#you could tell this was a con in ri 'cos one of the booths was for some dude who cosplays as peter griffin online a lot

[owltypical]

after a week of being very sad and mourning i decided to go and have an afternoon out doing something nice, because damn did i need it; found out last minute that the rhode island comic con is this weekend and it'd been over a decade since my last con visit, so i went to that

it was pretty cool, the vast majority of merch was funko pops (so many funko pops) and plastic video game/anime swords, but there was a decent amount of other stuff to wander around looking at, i treated myself to a little rowlet plush

this was my first con with a celebrity autograph/photo section, so it was the most famous people i've ever seen at once: levar burton, brent spiner, paul williams, wayne knight (he's skinny these days??), jim cummings, nolan north, the entire main cast of futurama (john dimaggio's a big dude), squidward's va, the reunited cast of the '90s x-men cartoon, scott steiner (still wearing his chainmail), matt hardy, the dude who starred in the last dragon, et cetera; marisa tomei and christina ricci were also on the guest list but not present today alas

highlight was going to a small but pleasant panel featuring paul williams, it was just a chill forty-five minutes of him talking about various tidbits of his career and answering a few questions, dude is tiny and old but still truckin' pretty hard, apparently he started doing the con circuit and selling sigs/photos a few years ago specifically to raise money for a sobriety charity which is cool. he was wearing a muppet hoodie and mentioned how much he loved the muppets (gonzo's his favorite) and henson, did several lines in his penguin voice, all sorts of stuff

all in all a pretty nice little time, even if immediately after i did accidentally ride the bus to the end of the line way across town and spent an hour in a cold bus before finally making it home