After nearly a day of sleeping and rehydrating i'm finally sitting down to write out my con report.

First and foremost I want to thank everyone that took the time to say hi and just chat a bit. I say this with as much gratitude and sincerity possible but I was deeply humbled by each and every single person that took the time to come talk to me about suiting, my art, even the silly videos i've done in the past.

I know this sounds corny or self promoting, but I do love to hear from everyone, because I honestly feel so humbled that I can have some impact, even minor on someone's life. I know I have a fairly popular character at this point but that only means anything to me because I get the chance to talk to you guys at cons and find i've helped make someone laugh or helped them with suiting.

This con in particular. Perhaps it's a good thing I don't talk in suit much because I was rendered speechless by the kind words and just people happy to see me for a short time and talk about what they enjoy. Thank you so much everyone that follows for my art, my suit work, my journals from time to time. I am truly flattered, and humbled, and while there's the passing joke that my suit is "popufur" and such I hold no illusions that I would be nothing, and this all would mean nothing without all of you involved.

There are by and far waaaay too many people to mention, so I'm sorry if I forgot you in my journal.

So Wednesday. Con started with a 5 hour drive with and her stupid GPS Karen, fucking Karen. The trip was awesome, we talked for hours and ended up getting in. She stayed in my room at the Courtyard for the night. The others in our room were and her husband We all of course suited up and hit the lobby. Sic and Rio in their short muzzle suits, and lemme just tell you, guys, you need to see this pair. They are a fucking gorgeous pair of suits. I might be biased but goddamn there's few suits out there that got together so well as works of art and in their performance. Serious check their shit out, it was a pleasure and one of the few times I felt like the odd one out in a suiting groups. Honestly every time someone asked for a picture I was certain they just wanted those two. I'm ranting a bit, but they're pretty go look at them!

Anyway we suited Wednesday evening and had a great time. It was a little entertaining because part way through the balaclava slipped over my eyes in my head. So I'm sorry if I ignored anyone wed night or didn't really interact much. I was blind and waiting for my handler or Rio and Sic so I could get to the headless lounge. There was no ban hammer this year because it popped and the replacement didn't work out, so I need to take the time to make a big proper foam on. Comment if you know good cosplay weapons tutorials.

Thursday I woke up and got into suit in order to hit the reg line, then almost immediately had to break the magic because the reg area did not have good air flow and I was slowly dying. I made mistake, such mistakes...horrible mistakes. Got reg done, suited more. The 4th of our room Ken showed up and we hit the reg line again lol.

In the evening we met up with , , and FFs crew who I do not know their FAs but I believe it was and and I think Taboo. We decided to play some cards against humanity but wanted a quieter place, so we went on a hunt for a room. We ended up on the third floor of the con center with a little folding table and chairs hiding away in a little alcove. It was rather funny how our group acted like it was jewel heist or something. Freezing if anyone walked by and sneaking to the corner with a look out,

We got in contact with on Deo's ancient flip phone. Seriously it was a blast from the past using that thing. Unfortunately as Barefoot finally found us so did con security, which lead to one of the most amusing little exchanges.
"This isn't function space guys" "we're not functioning (ken)" "Well neither am I, but we do need you to pack up here" I will give it to AC staff. They are seriously wonderful people. I fully expected to get told off for being where were weren't really supposed to be but this wonderful person explained that they understood us wanting a spot to play and that the tabletop room was open for the next few hours.
AC is the best con for a reason and I can't compliment the staff enough for being kind, understanding, and jovial when they were absolutely in the right to just tell us to GTFO. I should have gotten the person's name in retrospect to give compliments to con ops.

Anyway we ran into Foof on the way to tabletop room who was with so we went to the room where we were joined by the lovely wonderful it was a rousing game of horribleness filled with laughs and silly trivia about Nightcrawler's endowdness as well as opinions on fonts. Eventually the con center shut down and we all split to get to bed.

