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Rivfur, New fursuit and my first dance competition!
11 years ago
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Hi everybody! Wow what a whirlwind week!
Dash Tiger arrived the day before Rivfur and although I fell in love instantly, there was no way I could of known what a success he would be and I am immensely humbled by all the well wishers and complementary furs out there! My first outing with him was on the fursuit walk at Rivfur and the mongoose and I snuck off to a little copse of trees just off the path. Mangy wanted me to climb up there but unfortunately the suit is still too tight on me for that, so he jumped up instead and then *that* photo happened.
I had a rough idea that holding my head down would give cute derp eyes, but didn't plan that my immense height (I'm six foot two!) would make my legs so cute and tiny from such a high angle! (yay perspective shots!) It came out adorable! I put it on twitter, somehow Colson found it, then Dooryu and within 24 hours between retweets it had 400+ favourites and some 50 retweets 0.0.
Needless to say, as my friend Sparkypanda said "Someones found their cute angle and is workin' it."
The walk through Roma street parklands was otherwise pretty magical. It's a beautiful place suiters don't usually get to go, and my American friends were pretty jealous that places like that exist so close to our cities. Finding great photo opportunities was simple.
The rest of Rivfur was also amazing. Rivfur is a two-year old, small con in Brisbane. A con that most people I know had very little hope for and there had been a lot of negativity about in the Brisbane community, which Mangusu and I simply didn't understand, because aside from some organisational problems, it was a great con, one I enjoyed immensely more then the much bigger and well established Confurgence. Furdu will always be the best Australian con in my eyes, but I don't see why there can't be room for both.
It was bizzare that most of the attendees seemed to be interstaters with very few Brisbane furs (where its held). People need to support these cons and the hard work that goes into them, or end up with nothing. As always, having fun is your own responsibility, cons are just there to host a venue and get people together. I'm not aware of any room parties being shut down at Rivfur (I may be wrong here!) whereas plenty were closed at Furdu, and the Laser tag event was BRILLIANT - pizza, beer, laser tag, free arcade and a hundred furries in a room can't go wrong. Registration was probably on the pricey side, but the hotel and staff were nice with a well utilised con space.
Of course I may be biased here! At least one part contributing to the high that was Rivfur for me was winning the dance competition!
A competition I very nearly didn't enter!
I had planned to choreo a dance because I'm no freestyling mongoose, but I got sick in the week leading up to rivfur and never got the opportunity. On the verge of backing out at the con, my friends Lisa, Kiba and boyfriend Mangy, managed to get me drunk enough to convince me to do it. Six shots in ten minutes and I was suited up and in the dance room!
All the dancers there were awesome friendly people, very supportive of each other, no egos at all. By the time my turn came up I felt totally relaxed, like I was just out dancing with friends. Without any prep at all, I jumped up and just danced my heart out, and I think it came out better then I could of possibly practiced it at home (Thanks red bull and vodka!!!)
I've been to a few Aussie dance comps now and really see improvement in the dancers, can't wait to see more from them all (and me too!)
Sadly I have no video yet, still waiting to get footage from people. My friend missed the first half due to operator error :p but Boxer got it, so I just need to cut it together then I'll post it here.
I'm still a total amateur when it comes to dancing, so I'm really grateful these smaller amateur events still exist, and am really happy the bigger cons are starting to run amateur leagues along with the main events. This is a good direction.
I guess that's enough for now! Catch you when I've got that dance video to post. Expect lots of cute photos in the meantime!
Dash Tiger arrived the day before Rivfur and although I fell in love instantly, there was no way I could of known what a success he would be and I am immensely humbled by all the well wishers and complementary furs out there! My first outing with him was on the fursuit walk at Rivfur and the mongoose and I snuck off to a little copse of trees just off the path. Mangy wanted me to climb up there but unfortunately the suit is still too tight on me for that, so he jumped up instead and then *that* photo happened.
I had a rough idea that holding my head down would give cute derp eyes, but didn't plan that my immense height (I'm six foot two!) would make my legs so cute and tiny from such a high angle! (yay perspective shots!) It came out adorable! I put it on twitter, somehow Colson found it, then Dooryu and within 24 hours between retweets it had 400+ favourites and some 50 retweets 0.0.
Needless to say, as my friend Sparkypanda said "Someones found their cute angle and is workin' it."
The walk through Roma street parklands was otherwise pretty magical. It's a beautiful place suiters don't usually get to go, and my American friends were pretty jealous that places like that exist so close to our cities. Finding great photo opportunities was simple.
The rest of Rivfur was also amazing. Rivfur is a two-year old, small con in Brisbane. A con that most people I know had very little hope for and there had been a lot of negativity about in the Brisbane community, which Mangusu and I simply didn't understand, because aside from some organisational problems, it was a great con, one I enjoyed immensely more then the much bigger and well established Confurgence. Furdu will always be the best Australian con in my eyes, but I don't see why there can't be room for both.
It was bizzare that most of the attendees seemed to be interstaters with very few Brisbane furs (where its held). People need to support these cons and the hard work that goes into them, or end up with nothing. As always, having fun is your own responsibility, cons are just there to host a venue and get people together. I'm not aware of any room parties being shut down at Rivfur (I may be wrong here!) whereas plenty were closed at Furdu, and the Laser tag event was BRILLIANT - pizza, beer, laser tag, free arcade and a hundred furries in a room can't go wrong. Registration was probably on the pricey side, but the hotel and staff were nice with a well utilised con space.
Of course I may be biased here! At least one part contributing to the high that was Rivfur for me was winning the dance competition!
A competition I very nearly didn't enter!
I had planned to choreo a dance because I'm no freestyling mongoose, but I got sick in the week leading up to rivfur and never got the opportunity. On the verge of backing out at the con, my friends Lisa, Kiba and boyfriend Mangy, managed to get me drunk enough to convince me to do it. Six shots in ten minutes and I was suited up and in the dance room!
All the dancers there were awesome friendly people, very supportive of each other, no egos at all. By the time my turn came up I felt totally relaxed, like I was just out dancing with friends. Without any prep at all, I jumped up and just danced my heart out, and I think it came out better then I could of possibly practiced it at home (Thanks red bull and vodka!!!)
I've been to a few Aussie dance comps now and really see improvement in the dancers, can't wait to see more from them all (and me too!)
Sadly I have no video yet, still waiting to get footage from people. My friend missed the first half due to operator error :p but Boxer got it, so I just need to cut it together then I'll post it here.
I'm still a total amateur when it comes to dancing, so I'm really grateful these smaller amateur events still exist, and am really happy the bigger cons are starting to run amateur leagues along with the main events. This is a good direction.
I guess that's enough for now! Catch you when I've got that dance video to post. Expect lots of cute photos in the meantime!
Yes, yes, YES! Exactly what I advocate over here in the North with the competitions I run! There are way too many hopeful dancers that only see the big stage of AC, FWA, and MFF and forget that there are smaller, friendlier, and more intimate stages to practice and slowly integrate themselves into the magic of the dance floor.
Really hope to see you [get drunk and] rock the dance floors at MFF! :D