Convention Recap: Dragon Con 2024 - The Possum Posse Gather!

I have amazing friends.

My closest folks (who I go to Dragon with each year) saw what I had going on at Dragon Con this year, and in the weeks leading up to it started asking me for links to buy my shirts and such, so they could support me. Which is amazing, but also made me feel very awkward. Should it? No. But it did. Imposter syndrome, yadda yadda.

I thought about it, weighed some things out (like the risk of how good it would make me feel if someone showed versus how bad I would feel if no one did), and decided that I would organize the very first Possum Posse Gather. At 6 O'clock on Friday I expected to meet with the folks I came to Dragon with, and that would be the crowd. And I would have been very, very happy with that. They are my favorite people in the world, and if they decided to spend any amount of the very precious hours of Dragon coming to this, it would be amazing.

But wonder of wonders, I ended up having a number of fans show up!! No names (though you will likely recognize at least one of the amazing faces around me), but I had five (non-personal life) folks come spend time! One even knit me a crochet possum as a present! A crochet possum! With a mouth that will open, and a cute little tongue! I legit almost cried when it was all over, that's how full my heart was. And over the next couple of days I had several more folks tell me that had planned to come, but couldn't make it! The fact that anyone would chose hanging out with this portly lad from Alabama when they could be off trying to meet the likes of John Cleese or Catherine Tate...

Damn. Just damn.

How did I ever get so lucky? What even is this timeline?!