I got to a fur-meet! :D And Happy New Year! (part 1)
Since it's the new year in less than an hour here i thought i'd update this thing properly. :)
For once i actually have things to talk about, which is rare!
This last weekend of 07 has been awesome! I FINALLY managed to make it to a local fur-meet in my city and spent most of the weekend with about 60-70 other furs, which was quite a shock to the system since i'd only ever met two others before.
Saturday:
We all met up at the city's main train station before invading a pub and taking over one of the function rooms for most of the afternoon. For the first couple of hours, i was preeetty scared, i can't say i've ever been scritched, nuzzled, pounced, hugged or mauled by loads of random guys i'd not met before, but i got it all at least once within the first two hours. XD
At first i can't say i was too keen, but after a while i actually grew quite fond of the more physical attention, it made the whole atmosphere seem more friendly and warmer. It got to the point where i was unphased if a guy i'd barely talked to pulled me back into a hug and scritched my chest whilst i was talking to someone else. XD
We stayed for a few hours at the pub, mainly spending time talking, having a laugh, playing cards and getting randomly mauled by a wolf hand puppet (which i then nabbed and mauled other people with XP ).
Oh, and we also came to the conclusion that a fur meet's the only place someone can shout out "Tentacle rape!" without any heads turning in confusion. :P
Once the main meet was over, i was invited to a little post-meet party with about 10 other guys where we played a few games and watched stupid (yet awesome) cartoons which i'd not seen since i was about 6. It's the first time i've been with people who play Bloody Roar 4 and spend more time discussing how hot Yugo (the wolf), Gado (the lion), Long and Shenlong (the tigers) are than actually playing the game. XD
After a few hours there i ended up having to get a taxi home and collapse for the night ready for the next day.
Sunday:
Whilst i was still recovering from saturday, i made my way to the second day of the meet where we met up and decided to invade a cafe for a change. We spent a couple of hours there mainly just talking, and i got to watch a couple of pretty decent artists in action, which was cool. Later on we all split off into smaller groups and i ended up going to another guys place with about 8-9 other guys to watch a couple of DVDs, and had another awesome time.
Sunday was pretty uneventful really, but it's just good actually being able to talk openly about furry stuff with loads of other people.
I loved the whole weekend, and it's made me appreciate the furry community even more than i did before. Everyone there was just so genuine and welcoming, and helped me feel at home pretty quickly.
Furs seem to have very little concept of personal space, and even though it took me a while to get used to all the scritching, hugging, nuzzling etc, i actually wish it would catch on with everyone now. Normally when ya meet up with a load of new people, there's always space between everyone, and i'd probably apologise just for brushing against someone by accident. At the fur meet, pretty much everyone was at least leaning into someone else, scritching/being scritched or hugging someone most of the time, whether they knew them or not, and it just made things so much warmer.
Anyway! It's about 15 minutes until the new year here so i'm gonna dissappear for a bit and continue this journal in a bit!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
See you in 2008!
:D
For once i actually have things to talk about, which is rare!
This last weekend of 07 has been awesome! I FINALLY managed to make it to a local fur-meet in my city and spent most of the weekend with about 60-70 other furs, which was quite a shock to the system since i'd only ever met two others before.
Saturday:
We all met up at the city's main train station before invading a pub and taking over one of the function rooms for most of the afternoon. For the first couple of hours, i was preeetty scared, i can't say i've ever been scritched, nuzzled, pounced, hugged or mauled by loads of random guys i'd not met before, but i got it all at least once within the first two hours. XD
At first i can't say i was too keen, but after a while i actually grew quite fond of the more physical attention, it made the whole atmosphere seem more friendly and warmer. It got to the point where i was unphased if a guy i'd barely talked to pulled me back into a hug and scritched my chest whilst i was talking to someone else. XD
We stayed for a few hours at the pub, mainly spending time talking, having a laugh, playing cards and getting randomly mauled by a wolf hand puppet (which i then nabbed and mauled other people with XP ).
Oh, and we also came to the conclusion that a fur meet's the only place someone can shout out "Tentacle rape!" without any heads turning in confusion. :P
Once the main meet was over, i was invited to a little post-meet party with about 10 other guys where we played a few games and watched stupid (yet awesome) cartoons which i'd not seen since i was about 6. It's the first time i've been with people who play Bloody Roar 4 and spend more time discussing how hot Yugo (the wolf), Gado (the lion), Long and Shenlong (the tigers) are than actually playing the game. XD
After a few hours there i ended up having to get a taxi home and collapse for the night ready for the next day.
Sunday:
Whilst i was still recovering from saturday, i made my way to the second day of the meet where we met up and decided to invade a cafe for a change. We spent a couple of hours there mainly just talking, and i got to watch a couple of pretty decent artists in action, which was cool. Later on we all split off into smaller groups and i ended up going to another guys place with about 8-9 other guys to watch a couple of DVDs, and had another awesome time.
Sunday was pretty uneventful really, but it's just good actually being able to talk openly about furry stuff with loads of other people.
I loved the whole weekend, and it's made me appreciate the furry community even more than i did before. Everyone there was just so genuine and welcoming, and helped me feel at home pretty quickly.
Furs seem to have very little concept of personal space, and even though it took me a while to get used to all the scritching, hugging, nuzzling etc, i actually wish it would catch on with everyone now. Normally when ya meet up with a load of new people, there's always space between everyone, and i'd probably apologise just for brushing against someone by accident. At the fur meet, pretty much everyone was at least leaning into someone else, scritching/being scritched or hugging someone most of the time, whether they knew them or not, and it just made things so much warmer.
Anyway! It's about 15 minutes until the new year here so i'm gonna dissappear for a bit and continue this journal in a bit!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
See you in 2008!
:D