Wife and I are both furries, no clue about our friend but she’s chill for doing whatever regardless lol. It was a lot of fun! I sadly did not have anything fursuit-adjacent to wear, but I was also being my wife’s handler (she was fursuiting) so that’s probably for the best anyway.
Saw a lot of cool suits, including a bunch of dino masks, a couple of non-dino-mask reptiles and birds, and a few Protogens with really cool animated LED screen(?) heads (sadly no Synths though). The people-watching and taking pictures with and of different folks was probably the best part imo. I got 58 pictures, mostly of my wife posing with other fursuiters, but there are a couple of me with this one person in a really cool full suit, in which I visibly have no idea what to do with my hands lmao.
I also made a Telegram, because apparently that’s the platform all the furries in my area use for organizing meets and events and stuff (and socializing in general). I have no clue how Telegram works and have never used it before, and I spent a good few minutes immediately after creating my account just turning off all the privacy-reducing features I possibly could, but I’m still hopeful and am attempting to join at least one of the Telegram groups for local furries. Haven’t gotten accepted in yet, but given that the con was literally today and it’s now very late at night (or very early in the morning) I assume the people in charge of accepting applicants have been busy and/or have gone to sleep by now, so I’m not too worried about it. I really hope I can make some more local friends with whom I can talk about furry stuff. It is the 13+ group rather than one of the 18+ ones, since I don’t want to run into sexually explicit content, but I’m hoping there’ll still be people my age in the group alongside younger folks.