I'm unlikely to go to Saratoga Springs...
Mar. 2nd, 2007 07:34 amWorld Fantasy Convention is just not my thing. Been there, done that, didn't enjoy it much at all.
Was that because of stress in the planning, stress on the site, problems with some of the facilities staff, or being awoken at 2:30 in the morning by security to deal with one of our members who was drunk, disorderly, and tried to take a swing at me?
Might have been all of those, but it wasn't.
I'm thinking it was mostly because the convention is so very deliberately non-fan. I'd started to write "anti-fan," but that's not right. There doesn't seem to be direct antagonism involved toward fans...just, perhaps, to things *fannish*. The convention struck me as non-fan, un-fan...in the sense that fans seem to be only accepted if they're of a certain type. I won't try to characterize that type, except to say that I are not it.
So my regrets to my friends in upstate New York, but it's unlikely you'll see me heading to Saratoga Springs come the first weekend in November.
This is not to say that I think WFC is a waste or anything...it's just not my kind of good time, in the same way that anime cons aren't...
Was that because of stress in the planning, stress on the site, problems with some of the facilities staff, or being awoken at 2:30 in the morning by security to deal with one of our members who was drunk, disorderly, and tried to take a swing at me?
Might have been all of those, but it wasn't.
I'm thinking it was mostly because the convention is so very deliberately non-fan. I'd started to write "anti-fan," but that's not right. There doesn't seem to be direct antagonism involved toward fans...just, perhaps, to things *fannish*. The convention struck me as non-fan, un-fan...in the sense that fans seem to be only accepted if they're of a certain type. I won't try to characterize that type, except to say that I are not it.
So my regrets to my friends in upstate New York, but it's unlikely you'll see me heading to Saratoga Springs come the first weekend in November.
This is not to say that I think WFC is a waste or anything...it's just not my kind of good time, in the same way that anime cons aren't...