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obliviousally) wrote2026-07-06 08:05 pm
obliviousally) wrote2026-07-06 08:05 pm
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stuff and ANTHROCON RECAP
i am fuckin' exhausted
we carpooled with local friend, tutone. did a bunch of tetris-ing in their vehicle, but we managed to fit everything and all three of us. drive out was quite nice, stopped at the turnpike plaza near youngstown/warren (i was hoping for a pressed penny, but their machine was broke!!!). tutone dropped us at our hotel (placemakr) before going off to theirs (embassay iirc??).
placemakr was OKAY. great things: a full kitchen with fridge and stove and dishwasher, 2 bathrooms (one with tub, one with only shower), a apt sized washer/dryer unit! kinda annoying things: no room service or any toiletries pre-stocked, the bigger room had a nice dresser and nightstands, but the smaller room just had small nightstands and nowhere else to, like, put your shit lol. we made do with the foldy luggage things and the closet, tho. it's a very short walk over to the westin (as long as they leave the breezeway doors accessible.......) and was pretty quiet. similar vibes to the courtyard in a way! i didn't hate it (and, like, wouldn't complain much anyhow b/c i'm not paying for it....), but will have to remember the cons for next year lol
thursday we just got settled in after we arrived, got our reg and our staff goodies, and wandered around a bit. i also lost my water bottle AT LEAST three times as soon as we got there. left it right on the reg table at one point slhgdg
i lost tony for a little bit in the evening (he was goin' thru it for a little bit and went off for awhile on his own) and popped down to the waterfront to see if i could spot him. but, uh....there's always so many people there lol
friday, i drug my ass down to conops and worked for a couple hours, did a walk through the dealer's room that took me AN HOUR AND FOURTY-FIVE MINUTES and i was only leisurely walking and not looking at every booth!! insane. went back to conops, did another shift, then popped up to the pup panel that tony wanted to attend to see if he made it there. ended up taking the elevator down while he was going up and had to do a circle to get back up there lol
i did get shown the backrooms shortcut to reg, tho......... which was great b/c i had to pop down there a handful of times over the weekend for something or another
i also popped into the art show reception with talyn and kovrick and cajun and kess and had some tasty foodstuffs
i got back up with tony later in the evening and met someone he knows on bsky who also has an ahamkara oc! (one of tony's main alts now is an ahamkara) - they were pretty cool and we all chatted for awhile
saturday was more working, but we ran into rax for a brief moment! in the morning-ish. wildest thing about the con was that the parade and block party got cancelled b/c of the extreme heat + possible severe weather/rain predicted for the general timeframe of both. we had expected a lot more backlash, but the general attendee consensus was 'that's a bummer, but the right thing to do'. so an anthrocon without a parade was very strange! i feel like it made saturday feel very bizarre and incomplete
wandered the dealer's room and my feet were finally Feelin It b/c i did NOT bring a good pair of shoes for walking on the hard-ass floors there. but! bought some stuff lol
i'd been waffling on the possum plush (b/c it was $50!), but tony talked me into it lol . some of this is also trinkets from around the con lol or stickers i'd been given. mintsolstice/tundra brought me the devil possum and then salt/pepper possum shakers!!!! banana for scale was from last years' lost and found leftovers lol
after killing ourselves walking around dealer's, we got some food and went back to the room for a rest. i had to pop back out for my zine trading panel at 7pm, so that's what i did. it was really successful!!! i had counted 40-45~ at one point, and i think probably 60~ people came in total and lots of folks thanked me for hosting the panel! i ended up with a bunch of zines i still need to go through, but folks brought SUCH cool stuff
after my panel, i popped out on the balcony of the dlcc to watch the fireworks (which got pushed back an hour b/c of the weather), then went back over to the hotel and we eventually got up with cajun and hung out for an hour or so bullshitting before we drug our asses back to the room to decompress and get off our feet
sunday was another conops shift, then the ohiofurs meet and greet panel (and i forgot about the furrest city one planned right after it!!!), then we tony made some final purchases
full size, click thru!
then, back to the hotel to finish packing up our stuff and departed with tutone back to ohio around 4pm!
the drive back was nice, aside from the absolute downpour we hit going out of the city. we also learned that there'd been a tornado-warned storm in mahoning county when we stopped at the turnpike reststop and everything inside was shuttered and the 7/11 was cash only b/c they'd lost power and stuff!
