Posted in: /r/askfens
Posted by: OldManVF
Subj: RE: Congoers of the Fenspace convention. What's your creepiest con experience?
I "like" the ironic twists of the con scene myself... in that they make great "Are you KIDDING me?!" stories. I've had encounters with the "gentleman" in question myself, both while piloting my Kusanagi telepresence, and au naturel as I've been since the Gryphon incident.
In the first instance, I was simultaneously flattered, insulted and squicked. Flattered that he thought Kusanagi was a real person with cybermods, squicked at a similar incident to Ford's that led to the insult when he found out my "shell" was a telepresence... and not one of the Cyber-faction Mads' work.
The incident "au naturel" was when I was helping with a "Squeaky Clean Magical Girls" event at SDCC last year and one of the first time cosplayers was this sweet kid with some of the first FDA-approved cyberlimbs cadged from the Catalog. (Mad props to the Geisel School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth back in my old stomping grounds!)
Guess who shows up and starts hassling "Cyber Nurse Angel Ririka?" Bingo. In fact, you can find a video of my response here. I thought the 60's Batman splash and the shout from the 70's Shazam shout from its opening were a nice touch. Though I also like the one that used Jim Nabors instead.
I got into so much trouble for that punch... but oddly enough, not from Con security, but from some of the folks who weren't aware of my recent history who'd invited me to a feminism panel along with some of the "I'm only a big name on the Moon" Supers, like Linda Marston (JLI's "Wonder Woman" of the moment). I went, never having been to one, and thinking maybe now that I have some idea of how things work with matching X chromosomes and having a viewpoint of both sides, I might be able to contribute meaningfully to the conversation... Yeah. No.
Apparently some of the great centers of the Social Media experiment metastasized while we weren't looking/relevant to them. I wish I hadn't had to have "the progressive stack" explained to me so... viscerally. Fortunately, the prickly egoes "up" let me understand how to deal with that much rage at my bare existence. If I recall correctly, Linda and I storming out in high dudgeon actually shook some things up... until I found Lime gleefully using our store Website's Interface for Intrusion Countermeasures as an insanely quick Space Invaders level from all the vicious comments and hacking attempts in retaliation from how one of the "persons" (xyr choice for self-description) that was on the panel spun things afterwards.
The fandoms that didn't inspire Capital-F-"Fen" are a scary place. Though Linda tells me a lot of Senshi have the same problem at earth-side Cons. I shudder to think of the crap involuntary catgirls have to go through.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Posted by: OldManVF
Subj: RE: Congoers of the Fenspace convention. What's your creepiest con experience?
I "like" the ironic twists of the con scene myself... in that they make great "Are you KIDDING me?!" stories. I've had encounters with the "gentleman" in question myself, both while piloting my Kusanagi telepresence, and au naturel as I've been since the Gryphon incident.
In the first instance, I was simultaneously flattered, insulted and squicked. Flattered that he thought Kusanagi was a real person with cybermods, squicked at a similar incident to Ford's that led to the insult when he found out my "shell" was a telepresence... and not one of the Cyber-faction Mads' work.
The incident "au naturel" was when I was helping with a "Squeaky Clean Magical Girls" event at SDCC last year and one of the first time cosplayers was this sweet kid with some of the first FDA-approved cyberlimbs cadged from the Catalog. (Mad props to the Geisel School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth back in my old stomping grounds!)
Guess who shows up and starts hassling "Cyber Nurse Angel Ririka?" Bingo. In fact, you can find a video of my response here. I thought the 60's Batman splash and the shout from the 70's Shazam shout from its opening were a nice touch. Though I also like the one that used Jim Nabors instead.
I got into so much trouble for that punch... but oddly enough, not from Con security, but from some of the folks who weren't aware of my recent history who'd invited me to a feminism panel along with some of the "I'm only a big name on the Moon" Supers, like Linda Marston (JLI's "Wonder Woman" of the moment). I went, never having been to one, and thinking maybe now that I have some idea of how things work with matching X chromosomes and having a viewpoint of both sides, I might be able to contribute meaningfully to the conversation... Yeah. No.
Apparently some of the great centers of the Social Media experiment metastasized while we weren't looking/relevant to them. I wish I hadn't had to have "the progressive stack" explained to me so... viscerally. Fortunately, the prickly egoes "up" let me understand how to deal with that much rage at my bare existence. If I recall correctly, Linda and I storming out in high dudgeon actually shook some things up... until I found Lime gleefully using our store Website's Interface for Intrusion Countermeasures as an insanely quick Space Invaders level from all the vicious comments and hacking attempts in retaliation from how one of the "persons" (xyr choice for self-description) that was on the panel spun things afterwards.
The fandoms that didn't inspire Capital-F-"Fen" are a scary place. Though Linda tells me a lot of Senshi have the same problem at earth-side Cons. I shudder to think of the crap involuntary catgirls have to go through.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll