Author: Trae Dorn

So I’m in the middle of prepping for two events: UWEC Barron County GEEKCon on April 25th and No Brand Con the weekend after from May 1-3. And yeah, it’s as exhausting as it sounds like. The con prep for
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So say you’re sitting down to dinner after a long day of travel. You’re in the dining room of one of the historic inns in the Indiana State Park system — let’s say, the Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon State Park
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Okay, a lot of you probably know that I am part of the group of people who run No Brand Con. Frankly, if you didn’t, you’re probably new here. It’s an anime con. Wisconsin’s longest running anime con to be
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This morning I went down to Collector’s Con here in Eau Claire. It’s a fun little con, and I stopped by last year too. I thought about selling there (since I’m at, like, literally every other con in town) but
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Convention season is upon us, and it’s time to kick off the year for me with Evercon 2026 in Wausau, WI! Well Rothschild, really — but if Syfy can conflate the two, so can I. I mean, it pretty much
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If yoiu don’t spend time in the odd corners of bookish and queer social media, it’s likely you’ve never heard of Paul Castle. Hell, even if you are in them, you may have scrolled on by, never to take note.
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It’s been a long time coming, but I’m super excited to announce the upcoming release of the first Peregrine Lake print collection. “Welcome to Peregrine Lake” is officially releasing May 1st, and it collects the first chapter of the comic.
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This week Discord announced that to continue to have full access to their platform, all users will be required to verify their ages using either a face scan or a photo of their government ID. This massively intrusive policy goes
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I’m not sure why I have to say this sometimes, but fandom spaces are adult spaces. What we consider organized fandom was built by adults, for adults. But there are people who forget this. Like I’ve seen people admonish adults
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So one of the most annoying phenomena you’ll find on social media is the way that ideas will get passed around like a game of telephone until they’re virtually unrecognizable. The “anti-intellectualism in booktok” conversation is probably one of the
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