The dust begins to settle after my convention, my local con I've staffed at for a very long time, collapses like a jenga tower on a hill. Online, Everyone flared, had their moment of frustrated venting, and then have withdrawn back into their isolated communities.
THE PAST
So what happened? There are 5 journalistic accounts, and all five of them omit details or include opinions and details the other do not, each pushing for their own narrative. From my own perspective, I can safely believe the following things.
* The Furry Raiders are a current, ongoing local problem. Symbolism aside, they endanger fur's ability to function in public, and harass and intimidate those outside their circle.
* No matter how annoying any movement, fandom, or subculture is, the anti-movement, anti-fandom or anti-subculture that moves against it always somehow manages to be even more annoying or worse. Lauren Faust's My Little Pony is a perfect example of this.
* People change. Scorch and Kahuki were some fairly awesome people at one point. But... when a person becomes radically different from how they once were, we shame the bond we once had by protecting or enabling decent into madness. No matter what I may have thought about Scorch and Kahuki 10 years ago, That letter could not have been written by the people I once knew.
* Deo is not as innocent as she and some think. Yet the obsessive focus on her by Scorch and the Raiders is unnerving at best.
* The tax thing actually has little to do with the convention's collapse.
* I personally feel that worse then all that, Everyone outside of denver is hijacking this event to push their agenda hard. Super Righty Furs are making an obsessive focus on Deo, discarding the lunacy that had become Scorch or the things the Raiders has actually done. Super Lefty Furs are latching onto The Furry Raider's surface symbolism while ignoring the things they actually do, which plays right into their hands.
THE FUTURE
See here's what sucks for me personally. I'm a lewd person. I'm a deviant. A sexual being. Such a thing is not seen often as acceptable by any extreme political philosophy, left or right. Oh, and I'm kind of an obsessive gamer on top of that, again, something poorly received by those extreme positions.
There is fear for me that if the next con is propped up by ether those super righty furs, or by the anti movements, There will be no room for the kinds of things I like; Gaming and consensual activities between two adults behind closed doors.
Some of those fears are alleviated, knowing that an experienced convention group with multiple cons under their belt, the Ponyville Bronies LLC, is propping it up, but that brings other fears. Given how much this event has been warped to the non-local perspective, can such a group adjust to the needs of the local population?
I have high hopes of course.
THE POINT
I dunno lol I just need to ramble I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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