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[seperis]

Watching the dashcon tag on tumblr and the FFA threads is now a lifestyle choice. And now ONTD has picked it up.

In case anyone wants to catch up (vaguely in chronological order of posting):
First FFA Thread on Dashcon
Second FFA Thread on Dashcon
ONTD on Dashcon
Dashcon Tag on Tumblr

Personal favorite quote from FFA:

From browsing the tag, the people at Dashcon have entered into this peculiar headspace wherein one more normally finds hostages and cult victims: the backlash has been so severe that anyone who even had a good moment and lacks certain critical self-check features is now in "extreme Con defense mode."

Starts with $17,000 and goes down from there. Also, a ball wading pool and bouncy castle.

ETA: From anonymous commenter: Dashcon owner about Dashcon, posted in January - I can't tell if anonymous is defense or prosecution here, but it's an interesting link.

Comments

[harpers_child]

that is possibly the saddest ball pit i've ever seen.

[seperis]

I have no words on the ball pit. It hurts me inside.

[pudacat]

Welp, at least the WTNV crew will be well rested Monday night when I see them live. At a real theatre.

(Stealth Brag)

[grammarwoman]

Good lord. I'm glad the WTNV show was sold out long ago, or else I might have been tempted to be a part of this shitshow.

[cyprinella]

I really enjoyed the digression into the disease vector-ness of ballpits.

[seperis]

I don't hate you at all. EVEN A LITTLE.

[seperis]

Dude, you could be posting from there right now!

[seperis]

Simian flu and the engineering feat of a non-viral ballpit.

Dude, I got freaking bronchitis by drinking from someone else's soda by accident at VividCon once. Ballpit just screams plague to me.

(by 'ballpit' I mean, 'ball kiddie pool seriously that is small')

[(Anonymous)]

http://megg33k.tumblr.com/post/57504887679/is-the-dashcon-a-legit-thing-thats-going-to-happen-my

please please please include this which is a post made by one of the owners 11 months ago assuring everything is fine and that they had paid the hotel and a lot of money has changed hands etc

[celli]

Did you see slod's story? So funny and yet so I want to throw things at the organizers.

[seperis]

I'm about to reblog it and can't stop breaking into giggles. Oh my GOD give Slod my love, plz. And sympathy. Or something.

[seperis]

I'm unscreening this purely on the strength of curiosity on why you linked this anonymously. Or at all.

[cyprinella]

Can I get a link?

I keep wanting to hug the Con.txt concomm and say "Thank you for not sucking!"

[seperis]

http://slodwick.tumblr.com/post/91605400607/no-pizza-in-the-ball-pit

[ivyfic]

Seconded!

[eponymousanon]

This is absolutely fascinating and FFA has sucked me in. Wow, just... wow.

[cyprinella]

Like 3 people I know ended up leaving Con.txt this year with strep throat (apparently an unusual strain of it no less) and that was just being in proximity. I am counting my blessings that I didn't come down with anything.

[cyprinella]

Merci!

[seperis]

I'm refreshing the link and boggling. And svmadelyn keeps giving me links--so many links--and so much reblogging. My God.

[seperis]

added to post, that link was interesting.

[seperis]

http://slodwick.tumblr.com/post/91605400607/no-pizza-in-the-ball-pit

[seperis]

...oh my God. *shudders*

[nekare]

I think it's the pit ball that really cements it as such a hilarious trainwreck, I've been giggling about it for hours

[grammarwoman]

You just want a closer perspective on the ongoing train wreck. ;)

[banesidhe]

I like how they offered compensation to those who had paid for reserved seating to the WTNV panel (which was canceled when the con didn't pay them the rest of their fee), with an "extra free hour" in the ball pit.

[nestra]

I had that thought about every con I go to, including the giant one.

[owl]

Doesn't "ball pit" imply something....larger?

[seperis]

I can't get over the ball pit. It seems symbolic of the entire thing. And then it deflated.

[nekare]

RIP ball pit, you left us so soon!

[synecdochic]

I just lost the last three hours to reading that, damn you!

[seperis]

Dude, I lost most of Friday and Saturday nights to this. It's unreal.

[synecdochic]

Failed convention wank is the BEST wank.

[litheavocado]

I'm seconding the opinion that is the saddest ball pit ever. I want to call it a puddle of balls, but sadly that doesn't roll off the tongue as easily?

[seperis]

...that's not the only reason.

[seperis]

Third FFA thread!

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/95219.html?thread=463984883#cmt463984883

Tumblr is insane on this. I keep reading and boggling. Baker Street Babes write up is also fantastic.

[seperis]

Puddle of Balls sounds like a very metal album by a very sad almost-rock band. Or a parody for Puddle of Mud.

[synecdochic]

I love it!

[litheavocado]

You're not wrong. The picture of the ball pit even LOOKS like it belongs the back page of a baby indie band's album. Did you read the (possibly not a rumor) post on tumblr warning people not to go into the ball pit, because someone had allegedly peed in it?

[seperis]

*shudders* It had to happen, but the question is, before or after it deflated?

Dashcon: The Ballpit Deflated could be the best and most truthful tagline ever.

[litheavocado]

Before, I think. Ahaha oh no.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really jealous! We have to wait a while for them to come to Europe later this year. Everyone says the NV guys are the sweetest and put on the best show. The only thing stopping me from laughing my ass off at this whole disaster is the thought of them getting scammed like that. :(

[(Anonymous)]

That's gotta be a massive slap in the face to the fans and the performers. That the idiot staff thought that the value of tickets to a live WTNV show could actually be made up for with frikkin kiddies ball pool time. A pool that was free anyway and had no line. Huge insult for such a successful show.
Could you treat your guests any worse? I mean seriously...

[franzeska]

Oh god. I almost went to the con for ~outreach to the youth~ purposes. I can't decide whether I'm more relieved to be gawking from a distance or sorry I couldn't observe the hilarity first hand.

[eponymousanon]

It's Monday and I'm still hitting refresh and being amazed at all the links... I'm glad that some people had fun at the con, but damn are they naive to believe the party line about the hotel/Night Vale.

[seperis]

It's really a toss-up, right? Near miss or BEST TWITTER TOPIC EVER.

[dragovianknight]

It's really more like a ball puddle.

[eponymousanon]

And still it goes on... with more and more delicious details!

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/95242.html?thread=465614602#cmt465614602

[seperis]

bless them.