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SushiJaguar, on 06 July 2011 - 03:48 AM, said:

U mad?

MiwAuturu, on 06 July 2011 - 12:47 AM, said:

For the curious, counterclockwise, starting with the guy wearing the hydra shirt and Mike x Daisy button:

TD
Toasty
Ace
Level 50 Fighter
Pants
Kaxbe
Susan

And don't worry about it Tae. Look at me, I look like a fat disheveled nerd in this picture. Fat and nerd, I can take, but dishevelled? I took like as many showers as everyone else combined :<


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EDIT by Taeshi: because of the other thread becoming really derailed and durpy, I'm going to paste Titan's summary of BCBcon here:

The dragon's perspective:

Arrived on Friday. Went to Amnisure for an interview. The Russian CEO who was supposed to meet with me was busy, but I got to talk to two other very nice people.

I then got done with my interview a billion years early and hung out waiting for Space, Ace, Pants, Doublet, Susan, and Kaxbe found me, and we all went out to an Irish pub for lunch, where we played Fluxx.

We met up in front of the Statue of George Washington in the Boston Commons. Tragically, TCN had been waiting around a spire (which I might add looked nothing like George Washington) for three hours before he realized we were at a DIFFERENT statue, so he wasn't actually there when we went. Who was there? Toasty, complete with shark hat. And it was awesome.


Pretty much everyone found us there - only JHawk and Chase13 and his girlfriend didn't manage to make it by then. Tae and Suit were rather late, arriving with Lily and Zhan, and Tae was kind of scared of us at first but she got into the flow of things over the evening.

We ended up walking all the way to the hotel, where we dropped off our stuff before heading over to the art museum. There we learned the power of "20 goddamned people are hard to keep togeter" so we accidentally broke up into groups. Tae saw some sort of awesome glass exhibit that the rest of us should have seen, but on the upside, the group I was with found a really awesome bench and got a great picture of Toasty behind a mask.

We didn't have reservations for dinner so we just kind of started to amble down the road when Zhan mentioned we'd be passing by the place he worked, a crazy asian-mexican fusion joint. It was about 8:30 pm by this point and the place was pretty empty when we went in with a crew of 20 people unannounced. To their credit they handled us, but it took absolute ages for us all to get our food - poor Gameking got his food super late, and they forgot Taeshi's noodles in her soup (which was, I'm told, totally excellent). Poor Suitcase was losing his voice due to some sort of throat thing, so Space and I got to take over herding the catfans around.

Dinner was delicious even if it was delayed and it gave us all a chance to hang out. Zhan was totally cool and kibitzed with his fellow workers, and the back and forth was absolutely hilarious. He asked them if they had fixed the ribs, and they kind of hedged over it, so he at first ordered something else, then switched back. When dinner took forever he went back and (we assume) kicked the chef in the shins and made him work faster, as we got a lot of our food when he did, though he had to do so (again) when Tae was all "My soup is great, but are there supposed to be noodles in it?" There is a comic on this subject.

When we got back to the hotel it was pretty late. Tae, Suit, Rukral, Toasty, and I all ended up sharing a room. Hilariously, Toasty AND Rukral both wanted to sleep on the floor, leaving me with a bed all to myself. We watched Bebe's Kids for a while, as well as just spoke with one another and looking at secret comics before we went to sleep as Bebe's Kids crashed for the billionth time. You guys are going to love the next chapter; it is great. Unless of course it makes you sad, like it did poor Bridgey. Tae only told me at the end of the convention that I snored quite loudly, and she almost hit me with pillows to make me stop but somehow resisted. She has a will of steel, that woman.

The next day we went to the museum of science after eating at Finagle's Bagels. Sadly a ton of people were very slow to get up so it was only Tae, Suitcase, Rukral, Spacey, Kaxbe, Toasty, Ace, Pants, Doublet, and myself who got there at first. We went into the butterfly gardens then we went to the planetarium, which was a bit of a mistake as I'm pretty sure only three of us managed to maintain consciousness during the show - as Ace said, it was the best $5 nap he ever had. To be fair, the chairs WERE very comfortable. We also started our tradition of losing Doublet at this point, a tradition we proudly kept throughout the con. To be fair, Doublet is also a ninja - he could reappear whenever we left.

After that we went out to a 50's diner for lunch. While the bathroom was from the 50s as well, ironically it was probably the best place we ate at all weekend (and the only place we actually had a reservation - a key thing to have for a party of 20+ people). While the food wasn't the best, it was quite cheap and it was reasonably good, and we actually got good, prompt service.

We broke up again at this point - Tae and Suit wanted to wander around Harvard Square, while another group of us went back to the museum of science. Ace and I got bored with the live animal show so wandered off to look at fossils and nanotechnology before going to the electric show, where they played some music using a tesla coil. It was pretty sweet. Sadly, I didn't have time to ask my question about what they had used the Vandergraf machine for before they used it to strike a cage with gigantic static sparks, but that is neither here nor there.

We reconvened for dinner at a candlepin bowling alley - the place was called Sacco's, and we spent a good bit of the day giggling over Sacco's bowling. We had strange but good pizza there, but Spacey was rather upset as we went there at about 5 pm, cutting the Museum of Science short. This was a good thing, though - the place was quite reasonable, we didn't have to wait for our food at all, and bowling was fun.

We headed back to the hotel so we could break up - the 21+ crowd of nine people went off to the bar, while everyone else stayed back at the hotel. The bar was great - probably the nicest place we went all weekend - and I had an Abbey's Punch mocktail, which was delicious. Yes, I got it because of the name. Meanwhile, Pants bought everyone else shots, but Spacey didn't drink his - this resulted in Taeshi, of all people, drinking two of the things. She then spent the rest of the evening trying to steal Suitcase's drinks, especially this one foamy drink that Suit bought for himself, she took, so he ordered another and she tried to steal it as well. It was completely adorable. Pants and Ace had some spicy zombies to finish out the evening, which were, I am told, not that great but got Pants quite drunk. Interestingly, Pants really is pretty similar when drunk, just losing volume control, while Ace somehow was pretty much the same as always - way to do Texas proud. On the other end of the bar Zoe and Doublet had quite a bit, with people getting various drinks for Doublet.

