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MFF Combined with The Dick Show to form The Best Con Ever!!
8 years ago
Seriously. Holy hell guys. Let me try to sum up this crazy weekend:
Thursday:
I get on the road to
shadow-of-nights place after restocking my print binder (which y'all would proceed to decimate, thank you very much!) and I arrive relatively late. I have a chronic condition (don't get Lyme disease kids) so I take a medication that knocks me out at night, otherwise chest pains keep me up. So it got to be sleep time and I take my meds and not even fifteen minutes later I get a Twitter DM from Adum of "Your Movie Sucks" fame (AKA "The Cool Cat Guy": https://www.youtube.com/user/YourMovieSucksDOTorg )telling me "hey I'm hanging out with Dick, want to join?" Now Adum and I have never talked but I know his work, know he's a furry, and somehow he ended up hanging out with Dick and they got ahold of me. Now those sleep meds are powerful but I was NOT missing a chance to hang out with a cool guy like Adum and, quite literally, my favorite comedian in the world: Dick Masterson. A little star shocked and drugged I got driven over to the hotel by my wonderful perfect boyfriend 
kazekoe , chugged a Red Bull and headed up to the room. Dick himself answered the door in what was, perhaps, the most surreal moment of my life. I've listened to this guy for YEARS now and to just have him suddenly there was pretty wild. At the room was Adum, Dick, Peach (a popular Twitch streamer: https://twitter.com/PeachSaliva ) and some other furs who apparently were at Burning Man (one was named "Uni" I believe). And so we just hung out and shot the shit. Dick, Peach, and I talked about our respective careers and I managed to come off fairly suave. Sadly this suaveness would not last as we would proceed to the rave and I would prove that I still do not know how to behave during dances and awkwardly thrust my stupid ferret butt around as best I could. Still, Dick and I made fun of the more awkward parts of the rave and that was fun. At the end of the night we got our picture together: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP8ahySXUAA9wg1.jpg (from left to right: Me, Peach, Dick, Adum, and Uni)
Fucking awesome Thursday.
Friday: I rapidly set up my booth at the new MFF con center which is probably the Least Convenient Building to Get Anything Done In I've been in. everything was far apart, confusing, and sometimes extremely warm. I got it set up though and then proceeded to get slammed at my table for the entirety of the dealer's room hours. My voice was shot but I was in high spirits. I proceeded to go out to dinner with
dreamkeepers and a bunch of his fans. Regrettably this expenditure was "planned" by one of said fans and ended up taking in excess of four hours. Thus I got home and was unable to get any of my layouts done and would spend the rest of the weekend intermittently selling pictures of Starfox and inking badges. New rule: if you try to take me out to dinner at a con and try to load me on a FUCKING TRAIN ( 
fluff-kevlar has attempted this, I was not pleased) or give me a place that's a half hour away I will call you a food autist and eat with people who aren't made of spare time. Ten years in and people are still finding ways to try and sabotage me at cons, that's what I love about this job: it's a constant learning experience.
Saturday:
I woke up in a wretched mood due to last night's time wasting but perked up once the dealer's room opened (and I finally got coffee). I spent the day in the dealer's room telling people "no I can't do a badge for you, they sold out in like fifteen minutes yesterday" and would then sell them a Starfox print. It was awesome watching MFF balloon up to surpass AC as Biggest Furry Con in the World (though AC runs much better, MFF is still figuring things out though and I get that). I met lots of cool people and then...
...then The Dick Show was upon us.
For those of you not paying attention I'd spent November setting up and promoting the most amazing MFF event in the history of the con: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8478426/ and, goddamnit, I pulled it off. Me and nine other furs struck out on Saturday to go see the 20 Million Dollar Man himself: Dick Masterson. Also at the show were such characters as Madcucks, Crocodile Dundude (definitely NOT Asterios Kokkinos), Peach Saliva, Dick's Life Coach, and Sean the Audio Engineer. The show was a blast and, if you're curious, you can listen to it for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15732458 Dick loved my sign ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25596186/ ) and I got it signed after the show by the whole cast. During the show people cheered when they figured out the furries were there ( I, my art, and my plan had been talked about in a previous episode, about 4:30 in : http://thedickshow.com/episode-75/ ) and people even took my picture: https://twitter.com/Boneitis/status.....70625431752704 . I got to talk a bunch with the cast of the show (some even gave me their phone numbers) and Dick asked me to draw a fursona of his girlfriend with "really big cans". It was an absolutely awesome night and I'm so glad all my planning panned out.
Sunday:
I wake up in a haze (I hadn't been drinking, I was just tired) and went to the Dealer's Room for one last round. Lots of prints were starting to sell out and I was feeling pretty damn good about that, a bunch of people even took home originals! The hours for Dealer's room came to an end though and we packed up and headed out. Nothing particularly crazy happened, I was tired and hungry but goddamn did I feel good about the weekend.
Wrap up:
The next day I emailed Dick in the morning because he had asked me to be on the show! It turns out they were recording the episode on Monday night so I hustled on back to Michigan, opened the Discord link Dick had given me and waited for the show to start. Once it did it was only about 45 minutes before they brought me in and we talked furries, an embarrassing story, and I even did a Rage! You can listen to the episode here, I'm at about the 47 minute mark: http://thedickshow.com/episode-79/ I never thought I'd be on the show, much less because of my career as a furry comic artist but it ended up being a pipe dream come true!
So that's what happened to me at the con! Did you stop by? Say something in the comments because I more-than-likely remember you and would love to reminisce about the good times. If you couldn't make MFF this year there are always more cons in the future!
Thanks for an awesome con guys, I'll see you next year.
