So! Was gonna put this up in a Status, but I figured I was gonna go off on tangents more than enough anyhow, so I'll need this space!

    Kind of a tiring trip there and back, at least its pretty simple directions, but quite a slog to get two towns over for what was really only about maybe three large rooms.

  I guess, like I was joking about at the time a Con is pretty much paying money to get in to spend more money... on people who spent money to set up so you could give them money for stuff that really isn't going to impact your life all that much. Like giant masks, a "visit from the real Slenderman," and a wooden chest of dragon eggs that were clearly Styrofoam I could easily make myself if I wanted to! (Fuh, Fuh, Fuh!)  Hey, money makes the world go 'round! 

   Wasn't too much, I'd say. Like, go figure you'd get comic books at the comic convention, but... well, I could just hang out at the local comic book store for that instead of feeling all conspicuous squatting down in the isles to peer into boxes, though there were some pretty classic ones there too, I don't know too much about the Comic Book industry. What I did get were about some six cute little squishy vinyl (Odd... you know, the vinyl in those MLP figurines seems a lot sturdier...) Pokémon toys like a Dunsparce, an ice cloud Castform, a Mewtwo I think...

   Wasn't too much in the way of MLP stuff except for some pillows (Heh, already coming out with them Main Fish {I'M TRADEMARKING THAT! CALLING IT! MINE!} designs from the movie, I see!) and a few tiny "charms" that the lady said probably wouldn't last long as the keychain I was going to use them for. 

   I attended some speech on World-Building in writing by some lady who's name I didn't really bother to remember. Her books do sound awesome even if I got some inexplicable Stephanie Myers vibes off of her, if you know what I mean. Not an insult to anybody.... buuut...   "Write by the seat of my pants" Mmm-Hmm, that sounds totally like the most reputable way to be a published author.

   On my way back in from the steadily climbing heat out in the Garden "room" I was accosted by a pirate. Well, that's not quite the right word... shangihaied? Hornswoggled? Yeah, goin' with that. And, well, a bloody well character actor at that. You could tell the man not only had a talent for storytelling but genuinely cared about the book they were selling, I could not help but buy into it! I do sincerely look forward to reading it! I has both Pirates... AND Werewolves! Dare I tease my expectations to wish for Werewolf Pirates?!!? Have yet to read it, but If I have any suggestions to the authors to make this even more awesome is if they were somehow riding dragons too. Just... just throw some dragons in there somewhere!                                                                                                                                   

  (Editing Note: Oooookay, hitting enter just deleted a whole paragraph... and now it won't enter in new lines anymore... Cod, I hate technology.)                                                                                         After that, I talked to an enterprising & inspiring Young Lady that was running a booth selling some Pokémon Arts & Crafts. Had some cute little hats I liked, but I find it hard to fit many hats over my own prodigious mane. We talked for a while about how she is also a fair bit overwhelmed by so much hustle & hubbub of a room this large & how she always wanted to sell her own designs & get into fashion to sell her own products. A notion that has been brought up to me before, but I've never had the courage or willpower to follow up on.  She did give me a business card and suggested I could email her to request something. I do feel a bit of a kindred spirit in her and I do worry about how to follow up on this...  I did manage to joke around & be friendly outside in the line for the event but I think this might be my closest lead into friendship. But, ah...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ...Who I  DID speak notably more to was her mother sitting nearby! I do seem to get along better with older folk, you know, the sorts to not let you leave the room without unraveling their whole life story, how they TOTALLY have never done Pot before and how that one time the military dropped a bomb near them and that one weird plane that went by that totally looked like a UFO, but the military is totally covering that up....   I did enjoy that conversation very much as well! I could feel vibes from the younger lady as she circled around to tend to other customers that felt very much like: "Mom... No, stop.... sigh, well, now you know how I feel everyday."

   Overall, I spent a good four hours there. Mayhaps I could have spent longer, but I felt I had covered most of everything and the booths weren't going to shift around too much more. Think I'll hit up Groupy Cat for some of their cute Pokémon Gear sometime! (They're on Etsy! Look them up, I'm sure they could use the funds & aid!)