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we are also very interested in promoting and helping with two common issues found within Tumblr users, mainly, depression and anxiety.
Nobody talks about how Pharrel Williams was featured in the video too either.Damn at least if you're a feminist hold black people to the same standards as white people, lol.
I would like to point out, not all superwholock fans are batstuff crazy.
What the forget is wholock?Is that a name for doctor who?
they did, actuallyat least i saw it. once.
supernaturaldoctor whosherlock
How are those shows related?
jesus christthey're notnobody said they were
Then why are they constantly lumped together???
DashCon is a first-year fandom convention for Tumblr users. It is happening this weekend and turning into possibly the largest convention kerfuffle anyone has ever seen. Due to the DashCon staff done diddly goofin’ by not putting a payment schedule in their hotel reservation contract, they were asked to pay $20,000 by 10 PM last night or the convention would be kicked out of the hotel. They asked attendees and Tumblr users to donate $17,000 via PayPal and cash to keep the con going - and they supposedly raised all of the money. Con attendees then piled into the ballroom to do Mockingjay salutes and wail Freddie Mercury songs to celebrate them falling for what is suspected to be a scam (as people have contacted the hotel to ask about this “$17,000 fee” and the hotel reportedly has no idea what they’re talking about). You can attend wonderfully informative panels like this at DashCon: DashCon claimed there would be 3,000-7,000 attendees. There are 1,000 at most and all of them are white kids in flower crowns who are rioting for the anti-loveualization of women in media while simultaneously running panels about “homoerotic subtext in fandoms and finding the gay ships for YOUR fandoms!!!” The con didn’t have the money to cover WTNV’s transportation and performance fees. When WTNV asked them to pay the remainder of their performance fee prior to the panel beginning, DashCon was unable to do so, and WTNV walked out as they are positively free to do because what the forget you don’t invite keystone guests if you aren’t able to pay their fees upfront (and showing them your PayPal balance on a smartphone absolutely does not count). It’s being speculated that Steam Powered Giraffe was not even booked properly in the first place. A full weekend badge was $65 dollars for a first-year fandom con jesus christ that’s almost the price of most full-fledged comic cons.The list continues but so far it’s only the con’s second day and it is quite literally the most dramatic, hysterically cringe-worthy convention debacle I have ever seen unfold.
I’ve written some posts explaining some of this, but I don’t mind typing up another one.At the time I bought my badge — which was sometime last year (yes, I knew about it back then) — it didn’t entirely occur to me that a Tumblr convention would be a absolutely horrible idea. And I still don’t think it is; it was just executed in the worst way you could possibly imagine. I had no way of knowing ahead of time that it would’ve turned out to be THIS bad.If you go to the DashCon website (http://dashcon.org), you’ll note that there are “committees,” which are predefined by the convention to represent each major fandom that they expected to be present at the venue. See, back when I bought my badge, there was an anime committee. One of the reasons why I bought my badge was because I thought there would be a lot of anime fans at the event, and I frequent anime conventions. At some point, the anime committee ended up dissolving (all I can remember is that they used to have a blog that wouldn’t get updated for months) and the next time I checked, the only anime-related committee left was one dedicated to Hetalia.I don’t care for Hetalia, so that was a bummer. The majority of people slated to be in attendance were Supernatural/Doctor Who/Sherlock/Harry Potter/etc. etc. fans, which aren’t things I’m a fan of. Still, I’m a local to the area, meaning that I didn’t really have to go out of my way to attend DashCon. And I had already put down a whopping $65 for the ticket - which is the most i’ve ever spent on a convention badge - so I thought I’d at least check it out for a while to make it worth the cost. Mind you, during pre-reg and at-con reg, the staff would continuously try to sell you on a badge bundled with a ticket to a Steam Powered Giraffe concert (who didn’t even end up coming in the end). It was incredibly obvious to me that everything was a money grab, and I only wish I could’ve seen that earlier.I didn’t plan to stay there for more than a few hours, and I didn’t. The DashCon staff had repeatedly claimed in their FAQ and in person that they expected attendance numbers of 3000-7000, and that they were “right on target” for it, but in reality it looked as if it were half a thousand people at the VERY VERY most.Many of the hallways and lobbies were barely populated at all; as a person who prefers going to larger conventions, I was disappointed. The Dealer’s Room/Artist’s Alley left much to be desired. There were practically no dealers selling official merchandise of any kind. It seemed as if everybody in there was a freelance artist, selling the same cheap buttons/stickers/decals/piling-prone fleece stuff you’d know all too well if you’ve been to a convention before. I suppose the schedule and the panel descriptions speak for themselves. but I did sit in one panel called “Name That Anime” for a cool three minutes or so before walking out the door. It started 15 minutes late and was so poorly improvised on the spot it was terrible; they were giving out hotel mints as prizes if you could name the anime where “clothes are used as weapons!!!!!”The worst part, though, had to be the so-called “video game room.” Having gone out to Anime Midwest last weekend, I expected a room full of Xbox/Wii/PS3/PS4 playing stations. In reality, there was only ONE TV in the entire room, along with a bunch of tables.I legitimately felt bad for the few people walking around who had actually put work into their costumes to wear around there. As far as anime goes, the only series I saw anything of were Kill la Kill and Attack on Titan. I was genuinely surprised that I didn’t catch any Hatsune Miku or Pikachu cosplays (usually see hundreds of those).I didn’t witness any fighting, but then again, I was only there for an hour and a half in the early afternoon before I got bored and left. Everybody at the con seemed nice, but also very young (most people I saw I’d guess were 15 and under) and you could definitely pick out a lot of the socially awkward ones hanging about. There wasn’t a lot of energy due to the fact that there was literally nobody there, so I guess you could say that everybody looked bored. The convention center/hotel was isolated compared to other popular places in the area, so there weren’t that many outsiders around; however, you could definitely tell that the convention center was pretty uppity and intended for business conventions rather than ones of this nature. Exquisite carpeted floors and chandeliers everywhere.Unfortunately (or fortunately, in my case) I left long before the whole money/hotel management drama apparently erupted. I decided the con was not worth my time and spent the rest of the day at the local mall. I had a lot more fun there, obviously. So, while I’m not in a better position to tell you what actually happened, I can tell you that my immediate reaction to the whole thing was that it was a scam considering the high badge cost and the low effort/sloppy organization evident all around.If it’s any additional proof that I was really there, I took a picture of my badge after I went on Thursday night to pick it up: http://kirbeh.tumblr.com/post/91420852017/dashcon-the-first-ever-tumblr-convention-as-far
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