Hmmm... or smaller cons in general? Albacon (about 200 people) is a great con for Good Conversations, often with strangers turned new friends. And while they're trying to build their masquerade there's almost no hall costuming to speak of. Readercon is All Books and Practically No Parties, and has a very high percentage of authors and Very Good Programming. Boscone too has no masquerade and not much non-literary programming. Both of the latter skew older too.
Most of those cons are on the small side and have a jeans and t-shirt asthetic. It doesn't have to be only filk to find to find a con that's got less of what bothers you and more of what you like.
There isn't one this year, but I'd be interested in getting a slightly younger (our age, in other words) New York contingent into going to Readercon if you would like to give it a shot. Of course, the down side is I don't think there's any filk either.
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Most of those cons are on the small side and have a jeans and t-shirt asthetic. It doesn't have to be only filk to find to find a con that's got less of what bothers you and more of what you like.
There isn't one this year, but I'd be interested in getting a slightly younger (our age, in other words) New York contingent into going to Readercon if you would like to give it a shot. Of course, the down side is I don't think there's any filk either.
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