overall, a pretty good con. it was nice to be back and it was also nice for my body to be at about 95-98% and i only had a little pain by my big incision from sleeping weird (but i WAS able to finally sleep on my left side finally!!) and i was able to EAT! i had halal and two chicken bacon ranch subs and pop and brownies and cheese at the artist and dealer's art show reception lol
i am very grateful to have two days at home to decompress and relax before going back to work this week x_x
we carpooled with local friend, tutone. did a bunch of tetris-ing in their vehicle, but we managed to fit everything and all three of us. drive out was quite nice, stopped at the turnpike plaza near youngstown/warren (i was hoping for a pressed penny, but their machine was broke!!!). tutone dropped us at our hotel (placemakr) before going off to theirs (embassay iirc??).
placemakr was OKAY. great things: a full kitchen with fridge and stove and dishwasher, 2 bathrooms (one with tub, one with only shower), a apt sized washer/dryer unit! kinda annoying things: no room service or any toiletries pre-stocked, the bigger room had a nice dresser and nightstands, but the smaller room just had small nightstands and nowhere else to, like, put your shit lol. we made do with the foldy luggage things and the closet, tho. it's a very short walk over to the westin (as long as they leave the breezeway doors accessible.......) and was pretty quiet. similar vibes to the courtyard in a way! i didn't hate it (and, like, wouldn't complain much anyhow b/c i'm not paying for it....), but will have to remember the cons for next year lol
thursday we just got settled in after we arrived, got our reg and our staff goodies, and wandered around a bit. i also lost my water bottle AT LEAST three times as soon as we got there. left it right on the reg table at one point slhgdg
i lost tony for a little bit in the evening (he was goin' thru it for a little bit and went off for awhile on his own) and popped down to the waterfront to see if i could spot him. but, uh....there's always so many people there lol
friday, i drug my ass down to conops and worked for a couple hours, did a walk through the dealer's room that took me AN HOUR AND FOURTY-FIVE MINUTES and i was only leisurely walking and not looking at every booth!! insane. went back to conops, did another shift, then popped up to the pup panel that tony wanted to attend to see if he made it there. ended up taking the elevator down while he was going up and had to do a circle to get back up there lol
i did get shown the backrooms shortcut to reg, tho......... which was great b/c i had to pop down there a handful of times over the weekend for something or another
i also popped into the art show reception with talyn and kovrick and cajun and kess and had some tasty foodstuffs
i got back up with tony later in the evening and met someone he knows on bsky who also has an ahamkara oc! (one of tony's main alts now is an ahamkara) - they were pretty cool and we all chatted for awhile
saturday was more working, but we ran into rax for a brief moment! in the morning-ish. wildest thing about the con was that the parade and block party got cancelled b/c of the extreme heat + possible severe weather/rain predicted for the general timeframe of both. we had expected a lot more backlash, but the general attendee consensus was 'that's a bummer, but the right thing to do'. so an anthrocon without a parade was very strange! i feel like it made saturday feel very bizarre and incomplete
wandered the dealer's room and my feet were finally Feelin It b/c i did NOT bring a good pair of shoes for walking on the hard-ass floors there. but! bought some stuff lol
i'd been waffling on the possum plush (b/c it was $50!), but tony talked me into it lol . some of this is also trinkets from around the con lol or stickers i'd been given. mintsolstice/tundra brought me the devil possum and then salt/pepper possum shakers!!!! banana for scale was from last years' lost and found leftovers lol
after killing ourselves walking around dealer's, we got some food and went back to the room for a rest. i had to pop back out for my zine trading panel at 7pm, so that's what i did. it was really successful!!! i had counted 40-45~ at one point, and i think probably 60~ people came in total and lots of folks thanked me for hosting the panel! i ended up with a bunch of zines i still need to go through, but folks brought SUCH cool stuff
after my panel, i popped out on the balcony of the dlcc to watch the fireworks (which got pushed back an hour b/c of the weather), then went back over to the hotel and we eventually got up with cajun and hung out for an hour or so bullshitting before we drug our asses back to the room to decompress and get off our feet
sunday was another conops shift, then the ohiofurs meet and greet panel (and i forgot about the furrest city one planned right after it!!!), then we tony made some final purchases
full size, click thru!
then, back to the hotel to finish packing up our stuff and departed with tutone back to ohio around 4pm!
the drive back was nice, aside from the absolute downpour we hit going out of the city. we also learned that there'd been a tornado-warned storm in mahoning county when we stopped at the turnpike reststop and everything inside was shuttered and the 7/11 was cash only b/c they'd lost power and stuff!
overall, a pretty good con. it was nice to be back and it was also nice for my body to be at about 95-98% and i only had a little pain by my big incision from sleeping weird (but i WAS able to finally sleep on my left side finally!!) and i was able to EAT! i had halal and two chicken bacon ranch subs and pop and brownies and cheese at the artist and dealer's art show reception lol
i am very grateful to have two days at home to decompress and relax before going back to work this week x_x