cool! :D

Thanks! :3

Where?

Renfest, in Tennessee. :3

this is in Tennessee? :D

Yep! It was fun.

cool! I live there XD

Me too. Well, for another six months, anyhow.

I had to ask, because I saw a couple of Satyr's at the renfair in Waxahachie, Texas a couple of weekends ago.

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Those are neat, but I like my costume better.

Nice ^^

Those legs are cute!

Thanks! They were a pain to sew, but fortunately a friend lent me her machine....

I sympathize- painful projects seem to be what I mostly let myself in for too! They still turned out really neat looking.

It was my first time building digitigrade legs, so of *course* I did the most complicated thing I could possibly think of! XD And thanks!

But isn't that how most prototypes go? We always come up with a simpler method... after we've built the first one.

The simplest method would've been to have a friend help me with making the pattern, since it's insanely difficult to pattern something you're wearing. XS Didn't even *think* to make a DTD, either, silly me....

And you'd still need a friend to help with making the dummy... and about three rolls of duct-tape (at least for my copius roundness). I want to make one of those myself... :P

Haha, yeah, I'd probably need lots, I'm 5'10" and weigh 300 pounds. X3 (but hooray for being a woman able to scare the crap out of people!)

I made one of my head, which was easy because I live with obliging roommates now. It's interesting, both as a head-making aid and a structural piece.

Yay, for Amazon Women of the Furry Fandom! Me, I'm only 5' 3" and about 214lbs. Short, stocky and good to survive the next famine- typical Indian build, I'm told. Bet the semi-sensory deprivation was interesting during the head thing.

Yes, yay! I'm built pretty much like a tank; heavily muscled, thick bones, what have you. I'm also about a sixteenth Apache, from what I'm told. Whee!

I'm slightly claustrophobic, so I'm actually kind of surprised I didn't freak out during the head thing. From a clinical point of view, it was actually quite interesting, if rather a sweaty experience.

*giggles* I have a joke about my build that mentions tanks: "I'm built like a tank: heavy, low-to-the-ground and pretty much unstoppable!" *giggles* I've had plaster casts made of my head, so I know about the sweaty bit. I'm glad I'm not claustrophobic at all, or that experience would have med me wiggy.

I'm not low to the ground, but I'm always either an inch too tall or an inch too short. :S

Hmm, making a plaster cast of my head sounds interesting, but would take more supplies than I really have the money/patience for at the moment.

*chuckles* I is always too short, darnit. But it can be amusing for people to see a fat girl fold herself up into a space only a third of her apparent size.

Doing the plaster head took a while, but it only involved a few materials: some plaster bandaging, a couple of straws to go up your nose (you need to breath, after all), water and time. Oh, and some vaseline to put on your eyebrows unless you don't actually mind losing 'em. What you end up with is a hollow shell that you coat in vaseline, then pour in plaster of paris and let it sit to cure for about three hours, longer is better, though. We let ours sit overnight before decanting it. I warn ya, you'll always look totally stupid, or dead in the cast- must be because you can't have any facial-expression and your eyes are closed, so it's kinda creepy lookin'.

I'm pretty flexible myself; I can put my foot on top of my own head. I also manage to squeeze through some fairly tight spaces.

The facial expression thing makes one line from a favourite comic spring to mind: 'It's me death mask!' *is shot*

Maybe I'll try that someday, though.

I've only ever been able to get my foot to touch the top of my head (not quite sit on top, though- ouchie), but my brother can actually get his whole leg back behind his neck. He always wuz a freak. *chuckles*

Which comic? I'm curious.

I think I'm a bit old for that 'leg behind the head' thing, though y'never know. X3

And the comic would be Lenore. She's both cute and disturbing, all at the same time!

Hmm, don't be so sure you're too old- I'm 41, and I can still do it. It hurts, though- heh.

