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The fact that he walks around in suit all the time screams how badly he's trying to hide his identity. He probably hates being the guy who nutted on a pizza but he can't escape that. Fur fags: not even once.
🦊 Furry Furry Convention Drama - Because you can't have a couple thousand dog fucking enthusiasts under the same roof without shit hitting the fan
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https://furnalequinox.com/
Furnal Equinox will happen next month. They are currently asking for volunteers to join their "Safety Team". Will this safety team be requiring that attendees show proof of negative HIV tests as well as proof of Covid-19 vaccinations? Do they consider it important enough to try and keep their attendees protected from sexually transmitted diseases/infections? Afterall if the Con Chair Scani Gryph engages in naked chocolate sauce and pie parties, with the possibility of sexual activity occurring during this and other parties during the convention, STI prevention safety should be considered.
Furnal Equinox will happen next month. They are currently asking for volunteers to join their "Safety Team". Will this safety team be requiring that attendees show proof of negative HIV tests as well as proof of Covid-19 vaccinations? Do they consider it important enough to try and keep their attendees protected from sexually transmitted diseases/infections? Afterall if the Con Chair Scani Gryph engages in naked chocolate sauce and pie parties, with the possibility of sexual activity occurring during this and other parties during the convention, STI prevention safety should be considered.
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Only furries could make a “chocolate sauce and pie party” something so degenerate that some porn stars would wince.
Who gets turned on by pie? Fuck.
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People who are desperate and take the phrase “A hole’s a hole” too far, didn’t American Pie teach you anything?
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Little did writers of Better Call Saul know that squat cobbler is an actual thing.
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Harvest Moon Howl Fest gets postponed, again:
Due to coronavirus? I'll bite -- it's an outdoor con which would be, in theory, safer than the dozen or so that have ran already in the past few months. We've reached equilibrium with endemic spread and whether a shitty camping con runs or not won't save any lives; it's a fart in the wind. As someone who works at a pharma company where the CEO sold their shares and bolted, she knows it: pandemic is over.
Chise probably did not expect virtue signalling about a fentanyl addict would have gotten her this far. She doesn't want to admit it, but she doesn't know how to run a con, doesn't want to run a con, and is now saddled with running a POC-led convention as a white woman.
Her best bet is a change of management where she hands it off to some unsuspecting dipshit (without the con funds, obviously). It'll either finally fade into obscurity or become a disaster and Chise is off the hook if she can blame it on some literal nigger tranny.
Large amounts of simping in the twitter replies, a small few "what the fuck"s.
(edit: the Moderna CEO shares thing is fake news, but w/e)
Due to coronavirus? I'll bite -- it's an outdoor con which would be, in theory, safer than the dozen or so that have ran already in the past few months. We've reached equilibrium with endemic spread and whether a shitty camping con runs or not won't save any lives; it's a fart in the wind. As someone who works at a pharma company where the CEO sold their shares and bolted, she knows it: pandemic is over.
Chise probably did not expect virtue signalling about a fentanyl addict would have gotten her this far. She doesn't want to admit it, but she doesn't know how to run a con, doesn't want to run a con, and is now saddled with running a POC-led convention as a white woman.
Her best bet is a change of management where she hands it off to some unsuspecting dipshit (without the con funds, obviously). It'll either finally fade into obscurity or become a disaster and Chise is off the hook if she can blame it on some literal nigger tranny.
Large amounts of simping in the twitter replies, a small few "what the fuck"s.
(edit: the Moderna CEO shares thing is fake news, but w/e)
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This con just has to be a scam. They keep finding excuse after excuse to cancel or delay things.
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HMHF is the gift that keeps on giving. We don't get updates very often but damn it if it isn't funny to watch a con steadily revealing itself to be a con-job.
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I personally think Chise thought a BIPOC con would cement her popularity in the fandom and she’s just now realizing she bit off more than she can chew. She should have stuck to being the wuFlu info lady.
And I know I’ve said this before but, again -
This is why you don’t want a furry in a job like hers. Guaranteed her work day is 95% the con, and whatever’s left working on vaccines or whatever.
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Speaking of Covid virtue signaling by cons...
FurTheMore happened over the weekend in Virginia. Of course, they had a vaccine requirement, but in addition to that, all attendees had to wear a "non-removable" fabric wristband to confirm just how vaccinated they were. Attendees seemed to not like this.
Someone running the convention Twitter stated the wristbands were to prevent people from committing the unimaginable, horrific crime of using somebody else's badge to enter con space while unvaccinated.
Apparently, the con was rejecting people for showing up without a physical vaccine card (Every other con I know of to date has allowed photographs of the card as proof) as if a vax card isn't easy to forge. This person also pointed out that the wristbands aren't impossible to remove and thus the entire purpose of them is defeated.
