So, I went to MAGfest this past weekend and to say I had fun would be an understatement. I had an absolute blast! But this only happened because of the awesome people I hung out with.
This post ended up a bit lengthy with everything I want to say, despite trying to keep it concise, so I’ll leave the bulk of it under the cut.
My biggest highlight was the fact that I got to meet @maniaknight, @its-captain-senpai, @starbotdubs, @vadeva, @tehrogue, @officialvariantschannel, @maxoutoften, @xedramon, and @rainbowchibbit in person! Every single one of you are awesome people and deserve all the happiness in the world.
This being said, my entire con experience was vastly different from what I was expecting. This was not my first time going to MAGfest, but I’ll admit now that I had some very sour notes left over from previous years - which made me hesitant on even going this year. However, when I heard several of you were going, I took a leap of faith and jumped back in. Just having a chance to meet all you wonderful people in person outweighed all the bad memories that were associated with the con for me. Then, when ManiaKnight invited me to the meet-up dinner, I was excited to meet y’all for sure, but... I figured that would be it. That we’d go our separate ways for the rest of the con and maybe chat a bit online here and there after the weekend. I expected to experience this con relatively alone aside from the meet-up and to let this be my last MAGfest. I’ll admit, this was a highly pessimistic view from someone who’s normally an optimist. However, I didn’t want to be a downer in any way so I pushed all that away and went to the con with the intent to enjoy the time I had with y’all, however much or little it would be, depending on what you guys wanted to do.
But now that y’all know where I’m coming from, let’s get to the happier part of this whole thing, shall we? Because the whole point here is that I’m glad I took that leap of faith and decided to give MAGfest one more try. And I’m very happy that my pessimistic expectations were wrong.
MAGfest started for me on Thursday night when I hung out with ManiaKnight for a couple hours and got my badge for the con. Even though we just wandered around and chatted, I did have fun and this really set a positive mood for the weekend for me.
I had to go to work during the day Friday, but meeting everyone in person at dinner Friday night was an absolute treat. Y’all were all so wonderful and fun to hang out with as we chatted and experienced the Magfest Pickle Fever of 2017 (of which I wrote a small report here XD). After dinner, I had fun hanging with Star, Rogue, Max, and Vade before going and playing games and hanging out with ManiaKnight, Xedra, and Captain.
And then on Saturday I had a blast getting kidnapped hanging out, playing games, and going to the Undertale fan movie trailer premier with Vade, Star, Rogue, Walker, and Max. It was also nice seeing Chibbit for a bit on Saturday night during the Undertale photoshoot!
Sunday, oh Sunday. That VA Workshop panel was such a blast, especially when Star got picked to go up and do a reading! (Star, keep going, you have Ellen and Matt’s approval!) I still smile thinking back to that panel and I’m definitely going to take all the advice that the VAs gave us to heart as I slowly dive into VAing myself.
This weekend was incredible and I could go on forever with how much fun I had. But at the end of the day, every single one of y’all who I’ve tagged in this post helped wiped those sour notes away and redeemed MAGfest for me. Lots of photos, videos, recordings, and memes were made and y’all really made my con experience the best I’ve had in a while. I’m very much looking forward to (hopefully) hanging out with all y’all at MAGfest next year, if not sooner at another con!
Given all this, my biggest thanks goes to ManiaKnight for inviting me to that dinner to begin with. Seriously. If not for you, I wouldn’t have made all these wonderful new friends and memories. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you Mania. I feel bad that the snow storm cut your trip short, but hopefully next time you’ll be able to stay the whole weekend!
Thanks again to all of you who made this weekend absolutely wonderful! You’ve also helped recharge me and pull me out of my creative slump and I hope y’all will enjoy what I’ll be making in the coming weeks. And until we meet again, take care! ^_^
