Well, the last con I went to was in 2006, so I can only look at cons now through OPB (Other People's Blogs). The second convention I'd ever attended in my life was GenCon when it was still in Wisconsin; I don't remember the year. Right before GenCon, I'd gone, involuntarily, to an anime con in Chicago, because my con-panions had it in their ( Read more... )

Lots of them this past week. I don't have a lot of time to blog, however, so consider this a links list of everything awesome I discovered this past week:

via kynn (and by kynn)
Heartbreak & Heroines RPG
Almost makes me want to play a table-top RPG again. Not that I ran into sexist nonsense (definitely not at my games) but at gaming cons? Yeah.

ETA ( Read more... )

I've been glad to see the topic of sexism in fantasy art being discussed lately (beginning with Tempest's post about the covers on Realms of Fantasy, then on Doug Cohen's LJ, then Jim Hines'. This post processes my own thoughts on the subject (some have long been simmering away) as someone who started off a fantasy reader, then also a fan of ( Read more... )