#convention meetup

[heartorbit]

revstar emu save me

[kemonofursuit]

[figmentrinzler]

Reminder that this is happening and I hope people show up!

[theriverbeyond]

the secret to life is that you need to create the community you want to see in the world

[misfitfurby]

Uh oh considering this strongly once again buuuuut

Furby Con

I want to make it real

I think I theoretically could but obviously not alone and I'd need a dedicated help team

Think I have a place that would be big enough (250 people max) and not be tooooo expensive to rent out for a day

Should have plenty of room too. Since it's been previously used for a one day anime con and has been remodel since I was last there

Anyways give me your thoughts and feelings on this

Would of course have artist alley and guests if possible (no clue how "booking people" works and most of the people I'd ask to come are also just big name creators in our furbdom so is a total idk if they could even show)

And panels obviously

- like workshops, selling, fixing, customizing, history, lore, buying, collecting and times to watch the movie together

Maybe even a cosplay contest?? Heh more like a Furby dress up contest with guests being judges

Hours? Idk like 10am - 6pm? I think that's how long day cons usually go

[st4rry4pples]

autism won today <3

[0-harvey-on-pawz-0]

At the Louisiana beta convention with Alex ( @i-draw-things ) he’s simping over his partner again and ignoring me🤦🏼 if you see this and you’re at the con come find us!!! And tell Alex to stop simping

[girlwiththegreenhat]

buncha photos of all the cool The Owl House cosplayers this year at ACEN!!! the meetup was so much fun 🥺 there is nothing funnier than somebody dropping one of their fake ears and everyone instinctively checking at the same time to make sure it wasn't ours

(+ me at the end as the last lilith!)

harpy lilith: @shadowluv101-blog

[annerbhp]

My favorite fan meet-up memories!

Leverage Con-Con (2010)

Going to the Leverage Con-Con in 2010 with @holdouttrout. If I remember, we kind of decided to do it on a bit of a whim, and it ended up being the only Con-con that ever happened and it was so great! We had an amazing time, including one panel where Jonathan Frakes just randomly showed up halfway through and it was hilarious, and watching Gina Bellman be completely overwhelmed by fandom in hopefully a not terrible way, and Christian Kane being totally old hat at it and being like, “look, this is nothing, you should experience other fandoms.” And that one time Trout and I were just trying to take the elevator somewhere and BAM there were Beth Riesgraf, Timothy Hutton, and Aldis Hoge RIGHT THERE, trying to get in the elevator as we were leaving and my brain only had one thought which was: TALL, because holy heck the three of them together is just very tall.

I always keep a little notebook on me, have for years and years, and I also keep them all. This gave me an excuse to dig back through them. I found that I’d written something about the Con-con!

Awesome, small size, new, everyone has never done this before, get really genuine response. In general, fans have been really well behaved. Love the random drive bys. Whatever panel is going on, another actor, producer runs in to ask questions from audience. Like Jonathan Frakes running through Gina and Beth’s panel. Jonathan Frakes doing an impression of Patrick Stewart being asked to do a six-episode arc on Leverage: “Cable?!”

The actors also got asked what the team would do in a zombie apocalypse (which had amused me at the time because I had already written The Chainsaw Job which was a Leverage zombie-apocafic. Poor Trout having to deal with my freak out over it.)

Parker as role model for young girls. Things Not To Do When Asking Panel Questions: Multipart Questions Preface with comment or 10-minute personal story Remind actor of previous stalking/bizarre behavior How much do I love that one of the guest stars, after their panel is sitting down in the crowd and listening to the presentation of “Page to the Screen”. Albert, John, Chris. Copenhagen!

(I have no recollection of what Copenhagen! meant any longer. Trout?)

DragonCon (2007)

Going to DragonCon in, wow I cannot for the life of me remember what year that was (must have been late naughty-aughts). I remember there was a great congregation of SG-1 peeps and @katcorvi and I shared a room despite never having met each other in person before and we shared endless jokes about which one of us was an axe murderer. Turns out neither, and we had a lovely time. We still exchange Christmas cards. I remember going to a Harry Potter panel with Pellucid to see the twins actors and people hissing about a book 7 spoiler despite it having been a long while since the last book came out. I am pretty sure this was also the time that we got to see Chris Judge learn what a furry is live on stage and it was all you can imagine. (Okay, that is what helped me figure out the year, because I found it on youtube! Also, was that shutthef_up who called out about fur suits? I feel like it was.) That was also the con where I came out of a stall in the bathroom and came face to face with Gates McFadden (who is also Very Tall or at least felt that way), which was very unexpected and made me freak out, especially after all those years of watching TNG and dreaming up self-insert fics where I fell in love with her TV son (not that I knew fanfic was a thing yet).

