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Weird Conventions

Posted on June 26th, 2006

Going to an Anime con is pretty surreal experience. Full-on no-holds-barred otaku frenzy. The weird thing is that by the time your days at the con are done, people traipsing around in Inuyasha & Naruto outfits *shudder* is nothing unusual. It’s a strange tolerance expanding experience. Someone unfamiliar with the subculture might think anime con attendees are completely loopy. Here are a few other cons that are a bit on the fringe:

Furcon: “Further Confusion, or Furcon is an annual fandom convention celebrating the anthropomorphics genre or furry fandom”. Riiiight, you can call it anthropomorphics, I call it dressing up as furries.

Penguicon: according to Wikipedia. “Penguicon is the only convention in the United States that brings together the often-overlapping communities of science fiction fandom and Linux User Groups.” More geeky, less freaky.

Star Trek conventions are not that uncommon, but are themselves quite unusual.

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