It didn't seem to me that "lifestyle" panels dominated.
Exactly. "Fannish Lifestyle" is a catchall phrase. That was the category for everything from blogging to raising your family in fandom to, yes, alternative lifetyles.
Personally? I feel that the entire con is Fannish Lifestyle.
And that, if you have to categorize, stuff like filk and costuming would go just as well in a general "fannish lifestyle" track. Ballgowns are pretty, yes. What do they have to do with sf/f? Hell if I know.
I'm just curious as to why you see Art, Filk, and Costuming as core SF areas. Do they, to you, outweigh books, movies, TV?
*nods* I'd argue that books are the most core of the core SF areas. Followed by TV and movies. I'm trying to figure out why they seem so irrelevant to the original poster, and why she thinks filk and costuming outweigh them. If you count actual SF categories like books and other media, the schedule doesn't look so out of balance.
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Exactly. "Fannish Lifestyle" is a catchall phrase. That was the category for everything from blogging to raising your family in fandom to, yes, alternative lifetyles.
Personally? I feel that the entire con is Fannish Lifestyle.
And that, if you have to categorize, stuff like filk and costuming would go just as well in a general "fannish lifestyle" track. Ballgowns are pretty, yes. What do they have to do with sf/f? Hell if I know.
I'm just curious as to why you see Art, Filk, and Costuming as core SF areas. Do they, to you, outweigh books, movies, TV?
*nods* I'd argue that books are the most core of the core SF areas. Followed by TV and movies. I'm trying to figure out why they seem so irrelevant to the original poster, and why she thinks filk and costuming outweigh them. If you count actual SF categories like books and other media, the schedule doesn't look so out of balance.