Time to be the change you want to see in the world and start one!
It's okay to start small. You'd be surprised how easy (and cheap) it is to start a local meetup group. And if even two or three show up, you can call it a resounding success. If a lot more show up, you could start to consider selling tickets in order to afford a bigger, better venue. And if a lot of people show up to that one, then more expensive tickets for an even bigger venue, more planning, multi-day schedule, etc ... and then your little meetup has become a convention!
Or ... maybe there's just not many (public, sociable) furries in your area, so you never see this growth and always just have a handful of guests. But that's fine, too. Now you've got some friends!
I did dabble with event handling many moons ago, for anime stuff instead of furry - helped a buddy that was more into it. Running around, making calls, asking people for space, trying to work out schedules and prices, making promos. I don't want to deal with that again anytime soon, especially as the promos and advertising part nowadays has to use instagram/tiktok to have any significant reach :/
Or even worse: the one con in a city close to you shut down!
I had the unfortunate excitement that summer 2020 I'd finally be able to go to a con. Only problem was me planning this in the very beginning of the year, before anyone knew about COVID here. Con came back a few years later, only to close indefinitely again.
Now the closest con to me is a con that only happens in winter and there is snow way in Hell you'd catch me at a con in winter because I don't like the cold and because I hate sidewalk/street ice, which I guarantee would be there knowing my luck.
Where I live I don't think there's even such thing as a furry community, maybe some fellows but most people here aren't that online so I don't think I will ever enjoy a local furry community
Like where?? In another country? This place is so dam nationalist most people won't care about internet subcultures and even if I had the money it wont be easy to convince my entire family to let me move to a foreign country alone
There's a reason I learned English to use the web. Most people here just use internet for either work or communication, our biggest "achievement" on internet is people starting a YT Sketch Comedy channel that went viral and it isn't that good. Social Media also only benefits LOCAL content. Which means little contact to global fandoms, to the point that the anime conventions I attended nearly 10 years ago were barely functional, few people, and few stuff to do. And I haven't seen anything like that ever again.
So yeah, my expectations to get queer furries in a closed-minded conservative country that are willing to travel and met strangers in the middle of one of our highest violence rates are quite low.
18 Comments
ICastFist@programming.dev · 7 pts · 9d
Imagine when you don't even live in a country that has any conventions
OwensanTowafaSMM@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 9d
like maybe South Africa or smth? :\
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 9d
Time to be the change you want to see in the world and start one!
It's okay to start small. You'd be surprised how easy (and cheap) it is to start a local meetup group. And if even two or three show up, you can call it a resounding success. If a lot more show up, you could start to consider selling tickets in order to afford a bigger, better venue. And if a lot of people show up to that one, then more expensive tickets for an even bigger venue, more planning, multi-day schedule, etc ... and then your little meetup has become a convention!
Or ... maybe there's just not many (public, sociable) furries in your area, so you never see this growth and always just have a handful of guests. But that's fine, too. Now you've got some friends!
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 8d
I did dabble with event handling many moons ago, for anime stuff instead of furry - helped a buddy that was more into it. Running around, making calls, asking people for space, trying to work out schedules and prices, making promos. I don't want to deal with that again anytime soon, especially as the promos and advertising part nowadays has to use instagram/tiktok to have any significant reach :/
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 8d
Or even worse: the one con in a city close to you shut down!
I had the unfortunate excitement that summer 2020 I'd finally be able to go to a con. Only problem was me planning this in the very beginning of the year, before anyone knew about COVID here. Con came back a few years later, only to close indefinitely again.
Now the closest con to me is a con that only happens in winter and there is snow way in Hell you'd catch me at a con in winter because I don't like the cold and because I hate sidewalk/street ice, which I guarantee would be there knowing my luck.
But yeah, being broke also doesn't help.
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 9d
Are you open to pleasuring an ocelot for tickets?
OwensanTowafaSMM@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 9d
hm?
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 9d
Normally I'd suggest you put on some sexual attire and engage in self-debasement humiliation to gain entry. But then I realized which comm this was.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 8d
Understandable, the overlap between furries and bdsm is very wide
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 2 pts · 9d
Me not even knowing of any furry con near my location :(
OwensanTowafaSMM@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 9d
weeeell where do u live? js so that i cd find a nearby con 4u ;D
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 2 pts · 9d
To be honest, I was so far too lazy / to shy to look for one... Berlin Germany, it would be fuckin weird if I had none nearby 😸
OwensanTowafaSMM@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 8d
Maybe eurofurence would do :P
kyoko916@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 5d
Where I live I don't think there's even such thing as a furry community, maybe some fellows but most people here aren't that online so I don't think I will ever enjoy a local furry community
OwensanTowafaSMM@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 5d
oh. damn. well that has to suck. mayb try moving 2 somewhere where furry communities r mor prevalent? ^ ^;;
kyoko916@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 5d
Like where?? In another country? This place is so dam nationalist most people won't care about internet subcultures and even if I had the money it wont be easy to convince my entire family to let me move to a foreign country alone
OwensanTowafaSMM@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 5d
Weeeell what country do u live in then? Eritrea or smth?
kyoko916@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 5d
There's a reason I learned English to use the web. Most people here just use internet for either work or communication, our biggest "achievement" on internet is people starting a YT Sketch Comedy channel that went viral and it isn't that good. Social Media also only benefits LOCAL content. Which means little contact to global fandoms, to the point that the anime conventions I attended nearly 10 years ago were barely functional, few people, and few stuff to do. And I haven't seen anything like that ever again.
So yeah, my expectations to get queer furries in a closed-minded conservative country that are willing to travel and met strangers in the middle of one of our highest violence rates are quite low.