This was my first fangirl meetup and I was wildly nervous and probably very awkward and strange. But it was so great to meet people I had spent so much time with online. And it’s always funny to see how people do and don’t live up to the images you have of them in your head. (Like the most loquacious and thoughtful person who is nearly silence in-person.) I met so many people that it’s kind of a blur who was actually there. I think Abyssinia, Jennghis (Surreallis), Splash (were you there?), so many people.

London (2011)

Fangirl meet up in London (#2). In…oh boy. I am so bad at years. 2010? No, February 2011. I finally figured it out, primarily because I found notes I had taken in a notebook! We had a huge crew. Most of them were there for the Amanda Tapping con (AT5, I believe.) I was, for various reasons, too chicken to go to the con, even though I was literally in the con hotel for the first night of the convention. But Beanpot and I ran around together that night, if I recall. Before the con, we hung out in London. We ran around the British museum (which for Stargate SG-1 fangirls is even funnier that you would think, because we got to run around looking at the Egyptian stuff and make Goa’uld jokes). And someone…Trout? Was that us? We ran out to King’s Cross to find the little HP cart going into the wall thing they have, but the whole terminal was under construction. I remember not being able to sleep at night and it taking me days to realize it was because I was drinking English breakfast tea in the morning (I don’t do caffeine). We had a lot of cool pub hangouts too, and I remember something hilarious happening (of course) and me taking notes in a little notebook about it. Which I finally found by digging through 20 different little notebooks (which was fun. I think I found the first things I ever wrote about the idea of The Changeling in there too). My entry on the London meet up is pretty short. It just says:

Meet up. Hang out in Penn Club dining room. Walk to dinner at Turkish place. Walk to pub. Aspall’s cider. Very cool place Marquis Cornwallis. Good smut has no nouns.

London (2019)

London fangirl meet up #1, incidentally, was in 2008 when I was in London for not-fandom related reasons, and was lucky enough to meet up with @pepperf at the British museum. Again, I was weird and awkward and had never really hung out with a fandom friend in person much, and we had my non-fandom husband trailing around behind us. But it was still lovely, of course, and hanging out with Pepper is always the best. Which is why I am lucky I got London fangirl meet-up #3 in 2019, this time with Pepper and @bethanyactually. We did a lot of lovely things and had a great time, of which our peak fannish experience was running around London to find places BBC’s Strike had been filmed and getting to see Ibsen’s Rosmersholm on the West End, staring Hayley Atwell and Tom Burke. Can’t wait for London fangirl meetup #4.

That’s it, I think. I don’t think I’ve ever been to another Con.

[sir-burnt-cosplay]

Saturday Helldivers Meetup at Fan Expo Canada 2024

Photos taken by gundum_k

[sdenstarsmeets]

hello fellow enstarries!! 

me and a mutual are initially opening this account for the upcoming san diego anime con and we wanted to open an interest check for enstarries who would be interested in having a meetup at the con!

this account is geared towards socal fans, specifically enstarries in the san diego/socal area! although me and my oomf would like to host other enstars related events in this area in the future, we have nothing set in stone yet!

shares and reposts are greatly appreciated! tysm and we hope to see other producers at this con!

[torontostuck]

UPCOMING MEETUP ANIME NORTH 2025

We are collaborating with another Torontostuck group, and planning to meet up at Anime North in May! Make sure to dress up in your Homestuck cosplays, folks! (Dates, meetup spot and events will be determined closer to the official date.)

[peekychu]

Thought about bringing Buttercream the red panda plush with me to AWU as I’m suiting as Funfetti, but poor thang has become scrungled with love 😹 Maybe I’ll try spiffing her up before the con? Or I’ll carry around another plush.

It is imperative for me to bring a plush to the convention. Both for comfort, and to prevent me from buying even more plushies.

[gifti3]

Me explaining to Lucifer why he should let me skip school to go to a concert

[misfitfurby]

From out of my slumber I with the good news

See you at @mtacofficial this weekend

The bad news is my getting a new furbsuit head goal is still on pause cause 3d printers keep forgetting about me after I put in and confirm they'll print my base ;w;

[smoothie03]

Random but... Would anyone be up for a Hetalia Meetup at an Austrian con?

I've never been to any meetup so idk what people do there but idk in my mind it would be SO fucking cool because I know many of my Austrian mutuals are into Hetalia and cosplay from it but we're never all in one place to connect and in my head it just sounds cool (TwT)