I may look back one day and realise I lived through the final years of LitFandom

[major_clanger]

"You are offering a room full of vintage first-edition hardbacks to a group of people who read books on their phones."

Madeline Ashby: 'Memento mori. (Or, how Worldcon’s youth problem will resolve.)'

If I had more time this would be a long post ranging over:

• how the people I see at conventions in my mid-40s are in large part those I went to cons with

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[emmzzi]

I just wrote a long reply of ohhh so many other things wrong also but it made me cross.

But broadly; my days of attending are winding down as I'd rather spend my time with more open people. Actual author interviews and thoughts and discussion, I can get online, and that has an ignore function and a backbutton.

[robert_jones]

There is a fairly rich seam of "Why are the people I see at $X event in my mid-40s/50s/60s/70s the same people I saw in my mid 20s."