"I'm back in the saddle again... out where a friend is a friend."

After a hiatus of some three years, I once more found myself on the floor of TrotCon. There is something wonderful, profoundly odd, and comforting about returning to a place you haven't been to in several years. On the one hand the scene is familiar, the hotel the same as always. Yet there is always a beautiful newness to it all, of seeing things through the eyes of the present and the now, versus the lens of memory.

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Trotcon 2022 is over and done, having been my first pony convention. Gonna muse and retrospect in bullet points.

-Not too crowded! Some lectures filled up quickly, but in general there was a very pleasant balance of both elbow room and a sense of being at a busy convention. I didn’t go for autographs or the night market so maybe I just happened to skip everything that would feel like ‘line-con.’

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