Michigan Homestuck Meetup

[Zigkirby]

This thread is for organizing MSPA meetups in various places in the state of Michigan!!!

Previous meetups have been in Ann Arbor in February and Detroit in September!

Upcoming planned meetups are the following:

• October 22nd at the Country Mill Orchard near Lansing! More details forthcoming. CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST
  
• Youmacon in Detroit, November 3-6! There are a couple photoshoots and meetups planned, being organized over on the Youmacon forums.

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This thread is for planning and generating interest for a Michigan Homestuck Meetup. It will probably be held this January or Febuary somewhere in Ann Arbor. Of course, both of these are subject to change. Post here if you're interested.

EDITS: Contact me on skype if you want to help with the planning. Search Zigkirby / zeugmatographicKrukolibidinous

Location: Ann Arbor; Pinball Pete's (1214 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Date: Saturday, Feburary 5th
Time: Starting at NOON
Events: Hanging out in the Arcade until the group wants to move on. There's tons to do in Ann Arbor, comic shops, music stores, hipster cafes, the variety of interesting things to do is boundless.

Requests:
Bring your own money! Seriously like a twenty at least.
This is a Homestuck themed meetup, so come in homestuck themed attire. No need to cosplay, but see if you can swing a MSPA shirt.
TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
Contact me on skype or through PM if you are 100% confirmed on coming. I'd like to plan for secondary events based on population.

[icu2jimy]

Fuck yes.

[Elementoid]

Totally interested but I don't think I have any way of getting there unless I get a ride from someone.

[Blueberry]

whoa michigan yeahhhh

this is happening.

[Zigkirby]

More details as interest rises. (Tell your friends)

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[barthurs]

HOPY SHIT THATS WHERE I LIVE! WOOOO!

[icu2jimy]

More details as interest rises. (Tell your friends)

I know a few little girls who might enjoy this.

[Avi]

protip from Team Maryland: pick a date and location so people can commit or decline

MLK weekend?

[Pillock]

On behalf of Michigan's southern neighbor Ohio, I don't know why you'd pick that place for such a meeting. But I'm sure it'd be awesome, if not a little awkward like all community gatherings.

protip from Team Maryland: pick a date and location so people can commit or decline

MLK weekend?

Perfect. I seriously cannot think of a better way to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacrifice than spending a full day discussing a story about four kids playing a video game to save the Earth, and also Nicholas Cage. I'm not even kidding that sounds sweet.

[Zigkirby]

On behalf of Michigan's southern neighbor Ohio, I don't know why you'd pick that place for such a meeting.

There are several reasons I'm favoring Ann Arbor.
1) I'm from Detroit myself, and it's not far away from the densest population centers.
2) Since it's NOT in my immediate area, it's not in a corner of the state. Ann Arbor, while still very much South-Eastern Michigan is at least more central and accessible than anywhere near me.
3) Ann Arbor is a college town filled with hipsters, and thus, and plenty of neat things to do and places to go.
4) (Fuck Ohio and your traffic. Love Detroit)

Anyway, the location IS subject to change if there's a better alternative.

I know a few little girls who might enjoy this.

Yes, they've already told me as much on 4chan... unless you're reffering to little girls I havn't talked to yet, in which case I may have to can this whole thing before it becomes a fucking creepfest. Alternatively I can bring muscle to protect the lolis from the strange older men with the neckbeards who will no doubt come.

protip from Team Maryland: pick a date and location so people can commit or decline

There will be, most likely a month in advance. I'm just raising interest at the moment so I can plan accordingly. I don't want to plan on chilling in a cafe if we'd have to cram 30 people into it.

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[icu2jimy]

Yes, they've already told me as much on 4chan... unless you're reffering to little girls I havn't talked to yet, in which case I may have to can this whole thing before it becomes a fucking creepfest. Alternatively I can bring muscle to protect the lolis from the strange older men with the neckbeards who will no doubt come.

