Midwest FurFest 2017 Post-mortem
8 years ago
Let's get the bad out of the way.
Actually getting to the con was quite a bit of a nightmare. Once we got off the bus to Chicago early in Thursday, my wife had her pockets pilfered of her wallet, and we needed to spend a night in @mikejmurdock's hotel room. With the pickpocketing still in our thoughts, we slept like crap until checkout, took a Lyft to the Hyatt hotel space (where MFF was held). More on this later.
Our designated hotel space for 4 jammed 10 people for Friday and Saturday night to save money. I slept on an air mattress with my wife. That did not do me many favors.
Con stuff. Con stuff.
After a critical error in scheduling the bus arrival and departure days, we had to spend an additional day in Chicago, wiping out all the commission money I made all weekend for the hotel.
And my god, I couldn't sleep on that bus anyway.
The good stuff:
I want to do Midwest Fur Fest itself all over again. Spaz and Sakura had a blast of a time and after doing Artist's Alley all three days, I got to run a couple games of BattleTech (Quick-Start for our newbros and the full expanded rules after). I met all kinds of new people over the weekend, and I learned a shitload of lessons for how to present myself in Artist's Alley better; I only got some of the commissions I did because I have a specific skillset that the majority of furry artists lack. A lot of you know which skillset that is.
Sakura released Day 1 of the con on YouTube that I think you guys should check out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so71lvlZz8M
Actually getting to the con was quite a bit of a nightmare. Once we got off the bus to Chicago early in Thursday, my wife had her pockets pilfered of her wallet, and we needed to spend a night in @mikejmurdock's hotel room. With the pickpocketing still in our thoughts, we slept like crap until checkout, took a Lyft to the Hyatt hotel space (where MFF was held). More on this later.
Our designated hotel space for 4 jammed 10 people for Friday and Saturday night to save money. I slept on an air mattress with my wife. That did not do me many favors.
Con stuff. Con stuff.
After a critical error in scheduling the bus arrival and departure days, we had to spend an additional day in Chicago, wiping out all the commission money I made all weekend for the hotel.
And my god, I couldn't sleep on that bus anyway.
The good stuff:
I want to do Midwest Fur Fest itself all over again. Spaz and Sakura had a blast of a time and after doing Artist's Alley all three days, I got to run a couple games of BattleTech (Quick-Start for our newbros and the full expanded rules after). I met all kinds of new people over the weekend, and I learned a shitload of lessons for how to present myself in Artist's Alley better; I only got some of the commissions I did because I have a specific skillset that the majority of furry artists lack. A lot of you know which skillset that is.
Sakura released Day 1 of the con on YouTube that I think you guys should check out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so71lvlZz8M
Gemini Albon
~dragon359
Damn, the bad stuff really sucks big time. :( Hopefully if you go to MFF again it'll go much more smoothly.
Taluthus
~taluthus
Sorry to hear it was such a mixed bag for you. Was nice to meet you both though!
Project Shadowcat
~prdarkfox
OP
It was an absolute pleasure to meet you in the flesh. I'm so glad you were able to make it up to Chicago at all!
Taluthus
~taluthus
I'm hopefully going to repeat it this year
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