I'll have to go looking for this "Lenore"- I like dark and disturbing. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac was one of my favourites for years, then Jonen Vasquez went on to do Invader Zim cartoon, which is frakkin' hilarious. Pity the show only lasted a couple of seasons.

I just feel old because a. I'm currently the oldest person living in my house (whee for living with college kids?) and b. I've always felt older than I am.

Lenore is by a different guy, but it's pretty good.

I *love* JtHM! Also, Invader Zim. (which is a great show to get drunk and watch, by the way) XD

Oh, I wasn't saying that I thought "Lenore" was done by Vasquez- I was connecting the dark and disturbing part. Zim rocks my world. *grins*

the hoos didnt catch my eye so much, as you just fit in so well with this environment.
Im a faire brat soo XD
first thought was
"FAIRE!FAIRE!FAIRE! I wanna goooooo~ D:"

FAIRRRRRRE!!!! *giggles* I'd love to go to one sometime in my dragon stuff.

I went as a fairy when I was smaller. dude people ran with it, me and my wand so fast I lost my head.
It was a GREAT day to be a child dressed as a fairy. there was a pirate there. hated fairys. :D
And a dead woman. I whacked her with my wand..I think she must have been uber drunk. 0.o

Heh, my childhood never included anything this interesting, had to go find it myself.

Mine either- it was positively stultifying in it's boredom. It didn't matter a whole lot, though, as I made my own fun 'cuz I had no friends.

I mostly kept to myself because I was really shy. My fun included hiding in the woods from my siblings (oh, the games y'play....), trying not to find a surprise snake, and trying not to chop my own limbs off with the various sharp objects my mother was silly enough to keep around the ol' homestead. XD Also, watching our tomatoes have a tree fall on them.

Let's see, there was a full eclipse when I was twelve- that was cool. The tornado warning was pretty scary- Winnipeg usually doesn't get many of those- it touched down at the edge of town and trashed a trailer-park. What's tornado's hate on for innocent trailer-parks, anyway? I liked climbing trees, too, and they were often a refuge for me, 'cuz I could shiunny up trees other people apparently couldn't- bullies were stuck on the ground... I found snakes- we are the home of the biggest Garter-snake mating-pits in the world... Those little guys were always so cute when they were heading there in the hundreds of thousands with only one thing on their ophidian minds. Rawr. Knives? I liked 'em- mother kept having to take 'em away, though.

In Mississippi, there aren't distinct seasons; there's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, wet, hot and wet, tornado, and hurricane seasons. X3 There are so many tornadoes that we were taught tornado safety in kindergarten. And as for snakes, we had lots; I believe the four poisonous species were corals, rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins. Not to mention insanely aggressive, highly carnivorous ants and the various poisonous spiders.

Not sure about playing with knives when I was a kid (I remember doing so later, which would be why I've got so many scars), but when I was a toddler I tried to go play in traffic. X3

I was just busy climbing anything I could get my little paws on when I was a toddler- or drawing on everything... Manitoba regularly gets tornadoes, we just don't usually get 'em coming through Winnipeg... There is only one poisonous snake in Manitoba that I know of- a species of Rattle-snake, but it's so rare, I haven't heard of anyone getting bitten by one. Poisonous spiders? Zip on that front. We get cold, bloody cold, Holy FRAKKIN' COLD, wet and cold, warm and wet, hot, WHUT TH'FUK hot... I come from a land of extremes. *grins* I mostly carved stuff with the knives, which is why the Mother Unit kept takin' 'em away- she hated my using the kitchen-ware to carve sculptures out of chunks of wood...

Cold I can deal with, I'm just not a big fan of heat. (which would be why I'm a thousand miles north of where I started out) Although I must say, after living in Tennessee for seven years, going back to a place where there was the same weather for a week at a time was kinda surreal. (because, y'know, if you don't like the weather in Tennessee, wait five minutes, it'll change) Mississippi, though, that's my definition of heat. I think it's up past the hundreds now, and has been so for a while. (and you wanna talk HUMID)

I once saw a child get swarmed by a whole bunch of ants. It was understandably upset.

