Anthrocon: FFFFFfffuuuuu Crazy!
What a wonderful vacation. At the same time I had myself a few missions. At the same time it felt like a big highschool reunion, I felt like I needed a yearbook for all my friends to sign. So the easiest way to do this is of course start with the first day. Ughh! Must stop Dancing, I’m so sore.
Thursday: Started driving Wednesday evening with Sly in his awesome fuel efficient diesel engine car. Mox in there with us too. The ride up felt rather short and fun, full of silly conversations. Hardly any troubles with the whole ride. Sly drove perhaps 14 hours of the 16 hour drive himself, that’s Pro. I ate Popeye’s chicken for the first time (that was a mistake.) Almost crashed in the tunnel leading into ShitsBurg cause we were totally excited and Flight of Valkyries came on his iPod. Wasn’t much going on, it was Thursday after all. I did suit up to try out some HARDCORE Corpse Creeping. Its nice to have a captive audience like people stuck in the On-Sit Registration line. I noticed Tac is certainly the sort of fursuit people take video of from a safe distance and don’t come up to hug and pose with. Then it was a time for some drinking. I only got a good buzz. Sly wanted to be a Bro and pull off a Keg Stand. He drowned upside down for a good second and blacked out. This was a good foreshadowing to how crazy this Con would become.
Friday: So in my room with Sophie, Ras, Patches, and Zell I was usually always the first one awake. Guess its that springy youthful integrity. The Morning started with me going out to get bagels around the corner. Geoson was there too, he was really helpful to me throughout the whole con, he’s such a doll. When I went back up to my room roomies were just waking up. They suddenly saw Geoson’s black hands reaching for out Watermelon. I slapped his hands and called him a crazy NIGGA. This went on for a while. I ventured down for Opening Ceremonies which I had a big part it. I wasn’t allowed to mention this but I was apart of the team responsible for the *flash Mob* Kwik the Cheetah and I each made the Choreography for the whole performance together. The entire audience was supposed to know it but we just didn’t get it out to them simply because we weren’t public enough about it. After all we wanted to surprise the Board of Directors. Still it was pretty awesome seeing so many people doing something me and a friend created. There was a lot of time spent running up to my room and changing costumes.
Spent an hour in the zoo waiting for badge pre-order clients to pick up their pretty artwork from me. It felt really neat to hand art over to people personally. They usually stuck around and chatted for a little bit. There was this guy I was sitting with who was a ‘new’ fur. He was really more into the gay community and chubby chasers groups but had a furry friend who brought him along to this convention. I spent a good time chatting it up with him. Answering tons of questions sharing my experiences and views of the fandom. I painted an honest yet encouraging picture of the whole fandom for him with my words. He was real curious and was loving the experience I would run into ‘Troy’ several times and he’d always recognize me. He gave me a free Mole Skin sketch book as a gift for being so engaging with him. He then became amazed when he would mention my name to other people and everyone already knew who he was talking about. :D
Fursuit Preliminaries- yada yada yada. No one was eliminated from that. I wish Kwik had decided to join up though. I enjoy running around with only the bottom part of Tac on. Its pretty cute. Skroy unlocked the secrets of Fursuit Squeaking for me. I didn’t abuse this new ability though. Not in public atleast.
Wasn’t really concerned about the Dealer’s room. Never spent much attention to it cause I’ve become less and less materialistic these days. I like to create things for myself. However I did realize I forgot to bring all my art badges of my character to the con. I got a 10$ Tac badge from Clawed, love it. I had previously bought a badge from Tigsie at FWA and she brought it to AC. Its so cute! Had my panel for the Geddan Tutorial… ehhhhh. That certainly not as popular as I’d thought. Of course it was tricky to find the panel and the description was real vague. Only maybe 15 people showed up. The video is still pretty silly I appreciated the Audience’s participation. I’ll upload the resulting video soon. Uhhh.. not much else was going on. I hanged out with Mahi plenty. Its always nice to be in each other’s company. The night was once again a Buzz worthy night. Not wasted just a nice tipsy groove. I spent much of it in my room with Zell, we chatted together for a while it was really cause I never seem to get the opportunity with him. I’ll be sure to visit more and watch some of them Movies you recommended!
Saturday: Masquerade Rehearsals, UGH tiring, course everyone was real excited for what I had planned. I was out of breath for quite a time after my first full practice, and I wasn’t even in suit. I was nervous for a bit that I might have to be sent to the hospital if I do it in Tac. Just had to remember to breath right and tone down the energy just a little. Its my own fault for letting the River Dance portion go on so long.