It's going to be a fun couple of months, since cons will absolutely not relent with Covid mitigation, even as public health authorities end restrictions. Biggest Little Fur Con, a convention in Reno announced this past week that masks will be required (archive in case they decide to memoryhole this) along with booster shots for their convention in June, which will be four months after Nevada's Governor ended the mask mandate in that state. Some of the Covid addicts in the replies also begged for negative tests to be required. Of course, this entire "look how SAFE and GOOD we are!" performance being put on is pointless, as few (if any) will wear a mask in the crowdedcum pizza room parties.
FurTheMore happened over the weekend in Virginia. Of course, they had a vaccine requirement, but in addition to that, all attendees had to wear a "non-removable" fabric wristband to confirm just how vaccinated they were. Attendees seemed to not like this.
Someone running the convention Twitter stated the wristbands were to prevent people from committing the unimaginable, horrific crime of using somebody else's badge to enter con space while unvaccinated.
Apparently, the con was rejecting people for showing up without a physical vaccine card (Every other con I know of to date has allowed photographs of the card as proof) as if a vax card isn't easy to forge. This person also pointed out that the wristbands aren't impossible to remove and thus the entire purpose of them is defeated.
It's going to be a fun couple of months, since cons will absolutely not relent with Covid mitigation, even as public health authorities end restrictions. Biggest Little Fur Con, a convention in Reno announced this past week that masks will be required (archive in case they decide to memoryhole this) along with booster shots for their convention in June, which will be four months after Nevada's Governor ended the mask mandate in that state. Some of the Covid addicts in the replies also begged for negative tests to be required. Of course, this entire "look how SAFE and GOOD we are!" performance being put on is pointless, as few (if any) will wear a mask in the crowded
Ah, Furthemore.
I've been following this drama case for a while via telegram and instagram and apparently it's gotten better.
TLDR: Groomer of children keeps dodging responsibility and making new accounts and getting found out. Decides to go to FTM this past weekend, apparently is filing fake reports with the con staff regarding one victim.
Granted based off the second photo, they DID take a photo of them in the headless lounge so... Not really a false accusation if there's evidence of them doing it.
I've been following this drama case for a while via telegram and instagram and apparently it's gotten better.
TLDR: Groomer of children keeps dodging responsibility and making new accounts and getting found out. Decides to go to FTM this past weekend, apparently is filing fake reports with the con staff regarding one victim.
Granted based off the second photo, they DID take a photo of them in the headless lounge so... Not really a false accusation if there's evidence of them doing it.
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I had a friend who attended this Fur the More, and I have a few things I'd like to add to this. In no particular order:
- The first Twitter screencap is from Tripp, who I've personally talked to a few times while working on the thread for Matthew Soltys/Nitro Rooski. Given that he's previously provided very good info, I'm inclined to believe he's not exaggerating on these wristbands being uncomfortable.
- Fur the More changed their covid policy requirements at the last possible moment: It was previously stated that you needed to either provide your physical vaccination card, a photo of the card, or a government-approved digital covid card. The day before the convention, this policy suddenly changed to "physical or digital card only", with no warning, completely fucking over several people who were fully vaccinated but didn't bring the physical card. When people complained, fur the more staff allegedly deleted old posts and edited several sections on the website that said otherwise. It's also worth noting that several states don't even have an option for a digital covid card yet (eg Pennsylvania).
- The covid wristbands weren't given out to people who picked up their badges early (as in the day before the convention officially started). As a result, several attendees got harassed by staff for simply not wearing a wristband that wasn't even given/mentioned to them.
- The wristbands had a sliding plastic bead on them that was designed in a way to let them tighten, but not loosen. This resulted in numerous people accidentally making them way too tight and requiring someone to cut the band off. Numerous people managed to pry the wristbands off regardless.
- Wristbands were completely invisible on anyone wearing long sleeves and/or a fursuit. On the first day, this made several points of congestion as security had to feel up every passing fursuiter's wrist in order to feel the bead under their costumes. On the second and third days, most of them apparently just said "fuck it" and let anyone pass (as long as they were wearing a badge), completely defeating the purpose of the wristbands in the first place.
- Because you needed a con badge to enter con spaces (which again, some people were unable to get due to verification policies changing at the last possible moment) everyone's sales in the Dealers Den and Artist's Alleys were depressingly low. While I don't have exact stats, I've been told by someone who had access to a "fur the more dealer's discord" that most of them barely (if at all) broke even on sales after spending money on con admission, table space, and lodging.
- Room parties were nonexistent, hotel and convention staff outright ended several on the spot. While it's not uncommon for staff to disrupt a particularly obnoxious/loud party and give a verbal warning before ending it for good, several parties were forced to end immediately with staff literally holding hotel room doors open and demanding everyone leave. It's been claimed that none of them were given warnings and in one case, staff tried to break up a nonexistent party (there was no party, just the people who owned the room being particularly loud).
- Late-night activities were disappointing; besides the forced closure of parties, no dances were held (with the "official" reason being a lack of staffing and poor attendance at previous year's dances), yet there were still several "music exhibitions" held in some of the smaller panels rooms. They often had a DJ and encouraged dancing, so they were essentially smaller dances in very confined rooms. As of now, it's not clear why these mini-dances in more confined spaces were okay but not a proper dance.
