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Midwest pepto fest
11 years ago
Hi. I'd pretty much forgotten I have a FA for like the last month.
K so updates.
My brothers supra started. It caught fire only a little on the test drive. It's been leakin oil and I wish I'd let it burn. Just hauled it up to the exhaust place today....errr. Yesterday now.
We have a bed and a couch moved into the house we'll be renting. What more can you ask for really? It's actually kinfof an awesome couch for 35$. So. That happened. Next is a dresser. And then pitching a bunch of clutter that we don't need.
And work. Yeah. That place. So they didn't give me the time off for MWFF so I ended up working a 7:45 to 5 on Saturday and booking it down I-94 to rosemont.
Showed up at about 8something. Smashed on some Chinese and suited with sharpe for the dance. Which was AWESOME. OMG. I died the set was amazing and on the UV lighting. Bones looks SIIIICK UNDER BLACKLIGHT. And i didnt last long out thrre. Something to do with having worked a 48 hour work week with too little sleep.
So we decided to call it a night for the suiting around 12:45 or whatever.
Sharpe says "hey I might take the spook out to get some floor time with that little beastie, but first I need a shower.
Some minutes later
jake_bolt comes in "I wonder what's up. There's a bunch of fire trucks out front."
We notice from our 8th floor vantage point, firefighters on the 10th floor waving around a magical fireman tricorder thingy that's reacting pretty regularly. We watch someone approach them and they push him back. Quickly. We also started smelling chlorine. Which was really weird.
*gears start grinding in my head.
*more grinding
(That's a gas detector thingy. It's going off. They just shoved that guy out of there in a real hurry. I bet there's a natural gas leak....shit, we better get our shit ready to bug out. Shit...sharpe's in the shower.
So sharp had a whole thirty seconds heads up before someone banged on the door telling us there's gas we gotta go. And I had thirty seconds to prioritize what we were taking. I'm like. Marble fox spook, that's pretty irreplaceable, coat it's cold out. Pizzas head. Bones head is pretty irreplaceable. Keyswalletflashlightknife. Oh shit my work boots...dont want to have to explain that one...And we were out the door.
Thought we were gunna watch the place burn down that night to be honest.
Of course I thought it was a natural gas leak.
It was a long frikin night. I'm actually really impressed with everyone. No mass panic. And everyone really pulled together to lift each other up. I felt really bad for the non convention hotel patrons who were actually asleep at the time and suddenly thrust into a world of...well...us...
And we pretty much spent the next two hours moving around watching the ambulances file from the hotel one at a time and combing twitter for info and retweeting whatever we could.
Got to bed around 5 am. The hotel people were amazing about the whole thing. Seriously. Amazing.
Visited some vendors on Sunday. Goobered around in pizza until it was time to load up and go. Which is the worst part of any con. Especially mff.
This is my home con. And I love going every year. Yeah it's "big" but. It really doesn't feel it to me. And there's never a bad time to suit. Other than being in the dealer den looking over the merch. I really want to suit 100% of the time. Well. Accounting for time with sharpe. Maybe 80% of the time.
Umm. After that we had Denny's on the way back and. And spent the better part of Monday thinking of plausibly deniable statements in case anyone had heard of the chlorine attack in Chicago. Umm yeah.
I crashed one of sharpe's streams. Which is one of my favourite things to do while she works. Hahaha. She had such an adorable squeaky laugh it was adorable.
I guess that's all I can think of. Now I'm going to wake up in four hours and go work.
K so updates.
My brothers supra started. It caught fire only a little on the test drive. It's been leakin oil and I wish I'd let it burn. Just hauled it up to the exhaust place today....errr. Yesterday now.
We have a bed and a couch moved into the house we'll be renting. What more can you ask for really? It's actually kinfof an awesome couch for 35$. So. That happened. Next is a dresser. And then pitching a bunch of clutter that we don't need.
And work. Yeah. That place. So they didn't give me the time off for MWFF so I ended up working a 7:45 to 5 on Saturday and booking it down I-94 to rosemont.
Showed up at about 8something. Smashed on some Chinese and suited with sharpe for the dance. Which was AWESOME. OMG. I died the set was amazing and on the UV lighting. Bones looks SIIIICK UNDER BLACKLIGHT. And i didnt last long out thrre. Something to do with having worked a 48 hour work week with too little sleep.
So we decided to call it a night for the suiting around 12:45 or whatever.
Sharpe says "hey I might take the spook out to get some floor time with that little beastie, but first I need a shower.
