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10 years ago
So. Anthrocon.
It was my very first furry convention, and it was absolute amazing. Seriously, words cannot describe the magic that happened there.
It all started on Wednesday night when I drove up to RenardThatch's place to spend the night. Fawnlace had picked up Danni3120 and driven up also, so we all spent the night and then Thursday morning we were off to Pittsburg!
The drive was long, but still fun. We did a lot of joking around in the car. Once we got closer to our destination, we ended up finding a lot of furries on the road with us! I saw Shiacoft's car, and waved like a madman as we passed in the tolls! And then there was someone else I found with the license plate "BigFox", which I thought was hilarious since Renardthatch's plate has "fox" in it as well. fawnlace made the joke that I was getting "foxed" since my car happened to be inbetween both of the fox plated cars, lol.
I got to meet up with my suit maker Temperance on Thursday evening, as she installed a fan in my head for me. That fan makes suiting 110% better, let me tell you! The difference is amazing! And she was SO very nice! UGH. I love her. I'm so glad I went with her for my suit maker <3 I gave her a couple of little gifts when I saw her as a thank you - a badge I made (and forgot to take pictures of, yikes!) and a cute little mouse pin cushion with a tape measurer in the tail. She apparently used the mouse later on in the week, so that pleased me that it came in handy!
I did a LOT of suiting on Friday! I suited up at about 10:30am and I think I got out of suit about 6pm. It was the first time I suited up for such a length of time, but it was so much fun I didn't want to get out of suit! I tried to make it to Sheppymomma's dance thing, but I couldn't remember where we were supposed to meet and ended up missing it. But I DID make it to temperance's photoshoot, which was fun. I got to meet up with ManiacalMuffins and l0st there during the shoot. I was so glad I got to know both of them. Lyu is the suit that really drew me into Temperance's style, and L0st is what hit home for me that Temp would be perfect. I saw his fursuit head on her DA and immediately knew she'd do a beautiful job on Albi.
I hung around afterwords because one of my wings got a little floppy that morning, and Temperance took me back to the headless lounge to try and help fix it up. She ended up using her paw print badge ribbon (the ones being given out for doing the survey) in an attempt to Mc Guyver my harness back into shape. Unfortunately, it didn't hold up the way we'd hoped. I ended up getting interviewed by someone for a local news website while waiting for Temp after the photoshoot, so that was pretty exciting! I found myself on their article, here: http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.....t-the-furries/
Saturday morning I woke up early and ran to the local CVS to buy some bandage material for my bum wing. As for-mentioned, Friday my harness started to fail and it resulted in my right wing slumping down. So, to play off the problem (since I couldn't fix it), I decided to "break" my wing by bandaging it up and walking around with a bag of markers so people could sign the bandages. I wandered around for a bit before joining a bunch of birds for the fursuit parade. It was a lot of fun standing at the front of the line and calling out to all the birds that walked by to get them to come join us. I met sawblade5's there, in his Victor Redtail suit, and met a bunch of other birds that I haven't yet tracked down on FA, yet. We were front of the line for the group picture, which was awesome!
The parade was.. gosh.. I can't even think about it without tearing up. Uncle Kage had mentioned that they were taking the parade outside and that people were out there waiting.. but I honestly sort of thought it was a ploy of some sort.. bribe us outside with the idea that there's a crowd out there. I was planning on staying in because I didn't know how I'd do in the heat, seeing as it was only the 2nd time I'd been out in my suit for long periods, but when we got to the inside-outside split, Victor said "We're going out!" and out we went. I was afraid of losing the group of birds, so I just followed along. And I'm so glad I did. It was AMAZING. I cried. I literally cried. And I'm so happy that I was in suit so no one could see my ugly cry face. It was actually hard to "smile" in suit (I tend to "smile" for photos by opening my mouth a little) because of all the ugly faces I was making inside, trying not to bawl. It was just so beautiful and touching to see that many people gather to see and celebrate us. It was WAY more than I expected, and it was an amazing first fursuit parade. I certainly will never forget it. I even managed to get captured in one of the photos posted by WESA: https://twitter.com/905wesa/status/.....487104/photo/1
It amazed me how many people recognized me, too! I heard some people shout my name in the crowd inside the convention center as we all walked through. However, I couldn't see who those people were. I distinctly heard someone say "It's a Rainbow Wing Gryphon", or something of the sort, and it made me so happy. I don't know if they said because they know that's my actual species, or if it was just how they were describing me, but it filled me with joy, regardless.
After the parade, the rest of the birds and I gathered for a quick photo shoot and then I headed out to the Dealer's Den to see some of the stuff in there before it closed. Danni3120 found me in there, so we wandered around together buying all of the things. I got a lot of really nice prints and some super cute sculpted statues. There were a couple of stands that I was hoping to find and missed, but that's okay. I ran out of money, anyway, lol!
