Dashcon

[calapine]

Anyone else glomping down every detail of the Dashcon wank and feeling like it's about ten years ago when, lo, there was much and merry wank, and fandom was often and greatly amused by it?

THE BALLPIT.

It's awful folks got fucked over, but this train wreck...it's maybe even more compellingly awful then MsScribe.

Comments

[girlofprey]

I feel like there was another con really recently that was a huge flop and possibly a scam, but no-one's bringing it up, so eh. But yeah. It's all pretty spectacular in the Dashcon tag right now.

[sabra_n]

Yeah, there was a bronie (brony? I have no idea) con gone terribly wrong in similar ways...I want to say last year? But those fandoms don't really overlap, so I guess no one in that corner of Tumblr heard the cautionary tales.

[girlofprey]

Yeah, I thought it was something to do with the Bronies, but...there've been a few disasters with them and it's hard to tell apart. MLP was actually at Dashcon - as much as ANY fandom was at Dashcon - but yeah. Lesson not learned.

[calapine]

Oh, the Brony one! Yeah, that was an actual scam...this seems to be overwhelming amounts of naivetie.

[sabaceanbabe]

I've been reading about DashCon on Fandom Wank all day. It's been glorious.

[calapine]

Ooh, Fandom Wank lives?

[chocolatepot]

It's pretty amazing. I feel bad for the kids, but "an extra hour in the ballpit" is the best new meme I've seen in years.

[calapine]

Most of the attendees seem to have had a decent time, which is lovely, even if they did get shaken down for cash. *And* it's provided much joy for fans all round the world!

[nonelvis]

Probably by next week I'll be sick to death of the phrase "ball pit," but right now it's still cracking me up.

[calapine]

WE SHALL NEVER TIRE OF AN HOUR IN THE BALL PIT.

[girlofprey]

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN EXTRA HOUR IN THE BALL PIT.

[elisi]

I have literally no idea what you're talking about... There is good wank? Where?

[masakochan]

Fandom Wank's got a pretty good write up on this trainshed full of trainwrecks.

And there's these two posts as a quick write-up of stuff that went on.

And a picture of the ballpit that everyone's talking about.

[elisi]

...

Ballpit.

I might not recover.

[masakochan]

Would a funny image help?