Hi!
Hello Mr. Chairman!
Hello!
How's it going?
It's going great!
I'm getting stalked.
You're actually my first shot of this convention.
Haaah.....!
Welcome to Furry Migration!
It's a furry con!
We do furry things here which involve
furry, furry, furry stuff.
Explain those furry things.
Well, furry stuff is like when you do stuff
you sometimes draw,
and sometimes you write,
and sometimes you put on heads
and then you go like Boop!
And everything goes black,
and then you get called an ambulance.
Do you know what the Renaissance Festival is?
What's Renaissance?
When I run into people who don't know that
They do know, I basically say
Think "Renaissance" but with animals.
Is that like the Marvel Universe and everything else?
Yes.
It's Rocket Raccoon.
Hand you your keys, I moved your car.
Good luck finding it.
You... what?
You better had not moved that car!
I did, actually.
The car is at the top of the ramp.
So easy to make him happy, isn't it?
Hi!
This is our Operations,
This is where Operations things happen
at this con, it's filled with Operations
We operate on Operations here
When you're not playing on the radio
Okay guys, time to operate...
Why am I getting video'ed at this time in the morning?
On Friday? There is nothing
interesting happening here.
There is nothing interesting happening
right now! You are not
interesting, I am not interesting.
I haven't done any....
Shit.
You haven't done the shit?
I haven't done the shit.
Well, what the hell.
I haven't done this shit.
Staring at you? I'm gonna stare at you.
I'm having a hard time...
He's got me on video several times already!
Why?
I don't know! Because I can!
It doesn't make sense!
We're furries! We don't make sense!
We went to the British pub,
We saw, you were walking right behind us.
They are really fast for...
to get you beer,
beer, beer, beer, beer,...
"We have to work..." beer, beer, beer, beer...
You didn't record that, right?
I'd never record that.
There! Fursuiter! Film him!
Okay, I'll film fursuiters!
Where's the bathroom?
There!
That's a deer!
No, that's back...
Deer!
If I can't see it, it can't see me!
That is true!
Yes!
That did not work very well.
Oh, hello again!
Yes.
No!
Yes.
No...
I suppose....
I know what you're up to!
You can't... no, uh!
You can't see it, it can't see you.
Yes!
Sounds logic.
Just getting it back...
Film over here.
Naaaaahhhh!
No! Over there!
No, no!
No incriminating evidence! Go that way!
No, that way!
No, aaahh! No no no!
That way.
I can't read....
Ah, ah....
That way!
There's a furry I think!
Are we supposed to go into the light or not?
I can never remember.
I'll go into the light and you'll go away from the light.
And we'll meet then...
No, I'll keep him!
Bark!
Bork!
It won't respect you!
It won't respect me if I don't bark at it?
You gotta bark at the light!
Oh. Bark.
That didn't change anything.
Yeah.... I.... I don't...
What do I do now?
Uhm... lay down and die.
Alright, everybody take turns to pee.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Thank you for joining us at the big top!
Furry Migration 2018!
Would you believe we've been at this for 5 years already.
And we keep getting bigger and better
we have some amazing shows this weekend,
a few things have been cancelled for one reason or the other.
The help department asked us to shut down the kissing booth.
The stuffed animal company has
cancelled the Build Your Own Bear panel...
...for obvious reasons.
No sense for adventure, I tell you.
My name is .....
I'll be boring you for the next 20-some minutes.
But I have help, and guiding us through all of this
and shepherding this merry band of dipwits
is our con chair:
Kurst, the Hyperyote.
Thank you, man.
Thank you very much.
As Karl spoke a little bit about this,
This con is not about one person.
This con is about everybody in this room.
It's about the volunteers, the staff,
and the attendees.
We are what makes
Furry Migration what it is.
So without further ado
Let's bring our next person up.
Our hashtag,
this is very important because I've seen some
more #FM2018's,
and that's "Football Manager 2018"!
Your posts will be buried
Someone unfortunately
I saw this,
had their wedding hashtag
be #FM2018.
Lovely people, but I
could tell people were commenting like
Football Manager? What are you doing?
When worlds collide.
Furries and Football. Let's do it.
So, the official hashtag
for you all to know is:
#MnFM2018.
So it's like:
Capital M
little N
You know, Minnesota,
FM
Furry Migration,
Clever, right?
I'd like to welcome you to FM
on behalf of the Minnesota Furs organisation.
MNFurs is a local
furry non-profit with the mission to help
communicate and develope
the furry community and it's talent
in the state of Minnesota.
