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Furry Fiesta 2019
6 years ago
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Convention writeup - https://www.flickr.com/photos/63529.....57677577306237 if you haven't already seen my convention pictures.
This was a very up and down weekend. No Maggie no Craw, so that made things a bit tougher this year. For better or worse, I have to compare it to Mephit Furmeet 2000, aka the event where I had a on con-floor shouting match with a major popufur (and nearly came to throwing fists).
The weekend begun with me doing my drive up, uneventful, and getting to my room. Communication mixups occurred so I couldn't even unload my stuff to get delivered to the room. This made it a bit tough dragging several boxes, my camera bag, my C-pap bag, and water since I didn't want to do a second trip to the car which was at the far end of the parking lot.
Got to my room and for the first convention for me since, really the Project A-kons in 98, 99, I was alone in the room. Great some of you may think, well, we'll come back to that.
Met up with my main group for the weekend, Zigzag, Rylie, Doitsu, Meiou, Lola, Lauren, Shrag and Renard. Ended up separated from the group and spent most of the first day of the con alone. Ended the night by running Mansions of Madness for only my third time ever and played with Rylie and Doitsu.
Saturday definitely improved as Luccoa arrived, who I had spent many years talking to before our first meeting. Was very happy to finally meet them and found them very friendly, in and out of costume! Most of the rest of the day I spent extremely busy trying to keep track on Luccoa and Rylie, now in her brand new Rouge the Bat mask. Met up with Aoi-Kitsune, in her Lisa fursuit and took lots of pictures. Even got to meet up with Bridget the mouse, aka Rabbit in the Moon, in I think her first furry con in years! Brought both Luccoa and Rylie/Rouge to the femme photoshoot, and got lots more pictures taken. Night ended with Luccoa heading home that night, and overall a great time.
Sunday was mostly farewells starting up as Lola and Meiou left that day, to go along with Bridget who left on Saturday night. Took a few more pictures of Rylie as Rouge, did our end of convention dinner, finished the Mansions of Madness game and called it a night and began my trip home early in the morning after saying goodbyes.
The good, again this was such a weird bi-polar weekend! Meeting up with Luccoa finally was great. Seeing and interacting lots more with Lisa/Aoi was good too and I think I'm getting a good impression. And spending a full weekend with Doitsu, who is another fur I had known for a while online but only just recently met briefly IRL was great. Even briefly met Ciel, a new (or at least new character) fur, and got lots of pictures of her!
The bad, as mentioned earlier, no Maggie was a big one for me as Maggie has kinda poked and prodded me to do stuff at cons. With no Maggie, unfortunately I didn't have as much of a push to help out folks, other than Luccoa in her one day appearance. Also, did I mention Cloppy, who I met at MFF briefly was there? I didn't? That's because due to personal issues, I maybe saw her in the total time it took me to do this writeup. Was not happy about not getting to see more of the pretty pony. And oh yeah, a certain homophobic, transphobic bi-polar psychopath decided to drop by the con Saturday and Sunday. Ignored her calling to me and had to avoid her a bit the rest of the weekend.
That leads to the ugly. Hey folks, did you know that most of my last 20+ years in furry I've only had a few IRL roommates? Other than brief periods in Florida, and half a year in Houston, for the most part, I come home at night to an empty, quiet apartment. This doesn't help my mood generally. So when shenanigans happened, and a last minute roommate switch needed to be done, this left me alone in my room all weekend. Even attempting to get folks to keep me company at night failed. Not going to lie, this one hurt. I understood the reasons for Saturday but otherwise, holy crap that hurt. To the extent that if I have a future convention coming up where it looks like I'll end up with no roommates, I will end up skipping that con.
So overall, the highs were high, the lows were brutally low. TFF 2019 got a solid C in my book.
This was a very up and down weekend. No Maggie no Craw, so that made things a bit tougher this year. For better or worse, I have to compare it to Mephit Furmeet 2000, aka the event where I had a on con-floor shouting match with a major popufur (and nearly came to throwing fists).
The weekend begun with me doing my drive up, uneventful, and getting to my room. Communication mixups occurred so I couldn't even unload my stuff to get delivered to the room. This made it a bit tough dragging several boxes, my camera bag, my C-pap bag, and water since I didn't want to do a second trip to the car which was at the far end of the parking lot.
Got to my room and for the first convention for me since, really the Project A-kons in 98, 99, I was alone in the room. Great some of you may think, well, we'll come back to that.
Met up with my main group for the weekend, Zigzag, Rylie, Doitsu, Meiou, Lola, Lauren, Shrag and Renard. Ended up separated from the group and spent most of the first day of the con alone. Ended the night by running Mansions of Madness for only my third time ever and played with Rylie and Doitsu.
Saturday definitely improved as Luccoa arrived, who I had spent many years talking to before our first meeting. Was very happy to finally meet them and found them very friendly, in and out of costume! Most of the rest of the day I spent extremely busy trying to keep track on Luccoa and Rylie, now in her brand new Rouge the Bat mask. Met up with Aoi-Kitsune, in her Lisa fursuit and took lots of pictures. Even got to meet up with Bridget the mouse, aka Rabbit in the Moon, in I think her first furry con in years! Brought both Luccoa and Rylie/Rouge to the femme photoshoot, and got lots more pictures taken. Night ended with Luccoa heading home that night, and overall a great time.
Sunday was mostly farewells starting up as Lola and Meiou left that day, to go along with Bridget who left on Saturday night. Took a few more pictures of Rylie as Rouge, did our end of convention dinner, finished the Mansions of Madness game and called it a night and began my trip home early in the morning after saying goodbyes.
The good, again this was such a weird bi-polar weekend! Meeting up with Luccoa finally was great. Seeing and interacting lots more with Lisa/Aoi was good too and I think I'm getting a good impression. And spending a full weekend with Doitsu, who is another fur I had known for a while online but only just recently met briefly IRL was great. Even briefly met Ciel, a new (or at least new character) fur, and got lots of pictures of her!
The bad, as mentioned earlier, no Maggie was a big one for me as Maggie has kinda poked and prodded me to do stuff at cons. With no Maggie, unfortunately I didn't have as much of a push to help out folks, other than Luccoa in her one day appearance. Also, did I mention Cloppy, who I met at MFF briefly was there? I didn't? That's because due to personal issues, I maybe saw her in the total time it took me to do this writeup. Was not happy about not getting to see more of the pretty pony. And oh yeah, a certain homophobic, transphobic bi-polar psychopath decided to drop by the con Saturday and Sunday. Ignored her calling to me and had to avoid her a bit the rest of the weekend.
That leads to the ugly. Hey folks, did you know that most of my last 20+ years in furry I've only had a few IRL roommates? Other than brief periods in Florida, and half a year in Houston, for the most part, I come home at night to an empty, quiet apartment. This doesn't help my mood generally. So when shenanigans happened, and a last minute roommate switch needed to be done, this left me alone in my room all weekend. Even attempting to get folks to keep me company at night failed. Not going to lie, this one hurt. I understood the reasons for Saturday but otherwise, holy crap that hurt. To the extent that if I have a future convention coming up where it looks like I'll end up with no roommates, I will end up skipping that con.
So overall, the highs were high, the lows were brutally low. TFF 2019 got a solid C in my book.
I knew you'd ended up solo but I didn't figure it was going to end up that way given how big of a group we had but this is in part why I wasn't crazy about the idea of Ceana wrangling us all, given how picky some of our group are, myself included.
Sorry you ended up alone in the evenings, I don't know if you meant just hanging out or cuddles but you would have been welcome in our cluster. Admittedly late at night we were pretty old people sitting around in the room but still...
Anyhow I don't blame you, I spend most of my cons with the people I room with and logically so, it's just so populated these days at cons it's hard for chance meetings anymore (as evidenced by my hunt for hojozilla) so this is why I make it a point to pick good roommates.