-Bone
Thursday:
I get on the road to
shadow-of-nights place after restocking my print binder (which y'all would proceed to decimate, thank you very much!) and I arrive relatively late. I have a chronic condition (don't get Lyme disease kids) so I take a medication that knocks me out at night, otherwise chest pains keep me up. So it got to be sleep time and I take my meds and not even fifteen minutes later I get a Twitter DM from Adum of "Your Movie Sucks" fame (AKA "The Cool Cat Guy": https://www.youtube.com/user/YourMovieSucksDOTorg )telling me "hey I'm hanging out with Dick, want to join?" Now Adum and I have never talked but I know his work, know he's a furry, and somehow he ended up hanging out with Dick and they got ahold of me. Now those sleep meds are powerful but I was NOT missing a chance to hang out with a cool guy like Adum and, quite literally, my favorite comedian in the world: Dick Masterson. A little star shocked and drugged I got driven over to the hotel by my wonderful perfect boyfriend 
kazekoe , chugged a Red Bull and headed up to the room. Dick himself answered the door in what was, perhaps, the most surreal moment of my life. I've listened to this guy for YEARS now and to just have him suddenly there was pretty wild. At the room was Adum, Dick, Peach (a popular Twitch streamer: https://twitter.com/PeachSaliva ) and some other furs who apparently were at Burning Man (one was named "Uni" I believe). And so we just hung out and shot the shit. Dick, Peach, and I talked about our respective careers and I managed to come off fairly suave. Sadly this suaveness would not last as we would proceed to the rave and I would prove that I still do not know how to behave during dances and awkwardly thrust my stupid ferret butt around as best I could. Still, Dick and I made fun of the more awkward parts of the rave and that was fun. At the end of the night we got our picture together: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP8ahySXUAA9wg1.jpg (from left to right: Me, Peach, Dick, Adum, and Uni)Fucking awesome Thursday.
Friday: I rapidly set up my booth at the new MFF con center which is probably the Least Convenient Building to Get Anything Done In I've been in. everything was far apart, confusing, and sometimes extremely warm. I got it set up though and then proceeded to get slammed at my table for the entirety of the dealer's room hours. My voice was shot but I was in high spirits. I proceeded to go out to dinner with
dreamkeepers and a bunch of his fans. Regrettably this expenditure was "planned" by one of said fans and ended up taking in excess of four hours. Thus I got home and was unable to get any of my layouts done and would spend the rest of the weekend intermittently selling pictures of Starfox and inking badges. New rule: if you try to take me out to dinner at a con and try to load me on a FUCKING TRAIN ( 
fluff-kevlar has attempted this, I was not pleased) or give me a place that's a half hour away I will call you a food autist and eat with people who aren't made of spare time. Ten years in and people are still finding ways to try and sabotage me at cons, that's what I love about this job: it's a constant learning experience.Saturday:
I woke up in a wretched mood due to last night's time wasting but perked up once the dealer's room opened (and I finally got coffee). I spent the day in the dealer's room telling people "no I can't do a badge for you, they sold out in like fifteen minutes yesterday" and would then sell them a Starfox print. It was awesome watching MFF balloon up to surpass AC as Biggest Furry Con in the World (though AC runs much better, MFF is still figuring things out though and I get that). I met lots of cool people and then...
...then The Dick Show was upon us.
For those of you not paying attention I'd spent November setting up and promoting the most amazing MFF event in the history of the con: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8478426/ and, goddamnit, I pulled it off. Me and nine other furs struck out on Saturday to go see the 20 Million Dollar Man himself: Dick Masterson. Also at the show were such characters as Madcucks, Crocodile Dundude (definitely NOT Asterios Kokkinos), Peach Saliva, Dick's Life Coach, and Sean the Audio Engineer. The show was a blast and, if you're curious, you can listen to it for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15732458 Dick loved my sign ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25596186/ ) and I got it signed after the show by the whole cast. During the show people cheered when they figured out the furries were there ( I, my art, and my plan had been talked about in a previous episode, about 4:30 in : http://thedickshow.com/episode-75/ ) and people even took my picture: https://twitter.com/Boneitis/status.....70625431752704 . I got to talk a bunch with the cast of the show (some even gave me their phone numbers) and Dick asked me to draw a fursona of his girlfriend with "really big cans". It was an absolutely awesome night and I'm so glad all my planning panned out.
Sunday:
I wake up in a haze (I hadn't been drinking, I was just tired) and went to the Dealer's Room for one last round. Lots of prints were starting to sell out and I was feeling pretty damn good about that, a bunch of people even took home originals! The hours for Dealer's room came to an end though and we packed up and headed out. Nothing particularly crazy happened, I was tired and hungry but goddamn did I feel good about the weekend.
Wrap up:
The next day I emailed Dick in the morning because he had asked me to be on the show! It turns out they were recording the episode on Monday night so I hustled on back to Michigan, opened the Discord link Dick had given me and waited for the show to start. Once it did it was only about 45 minutes before they brought me in and we talked furries, an embarrassing story, and I even did a Rage! You can listen to the episode here, I'm at about the 47 minute mark: http://thedickshow.com/episode-79/ I never thought I'd be on the show, much less because of my career as a furry comic artist but it ended up being a pipe dream come true!
So that's what happened to me at the con! Did you stop by? Say something in the comments because I more-than-likely remember you and would love to reminisce about the good times. If you couldn't make MFF this year there are always more cons in the future!
Thanks for an awesome con guys, I'll see you next year.
-Bone
I'm glad you had a blast! It was a blast for me too! Best con ever!
Glad you had such an awesome time!
In any event it was good to see you as always. I'll have to check out the dick show when it comes out...the mind boggles.
Glad that you're having a blast. :)