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8 years ago
Glimpse The Thoughts of Jack the Beaver
God I needed that.
Well on Thurday I drove for about seven and a half hours to Fur the More. I roomed with
vrraven. Nothing felt better then getting out of that car at FTM. Noir thankfully had a luggage cart to carry my crap and the five board games I brought with me. At this point saying I carry board games is like saying the sky is blue.
Thursday was just an arrival day, though I did get checked in. I found it amusing that they tried to set up the registration on 80s style computers, something that seemed to be causing the staff quite a bit of trouble. Thankfully I had pre-reged. I had planned to sponsor like Noir had, but a car and a set of teeth are quite expensive. I will sponsor next year, I like this con and I want to support it.
The theme for the con was 8 bit adventure. Of all the themes they could pick, they picked literally one of the few I couldn't think of a story for. Such is life. I will never understand people's fascination with 8 bit video games but that's just me.
Noir fursuited a little on Thursday, a little on Friday and for quite a long long time on Saturday. I got to be a handler, that was an interesting and oddly fun experience. I never would have thought keeping a six foot fur coat from walking into walls handing him water bottles and carrying his crap could be fun. I dunno, maybe because I could see him having fun with people, maybe because I could take pictures of this.
Either way I quite enjoyed it. It gave me something to do besides just stand there and feel nervous around people. It also forced me to interact with other fursuiters whenever they noticed me trying to take pictures. So that was definitely beneficial to me.
Friday we went to the opening ceremonies. Those were...interesting. Yes interesting is a word. So is historically corny. The opening ceremony amounted to the convention organizers dressing in costumes and making jokes so groan inducingly bad that they come back around and become funny again. They also informed us that scattered around the convention center were plastic coins, collect ten and win a prize.
The Dealer's Den also opened. I got my first ever drawing of Janelle and Remmie, a new badge, a drawing of Jack that is being made and a truly weird looking picture of my fursona looking like a pedo. Noir and I also got a shared drawing that he should be posting online soon.
I did enjoy that every artist I talked to was thrilled to see me. They all loved getting to draw a frilled lizard because of how different it was. I am glad I can be different and give them something new to draw.
Beyond that we played One Night Ultimate Werewolves, Ghost Stories (Spoiler, we lost) and we won The Simpsons Arcade game through the legitimate method of infinite lives. That night Noir and I discussed our different faiths, Catholicism and Wicca. He explained a lot of things I never knew, and I hope I cleared some things up for him. Either way, I am glad I have a friend who would share this with me.
Saturday was the big day. At noon came the fursuit menagerie. Due to the heat and the layout of the hotel, no fursuit parade. Instead they got all the suiters together for their big picture. After that all the fursuiters hung out together in the Zoo and all the people who came to watch them could enter, free of charge, to interact with the suiters. I rather liked that, it meant the suiters could play with the people who usually would just be watching them. I hope they do it again next year.
I also saw a girl, a beautiful girl. Her name, or fursona name, I think was Misha. Short, short black hair and beautiful eyes. I regret not talking to her.
At 2 pm was my reptile panel. Going in the only person I recognizer was
joestrike and even then only because of his art. The discussion was largely bsing about reptiles for an hour, which I admit is what most panels turn into. I had a lot of fun though, I hope to do it again next year.
I missed the TF enthusiast panel after mine, rather sad about that, but I did get to to Noir's panel on fursuit matinence and repair. He gave his panel and I got to be Jr. Deputy Handler Bitch, checking time and handing out water with reckless abandon. Hearing a lot about what it takes to get a furuist made me pause. When I get one, it'll have to have a special made head due to a large bulge in the back of my skull from a bone growth. But that's a concern for the future.
That night we played Werewolves for about six hours. It was an experience full of idiocy, bad calls, no wins by the village and one really fun game where I won as the last werewolf among 11 villagers. That was really cool.
Sunday sadly it came to an end. We packed up and I made a point to buy my first ever con t-shirt. I did so both because I regret not getting one from AC last year and because I really did love this con. Noir and I have both already agreed we're going back to Fur the More next year.
If I am being completely honest, I enjoy this small con more than AC. It's less chaotic for one thing, I can actually go to panels. Also since their are less people there, I can build up more of a rapport with people. Anyone who was at Fur the More and sees this, hit me up. And if you're there next year, well I'll see you then.
