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Post – AC Report, Photos, and AC MIRACLE
10 years ago
ID LIST: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17148704/
FULL PHOTO ALBUM: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lcv4igyv.....fh43ZiJra?dl=0
DA FOLDER OF GIFs: http://chiscringle.deviantart.com/g.....88/AC2015-GIFs
This was the most fun I’ve had at a furry con ever! I only wish I’d been able to quadsuit, but you can’t have everything and even taking that out, it scored easily 9/10 for enjoyability. All scores relative to their kind of convention, but even taking it over the course of 18 years of going to various cons, I’d say 7 or 8. It’s not GrangeCon, but when you run your own convention you can make it pretty good for yourself ;)
So yeah, I took over 13,000 photos and will be making them into GIFs over the next couple weeks. Links several times in this journal and all my submissions for awhile, so check the folder and the page daily for new content and please ID anyone who I haven’t managed to.
ID LIST: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17148704/
FULL PHOTO ALBUM: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lcv4igyv.....fh43ZiJra?dl=0
DA FOLDER OF GIFs: http://chiscringle.deviantart.com/g.....88/AC2015-GIFs
Thursday –
I actually got into town Wednesday for business and stayed in Monroeville, so I could have gotten to the hotel as early as 5:30, but decided to be polite and wait until 8-9. Apparently I shouldn’t have or I should have stayed home the day of the reservations so I could use my faster home computer rather than my clunky workstation to get a Wednesday reservation since there were no parking spaces in the hotel parking lot or minifridges by the time I arrived. The fridge situation affected my suiting since I have a policy of not suiting more than an hour or so after my cooldown vest packs completely melt. I could get them mostly solid by using the empty minibar and an ice bucket overnight, and I might have done better by soaking them, but the upshot was that I never got them fully solid again through the con. That said, I still suited more than I ever have before and every single day, so it wasn’t a terrible bust. Most of my issues at the con were with the Westin, which always seems a tiny bit behind the now predictable crowds. They’re a nice bunch, but perennially underequipped for a full complement of busy and on-the-move guests. Everything else about the hotel was stellar, so it’s still a great place to stay especially for AC.
I didn’t mind the badge line and to me it wasn’t really all that long. On the plus side I got to have a quick chat with
cadpigjr who was nice and I was in Allura very shortly after getting the badge. After a lot of good walking and posing, I was ready to take pics and almost immediately found my crush and favorite performer 
Shawshank_Crux (who is very lucky I’m not the stalker type no matter how tempted I am to just follow him around taking pictures). I was more confident and less shy with him than at MFF, but I still can’t quite get up the courage to play around like some suiters or regular congoers do. Out of suit I often feel like I oughtn’t to get too much in the way of suiters interacting with each other. Hopefully next time. Amazingly one of the few – and some of the best – photos of Allura I’ve seen so far was of the one time I decided there was enough space to start twirling the dragon staff. I rarely do tricks with it because I know I could brain someone and even with all my peripheral vision I’d be worried about that.
Friday -
The day went very well, though I had to cut short my time at one of Dr. Gerbasi’s focus groups because I wanted to do the flag photo shoot and the official photo shoot (there weren’t any other days posted in the con book) as well as getting what turned out to be the LAST fursuit badge of Friday! So good! It was also a super heavy day of photo taking and I got over 100 separate events. The only day with more photos was Sunday and for reasons that will be explored there.
Saturday –
Parade time! Which again meant leaving a focus group early :/ It seems like they were scheduled just wrong for me to go to. I also did a writing panel, and I have to say Lunacon and GrangeCon along with the other east coast SF/F cons have spoiled me. The writers at AC are the best the fandom has to offer … but Lunacon back in the day was the best fandom as a whole could do. One day I’ll make it up to Boskone and Arisia where the writers and editors seem to have migrated. ACs group are still entertaining and give good advice, but not really a dab hand on the literary experience of Lunacon.
The parade was a blast. I ended up being blocked by a hat in the group photo, but that happens. I saw
Thumpie_Bunny_Eve before and after, but only had the courage to talk to her after the parade. She was graceful and nice despite the strain of the parade and obviously not up for conversation, so I’ll be sure to catch her beforehand if there’s a next time.
Sunday –
I didn’t expect to take so many photos, but I did. Of course a lot of them were of the yellow balloon cat, but even discounting his fun frolics I got a lot of photos in. The wind down of the con was if anything more fun than anything else as the furs all rushed to do as much as they could. I even made it to the Crux meet to embarrass Shawshank with as much praise as I could heap on him.
Monday – The AC MIRACLE
OK, it’s not much of a miracle. I went up in the elevator to my floor, went in, put my boxes on my cart, went back, and the elevator was still there. Not so impressive given that I get up early and it was something like 7-8 when I did this. On the other hand, there were already fursuiters in the lobby.
All in all, a very very good furcon. I’ll be moving to Pittsburgh at the end of the month and hopefully will make it to next AC with a quadsuit handler and a minifridge. With those two things (and maybe a parking space in the hotel!) I can probably make AC16 into the best furcon ever. Stay tuned for GIFs and I hope I took pics of people who don’t usually see themselves!