Sunday I suited up and wandered back to the Dealer's Den/Artists Alley to pick up some things and spend the rest of my money. I also continued with my quest of getting my wing signed by random people. :3 I'm keeping the bandage as a souvenir.
I then went and checked out the group fursuit games. Despite having two floppy wings at that point, I joined in and was assigned to the orange team. We ended up winning the games with a total of 30 points by the end of it! The games were seriously fun, even though the musical chairs round was a little scary. I had Danni take my wings off for that one, because I was afraid of them getting broken in all the craziness. I seriously can't wait for someone to post videos of the games. Despite being in them, I don't know what happened around me half the time, lmao. I was so focused on playing that I didn't watch everyone else (plus it's hard to see everything in your fursuit head). So that should be interesting to watch!
I met so many amazing artists at the con, too. Birdfox found me, which I was so happy about because I somehow managed to keep passing her table without seeing her! Ack! PixelSunshine found me too, which was also amazing because I TOTALLY FORGOT about meeting her in the Zoo Thursday night after I got my fan installed by Temperance! I was super surprised when Guyver47 came up to me outside at Friday's photo shoot. It was amazing that she recognized me, considering I commissioned my badge from her back in 2007! <3 Crazdude found me too, down in the Artist's Alley, which was so funny! I totally didn't realize it was her at first, and then I saw her badges and her card and was like "I already watch you on DA!" lol. But it was great to meet her! I also so Spartadog in the Dealer's Den, too, and he caught up with me at Sunday's hangout in the Zoo.
Sunday night was a blast playing Joust, also! I'd never seen the game before but it was SO MUCH FUN. It really gets your adrenaline going! Renardthatch, Fringe and I played together during a fursuit only round and in the end Renard and I had a pretty awesome stand-off before I finally won the round.
All in all, Anthrocon was the absolute best first furcon experience I could've ever had. I had SO much fun and cried so many times at the sheer beauty of everything. I had an amazing time rooming with Renardthatch, fringe and Veux. It was a great experience being in a room full of suiters, and we caused a lot of harmless mischief over our days together, including Velux breaking an elevator and teaching Renard why a fox should never fall asleep first when rooming with birds. I also had a lot of fun hanging with Fawnlace and danni3120 during the con.
It was just. Ugh. Magical. And I can't wait for it to happen again next year.
It was my very first furry convention, and it was absolute amazing. Seriously, words cannot describe the magic that happened there.
It all started on Wednesday night when I drove up to RenardThatch's place to spend the night. Fawnlace had picked up Danni3120 and driven up also, so we all spent the night and then Thursday morning we were off to Pittsburg!
The drive was long, but still fun. We did a lot of joking around in the car. Once we got closer to our destination, we ended up finding a lot of furries on the road with us! I saw Shiacoft's car, and waved like a madman as we passed in the tolls! And then there was someone else I found with the license plate "BigFox", which I thought was hilarious since Renardthatch's plate has "fox" in it as well. fawnlace made the joke that I was getting "foxed" since my car happened to be inbetween both of the fox plated cars, lol.
I got to meet up with my suit maker Temperance on Thursday evening, as she installed a fan in my head for me. That fan makes suiting 110% better, let me tell you! The difference is amazing! And she was SO very nice! UGH. I love her. I'm so glad I went with her for my suit maker <3 I gave her a couple of little gifts when I saw her as a thank you - a badge I made (and forgot to take pictures of, yikes!) and a cute little mouse pin cushion with a tape measurer in the tail. She apparently used the mouse later on in the week, so that pleased me that it came in handy!
I did a LOT of suiting on Friday! I suited up at about 10:30am and I think I got out of suit about 6pm. It was the first time I suited up for such a length of time, but it was so much fun I didn't want to get out of suit! I tried to make it to Sheppymomma's dance thing, but I couldn't remember where we were supposed to meet and ended up missing it. But I DID make it to temperance's photoshoot, which was fun. I got to meet up with ManiacalMuffins and l0st there during the shoot. I was so glad I got to know both of them. Lyu is the suit that really drew me into Temperance's style, and L0st is what hit home for me that Temp would be perfect. I saw his fursuit head on her DA and immediately knew she'd do a beautiful job on Albi.
I hung around afterwords because one of my wings got a little floppy that morning, and Temperance took me back to the headless lounge to try and help fix it up. She ended up using her paw print badge ribbon (the ones being given out for doing the survey) in an attempt to Mc Guyver my harness back into shape. Unfortunately, it didn't hold up the way we'd hoped. I ended up getting interviewed by someone for a local news website while waiting for Temp after the photoshoot, so that was pretty exciting! I found myself on their article, here: http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.....t-the-furries/
Saturday morning I woke up early and ran to the local CVS to buy some bandage material for my bum wing. As for-mentioned, Friday my harness started to fail and it resulted in my right wing slumping down. So, to play off the problem (since I couldn't fix it), I decided to "break" my wing by bandaging it up and walking around with a bag of markers so people could sign the bandages. I wandered around for a bit before joining a bunch of birds for the fursuit parade. It was a lot of fun standing at the front of the line and calling out to all the birds that walked by to get them to come join us. I met sawblade5's there, in his Victor Redtail suit, and met a bunch of other birds that I haven't yet tracked down on FA, yet. We were front of the line for the group picture, which was awesome!
