The Good

• Getting to meet and talk to people I only get to see once a year or so - Boris, Goldenrod, Big Puppy Stuart, to name a few.
• Meeting people I've only known from online - Silver Wuffamute, Dom Foxley, Dragon the Dragon, Blaidd Wolfe, and numerous others.
• INFINITE CRAB LEGS at the hotel buffet. #myGRANDlife
• So many hugs and photos. I'll spare you all the photo dump, though.
• Awesome badge from Cooner and another awesome badge from an artist whose name I forgot to write down (:| ...)
• Bought an NPC button to wear, so I can now tell people that there are many guards in the castle.
• Silly dystopian corporate messages played over the loudspeaker periodically.
• Got to watch a few little magical moments as mundane families let their kids interact with the fursuiters.
• Con staff all but encouraged people to deface the propaganda posters they'd hung on all the walls.
• Accidentally won a round of Smash Bros as Jigglypuff.
• More 2DS Street Passes in one weekend than in the rest of the previous year.

The Bad

• Realizing after the fact that most of those meetings mentioned above mostly involved the other party enduring my relentless awkwardness.
• Wanted to meet even more people, but was generally too shy/distracted/stupid to notice them.
• Was briefly cornered by someone who wanted to see my sketchbook and then spent ten minutes per page expounding on why I should ignore copyright law, why my sketches aren't as good as those by other artists, and why I should make the protagonist of my next comic a poor, delinquent person of color. Also he kept pounding the table, which only emphasized the severity of the warts on his hand ...
• Seriously, my awkwardness. I'm already high-functioning autistic on a good day, but over the weekend I was outright autastic (autacular?).
• Felt really sorry for the normal people trying to get to the hotel's dog park, because they had to cross through convention space and terrify their pets with all the giant fluffmonsters.
• Whoever was in charge of planning this year didn't even bother pretending that a quiet space would be a thing. If you were in the con space during evening/night hours, you could expect to have the dance floor speakers pointed directly at you.

The Ugly

• People wearing fetish/bondage gear in public areas. Like ... I get that it's a new fad to wear a harness over your fursuit, and on some of the huskies it's adorable. Less adorable is wandering around in a fursuit and spandex trunk briefs. Or leather dog masks. ... or that one woman stomping around in a hot pink furry pimp coat, dragging behind her a man in handcuffs and latex (but it's totally okay! He was wearing a rubber dog head and tail!). It's just ... eugh. Tacky, to say the least.
• That one guy who wore nothing but skin-tight zebra/gazelle costumes that left none of his middle-age spread to the imagination. Also never actually wore the accompanying mask, other than on top of his head. I don't know if it was intentional, but you could just feel the sleaze radiating off of him.

From what I've seen, next year's theme is "The Resistance" ... so we'll see how that turns out.