We now live in a world where Stewart Hosie MP can address a stadium full of screaming fans.
Alex Salmond called it "the greatest political conference ever in these islands", BuzzFeed News calls it the strangest political event in Scotland since Robert the Bruce felt it was appropriate to take leadership advice from a spider.
It was strange enough that a stage which has hosted Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and One Direction was now home to Stewart Hosie, MP for Dundee East.
Stranger still, however, is how relentlessly triumphant it was. The SNP doesn't feel like a party which just lost a referendum – no party feeling sorry for itself hires a pair of glitter cannons.
But that's exactly what the SNP did today. Their 12,000-strong audience – mainly made up of new members gained since the referendum – sang, cheered, whooped, danced, waggled foam fingers and had golden glitter shot at their faces.
