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Richard K Niner mastodon (AP)
Didn't see any announcement about it, but it looks like the #Scotiacon schedule is up now?

(tbh, looks a bit sparser than what I'm used to. Must be a smaller con 😝)

https://events.scotiacon.org.uk/2023/schedule/
Kootenay mastodon (AP)
Apparently they had 537 attendees last year. So, yeah... considerably smaller ;)
Richard K Niner mastodon (AP)
@kootenay So a little smaller than a Canfurence
Richard K Niner mastodon (AP)
@pippin @kootenay A film that definitely didn't have to go that hard (but was a lot better than the marketing told us it was going to be)

In terms of the con, guess that means more time for fursuiting, exploring the city, and maybe organizing a group to screen that new furry-bait movie
Pippin friendica
@Richard K Niner ➡️ Scotiacon @Kootenay I haven't actually been to Scotiacon so I have no specific knowledge of it, but when I went to Megaplex back in the early 2000s (when it was around 200-300 attendees) and other small cons it was a *very* different vibe from today's massive cons; I found I actually got to recognise most of the people there, spoke to a lot of them at least once, and there weren't many things happening simultaneously so it felt a lot more communal - most of us went to the same event at the same time. When some fun random thing happened by chance, most of the con saw it instead of hearing about it days later and thinking "was I even at the same con?" I liked it! Big cons today I tend to just stick with my circle of friends and sometimes dip into an event or two - very different.
Richard K Niner mastodon (AP)
@pippin @kootenay One of the nice things about smaller cons: you can reach out and get to know more strangers without getting overwhelmed trying to keep track of them. And you WILL see familiar faces everywhere by the end of the con.

And reading that part about random things happening and everyone knowing about it reminds me of the smashed window at my last con.
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