Friday was filled with more suiting, all the suiting all the time, forever. I suited around con and made my rounds. I had the absolute pleasure of talking to at her booth about animation past and present and watch some doodling. Such a talented artist and intelligent conversationalist. Anyway the suiting was all so that I could make it to the photoshoot. It's always nice to see the other scribblesuits. I'm not super close with everyone, and I know people like to assume we're some elite club, but really it's just nice to talk to and commiserate with people that have a similar experience. At least that's how I feel about the matter.

Honestly I really love the onefurall shoots because I'm the shortest often (Unless Kuhori) is around. So it mostly is just me standing still for twenty minutes in the middle somewhere while all the poses are worked out. And it's funny, I dunno if you guys have ever seen a largish group of suiters try to coordinate but it's herding cats with a bunch of jokes and funny comments mixed in. After the official shoot and I continued our eternal war with a little rooftop battle. Afterwards I hit the headless lounge and met up with Deo and Rio and her suiters. Apparently they have learned that I tend to nickname their suits as they are being worked on (cause I like to talk with Rio as she works and I dunno the official names. She keeps them secret till she shows off the suit to the public) After that it was basically dinner and then just hanging out for the evening.

Saturday basically I decided not to do the parade on saturday. I love AC and I know that the public coming out was a wonderful thing, but I just did not have the stamina to suit that day, especially the parade which has a tendency to become a death march just due to the large number of fursuiters at the con. Instead of the parade Ken and I headed to Ben and Jerry's for breakfast, which let me witness something amazing.
There's this thing called the "Vermonster" it's a bucket of ice cream 20 scoops, 4 bananas, cups of mixings, it's a true monster and the challenge is you must eat it in an hour or pay the cost of the thing.

It became a spectacle as 4 furs attempted this together. I ended up live tweeting this whole event, the furs involved I'm sorry to say I couldn't hang out with more. They were delightful, funny, and really friendly. It was like I said an event and a real pleasure to kinda be involved in. I felt bad at the end that I couldn't even finish my two scoops. Check out their twitters spooksfox parapocalypse blinkbird sablealice. Honestly they were delightful to hang out with and things like this are what makes con for me. Being able to meet these people you wouldn't have a chance to otherwise and share a moment together. So honestly I missed the parade but with these 4 I never regretted a moment of it.

The rest of Saturday was mostly just hanging out. I had dinner with Firefeathers and crew again, we played a fun art telephone game thing that turned ridiculous as things like that tend to do. We ended up that night going to the bad fanfiction reading panel. This was amazing. Words fail me. The readers for this, I dunno your names but hats off to you. So many readers that were just amazing and able to draw me into what was the worst story i've ever heard, especially Jersey guy. whoever you were, where ever you are, Jersey guy everyone in that panel is in your debt for just making that event amazing. The whole thing got a cherry on this magical cake as was there and drew the most astounding fanart while the readings went on, I wish I had a link to it to show you guys.

Sunday At this point it's getting hard to remember stuff, basically on Sunday we got some lunch, I got to say goodbye to Ken as he headed back home, then suited up again to make rounds one last time. This was sooo much fun. I went out with Rio and Sic again, wonderful performers as they are. We did the fursuit loop and met more people. I can't say much as with fursuiting there's always so much happening in such a short amount of time, and really it's always such a wonderful experience. This was my best day out, I was just flabbergasted by the wonderful compliments and greetings. It's more than just "cute suit" and such, which are always wonderful, but more in depth compliments where people complimented my comics, art, or even the journals I write from time to time. I love compliments on my suit, I do, but goodness is it truly amazing when I hear that someone is interested in more, in my work. They've taken the time to go beyond the moment beyond just the surface at the con.
I'm being gushy but, never in my life did I think that I would be in this kind of position, that anyone, much less a multitude of people would give a damn about what I was doing. Goddamn thank you everyone, honestly.

This con was amazing. I really needed this kind of fun, relaxation, and just enjoyment. Thank you so much for everything, everyone I hung out it. Sometimes you really need a good con to just show how astounding this fandom can be and how many amazing people are in it.

As always I am looking for pics of my suit. If you see them comment, send a shout, whatever just let me know.

Later I'll post up some more specific con stories or even comics of what went on...like having Deo arm me with a butterknife so I could defend myself.