ANTHROCON POST-CON REPORT (a picturebook adventure!)
16 years ago
General
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f.....throcon%202009
get going and look at pictures. I may have more elaborate stories to tell later. Thank you all for those of you who I got to meet for the first time; it was a pleasure meeting all of you. I was very happy to draw pictures for everybody and I hope I'll be able to get some scans of a few of them since I didn't manage to photograph every one 8)
Maybe it's just me but it seems that AC was much more cool and much less creepy than most of the conventions I've been to in the past. Maybe I'm just filtering it out better (?). Well, anyway, what somebody else said about it not being a sausage-fest anymore is totally true. There's normal looking people (and grls) everywhere
What's this world coming to? Also, the bars and local joints seemed to welcome the big-ass convention crew. And there was supposedly news about AC, lots of it :0
I find this all very interesting.
Some things I did at AC09:
* Saw Transformers 2 (worst movie ever)
* Spent a day with
myrilla and crew and drew pics for them; I hope they send scans of my drawings back to me!
* Spent part of a day with
sorethumb who somehow recognized me purely by my self-portraits here on FA. Scary lol D:
* Was introduced to
pathia for the first time. I had some issues trying to avoid gushing and acting like a fanboy upon realizing it was actually her. Gosh, I was pretty embarrassed and was trying very much to hide it. I have no idea why I reacted in that way, since I'm usually a pretty cool customer when it comes to meeting people in the fandom nowadays. After getting her sketchbook I had to excuse myself before it became too awkward for me :\
* Met the TFur2 crew and the TFP crew; sorry for having to run so fast TFP guys, I really wanted to stick around and chat!
* Hung out a whole bunch with
sukebepanda , who is really super-awesome and if you don't already know all about her you should visit her FA page right meow. (She also totally saved my trip from being a disaster)
* Watched lots of CSI and Law and Order with
ritts in our hotel room -- Edit: L&O is clearly superior to CSI
* Got 2 of the cutest phone calls EVAR from miss
thorn , who I'm sure everyone on FA misses a lot already. I know they missed you at AC!! :V
* Drank a lot of stuff, but nothing with Midori in it because some FAGETS drank it all from the doubletree bar and if I find out who it was I'm going to punch it out of them cause they did straight shots of it instead of mixing it with stuff like you're supposed to
* Crashed some BBQ party which kinda sucked and ate too much and got the hiccups and embarrassed myself
* Met some of the old and new Hantu crew at a pizza place.
* Bought copies of SALON PIXIV by Macop and Megaton Dragon by
kitora. I didn't get to meet Kitora though :(
P.S. Why didn't any of the hotels have MSNBC? They had CNN and Fox News. That's pretty fucked up considering some of us actually want to watch political coverage. I was practically without news for a week save for the Crooks and Liars blog. Drove me fucking nuts.
get going and look at pictures. I may have more elaborate stories to tell later. Thank you all for those of you who I got to meet for the first time; it was a pleasure meeting all of you. I was very happy to draw pictures for everybody and I hope I'll be able to get some scans of a few of them since I didn't manage to photograph every one 8)
Maybe it's just me but it seems that AC was much more cool and much less creepy than most of the conventions I've been to in the past. Maybe I'm just filtering it out better (?). Well, anyway, what somebody else said about it not being a sausage-fest anymore is totally true. There's normal looking people (and grls) everywhere
What's this world coming to? Also, the bars and local joints seemed to welcome the big-ass convention crew. And there was supposedly news about AC, lots of it :0
I find this all very interesting.
Some things I did at AC09:
* Saw Transformers 2 (worst movie ever)
* Spent a day with
myrilla and crew and drew pics for them; I hope they send scans of my drawings back to me!* Spent part of a day with
* Was introduced to
pathia for the first time. I had some issues trying to avoid gushing and acting like a fanboy upon realizing it was actually her. Gosh, I was pretty embarrassed and was trying very much to hide it. I have no idea why I reacted in that way, since I'm usually a pretty cool customer when it comes to meeting people in the fandom nowadays. After getting her sketchbook I had to excuse myself before it became too awkward for me :\* Met the TFur2 crew and the TFP crew; sorry for having to run so fast TFP guys, I really wanted to stick around and chat!
* Hung out a whole bunch with
sukebepanda , who is really super-awesome and if you don't already know all about her you should visit her FA page right meow. (She also totally saved my trip from being a disaster)* Watched lots of CSI and Law and Order with
ritts in our hotel room -- Edit: L&O is clearly superior to CSI* Got 2 of the cutest phone calls EVAR from miss
thorn , who I'm sure everyone on FA misses a lot already. I know they missed you at AC!! :V* Drank a lot of stuff, but nothing with Midori in it because some FAGETS drank it all from the doubletree bar and if I find out who it was I'm going to punch it out of them cause they did straight shots of it instead of mixing it with stuff like you're supposed to
* Crashed some BBQ party which kinda sucked and ate too much and got the hiccups and embarrassed myself
* Met some of the old and new Hantu crew at a pizza place.
* Bought copies of SALON PIXIV by Macop and Megaton Dragon by
kitora. I didn't get to meet Kitora though :(P.S. Why didn't any of the hotels have MSNBC? They had CNN and Fox News. That's pretty fucked up considering some of us actually want to watch political coverage. I was practically without news for a week save for the Crooks and Liars blog. Drove me fucking nuts.
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was so big and amazing tho this year!!
and yeah i know what you mean, the crowd is definitely becoming more varied, nice to see
I am going next year probably! I hope to see you there :V
Sorry we couldn't hang out more
So, it was nice meeting you rofl
I don't have a scanner so I was forced to photograph all the drawings I got at AC:
http://zzt.belsambar.net/dr_dos/nobusketch.JPG
If you want the high-res version for whatever reason that would be easy enough to upload.
Was good to meet you and chat about the drawing program OF THE FUTURE, hopefully I'll see you around at future cons and such!
I'll get you some scans of the stuff you drew for me in the next few days, just gotta unbury the scanner O_O
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CHOCO-TACO'S!!!
lol but seriously it was cool hanging out with yah at both the movies and the pizza place
which actually kept me from freaking out over what I thought was an unknown stranger in a fursuit xD
So you are implying that furries is normal people! :V
lol jk
Actually I think that there comes a time in a fandom's life when it becomes socially acceptable and a lot of people starts to come out. I think this is the time. Also, girls have always loved plushies and cute animals, hence this is why they should be hanging around with furries |3
And little Nobu going fanboy? I giggled :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYSAyPNR7qg