F plus live is always my favorite time of the year. As some of you might be aware, I'm kind of weird! Being around so many people, some of them extremely different from me, and knowing that they'll all get where I'm coming from is not a thing I get to experience very often. Also, it helps that everyone is funny enough to keep up with me, which is also rare, because I'm hilarious. My only real regret from this year's event is that I've made enough friends in this community that I had to split my time, and didn't get to spend nearly enough time with everyone as I wanted to. I think I'm gonna try to not sleep next year to cram as much people time as I can in. A non-exhaustive list of memories, in no order:
- Finally meeting Zekka in person. I pick him out in the lobby because he was imitating bad NPC pathfinding. Within about 20 seconds we were talking about philosophy, and stupid people who are into philosophy, for several hours. Zekka is so cool.
- Everything about the live show. I don't even want to recap it because I'd rather relisten fresh once it comes out (and not spoil for anyone who wasn't there) but almost every reading was perfect.
- Okay, I will say that the thing Shell read was probably my second favorite of any wikihow articles that have been read on the show, and she did a great job with it! (The first is "how to create a wolf pack" from the first garbage day. Sorry, I just really like wolf packs.)
- Pitching my BEAUTIFUL BOY and his SON THRONE in Jackbox. All the Jackbox rounds we did were golden, but naturally the bit I remember the best is my own joke.
- Discovering the sasquatch room with just me and Bozarth in the f plus house. Also, Bozarth stealing firewood from next door.
- Deciding to talk after the live show with Chai, Gany, and Dr. A for a few minutes and stretching it out into a few hours, which ended with Chai giving me a magic spell on a business card.
- Nutshell's very good gingerbread cookies.
- The extended series of riffing sessions that happened after karaoke that ended with the egyptian-themed piss escape room.
Honestly, the last couple months have been tremendously bad for me, and I started slipping into some old, bad habits and bitterness that I hadn't had in years. There was a certain point at karaoke where the singing was good (and I wish I could remember which song was going at the time, I think one of sachi's?) and there were two groups of people next to me were having funny conversations. I sat back and looked around, and everyone else in the room was happy to be there too, and an intense feeling of belonging swept over me. To Lemon, Boots, Jimmyfranks, Bozarth, anyone else who helped the show work, and everyone who came out, thank you for giving me that.
Also, for the record, I DID send Lemon an image to use for the big board, but it was late and he didn't notice it so I'll share it here: