[JenB]

Huh, sounds like an anime convention?

That would scare me. Conventions in general... I've never even been to a scifi con. There's a lot of weirdoes at those things.

Tell him to have fun!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Eh, Rose and I have been to a few cons, both SF and comic-book related. It was a lot of fun!

You know, Entmoot can be classified as a "con", in the classic sense: a group of friends with a shared interest getting together at a planned event. A private convention, rather than a public one.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Oh, Jen, hon, make time and go to a Star Trek or science fiction convention!

You don't have to go in costume! Just show up and take it alllll in!

I was ... hmmm ... 18 or 19? ... when I went to my first convention. Actually, I was a member of the San Antonio Star Trek Fan Club, and I worked the convention.

You experience your love of science fiction in a whole new and intellectual way at a con, hanging out with the like-minded and the completely weird ... often in the same person.

You should check out Confluence 2004, to be held July 23-25, 2004, in Pittsburgh. They're going to have a writing contest! Go check it out! http://trfn.clpgh.org

There'll be a lot of the younger set there, because a writing group for teenagers is having their convention at the same time and place!

It sounds like it was made for you!