he who controls the snark controls the universe

[arcanetrivia]

I collected some relevant badge ribbons this weekend at PantheaCon:



But my personal favourite:



XD

There weren't any Snapeish ones that I could find, though. I think I'm going to have something appropriate printed up for next year.

Comments

[heartssdesire.livejournal.com]

The ribbon arms race irritates me, but I love the "Snark Must Flow" ribbon, that is hilarious.

[elethian.livejournal.com]

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.

[heartssdesire.livejournal.com]

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 was fun seeing you there!

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

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.

[elethian.livejournal.com]

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.