So there was another con going on in conjuction with Pandoracon. Cincinatti’s own Fur Reality. Registering for Fur Reality gave you full-access to Pandoracon and, with the exception of the Fur Ball, vice versa. The Fur con was actually held in the overflow where I was staying, and the Fur Suit Lounge was across the hall from my room. The ran a shuttle several times a day between the hotels so that people could enjoy both cons.
Now, I’m not here to make fun of furries. They get enough of that… anywhere else on the internet… or reality… So let the furries be furries, but Dear God, when they left the door open, and I saw the giant scratching post, I just had to laugh… it amused me…
I can’t really tell you anything else about Fur Reality as I’m not one and spent my time at Pandoracon, but they did have a fairly active dealer/artist room, an active consuite for munchies and at least one panel room. It was a bit smaller than Pandoracon, but how big can a regional furry con get?!?
Oh… I didn’t actually see any cats…mostly foxes… this one is visiting from Mark Savery’s Dreaming of Utopia.
That guy there, he looks… familiar.
Panel 1 -An homage to the fellow who pointed out the keyhole style which is rather amusing in certain circumstances.
Panel 2 – Not at all the face I was drawing… just kinda turned out that way.
And I just dug through Webcomic Hell and realized the flash shirt was a thing. I just put it on there because the shirt was red, but it works out well… Feel like I should add the beard and ‘stache now though…
I’m just happy to have hair again.
That my friend is not a scratching post you saw, but a fursuit cooling tree. Lol. They put the costume “fursuit” heads on the limbs and air is blown into the heads to cool and dry them. I will say this comic amused us and we laughed at the misconception. Awesome comic and next year we might just run with the joke and wrap twin around it and add cat toys for the hell of it. As to the size of the Regional Fur con…Well There is a con in Pittsburgh that has over 5k ppl in attendance every year and the FurReality is expected to double in size next year. I’m staff of the FR by the way.
I actually started to wonder about that the other day… whether it might have been something else, and my mind just started filling in blanks….