The bartender was nice and by the end of the evening we were all pretty happy, save poor Taeshi, who was very happy before crashing into sadness Unfortunately she wasn't lying about having to pee every five minutes when she had too much to drink, so we had to get off the subway about halfway back for her to find a bathroom - annoyingly, the subway itself had none. Some dumb bouncer kept her from using one bathroom, so eventually they had to find a McDonald's, while below, the drunk people refused to "abandon" Tae, and Ace, JHawk, and I, while quite sober (well, Ace had a few, but ACTED sober) did not have keys. It was all for the best though, and we ended up getting back to the hotel alright, where we watched more Bebe's kids and Ace moved into our room so one fewer person would have to sleep on the floor.

The next morning we went out to go shopping. It wasn't very organized, with Taeshi and Suit having to make some business cards for Conneticon, so yet again we ended up breaking up into several minigroups, with some going off early, some going off around lunchtime, and some staying at the hotel. The place we went to was ridiculously packed and getting lunch took forever and my meatball sub was only passable. Fortunately, they had quite nice ice cream, and that made everything better.

We went to a comic book store to nerd things up, and I bought a wonderful book entitled "All my friends are dead," while several people consulted the wisdom of Zoltar the Fortune Teller. We went to an Abercrombie and Fitch so Tae and Suit could get swimming suits, and they had a ridiculous line for their dressing room, but eventually Kaxbe managed to get them a 30% discount and everything was good. So of course it dumped rain on us. Whoops.

Tae, Suit, Rukral, Toasty, and I went off to Spacey's apartment at that point - it was actually half a house - and we met Firefox, who is a completely gorgeous Somali cat. He was very polite, but Tae and Suit roughhoused with him and got him to bite their sleeves, which was adorable (but rather painful looking). He was a very rambunctious feline and quite cute. We also saw some development art for Sonic and found out just how much Spacey likes Sonic (here's a hint - its a lot).

When we went back into town we went to someplace that Spacey had called to but had not made reservations with because they didn't take reservations. As things turned out, this was a huge mistake - they didn't give us enough space, the waitress was terrible to us, and she refused to seat several people because they'd be under different people, as well as refusing to split the bills because it was too much work. It was at this point that we made the best decision of the entire con - we ditched them. Level 50 fighter and his friends got kicked out, Pants tried to catch up to them, Ace tried to catch up to THEM, Tae realized she didn't like anything that they were serving at the bar, and Toasty and Kaxbe thought it was all being quite lame. Crammed into a table for 5 which had six people at it, I ended up chasing after Ace when he left with the crowd, then decided to stick with them. I had a subway sandwich while Tae got a hot dog from the 7/11 and Kaxbe got a cup full of carbonated water which was suppposed to be Coke. There were some random punks offering bad advice for a dollar, so Kaxbe asked them how he could become famous. Their suggestion was to head on down to a bar called the Ramrod, then take pictures of Kaxbe's face and post them all around town with his phone number. Sadly, this was good advice, but Kaxbe was happy with it anyway.

We went back to the hotel and ended up swimming around the pool for a couple hours, throwing snaps at each other, diving under the pool, and generally having a grand old time. Everyone else ended up missing out on swimming, the poor souls - it was quite enjoyable, though I suppose having 20+ people in the pool might have been awkward in any event.

That night we played Arkham Horror, Tae and Suit gave out tons of free swag (as well as let us buy stuff from them - I now have all ten keychains, a misprint poster, a set of buttons, and an awesome comic of Mike x Daisy which you will all see when I get home) and Doublet gave us great color prints of his facomic. The evening was very enjoyable, full of awesome stuff and socialization, but sadly we had to cut Arkham Horror short with only three of six gates sealed as Tae was asleep and we had to wake up early for the last morning.

Tae and Suit went off to Lily's on Monday, while the rest of us went to some toast bar place which did not allow reservations. Unlike the other place, they were very polite to us, but yet again we were without a good place to eat. Eventually Pants saved the day and found a cafe, even buying a pizza for Susan, who had run out of money by this point.

We returned to the hotel and just before checkout Tae and Suit got back, though sadly missed Toasty's departure with his parents, who at first said they should just keep walking and not look directly at us. Hugs were exchanged, pictures were taken, Ace went off, and the remnants of the BCBCon crew went off to the waterfront to sit in a park and tick down our last moments together. In the end, we all got on the subway and went our separate ways; the last I saw of our brave hosts, Tae and Suit were heading off with Zhan to catch their bus, which they only barely caught.

This seems short, but it was quite long to me; these were a very long and awesome four days. I enjoyed the time I spent with all of you, and am a bit sad it could not be a bit longer.

Here I sit in the Logan International Airport, ready to head for home. Soon you will all see the pictures and art of these days, but you will never capture the spirit if you were not there.

This is TD, signing off.

This post has been edited by Taeshi: 06 July 2011 - 04:16 AM

My collar is floating.

Once again, I am more jelly than the Royal Jelly.

glad you guys had a great time

i notice something - where the ladies (besides tae) at? haha. wish i could have gone but i had summer school, baah.

Sabrina was there, but I'm not sure there are any pictures of her, and there was Lily, who bitched at us when she first saw everyone and asked everyone not to take pictures of her because apparently she thinks everyone just wants to take pictures of her tits. Such high expectations for us.

I am jealous

I do wish i could have gone ):
Oh well no money kinda sucked
Maybe next time >.>

Titanium Dragon, on 06 July 2011 - 05:37 AM, said:

Sounds like she needs to be taken down a peg or two.

NeoKariz, on 06 July 2011 - 07:49 AM, said:

if there is a next time ;__;

Depends on how long BCB goes on for. If it goes on for at least another year then it is more than likely from what I've been hearing. If not, well, I suppose it would depend on Tae's next comic and a lot of things surrounding that. Of course, that wouldn't be a 'BCBCon'

There could always be a Taeshi Con.

