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[ride_4ever]

Just returned from ConneXions and then in five days I leave for VividCon...and then that's it for 2017 fancons, and time to start planning for 2018 fancons. Any of my flisties going to Escapade, RevelCon, Bitchin' Party, ConStrict, Con.Txt,or VividCon in 2018?

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[viridian5]

My first... I don't remember what year I went to ConneXions, but it was probably 1999 or 2000 since I went with two due South friends and the lot of the panels were about old school through-the-mail fanzine fans giving internet fans the stink eye. ("Back in my day, we had to wait for the mail to come! None of this 'Turn on the computer daily and the porn just arrives' thing! Internet fen are lazy and unworthy.") Plus, at one point one of the volunteers said we didn't look like fans in a rather negative way. Thus, we three spent a lot of time at the local mall and just attended what interested us.

My last one was my favorite, Escapade 2002. Met so many people IRL for the first time! I also got a very flattering moment of somebody seriously fangirling my writing. Since then work got in the way, then my brain surgery and its aftermath, and since then it's been a money issue.

[ride_4ever]

Wow, that is interesting to get this fannish history from you! I had no idea of the "divide" at that time between the "old school" fen and the "internet" fen!

The first Escapade I ever attended was the one this year and the first ConneXions I ever attended was the one this month !

I'm wondering if I know (or at least know of ) the two dS fen who were with you at that ConneXions.

[viridian5]

We weren't aware of it either until we attended that ConneXions! It was a bit of a rude awakening.

LaT wrote a lot of dS fic. Kasha got involved in e-mail list conversations but didn't really write fic. Kasha and I text each other about various fandoms several times a week to this day.

[ride_4ever]

Ah. Yes, I've read dS fic by LaT. Kasha is not known to me -- and how cool that she's a fan with whom you've kept in contact all this time.

[viridian5]

A lot of fen friends have drifted in and out of my life, some of whom I really miss, but Kasha and I have had a long friendship that transcends fandom, which in my experience is pretty rare. A lot of people just stopped talking to me eventually once they drifted out of a fandom we were both in.

[ride_4ever]

Well, you and I don't currently share a fandom and I'm still around (though at this precise juncture I'm around and about to go to sleep as it's nearly 3:00 AM local time).

[viridian5]

It may help that I've been in online fandoms for almost twenty years so I've seen a lot of people come and go, including people who were my close friends at one time.

And go sleep! ::shoo, shoo::