Conifur 2004 Recap
Conifur = A 3 day furry convention in Tacoma, Washington.
Nimbus = the raccoon = Bryan = Boyfriend = HAWT.
Ok, first off I will apologize for the lack of pictures. When I went up to WA, I forgot to bring my 128mb stick of memory for my digicam, and only had my 16mb. Figuring that can only hold like 20 pictures, I didn't really bother taking any at all.
So no nudes of us both.
Yet.
Oh well, I woke up Thursday, and I was originally planning to go to school, then head off to the airport and fly up there. Upon waking however, I realized the flight was a bit too early, and I was a bit too underpacked. So I hurridly started washing clothes and getting stuff together, almost forgetting to print up the freaking Boarding Pass to get ONTO the plane.
Stuffing everything into the world's largest carryon bag (I still think I will get told to check it if I get shitty flight attendtants); I headed out to my dad's worksite, he was going to give me a ride and was only about 10 minutes away from the airport.
So I arrived at SJC (San Jose Interational) with about 30 minutes to spare and sit down, to play pokemon of course. I had to train my little team just in case I ended up battling the raccoon. I start to see that three lines are being formed. "Maybe I should actually board the plane, eh?"
I end up getting onto the plane, and because I was boarded a bit earlier than the other two lines, I found easy room for my carryon - which wasn't the case on the way home (which I'll go into later). For some odd reason I have to turn off my GameBoy, because my Charizard can apparently set off a bomb in the plane, or make it crash or something. So I sit, a bit nervous because I still have jitters about flying. There was an old woman sitting next to me, and she seemed a bit nervous as well - so it was kind of nice to know I wasn't the only one with this irrational fear of flying. Once at 10,000 feet or something, I was allowed to play pokemon for the next two hours.
I watched out the window as the clouds began to get a bit more thick looking, and started to grow in slow numbers. It didn't seem that long at all until we were passing over Oregon. Of course the pilot was telling us where to look to see what, but the clouds made it a bit hard. I was kind of suprised to see Oregon wasn't still on fire. Weren't they like burning for about 2 years straight or something? Anyways - I continued on with my pokemachu game, getting a bit giggly when I realized I was actually going to see Bryan again.
I touched down in SeaTac no problem, got out and promptly called up the fuzz face. He directed me down an escelator, and I turned around to see him. Oh god did I ever melt. I smiled like an idiot and just hugged tightly. Oh that hug felt nice. And the kiss~ Ooohhh the kiss. Ooohh so melty in knees.
Hee~ #^..^#
Forgive my lack of words to describe my feelings here - it's kind of hard to give life to something that can't really be defined: love. :D
Anyways, we started the long drive back to his apartment in this cute little hick town. I kind of like it there, cowboys and rodeos oh my. :P Shorty I realized a tough looking raccoon cowboy morph would be hawt.
There really is too many trees in WA though. Seriously.
We got back to his place and whatnot, started to get comfortable. I really do envy the boy for getting to live this whole college experience. In the dorm/apartment things, away from home - oh that would be fun. It's a nice place, and not crippled and stuff by lack of essentials like a kitchen and shtuff.
He made some cookies and brownies, and upon retrospect "some" is a relativley light word. He made enough batter to make 60 cookies, but somehow ended up with two platefulls of cookie bits, and another plate of pancake sized cookies. Now he can no longer laugh at me for my own cookie fiasco. He also made one pan of brownies; what he failed to realize again though, was it was supposed to make 40 brownies. We had 15 or something. COVERED IN POWDERED SUGAR.
Nimbus proceeded to show me his FFVII (I gave him my copy of it) amazement. He has like 4 save files, every character maxed out, everything DONE, he can beat the final boss with just a single attack. Materia combos and things I can't even begin to grasp. I couldn't tell exactly how he won cause we got a bit... distracted - but I'll save that for the extended entry~.
It was really nice to sleep next to him after all those weeks of being away. And the fact I was naked by then helped.
Yeah.
^..^~
The room before we left. Notice the package of cookies he was trying to force feed me :P. Silly coon boyfriend.
Anyways - the next day we headed down to the con, which was another 2 hour drive. I packed my few things back up and we drove out. There are still WAY TO MANY TREES.
We kind of got to Conifur late because of... things we had to take care of. Mostly just a lot of catching up to do and shtuff, hehe. We arrived around 7pm, and that was about the time Uncle Kage started his story hour. I was a bit dissapointed because he did the same routine he did at AC, but then again I'm not sure how many bad things could happen to this guy between July and September.
Uncle Kage is an interesting fellah, now that I mention him. He is the chairperson of Anthrocon, and he is widely known through the fandom and stuff. He also draws that fine line between annoying and funny though. Some of his stories kind of sucked, like the one about him picking up a cake for a friend. He puts on his coat and hat and changes his voice; ends up being really lame but he tries every time.
