#RAINFURREST

[howlingday]

On the one hand, furries are people with unique interests and a subculture with their own vocabulary, both admirablein their own right and shoild be respected.

On the other hand, RAINFURREST.

[desktop-backgrounds-by-me]

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[clinically-not-straight]

If anyone is looking for a good time, I recommend looking through the newest comments on this video

Like, I love his videos, bar the plagiarism, but it isn't a surprise that he has an audience of weird little conservative puritans. Half the comments

[coelpts]

aight, this is a bit of a long shot sort of post but here we go.

rainfurrest 2015 is commonly reported to be a bit of a problematic convention, and that's probably fair. but i went to rainfurrest '15 and what i took away from it was not the constant problems with staff and rooms and the towels and whatnot, but instead an interactive element put together by a small staff team: a puzzle solving game set.

in the con book and scattered all over the hotel there were several puzzles. the solution to each puzzle gave the name of an item or a hint to it, and once you had solved all of the puzzles you could trek your happy kibosh down to puzzle hq and present your findings in one final superpuzzle. if you won, you were thanked during the final ceremony and if there were any other prizes i don't remember them. i think it was just for the fun of the hunt.

i was one of four solvers, and one of only two solo solvers (and unfortunately the last of all of them- but i was nineteen at the time, so i think this is justified). and honestly, i was so deeply engrossed in the puzzle hunt that i developed tunnel vision for three days straight. i did puzzles and nothing else. honestly it was the best three days of my life until my roommates made a custom puzzle hunt for my birthday just last week <3

unfortunately because my old r2droid2 phone was phased out and the lg4 shat itself point blank in 2016, the photos i took of rainfurrest '15 were almost completely lost- and nobody else ever posted an archive of these puzzles anywhere on the internet. originally the head of the puzzle team was going to post them, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. i happened to save most of the puzzles via dodgy skype log research and reaching out to my friends, but anywhere between 1 and 3 puzzles have been lost. i know the title to one such puzzle was the Librarian's Puzzle, but if there were any more i've straight up forgotten them. having memory problems really sucks.

so, i'm making this post now. it's a longshot, but hey, it might work. if anyone has the missing 1-3 puzzles from rainfurrest '15, please tag them onto this post or drop me an ask so we can have a full collection. i want to try and save this tiny but fun piece of rainfurrest, so i can talk about what made me fall so deeply in love with puzzle solving games.

[ghostopossumlives]

Your mind would not be able to comprehend the horror

It was really awkward at work today because I was talking to my coworker about how i'd heard "Rainfurrest" briefly described on a different channel i watch and was excited to look up a video essay about it when I got home because we both enjoy wacky fucked up stuff.

This other lady who is nice and all but literally has not even heard of YouTube (not hyperbole. She had never heard of YouTube) saw that we were happy and chatting and kept trying to get me to bring her up to speed on what we were chatting about and it was so awkward because

Like, I'm not trying to exclude you but I would need to explain a dozen concepts to you before I would be able to tell you about "Rainfurrest", and in the end, you would *only regret* learning about it.

[very-gay-alkyrion]

It's been officially eight years since RainFurrest 2015

[thatfurrylightelemental]

I propose a double-feature con. Two days of DashCon 2, two days of The Second Rainfurrest. Or maybe both at the same time in close-by hotels.

This combination of man’s hubristic actions will benefit no one, and will likely devolve into degeneracy. But it should be done for the sake of advancing the science of sociology and to remind ourselves of past mistakes.

When we getting Dashcon 2

[lawfulspawnofthedevil]

I'm not one to complain about shit I dont partake in but is there a practical reason why so few cons take place anywhere in the midwest

[stitched-skies]

Everyone here is focusing on Somerton with this whole mess rn and yeah that guy fucking sucks for so many reasons, but Internet Historian shouldn't be off the hook either for being a complete nazi pos (oh yeah, he's also a serial plagiarist too).

The fact that it's only now becoming widespread knowledge that he's a total chud (not just overt with it for years, but another key figure of the late 2010's internet alt-right resurgence) and continuing to use his reputation to further his agenda, yet people still consider his videos insightful despite doing zero proper research and clear disrespect for any of the subjects he covers, is absolutely harrowing to say the least.