Since TD and I mostly went to different places during the course of BCB Con, I feel that I should share my experiences at BCB Con.

I arrived in Boston early Friday morning and was picked up from the airport by Spacemouse, Ace, and Susan. After resting for the night, Mr Pants and Doublet met up with us. From Spacemouse's house we took a bus to the subway and then met up with TD at Boarders, where we had him guess who was who. He got me right away because of my obvious minority-ness. We then found a nice little pub where we ate lunch and played this Monty Python and the Holy Grail card game of which I cannot remember the name of.

After lunch, we trekked through the Boston Commons to find the George Washington statue where we would be meeting up. We unknowingly passed by Hebs on the way there. Poor guy was sitting on a stone bench alone for quite some time. Ace and I were the first to meet up with Toasty and we were super chillaxin'. We talked about purple dandelions and such. And then there was a saxophone and we joked the whole weekend how Toasty magically appears where a saxophone is. Taeshi, Suit, Lily, and Zhan were one of the last to join us and once we were sure we had most everyone with us, we started walking to the hotel. I was rooming with Spacemouse, Doublet, Ace, and Mr Pants.

We then visited the art museum, which I already posted pics from the art exhibit. Most of the time I was looking through exhibits with Taeshi, Suit, Lily, Spacemouse, and Hebs. I really wanted to visit the contemporary art exhibit, but we didn't have the time. There was an ambulance on our way out of the museum. Apparently there was some trouble near the front of the museum where Doublet ran off to get his bag. And then we had dinner at this fusion Asian-Latin restaurant.

The next day, we had breakfast at Finagle a Bagel. It was a great little place and I was able to get a discount on my breakfast thanks to foursquare. We then walked to the Museum of Natural Science where we visited the butterfly garden and watched a very comfortable show in the planetarium. One of my favorite moments at the museum was getting on the seesaw that was clearly meant for children.

We had lunch at Charlie's Kitchen, but Doublet, Mr Pants, Lvl 50 Fighter and friends, and I were late. This was because Pants and I stopped to buy some paintings and then Doublet and Lvl 50 went to see this little Studio Ghibli store. It was a nice place, still. It was fun teasing Susan with our tastes in music at the restaurant. After lunch, we all went our separate ways. I was with the group that stayed at Harvard Square. However, I diverged from that group when I saw that Urban Outfitters was having a sale. That was where I got that spiffy hat and hoodie in the picture Ace took of me. I later met up with the other Harvard Square people at the Garage, which had a few nice stores including a comic store and an anime store. We then took a look around Harvard's campus for a bit, which was rather nice, and then the Harvard COOP, which is their bookstore. I ended up purchasing an anatomy book there. After that, we did tiny bowling, which was rather nice. The pizza there was nice as well.

Back at the hotel, I joined Taeshi, Suit, Toasty, Ace, and TD for Bebe's Kids until it crashed.

On Sunday we went to Fanieul Hall for lunch and shopping. We stopped by Newbury Comics and Abercrombie & Fitch, where I was able to get a discount for Suit, Taeshi, and Mr Pants since I work at their Destin location. This is when we went our separate ways once more. Rukral, Toasty, TD, Suit, and Taeshi went with Spacemouse to see his cat. Ace, Mr Pants, Miw, and Doublet went with me for some more shopping. We walked back to the hotel, stopping by this little book store along the way. It sold several old and rare books and even had a cat in the window of the store. It was a very inviting place. We also stopped by Boarders once more to browse for some more recent books and comics.

Dinner was at Grendel's Pub, but a handful of us decided to leave for various reasons. Upon returning to the hotel, we went for a little swim. Afterwards, Mr Pants, Ace and I shared a shower.

Then the last day of the con was filled with sad goodbyes.

I now consider myself a ninja since not one of you guys managed to get a picture of me.

You just wait, I haven't dumped my camera yet

Also I forgot to ask. I have drawn one comic (surprising considering my drawing skill sucks) and have at least 4 more planned about some of the things that happened at BCB Con. Should I post them in here or should I make a seperate thread in creative for all of use that want to post comics?

JHawkNH, on 06 July 2011 - 04:07 PM, said:

yes do post them here mister thinks im a klepto even though doublet said it would be a good idea if i had a small child mow my yard.

okay i guess i will share storytimes as well

So Souppy and I were on the Bolt Bus and arrived in Boston on Friday at about 2:30 PM or something, we were greeted by Lily and Zhan. Lily was eating some McDonald's and I freaked about how the paper bags are white and not brown like in Australia. Zhan said we "can't have this", it was pretty jammin'

Anyway we walk onto a park and get confused about where the Washington statue was, so I asked some guys dressed up in uniform about it, we continued forward only to spot a bunch of baby ducks and Lily and I began squeeing like little girls. It was then that Souppy noted the huge amount of people.

I promptly started freaking out.

I guess because I was really hoping Lily and Zhan wouldn't hate my friends but then again lily hates everything so maybe i shouldn't be worrying about it, BUT AT THE TIME I WAS REALLY SELF-CONSCIOUS AND THINKING "PLEASE DON'T BE EMBARRASSING GUYS" and then Kaxbe made a racist joke and I wanted to punch him and began getting all "shut up shut up shut up" when people said silly things which tbh made me look like the weirdo instead BUT I WAS FREAKING OUT MAN

I ended up just clinging to Lily and sat down with her at a fountain because she still didn't finish her McDonald's food. Kaxbe joined along and tried to draw the little figure pouring out water. We shared a few comics and it was pretty cool, I wasn't completely calmed yet but I was getting there!!

We began to walk, and I chatted a bit with Titan and tried to run a little farther whenever people started shouting because I'm a paranoid idiot, but like I was getting there! I fully calmed when we arrived at the hotel and booked in. Toasty, Titan, and Souppy took the room with me.. and I was like "where is Ryuk" and realised he went off to see his parents like 11 floors up. The second he came down, I grabbed him arm and dragged him into our room. He was OURS, bitches!

Anyway we got ourselves sorted and I chilled with Toasty and Titan and he took like two showers and I was bouncing around the beds and I showed Lily and Zhan my sketch book with diary comics and supposedly stole Titan's bed BUT OH WELL, and then gave Ryuk a secret comic (Party Story) when he finally arrived. We were talking about where to sleep specifically and Toasty cheerfully took a specific area on the floor next to the air conditioner vent.. a choice that he would regret the next day......

Ryuk then took out his ponies.

Zhan was like "Adults here"

and I was like FUCK NO MAN. And took Pinkie Pie and promptly threw her in a drawer. There would be no ponyshenanigans in my room!!!!!

Anyway we all finally left to go to the art museum and hopped on the train, Mousey handed out the Charlie cards that actually had little drawings done! I had Lucy with a huge scribble on the side of her face, and decided it was her committing suicide via shooting herself in the side of the face.

We had to transfer trains and lost Level 50 and his crew because they weren't quick enough, so a bunch of people were separated early, but we got in line anyway. We all knew where we were going man.

The freaken Museum was for free! This came as a shocker and I was really happy and surprised. So we all went in and entered this room full of instruments, some old some pretty recent. I heard Susan scoff about how ugly they were and I was too busy making a corny Simpsons reference by going "Hey, Souppy. Obomaboe? Trombomobo? Saxomophone?" Souppy was the only one amused.

I got kind of bored of it and a group left to go see the main attraction, which was a glass exhibit full of these really ace intricate glass structures. The beginning of the exhibit had this giant chandelier-looking spiky glass thing hanging from the top. I talked about how scary it would be if it fell and how there was a noticeable gap on the floor showing that people shared my paranoia.

Ryuk was a rebel and walked square in the middle of potential impact point.

Susan said she was hoping it would fall and kill him, I laughed and moved on.

It was beautiful and talking about it does it no justice, the pictures Kaxbe posted are just the beginning of it. But yeah.

Lily wanted to leave early after the glass exhibit, so we said our goodbyes and carried on to see American Art and European art. We walked through it pretty slow and absorbing it all, which was tragic because we began getting calls from Mousey all "Hey it's 8 PM we should leave to eat" and we were sad for not going to the contemporary gallery. Oh well! We left and were greeted by HUGE BABY HEADS.

so huge.

Anyway we sat down and were greeted by the group again. JHawk was here now, he and two other people were missing from the group originally -- I believe there were some that were back at the hotel? Something like that happened. Anyway, JHawk gave me a Lucy plush that was commissioned by someone who I discovered before the surprise, but I was still head over heels in love with the plush~!!!! I put her on my shoulder and walked on with the group trying to sort out a restaurant. Zhan checked two of them: one didn't allow people under 21, the other was just kind of small. We walked on, and Zhan passively made a mention how his restaurant where he was manager was nearby. We were like LET'S GO THERE so we did.

It was an asian/hispanic restaurant, and they were pretty empty so it wasn't TOO bad that 20-something people just decided to barge in. Zhan called in advance and they were up to it, but it was definitely an underestimated amount.

The service was pretty slow, but as I mentioned before can you blame them? This was unplanned, there were only a few servers that were stationed with the expectation that it wouldn't suddenly get this busy, so they did their best and I think it went pretty well! Zhan was quipping remarks at our server and that was pretty funny. People were exchanging drawings and trades, I traded with Kaxbe and he gave me the most awesome Augustus-Alejandro picture ever. He's posted it I think on his tumblr, but will show up on Candybooru soon.

Anyway, food began to appear. I got this really cool noodle soup.. but was kind of too shy to immediately mention the weird lack of noodles in my noodle soup.

until zhan asked me

his face was priceless

he rushed back to the kitchen and kicked a bit of ass and i was like "oh no i ruin everything" but I got my soup and man it was amazing. The noodle soup sans noodle was amazing initially, but man did it get better. Yumtacular.

So we finally finished, said our goodbyes to Zhan, and headed off to the hotel. Ryuk and Titan got to read the next chapter, and Mousey appeared and asked to see it and I was like "BITCHES IN MY ROOM ONLY" and he walked off sad, and cue half an hour of me going "why isn't he back what i was joking oh god" SO FUCK YOU SNOOTHS

We looked through the programs that needed to get paid for, like the Gamecube games with like three Mario Parties and we were giggling about the price.. until we noticed adult programming.

15 pages of porn.

It was pretty spectacular reading out the summaries of it, the crowning one was about grannies or some shit. And about butt-licking. Wow.

We flipped through some channels and didn't really know what was on. We heard people in the other room were trying to watch ponies and promptly facepalmed.

Toasty mentioned he could get his Netflix running.

We looked through the list while I was downloading the add-ons..

and we saw bebe's kids

this was a match made in heaven.

EY YO

BEBE'S KIDS

we watched about half of it before crashing at 1:40 AM.

NEXT MORNING

oh man i'm taking ages writing this

okay

uhh

oh yeah and i kept waking up in the middle of the nights and glancing to my sides and noticing toasty playing on his PSP because the dude never freaken sleeps or something, and Titan was snoring. And like I was trying to hold back the habit of whenever Souppy snoring, I would hit him in the chest of bop him with pillows. Titan was a stranger man!!!! Stranger danger

We woke up and went to Finagles Bagels, and were like HOLY SHIT at the little machine that just carried them on a conveyer belt and then SLICED THE BITCH with a saw and sent it flying. Souppy recorded it and I was squeeing.

Our group was met with Mousey and Kaxbe and Doublet, and a few others or something oh god

IT WAS BUTTERFLY GARDEN TIME BITCHES

We went in the butterfly garden and I was like OH MY GOD and there was a woman sitting around all bored and like "ask me anything" so Ace began to and she got all chippered up and was really knowledgeable and awesome. And she rescued one butterfly from a potential watery grave on the floor. They drink from the floor, and she was like "yeah watch your step" and we were like AAAAAA

there was a butterfly owl.. or an owl butterfly. IT JUST HAD OWL EYES MAN

anyway that was cool and we observed them chillaxing and then we left and talked to an older man about butterflies and colours and their scales and stuff. And there were other animals in tanks, like freaken frogs oh my god uguu

Anyway as we were heading off to the planetarium and were going down the escalator we noticed Ace and Ryuk and others dicking around in the children's playground on the seesaw.

