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unpacking some of the art we bought at the con and fuck. it's actually over, isn't it. these days have been so incredibly amazing (ok yesterday was not great, but that was very much not a result of the con itself but the one two punch of massive dysphoria and losing our pin), and that they're over feels... unreal. just a few days ago we were so nervous about actually heading over that it took us 45 minutes sitting on a train station bench to actually go over to the con (thanks for the emotional push, silk!), and now being without it feels.... aaaa. post con depression is real.

we were out. aside from like one or two conversations to people outside the con, we/us was the default. add on the fun gendery and- if access to this page is a personal information level 5, then we very much operated on level 4 as default there. we're not quite ready to say fuck it and come out to personal relations yet, but..... aaaaa. readjusting is gonna be about as hard as not being around such wonderful creativity daily.

with this being our first furry con, and our first con of any kind since 2015, and us experiencing the side effects of not pacing ourselves last month, we very much prioritized getting rest. some things we ended up skipping on because we needed a little extra rest at times, but that's how it goes. we also remained almost reasonably hydrated all trip! an achievement for us, and almost entirely fueled by the store in between our hotel and the con area selling the one brand of bottled water we enjoy. woop. biggest problem to our interests was all the clashes tbf. good half of stuff that we could've gone to ended up running at the same time as each other, so then it came down to a system vote.

our wallet also says we should not be allowed around an artist alley without supervision, but we are not listening to it right now c: a nice little selection of art, even a couple safe for family pieces! (we are way closer to coming out to them as plural than furry c: ) we unfortunately did not get much of a chance at the dealers den; the line was an hour long for all but one hour of the con, and although we got in during that hour that was also minutes after we had the dysphoria attack. we were not in a shopping mood, and several cool things there got close to absolutely breaking us. so we went and got brunch (we tried to be "clever" about food that day to maybe make the den before the lines. it didn't work and brunch came later than expected and after the dysphoria attack), and when we came back the line was an hour long again. oop. in retrospect there were some things we might've bought, but mental health comes first.

(there also was one night when we were gonna go meet some people at a party boat for karaoke, but the line for us to get in was 2 hours and by the time we got in they'd left/given up on getting in without us noticing and the song list closed for time reasons, so that was a slight bust. and it rained hard on the way back to the hotel. and we got splashed by a car. fortunately our shoes were heroes and stayed completely dry inside, so no lasting trouble and one funny "bad" con experience to joke about!)

but overall! it was so good! we got to know people! people recognized us after various meetings!! we've very much mastered the art of not interacting with others from 7 years of solitary concert attendances, so being social at events was a weird feeling. maybe we should keep doing it? :3

so yeah. good time, now we're gonna cry a little about it being over. would fur con again


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in reply to @critters-system's post:

Glad y'all had such a good experience =u= From every description I've heard of them, fur cons are magical and for a lot of people they're transformative. ^u^ Try not to let the post con depression overwhelm you. Your con pals are still there in the virtual, hanging out in a mental con space between now and the next time you meet up with them/have another fur con to go to~ <3