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Feedback / Re: Headless Fursuiters...
« on: June 04, 2013, 11:33:07 »
I had been in suit for a good 6 or 7 hours that day (Sunday), non-stop without food and with only drink, after shooting a dance video I de-headed along with my 2 friends to chat to someone and then someone had the nerve to come up to us and tell us we were ruining their magic after we had just performed (in full suit of course) right in front of them. This was not an isolated incident as well, queuing for the lazer a photo-shoot (a 2 hour affair for some people), that queue was insanely hot and had we again not de-headed there, then I have no doubt that there would have been some form of medical incident with dehydration or over-heating, we were once again we were ruining the magic. It also reached my ears that numerous other suiters who were de-heading throughout the day had similar remarks made to them.
Now yes there is the fursuit lounge but this sometimes does not fit with what we as suiters want to do sometimes, we may want some proper food or to drink something other than water, we also may want to have a brief chat with friends while still going suiting after. In these cases it is wholly unjustified to expect us to run off to our rooms, de-suit, shower (after suiting you can feel absolutely disgusting if it's been hot), get re-dressed, run back to do whatever it is we wanted to do and then after that is done run all the way back to the room to get our suits back on.
Oh and just briefly addressing the point of ruining the videos and photos, the group who were bing intentionally loud and drinking alcohol did so in the evening and we stayed away from any planned main events. We also had several photographers stop us and ask for pictures and joined in on the joke.
So to try and summarise for those people who are inclined to cite TL:DR for every reply that is more than a sentence or two:
1. Fursuiters get hot!
2. Different suits have different fur thicknesses, will gain and retain heat at different levels and the people inside (yes there are people inside sadly) will also have different levels of being able to tolerate that heat
3. Sometimes the fursuit lounge, while the preferred solution, is not always the ideal solution
4. It's a convention, there is no-one there under the age of 18, we all know there is a person inside that suit
5. I could go on, but I honestly can't be arsed.....I mean really, just do some digging around and you'll find out there were far worse things that happened at this con.....someone cracking one off in the adult art section for example
Now yes there is the fursuit lounge but this sometimes does not fit with what we as suiters want to do sometimes, we may want some proper food or to drink something other than water, we also may want to have a brief chat with friends while still going suiting after. In these cases it is wholly unjustified to expect us to run off to our rooms, de-suit, shower (after suiting you can feel absolutely disgusting if it's been hot), get re-dressed, run back to do whatever it is we wanted to do and then after that is done run all the way back to the room to get our suits back on.
Oh and just briefly addressing the point of ruining the videos and photos, the group who were bing intentionally loud and drinking alcohol did so in the evening and we stayed away from any planned main events. We also had several photographers stop us and ask for pictures and joined in on the joke.
So to try and summarise for those people who are inclined to cite TL:DR for every reply that is more than a sentence or two:
1. Fursuiters get hot!
2. Different suits have different fur thicknesses, will gain and retain heat at different levels and the people inside (yes there are people inside sadly) will also have different levels of being able to tolerate that heat
3. Sometimes the fursuit lounge, while the preferred solution, is not always the ideal solution
4. It's a convention, there is no-one there under the age of 18, we all know there is a person inside that suit
5. I could go on, but I honestly can't be arsed.....I mean really, just do some digging around and you'll find out there were far worse things that happened at this con.....someone cracking one off in the adult art section for example