We needed a piece of dat shit

so we seesawed for a bit and then tried to lift a bag of 500 pounds to no success.

Anyway planetarium time.

yeah i fell asleep

man sorry

HER VOICE WAS JUST SO FREAKEN CALMING AND THE SEAT WAS COSY AND I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE MAN, i woke up when there was one planet exploding and it was like oh what is going on

anyway best $5 nap as Ace said.

We then went to a 50s restaurant where we met Lily and Zhan again. They were already sitting and chilling and we all grouped up and had a pretty good lunch! What was funnier was that Susan and Pants were fighting against what music to play on the jukebox? Rap began to play amongst 50s tunes. Lily was confused by the change in tone and so was i, it got pretty funny. Lv 50 also took a picture of me eating pocky which turned out bad bawww

anyway yeah

so we got out and here's where awkwardness ensued.

It was like 2:30 PM or something and Mousey was planning to go back to the science museum until going to the Candlepin bowling that Zhan booked the night before that was specifically timed for us from 5-7pm. I admittedly thought that was a waste of time, and I paid for what I wanted to see..and I mean it was kind of a shame to miss the live animals and the electric show or something, but it was also a really long ways away to go back, I assumed a lot of the time would be allocated to travelling.. whereas Candlepin Bowling was super near the area we were in now. I expected it would also make us late for sure because Candlepin was at 5PM and the electric show was at 4PM and it was apparently 40 minutes?

There was a big deal about swimming as well and Souppy and I forgot our bathing suits. We were in a location with a lot of nice stores and Pants mentioned Harvard was nearby and he was really desperate to see.. so I thought hey why not? Let's hang out here and look at stores and then smoothly make it to Candlepin Bowling on time?

So that was our first official separation. People who wanted to make the most of their ticket to the science museum went with Mousey, people who wanted to hang out in the area went with Zhan and Lily. So that was the haps.

It was a pretty even spread I thought? But yeah, we wandered around shops and hung out and Kaxbe bought some clothes, and Zhan took us to this.. uhh very hipster place. I didn't really like it, but people bought a lot of things there! Toasty bought an owl pillow, it was pretty neat. Pants bought a shirt.

Lily also pointed out that they were selling a black heart necklace with a keyhole in the middle, SOUND FAMILIAR????

I pointed out a pink ribbon they were selling. It was like freaken BCB cosplay store.

Anyway we left from there and went to the comic book store where people bought a few comics and I bought Anya's Ghost which I absolutely ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND YOU GUYS HAVE TO FREAKEN READ IT. IT IS AMAZING

then we went to an anime store.. which had some annoying anime show screeching in the background. Lily went off to get coffee at Starbucks while people nerded about, I found a section with really old video game magazines and Souppy and Pants bought a ton from there.

I didn't read a sign that whined about opening the book 45 degrees or something and the guy got all mad at me baww ;___;

i'm stupid

anyway we left from there and went to the Harvard area and Pants was really excited about it. We chatted about Law and I mentioned to Souppy that he should get some american law books so we were off to the Coop bookshop!

Kaxbe began reading "Go the Fuck to Sleep" and I ditched the group to hang with Souppy and Pants.

By this time I began wheezing and feeling really itchy and ill, this was because once in a blue moon I will get an allergic reaction from eating shrimp, which is what I ate at the 50s lunch. I was panicking and coughing, but I began to get better by the end of the Coop adventure. Souppy bought a law book, I bought two Psychology books, it was $200.

Man $200 for knowledge it's all good

I mentioned being sick to Lily and Lily was like why and I was like because shrimp and she was like WHY DID YOU EAT SHRIMP DON'T EAT IT AGAIN and i was like but it's yummy and she was like BUT NOTHING i got a good talking to by mama lily trying to protect me uguu ;_____; bawwwww i'm sorry mama lily

Anyway we met with everyone and then went off to Candlepin bowling! I got really and tantrumy because my practice go got me 8 pins, but then when we actually began playing I had two zeroes in a row and 1 pin the third time. I was really annoyed ;.; Because I am a loser.

Anyway I began to actually get a flow of it and began doing pretty well AND THEN RYUK AND ACE PSYCHED ME OUT because Ryuk was like "I did the worst" and he did first round and it was pretty funny BUT THEN I HAD TO PROVE SOMETHING AND BE BETTER AND I SCREWED UP THEN AAAAAAAA

Zhan was the best bowler in the group.

It was also funny seeing Ryuk and Ace making faces at each other before throwing the balls. And Kaxbe was a really cuter bowler.

Souppy was a hilarious bowler. I beat him second round :DDDD YEAH THIRD PLACE Toasty was packin' it, this is where he took the picture of me with the cash as well because people had to sort out the bill.

Oh right I made jokes about how Souppy shouldn't tip the girl because she didn't accept Souppy's card because it was expired and he left his passport back in the hotel. WE GAVE HER MONEY ANYWAY SHE WAS PRETTY COOL

but he couldn't try drinks.

Oh well we had tonight which was meant to be an "adult night" or something.

We left all the younger ones back in the hotel and went off with Mousey, Souppy, Zhan, Titan, Doublet, Zoe, JHawk, Pants, and Ace. So we went to one bar..

And yeah, Pants bought us all some tiny drink that was meant to be really alcoholic, but Mousey didn't wanna drink it because he wanted to buy his own drinks, so one was left over and I decided to have both :-[ I tend to hate the taste and admittedly I feel it's a waste of time to drink and not get drunk because otherwise what's the point, which is a bad mentality but like if I had the choice I would never drink. So if I have to on those rare occasions I might as well go all the way

AND HERE IS WHERE THE ISSUES I WARNED EVERYONE ABOUT CAME IN

1. I PEE EVERY FIVE MINUTES WHEN DRUNK
2. I WILL FREAKEN CRY EVENTUALLY IN THE NIGHT

so yeah, I got really drunk. Had those two shots and then two other drinks. I was done then. I kept rushing to the bathroom, the first time Ace needed to go so I joined him. We met again after we were done and wandered around the area looking at photos, there was a mini-gallery where the bathroom was. I was giggling about how most of the photos had people drowning, and Ace was just really cool and acknowledging all the stupid stuff I was saying.

