Being told "you're not welcome, you're not Our Kind Of Fan" often enough will have that effect.
It's less severe where I am than most places. For one thing, there's a lot of crossover from the local SF conrunners to the anime cons, particularly A-Kon, which has a respectable-sized SF convention (including writer's track) buried in it. And still, the smaller of the two main anime cons here is scheduled against Lone Star Con, & from what I can tell, neither group of organizers thinks that's a big deal.
I am, to put it mildly, concerned, & not just because this means that I have to skip that anime con again this year. Denvention was convenient for me, because I could do both!
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It's less severe where I am than most places. For one thing, there's a lot of crossover from the local SF conrunners to the anime cons, particularly A-Kon, which has a respectable-sized SF convention (including writer's track) buried in it. And still, the smaller of the two main anime cons here is scheduled against Lone Star Con, & from what I can tell, neither group of organizers thinks that's a big deal.
I am, to put it mildly, concerned, & not just because this means that I have to skip that anime con again this year. Denvention was convenient for me, because I could do both!