Well on Thurday I drove for about seven and a half hours to Fur the More. I roomed with
vrraven. Nothing felt better then getting out of that car at FTM. Noir thankfully had a luggage cart to carry my crap and the five board games I brought with me. At this point saying I carry board games is like saying the sky is blue.Thursday was just an arrival day, though I did get checked in. I found it amusing that they tried to set up the registration on 80s style computers, something that seemed to be causing the staff quite a bit of trouble. Thankfully I had pre-reged. I had planned to sponsor like Noir had, but a car and a set of teeth are quite expensive. I will sponsor next year, I like this con and I want to support it.
The theme for the con was 8 bit adventure. Of all the themes they could pick, they picked literally one of the few I couldn't think of a story for. Such is life. I will never understand people's fascination with 8 bit video games but that's just me.
Noir fursuited a little on Thursday, a little on Friday and for quite a long long time on Saturday. I got to be a handler, that was an interesting and oddly fun experience. I never would have thought keeping a six foot fur coat from walking into walls handing him water bottles and carrying his crap could be fun. I dunno, maybe because I could see him having fun with people, maybe because I could take pictures of this.
Either way I quite enjoyed it. It gave me something to do besides just stand there and feel nervous around people. It also forced me to interact with other fursuiters whenever they noticed me trying to take pictures. So that was definitely beneficial to me.
Friday we went to the opening ceremonies. Those were...interesting. Yes interesting is a word. So is historically corny. The opening ceremony amounted to the convention organizers dressing in costumes and making jokes so groan inducingly bad that they come back around and become funny again. They also informed us that scattered around the convention center were plastic coins, collect ten and win a prize.
The Dealer's Den also opened. I got my first ever drawing of Janelle and Remmie, a new badge, a drawing of Jack that is being made and a truly weird looking picture of my fursona looking like a pedo. Noir and I also got a shared drawing that he should be posting online soon.
I did enjoy that every artist I talked to was thrilled to see me. They all loved getting to draw a frilled lizard because of how different it was. I am glad I can be different and give them something new to draw.
Beyond that we played One Night Ultimate Werewolves, Ghost Stories (Spoiler, we lost) and we won The Simpsons Arcade game through the legitimate method of infinite lives. That night Noir and I discussed our different faiths, Catholicism and Wicca. He explained a lot of things I never knew, and I hope I cleared some things up for him. Either way, I am glad I have a friend who would share this with me.
Saturday was the big day. At noon came the fursuit menagerie. Due to the heat and the layout of the hotel, no fursuit parade. Instead they got all the suiters together for their big picture. After that all the fursuiters hung out together in the Zoo and all the people who came to watch them could enter, free of charge, to interact with the suiters. I rather liked that, it meant the suiters could play with the people who usually would just be watching them. I hope they do it again next year.
I also saw a girl, a beautiful girl. Her name, or fursona name, I think was Misha. Short, short black hair and beautiful eyes. I regret not talking to her.
At 2 pm was my reptile panel. Going in the only person I recognizer was
joestrike and even then only because of his art. The discussion was largely bsing about reptiles for an hour, which I admit is what most panels turn into. I had a lot of fun though, I hope to do it again next year.I missed the TF enthusiast panel after mine, rather sad about that, but I did get to to Noir's panel on fursuit matinence and repair. He gave his panel and I got to be Jr. Deputy Handler Bitch, checking time and handing out water with reckless abandon. Hearing a lot about what it takes to get a furuist made me pause. When I get one, it'll have to have a special made head due to a large bulge in the back of my skull from a bone growth. But that's a concern for the future.
That night we played Werewolves for about six hours. It was an experience full of idiocy, bad calls, no wins by the village and one really fun game where I won as the last werewolf among 11 villagers. That was really cool.
Sunday sadly it came to an end. We packed up and I made a point to buy my first ever con t-shirt. I did so both because I regret not getting one from AC last year and because I really did love this con. Noir and I have both already agreed we're going back to Fur the More next year.
If I am being completely honest, I enjoy this small con more than AC. It's less chaotic for one thing, I can actually go to panels. Also since their are less people there, I can build up more of a rapport with people. Anyone who was at Fur the More and sees this, hit me up. And if you're there next year, well I'll see you then.
I'm glad you had a great time :)
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