- The schedule of events kept changing, and at least one panel didn't happen because the person running it was never told the timeslot changed.
- The videogame and boardgame rooms were relocated to a really inconvenient section of the hotel that was only accessible by elevators and far away from the rest of the convention space. As such, a lot of people ignored them entirely. Worth noting that 2020's fur the more was at the same hotel and had the rooms in a far more accessible location.
- Chise (the furry who worked at Moderna and Harvest Moon Howl Fest) made an appearance and was given a panel to talk about covid and vaccines. The panel went fine, but nobody questioned why she thought it was safe to attend this event while literally days prior, she canceled HMHF 8 months in advance due to "covid safety concerns".
- A photo booth that was held at previous events never happened. The person who ran it previously wasn't informed the booth was happening this year, so he just decided to go to the event as a normal attendee. When he arrived, he was allegedly asked on the spot to do run the booth again with zero warning or equipment and he refused.
- Allegedly, someone who was banned from several other furry events for sexual assault showed up at the convention. Fur the more didn't preemptively ban them despite being given ample warning they might come. This one I can't confirm though, because I currently can't find anything that confirms they were/weren't there.
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This happens at a few other conventions as well, I've noticed. Always the mark of a con run badly.
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Based hotel staff doing their jobs correctly for once.Quote bug ate my homework said:
Seriously, fuck anyone who tries to throw a "party" of any kind in a standard hotel room. You ain't quiet, everyone hears practically everything you're doing, and they all hate you for keeping them awake with your shitty music and monotone moans. In a just world the people ejected from those in-room parties by angry staff holding doors open would have been physically thrown out of the hotel. Into a ditch. With scorpions in it.
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Are all US conventions still this Draconian or is it just furry ones?
Slight powerlevel, I went to an anime convention last month and despite having signs telling you to wear a mask, you're not lawfully obligated to do so nor do you have to provide vaccination proof to get in. I don't know what Confuzzled has done or will do so I'm not sure if these restrictions are a furry or US thing.
If the UK can be more liberating than "the country of the free", you know you're in deep crap.
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This is the result of putting a bunch of Terminally Online people in charge of an event. They've been fed a constant stream of "Only the most draconian measures can truly prevent Covid" since March 2020 and now have the chance to wield that power themselves. The political discourse in the US isn't helping, because as we all know, anyone who supports anything less than requiring four masks, three negative tests, and five vaccine doses to attend any sort of event is a damn dirty Trump supporter anti-vaxxer who wants to kill immunocompromised transgender people.
There might actually be some good drama with BLFC, their website actually spells out that they may not required masks if they lack the "volunteer staff to enforce policy", and every single con that has happened post-Covid has been severely under-staffed. The state no longer has a mandate, and the hotel sure as hell isn't going to enforce one (it's a casino after all, and masks screw up their facial recognition systems) so basically all they're left with is whether or not they have the people to run around and scream at people for not wearing one. I can only imagine the reaction from the Terminally Online attendees should the con say they're not enforcing the rules they committed to this far out because they don't have the staff to enforce them.
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The blfc policy is specifically scrutinous on masks, denying simple cloth ones. Why they single these out and not surgical masks, which are virtually no better, I'm not sure. But I'm sure whatever busybody on the security detail is erect at the prospect of denying people entry to a room.
"convention spaces" limits it to the dealer and event halls, what's even the point. if masks even did do anything the rest of the hotel is still a petri dish.
"convention spaces" limits it to the dealer and event halls, what's even the point. if masks even did do anything the rest of the hotel is still a petri dish.
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Rainfurrest is still the most fascinating subject related to furries. People that are almost as widely hated as pedophiles gather in a hotel and completely destroy the place, clog toilets, overdose on shrooms and alcohol, the works- this vindicates essentially everyone that ever held negative predispositions toward this disgusting community. How can something be an overgeneralization when these degenerates finally get a try at gathering in a civil way and completely squander not only the opportunity to gather in the future, but the very rare chance to prove the "haters" wrong? Anyone that believes every single individual in any community is "bad" or a freak is a little off, because I'm sure there are one or two decent furries out there that recognize their fetish as an unfortunate affliction rather than something to celebrate, but let's be truthful here and recognize than an extremely large portion of this group of fucking disgusting wackos should have been Plan B'd before they ever had a chance to afflict us with their presence.
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I'm not really sure that 'refused' would be the right term here, you can't really refuse to do something that you're not capable of doing in the first place. What a stupid thing to even try, 'uh yeah you don't have what to need to do this task, but please do it anyway' is such a weird rejection of reality.
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I've seen official con photographers leave behind their staff role, and it comes out later it's because they often just felt taken advantage of. They seem to be some of the most jilted of folk within convention spaces for all of the work they do getting together a photography setup with decent lighting and all the expensive equipment.