The #hq London deviantMEET was truly fantastic; I met loads of great people and had a wonderful time. Many thanks to everyone who came and to those who organised it and everyone who helped to make it such a great day!



It was a day that started off, for me, with meeting up with *Tabon, =Maivale and *Taikata. I'm a huge admirer of *Taikata's art and it was great to meet her; I'd never spoken to the other two before but they were truly lovely!
Together, we travelled to Knightsbridge, where someone insisted we get off the tube and walk! (I blame =Maivale! ) So our journey there took a little longer and was a little more exhausting than we were expecting!


When we arrived, there was loads of people there; I was amazed! Our little group sat down, munched on our lunch and waited for things to get kicked off - *Tabon was making a chain mail pencil case, which was fascinating!


Then $spyed directed us all to gather around while he did a song and dance routine talked and introduced some cool people such as $mccann, $pachunka, $Heidi, $zilla774 and more!


Next we split off into our specialty groups, I went with @dxd and the photographers. @dxd entertained us all by getting beaten up doing some break dancing? I got chatting to ~No-More-Heroes, ~Puckmonkey. =Vendrava, =WinterDruidess and *miikeyC and some more people, whose names I didn't get. !DarbySniper joined us at some point, with a ridiculous amount of Magners which I helped him get rid of... We watched a demo of future dA projects, such as groups and portfolios, which was really interesting and I can't wait!


!DarbySniper introduced me to !whitesidevampire, who is truly one of the funniest people I've ever met and really great. And then everyone left (It was about 8pm by now!) made their way back to South Kensington tube station and took over the Circle line! But not before !DarbySniper was made to pick up rubbish.


All I can say about the Metropolitan Bar is that they make good cocktails. That and they were incredibly accommodating and didn't bat an eye lid as about 30 deviants took over one corner of the room, simply wandered around to check everyone's ID (While *miikeyC hid in the loos, of course!)


The tube journey back was (what I remember of it!) entertaining to say the least. I went in completely the wrong direction home to make sure that !DarbySniper did indeed fuck off and get his train home, but insisted we get off the tube at Kings Cross for a loo break!

And then collapsed into bed and got up hideously early this morning!

Anyway, it was a really great day and has inspired me to go to future devMEETS, for sure. I met loads of great people and just wish that I'd managed to get everyone's name!

For those of you who saw me with the Photographers, head over to =Poppet-Pictures - that's where the arty stuff happens, anyway!

If you want to see more photos for the day, check: [link]