My weird dream about TrotCon

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I say "dream" cuz it wasn't necessarily a nightmare cuz it wasn't really scary, more like disappointing.  Anyways...

I dreamt it was TrotCon and for some reason it was being held in a building that looked a lot like the place I work my part time job at.  It was almost more like a meetup but everything was totally wrong:  the con was 2 days instead of the usual 3, there was barely anyone there, no VAs, show staff or any special fandom guests, there were less than 10 vendors, the vendor hall was a really small room only able to fit a few tables and only a few families with their kids showed up.  I didn't even have all my stuff together.  Instead of my buttons I had the paper circle cut-out prints and my 4x6 prints were tiny for some reason.  I didn't really sell anything on the first day, instead there was this other artist who was a jeweler who let me keep this jewelry craft I made at her table so it wouldn't confuse people and it sold for like $5 which went to me.  Nothing I made sold the rest of that day probably because I forgot to put down some paper that showed the prices so I kept looking for flash-cards to use but they all seemed to be withered or already used and I could never tell anyone cuz I kept getting up and leaving my table to go find supplies.  The next day things were better but rather than families being there it was more of a typical brony crowd but for some reason they were all my old high school classmates rather than bronies I know in the fandom and they weren't even buying stuff in the vendor hall, just wandering around looking.  There was virtually no one there that you would recognize from the fandom at all.  The only other thing I managed to sell was a $15 print so I made $20 altogether and was really pissed off by the time it was over cuz of all the money I spent getting prepared for this con.

Well that sure was a weird dream.  It was one of those dreams that you think is the actual thing as you're in the middle of it cuz nothing really surreal happened.  Well I was glad to see it was a dream cuz can you imagine how much that would suck if we had a con like that?  That made Las Pegasus Unicon look good!

But hey, I'm not scared, if anything that dream helped me prepare better.  Heck, I did get one little bit of inspiration from it:  I recall having a tryptic with all three of my 11x17 prints on display for people to see before buying the real thing.  Only problem is that the "Equestrian Royalty" one is portrait so that wouldn't do too well.  If anyone with vendoring experience has any better ideas for how to display those prints, please leave a comment with advice.  They are 11x17 poster paper so they're pretty big and won't do good just lying on the table with everything else.  They are also a bit flimsy.  I know cuz I just got them in the mail.

But yeah, that was my odd dream about TrotCon.  From time to time I have wondered if I'll really do good enough at the vendor there but at least now I know it could be much worse.  :3
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Legate47's avatar
What again happened at the Las Vegas convention? I know it didn't go well.