Eurofurence 23 2017
8 years ago
Hey everyone
With EF over and at least another year away for me, I'd like to sum up some happy moments for myself and shout out to the people I have met, old and new.
My roomies
katojana who managed to survive the Laden incident for us to be able to room together <3
htfcuddles, who's a cutie, has a newfound fear of ginger and wasabi and made me feel happy he had duch a great time with us on his first con. I'm glad I could contribute to that and hope we can do some art exercises later when we're back home.
sparkythechu has the cutest voice you'd expect from a pikachu. Your videos are great and say hi to Lamemon for me.
tyrix, again so happy you enjoyed your first con and helping me from going insane when I'm feeling inadequate or the long travel trips.
renaayama being one of the first friends I have made in the furry community, I'm always happy to hang out with you, do the arts and rescue your blushy self from hungry moufs. You actually made me feel misty when we said goodbye, I'll see you at the end of the week <3
Others I have met most notably
ipoke and his gf
RyuukiiNek0, you guys were amazing and a blast to hang out with. Hope to stay in touch <3
otakuwolf putting up with our vorish tendencies, glad you hung out with us and hope to see you again.
:cocofox: didn't get to see much of you this year tiny little french faerie, you wre mostly flitting about busy or being absolutely wasted. Hope you survived <3
And to others hanging out and bumping into us like Qian, 2ndVoice, Final3cho, Ritka, birdmom Renate, Skunkhase and Haroku, Anticarrot and many more, hope to see you all again! <3
Now I'm at
destorarc's place with Tyrix nursing my post con depression. I'll be back home next week to pick up commission work and other artsy activities, look into making more bracelets and ship them and prepare for leafbiting 2017.
Oh and to those who got art from me, I'd love a scan of the images so I can post them in my gallery as memories. I'd be really grateful <3
With EF over and at least another year away for me, I'd like to sum up some happy moments for myself and shout out to the people I have met, old and new.
My roomies





Others I have met most notably



:cocofox: didn't get to see much of you this year tiny little french faerie, you wre mostly flitting about busy or being absolutely wasted. Hope you survived <3
And to others hanging out and bumping into us like Qian, 2ndVoice, Final3cho, Ritka, birdmom Renate, Skunkhase and Haroku, Anticarrot and many more, hope to see you all again! <3
Now I'm at

Oh and to those who got art from me, I'd love a scan of the images so I can post them in my gallery as memories. I'd be really grateful <3
Im hoping perhaps next year to have both the money and time to attend a con
For starters I'd avoid all the fursuiters I possibly could.
Second I'd get rill depressed sayin goodbye to my buds.
Plus all the stress of traveling to and from the con.
But no, I was initially pretty wary of fursuits; after attending my first con, however, I love them! Nothing to fear! X3
Fijn dat je zo genoten hebt van die schurken ;)
Also grrrr wasabi and ginger
ffff---
I hope ya feel better from the post con soon and see ya again in 2019 :)
I tried ginger and I felt my mouth burning XD Although i was told that is because they were next to the wasabi and stuff.
They'll pay for telling me to eat them. xD And even after the burn they were insisting that they were delicious.
don't judge on them for wanting you to try, they are right, but you had crap versions of it.
The big 6 person room was an offer from the hotel for people who already had a room. So without me there would have been no room party, the second I got my last room for you guys the hotel was full. But it was worth it, and would do again anytime, but I know they will change the system back to the one two years ago.
As well I almost never saw one of you guys the first 2 days. I did not see you guys much active in the chat as well.
Later I found out it was because you guys stayed at the artist lougne all the time and I was told you had a room party chat.
At first It pushed me a bit in bad mood almost depressive feelings like I am not part of the group anymore when ever I saw you guys at random, but thanks to tyrix I snapped out of it. Still it took me an hour to find motivation to even talk to you guys at the later day in the artist lougne. I know it is not true that you guys don't want me around, but if you are in a depression phase you feel like as if anyways.
