I'm kinda on both sides. You can find many people at cons who are in the same thing as you but, you only really know them for 3 days....(you never know, they could act differently then they normally do durin the con)
I would say you can, but I would suggest maybe becoming friends at the con and letting the relationship expand outside the con.
Why would you only know them for three days? If you make friends at a con, why would you not continue to talk with them and hang out with them afterwards?
Exactly. I'd never recommend trying to forge a meaningful relationship in a span of three days, but keeping in touch with people you've met and connected with is never a bad idea. You can always explore things further after the end of the convention and allow yourself to get to know the person outside of that atmosphere, and at that point you should have a more concrete idea of whether or not you're romantically compatible.
But yes, I definitely think it's possible to meet a potential partner at a convention, or anywhere else for that matter.
Why would you only know them for three days? If you make friends at a con, why would you not continue to talk with them and hang out with them afterwards?
No! I'm curious if people think it's okay to start dating people you met at cons. I heard mixed comments about it on other forums and wanted to know The Bell Tree Forum's opinion on it.
no reason why u cant, just hold them to the same standards as u wud anyone else. esp since u find a greater number of neckbeards with bad personal hygiene at cons
Just get to know them first before doing any romancing. Sometimes there are creepy guys at cons so you want to make sure that they're genuinely nice guys before giving out anything personal.
I mean a con is just another place to meet people, but I do sometimes find that you get caught up in the 'con high' and sometimes have too high of expectations of people.
But in terms of dating at a con. I think that you could form the foundations of a friendship which could potentially lead to a relationship within the con, but obviously you'd need to be talking to each other for quite a while after the con. I don't think you could just meet someone on a day 1 of the con and decide to date them straight away.
But if you're not talking about straight dating someone and just like... meeting someone at a con and having a little fun with them well. Why not. As long as it's consensual and you both dig each other then go for it.
Here's some irrelevant yammering in the spoiler about cons and meeting people:
Like when you're in costume you feel confident and rad and you've just bought a load of junk and figurines and if you're a sad little weab like me you're probably in your element. So anyone you meet you're willing to overlook any um... warning signs per se and just focus on the good because you're like 'omgconcosplaystuffdealer'sroom'. Then in the week after the cons finished you get post con depression and you kinda realise that dude you met was slightly creepy.
I mean you do meet some really awesome people at cons, don't get me wrong. But you equally meet a few... um. Different people. I don't want to like, add to the stereotype that people super into their fandoms are a bit... special. Because it will always be the emptiest vessels that are the loudest and nuttiest and it would be a shame to judge an entire fandom on a few of their more bonkers members. I call myself a weab in jest, it's not like I pretend I'm Japanese or anything (but hey I own a lot of manga/figurines/merch if you wanna call me a weab then go ahead). But you do meet genuine weabs at cons. There was a chick in front of me who spoke the dude selling candy in broken Wapanese. The dude wasn't even Japanese. I did feel a bit of second hand embarrassment tbh.
So whilst it's not unheard of to find love at cons. Be careful you don't have your rose tinted con glasses on. Be careful giving your email/number out to anyone, regardless of how nice they seem.
I mean a con is just another place to meet people, but I do sometimes find that you get caught up in the 'con high' and sometimes have too high of expectations of people.
But in terms of dating at a con. I think that you could form the foundations of a friendship which could potentially lead to a relationship within the con, but obviously you'd need to be talking to each other for quite a while after the con. I don't think you could just meet someone on a day 1 of the con and decide to date them straight away.
But if you're not talking about straight dating someone and just like... meeting someone at a con and having a little fun with them well. Why not. As long as it's consensual and you both dig each other then go for it.
Here's some irrelevant yammering in the spoiler about cons and meeting people:
Like when you're in costume you feel confident and rad and you've just bought a load of junk and figurines and if you're a sad little weab like me you're probably in your element. So anyone you meet you're willing to overlook any um... warning signs per se and just focus on the good because you're like 'omgconcosplaystuffdealer'sroom'. Then in the week after the cons finished you get post con depression and you kinda realise that dude you met was slightly creepy.
I mean you do meet some really awesome people at cons, don't get me wrong. But you equally meet a few... um. Different people. I don't want to like, add to the stereotype that people super into their fandoms are a bit... special. Because it will always be the emptiest vessels that are the loudest and nuttiest and it would be a shame to judge an entire fandom on a few of their more bonkers members. I call myself a weab in jest, it's not like I pretend I'm Japanese or anything (but hey I own a lot of manga/figurines/merch if you wanna call me a weab then go ahead). But you do meet genuine weabs at cons. There was a chick in front of me who spoke the dude selling candy in broken Wapanese. The dude wasn't even Japanese. I did feel a bit of second hand embarrassment tbh.
So whilst it's not unheard of to find love at cons. Be careful you don't have your rose tinted con glasses on. Be careful giving your email/number out to anyone, regardless of how nice they seem.
new life goal: go to a con and friendzone a fedora neckbeard.
but i think its possible to find love at a con, maybe not in like 3 days but you could meet someone then keep talking to them after the con has finished and then seeing where it goes ^_^
I personally would not go to a con to find love. I typically agree with the idea that people meet based on similar interest and possibly discover a deeper connection on a friendship level, but it also tends to attract the weirdest people on the planet, which is why I told my wife I refuse to go to a con.
new life goal: go to a con and friendzone a fedora neckbeard.
but i think its possible to find love at a con, maybe not in like 3 days but you could meet someone then keep talking to them after the con has finished and then seeing where it goes ^_^
Yes, they happen. Ever heard of the Game Grumps? Well there is a guy in it named Arin Hanson, also known as Egoraptor, and he met his wife at an anime convention 12 years ago. He was 15, she was 13. And they've been together ever since. He is now 27, and she is 25. They got married in 2013. So yeah, it's possible. A bit rare to find something like that, but possible.
Yes, they happen. Ever heard of the Game Grumps? Well there is a guy in it named Arin Hanson, also known as Egoraptor, and he met his wife at an anime convention 12 years ago. He was 15, she was 13. And they've been together ever since. He is now 27, and she is 25. They got married in 2013. So yeah, it's possible. A bit rare to find something like that, but possible.