We returned back and hung out and I jokingly tried to take one of Souppy's drink which I wasn't really intending to have.. and the bartender was like "be careful"

THERE WE GO

NUMBER TWO

SET ME OFF

i started sobbing heavily at Souppy talking about how he thinks I'm an idiot and that I'm the worst and that I'm embarrassing and that everyone hates me and that I won't be taken seriously anymore and that people will stop reading my comic because I overdrank and that the bartender is going to kick me out soon because that's what happened to one of my friends in a bar once because she was too drunk and that I had to behave but i'm just the worst BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

souppy was like "ok"

anyway he took me to the bathroom and I talked with Ryuk and Kaxbe on the phone, this was before i started crying so i was in very high spirits

Anyway here's where the first issue happened. I warned people about my constant bathroom habit. And still we went to a bar that was pretty far away. So I began to flip out in the train. I couldn't take it.

They tried to calm me by making me draw pictures of characters getting punched, but I couldn't last. I had to get out. What's annoying in retrospect was that I had two more stops to go or something but yeah that wasn't told to me and if it was I didn't hear it because I'm stupid.

Anyway we get off a stop early and I rush with Souppy and Mousey to a dunkin' donuts. They were closed. We then ran into a bar, the women's bathroom was locked and the men's bathroom had multiple toilets and was open. I was really angry at this because I thought it was unfair, so my drunk stupor said "screw it" and I ran into the men's bathroom, only to be shooed out by a bouncer. I thought to wait at the women's bathroom but I was completely shooed out by the guy. I was really angry about this and was like "aaaaaa I WANT TO PISS ON HIS FACE"

anyway I was running around panicking and then thought "you know what I have done this before" so I ran with Souppy and Mousey to a parking lot, and I found a sewer drain, and then went there. Souppy and Mousey watched out and I was done and then happily skipped off to the train station.

Though by happily I mean talking about how pissed off I was at the bouncer.

so yeah that was embarrassing.

We went back to the hotel and I collapsed in bed.

I was totally Meowth's little omorashi girl that night

Anyway, Sunday time.

Souppy told me that I needed to draw a business card and something else for the comic, and the deadline was total. I was pretty annoyed mainly because I didn't have an idea, but I managed to do it though it took ages. People separated from us already because we finished by like 12:30 PM Yeah.

We went to some huge food court area and Souppy got a lobster roll that he liked and I settled for fish and chips.. which I really wasn't too happy with. The texture was very nice, but it was very tasteless. I wish there were lemons and some salt, but maybe they had that in offer and I didn't notice it. I thought it would be included, but yeah I'm sure it was my fault. Anyway I sat and hung out at the steps with Toasty and the others. Zhan met us then and I was really excited.

We then went to a comic book store again where Souppy bought the Scott Pilgrim movie and I bought an action figure of the Wimpy Kid for my half-brother Michael. It was nice, anyway we still needed bathing suits. That's when Kaxbe saved the day by saying that he could get us discounts at Abrecombie and Finch.

Man that line.

that line to the changing room

also Ryuk and I had a laugh at the really terrible fact that they had things on discount.. to $50.

$50 outfits was their discount.

Anyway I got a bathing suit and was pretty annoyed with how the store.. uhhh.. isn't really conscious about women sizes. A large bikini top basically means the cup-size, but they neglect to know about the ribcage.. so like a small might fit my ribcage but uhhh

you know

the cup size wouldn't begin to cover it

so i got a large and still felt all AAAAAAAAA I HAVE TO TIE IT SUPER TIGHT AROUND ME BECAUSE FUCKING RIBCAGE

firstworldproblems guys

anyway enough about talking about tits

Mousey had to take us to see his cat! This is a must! Anyway, we split from our group and went with Souppy, Ryuk, Toasty and Titan to Mousey's house of mouse. We met his roommate and was pretty chill and OH MY FREAKEN GOD

FIREFOX

SERIOUSLY

IF YOU THOUGHT $900 WAS EXPENSIVE FOR A CAT

YOU WILL MEET FIREFOX

AND GO

HOLY SHIT

I WOULD SPEND THAT MUCH

HE WAS GLAMOROUS

THE BEST CAT

he was beautiful, energetic, friendly, happy, Ryuk pointed out how happy Souppy seemed with the cat - and that that alone would make him never take him seriously in a debate again. Souppy melted and adored playing with him. It was an awesome experience. We also got to see Mousey's prized possession, a drawing of Sonic that was used for the Sonic 1 title screen. There was a lot of Sonic memorabilia, and a few hung drawings including my err pauloxmelody commission >8(

ANYWAY WE WENT BACK

OH RIGHT

THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE FREAKEN TIME I WAS DRAWING DOUBLET'S REQUEST

OH MY GOD

TOOK AGES

i was taking free requests at the time and didn't realise yeah the day would be dedicated to one picture, but it was worth it!!! And I mean it was my fault because that's the idea that came when Doublet asked for MikexSandy, I gave myself the work, and I was happy that he was so pleased with it!

Anyway here's where things got awkward again.

We went to a bar that didn't accept bookings. There weren't enough seats so people got spread massively around the place. Lily and Zhan were there to meet us, but I really wasn't digging the environment and still felt a bit hungover from last night, and sick from the fish this morning. I needed to have something stable. I had to say that I'm sorry and that I'm leaving.

Before I knew it there was a bunch of people with me? I got to hang with Kaxbe, Pants, Mousey, Titan, Toasty, Ace, the motherfreaken skype group! Except Ryuk, who stayed behind with Souppy and Lily and Zhan and Susan. Level 50 joined us too! Yayyy!