As part of this mission,
we have year-round programming and
events including a twice-a-year picnic,
meets, and almost every
month of the year a youth
program and so much more.
I'd like to invite you all to enjoy the
MnFurs Room Party
and some of our line up youth programming
at Furry Migration.
One of the things Vulan was thanking us for earlier
was the ceiling. You actually have a
portable ceiling for all these lights and
the wonderful tech crew
that mostly runs for us.
But that will come from the Hyatt. And
someone has to keep the Hyatt
and us on the same page.
And that poor job
bows to you.
Me? Where were we?
Eric, how did they talk you into this job?
How did you talk me into it?
Someone talked you into this job.
I'm Minnesotan, so
someone asked me, do you want to help?
And I wanted to say no,
but I didn't want to offend anyone
so I said....
...this magic word:
Maybe?
Have you ever gotten revenge on whoever that was?
Well, you're still standing here, so...
So...
yeah, I'm hotel,
if you can't tell from the
hundred hotel keys that I'm
holding on to.
And, thank you for
Thank You to Vulan for
talking about the amazing high ceilings
here, stealing my thunder there.
It's okay, it's alright.
They are very high and...
...this year...
...the stage isn't held together with Duct Tape.
The Hyatt staff
started dropping furry puns
in the middle of our business meetings.
I think we've infected them.
I want to talk about a very special event:
we may not be able to do a kissing booth,
But we're introducing, for the first time anywhere,
in the state of Minnesota,
a Fursuit hugging booth!
Right outside of these doors.
On Saturday, from 11am to 1pm
and 4pm to 6pm,
And Sunday, 10am to noon I believe.
We will have fursuiters out there
to be hugged
and collect donations
for our animal charity
Beach Lake Legacy,
and for the fursuiters who want to be hugged,
and offer hugs, there's a sign out
right across the way from the fursuit lounge
it's first come, first serve, we have a number of slots
and I'll have an award for whoever
raises the most money as the most huggable fursuiter
at FM 2018.
Far, far, far away there's a land called Germany.
and there are many people in Germany
and they're wonderful but we brought one of the best:
TaniDaReal! Please stand up!
Tani is a wonderful artist and fursuiter from Germany
She's been n the fandom
so long, I can't even remember how long anymore.
been around since I've been in the fandom.
Wonderful artist, most of you should
recognize the art, if you don't,
please go and buy some!
It's amazing, and it's great!
Thank you so much for joining us this year!
Just a quick word:
I want to, I have to.
Thank you so much for inviting us
the con has just started and we already
are having a great time
both the convention,
the hotel, the city, it's
lovely, we really love it here,
and also, I'm working for
a furry convention in Germany
as well so I know how much
effort and work goes into such a
convention. And everything I see
here, with all the details, with the decoration
with the planning and the wonderful
warm welcome, you're doing an amazing
job. Really, we love it.
Thank you so much!
Thank you!
And that is why we love our guests.
Here's your script.
Oh, I'm good.
My script!
And: Coming from the faraway land of
"I don't know", because apparently
it's magical and mystical,
comes Rick Griffin!
The artist and writer behind the
Housepet Webcomic which I know all of
but also an amazingly
talented writer,
and artist beyond that. If you haven't
checked out his short stories
and other written works, they are amazing
and I'm a personal fan of A&H Club.
Would you like to come up or stand up?
I think they put me on the spot there.
Okay, uhm, hello...
[Feedback hum]
I don't have to say anything so
I guess I won't
cause I don't have any responsibilities here.
I have like 2 panels
this week.
and for some reason they've been scheduled for
an hour and a half long each.
So you better show up for them because
I went crazy trying
to prepare for this. So, thank you
everybody for coming
out to this place especially
if you've come to see me in particular.
Thank you!
Rick Griffin!
Now, go out there and be amazing.
Love you all!
Is this the drinking camera?
Is it drinking ca...
It's drinking time?
Can you drink, camera?
Awww, the camera can drink!!
Okay, let's go, get booze!
Need your badge?
Yes, I'm waiting for badge and Booze.
You may give me one of the two things.
I thought somebody was throwing stuff at us.
That started early!
That's how we work!
Dude, we're doing stuff for charity,
like, Tomatoes, this is easy.
They're soft, bricks, oh no,
I can't think right.
If you guys are around long enough,
after a while we're gonna take these ciders and beers
put them into cups, get some ping pong balls,
and do something really stupid. Thanks.
