CONFUROR

 

Two weeks ago i lived such an experience: i took a plane and traveled to another city for four days to atend at a furry convention, Confuror. This convention is known to be the biggest one in my country and it actually have a lot of international visitors. It was fun but extremelly tiring (thats why it took me two weeks to post this entry) and it made me clear how far furs go in order to be around theyr pack. It was pretty amazing see them at the airport with HUGE luggage containing firsuits and fut heads, how they take this much and travel to another country just to be around other furrys.

I wish i was as social as them, they are trully friendly and open (i guess thats the power of the fursuit) and that makes evident why the bara comunity dont have this same level of comitment, being a furry is quiet a full time job!! I also saw with my own eyes not all furrys have good intention and theres a few rotten hungry of drama but thats nothing new and i want to stay with the positive.

My close investigation of theyr society started this year will continue but i am not sure if my collection will since i am getting way too full fo furry stuff pretty fast!! 

The very first thing i notice is how furrys like a lot to dance. Dance seems like a huge part of theyr culture but the second thing is deffinetly stickers, they see them as treasures and they even make an event to trade them. They collect them but they also give them away for free soo in this event i ended with a huge amount of stickers but trace the source is such a huge challengue soo excuse me if i tag the wrong people here!! The Incineroar card was made by my friend ROCCULF, the other stickers belong to GAEL RICE, DAVE KOON, SACHER THE BULLBEAR and other people i wasnt able to identify theyr social media :( i am sorry

The Banjoo and King stickers are from LOWE and also i meet YOWS at last and he gives me a sticker of his canine furzona. The big stikcer sheet is from TURVEY. He pretty much traveled by hiw own from Korea to Mexico and give us free stickers with his art!! This was one of the marvells i witness in Confuror, furs traveling such a long distance to make new conections and friends even not speaking the same language. He was very brave and i really hope he comes back next year!!

I love ALLEGRO art style and specially how the Swat Katz looks on his art soo i got his pins again just soo i can use them with no worry to lose them and i also got a cute little Smoke Room keychain from SACHER WIBER.

This keychains with stickers are from EL SAULO. Theres a lot of Muerte on this kind of event but the Xenomorph keychain was such a nice surprise!!!

A little bit of a bara corner in bwtween all the fur with DON BARA BARA keychain and charm while the Dire keychain was made by SEA-BASS (the only merch i saw from Dire!!!) and the cute Beast bath keychain is from LUPIN BARNABI.

ALVARADOG had blind bags with his Fornite and ZZZ acrylic pins while FURRY FORTNITE had a very cool of trading cards set with each character of Fornite on foil, but even more exciting, they also had a keychain in the shape of a reboot card long enough to intoduce on it any of the trading cards soo you can take your favorite character reebot card all the time!!

I got a pretty cool Shadow cap from VANDROIY and a Fatal Fury one from DEIVID UTAILUS BEAR but even more stranger, i got a plush empanada from GADO stuffed with love (actually i think they are Gdo´s hairs).

I also got two prints of two of my husbandos from SNK that are deffinetly two different characters as well as a black and white mini comic from BESTIA PURPURA

A pretty hot Dire art print from RAVAN as well as a Wendell postcard from KDKIK

Gohin and King of Dinosaurs SNFW art from PADZYAN ARTIES 

A collection of keychains, stickers and art prints of the amazing art of AMON SYD. His art is trully amazing but my favorite are his keychains, those 3 keychains together are the coolest and sexyest looking keychains i ever saw.

A Samurai Pizza Cat t-shirt!!! Unexpected!!! Ans a few stickers from the artists behind it; the man known as SR.OSITO

A Jurassi Park lanyard (unexpected) and a t-hirt i LOVED LOVED LOOOOOOOOVED soo damn much made by CASTEL BUNGALOW.

A super cool looking haori from OREN JUICE that goes perfecly with my Peperroni Lobonito pillow. Oren have such ana amazing catalogue of merch.

A HUGE towell by TIGERLION MOIKANA that i will never use and i wish to hang on my wall because is hug and really spectaular to look at.

 

A very cute Ben Biggers standee eating ramen from LOCOFUR.

Another Ben Biggers standee but this time from LOWE and with two sides to display.

A wolf standee from SEA-BASS with two different sides, both being too porny lmao.

A Death standee from MAPACHE ARTE. This one have a fleer effect and i am glad i finally have something of this artists because i do love love a whole lot the things he draws.

A standee by the master MAGO LOBO. I got this standee from him at Pawercon on his nude version but i really really wanted this character dressed as a wrestlet. Somehow i find this version sexyer than the nude one.

And lastly, i got a keychain, a tote bag and two dounjinshis by TAKEMOTO ARASHI, both translated in spanish specifically for Confuror. Too bad i wasnt able to get a Otake keychain.

Wow....thats a whole lot of stuff i got!!! It dosnt looks like but i may spent way too more than i should but given i travelled to another city and stay 4 days, i really wanted to make the most of it and dont leave anything behind, but yes....i dont even have any more room on my keychain box for more keychains and all this towels and shirts take a whole lot of space. Next conventions i think i will have to control my money much better.

Also i meet Takemoto Arashi!!! He was the honor guest of the convention soo having his comics printed  and tralslated for us was such a threat but meeting the man in person was even more excitting and a one in a life time oportunity soo it was worth all the travel, deffinetly!!

