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BLFC '15 Recap
10 years ago
"You’ll be on your way up!
You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights."
- Dr. Seuss Honestly, BLFC sucked for me and Target. We ended up kicking out our roommates the first night there. And the partials that were to be presented were not finished. The artist of my suit used horrible time management and thought it was okay to give me a rushed suit as she started it about two weeks before the con date. Seams started tearing with less than five hours of wearing it. She also collabed with Hunting on a gift partial for my mate, but apparently, that was the reason she couldn't finish mine (I commissioned her in October, with half of the overall total paid made in December... she had PLENTY of time to get Sin done before this second project came up (in April)). She lied to me several times about items that were not done (when she said they were), she missed several deadlines and I'm still missing actual pieces of my suit. The agreement was to have it done by BLFC and well... it's not. She knew the consequences of this (as about a week to the con I had barely any WIP updates, I messaged her and threatened her with an artist beware if the suits were incomplete) and now I have to follow through. FA TOS states that I can discuss business experiences as long as I do not harass said person. SO. If you truly wish to know who I commissioned and you feel like you want to help by spreading the negative word (in a non harassing way, of course) about this artist, please go ahead and note me. I'll be more than happy to discuss this with you. As of Saturday night at BLFC, I have refused to discuss this any further with said artist as she thinks she didn't do much wrong because this was wasn't finished in part of her working on a free suit for my mate (mind you, I did NOT ask for this.. another artist went to her with this idea and she agreed to do it. I simply accepted the offer.) and she has flat out admitted that she will say nothing more on the matter. Just as a quick note: she did offer to fix the suits for me, but she's lied to me multiple times. In good conscience, I cannot give these back to her as I believe she won't get them back to me for several months.. if ever. I'm still waiting on several pieces (as I said earlier).
Back to the actual con... the convention was really well put together and I enjoyed suiting the small amount of time I could. I did participate in the parade and the PurpleFurs Photo Shoot, shot by Simboku. It was so much fun! Unfortunately, it seems that wherever I go, I can't go kart comfortably. I'm too short to drive, but can't fit comfortably next to Target - passengers are meant to be children, not adults. It didn't work well.. Regardless, we did have a good time within the actual convention. I enjoyed hanging out with my bestie, Hunting and having a blast with Target whenever I could. It seems I'm lucky as several con goers ended up with food poisoning - we did not. Just chronic sinus issues.
I really want to be able to make FC 2016 happen. It's been a few years since I've gone, Target has yet to go and I absolutely love the theme. I'm even in discussion with a local fur here in SD, about making some costumes for this! We really also want to attend BLFC next year, as well.
Lessons learned: No more roommates. No more commissioning inexperienced artists, regardless of how awesome their suits are. Drive up in my own vehicle. 
jpa2blue
~jpa2blue
Sorry to hear you did not have a good time , I did though
SIncerey
~sincerey
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That's good! I'm glad! :) Really, the con itself was really fun! It's just everything else that was thrown into the weekend.
