HI newgrounds

ive tried writing this recap like 3 times here is attempt number 4

THE NEWGROUNDS TORONTO MEETUP 2023, i was at that, and the past couple of days have been really really eventful! i'll go through this day by day

BEFORE IT ALL

BEFORE JULY 27TH

i got ready for yet another trip to canada! @ninjamuffin99 told me back in march that he had this idea for a toronto meetup in late july

i usually pass through toronto to visit my dear boyfriend oliver (@rumblelurin), so i thought i could do something fun and plan both a brief visit to toronto and a longer trip to oli's at once. and that is what i fucking did!!

JULY 27TH

with my bags fully packed, at 10 am, i left for........ Not canada. i had to get bloodwork done a couple towns over. lol. BUT THEN 2 hours later i would take a train....... also to Not canada, but to boston, where i would catch a flight to canada the next morning!

in the time between bloodwork and the train ride, i went to see barbie! but i only saw the first hour of it because i was worried about missing my train. who knew if i would ever see the second half of it...

after the train to boston, i spend the entire night texting various friends about how much i want tim hortons.

OK NOW IM ACTUALLY IN TORONTO

JULY 28TH

6 am, after chilling in the airport for the night, i take an EPIC flight to toronto from boston. i arrive there at like 8 am, and as soon as i get off the plane, i go up to an airport worker and ask where the nearest tim hortons is. then i had tim hortons and it was really good

also from like 8 am to 11 am i was texting my good buddy @DROID and fighting through exhaustion saying HI FRIEND IM IN CANADA WE NEED TO HANG OUT RN. then at 12 pm i checked into my hotel and accidentally slept for 6 hours. but then AFTER THAT i did a bunch of fun shit ill talk about that right now

so like at this point im still pretty tired, i'm well rested but i'm a bit jetlagged... i follow my dear buddy droid's instructions to meet up with him and other newgrounds peeps there and i end up in a big city square with big screens and lots of music playing. droid and his crew are approaching me, but in the haze i was in, i did not even notice, but i DID notice connor grail's gorillaz t-shirt, which then led me to notice that droid and @connorgrail and @crashtroid were standing RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.

they then led me to the rest of the NG people that were out and about at the time, which included ninjamuffin, @wandaboy, @snackers, @brandybuizel, @cadaver, and some more people i dont remember the usernames of at the moment (sorry!) which amounted to a small group of like 14 people!! we went to an all you can eat place and i had some squid rings and pork katsu

and after that... would you believe it... we went and saw BARBIE!! i finally got to see that second hour of the movie and it was really good

after the movie, we went to a bar and i met @luis and @teravex in person!

and then after all THAT.... i took an uber back to my hotel cuz it was almost 2 am and then i had a very good nights sleep excited for the day ahead of me

JULY 29TH

this was the BIG FAT EVENT DAY.... day of meeting like a lot more people and seeing newgrounds cartoons in a big theater....

at 12 pm i checked out of my hotel and proceeded to meet up with a bunch of the homies in eaton center and we got food before the big meetup. we was eatin in eaton.

and then we headed to christie park and GOOD LORD there were so many people like i thought the group of 14 from the previous day was a lot but there was like AT LEAST LIKE 80 PEOPLE by the time we left for the theater. i met a lot of really talented and cool people here and it was really cool to put faces to names i already knew and discover knew people who i didn't know. big highlight though was meeting @POSTBOY he was really really chill and cool. ALSO I MET TOM FULP and we fistbumped he's very kind as well

after we all mingled a bit, got a little bit rained on, i repeated the same joke with what had to be at least 7 different groups of people, it was time to go and walk to the royal theater.

we watched a buncha newgrounds cartoons there! bunch of people were playing marko kart ds waiting for the show to start and i was playing solitaire. then the show started! i think the selection for the screening was pretty good, really good variety of like recent good newgrounds stuff. lots of fun audience reactions.

then, would you believe it, we went to ANOTHER bar! but this time we had way more than 14-16 people. ninjamuffin had to walk in and ask "can i bring 90 people in here right now" and thankfully the worker was like "ya sure"

i had a lot of fun in the bar as well! i don't drink, so i was just chilling doodling and chatting with people for the most part. shoutout snackers and wanda and caddy and postboy they were all saying some really nice things to me in the bar they are some lovely lovely people. there was another guy saying some really nice stuff to me too but i forgot his name oops lol.....

i got to draw in a lot of peoples sketchbooks and a lot of people got to draw in my sketchbook!! that was really fun, i'll put the pages from my sketchbook at the end of this post

AFTER the bar, the group split up between people who went to a barcade and people who went to like... a restaurant with board games? i dont know what youd call it but i was at the board games place, and with postboy, ninjamuffin, brandy, and @elitemastereric, we played a game where we accused each other of stuff and ate a lot of really good fries. it was a really fun way to end the meet, wicked chill. eric is really really funny and nice and this was my first time ever talking to him hello eric if you're reading this u are epic

and then after all THAT FUN STUFF.... it was time for me to head out for the night. postboy was really cool and offered to let me hang at his place before chilling at the airport for the night, the two of us took on the toronto streets by ourselves and spent a bunch of time on streetcars and busses to his hotel. he checked into his hotel, where he was randomly given A WHOLE SUITE to himself and then he was like "yea u can just crash here for the night" and i was like "cool epic!"

i showed him the first 4 minutes and 46 seconds of a cartoon i may or may not talk about in nearly every newspost, he said he liked it!

i said goodnight and farewell to him, left him a little note saying thanks, and headed to the airport, where i would fly away to oli's place at 8 in the morning on the 30th.

END

THIS MEETUP WAS CRAZY FUCKING FUN. it was really different from previous NG meetups i've gone to, like there were SO MANY PEOPLE THERE, and it was really fun. ninjamuffin is a real one, postboy is a real one, caddy is a real one, wanda is a real one, snackers is a real one, droid is a real one, brandy is a real one, everyone i hung out with was so damn cool and fun to be around. everyone was so damn nice and respectful and funny and cool

i hope more of these happen, i wanna go to more of them!!! and @ritascounterattack YOU BETTER BE AT THE NEXT ONE i cant believe i met postboy in person before i met you in person we gotta hang out together.

as of writing this, i've been situated at oli's place for a couple days, and it's really cozy and awesome and would you believe it i love my boyfriend. THIS MEETUP WAS SO FUN have i said that yet

LOVE U NEWGROUNDS LOVE U CANADA LOVE U EVERYONE I HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH

anyone im forgetting the names of sorry bout that im writing this at 8 am :P

also forgive me i forgot i was making drawings in this post i am lazy

if u were at the meetup and im not following u let me know under this post and i will follow your ass immeidately