New Mod!
9 years ago
reimori has sadly left Illinois for New Jersey. Please wish her well, and keep following her!
I'm Quasiskunk, a looong time resident of our state! She asked me to moderate the group, and I'm happy to do so :)
Please give me a few days to get thru all of the notes, comments, etc; I'm a fairly busy skunkie, but I'll try to keep the group and Friends List up to date.
In the mean time, since its Move In Week for the state colleges and universities, look thru the list to see if there are any Furs near your school: NIU, ISU, EIU, SIU (both of them), UIUC all have groups of Furs attending (WIU..not so many :( ) And of course, Chicago area colleges have tons of Furs. Most of those groups have meets, either weekly or monthly.
Quasi
I'm Quasiskunk, a looong time resident of our state! She asked me to moderate the group, and I'm happy to do so :)
Please give me a few days to get thru all of the notes, comments, etc; I'm a fairly busy skunkie, but I'll try to keep the group and Friends List up to date.
In the mean time, since its Move In Week for the state colleges and universities, look thru the list to see if there are any Furs near your school: NIU, ISU, EIU, SIU (both of them), UIUC all have groups of Furs attending (WIU..not so many :( ) And of course, Chicago area colleges have tons of Furs. Most of those groups have meets, either weekly or monthly.
Quasi
Most, however, are only posted on the LAFF furs facebook account, which not everyone can access (unless you have a FB account). If you have access, just do a search for LAFF..you should find it easily.
All you need is a time, a place, and an idea of what you wanna do; for example:
hey guys..furmeet at XXX park for a BBQ...meet at the yyy pavillion at Noon on Sun the 84th of Umptober.
If people see it,. some will come. Not everyone can go on a day you pick, but the ones that can should have fun :) And fursuits aren't ever necessary. :)
I would love if this brought some more activity to the Rockford area,ive really been wanting to see an event closer to where i live :>
hey guys..furmeet at XXX park for a [thing]...meet at the yyy pavillion at Noon on Sun the 84th of Umptober. It'll cost $qqq, and you may want to bring [something]
Anything more difficult than that, yer over thinking it.
The Illinois school that a lot of people don't know about.
Will be going there in the spring
There are a few Springfield /Lincoln furs listed in the friends list..give them a jingle and see if you can start up a weekly coffee meet. Good luck!
That was the last good thing our legislature did..and that was over 30 years ago XD
Best I can think of is look at the person's profile, and see how active they are..if they fave a lot of things, at least they'll be more apt to see and read any notes sent their way.
Almost none of the events "require" a fursuit. in fact, even those that are fursuiting events still need people to help the suiters as handlers, helping hem dress, camera people, and of course, talking for them! And its still a fun time. Mebbe if yer a good handler, they'll buy you a soda or a sammich afterwards ^.^
A handler is the fursuiter's escort...they point out people who want a picture with them, talk for the suiter, take pictures, may help get them into suit, and make sure no one does anything stupid to the suiter.
But the best thing...the handlers get to interact with the suiter...funny and hilarious things happen all the time
The thing I was trying to say was that even if its a fursuiting event, you don't have to have one to join the meet; fursuiting events just mean that the wearing of fursuits is allowed. Not all places will let you wear suits, so its kind of a bonus when suiters do get to romp around ^.^
Boo is fun; last year we had a small con's worth of suiters XD And a couple of dozen people that didn't have suits.
The best I can do is this:
http://www.catbox.com/cgi-bin/webca.....;cal=laffevent
That's the "official" calendar of events, aka the events posted to the LAFF mailing list. Click the links in the calendar to get more info ^.^
As for other places, I can't make up an event (not only do I not live anywhere near Chicago, I have no idea where some of the places are :P) Its up to a local fur to come up with their own event, and get it posted where others can see it.
And MFF is right off the Blue line..its 2 blocks to the hotel from the Rosemont station.
Anyone is welcome to come to announced events...whether you have ears, tails, fursuits, or just in regular clothes.
I kid..we do wear them downtown for Halloween, and I do play a mascot or 2...or 3 (hopefully) there. But like you mentioned, the furriest we are is a hat or t-shirt that might be cartoon related.
Someday, we'll meet..You're probably the fur closest to my age that lives in CU :) And glad you've had fun at MFF...that's been my home con for all 15 years. And I'm not just saying that cause they won''t let me quit staffing it either XD
I live in a village of 600-ish people. Can't say I love it, but it sure is quiet..except during planting/harvest or hunting seasons ;)
Maybe this group will with the Chicago college furs
The thing is, all your watchers there are going to come from LAFF, which just makes it another group they have to watch. So don't be surprised if you don't get too many people there
You can haz buddy nao! :)
Old Friend!!
You are such a busy little Skunkie!
I hope this doesn't overload you!
Praying you will do well!
*MAJOR HUGS*