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[Lindsay Clark]

For my two cents, I'm not a gamer, and while I enjoy fantasy and science
fiction, it's never approached the level at which I would want to go to a
con.  Spirituality is much more important to me than anything make-believe
(although some would argue that otherkin is a make-believe spirituality, but
I digress).

On 7/17/07, Eshari <eshari at eristic.net> wrote:
>
> From: katyouroboros <katyouroboros at earthlink.net>
>
> > The thing is, he's 'kin himself and has an incredible amount of
> > knowledge of fairy lore. He just thinks of otherkin people as being
> > con geek types and obsessed with fantasy role playing.
>
> Well, there is some overlap between "otherkin" and "con geeks", but I
> don't recall seeing any gaming occur at any otherkin gather I've been to
> (which is 15+ of them) and there won't be any here, not if I can help
> it. :P There does tend to be a good amount of "geeking" of various types
> going on, but that runs the gamut from Tolkien to higher mathematics,
> so...
>
> OTOH conversation at Hollow Hills did tend to get a bit taken over by
> discussion of MMORPGs, but that's why I said in the main description
> this year, "If all you want to do is talk about mundane stuff this may
> not be the event for you", so I hope to keep a tighter rein on that.
> It's not really the atmosphere I want to foster.
>
> --
> breath of the sun,
>
> Eshari
>
>
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