FA+
Shop
Back From FWA
7 years ago
I am back from FWA and I got the con crud, as per usual, so sorry if this journal doesn't make sense.
FWA was my first "real" furry con. I've been to many (non-furry) cons before, and one very small furry con that doesn't exist anymore. I've been to a lot of furry meetups. My opinion on people who identify themselves as furries has been neutral to negative. I like furry stuff, but I generally don't consider myself a furry.
This is going to turn intoa book, so to try to keep it short: my opinion of furries overall, and my experiences with them, irl, have been mostly negative. I went to FWA mostly to see if I could change that opinion, and I did.
FWA was full of lots of people who were, uh, shall we say, "well socialized." I expected far more "creepy" people who didn't know social boundaries, far more smelly disgusting fursuits, far more drunken idiots. Of course those things existed at FWA, but they were far far less numerous than I expected. I'd say, maybe 10% of those types of people were visible at the con? I was greatly relieved and impressed and well lol. I had a good time rofl.
I fully expected to hang out with the people i arrived with the whole time and not meet anybody new. But I actually ended up meeting 4 people and hanging out with them over the course of the whole con! Finally met Kiba, whose videos and photography I've always loved, I even got 2 photoshoots with him! :D
I also met and hung out with Rhee and BerkWolf, and another guy named Scylax. We hung all hung out for pretty much the whole con lol. It was great. I had a great time.
I also talked to a bunch more people just randomly. It was great. Better than I expected. I could go on, with more details, but I know nobody wants to read huge walls of text.
Anyway, I look forward to going to FWA again in the future.
And hopefully Anthrocon, too, I want to see a whole town full of furry shit haha.
But, my money situation still sucks. I had a lot of surprise expenses in Jan-feb of this year, and I have a lot of expected expensive shit coming in the next few months. I don't know if I will recover in time for FWA 2019, and I make very little money now.
But it is definitely one of my priorities to go now, so I will try to set aside as much money as I can for that.
Also, I totally have a full pirate costume already that I have worn with my fursuits before, so it'd be great to have an excuse to bring that out again! XD
I took a fair amount of photos at FWA, they should be up some time next week hopefully.
I also might post some things other people took of me here, once I find them.
I was hesitant to go to FWA, but I'm glad I did. FWA broke a lot of stereotypes for me and I am excited to go again someday.
[EDIT: you can view all the FWA pics I took here. I didn't upload many of them to FA.]
EDIT2: i made it into Kibamal 's con video! I can die happy now.
That aside, he's a way cooler dude than I thought he'd be so even just hanging out with him at all is awesome.
FWA was my first "real" furry con. I've been to many (non-furry) cons before, and one very small furry con that doesn't exist anymore. I've been to a lot of furry meetups. My opinion on people who identify themselves as furries has been neutral to negative. I like furry stuff, but I generally don't consider myself a furry.
This is going to turn intoa book, so to try to keep it short: my opinion of furries overall, and my experiences with them, irl, have been mostly negative. I went to FWA mostly to see if I could change that opinion, and I did.
FWA was full of lots of people who were, uh, shall we say, "well socialized." I expected far more "creepy" people who didn't know social boundaries, far more smelly disgusting fursuits, far more drunken idiots. Of course those things existed at FWA, but they were far far less numerous than I expected. I'd say, maybe 10% of those types of people were visible at the con? I was greatly relieved and impressed and well lol. I had a good time rofl.
I fully expected to hang out with the people i arrived with the whole time and not meet anybody new. But I actually ended up meeting 4 people and hanging out with them over the course of the whole con! Finally met Kiba, whose videos and photography I've always loved, I even got 2 photoshoots with him! :D
I also met and hung out with Rhee and BerkWolf, and another guy named Scylax. We hung all hung out for pretty much the whole con lol. It was great. I had a great time.
I also talked to a bunch more people just randomly. It was great. Better than I expected. I could go on, with more details, but I know nobody wants to read huge walls of text.
Anyway, I look forward to going to FWA again in the future.
And hopefully Anthrocon, too, I want to see a whole town full of furry shit haha.
But, my money situation still sucks. I had a lot of surprise expenses in Jan-feb of this year, and I have a lot of expected expensive shit coming in the next few months. I don't know if I will recover in time for FWA 2019, and I make very little money now.
But it is definitely one of my priorities to go now, so I will try to set aside as much money as I can for that.
Also, I totally have a full pirate costume already that I have worn with my fursuits before, so it'd be great to have an excuse to bring that out again! XD
I took a fair amount of photos at FWA, they should be up some time next week hopefully.
I also might post some things other people took of me here, once I find them.
I was hesitant to go to FWA, but I'm glad I did. FWA broke a lot of stereotypes for me and I am excited to go again someday.
[EDIT: you can view all the FWA pics I took here. I didn't upload many of them to FA.]
EDIT2: i made it into Kibamal 's con video! I can die happy now.
That aside, he's a way cooler dude than I thought he'd be so even just hanging out with him at all is awesome.
I hope you can make it to next year's FWA, Pirates theme is going to be awesome!
I live out in the boonies now, doesn't seem to be a local fur community (at least not one close enough to be worth the drive anyway) so I"ve been kind of alone for the time being. My neighbors are cool though so maybe one day I will bring up furry stuff to them and hope they won't judge haha.
Thank you for the comment, definitely hope I will be able to make FWA next year! REALLY depends on how this next winter goes, though.
I'm in upstate NY and use propane heat. Price raised over $3 a gallon!! Used 500 gallons last winter....
... I am redoing all my insulation this spring to hopefully lower the cost of heat but we'll see...