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Updates and Anthrocon Recap.
11 years ago
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Upon building my suit, I decided to very minorly change an aspect in Salems design. I'm dropping the tail floof completely. No more tail floof in his design. I like it much better this way.
I'm hopfully going to try to get to MMF in November. Then after that probably nothing aside from local meets and FE2015 and hopfully AC again next year. I wish there was a con like.. every month in close proximity to me. Or that I had enough money to throaw at conventions and get to all of them everywhere.
I failed to update this when it was decided. Salem is in fact a fruit bat, mouse-tailed bat hybrid. This is because I love the faces of fruit bats, not so much the leaf nose on the mouse-tailed bats, but I love the loooong tail that comes with being a mouse-tailed bat. I didn't WANT to put fruit bat in him since it's a common choice, but they just so fucking cute.
Anthrocon 2014 Recap.
Anthrocon was by far worth the money and the 5 hour drive. It was AMAZING. I had the best time and it will surely be missed.
It was a dream come true interacting with all of you, meeting a few of you for the first time. taking photos with you, and meeting my small group of fans as Klentir calls it. I like to joke that I have a cult following. It was a pleasure and certainly a confidence booster. I was beyond ecstatic to meet Telephone, Tayerr/Lamarr(AlbinoTopazz), Shia, and everyone else that I admire in the fandom. I missed a few of you, but maybe we'll see eachother at future cons.
When it comes to suiting, as some of you know, I had a partial suit before I had Salem. Before I changed my fursona. I'm 1000000% glad I did. Suiting before was amusing, but suiting now in a fursona that I connect with so much in terms of species and design is just... wow. Amazing. I don't even know how to put it into words. I felt one with Salem. He was me and I was him. I didn't feel like I was suiting, I felt like I was just... me in the form of a fluffy little bat. (This is not a therian rant, as I am not a therian.) Before it just felt like a costume. This time around it felt like I was brining a whole nother me to life. I was concerned going into about the heat, but once I was "strapped in for the ride" so to speak, I barely noticed until it got realllllly hot and I HAD to take it off. I suited for 20 hours MINIMUM, and I loved every second of it. I suited until I couldn't even walk anymore and it was WERF IT.
Another really big part of the appeal I felt in that suit is the amount of attention I drew in. It was quite a bit, and as a REASONABLE (meaning I wont seek it, but I love when it comes to me) attention whore, I absolutely LOVED it. I love the camera. I'm just really confused about the amount of photos and videos I was in, but I can't seem to find ANY of them aside from the parade videos.
There was one instance I could do without. The few encounters with 2 groups of drunk people. One put their hands on my suit in a way I didn't particularly enjoy, (Trying to fuck up the hair) and the other group insisted it was about sex. How anyone thinks I can have sex in something with huge wings reinforced with PVC pipe, thats hotter then the depths of Satans asshole, I will never know. Aside from that it was all GREAT. The city was friendly and welcoming, and just down right beautiful.
My only regret was the fact that I might not have interacted ENOUGH. I need to work on bringing myself out of my shell more. I need to talk to the people who approach me, rather then saying "Thank you" and making a hasty escape, or pantomiming gratitude. I wish I would've been more open. It's a little difficult dealing with social anxiety because people have and still do continue to wrong me when I establish a sense of trust. Or they send these mixed signals that I'm possibly inturperating wrong. For example, if someone listens to what everyone else has to say, but tunes out when I start talking, I assume they don't care much about me. Or if someone takes photos in a group and tags everyone else, but not me despite having me on FB, I assume I wasn't even wanted in the photo. If someone takes photos of everyone else they know, but not me I assume they don't like me. If someone seemingly purposely puts themselves between me and my SO I assume they don't like me, and want to steal him. (>_>; Stupid yes.) And those are just minor things. The more severe the worse it is. I wish people would be more clear in their intentions, and I also wish I didn't have this problem with jumping to conclusions because then I wouldn't have the problem of worrying that what I do when I open up is being judged. Eventually I will get there. My goal is to be able to openly talk with people and establish friendships easily without worry.
All in all Anthrocon was the time of my life. I was sad to see it end, but I'm looking forward to next year. Maybe next year I'll reach my goal and sort out my social stuffs. n_n
"You're not coming to Anthrocon. You're coming home." -Uncle Kage
great job on ur new fursuit too
u did amazing on it
cant wait to see it in person
I hope to go next year
I saw you dancing on stage on live stream
I know what you mean about the attention thing too. The first few times I was asked for a picture it seemed a little weird because of shyness. But before long I was all happy and jumpy and flappy at the opportunity to take pictures and happily soaking in all that attention. ^v^ What I've been doing is just going on FA every once in a while, turning on the filter that searches only the past 1-3 days of posts and searching for "anthrocon bat" or "bat fursuit" - I figure if any pictures do show up, they'll be there! Of course, all of us bats will show up on it. I was just doing a general search and saw a recently posted one of you here! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13934203/. Not sure if you saw it yet!
And yeah, I just wish I was able to establish friendships easier by actually talking to people in person rather then just getting photos and running away. XD