White Kids Love J-pop

[sarahtheboring]

1. We generally (and by "generally" I mean "in the one year that we had two cons, and it worked, so we intend to do it again") split the take after Tsubasacon. And even though it's probably roughly equivalent to the amount we've spent over the course of the year in materials anyway, it feels like a windfall and dammit, I intend to do something fun

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[lilgumba]

Man you are lucky you still go to cons. I went last year for a day to get a dvd I wanted and to meet some of the AMV people I probably should have met 5 years ago when I was still making AMVs. lol Lately the crowd has been annoying me and it feels like something is missing that was there those few years ago. The only reason I would go to a con now is because my nephew is getting into anime. >=D I have to make sure the legacy sticks.

[sarahtheboring]

I would have gotten bored and stopped going if we hadn't started up the Artists' Alley table, I think. As luck would have it, it's a good thing I did, because I invited my friendslist to stop by, and that, uh, worked out well for me. Heh.

I do still like shopping at cons, or at least window-shopping, and a few other things about cons, but it gets hard to justify spending all that money to go if you aren't going to do stuff, y'know? :P

Anyway, I think over time that happens to a lot of people, which is probably why you get a lot of "cons suck" smack-talk from people who still go to them for no apparent reason. It's part of the deal.

[sarahtheboring]

My cynical/conspiracy-theory side suspects that one reason may lie in the last sentence there.

But I do get it. They have a particular vision of how things are supposed to go, and if it drifts away from that vision in practice, then... *shrug* I think banning things like pins and bookmarks are going a bit too far, but I'm not running the con, either.