I never really used kitchenware to carve, it was mostly utility knives. Although I do remember her screaming at me numerous times for using her good fabric scissors to cut paper....

We go from -40F in winter all the way up +110F in summer on the hottest days, so yeah, I have some idea of how hot it is in Mississippi right now. Ugh, swelter city. Blah. I melt into a puddle in temps like that- but then, carrying around an extra 80 lbs I don't need probably makes it worse.

That poor kid! Jeebus, the very idea of getting swarmed by ants makes me cringe. Even more cringe-worthy (for me, anyway)- we get ticks: big, red ones that go through seasons where they seem to be frakkin' EVERYWHERE. Once I went for a walk by the river- I was there for less than an hour, and when I noticed a tick on my shirt, I freaked (my normal reaction- I fuggin' HATE the things), then I saw another, then another and another... Oh God... I went bats about that point, ran for the rocks near the shore in the river and frantically searched all over my bod, looking for the horrible beasties and found something like twenty of critters. For me, that's the most ticks I'd ever seen in one place, but I'm sure they get worse further North in an area we call the Interlake (the swampy place between the two big lakes in the middle of the Province). *shudders*

We didn't have any utility knives- the reason I used the kitchen ones, to my mother's annoyance.

Ouch, yeah, that much hot is absolutely no fun. (though summer in Mississippi lasts from mid to late spring to late October at the least, so....) (not to mention the godsawful humidity!) And yeah, extra 'insulation' is great in the winter, not so much in the summer!

Oh Gods, ticks....I hate the little beasties. They don't swarm, but I usually found at least one surprise tick on me after roaming in the woods. Fortunately, I never got into any leeches, though.

Ah, my mother's a redneck, so she has lots of tools.

*chuckles* I almost wish my mum had been raised on a Reserve instead of a city- she'd have had tools just to survive. Ticks are the most repulsive things I know- if I have anything like a phobia for bugs, it would be THEM. As for the evils of weather, we get the heat, the cold, the TORNADOS, blizzards and the remnants of various hurricanes and tropical storms that smash crops and break trees onto people's houses. I used to ask, "why the frak does anyone wanna live here?!" We have some gorgeous weather between the near-natural disasters, though. :)

I'm deathly horrified of worms, myself; I don't particularly like parasitic bugs, but it's worms that make me scream and flail.

Oh dear, that sounds about as much fun as Mississippi; only there, it doesn't actually get cold.

Well, I can say that I'VE MANAGED TO ESCAPE!!!! *giggle* I'm in sunny California now and all I gotta worry on is earthquakes, tsunamis, and the occasional wildfire... :p Oh and maybe a food-shortage 'cuz the drought's killing off the crops... Gangs (I'm in LA, sorta)... Economic Crash... Erm... It's not looking good, is it? WHY AM I HERE AGAIN? O_______________o Oh yeah, I married this dragon I happened to fall in love with, and that makes it all worthwhile!

And to me, worms are a good thing- if I see lots of worms when I'm a-digging in the garden, I know my plants will probably grow. But, yes. They are icky. I like letting them crawl on my paws- feels cool.

Hooray for escaping! (even if Cali has its frustrations)

I like earthworms, as long as I don't see 'em. (or step on them when they're on the sidewalk during a rain, EW)

I always feel so sorry for the poor wormsduring storms- they crawl out onto the sidewalks because they can't breathe in the water-logged soil, and the unfortunate things end up drowning or drying out on the sidewalks...

I do kind of feel sorry for them; if I see an earthworm on the sidewalk while I'm out walking, I usually pick it up with a stick and shove it back onto the grass.

Cool! I do that too, though I use my fingers- I don't know how sensitive their skins are, so I use my skin instead of a stick... That, and I probably just didn't think of using a "tool" for the job. Some hyper-evolved ape I am!

I don't like touching them, so tool use is necessary.

