[ SECRET POST #6070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6070 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Baldur's Gate 3]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Also, look, as someone who does live in one of the megalopolis parts of the US: if you live in a major urban area in another part of the world, you can probably also do fandom meetups! You just have to do the work!

I was a fan around here for years before I stumbled on a group of people doing regular fandom meetups; that has started up and died down a few times in the past two decades as different people got tired of doing all the work of planning and hosting. A few years after my first meetup a different group of fans put in the *incredible* amount of work to run and publicize a local fan-run con, about five years after the previous one had died to organizer burnout, and that helped a lot more in building connections among local people who were in fandom. If there's an advantage to being in the US it's only that fans of one sort or another around here have been doing that community organizing work unbroken since the SF clubs in the 1930s, so it's a little easier to get started.

I still don't know anyone local who's in my current main fandom, though, even though it's one of the biggest AO3 fandoms ATM, because none of my local fandom friends followed me there, and if other people in the fandom have made the effort to put together in-person meetups near here, I haven't found them yet. The only person I talk to about it whose location I know lives in Europe.

tl;dr : if you live in a rural area you're screwed for in-person fandom regardless of where you live. If you live in a really large urban area you probably *can* find enough local fans for a meet up or con (even if it's only a dozen people or so) but someone has to do the work to build the community and organize the meetups. (Also, you have to be willing to hang out with your local fans even if they aren't exactly the kind of people you'd hang out with if you had the pick of the internet.)

[(Anonymous)]

This!