RevelCon

[amalthia]

Is anyone going to this convention? http://www.severalunlimited.com/revelcon/index.html

I plan to be there Saturday. So far the panels sound intriguing and the best thing is, it's in Houston. :)

(okay there's a Supernatural and Heroes panel that I really want to go to) :)

Comments

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

well the average age on fans who go to cons may be in their 30s (and in some cons that have been around for years - look to the 40s). A key factor may be one of finances perhaps? The big exception has always been anime which skews younger (or so I've been told).

[logovo.livejournal.com]

I've always tried to picture fen as being more diverse than what I see in LJ, but only until Escapade did I get to see it. In mailing lists and YahooGroups I saw people closer to my own age, but as soon as I opened an LJ account the average age seemed to have dropped by about a decade. My friendslist has a few people closer to my own age (I'm 39) and I still hope that some of my friends from YahooGroups will come and play here, but so far it's been only a handful.

The big exception has always been anime which skews younger (or so I've been told).

It's *very* young in my experience with Spanish speaking fen. I've had very little luck in finding people close to my own age from Spain or Latin America.

[amalthia]

I haven't been on mailing lists in forever, are they really younger there?

[logovo.livejournal.com]

The consumers of media who are also easy enough with technology are incredibly young. It makes sense, even as I try again and again to find people over 25. I've had some luck, but they tend to feel a lot of pressure to "grow up", to be interested in more acceptable "girl" things. I believe that expectations of "femininity," combined with limited access to online communities really squash older fen.

[amalthia]

wait so young people are trying to grow up and the older fen doesn't have time to get caught up on technological changes.

I"m glad i'm somewhere in the middle. :)