EF, ICQ And Other Ridiculous Acronyms

Well guys I am back from EF and I had a blast. No doubt I will write a short review some time in the near future. Suffice to say, it was great meeting old friends and making new ones too :D

In an attempt to keep in contact with a few furs, I now have an ICQ account. Admittedly, it's about 15 years too late but if you are interested in adding me, my number is 423262609.

I don't really get post-con depression but the perfect antidote is to come to the Newcastle Meet this Sunday (7th September). Proceedings kick off at 12 noon and hopefully we will get our goddamn picnic this time (blasted weather). We will be meeting at Newcastle Central station and I can assure you that I will be hungover yet again...

EF, ICQ And Other Ridiculous Acronyms

Well guys I am back from EF and I had a blast. No doubt I will write a short review some time in the near future. Suffice to say, it was great meeting old friends and making new ones too :D

In an attempt to keep in contact with a few furs, I now have an ICQ account. Admittedly, it's about 15 years too late but if you are interested in adding me, my number is 423262609.

I don't really get post-con depression but the perfect antidote is to come to the Newcastle Meet this Sunday (7th September). Proceedings kick off at 12 noon and hopefully we will get our goddamn picnic this time (blasted weather). We will be meeting at Newcastle Central station and I can assure you that I will be hungover yet again...

EF14 - My Review

So did EF14 live up to the high standard that was set with last year's excellent con? Well, yes and no in all honesty.

There is no doubting that I have had a truly amazing time in Suhl over the last six days but I also feel that something was missing. This is hard to put a paw on. Perhaps it has more to do with EF13 being my first ever con and the huge "wow" factor that that brought with it. Perhaps EF13 had a stronger theme which ran through the events more clearly and coherently. Or perhaps my opinion of the Fandom itself is different to what it was a year ago.

Still, there is no doubting that EF14 was a huge personal success. Not only did I meet up with old friends who I had made last year but I also met up with a menagerie of new furs too. I came to realise that this is the one true strength of the Fandom - that it is possible to meet like-minded people from across the globe and to form friendships that transcend across cultures and national boundries. This, above anything, is what the Fandom means to me.

From the off, I also admit that I intended to have a different EF experience this year. Last year, I very much focused on the suiting side of things and I had great fun. However, what I found was that this didn't allow me to meet as many new furs as I would have liked and so I decided to focus on socialising in the bar this year instead.

Indeed, I brought my suit this year but just didn't get round to wearing it (despite a few people wanting me to). The reasons for this are various but the main ones include the fact that my focus in the Fandom has shifted somewhat, that I was simply having too good a time around the bar area and a strange lack of confidence when suiting around other furs - I get greater kicks doing it in public for some reason.

On a related vein, I missed quite a few interesting SIGs last year because I was suiting and this year I wanted to make up for that. I particularly wanted to focus on the writing SIGs in the hope that they would help me improve my own work and this is why I had to sacrifice the suiting.

So dive in and explore further dear reader as in a cocktail of sleep deprevation and illness (too much rich food has caused me severe problems), I write my Horrorfurence experience.

( A Little Write-Up )

EF14 - My Review

So did EF14 live up to the high standard that was set with last year's excellent con? Well, yes and no in all honesty.

There is no doubting that I have had a truly amazing time in Suhl over the last six days but I also feel that something was missing. This is hard to put a paw on. Perhaps it has more to do with EF13 being my first ever con and the huge "wow" factor that that brought with it. Perhaps EF13 had a stronger theme which ran through the events more clearly and coherently. Or perhaps my opinion of the Fandom itself is different to what it was a year ago.

Still, there is no doubting that EF14 was a huge personal success. Not only did I meet up with old friends who I had made last year but I also met up with a menagerie of new furs too. I came to realise that this is the one true strength of the Fandom - that it is possible to meet like-minded people from across the globe and to form friendships that transcend across cultures and national boundries. This, above anything, is what the Fandom means to me.

From the off, I also admit that I intended to have a different EF experience this year. Last year, I very much focused on the suiting side of things and I had great fun. However, what I found was that this didn't allow me to meet as many new furs as I would have liked and so I decided to focus on socialising in the bar this year instead.

Indeed, I brought my suit this year but just didn't get round to wearing it (despite a few people wanting me to). The reasons for this are various but the main ones include the fact that my focus in the Fandom has shifted somewhat, that I was simply having too good a time around the bar area and a strange lack of confidence when suiting around other furs - I get greater kicks doing it in public for some reason.

On a related vein, I missed quite a few interesting SIGs last year because I was suiting and this year I wanted to make up for that. I particularly wanted to focus on the writing SIGs in the hope that they would help me improve my own work and this is why I had to sacrifice the suiting.

So dive in and explore further dear reader as in a cocktail of sleep deprevation and illness (too much rich food has caused me severe problems), I write my Horrorfurence experience.

( A Little Write-Up )