Thank you Atlantale
I know con depression is a thing people get. I have always been an artist or vendor at various events and I never ever felt what con depression may have felt like until after Atlantale happened.
I've been there from the moment I encouraged Spoopy-Gaster with a Tumblr reply all the way to me and Spoopy being the last ones out the building after Atlantale ended. It's quite the surreal roller coaster ride with various high and low points. Considering neither of us ran events like this before, there was definitely a lot of high expectations and some criticisms made about it.
All we can do is do our best, and do our best is what we did! We stayed Determined made it happened, with many people in this wonderful conmunity that supported us along the way. They may have not been there since the humble beginnings, it felt like they are.
Seeing the event happen on February 17, 2018, I can't find the words to describe my feelings. I was never good at expressing feelings with words, so I will borrow some words from our beloved Prince of the Monsters, Asriel:
"Even if they barely know you, it feels like they really love you."
I never ever been to any event in all three years I've been going where there was so much love, admiration, and good vibes everywhere. Regardless of someone's upbringing, how they choose to identify themselves, who they prefer to love, everyone was kind to each other.
I know most of the artists are unable to leave their tables at all because all of them were overwhelmed by the amount of love and appreciation from both old and new fans. I myself manned my table for all 7 hours of the event, I couldn't even say hi to my fellow artists! I appreciate everyone who made it to my table to say Howdy to me, because I definitely never experience lines like at my table before (it went out the door I felt like). I even met a few Sonic fans who followed my Sonic art for MANY years during my beginnings on deviantart.
I hope when Toby Fox sees all the photos and videos of this event, that it puts a huge smile on his face.
