Editorial Note: HOLY FUCK.
Pictures from AC2004
I really don't know where to start, I lost my napkin of notes so here I go. I will split this post into multiple items. What you can read here will be the normal con-going stuff.
On the link for "Read More" will be a shitload of pictures (over 170, warning FireFox users), and the deviant fun I had at the con.
The Days before AC
So about 10:45am on the 5th I decided it was time to get up and go pick ukp Nimbus from the airport. His flight was goign to get there around 11:52, so I had PLENTY of time. Just take I-880 to 92, to 101, to the SFO/Airport exit. You will get there in no time.
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Yes... no time.
About 25 minutes later, when I am crossing the Bay Bride (I will include a map to show everyone how badly I missed). I decided I should call my Dad (who was out boating with the family at the time) for the best course of action. His first response was "Oh damn you fucked up." He finally led me to the right freeways, and I managed to get to the airport.... about 20 minuts after his flight had arrived.
"No problem, he probably just got his stuff from the baggage claim." Then I heard "Paging Gordon Reynolds to baggage claim fdjoiwl"
fdjoiwl you ask? Well I couldn't really make out the number of what they said, so that was about all the information I had to go on. It only took about 20 more minutes of wandering before I walked outside and heard the sliding double doors open again. I turned around and saw a very, VERY, familiar face smiling back at me. Hoo boy was I nervous during that hug.
You know how great it is to meet a friend you haven't seen in months? Well imagine you've known that friend for well over a year, or that this is the first time you have ever seen him.
Yeah - imagine that hug ^..^~ I wanted to kiss him right there (and I found out he wanted to kiss me later), but I was a bit to scared to know if I could or not, hehe.
Once back home, my parents weren't home or anything, so we called over Cail and played Super Smash Bros. and the likes until they all got home. I called him over partly because I know Cail wanted to meet Nimbus, and it really worked out so my parents wouldn't be all afriad we were having insane amount of sex while they were away.
((I have to mention my parents were TERRIFIED over this entire ordeal. From me coming out of the closet, talking about some gay guy staying at our house, then moving off to stay a weekend at a hotel with him; they had plenty of reason to be worried. :P))
Parents came home, and they made sure I slept in my brother's room every night, as Nimbus used my bed. It kind of sucked that we didn't get a single second of time alone together, but oh well - they were worried about thier little Gordie :P
I gave Nimbus his little present, hehe. I bought him a simple bondage collar (I know he wanted a collar and I know he likes bondage so that seemed to fit) that had a small tag that read "Nimbus" and on the back said "Warning: Snuggling raccoon may result in arousal" because for the most part... that's true :P
I suck at Directions
We wanted to go to San Francisco, because we needed... *coughs*lube*coughs*, more on that later. Anyways, we took BART down to the South SanFrancisco the first day.
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Whoops.
The S.SF stop brings you waaaay the fuck away from ANYTHING remotley cool. Soooo... since it was kind of late and the last train to Fremont was in like 2 hours, we just headed home. Once we got back home, I didn't feel like calling parents and letting them know we were back so early. So we went to Safeway to get some fruit (see post about pineapple a bit ago) and Nimbus got a nectarine. Then we needed a leash for Nimbus. I mean... we had a collar, but needed a nice leash to go with it. We found this really cool looking one but it was like $30, and I didn't want to spend THAT much yet :P
We picked up this illegally cute raccoon plush and a leash. Keep in mind, we were wearing our tails everywhere we could, hehe. We called up Cail and went bowling, which to my dismay I lost. Both rounds.
Much sadness ;..;
SF Trip, V2.0
Next day, woke up a bit earlier so we could get to the city on time. We arrived on the Embarcedaro exit, which dropped us right in front of Pier 1. The first thing I wanted to do there was go to Pier 39.
APPARENTLY THAT WAS A LONG WAY AWAY.
Oh well, we managed to walk aallll the way down there, against the wind and whatnot. Once down there Nimbus picked up some sunglasses (in California :P) and a pair of girls stopped us, asking if we could get a picture with them, beacuse of our tails. We agreed, so somewhere out there two girls have a picture to remind them of "those freaks up at san fran.)
We wandered around the arcade, then startd to wonder where we could pick up our lube item we were questing for. We started walking then pulled out the map my parents had given me.