I think we mean the same little girls. And, yes, protecting the lolis is of utmost importance.

Edit:
I should remember to shave before this, not that I don't do it practically every few hours.

[Zuki]

I don't have any business being here, but Zig threatened to post details about my personal life if I did. I am totes calling his bluff now.

Also, as regards community meetups and awkwardness, I highly rec. people bring a little cash to go out to eat, or at least have someone bring a portable music-playing-device with speakers. A little music, or looking up dumb videos on youtube (John Hodgeman's Hobo Matters, f'rex,), goes a long ways to breaking the nice.

That entire last paragraph was made so that I felt like I was contributing content to this post.

[Zigkirby]

I am totes calling his bluff now.

Zuki, who lives with her father and her transgendered sister, has a Midnight curfew on her wireless internet connection during weekdays. (WHAT NOW?) dwells high above the District of Columbia, a wary guardian o'erlooking the wicked streets from atop her lair at the tip of the Washington Monument. She lives with her cat, and spends the midnight hours volunteering at a shelter for troubled mutant youth, and pursuing compassionate vigilante justice.

Also, as regards community meetups and awkwardness, I highly rec. people bring a little cash to go out to eat, or at least have someone bring a portable music-playing-device with speakers. A little music, or looking up dumb videos on youtube (John Hodgeman's Hobo Matters, f'rex,), goes a long ways to breaking the nice.

That entire last paragraph was made so that I felt like I was contributing content to this post.

Yes. Bringing money will defiantly be on the list of things people need to do to participate.

[icu2jimy]

Yes. Bringing money will defiantly be on the list of things people need to do to participate.

I currently have money coming out of my ears.
As long as I don't blow it all on toys and shit, I'll be cool.

[dragonpaul99]

4) (Fuck Ohio and your traffic. Love Detroit)

Detroit being compared favorably to any other place in America?!? Huh, first time for everything, I guess.

[Zigkirby]

4) (Fuck Ohio and your traffic. Love Detroit)

Detroit being compared favorably to any other place in America?!? Huh, first time for everything, I guess.

No. You don't understand. Why is I-75 always under construction in Ohio? WHY? WHYYY?

[waterbottles]

No. You don't understand. Why is I-75 always under construction in Ohio? WHY? WHYYY?

I-75 is the worst. Not only does it go through the industrial area of Cincinnati, my mother and I once got stuck in traffic for 3 or 4 hours getting to Dayton (which is a little over an hour away).
However, if you ride 75 to Lexington in Kentucky, it's a really nice, pretty drive.

[barthurs]

Plus I live there, so I know some cool places to go!

[Wesley Foxx]

If I wasn't so averse to driving places I've never gone before, and had a reliable work schedule, I would probably be close enough to make it.

Indiana laughs at Ohio's claim. We are so much more southern Michigan than you. Also the year I spent there sucked. :<

[SunglassescladGunslinger]

Ohio sucks.

[Zigkirby]

Yes, as much as I'd like this thread to devolve into riffing the great lakes area, I'm going to confirm the location as Ann Arbor unless someone wants to contact me and convince me otherwise in the next few days. The meet-up will likely start at an arcade there called Pinball Pete's, but again, subject to change if anyone has better ideas. Still looking into the logistics behind all this.

[AgentParsec]

I'm from Michigan! Unfortunately I live in New Mexico now.

[flutterShy]

Heeeey, ripping the Great Lakes rips Michigan too! e_e

Also, relevance:

Dear Michigan;

I-75 is always under construction to piss you off.

Love, Ohio, and SpyPoet, who is smirking.

[Bilar]

If you were true Homestuck AND Michigan fans, the meet up would be under the Mackinac Bridge.

Get it? GET IT!?

(That was terrible. Would like to go, but too busy working, and don't really feel like dealing with I-94 from Kalamazoo, it sucks)

[Zigkirby]

It's too far out. Also that joke sucked.