Fursuit Parade, Tiring but fun. I went up to my room to shower all nice. My head started to feel funny. I laid down for a while, tried to sleep. Took several advils. Its funny how I was expecting to use those for hangovers and not other pains unrelated to alcohol. Not a single hangover, I drank so much water, thank you Patches for providing those cases, it helped tremendously. My head was still thumping as the time for my big Masquerade performance was approaching. I sat in the Headless lounge hoping the advil was working and was drinking much water. Luckily KP likes me as the last act once again. All the other performers were concerned about me laying on the ground and I appreciated all their concern. Eventually I was all better by the time half of the masquerade was through. I did my stuff and remembered what I needed to watch out for. A few parts I missed a little on. I couldn’t see anything past the stage but from what I here, the entire audience gave a standing ovation. Heh… Ovation.. If I was Zoolander I’d say Standing Ovulation. Another good ole quick shower. Went to the bar with Mahi cause he wanted to get me a drink. Kinda surprised I wasn’t carded. Mmm, Long Island. I was ready to drink my head off after that one. Captain Jack Sparrow was at the bar too, a shame I didn’t have my own camera on me. Its also a shame the roof of the con was off limits. Also a shame I never went to random room parties. Got plenty wasted that night. Suited up again around midnight to dance hardcore to Banshee’s DJ set. Was on stage infront of the Dj set. Some foreign sounding gal kept complimenting me, but I was very inebriated, had no clue who she was nor saw her. Went back up stairs eventually.. more showers! Ugh so much sweat. Got nice and trashed to the point of wobbly rooms and me talking with accents 80% of the time. Mmm, Raspberry Roo’s butterbeer-esque mixed drink was good. As I had promised I called Rei Meerkat as Jennifer Lopez. She and everyone in my room were hysterical over it. She’s a 16 year old girl for Cry Yai!
Sunday: Morning started with me being let down by Shitsburg’s laziness to close things down on Sunday. Made a walk to Crazy Mocha a few blocks down for a well awakening breakfast. They make awesome blended coffee drinks and they were playing lots of Alanis Morisette :D. Ran into a friend by chance so early in the morning. I really liked running into more and more people I knew this year. Dance Competition was at 12:30pm. I was actually pretty tired from all the previous days of dancing and running about. But I was also getting super excited. Everyone had improved and we had new faces in the dance competition since the previous year. We were really in high spirits to be ready to dance for the fandom. I seriously need to get a fullsuit going so I can win contests. I’m thinking of retiring Tac as a performer. He might make a few more videos. But he’s had enough cons, hes on the verge of falling apart. I am a little upset at the final results though. V got 3rd, Skroy 2nd, and Phor 1st. In my opinion it should’ve been V 1st , Mozee 2nd, and Phor or Myself 3rd. I also think the selection of Judges should be a little more based on the Judge’s knowledge of dancing. There could’ve been a girl up there too, being a male judge one might find more biased voting on moves with skill and not think of choreography and the melody of songs. The judges table also needed to be to the side of the stage or infront of it so they could see us head on and not from behind. You miss so much of hand work. I really can’t wait to see videos of just how I did. Pretty wiped out by now, I swore no more suiting the con. Shower, was super hungry, wanted Sushi. Media said he’d come join. After helping Spain and Lisa pack up their dealer’s table Zell and I would soon join Media and another person for some Sushi. Awouehgawoeufa’p Huh? What was that? There must’ve been some glitch in the time line. The dinner was really good, mostly just for the 4 of us at the table. We sat there happily chatting for a good 3 hours maybe. I left about 7$ worth of sushi rolls in my togo box T_T.
