MarsCon did not cave to the cancel mob.
So let’s sell this event out and then have a great time.
Here’s the official announcement, and check out that ratio of likes/happy reacts to angry/sad:
That right there is a perfect demonstration of just how full of crap cancel mobs really are. They are very loud, but they always turn out to be few in number. They get their power from convincing institutions that they are bigger than they are through lots of screeching on the internet. Regular people who just want to have fun and live their lives drastically outnumber the perpetually outraged. That’s the lesson.
Excellent. I’ll still be keeping an eye out in case anything changes, but if all goes well, I’ll be there.
I don’t know if it helped, or how many people might have done this, but I sent them an e-mail explaining that I’d never heard of their convention until I saw it posted about here and that, as long as Larry is the GOH, I’ll be there.
Although I read science fiction avidly, and I’ve been reading Larry’s stuff on this blog since before he self-published his first book, I’ve never been much of a conventioneer. Never had much interest in it.
I’ll make an exception to support a Con that’s facing down the screaming hordes of cancel culture, and I’ll get an opportunity to meet Larry in meat space as an added bonus. It also helps that I’m a local so I won’t even need to travel for it.
My email said about the same thing, heard Larry was going to be GOH, if so, I want to go, if not, no thanks. BTW Larry if they ask you about doing Gritty Cop Show for charity, I apologize. I mentioned how much fun and how much con charities have made off of that in the past.
The fact that they got the stones to face down the shrieking, poo-flingers, and call them on their BS fills me with this kinda warm, fuzzy feeling I am unaccustomed to.
For the rest of us who don’t FB, here’s a link to the site and the info on the Con:
MarsCon 2024
Virginia Beach, Virginia
January 12th – 14th, 2024
http://www.marscon.net/wp/
“That right there is a perfect demonstration of just how full of crap cancel mobs really are. They are very loud, but they always turn out to be few in number. They get their power from convincing institutions that they are bigger than they are through lots of screeching on the internet.”
Wait, Larry, do you mean people sometimes are ugly AND lie on the internet?!
In all seriousness, excellent job.
I’m so excited you will be at MarsCon Larry, and relieved you will still be a GoH. Are you open to signing my copy of the MHI Miniatures Game? I backed on KS and now have to learn how to paint miniatures!
Now the Screeching Mobs of Tolerance would totally cancel their tickets… if they had actually bought tickets.
I thought they were the Raging Douchenozzels of Tolerance? Isn’t that what Mr. Torgersen called them?
Plenty of inventive invective available for everyone.
As a general rule, the internet is filled with nothing but styrofoam icebergs. You think that there must be something hidden under the surface, but really 90% of the mass is floating atop the water. Remember how Snakes on a Plane generated an incredible amount of hype on the Internet before it was released? Memes, merch, viral videos, trending on all the platforms that track trending things. It was going to be huge! Everybody on the Internet was talking about it!
And then it went over like a flatulent dog in church.
90% of the hype’s “mass” was floating on the surface. There were no great crowds of people waiting eagerly to see this movie. Styrofoam iceberg.
Social media, especially Twitter, doesn’t even consist of styrofoam icebergs… It’s mirages of styrofoam icebergs. 99% of the mass you can see floating on the top is really just one lonely cat-lady and her half dozen equally lonely friends.
There is no “there” there.
It’s the Three Lonely Karens With Cats Corollary to the Three Cooters Theory of Internet Discourse.
In fairness to Snakes on a Plane, it did about as well as movies from that genre tend to do; the main difference was its awesome title, which few other movies can brag about. I didn’t see it myself; the title, along with Samuel L. Jackson’s presence, told me everything I needed to know without having to watch it.
My main takeaway from it is that people getting excited about a title doesn’t always translate to people who will actually watch the movie.
Congrats, Larry. I will budget out for this.
I have never been to a con before, 64 years old. I just booked a room at the hotel and plan to go. Gee a 65 year old con virgin. Well, guess if I have to lose my cherry, losing it to Larry is the way to go!!
Any chance of coming to Planet Comicon in KC anytime soon?
I’ll be there, it’s a local con for me. I missed your book signing a few years ago – out of town for work and after I begged you to come.
Congrats on the win, Larry!
Good on them! About damned time!
Nice result.
Larry does seem to manage to be at the front edge of this stuff pretty near every time. Never back up, never apologize, just get right in their face and dare them.
Beauty. ~:D
I’m going to MARSCON!!!
The metaphor we can have fun here with is the whiny left tried to float their Chinese lead balloon over free territory and Larry shot it down!
So I want respectfully to reach out to them with a “nyah nyah, nyah nyah eat dirt you bullies!”
Hopefully, the word has gone out that caving to the Krazy Karen Krybully Brigade isn’t the end of the world. That their screeching isn’t going to end your business, nor will cooperating with them end their screeching.
They can be safely ignored.
Well, damn, I guess I’m kinda obligated to drive to Virginia Beach now, ain’t I? 😅
Worst case scenario, if I can’t go, I’ll just buy a few tickets and donate them to somebody, I dunno. Can’t have a con committee be -that- awesome and not support them!
I’m glad to see Meretricious Marxist Robespierre (whatever) get smacked down, and hope that this is a sign that her fellow Communist Church Ladies will soon be suffering the same fate.
“What if they held a screechfest and nobody came?”
If I lived closer I’d go, just for them making a stand. I’d send a donation if I could.
Look at the bright side. With Biden still in office even if the lynch mob still WANTS to cause a fuss at the con, THEY WON’T BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO GO. Glass half empty my foot.
On the one hand, I hate to travel.
On the other hand, my wife loves to travel and would enjoy Virginia.
On the gripping hand, that’s the weekend of her mother’s birthday…
Maybe I should see if her mom wants to see Virginia?
I’d sell that last one, Voyager! ABC!
Holy Moly! This is local to me! Looks like I can pull one of these off for once! Woohoo!!!!
This fosters hope that the Perpetually Poutraged can try and hold meetings of people like them, and that they can amass the funds needed to start their own convention(s) where they can have whoever they feel is great attend and not bother to have nobody that they don’t like.