For those of you who don't know this
the charity is trying to
renew their lease or buy
property. That's what we're working towards
this weekend. I've talked to
them briefly, their lease is up at the end
of the year, they're either going to renew
which is great, or
starting to owning their own land
which finally is the American
dream: owning land
snd or people because we're...
Ladies and Gentlemen, comedy style
enjoy Fox Amoore!
...only a very...
Oh, that's hysterical!
Did you meet the girl with the five nipples?
I'm sure it's six.
No, one got cut off in the ward.
Oh!
Did you just call her a cow?
That's a... ?... that's not a nipple!
You are really bad at biology!
Come on down! Fursuit hugging booth
is on right now! We have the adorable
Pixie the Fox available
for you to hug, right now, no charge!
Friendly, fuzzy,
soft and warm, get your fursuit hug
right here, right now. There's noone
brave enough to come and hug
this ferocious fox!
Raahr, look at them!
So ferocious!
Oh, we have the victim!
Aaaaah!
Look at the carnage!
It's so adorable! Uh oh!
The hug is growing!
Aaah!
Uh oh, come back for a breath, come on!
Let her go get a breath!
Come on!
Breathe!
Uh oh, fox and bird
combined aaand there's a hug!
HUG!
Oooh, he's coming down for a hug!
Pixie the fox deserves a hug!
Come on down, come on down!
Free hugs here!
Get your free hugs here!
Any takers?
Heeey!
That's a high five!
Get a hug!
Martial hug?
Handshake.
Eskimo hug?
Handshake.
Handshake? Handshake!
As we all know otters are
very huggable and soft
Come on down!
Get your hugging on!
You know you want to!
Except for that gentleman who wanted a handshake.
No, he gave him a hug!
You should step on it!
Get yourself carted around!
If you could...
just turn to face this wall a bit...
Cool.
I can talk about literally anything right now
Nobody's gonna hear what I'm saying.
This is great!
Interacting with a fotofur or photographer versus
interacting with a fursuiter or doing it in front
of a videographer... hello!
It's learning what actions look good
what position of your fursuit looks good.
Fursuits are actually beautiful in their own
ways and I love them you have
that one angle that's just not your
good side. It's good to know that
and to kind of avoid it.
My fursuit has a
...my latest one, 2.0,
it has a much shorter muzzle
and if I tilt my head back you can see
right up at my face.
I don't do that. It's just one of those things
that's a position I avoid
because I know it doesn't look good.
And this is the point where we've lost all
control and we're just downhill from here.
Oh, she has a radio now.
And now the con has lost control
and is going downhill.
And she has my phone
more specifically. I am not
for the messages that you get
while you have that.
Oh, thank you! It's for me?
Oh, good, good!
I'll put that in the pocket.
If you just act a little bit grumpy
somebody is gonna thing "Man,
that one has a bad day". That's silly.
But if you're just over the top and you're
grumpy, you're stomping around
or you're pouting, you're just
take it to that next level, they'll realize
"Okay, they're playing".
It doesn't work because you're adorable and fluffy.
That's the other problem.
One of my characters that I do
for the Rennaissance festival,
picky on people a lot.
So I do short interactions.
And each other's gonna interact
before I go on to a full scene.
[sniffing noises]
Have a short interaction,
test the waters, make sure somebody is willing to engage
with you as a character,
So, for somebody here, if you're
getting new to fursuiting remember that
stuff. If you do bark or your making
noises, your head is inside
a bunch of padding and foam
and all that stuff. People can't hear you as well
so project your voice, project your noises
or anything like that.
Just like any of your actions that you're doing
make sure that they're loud and heard
*ACHOOO!!!*
Bless you!
Make sure people know what it is!
[silent] How are you doing today. Do you hear me at all?
What was that?
Exactly.
[louder] Hello, how are you doing today?
Much better, thank you!
Just because you can hear yourself
inside of your fursuit head with the fan going
They're not gonna hear you outside.
Keep that in mind, that's very important.
Any other questions while I'm trying to ignore what she's doing?
This is what I'm gonna be dealing with this whole panel.
You find that one pose that looks really good:
Cool! Don't do it again for a little while.
Find another one. Force yourself to get out of that routine.
Again, I can talk about literally anything
and nobody is paying attention.
I can talk about anything.
Here's the man with the camera!
Hi camera!
Haai!!
Hi!
You're black. You're very dark.
What you guys doing?
Filming you.
Yaay!
That's so bright!
Not bright enough?
It burns my eyelids!
AAAAAAAAAHHHH!
The Illuminati is real!
Run, sheeple! Run!