Suddenly the night would turn CRAZYYYY. White Russian after sushi, Both times I got drinks in the hotel I was never carded. Started with plenty of shots with Jynx in Kryphos’s room. Goldschlager fumes going out my nose. Jaggermeister. Bubble Gum Vodkha mixed with Fruit punch… SOOO GOOD. Came up to my room cause I was ready to try a terrible performing experiment. I own a full black Zentai suit. So I’m this Shadow of Spandex. Its unbelievably weird just how I can morph my body in the thing. Paired with the awesome finger tip glowing gloves Kwik provided I was something Gaga-esque. If she saw this I’d be her back up dancer right now. We did two runs. The first was just me being recorded by Sly. The zoo didn’t know what hit them. I move incredibly fast and I can isolate my legs from my body so I really looks like I’m gliding over the whole carpet. Screwed around with nearly everyone. Rolled around, had seizures. I creeped out my favorite fursuit (flux) which I feel bad for and apologized later. He thought it was creepy but also hilarious. I must mention there was a terrible moment in the elevator. Coming down to the zoo and man in a tiger striped zentai came in. He instantly was all over me. Running his claws along my body and he went down on his knees. I could feel his breath on my crotch.. I was extremely disturbed and this was a packed elevator. I shouted I wasn’t into this. Sly was thankfully there to perpetuate how I was just fucking around in this thing. It was seriously in the lowest tastes possible. I honestly view my black zentai as a performance costume. Went back up to the room. Jaggers and Mary were there. And Kofu and a Girl named JC came in. I had so much fun talking with JC. Her reactions to me are so cute and she just adores what I do! So then it was Jell-o Shot after Jell-o shot. I made my second run through the zoo. Sophie had tweeted that Gaga was in the zoo which was hilarious because of all the response the tweet was getting. Slipped and hit my chin at one point. There were like 6 cameras all viewing this eventually. When I was tired I wanted to get back to the elevators. I started to slide down the stairs. Muh muh muh muh! I hope I made everyone lose one pound of their body weight just from too much laughter that night. Up in the room once more I cut off my own alcohol. More odd things were going on but I can’t remember them all. Blue wigs, dead cat tail boas… Kofu brought those glasses in. XD I think I wrapped myself around Jaggers at some point. Wooo sleep.
Monday: I was up early and got myself packed. Still amazed and grateful to not have to endure any hangovers. Soon everyone was moving their stuff out of the hotels. Elevators had gone into total overdrive. I opted to use stairs nearly the entire day. I even helped some other friends with their luggage going down stairs. Craziness. I was hating myself for overworking my body and I loved it too. Saying goodbyes. Met Kironeem in person for once. I met him twice through the con, how can you miss his beautiful suit? First I was in Tac, and then I was Gaga Shadow. Finally on Monday I talked with him a bit. Hes a real nice guy as I thought. Finally going home oh boy driving. Sly’s car mileage is awesome but I couldn’t manage to get rest for myself. Can’t sleep in a sitting position. I started to get really sleep deprived by the time we were in South Carolina. I would close my eyes for a minute and suddenly get 2 second nightmares. Each time I was hallucinating that the car was crashing or going off course. Not cool! I over came this eventually by striking up a road game with Mox and just started naming movies by letter. Glad we both love CINEMA! Awwww And now I am Home. Called out of work cause I know I wont survive the shift. Thank you everyone for the amazing con.
TLDR: I had a crazy ass adventure and you are a FOOL for not reading it all. However theres an ADD version on my FA.
Thursday: Started driving Wednesday evening with Sly in his awesome fuel efficient diesel engine car. Mox in there with us too. The ride up felt rather short and fun, full of silly conversations. Hardly any troubles with the whole ride. Sly drove perhaps 14 hours of the 16 hour drive himself, that’s Pro. I ate Popeye’s chicken for the first time (that was a mistake.) Almost crashed in the tunnel leading into ShitsBurg cause we were totally excited and Flight of Valkyries came on his iPod. Wasn’t much going on, it was Thursday after all. I did suit up to try out some HARDCORE Corpse Creeping. Its nice to have a captive audience like people stuck in the On-Sit Registration line. I noticed Tac is certainly the sort of fursuit people take video of from a safe distance and don’t come up to hug and pose with. Then it was a time for some drinking. I only got a good buzz. Sly wanted to be a Bro and pull off a Keg Stand. He drowned upside down for a good second and blacked out. This was a good foreshadowing to how crazy this Con would become.
Friday: So in my room with Sophie, Ras, Patches, and Zell I was usually always the first one awake. Guess its that springy youthful integrity. The Morning started with me going out to get bagels around the corner. Geoson was there too, he was really helpful to me throughout the whole con, he’s such a doll. When I went back up to my room roomies were just waking up. They suddenly saw Geoson’s black hands reaching for out Watermelon. I slapped his hands and called him a crazy NIGGA. This went on for a while. I ventured down for Opening Ceremonies which I had a big part it. I wasn’t allowed to mention this but I was apart of the team responsible for the *flash Mob* Kwik the Cheetah and I each made the Choreography for the whole performance together. The entire audience was supposed to know it but we just didn’t get it out to them simply because we weren’t public enough about it. After all we wanted to surprise the Board of Directors. Still it was pretty awesome seeing so many people doing something me and a friend created. There was a lot of time spent running up to my room and changing costumes.
