Welcome to My Convention in a House

Hello. C J here. This will be a fun personal life update. A long while ago I went to an arts and literature convention. It was nice. It also didn’t get me a job or a publishing deal. That sucked. Regardless of that the actual event was well done. There was a VIP lounge I paid extra to be able to go hang out and have snacks in. There was a games room. There were screenings of Doctor Who episodes. There was a sales floor. I’ve also been to a furry fandom convention and while the list of things offered was different it was equally nice.

I’ve always wanted to run one of these myself but I’ve never figured out how. I’ve got a ton of online friends and I’m part of three or four arts or furry themed groups, servers, or hangouts. I’m trying to get us all to meet up. I’m planning on hosting weekly video game nights for all of us. Then I realized, this is kind of like a small convention. Cool. Let’s go with that. So from now on I’m going to be running a convention in my house every weekend.

I’m planning on a movie and Doctor Who room with my collection of bean bag chairs. We’ll have snacks or cookies somewhere. You need calories to have fun! A video games lounge and somewhere for people to talk about commissions and buying and selling art. Once I get these set up they’ll totally be fursuit friendly. There’s no fee, no commitment and other than baking some cookies I spend no money running them. I’m organizing these and planning them through BARQ so say hi if you have that app. I’ll be advertising them here more and on Facebook once I have the details figured out. It’s looking like Saturdays after dinner at my place. More soon.

C J Mcpherson

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