Anyway, I needed something to quell my stomach.

so i got a 7-eleven hot dog

oh man best dinner ever

i also got smartfood popcorn the size of my freaken FACE

So we walked on home and I heard Ace and Titan bitching about how much they hated the waitress and me being all desensitised from wanting to hate all waitresses ever and Toasty threw away a huge pepsi refill drink that was basically just water with a hint of pepsi yuck

we came across three hipsters asking for "bad advice for $1"

Kaxbe took the challenge

It was something we would never regret. They were hilarious and it was pretty great and we were giggling and that alone made me not regret ditching Souppy and Lily and Zhan from the dinner

ANYWAY MOTHERFREAKEN POOL TIME

WE SWAM

AND IT WAS COLD AS HELL

And Kaxbe was like "Your bikini top is not tied enough!!" and i was like BITCH I TRIED

anyway it took me ages to get in the pool because it was really cold and ACE DIDN'T HELP BECAUSE HE WAS WHINING ABOUT HOW COLD IT WAS AND THEN AS HE TRIED TO CONVINCE ME TO GET IN HE WAS TREMBLING AND I WAS LIKE BITCH I AIN'T FALLIN FOR THAT SHIT

STRAIGHT JACKIN

anyway got in the pool and the only way to keep warm was to swim around and do laps and people made fun of me for swimming so slow TOLD YOU GUYS I WAS A SNAIL SWIMMER.

DOGGY PADDLIN

anyway lv 50 was with us and he can't swim and we tried to get him in and we basically called him our Lucy even though he didn't faint uguu

They played a snapping game, which was annoying because I can't snap ;___; Toasty and Ace and Titan did some snappin' moves. Also Mousey and Titan played the game of "who is the blinder motherfucker" by trying to read signs and stuff.

but yeah that was fun. Doublet then appeared out of nowhere and we were like YOU FREAKEN NINJA JUST DISAPPEARING AND LEAVING AND REAPPEARING AND GOD

insane

JHawk and then Chase and Sabrina appeared, who I didn't really get to see or talk to the entire time and they were leaving tonight and it was like bawwww

JHawk swam for like half an hour because that's how long it was gonna take for the pool to close. It was pretty funny.

Anyway we got out and went downstairs and I caught Souppy without his pants on mid-changing so I freaked a bit and he quickly threw on his bathing shorts before Titan showed up so SOUPPY FLASHING AVOIDED except for me because i am top waifu

anyway we showered

and then the nerds played Warhammer or Arkham horror whatever it's called

And then Souppy began giving free merchandise to people because it was all badly-made but not really, and we auctioned a poster and it was $30 to JHawk and that was really fun, and we made like $200 in merchandise as well which was really cool and didn't expect SINCE WE GAVE OFF HALF THE STUFF FOR FREE BECAUSE WE'RE TOPPIN BROS

I spent the entire night drawing requests. TCN laughed maniacally at one of them and then I reminded Souppy about the comic update and he struggled to and was late and I felt bad, but I also felt bad because I was still owing people like four requests and promptly fell asleep baww

yeah that was pretty bad

but yeah i fell asleep, but before I did that Souppy was like "yeah we're meeting Zhan and Lily's cats tomorrow morning before going to the friendly toast"

I was thinking "this totally won't create problems"

CUE MONDAY

We had to finish things up and we got a super overcharge that Souppy's gonna have to dispute again, and then we were off to Lily and Zhan's

and it took super long. We were meant to be at the friendly toast by 11 AM, we got to Lily and Zhan's by 11:30 AM

I was pretty annoyed

BUT IT WAS ALL MADE BETTER BY THE CATS

Lily's cat was just wonderful and beautiful and he was so sweet and his eyes were CONSTANTLY DILATED because he was timid and kept twitching at my touches. Zhan brought clover over and

well

yeah

she wasn't happy at all to be here. She was angry at Lily's cat and was hissing and screaming and trying to scratch and Lily's cat was like "uguu i love you clover please love me give me kisses baww"

Zhan had to try and calm her down and got the most epic of battle scars. He finally got get back in the cat carrier and took her home

a cat backpack

and he biked home

it was incredible

zhan is just the best one

anyway lily and souppy and i went to a place to have lunch and i guess I gave up on the fact we won't make it in time so we ate and then we got caught up talking about webcomics and about my paranoia about people hating me because of Souppy and Lily kind of made it really clear that she's nice to Souppy because "she just does that" but in reality doesn't like him and doesn't see him as a friend.

yeah that pisses me off in retrospect.

like for serious

but let's not get into that

anyway at least Zhan was really awesome like his awesome self is and we went on the train back with him but on the way back I saw a message by Toasty saying he left with his parents and i was like BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW and souppy was like "whatever" and I was like FUCK YOU MAN

anyway we met up with people again and some were being little bitches about us making it late even though we were with people the entire three days and you know you guys can take care of yourselves COME ON NOW

it's not like i had too much fun hearing Lily talking about how much she loathes Souppy and Sammy but is nice just because and then mentioning how well-off this girl i hate is and that she keeps in contact just because rage rage rage

mannnnnnnnnnnnn

IF YOU'RE READING THIS LILY I WAS QUIET BECAUSE I WAS STILL QUITE UPSET ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF PEOPLE HATING ME BUT AFTER BREWING THE STUFF IN MY MIND I REALISED YOU WERE KIND OF BEING A MAJOR JERK IN THE DINER BUT OH WELL I GUESS I WILL PULL OUT THE PROTECTING MY HUSBANDO CARD YOU KNOW BUT DON'T THINK I'M TRYING TO LIKE BE TWO-FACED I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND I DON'T SEE THE POINT TO ARGUE UNLESS YOU WANT TO BUT JUST SO YOU KNOW YOUR ATTITUDE IN THE DINER WAS JUST NOT COOL AT ALL AND TO BE HONEST YOU BITCH ABOUT SOUPPY BEING HONEST AND BLUNT BUT YOU DID THE SAME SO ISN'T THAT KIND OF HYPOCRITICAL HMMMMMMMMMMMM BUT THEN AGAIN SOUPPY HASN'T REALLY BEEN THAT ROTTEN BUT MAYBE THAT'S DEBATABLE BUT WHEN HE THINKS SOMEONE IS BEING RUDE THAT KIND OF TOTALLY MEANS THE PERSON IS BEING REALLY RUDE

anyway yeah we chilled with other people and took photos and said our goodbyes and then hung around a park and talked and I used a portapotty and got really upset because they're terrible bawwww

and yeah ryuk left super early wahh

THEN WE WENT ON THE TRAIN AND I HUGGED PEOPLE GOODBYE EXCEPT MOUSEY BECAUSE WE WERE SEPARATED BY LIKE TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE AND I EXTENDED MY ARMS AND WAS LIKE BAWWWW BUT WE WILL SEE HIM AT CONNECTICON SO IT WORKS OUT AGAIN