Spent an hour in the zoo waiting for badge pre-order clients to pick up their pretty artwork from me. It felt really neat to hand art over to people personally. They usually stuck around and chatted for a little bit. There was this guy I was sitting with who was a ‘new’ fur. He was really more into the gay community and chubby chasers groups but had a furry friend who brought him along to this convention. I spent a good time chatting it up with him. Answering tons of questions sharing my experiences and views of the fandom. I painted an honest yet encouraging picture of the whole fandom for him with my words. He was real curious and was loving the experience I would run into ‘Troy’ several times and he’d always recognize me. He gave me a free Mole Skin sketch book as a gift for being so engaging with him. He then became amazed when he would mention my name to other people and everyone already knew who he was talking about. :D
Fursuit Preliminaries- yada yada yada. No one was eliminated from that. I wish Kwik had decided to join up though. I enjoy running around with only the bottom part of Tac on. Its pretty cute. Skroy unlocked the secrets of Fursuit Squeaking for me. I didn’t abuse this new ability though. Not in public atleast.
Wasn’t really concerned about the Dealer’s room. Never spent much attention to it cause I’ve become less and less materialistic these days. I like to create things for myself. However I did realize I forgot to bring all my art badges of my character to the con. I got a 10$ Tac badge from Clawed, love it. I had previously bought a badge from Tigsie at FWA and she brought it to AC. Its so cute! Had my panel for the Geddan Tutorial… ehhhhh. That certainly not as popular as I’d thought. Of course it was tricky to find the panel and the description was real vague. Only maybe 15 people showed up. The video is still pretty silly I appreciated the Audience’s participation. I’ll upload the resulting video soon. Uhhh.. not much else was going on. I hanged out with Mahi plenty. Its always nice to be in each other’s company. The night was once again a Buzz worthy night. Not wasted just a nice tipsy groove. I spent much of it in my room with Zell, we chatted together for a while it was really cause I never seem to get the opportunity with him. I’ll be sure to visit more and watch some of them Movies you recommended!
Saturday: Masquerade Rehearsals, UGH tiring, course everyone was real excited for what I had planned. I was out of breath for quite a time after my first full practice, and I wasn’t even in suit. I was nervous for a bit that I might have to be sent to the hospital if I do it in Tac. Just had to remember to breath right and tone down the energy just a little. Its my own fault for letting the River Dance portion go on so long.
Fursuit Parade, Tiring but fun. I went up to my room to shower all nice. My head started to feel funny. I laid down for a while, tried to sleep. Took several advils. Its funny how I was expecting to use those for hangovers and not other pains unrelated to alcohol. Not a single hangover, I drank so much water, thank you Patches for providing those cases, it helped tremendously. My head was still thumping as the time for my big Masquerade performance was approaching. I sat in the Headless lounge hoping the advil was working and was drinking much water. Luckily KP likes me as the last act once again. All the other performers were concerned about me laying on the ground and I appreciated all their concern. Eventually I was all better by the time half of the masquerade was through. I did my stuff and remembered what I needed to watch out for. A few parts I missed a little on. I couldn’t see anything past the stage but from what I here, the entire audience gave a standing ovation. Heh… Ovation.. If I was Zoolander I’d say Standing Ovulation. Another good ole quick shower. Went to the bar with Mahi cause he wanted to get me a drink. Kinda surprised I wasn’t carded. Mmm, Long Island. I was ready to drink my head off after that one. Captain Jack Sparrow was at the bar too, a shame I didn’t have my own camera on me. Its also a shame the roof of the con was off limits. Also a shame I never went to random room parties. Got plenty wasted that night. Suited up again around midnight to dance hardcore to Banshee’s DJ set. Was on stage infront of the Dj set. Some foreign sounding gal kept complimenting me, but I was very inebriated, had no clue who she was nor saw her. Went back up stairs eventually.. more showers! Ugh so much sweat. Got nice and trashed to the point of wobbly rooms and me talking with accents 80% of the time. Mmm, Raspberry Roo’s butterbeer-esque mixed drink was good. As I had promised I called Rei Meerkat as Jennifer Lopez. She and everyone in my room were hysterical over it. She’s a 16 year old girl for Cry Yai!
