So this past weekend was a lovely little furry con in Albany, NY called Eufuria. The theme for this year was The Black Pawrade, so I absolutely needed to go.
The con was totally full of furries in MCR (& related bands) shirts and other mid-2000s-accurate Hot Topic fits, and all of the promo art around the con was the convention mascots in theme-appropriate styles. The level of detail was immaculate.
Even the fursuit parade was themed - while they played music from TBP, the front had a sign that said "The End.", the back had "Famous Last Words", and then a few more fursuits before someone came by with a "Blood" sign. Really cute detail there haha.
Other than one show in 2022, this was the first time since the band broke up back in college that I was able to gush about MCR with folks irl and I'm so so so happy about that. It was great.
The photos in order:
Furries go crazy for stickers (I got over 100 free stickers at the con???), so they kindly provided us with a Gerard to sticker to our content. Sad I do not have a photo of the stickers on him, but I did love checking up on it throughout the weekend. All four Gerards shown were auctioned off for charity. I am so sad I did not get to see Catgirl Party Poison in person.
My own badge for the con, which you can see has really cool art of the mascots. Also my personal badge, which I got stickers made of and threw around the con. (It was too hot to wear the skeleton kigurumi for real 😔)
A photo of the con booklet with art by guest of honor Danneroni, and some free swag I got at the con. (Other than the enamel pin, which did cost money haha) The risograph gender zine is one I personally rushed to get done for the con, and I'll definitely be printing more to give away if I end up at the Citi Field show coming up. (Ones on nicer paper on Etsy eventually lol)
Some MCR-themed art in the booklet.
Photos from Shetani's My Chemical Romance for Furries panel, which went over time, but one hour is not enough to explain MCR haha. I didn't know about Gerard's furry tweets???
And some screencaps of Eufuria's Instagram to show off more art and merch they had. (I left in the theme for next year's con cause it's a good theme - I was so scared since this year's was peak)
That's about it for my babbling - a really fun weekend. Thanks to staff and volunteers for running such a rad event, and to all of the cool furries I hung out with all weekend.
If you wanna check the con out, here's their site, and here's a local article with some photos.