I did not want to waste all my con time doing artwork. And later I figured I maybe should do my own thing instead of pushing you guys in a negative direction because I might react not as happy as you guys to your jokes, inside jokes and fun topics. I was happy for you guys and just left the artist lounge. I was busy doing other things as well so I never had one boring minute, so don't worry as long you guys had a nice time I am happy too.
and towards wasabi and ginger:
wasabi is crap - at least the stuff you get in germany. real wasabi is not as ugly in taste and burning as that. (the stuff you gut was "horseradish and other crap paste colored green"
and ginger is a god like parfume tasting thing that I love between sushi pieces to neutralize the taste, and feel like eating your first piece of sushi every new bite. the ginger which was delivered (we had the same restaurant) was somehow in contact with the fake wasabi paste. which made it taste bad and burning.
I was also surprised that some of you guys left during the paw pet show missing the main plot reveal. First con I was at the paw pet show I cried overwhelmed of the awesome plot and a huge room with only furries inside. (I am aware that the paw pet show is not as good anymore as it was in past so yeah...) But you guys need to know best what you want to see and what not I would say.
I feel hurt in my pride if I can't draw well on a con and am unable to focus while people watch me. I just started to draw every day after I finaly defeated my problems that always made me unable to draw. Just three months. So I still worried and felt bad in the artist lounge. Maybe next year if I am better trained, than maybe I will have fun to stay at the artist lounge as well and make people happy pushing out more art than I did this year. I only did a full colored pic for Doruvon. (Will upload that one soon)
Overall it was a nice successful con this year. And I had no big troubles with my mind this time as I knew this time how to prevent it. (no fructose) Besides some accidents like not finding an artist again the one haroku forgot how they are named and look like, and some minor issues it went good. We also need a bigger room for the vore meet next time, we only had no overflooded room because people realized we are finaly open at random times after the hour long delay. if you consider that we got 80+ people in the vore meeting chat and the room is made for 45 people the room should have been filled up to its limit otherwise.
Anyways thank you all for being nice to me at the con. I hope to see you guys again, and maybe in one or two years find back to our old close friendship we had. I know I escaped the pack and hid myself but I had my reasons. Am happy and optimistic for the future.
I hope you don't see my comment as negative, it is not ment this way. I just wanted to explain what happened.
I still love all of you!
It wasnt separate because we're more special than anybody, but because we were a room group and some things were only of relevance for us.
About the art lounge, I dont see absolutely any issues with that. Sure, we may have missed some activities, but stop for a moment and think about this.
5 of the people in our room are artists.
We met during this con.
We are much more inclined/prone to go doing art together than sometimes going to do something else. Its part of our nature. We get feedback of each other. I mean, getting feedback from my fellow artist friends and making art jokes and so was incredibly awesome, surrounded also by other fellow furs. We wont have any other time to be together until the next convention.
About wasabi, I dont care if is bad or good xD It was just a joke between us because they gave me something spicy to try even with they knowing I hate spicy stuff. Thats all.
About the paw pet show, it was another story. Sparky and me hadnt eaten anything since 9am, and at that hour we were so, so hungry that we couldnt even focus in the show. During the second break the stomach hurt so bad that we simply said "lets go" and we went to get something to eat. We didnt leave because the show was bad, we left because we were so hungry that we felt like we were going to pass out from it.
Remember the 6-2-1.
About the vore con, I didnt leave after a while because of too much people. I left because I wasnt feeling too well in general and I also needed some time to walk out and talk with somebody in particular. Thats what we did. In addition, the vore group was basically everyone having their own talk group, speaking in languages I didnt understad. Almost nobody was talking in English. I drew some vorish things in my book and then I noticed that basically everyone was doing their own thing.
Was it your fault? Nah, and you dont need to feel depressed for that. But remember that some of us arent good at socializing and going to a group, breaking their dynamics and talking. Over all if they're speaking in another language.
In the end, this Eurofurence was the best week of my life, and exactly like Uncle Kage said, its about having fun. We went to have fun. And our way to have fun is doing everything in our own terms.
So dont feel bad if we didnt proceed exactly like the clock said, or exactly like others expected us to.
We are what we are because we have our own personality and way to do stuff.
I had the most fun I had since I have memory, and theres a reason why I'm coming back for 2019.
last years we used the EF vore meet chat to meet and ask for going out for food together. for you this year was the first EF, but if you will not be in a big room with all your old friends you'll see how it feels like. yes I feel like left out, unwanted. but that is not your fault. not at all. it is just my head. I just had to tell how I felt and explain why I was thrown back to depressions when I saw you guys having fun so much, so much that I never wanted to disturb and just let you guys enjoy your time.
I don't want to argue about the artist lounge. You guys did nothing wrong. I know this and accept this. I even said that I want to draw there more too once I feel more comfortable with it. Last 3-4 years I had serious problems with my mind. fruit sugar and stress made me become and derping idiot not even knowing the last sentence one said to me a minute ago. I feel bad when I have to say no to friends if they ask for a sketch and I feel bad when I can't even draw a stright line and don't even know why that is while people watch me. All this bad memories come back to my head when I go there. I just explained myself not attacked any of you. please keep this in mind.
but ginger is not rlly spicey, it just tastes like parfume in a good way. but okay if this was about the wasabi than nvm :P
it is okay for you guys to leave if you are hungry that way, don't worry. once gain, it was no attack. I just hoped for you guys to enjoy the show especially when you travel so far and so rare to EF! I felt confused and sorry for you guys to not enjoy it at first and than just sorry when I was told why you left.
I never complained about you guys leaving the vore meet. this is perfectly fine and even part of the idea that people can leave and join at any time.
I tried to stay away with my problems and memories. So you guys would have the maximal fun instead of worries about me.
I am happy you enjoyed the con and wish to see you again.
First of all, thank you very much for your hard work during Ladengate.
Without you we probably would never had made it. Thank you so much!
About the PPS.
Foshu and me went up to the room during an intermission. I kept watching it while there and foshu got herself some noms. So I did watch the whole thing. The problem for me was the Soundmixing. The screaming/shouting parts REALLY hurt my ears and the Background music was too loud too. The transmission to the room was MUCH better in that regard. And my back started to hurt. Thats mainly why I went up.
I have to agree though that I was baffled that sparky and vic suddenly came to the room during the show (not during an intermission) with food. So they left. I have to agree that it a little bit hurt.
But you can't force people to enjoy these things.
I don't want to spark arguments or anything, it is all alright.
I just wanted to let you guys know that I am not running away from you all, and it is not you guys fault.
It is just me and my depression forced feelings which I am over with, but get thrown back in the old pack of friends.
I seriously hope to overcome this soon. I want to enjoy unlimited quality time with you guys again.
It is okay that they left. I just hoped for them to not waste such a great first experience, especially if you travel so far.
I am okay, don't worry. I know it's me not you guys. I still need a bit time I guess.
But really, I swear to god, I didn't know it'd hurt you so much, but I felt phisically sick, so much that I really couldn't follow the story anymore because of the hunger. I needed to get something to eat...
I'm sorry if it hurt you, I really am...I'm usually very stubborn when it comes to watch something until the very end. Even when I don't like a movie, a series or something else, I always watch until the end to have a clearer picture of everything, because that's what I enjoy doing.
It just reached a point where I was feeling really awful...I'm sorry if it hurt you, I really didn't mean any harm to anyone...
don't worry!
Also, thank you so much for the feedback on the videos! Lamemon was litterally screaming in happyness when he saw the pic you drew for him X3
It was a pleasure to meet you and I hope we'll see you next year, too!
You're welcome to our flat anytime, too, if you wish to visit vienna :3
If you haven't found out yet, here's Niki x3
*hugs*
I can't wait to do some tourist stuff with you next year!
I'm sure you're a fun company on those too :D
Its full of really old video game consoles and you can even play the original Pong :0
Next year, we want to visit the Technik-Museum :D