Sunday: Morning started with me being let down by Shitsburg’s laziness to close things down on Sunday. Made a walk to Crazy Mocha a few blocks down for a well awakening breakfast. They make awesome blended coffee drinks and they were playing lots of Alanis Morisette :D. Ran into a friend by chance so early in the morning. I really liked running into more and more people I knew this year. Dance Competition was at 12:30pm. I was actually pretty tired from all the previous days of dancing and running about. But I was also getting super excited. Everyone had improved and we had new faces in the dance competition since the previous year. We were really in high spirits to be ready to dance for the fandom. I seriously need to get a fullsuit going so I can win contests. I’m thinking of retiring Tac as a performer. He might make a few more videos. But he’s had enough cons, hes on the verge of falling apart. I am a little upset at the final results though. V got 3rd, Skroy 2nd, and Phor 1st. In my opinion it should’ve been V 1st , Mozee 2nd, and Phor or Myself 3rd. I also think the selection of Judges should be a little more based on the Judge’s knowledge of dancing. There could’ve been a girl up there too, being a male judge one might find more biased voting on moves with skill and not think of choreography and the melody of songs. The judges table also needed to be to the side of the stage or infront of it so they could see us head on and not from behind. You miss so much of hand work. I really can’t wait to see videos of just how I did. Pretty wiped out by now, I swore no more suiting the con. Shower, was super hungry, wanted Sushi. Media said he’d come join. After helping Spain and Lisa pack up their dealer’s table Zell and I would soon join Media and another person for some Sushi. Awouehgawoeufa’p Huh? What was that? There must’ve been some glitch in the time line. The dinner was really good, mostly just for the 4 of us at the table. We sat there happily chatting for a good 3 hours maybe. I left about 7$ worth of sushi rolls in my togo box T_T.
Suddenly the night would turn CRAZYYYY. White Russian after sushi, Both times I got drinks in the hotel I was never carded. Started with plenty of shots with Jynx in Kryphos’s room. Goldschlager fumes going out my nose. Jaggermeister. Bubble Gum Vodkha mixed with Fruit punch… SOOO GOOD. Came up to my room cause I was ready to try a terrible performing experiment. I own a full black Zentai suit. So I’m this Shadow of Spandex. Its unbelievably weird just how I can morph my body in the thing. Paired with the awesome finger tip glowing gloves Kwik provided I was something Gaga-esque. If she saw this I’d be her back up dancer right now. We did two runs. The first was just me being recorded by Sly. The zoo didn’t know what hit them. I move incredibly fast and I can isolate my legs from my body so I really looks like I’m gliding over the whole carpet. Screwed around with nearly everyone. Rolled around, had seizures. I creeped out my favorite fursuit (flux) which I feel bad for and apologized later. He thought it was creepy but also hilarious. I must mention there was a terrible moment in the elevator. Coming down to the zoo and man in a tiger striped zentai came in. He instantly was all over me. Running his claws along my body and he went down on his knees. I could feel his breath on my crotch.. I was extremely disturbed and this was a packed elevator. I shouted I wasn’t into this. Sly was thankfully there to perpetuate how I was just fucking around in this thing. It was seriously in the lowest tastes possible. I honestly view my black zentai as a performance costume. Went back up to the room. Jaggers and Mary were there. And Kofu and a Girl named JC came in. I had so much fun talking with JC. Her reactions to me are so cute and she just adores what I do! So then it was Jell-o Shot after Jell-o shot. I made my second run through the zoo. Sophie had tweeted that Gaga was in the zoo which was hilarious because of all the response the tweet was getting. Slipped and hit my chin at one point. There were like 6 cameras all viewing this eventually. When I was tired I wanted to get back to the elevators. I started to slide down the stairs. Muh muh muh muh! I hope I made everyone lose one pound of their body weight just from too much laughter that night. Up in the room once more I cut off my own alcohol. More odd things were going on but I can’t remember them all. Blue wigs, dead cat tail boas… Kofu brought those glasses in. XD I think I wrapped myself around Jaggers at some point. Wooo sleep.
Monday: I was up early and got myself packed. Still amazed and grateful to not have to endure any hangovers. Soon everyone was moving their stuff out of the hotels. Elevators had gone into total overdrive. I opted to use stairs nearly the entire day. I even helped some other friends with their luggage going down stairs. Craziness. I was hating myself for overworking my body and I loved it too. Saying goodbyes. Met Kironeem in person for once. I met him twice through the con, how can you miss his beautiful suit? First I was in Tac, and then I was Gaga Shadow. Finally on Monday I talked with him a bit. Hes a real nice guy as I thought. Finally going home oh boy driving. Sly’s car mileage is awesome but I couldn’t manage to get rest for myself. Can’t sleep in a sitting position. I started to get really sleep deprived by the time we were in South Carolina. I would close my eyes for a minute and suddenly get 2 second nightmares. Each time I was hallucinating that the car was crashing or going off course. Not cool! I over came this eventually by striking up a road game with Mox and just started naming movies by letter. Glad we both love CINEMA! Awwww And now I am Home. Called out of work cause I know I wont survive the shift. Thank you everyone for the amazing con.
TLDR: I had a crazy ass adventure and you are a FOOL for not reading it all. However theres an ADD version on my FA.