ID LIST: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17148704/
FULL PHOTO ALBUM: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lcv4igyv.....fh43ZiJra?dl=0
DA FOLDER OF GIFs: http://chiscringle.deviantart.com/g.....88/AC2015-GIFs
FULL PHOTO ALBUM: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lcv4igyv.....fh43ZiJra?dl=0
DA FOLDER OF GIFs: http://chiscringle.deviantart.com/g.....88/AC2015-GIFs
This was the most fun I’ve had at a furry con ever! I only wish I’d been able to quadsuit, but you can’t have everything and even taking that out, it scored easily 9/10 for enjoyability. All scores relative to their kind of convention, but even taking it over the course of 18 years of going to various cons, I’d say 7 or 8. It’s not GrangeCon, but when you run your own convention you can make it pretty good for yourself ;)
So yeah, I took over 13,000 photos and will be making them into GIFs over the next couple weeks. Links several times in this journal and all my submissions for awhile, so check the folder and the page daily for new content and please ID anyone who I haven’t managed to.
ID LIST: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17148704/
FULL PHOTO ALBUM: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lcv4igyv.....fh43ZiJra?dl=0
DA FOLDER OF GIFs: http://chiscringle.deviantart.com/g.....88/AC2015-GIFs
Thursday –
I actually got into town Wednesday for business and stayed in Monroeville, so I could have gotten to the hotel as early as 5:30, but decided to be polite and wait until 8-9. Apparently I shouldn’t have or I should have stayed home the day of the reservations so I could use my faster home computer rather than my clunky workstation to get a Wednesday reservation since there were no parking spaces in the hotel parking lot or minifridges by the time I arrived. The fridge situation affected my suiting since I have a policy of not suiting more than an hour or so after my cooldown vest packs completely melt. I could get them mostly solid by using the empty minibar and an ice bucket overnight, and I might have done better by soaking them, but the upshot was that I never got them fully solid again through the con. That said, I still suited more than I ever have before and every single day, so it wasn’t a terrible bust. Most of my issues at the con were with the Westin, which always seems a tiny bit behind the now predictable crowds. They’re a nice bunch, but perennially underequipped for a full complement of busy and on-the-move guests. Everything else about the hotel was stellar, so it’s still a great place to stay especially for AC.
I didn’t mind the badge line and to me it wasn’t really all that long. On the plus side I got to have a quick chat with
cadpigjr who was nice and I was in Allura very shortly after getting the badge. After a lot of good walking and posing, I was ready to take pics and almost immediately found my crush and favorite performer 
Shawshank_Crux (who is very lucky I’m not the stalker type no matter how tempted I am to just follow him around taking pictures). I was more confident and less shy with him than at MFF, but I still can’t quite get up the courage to play around like some suiters or regular congoers do. Out of suit I often feel like I oughtn’t to get too much in the way of suiters interacting with each other. Hopefully next time. Amazingly one of the few – and some of the best – photos of Allura I’ve seen so far was of the one time I decided there was enough space to start twirling the dragon staff. I rarely do tricks with it because I know I could brain someone and even with all my peripheral vision I’d be worried about that.Friday -
The day went very well, though I had to cut short my time at one of Dr. Gerbasi’s focus groups because I wanted to do the flag photo shoot and the official photo shoot (there weren’t any other days posted in the con book) as well as getting what turned out to be the LAST fursuit badge of Friday! So good! It was also a super heavy day of photo taking and I got over 100 separate events. The only day with more photos was Sunday and for reasons that will be explored there.
Saturday –
Parade time! Which again meant leaving a focus group early :/ It seems like they were scheduled just wrong for me to go to. I also did a writing panel, and I have to say Lunacon and GrangeCon along with the other east coast SF/F cons have spoiled me. The writers at AC are the best the fandom has to offer … but Lunacon back in the day was the best fandom as a whole could do. One day I’ll make it up to Boskone and Arisia where the writers and editors seem to have migrated. ACs group are still entertaining and give good advice, but not really a dab hand on the literary experience of Lunacon.
The parade was a blast. I ended up being blocked by a hat in the group photo, but that happens. I saw
Thumpie_Bunny_Eve before and after, but only had the courage to talk to her after the parade. She was graceful and nice despite the strain of the parade and obviously not up for conversation, so I’ll be sure to catch her beforehand if there’s a next time.Sunday –
I didn’t expect to take so many photos, but I did. Of course a lot of them were of the yellow balloon cat, but even discounting his fun frolics I got a lot of photos in. The wind down of the con was if anything more fun than anything else as the furs all rushed to do as much as they could. I even made it to the Crux meet to embarrass Shawshank with as much praise as I could heap on him.
Monday – The AC MIRACLE
OK, it’s not much of a miracle. I went up in the elevator to my floor, went in, put my boxes on my cart, went back, and the elevator was still there. Not so impressive given that I get up early and it was something like 7-8 when I did this. On the other hand, there were already fursuiters in the lobby.
All in all, a very very good furcon. I’ll be moving to Pittsburgh at the end of the month and hopefully will make it to next AC with a quadsuit handler and a minifridge. With those two things (and maybe a parking space in the hotel!) I can probably make AC16 into the best furcon ever. Stay tuned for GIFs and I hope I took pics of people who don’t usually see themselves!
ID LIST: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17148704/
FULL PHOTO ALBUM: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lcv4igyv.....fh43ZiJra?dl=0
DA FOLDER OF GIFs: http://chiscringle.deviantart.com/g.....88/AC2015-GIFs