BARA IS DIYING

 As much as i disagree with this idea i seen a lot of artists using it latelly and is easy to understand why. Theres very few active bara artists by now, many of them turned into furry and the AI slop images dosnt help either.....i already seen a guy from the old Y! Gallery rejecting his 20 years of bara comic in order to turn 100% AI mass producer.

The truth is bara was a minority back at the begining of the century, it was a tiny part of the adult fandom at the shadow of the titan called Yaoi and while it get more recognition with time, in the end it seems is still at the shadow of both Yaoi and Furry art. I even got the feeling its even at the shadow of the shota comunity as well.

I find it odd that after soo long, human muscle men still dosnt have the same traction muscle animals have. Even in my country we have like 5 different 100% furry conventions against a single bara convention that is 60% furry. Its pretty easy to see it on twitter as well when a high quality bara art from a popular artists get 800 likes while a high quality furry art from a popular artist got 20 000 likes. The difference is brutal.

Then again, i love furry art and i love many of theyr artists and characters and i dont think they did something wrong, quiet the opposite. Furry comunity is pretty prone to bullying given they likes a more "evident" and they have firsuits and such things soo they had to join as a comunity and build a strong bonding between them and somehow, this has turned them into a huge powerhouse of resourses to the point at times, it looks like furry will conquer the world.

While bara artists are like islands on the sea of the internet. We seen each other as companions but we have yet to buid a strong fanbase like furrys does, and thats why we are still a niche inside a niche inside a niche and i feel guilty for it as well since i stoped drawing for a long time already and i am not doing my part.

I dont think bara will die but i do hope someday it cames out of the shadows and get the recognition it once started to had. I hope more bara artists appeare and more of the old artists came back as well. Hope i can do my part soon because bara needs a much stronger presence rigth now.

PAWERCON

 Last year i made entrys about the Barapalooza convention in my country, an event that was a dream for soo long and i kinda complaigned it had too much furry on it. Well, i fianlly went to a totally furry event called Pawercon in mi city. I think this is the second time this event take place and it deffinetly was much more expensive than Barapalooza and also had a lot visitors and unlike other events, here you had those visitors shape shifting with fursuits as one of the biggest atraction of the event.

Furrys are such interesting creatures....they are soo dual, like two extremes crashing together. They are cute and adorable and very friendly but they do have a dark side (tough i didnt see it here), they are like Batman and Bruce Wayne or Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde but much more horny. But that bad reputation they have and the way people see them somehow makes them closer, like a cluster, a pretty tight fandom that is as close as familly.

Honestly i dont know how i feel myself about furry but i always liked to see them at a certain distance because some of them looks trully happy with themselves and i kind of envy them. And given how close they are, each time they got an event like Pawercon it feels like a big deal. I still like bara more than furry but latelly i been looking furry more closely and for now it seems i even started a furry merch collection.

The very first thing i see was this cute hand made Godzilla pixeled art pieces made by DHAR RAPTOR that i first was planing be a gift for someone but i will keep them for myself.

The i got an artowkr of Wendell as well as a couple of stickers as gift from BENNY CARTOONIST i really love his lineart and the vibracy of his color, his style is just livelly and cool.

This was the thrid time i saw BESTIA PURPURA and i got a Hellboy sketch from him as well as some stickers. I almost collected all his stickers tough i really want to commision him at some point.

A couple of steamy poscards, a keychain and stickers from EL AFTON mostly focused on Gohin. His art style is soo cool and fluid, the traditional art looks really suits his gallery.

LIGONI EXE art style is soo perfectly furry and soo refined! And he had soo much awesome stuff from dakumakuras to pins and awesome standees, i had to control myself and keep my wallte in check soo gt stickers and a William keycahin as well as Swat Katz pins. I love those pins!!! I didnt expect to find Swat Katz merch!!!

I was also in love of the keychains DAKOTA YAGAMI had. Her art is really amazing, but she also had plush accesorys and she gives me stickers of the keychains art i got. I had to buy extra keychains soo i can use them safelly.

AMON SYD is one of the artists i admire soo much rescently ebcause his art skills are beyond most artists around and he also have great taste soo i got two prints of his art, tough i really should buy more because the quality is his prints is hard to belive.

I also got OREN JUICE doujin as well as a Day of the Dead keychain. I actually got a pillow from Oren last year soo i am very interested on start collecting his stuff.

Tough not furry, the only bara product i got was LAANCER artbook that included postcards, stickers and also is own signature and a message from him.

One of my favorite items i got was this Gohin shirt made by SILLY BUG !!! Tough it was a gift from a friend, i used it the second day of the con and everyone loved it!

One of my main interest in this convention was to make a standee collection. I love standees and ALVARODOG had a Ben Bigger moving standee that fits perfectly for the ZZZ collection and is a lot of fun to play with and i also got a Canuto pin.

KIBA also helped me with my standee collection witha sexy tiger one tough he also had a giant WIlliam mouse pad that tempted me but my budget was too tigth.

Last time at Barapalooza i saw a stande of LOWENMOND character Tiago i really wanted but my budget didnt let me get it, but now its finally in my hands!!!

One of the artists i also meet at Batapalooza lasy tear was PUMPKING WOLF and while i was only able to buy small prints from him, this time i got an standee of his character.

I also meet, after many years since Deviant Art days, MAGOLOBO and i got s standee of his wrestler lion character tough i also wish i got the posters he made about him.

Next event will be Barapalooza but given how muhc money i spent in here i dont think my loot will be as big as before.