DragonSinger

It was a service dog, so no petting.

Just research whatever con you want to go to, so you can see which ones have good reputations. DragonCon has cops everywhere, and they are very strict about enforcing rules concerning costumes with weapons that have to be "peacebonded". At any event where there are tens of thousands attending, you should be somewhat aware of your surroundings, especially if you have a kid, so just have a normal amount of vigilance and have fun. There are drunk idiots at night, but they don't tend to do more than shout out stupid things or puke in potted plants. That's about all I can think of because DragonCon is sort of weird as a convention because it takes place among multiple blocks of downtown Atlanta instead of being held in a convention center. For that type of setting, you'll stay safe by sticking with the herd and paying attention to where the crowds are moving to late at night.

Thanks. It's amazing to me how so many people are willing to brave Georgia's humidity and heat to rock awesome costumes.

It is. I like that DragonCon can pretty much scratch any nerd itch that you have while being a pretty safe environment as long as you're using basic common sense.

I was walking like I went bull riding on Sunday morning, so I knew to keep my butt home and rest.

My absolute favorite Evil Queen: They looked like the online game ads I see while reading Chinese novels.

They were doing like a casino Avengers type deal, but some of their friends had wandered off. I do wonder what the whole group looked like together. They were giving out DragonCon chips too. I could almost see sparkles around him. This sucker actually rolled pretty damn quickly.

My sickly ass just didn't get a lot of good angles because I was to weak to even move much. This got set up when I went to see @katt_goddess who was at the Venture Brothers table. Doggy!

Just because my area has been on Swamp Murders twice, doesn't mean that we're bumpkins!

I expect this from one of the young'uns. I take it that your schools didn't have Laura Ingalls Wilder books as required reading?

Ranch is okay to put on a salad if you're not pouring a ton on it. I'm not big on vinaigrettes because those type of dressings plus a bunch of lettuce gives me heartburn. 20% of the salad being cheese sounds like a lot though.

I'm paranoid about loose big cats ever since that Ohio shit went down, and that'll last forever since those motherfucking transporters lost track of a tiger in Georgia last year. i have a bunch of weird quirks due to the OCD and fucked up nervous system.

I have a chapter in my next UF dedicated to "Florida Man" tales.

I had no idea there was an unown event for DragonCon until I read this. Since they looked weird and were obviously different symbols, I just caught them just in case they were important. I looked them up on google and see that I caught the letters, dagonc. It annoys my ocd so much that I didn't get an 'r'.

Are you being serious because I've always wondered how much effort goes into eating the skin off those things. Honey roasted peanuts and cheese cubes or something more solid like tacos are my favorite drinking snacks.

I got to play outside of the suburbs for once in downtown Atlanta during DragonCon and finally got to battle. It was just gyms because I was too tired to do any meet-ups. It was no surprise that my Snorlax was giving serious beatdowns, but I didn't know furret could whoop ass too. I just evolved sentret into them because they're so cute. Furret kept coming up as a suggestion, so I went with it, and my furry babies made me proud. No surprise about my vaporeon either, but I also totally underestimated exeggecute.

And this.

My neck hurts so much. And I look so sickly that the Marriott dude felt the need to escort me almost the whole way to the Westin(my rest spot among DragonCon hotels because they have the best comfy chairs).