The parade was.. gosh.. I can't even think about it without tearing up. Uncle Kage had mentioned that they were taking the parade outside and that people were out there waiting.. but I honestly sort of thought it was a ploy of some sort.. bribe us outside with the idea that there's a crowd out there. I was planning on staying in because I didn't know how I'd do in the heat, seeing as it was only the 2nd time I'd been out in my suit for long periods, but when we got to the inside-outside split, Victor said "We're going out!" and out we went. I was afraid of losing the group of birds, so I just followed along. And I'm so glad I did. It was AMAZING. I cried. I literally cried. And I'm so happy that I was in suit so no one could see my ugly cry face. It was actually hard to "smile" in suit (I tend to "smile" for photos by opening my mouth a little) because of all the ugly faces I was making inside, trying not to bawl. It was just so beautiful and touching to see that many people gather to see and celebrate us. It was WAY more than I expected, and it was an amazing first fursuit parade. I certainly will never forget it. I even managed to get captured in one of the photos posted by WESA: https://twitter.com/905wesa/status/.....487104/photo/1
It amazed me how many people recognized me, too! I heard some people shout my name in the crowd inside the convention center as we all walked through. However, I couldn't see who those people were. I distinctly heard someone say "It's a Rainbow Wing Gryphon", or something of the sort, and it made me so happy. I don't know if they said because they know that's my actual species, or if it was just how they were describing me, but it filled me with joy, regardless.
After the parade, the rest of the birds and I gathered for a quick photo shoot and then I headed out to the Dealer's Den to see some of the stuff in there before it closed. Danni3120 found me in there, so we wandered around together buying all of the things. I got a lot of really nice prints and some super cute sculpted statues. There were a couple of stands that I was hoping to find and missed, but that's okay. I ran out of money, anyway, lol!
Sunday I suited up and wandered back to the Dealer's Den/Artists Alley to pick up some things and spend the rest of my money. I also continued with my quest of getting my wing signed by random people. :3 I'm keeping the bandage as a souvenir.
I then went and checked out the group fursuit games. Despite having two floppy wings at that point, I joined in and was assigned to the orange team. We ended up winning the games with a total of 30 points by the end of it! The games were seriously fun, even though the musical chairs round was a little scary. I had Danni take my wings off for that one, because I was afraid of them getting broken in all the craziness. I seriously can't wait for someone to post videos of the games. Despite being in them, I don't know what happened around me half the time, lmao. I was so focused on playing that I didn't watch everyone else (plus it's hard to see everything in your fursuit head). So that should be interesting to watch!
I met so many amazing artists at the con, too. Birdfox found me, which I was so happy about because I somehow managed to keep passing her table without seeing her! Ack! PixelSunshine found me too, which was also amazing because I TOTALLY FORGOT about meeting her in the Zoo Thursday night after I got my fan installed by Temperance! I was super surprised when Guyver47 came up to me outside at Friday's photo shoot. It was amazing that she recognized me, considering I commissioned my badge from her back in 2007! <3 Crazdude found me too, down in the Artist's Alley, which was so funny! I totally didn't realize it was her at first, and then I saw her badges and her card and was like "I already watch you on DA!" lol. But it was great to meet her! I also so Spartadog in the Dealer's Den, too, and he caught up with me at Sunday's hangout in the Zoo.
Sunday night was a blast playing Joust, also! I'd never seen the game before but it was SO MUCH FUN. It really gets your adrenaline going! Renardthatch, Fringe and I played together during a fursuit only round and in the end Renard and I had a pretty awesome stand-off before I finally won the round.
All in all, Anthrocon was the absolute best first furcon experience I could've ever had. I had SO much fun and cried so many times at the sheer beauty of everything. I had an amazing time rooming with Renardthatch, fringe and Veux. It was a great experience being in a room full of suiters, and we caused a lot of harmless mischief over our days together, including Velux breaking an elevator and teaching Renard why a fox should never fall asleep first when rooming with birds. I also had a lot of fun hanging with Fawnlace and danni3120 during the con.
It was just. Ugh. Magical. And I can't wait for it to happen again next year.
I thanked Lyu for being being inspiration too <3 Her suit is gorgeous and those LEGS. Between the two of you, I knew I was going with the right maker. I was so happy to get to meet the both of you, and Temperance too.
And yes! <3 I'm definitely going to have to squeeze more cons into my schedule now! I need to flock with my brethren~
Yup we'll have to certaince suit around a con and just squawk at everyone!
And yes! Being loud and obnoxious is what I do best! :>