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: elon doing shit

Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyy Stephano king! Stephen King: what is it now elon Musk: eyyy i decide to steppa back from doge Musk: now i haffa much more time to hang with my besta bud Stephano king King: King: King:

Poe: steve why is elon musk here King: it wasn't my idea Musk: eyyy checka this out Musk: [attempts to roll a joint, immediately eats shit. it is not clear what move he was trying to make]

Poe: steve we talked about this Poe: you can't keep bringing your friend elon here King: he's not my friend! Mary Shelley: you want me to take care of this Poe: now mary we don't want anything sordid King: no wait a second edgar

Clive Barker: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the super rich guy Elon Musk: eyyyy relatable! Barker: who realized that he was mortal Musk: eyyy couldn't be me!

Barker: so anyway there's this guy who's SO rich Barker: like richer than god Barker: and he realizes 'oh shit' Barker: 'i'm gonna die some day' Elon Musk: mama mia!!! Musk: eyyyy datsa scary!

Musk: am i-a gonna die?! King: someday, elon King: everybody dies eventually Musk: b-but ima rich! King: Musk: ima rich, i say!

Poe: now look what you've done, clive Poe: you gave elon musk an existential crisis Barker: good Poe: no, not good! Poe: now we've got to listen to this all night! Barker: no we don't

Poe: elon,we took a vote and we decided that you're out of the midnight society Poe: please don't come here anymore Musk: mama mia! Musk: but what abouta Stephano? Poe: steve voted twice actually Musk: mama mia! Musk: this-a my biggest humiliation since i get kicked out of bay area baby furs!

[baby fur meet-up] Frank Belknap Long: anyway my fursona is a wolf with heterochromatic eyes CS Lewis: my fursona is a dragon Musk: eyyy letsa hava some sammiches anna chocklit! Musk: mama mia wingsnugs! Long: Lewis: Long: you were the guy who got rainfurrest cancelled weren't you

[psychedelic-charm]

I hope you guys set more realistic expectations for this con. We don't want another situation where the organizers have to beg guests for money because they overestimated the amount of attendees and can't pay their booking fees.

And you'd better pay Strange for her appearance!

Prepare yourself.

[kaijuno]

Remember dashcon lol. And then rainfurrest the next year. The mid 2010s was a wild time

[chaifootsteps]

I know Viv and Spindle probably just wanted Amazon's money and be done with it, but they really didn't think this through. Why would people, except for diehard fans who've got money, want to sign for Prime just to watch a cartoon that's going to come out for free on YouTube one month later? And spoilers are going to be rampant now, either out on your face or through gossip. This fandom is barely able to contain leaks when they come out. Are they going to strike fans who legally watched the show for commenting about it before it's released for free on-line? I doubt it. This could lead to some disastrous sitch where views may collapse even harder (or they simply won't make views for Prime), the fandom will be all thumbs on how to organize itself and vitriol amongst fans will increase, and so on.

I think it's going to be a clusterfuck. The episodes are going to leak faster than a Rainfurrest diaper, diehard stans are going to scream and stamp their feet and cry, meanwhile everyone's going to be watching pirated episodes that don't put peacock money in Viv's pockets which may or may not lead to a Bluesky tantrum.

[talbot-larry]

Jigsaw voice: "Mr Whannell, Leigh, by now you are probably panicking. As you've noticed you are chained in an exact replica of the Saw 2004 bathroom, a movie you wrote and starred in, movies you should have stuck with. See, Mr. Whannel, you have a gift for killings monsters, or their legacies at least. In front of you is a sketch pad. Both your hands and the pencil are covered in heavy strength lube (VERY difficult to wipe off). I want you to draw a werewolf. An honest to god, werewolf. And write a small bio about it under it that is original and compelling with an appreciation of the original legend. Monitoring your progress (cameras have been placed above and around the sketchpad) are a panel of furry artists and werewolf fans. You have 60 minutes. If you disatisfy the panel by not drawing it with fur or go past the timer, VERY convincing photos of you at the infamous Rainfurrest 2015 convention will systematically be released on your twitter, every social media platform, and the busiest subreddits. Why are you chained? The eraser is 1 foot out of your reach. Are you confident enough to draw 1 draft? Good luck.

[kerri-the-skunk]

Wow! What Very Normal fans he has!

i know everyone’s dunking on james somerton but i think people are missing out on internet historian’s fans coping so badly that they aren’t finishing the video

[bvrntwithwater]

The Horrors That Happened At Rainfurrest 2015 Make Unit 731 Seem Like Paradise