*chuckle*

On the other hand, I *do* have monkey toes.........

??? Meaning that they're long and prehensile? Very cool! I pick stuff up off the floor a lot- really weirds some folks out. Heh.

I do that a lot - I can even do a bit of fine manipulation with my toes. (like playing with a pen or something)

Not so dextrous, myself- I'm pretty much limited to picking objects up that I can't reach from my chair or something. I've farted around with drawing with my left foot, though- that was... interesting.

I like my monkey toes, I can even open doors with my feet.

*giggles* Love stuff like that.

I just enjoy doing it in front of people, just to see the double takes. XD

Hehe. Awesomeness!

I live for that moment of 'wait, WHAT??' confusion in others.

Heeeee... Yeah, I love "reality-hacking", too.

XD I also live for the moment of dawning comprehension.

Ah, that slack-faced "WTF?" that turns into a wide-eyed "Oh my gods, you didn't just do that!" *giggles* Love that expression, and the circumstances that lead to it. I've been lucky enough to be the source of a few of those in the past.

I mostly use jokes as a source of WTF????? XD

WOAH WAIT HOLD ON.

I saw this i Murra's favorites and I thought, "Wow, that looks an awful lot like our Ren Fest."

Then I read comments and was like. YOU LIVE IN TENNESSEE TOO? 8D

Well, I *lived* in Tennessee; I moved significantly farther north last year.

But yeah, Renfest rocked! :3

I go every year, especially to see Johnny what's-his-face.

Aw, why'd you move?

Ah, long story short, it was simply time for me to move on. That, and I was tired of being a bisexual heathen in the bible belt. :S

Ho gawd. :X

Well, it's too bad we never had the chance to meet. =/

Yeah, would've been nice to not feel like the only furry in the damn state. :S

I know how you feel. I see millions of furs on here are all like "Oh hay I had fun with ya guys" or "I'd join ya but I have ____ to do" and I'm like.... why can't I ever get the chance to meet someone, or give a reason why I couldn't even though I'm nearby?

Although, in my quest, I've discovered, along with you and one other commenter here, that about 5 furries live in this state besides myself.

I'm *really* gonna be alone next week; I'm going back to Mississippi for my sister's wedding. XD

I pretty much went from living in isolation to living in a house that is a furmeet in and of itself; it's nice, but sometimes living with college kids gets annoying. (yay for being the oldest one in the house)

Nobody lives in Mississippi? :O

Heheh, lucky you. I'm really hoping to find college kids who are furs, but with the way that people look down upon them, it's gonna be really tough. xD

I had to pretty much pull up roots and move almost a thousand miles to find more furs, but hey, I was moving anyway!

I'm not sure if anyone lives in MS or not, but I'm only going to be there for two weeks, so it really shouldn't matter.

True; at least it worked out somewhat easily for you. I am having a difficult time finding any furs anywhere I go. xD

Or, when you find 'em, they've moved away? :S

I'm just lucky like that sometimes - I find what I need to most times.

I just can't find any. Dx
Although I am on vacation right now, and I have found one who isn't far from here. Trying to work on a hook-up. :o

I want your luck. =X

I couldn't find any either when I was in TN, though I suspect I had an encounter when I was walking around in my satyr outfit and someone commented on the digitigrade padding.

Where are you on vacation at?

Not sure you really want my luck, sometimes it really kinda sucks. (like right now, when unemployment's screwed me because I'm from out-of-state)

Hope I can get a fursuit sometime soon; maybe I'll have a little more like like that.

Vacationing in SW Florida. :D

Eh, yikes. Maybe not, lol. D:

I had to make mine; I was too poor to do otherwise. (still am, really) I plan to eventually make it a partial. At this point, all I really need is the head and a suitable costume to go with the partial.

SW Florida? I went to Miami once; didn't much care for it, but whatever. ('course, that could've been because I marched in the Orange Bowl parade thing, and that took forever and almost killed me, whee)

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YES! XD