After that I don't think we did anything, most of the stuff was closed up. So we decided to check into our rooms. I actually cannot remember what we all did there. I know I had fun but the details of the night kind of blurred~
Waking up next to him felt really nice though, hehe. I already put the "GO AWAY WE'RE FUCKING" sign on the doorknob, so we wouldn't be awoken by the sounds of a knock and some woman asking, "Housekeeping".
During the con, Nimbus and I had lots of fun... I guess just being overly gay. It started as a few lisped words, and by the end of the weekend it was getting really funny. Hopefully no permanent damage was done, because while it was cute - it would get really annoying.
And being called Doctor is really a turnoff, despite my name.
The second day of the con was spent mostly browsing the art galleries, and dealer's den. Nimbus got Michelle Light to do a con badge of his character, and in the meantime we wandered around and ended up getting some McDonalds. I think we had to be some of the first people from the con there, because everyone was giving us weird smirks and looks and stuff, hehe.
Upon coming back we headed off to the charity auction, and sat in on that one. I almost ended up winning a fully functioning vehicle for $5. There was no minimum bid and it go to the point where he was calling "Going Once..." before other people got their wits together and actually BID money. A full working car actually ended up going for $58. In an odd twist, we gave that person a ride home (they were on our way back to Bryan's house).
Once again the detail of the night are lost upon me. Well - the non deviant details at least. We watched bits and pieces of Cast Away in our room after coming back from Subway - which was a nice change from the not so healty food we consumed the rest of the duration of the convention.
We woke up on Sunday, with plans to finish up the rest of our money spending and whatnot.
In comparison, Conifur was a drop in the bucket to Anthrocon, but figuring it's popularity and size - it still was a very decent con. It was dubbed Boobycon though. I have never seen such a hetero furry convention, which kind of sucked because I wanted to buy some deviant things, maybe even a suggestive piece or two. I did end up buying two pieces of clean art though.
I had to buy this piece for two reasons.
1. It's a very pretty dragon.
2. It has a cat.
3. THIS IS FUCKING CUTE. I mean, look at the small little catnip mouse he is holding. Such a powerful beast, and he's playing with his kitty, heee~
This one made me DROOL when I first saw it at Anthrocon.
1. It's beautifuly maticulate with its details.
2. It reminds me of metal slug.
*drool*
I mean, you have to juse see this pic up close, to see every line on the guns, every spent shell, etc.
And the artist of these two pics comes out of Cupertino, so he will be at FC :D
Nimbus picked up his badge (which was FUCKING CUTE) and I deemed it being chewey. Chewey images or things are stuff that are soft looking, and overly cute to the point where you just want to gnaw on them to get out their awesomeness.
We drove back to Nimbus' place after dropping off another Doc and his friend. On the way I managed to beat the Elite 4, and all during driving back and forth I bred his pokemon, traded and whatnot, so we have a bunch of cool things.
Back at his place we kind of crashed on the futon and watched TV, getting a bit snuggling playful. He was teasing me, and for some reason... I felt sad that this was the last night I was going to be with him for a while. My eyes teared up a bit, but I thought I was just being overly dramatic. Hell, I cried over him the first time I left and that sucked, I didn't want to do that again. I didn't think Bryan saw my eyes, but apparently he did. He had his face in my tummy for a bit, and it wasn't until I realized he wasn't being playful that he was crying.
Oh we had a nice cry and talked for hours. Just quiet little words exchanged, sort of like our pre-goodbyes again. I talked about myself and stuff, let him know that I have the same fears as him. I'm not sure if I offered any of lives great answers, but I did make him feel better for that night.
I also made myself cry, after we started being all smiling and stuff again. I described to him how deeply connected I am to my enviornment - and how I want him to be down here with me when I leave it for him. That connection needs to be witnessed by someone, so they understand it.
Not sure I ever had a more rewarding late night talk with anyone before. I love Bryan so much it's amazing. I slept very deep that night.
Very deep.
Oob.
At the airport, we had some time, so we just sat and whatnot, cuddling and talking. No tears or anything. Bryan ended up giving me a little memento to remember him by:
And it smells like his apartment, which is a very good thing.
I didn't start to tear up until my final kiss and the "I love you" came at the security checkpoint.
Yeah~ I could see him crying as he walked away.
That has to be the hardest thing. I escorted him to his flight once at AC, and now he escorted me to mine. Out of both experiences, having to actually walk away from your love to go back to your car for that long drive home is worse that actually flying away.
Before I went though, he drew a small raccoon on me:
And now I just kind of trace it whenever it starts to fade away, cause it's very cute and makes me think of him.
*happy sigh*
I love you Bryan, and you know how much of my life I'm going to change to be with you.
*kiss*
and looking back upon it I feel kind of silly that I didn't realize I had feeling for this boy, even back then. What was driving me to confusion was that I was with someone at the time. I don't think I even talked to Bryan about anything sexual really, so I wasn't cheating - I just started to feel those first strains of sexual identity being repulled.
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