"I am probably never going to any corporate-run convention again."
Hear, hear! One of the things I love about fan run conventions is that most of them are run by people who actually give a shit about access. The implementation varies, not everyone 'gets it', but there's a general tendency to try for some level of accessibility.
I don't like having my arms pulled on either. In theory, the person who is helping is supposed to let the person trying to rise hang on to their forearm[s]. Much less likely to get something dislocated or just yanked painfully, that way.
"I see a lot of those folding camp chairs that are also canes in fan line-ups." Shooting sticks.
Fanexpo is creepy as hell. They target successful fan-run media cons and schedule their gate shows right before hand to suck up all the disposable cash. The local one recruited some fans to run a masquerade this year and I'm seeing a lot of FB statuses about how utterly messed up the fanexpo side is.
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Hear, hear! One of the things I love about fan run conventions is that most of them are run by people who actually give a shit about access. The implementation varies, not everyone 'gets it', but there's a general tendency to try for some level of accessibility.
I don't like having my arms pulled on either. In theory, the person who is helping is supposed to let the person trying to rise hang on to their forearm[s]. Much less likely to get something dislocated or just yanked painfully, that way.
"I see a lot of those folding camp chairs that are also canes in fan line-ups." Shooting sticks.
Fanexpo is creepy as hell. They target successful fan-run media cons and schedule their gate shows right before hand to suck up all the disposable cash. The local one recruited some fans to run a masquerade this year and I'm seeing a lot of FB statuses about how utterly messed up the fanexpo side is.