Posted in: /r/askfens
Posted by: TomboyOrion
Subj: RE: Congoers of the Fenspace convention. What's your creepiest con experience?
"The fandoms that didn't inspire Capital-F-"Fen" are a scary place."
I'd include some of the Capital-F fandoms in that as well. More than a few of us that came out of their biomod with green skins tend to avoid the Trekkies these days, for instance. It's not the majority of them (Hell, I know a few guys at Starfleet that would love to start swinging a banhammer over this behaviour) but you can only have people go 'well, you wanted to be an Orion, so you have to take the bad with the good' for so long before you start really feeling the call of the Dark Side, y'know? *Sigh* Remember when space was supposed to be a fresh start, away from the old prejudices? I guess it doesn't matter if you're pink, green or furry, we're still human, for good or ill.
Posted by: TomboyOrion
Subj: RE: Congoers of the Fenspace convention. What's your creepiest con experience?
"The fandoms that didn't inspire Capital-F-"Fen" are a scary place."
I'd include some of the Capital-F fandoms in that as well. More than a few of us that came out of their biomod with green skins tend to avoid the Trekkies these days, for instance. It's not the majority of them (Hell, I know a few guys at Starfleet that would love to start swinging a banhammer over this behaviour) but you can only have people go 'well, you wanted to be an Orion, so you have to take the bad with the good' for so long before you start really feeling the call of the Dark Side, y'know? *Sigh* Remember when space was supposed to be a fresh start, away from the old prejudices? I guess it doesn't matter if you're pink, green or furry, we're still human, for good or ill.