Some minutes later
jake_bolt comes in "I wonder what's up. There's a bunch of fire trucks out front." We notice from our 8th floor vantage point, firefighters on the 10th floor waving around a magical fireman tricorder thingy that's reacting pretty regularly. We watch someone approach them and they push him back. Quickly. We also started smelling chlorine. Which was really weird.
*gears start grinding in my head.
*more grinding
(That's a gas detector thingy. It's going off. They just shoved that guy out of there in a real hurry. I bet there's a natural gas leak....shit, we better get our shit ready to bug out. Shit...sharpe's in the shower.
So sharp had a whole thirty seconds heads up before someone banged on the door telling us there's gas we gotta go. And I had thirty seconds to prioritize what we were taking. I'm like. Marble fox spook, that's pretty irreplaceable, coat it's cold out. Pizzas head. Bones head is pretty irreplaceable. Keyswalletflashlightknife. Oh shit my work boots...dont want to have to explain that one...And we were out the door.
Thought we were gunna watch the place burn down that night to be honest.
Of course I thought it was a natural gas leak.
It was a long frikin night. I'm actually really impressed with everyone. No mass panic. And everyone really pulled together to lift each other up. I felt really bad for the non convention hotel patrons who were actually asleep at the time and suddenly thrust into a world of...well...us...
And we pretty much spent the next two hours moving around watching the ambulances file from the hotel one at a time and combing twitter for info and retweeting whatever we could.
Got to bed around 5 am. The hotel people were amazing about the whole thing. Seriously. Amazing.
Visited some vendors on Sunday. Goobered around in pizza until it was time to load up and go. Which is the worst part of any con. Especially mff.
This is my home con. And I love going every year. Yeah it's "big" but. It really doesn't feel it to me. And there's never a bad time to suit. Other than being in the dealer den looking over the merch. I really want to suit 100% of the time. Well. Accounting for time with sharpe. Maybe 80% of the time.
Umm. After that we had Denny's on the way back and. And spent the better part of Monday thinking of plausibly deniable statements in case anyone had heard of the chlorine attack in Chicago. Umm yeah.
I crashed one of sharpe's streams. Which is one of my favourite things to do while she works. Hahaha. She had such an adorable squeaky laugh it was adorable.
I guess that's all I can think of. Now I'm going to wake up in four hours and go work.
I'm sorry it's something you have to go through. To be honest. This kind of attitude of hating people who think or believe or act differently, is becoming more prevalent. It's sad really. And the easiest way of dealing with things we don't understand. It's just easier to think "we'll they're just freaks". Or "this justifies my previous way of thinking." That's pretty messed up though.
Change is difficult. And changing our way if thinking and viewing others isn't something that comes naturally.
I wish we could all just love one another even if we disagreed. But. Such is reality.
Honestly the best way to fight this is by being genuinely good people in the fandom. Being everything they don't expect us to be. It will be seen eventually. And then perception will hopefully change. But people see what they want and it will take some time. But the fandom is getting more and more mainstream. And I think perception will change for the better eventually.
You won't always be under your parents thumb. If I remember righ you've got a good head on your shoulders. And looking at your most recent journal youre well on your way to getting yourself worked out. Be patient man. It'll get there. On that note. Mff was my first con. Me and my wife's actually. And she decided to quad suit the thing. What a learning curve. Great convention though. And it's getting huge. When you are able to go to a convention I usually recommend a smaller one nearby if you can, just to get a feel for things. But mff isn't bad. There's always something going on and plenty of furs to meet.
I'm usually one to give people the benifit of the doubt. People do stupid things and it happens, but this...this is a little different. Even if it was a "harmless prank" someone needs to get nailed to the wall for this. This sort of expression of emotion is NEVER ok. And. It really scares me how some people have reacted. The "oh well they must have deserved it."
Im. Rambling.
That being said, it's still worth trying. Change one person's mind at a time.
I still have yet to figure out how to explain it to my parents fully. If they had asked flat out if I was at the hotel when it happened, I would have answered honestly. As it is, I did a bit of dancing. If you've got a good head on your shoulders, there's really not much more one can ask for. I know friend who can't wait to get away from their parents but can't due to lack of money. The parents are bad enough that they likely won't go back to visit even. So, if it's not that bad, no worries.
As for what happened, there was nothing that says "harmless prank" about this. I don't care what group you belong to, no one, and I mean no one deserves to get attacked like what happened. There is no group, person, or government that I would wish it upon. For one, there's something called civility most of the world seems to have forgotten what it means. For another, would you want to get attacked and have some one go "oh, they must have deserved it"?? I don't think so.