"Where the heck do you go to get this stuff at?"
"Castro is probably the only place I can think of."
We check the map and decided a trolly or some sort of public transportation would be the fastest way to do that. While walking though, Nimbus actually stopped us from walking right by an adult store. That was a fun thing to wander around in. Kind of wierd though, because the people there were like, "Are you aware you have a tail on?"
... I so badly wanted to remind them where they worked, but oh well.
We got some Wet Platinum (LOTS more on that later, best shit ever.) and were on our way. Sinse we didn't have a whole lot to do other than that... we just kind of headed home... I think. Yeah, we went home because that day we were flying out.
The Flight to AC
With a last bit of last minute packing I got all my stuff together. All my electronics, deviancy, clothes, and the likes. I was reaaaally nervous about flying. I mean... I don't like heights, and therefore don't really want to fly. On the drive over there my parents had this little 'attempt' at finding out what Nimbus' intentions were. With my mom's little line, "Sex isn't meant to be casual" that made everything a bit quiet for a bit we drove over there up to the check-in for our flight. We had our tickets confirmed and stuff and I said my goodbyes to the family.
I really have to thank them for letting me go, becasue I know at any second my dad could have and almost did say no, just cause he was so scared.
Anyways, we got through security, up until the point where they screen you. Because we were the only two people there, we had the fun of getting screened. So they brought us aside and sat us down, looking through our bags. The security gaurd got all "funny" and snapped a rubber glove on and asked Nimbus, "KY or Astrolide" which... being my first flight got me really nervous :P
They opened my bag and I'll just kind of give a list of what was said.
Inspector: *pulls out tail* Tail?
Doc: Yeah... I wear it.
Ins: Ok... *pulls out paws, looks over* So when's the rest of the suit comin' out?
Doc: *Blushes* That's about it.. heh...
Ins: *pulls out army jacket. Looks through right pocket, pulls out leash. Looks over at Doc.*
Doc: *blush*
Ins: *Puts leash away, looks into other pocket, pulls out lube. Looks over to co-worker, mumbles something, looks over to Doc and puts it away* You boys have fun now.
Doc: *chuckles* Heh.. yeah.. fun..
So that was great fun indeed, first time flying I get screened and proved to be a deviant, :P
We boarded the plane and managed to sit on the same row, next to eachother (thank you kind people who moved). I think you can ask Nimbus, I was scared as hell. So scared. Oh man so scared. He helped me through it though, so it was all good after we took off.
The plane flight over was LONG though. We left the airport around 12am and then flew.... flew a long way away. I have a few pictures of the plane flight, especially one of Chicago. I couldn't really tell where the water ended and the sky started. Kind of pretty.
Sleep was becomming a much needed commodity. I was up around 9am, and when I get sleepy I either get really chuckly, or really pissy.
This was a pissy time.
Nimbus on the other hand was going crazy. Which was cute, but still going freaking crazy.
I passed the boredom with airplane napkin origami though.
Didn't last too long, as I needed sleep, was nearing 24 hours of no sleep.
Welcome to Anthrocon 2004
So FINALLY, we get there. Or actually, we find out we can't get into our room just yet, so I collapsed against a wall and fell just about asleep. I think I remember people introducing me or whatnot, but I really can't recall. All I know is I wanted to sleep and for once Pink Floyd was making me tired. That scared me.
They ushered us into the bottom lobby, where I quickly slept, or tried to sleep. I heard Eevee, Mewwie, Frankie, Kupok, and others talking. I didn't want to be all anti-social but I really, REALLY needed some sleep. Just when I thought I was about to fall asleep... they decided to test the musical crap for the dances.
We were sitting right next to it.
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Yeah... I really needed my sleep.
Oh well, they finally let us into our room, where I promptly crashed. I crashed for about 13 hours or something. I can't even remember. I remember waking up around... (well not waking, I never fell completley asleep at the con, I heard everything) some time in the morning. It was still night time so I walked around and found a shopping place, where I promtply bought two boxes of doughnuts. Little did I know those would be near the only things I would eat.
I got back to the hotel, and decided to meditate out on the grass and watch the sky for a bit. Nimbus and Kupok were long gone by the time I woke up, out mingling so I took advantage of the time alone.
Once back at hotel I ran into Nimbus, and we had fun at the hotel room (I will be blogging about everything deviant much later on, in the extended post). Ice is fun :D.
