Geekdom is the right of all sentient beings!

Please don't kill me for the subject line.

So, as I said a few days ago, I'm back from BotCon! I was going to write this up earlier, but my poor laptop spent most of Monday undergoing emergency repairs and was scattered quite thoroughly about the downstairs. It was kind of scary. What if something had gone wrong or been damaged?

But Botcon! Oh! It was fantastic! Easily the best convention I've ever been to (and while it was my first Transformers con, it was not my first con ever. Just so that statement can pretend to have meaning, you know). I don't know what it is, but everyone I met and/or interacted with was nice, polite, and there because they liked Transformers. (Perhaps my years at Otakon - DON'T GET ME WRONG I LOVED GOING TO OTAKON - just made me cynical, though. ... and AnimeBoston was even worse.)

I will now ramble a lot about the convention. I will not talk (much) about the movie. That'll be in a different post. Anyway, all you really need to know is SEE IT. SEE IT NOW. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU HAVE TO KILL OR WHAT ORGANS YOU NEED TO SELL. SEE IT.

( BotCon! )

So, even with all my pre-con nervousness, I had an absolute blast. It was easily one of the best weekends of my life and I would love more than anything to go next year, as well, so hopefully they hold it somewhere (and some time) I'll be able to get to!

I will probably ramble about the movie later. It is so awesome. Go see it as soon as possible! (I saw it twice Monday night - once at the first showing with Dad, and then again at the midnight showing that was technically on Tuesday with Mom, my brother, and some friends. Sadly, but not surprisingly, the crowd was no where near as awesome and enthusiastic as the BotCon group was.)


p.s. - I knew this would happen, but, ugh. Movie's been out all of a day and already new people are flooding into the fandom and writing really awful fanfiction. I just hope they do not try and murder it the way the "Advent Children-only" people (and the "I hate Advent Children!" people) tried to - and, heck, if you want my opinion, largely succeeded - murder the Final Fantasy VII fandom.

Edit:
Oh, God, that sounds terrible of me. I have nothing against new people in the fandom! I love meeting new fans, and I love it when people come into the fanbase! I am just so worried, because I know what can happen to fanbases when the fandom in question goes "mainstream" and I just... I love my fandom and I don't want it to suffer and die slowly. Or become the next Inu Yasha or Naruto or something (though I know the odds of that happening are very small).

I am just scared because for the first time in like twenty years Transformers is big news. It's intimidating. I'm never in fandoms that ... do things like that. blearshg