My time at Anthrocon this year was easily one of the best times I have ever had in my life. I arrived there on Thursday and left on Monday, and every moment in between was precious.

For me, the best part of the con is the simple joy of being surrounded by tons of interesting people that generally have a number of common interests with you. Getting to live in a furry world like that for even just a few days is a really special treat!

Just as awesome and exciting to me is the display of creativity and artistry the con provides: there is never any shortage of magnificent and impressive work to see. Whether it's the fursuits, the art show, merch in the Dealers' Den, work in Artist Alley, or something else entirely, there's always something amazing to admire. I was finding myself floored by the stuff I saw with great consistency. In a good way!

I couldn't be much more satisfied with how my con went. The whole thing for me was this perfect mix of meeting new people, running into friends, and turning acquaintances into friends. I also got to meet a number of artists that I really admired--and I still do admire them, of course!

Now, I want to give a disclaimer here, because I already know I won't remember or be able to link every single person who helped make my con awesome. There were just too many of you for that, and my memory isn't perfect. I'm also writing this in one sitting without dwelling on it.



Some of the amazing artists that I already really loved and ran into during the con include:  kuroodod,  sprout,  sparkythechu,  nommz,  locosaltinc,  smoot,  oselotti,  blondevelvet,  tartii and MORE! I also ran into cownugget briefly, who still owes me art from LAST Anthrocon.

I don't mean to play favourites here, but I will say there were two particular artists I was ESPECIALLY happy to finally meet:

 strega was one of the artists responsible for even leading me here to the furry fandom, which I must admit I originally found through my interest in vore. I've been an extremely long-time follower of his awesome work, and it was a pleasure to finally get to say hello in person.

 werdna250250, also known as Carrot, is the other amazing artist I want to give special mention to. Before the con, I already considered him one of my best buds, but I'd never gotten to meet him in real life! Hanging out with him during the con was seriously everything I could have hoped it would be! He even said I acted exactly the same way in real life as I do online, which I was super glad to hear; that's something I strive for! We spent a lot of time chilling together, and in doing so I got to meet a few other really cool fuzzies that were part of the Carrot posse. x3 I mostly mean to refer to ClandestineRendezvous , Sawolf151 , and Jakebluepaw

The only person I ended up commissioning at the con was  katusedcharm! She did a really awesome job, and drew me something super duper cute! <3 It's one more thing I really gotta upload. n.=.n!

(THERE WERE MORE AWESOME ARTISTS BUT I THINK I CAN ONLY MAKE 12 ICONS WITH NAMES! and I didn't wanna get fancy and stuff)



I also managed to meet up with a bunch of other friends, artists and otherwise. It was so nice getting to see so many familiar names on badges (a good number of the actual faces I was seeing for the first time). I can't mention EVERY friend I was happy to meet at the con, and I hope they all agree that gettin together in real life was super awesome, but there are at least a couple people I think deserve shoutouts.

h-fox was there and I got to see him several times during the con! I saw him at AC last year for the actual first time, but it didn't make this time any less special. He is one of the first friends I made in the fandom, so getting to hang out with him in real life after all these years is really gratifying. Not only is he just as cute as the day I met him, but being online friends with someone for years and years and then getting to be friends face to face really does feel like such a step up in life. :3

On the subject of old friends, patthecat is another of the first friends I made in the fandom. For a loooong time I had a huuuuge crush on him. I still do really care about the guy! <3 >///o Anyway, I met him briefly in real life years ago, and again briefly at AC last year. However, it wasn't until this year that I finally got to spend some real time with him and even got to snuggle with him for a while in the Westin. ^//^ It was super nice. These are the kinds of good memories I'll never lose.

Running the video game room again this year were iambgs and his lovely hubby! BGS doesn't really use FA as far as I know, but I wanted to mention how awesome he is here all the same. I met him last year at the previous AC. He hosts Magic: The Gathering cube drafts at these Furry Cons. His cube is a gigantic masterpiece!

I roomed in the Renaissance with rechner and spiff84 , who are this really cute local couple and really good, close friends of mine. Two others came in the car with us but didn't room with us, including gmnchampion , a reasonably new fur who has come a long way in exploring the fandom and himself, and zephbluelight , who is super duper cute!



While I enjoyed meeting tons of old friends (and recent ones, actually) throughout the convention, in some cases I had an even better time meeting people who were only just acquantances of mine, and turned out to be loads of fun to hang out with! ^-^ It was particularly enjoyable due to the surprise nature of how really cool people I barely knew or only really knew OF could turn out to be! :3! There were a few such cases, but I will drop the name of ClandestineRendezvous again, even though he doesn't like using this site any more! >3> Also artie fits that bill!



I really hope no one is offended that I didn't mention them by name! I'm not writing a book here. u3u If you and I had a great time meeting at Anthrocon, hopefully you know that and I don't have to tell you~<3 ;P



To wrap this up I just wanna say that I really hope I run into you awesome people next year at AC! ^.=.^ <333