Here is where I begin to lose track of time, so in the sake of not looking stupid, I'm just going to go through this list of stuff I have. I wrote this all down on a napkin to talk about so it might sound all fragmented.
The art auctions were fun to go to. I wish I could show you some of the cool things people were bidding on, but they would castrate me. I didn't bid on any adult art, because I still live at home and a picture of like, two foxes licking and spooging and whatnot - no matter HOW cute, wouldn't be taken kindy by my parents :P
Nimbus bid on some adult art, two very nice minimalistic pieces. They have boobs though, so everyone is giving him a hard time about it. If he takes pictures I'll put'em up, because they are very nice.
I won something in the general auction however. It's this really colourful acrillic dragon painting thingy. It will be shipped to me eventually, so I'm all excited.
The adult voice auction was interesting though. Nimbus wanted to sit up front, but was talked down by Nightcat :P. It's sort of odd to see people bid on porn... and maintain complete professionality about it - other than a few jokes here and there.
"Fa la la la la la la la~" comment during the Donner on Dasher piece.
Some of the art things though... had guts to put them up. I'll take this time now for anyone who uses photoshop. If I can go through and name the filters you used, don't use them. From background filter whoring, to entire pieces down in photoshop, some of that art really wasn't suited for those who knew what they used to make it. When I can look at it and go, Blue outside glow, 2 pixel width, with 3 pixel spread - then you've made it much to obvious.
But then again I don't have anything up there so I can't talk about it.
I got to meet some furs from Nimbus' area, such as Nightcat - who was very cool. I also didn't know Fel was from that same area, it was kind of cool to watch him sketch.
I also got to meet all the furs I talked to, like Mewwie and Eevee. I didn't talk a whole lot with them, like at all. But that was because most of my time was spent mingling around with others and stuff. I ran into DaveQat, who I found could pick me up over his head @..@ That was actually more scary than I wanted it to be.
I know I SAW AX, but then I didn't say anything, and when I turned around, it was like... too late. Oh well, perhapds next year I can say hello or something.
Those donuts. Oh sheesh. Let me just make of list of everything I injested during the weekend.
1. Boxes of chocolate donuts.
2. Coke.
3. Denny's.
4. TGI Fridays.
5. Nimbus by product.
6. Blech pizza.
And that's it. Then again, the whole con-experience left me not caring about what I really ate, hehe or drank for that matter. I so need to play DDR though. Three of those little donuts has over 300 calories, and about 4 boxes of them were consumed between me and Nimbus @..@;
Nightcat also needs to learn not to call Nimbus while he isn't around. So far he has "inturrupted" on "quality time" with Nimbus and I twice :P. But according to him we were "fucking like rabbits."
2 was freaking hilarious. For those of you who don't know 2, go to http://www.ranting-gryphon.com and listen to some of his rants. Furry or not they are hilarious. One of his greatest jokes was him just talking about how great thigns would be in the old times, where you would just draw what you want on the wall, all you cared about was eating meat off a stick. He said something like, "We just need a place where we sit around having sex with anything that has a hole, eating meat on a stick, and drawing porn for eachother." He took a second and looked at the crowd, "Oh wait, this is Anthrocon." and the crowd just bursted in applause. It was great. I almost didn't know it was him, beause the last time I saw him, he had this hair stuff. Now he's bald. :P
Uncle Kage's story hour was the next day, which we made sure to get in early to see. Uncle Kage is an interesting feller. He walks along that line of annoying me and being really funny. I don't know why. Anyways, his stories were really funny. This poor guy can't just go and do anything without something funny happening to him :P
His opening act was SpazFox, the same guy that oppened up for 2. He is pretty funny, and uses his dyslexia for his benifit, haha.
I also got a chance to think of my character. I love being a Charmeleon, but the only problem is I don't have a lot in the way of explaning myself without seeming crazy. Thats why I wore a foxtail around the con, just to be a trendwhore. After talking with Nimbus, I decided when I get a fursuit, it will be a chubby otter one. I really, really, really want a fursuit, because it feeds into my need to be really silly and everything.
I decided on an otter because they are like... flexible. I found out that I can like... do things with my penis that I normally shouldn't be able to do, and I'm double jointed in many MANY places. That and I like being playful and cute and stuff, hehehe.
