dirty King Candy impression), and got trades with Gravey and Cooper. I got so much awesome art this convention, normally I don't have much time to trade or much money to buy art.
It was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad I got to see everyone there! Special thanks to the ones who made the con really special, you know who you are and why. I'm definitely a huge fan of MFF as a whole, and if you didn't make it this year, I hope to see you at the next!
Glad you had lots of fun! Alternating work and fun cons is a good way to avoid burnout.
I could have hoped for many more "what happens at con, stays at con" experiences, but I think I'm already dehydrated and exhausted enough as is.
And hey, just tipsy snugs are perfectly nice on their own! Sounds like fun, nice drinks and deep conversations in a form that couldn't work as well online is an excellent way to pass a con. Plus getting all that cool art!
I'd love to commission her someday, she's an incredible artist and a wonderful person.
...just kidding, I was just really lucky and arranged to get it really early on. The drinks and massages were free, and he has a girlfriend.
If you're going to AC, I'll definitely be there. If not, next MFF. We should make it happen somehow. :)