Heheh... "arms race". Nice way to put it. I think it's a lot of fun. It makes a good icebreaker and way to find kindred spirits on certain topics just by looking at them. Also, some of the serious ones (ones that just had a name of a group, tradition or event) are a good way to find someone to ask questions of about that group if you don't already know anyone.
Yeah, and that's probably what they were started for. I consented to wear a "Feri" one for that reason. I saw some people with "Muddy Footed Hill Trolls Unite" and thought I'd wear that too if someone gave me one. :)
IT's possible the really enrdy ribbons were at the even nerdier cons.
Hey, speaking of nerd: where do you get those astonishing badfic summaries from again? I am seriously considering starting a community in which we use the devastatingly bad ones as bunnies for drabbles.
Fanfiction.net. On FFN you can set up an RSS feed using the parameters of any search query, so I have one that feeds me "fics where the author chose Severus S. from one of the two 'contains this character' drop-down menus" (which is why Snape is always mentioned in the ones I post).
You might also want to see mctabby, though; she periodically posts much bigger collections of "Summary Executions" and people often do just that in the comments.
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