Oh, on the last day of the con, when we had to check out we kind of woke up late due to... fun last night. Usualy Kupok sleeps until around 2pm, but when we woke up this time he wasn't there. We had to check out in like 2 hours, and the moogle was nowhere to be found. Panic. We moved everything to a friend's room next door, and hopefully he got his stuff, because we never contacted him.
No more AC
So we caught a cab ride back to the airport after a less than grand goodbye. We really need to stay an extra day :/
The flight back didn't seem to take as long, mainly because we kept slipping in and out of sleep. At this point I was starting to get kind of sad, because I knew Nimbus had to fly back to Washington soon... and I began to feel myself REALLY like him and whatnot~
We got on the first plane around 8:45pm and arrived at the LasVegas airport around 11:38; our connecting flight boards at 11:22.
SHIT. *run*
We manage to catch it and plop down for the much shorter flight to San Francisco. My parents already said I had to find a way home so I immediatley suggested BART, because a cab home would cost near if not more than $100. It was around 2am and BART doesn't open up until 4am.
This made me feel really bad, because I felt as if I should have planned something better, and now I'm dragging Nimbus everywhere like this. The poor boy was really tired and I realized that when he fell asleep any chance he could. I let him know he could sleep as I stay awake making sure we got on the right trains at the right times.
We got to BART, and I worked out the transfers. We got on the first train and rode it a few stops, getting off. Then we got to Balboa park. This was an outside station, and the wind was very cold. I have this thing about very cold wind. If I just sit out in wind like that for too long I really will start crying because I get scared. It's pitiful, but yeah - it was that kind of scary spooky wind. I kept rubbing Nimbi's legs, so at least he wouldn't be cold and miserable because I felt like this was my fault some how.
The next train said it was goign to be an hour, but with some clever working I found out I could get a train going to Fremont if we take another transfer. About 7 more stops, we were in Uninon City, the BART station I needed to go to. The only problem is, the only bus running near my house literally was going to take an hour, and there wasn't any way around that short of walking. Figuring it was now 6am (remember what time we left?) I called my mom and she picked us up.
Once we got home Nimbus cooked us some eggs and bacon, cause I suck at cooking.... bad. It was really sweet of him to do that n..n~
My mom took off for work and bother took off for summer school so for once we had the house to ourselves. More on that in the deviant post.
Once things progressed passed that, I called Cail over so he could get his porn I bought him and so he could spend the last few moments with Nimbus. The only problem was, I underestimated how tired I was after that bit of fun and nearly 20 hours of no sleep. I think him and Nimbus played SSB:M for a bit, but when I awoke he was gone. I also felt bad because this was the last day Nimbus would be at my house and like... I fell asleep.
We decided to get some food before he took off so we went down to Carl's Jr. Apparently they don't have them up there where he lives, so it was fun.
They also call it "pop". It's cute in a hick kind of way :P
We got that double $6 burger thing, which I couldn't get near finishing @..@;
After that we drove home and he packed up for his final flight home.
The Final Moments
Hoo boy. Emotional.
On the drive over there I looked over and saw some tears on Nimbus' face, which got me all sad. I suggested he sleep until I got there, because we really were near the end of our emotional ropes.
Once we got to the airport, and he checked in, we just walked over to a wall and set the stuff down. He hugged lightly, all was good. Until I felt Nimbus cry. Oh boy... that did it. Open up the emotional gates. In seconds I began crying as well, holding tightly. We moved away from the monitors to a wall as we cried more.
God we sobbed for a long time. So many emotions ran through the both of us. So many tears. This was the moment where everything that wanted to be said got out.
Though all the tears I admited what I felt around the second day of the con.
I love Nimbus.
And then I quickly told myself that was wrong. I don't love Nimbus. Nimbus is a raccoon online.
I love Bryan. That's who I love. I don't love a character, I love this boy. He has given me the best weekend of my life, and now... I am who I want to be. I want to be with Bryan, I want to be with Nimbus.
God I didn't want to let him go. But I had to. That last kiss seemed to last forever. Then I let him go~
I got back to my car and just sat on my trunk, sobbing as I watched the planes take off. I sat there for an hour and a half, until I was sure Nimbus' plane took off.
He took my heart with him, and I kept his~
I love you Nimbus~