Zhan then as a motherfreaken CHAMPION. We were too busy chilling to realise that our bus was leaving in 45 minutes and the train took AGES and i didn't help because i wanted italian ice like a retard, but after hugging people and getting off the train Zhan just carried us (and my bag thank you so much zhan i love you!!!!) to the boltbus

and i guess my whining earlier got a karmic retribution because the bus broke down 45 minutes out of boston, Souppy and I didn't make it to the two coming buses, and we had to wait around for like two hours for us to get requested to get into a third one that wasn't even boltbus, but the driver was wonderful and offered to take us in. And people offered us a seat so Souppy and I could sit together ;.; yeah. we slept too

then i met my daddy and he's pretty

and then we slept

and then i woke up

and then i went to new jersey

and i also yelled at snooths for being a jerk

AND THAT WAS THE END OF THAT FANDANGO

whew

bcbcon is fun and you were all fun and i love you

I got a few of JHawk, just ain't put 'em up yet.

My summary is that I followed people around and drank sodas for meals.

Bleh I wanted to go..even though I'm in Canada and it will be expensive probably

Taeshi, on 06 July 2011 - 05:40 PM, said:

Lvl 50 Fighter, on 06 July 2011 - 05:42 PM, said:

Dang it! My ninja skills are getting comprimised. *must sneak over to Lvl 50's place tonight and delete the evidence.

Taeshi, on 06 July 2011 - 05:40 PM, said:

somali's are beautiful cats. I would love love love to own an oriental...I am a bit allergic (sadly!!) so I am limited to what I can own.

tl;dr

We did stuff and I hugged everyone.

Except Rukral. Which made me sad face

Hey I like hugs and doing stuff too.

Sudan didn't hug me.

Also, I font remember making a racist joke.

JHawkNH, on 06 July 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

See, if you were a REAL ninja, you wouldn't even be in the retelling of what happened.
That's right. Calling you out.

Titanium Dragon, on 06 July 2011 - 04:00 AM, said:

That was actually TCN who got his food super late, although I did take that stuff back to the hotel like the fat man I am. It was a fun time trying to call the front desk for, quote, "A fork and 100 pennies". There's a story there but lazy.

Kaxbe, on 06 July 2011 - 10:22 PM, said:

I was Susan hugged twice, so I think it evened out.
There's a hug matrix here that needs to be determined before we can truly make a decision.

This post has been edited by Gameking218: 06 July 2011 - 10:26 PM

NEVERMIND. I WAS RACIST ALL WEEKEND. FRIGGIN MR PANTS WHAT A JEW AM I RIGHT GAISE!?

Me and kaxbe sang and danced a bunch

Kaxbe, on 06 July 2011 - 10:22 PM, said:

Well, you should go talk to the president of Sudan about that!

And I COULDN'T FATASS TCN WAS IN THE WAY.

I am sorry Kaxbe I owe you two hugs at the next BCBcon!

This post has been edited by Susan: 06 July 2011 - 10:43 PM

I wish someone recorded Spacemouse's and mine jam session. Me on beats, Space on harmonica.

Kaxbe, on 07 July 2011 - 12:07 AM, said:

And Pants furiously texting me to save him from the cacophony.

So extremely jelly of you guys, but it sounds like it was a blast and I'm glad it was for you all : )!!!

I still have peoples phone numbers

I wanted to go to BCB con. Except I had summer school. Oh, and I suppose the problem of it being on the complete other side of America had something to do with it.

Yeah, you should find some reason to host something in California. Like... Somewhere close to Redding.

AH DON'T WANNA FEEL LEFT OUT.

Fungus, on 07 July 2011 - 12:34 AM, said:

What are YOU doing in social studies, Darkwolf? Could've sworn you were special ed.

I should have fucking been there.

jeez that sounded fun

@infinity

Whoa, I wrote a story about you

I'm totally depressed that I didn't get to go... ;__; NEXT TIME DO IT IN WASHINGTON D.C.
Wahhhhhh...

Sock on da block

Taeshi, on 06 July 2011 - 05:40 PM, said:

Nice story, but seems like I missed a lot of stuff. Also, am I really that inconspicuous, dood?

Anyways, I agree. Even though I didnt directly interact with the group, I had a really really good time over there, just hanging out with all of you. Thats just the way I am, I like being with the people I like, even when I dont talk much, dood.

Also, you fell asleep before drawing my request. You looked so adorable and I just couldn't wake you up. Just sayin'

more like creeper stellan

That sounds really intense! ^_^

Hopefully in the future there will be more!

Zoe: I actually fell asleep before drawing Susan's request. I had to draw Susan's request and then Pants and then yours, and then Mousey. So like it wasn't a whole terrible coincidence or anything ;__; I owe like four people pictures and I guess Mousey will be able to get it because we'll be at connecticon and i have to draw buffer again bawwww

Which reminds me thanks a bunch for taking my request, I framed it and put it in my room, gaaahhh it's so awesome. McCain getting his ass kicked made my day!

aaaa sounds like you guys had much more fun than what I was doing during that time. ;;
/tooyoungnomoney

and I'm so shy I wouldn't be able to go anyway because I wouldn't say anything

bitch, id make you talk