Captain Quail 15 - Missed Connections (Sept. 17, 2013)
Greetings fair gentlefolk! Good morrow to thee!Allison and I care involved or interested in pretty much all things geeky. This should be fairly self-explanatory as we're both software engineers who make webcomics in our spare time. So it shouldn't be any surprise that us and a gathering of our friends went to the
Norcal Renaissance Faire this weekend.I've gone to a few faires of this type before (Dickens' Faire is great!), and I almost always have a good time after I make the mental shift necessary to really enjoy myself. The people who go and really get into it live in a headspace that has familiar geography to my own, and my brain takes a little time to recognize I'm in a safe space, a space I can let myself go more than usual.Its also been my experience that going to historic faires and conventions is more fascinating if you grab all of geek culture by the horns and don't let go. For example, at the faire Allison and I saw someone who I swear was going for elf, but Allison thinks was trying for Romulan. Its amazing to me that two engineers making a webcomic about space opera and quails can be at a Renaissance faire and discuss whether another attendee was aping Star Trek of the Lord of the Rings. The geek community can be abrasive, offensive, and just plain weird, but it can also be magical, inclusive, and transformative.Which one or set of the above adjectives apply to this comic is up to you the reader, but we hope you enjoy it and add it to your personal venn diagram of what you're into.Thanks,PhilipPS - You should go to the Norcal Ren Faire, especially if you've never been. Its fun. Really, really fun, and costumes are not required.
