this got so out of hand at my local fest that they decided to do time traveller’s weekend as a theme. this year we went, and my costume was a cave man who hit his head on a tree branch while chasing a rabbit, woke up here and is amazed by everything
I hope you interacted with someone’s pet like it was potential food.
#DontEatTheFurries
Awww mannn. Stupid rules.
Hol’up. They don’t want that?
you mean friend-wolf? friend-wolf not food!
It would make way more sense for Stargate cosplayers to be at a renfaire since every single planet they went to on that series seemed to have villagers at about the renaissance level of technology (gotta wonder, did they have access to a bunch of medieval/renaissance sets for cheap lol?).
Of course, if you went as Stargate cosplayers you would have to basically dress up as para military wannabe chuds who’s personalities revolve around owning useless guns (like sword person who is obsessed with swords but way less fun) and being a bigot. People might not even recognize you are in costume and just assume you are a bunch of losers who express their freedom by going to renfaires carrying around murder weapons and dressing in tactical gear.
sigh
…better to go as the Star Trek cosplayers lol.
You’d never mistake a SG team for the bigots. There are women, and non-white people on the team!
/s
Have I missed something? Is stargate regarded as bigoted now?
I think they were saying the opposite. The gun obsessed military types you see in public may be bigots. SG characters may look similar bat are various races and not bigots.
You could just have that weird golden cumshot on your forehead.
What a terrible day to be literate
Goes to the fair with the cumshot … but it isn’t golden
Stargate- thousands of inhabited planets, and almost all of them look like Canada.
Staff weapons are weapons of
terrormurder.The P-90 is a weapon of war!
Yeah but in Star Trek’s future they have headlamps… but for your hands
haha that is a good one! I wonder if the faire participants mind or feel like it hurts their immersion.
At least at the Faires I’ve worked at no one cares.
In fact, I have a second-hand anecdote that one faire staff has a screen accurate combadge inside their doublet. When they see people doing stuff like this, they run over and pull them aside. They would whip out the badge and get in their face. “Does the Prime Directive mean NOTHING to you?! This is an uncontacted pre-warp civilization. You are ruining YEARS of undercover research! Who is your captain? I’m going to have your court martialled if you don’t get under cover FAST.”
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Are you reading a different thread? It seems like most people don’t mind.
God forbid I see some Star Trek cosplayer while I’m watching a comedian crack whips and sing twisted tunes.
I’m similarly minded. A friend and I have talked about doing this for some time, but it’s such an old joke I sorta fear it wanders into the same territory as asking the grocery clerk if the item that didn’t scan is free.
I worked as a cashier and still do it 😅
have you ever said anything back as a response, like" everything’s free if you steal it…" and just kind of pause for a moment?
deadpan serious stare
I’m not paid enough to care if you steal shit
I usually said something like “I already filled my theft quota for today”
…
What a perfect comparison. I would agree it’s in the same neighborhood. It was funny the first 8 million times.
I’ve seen a story where one of the faire participants had a commbadge hidden in their costume, pulled the Trekkie to one side, showed it to them, then told them off for breaking the Prime Directive…
Some Faires have a time traveler day for things like this.
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People at ren fairs are usually in pretty good spirits and good humor. Considering there are people dressed as wizards and elves, I think they’d be okay with Star Trek time travelers.
The Venn Diagram of Renn Fair goers, and Trekkies isn’t a circle, but it’s close I’d imagine.
In my experience, you might annoy the “hardcore” ones, but most people won’t be bothered. Hell, people may honestly join in, so long as you aren’t causing any problems.
A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.
Considering what goes into the more hard-core outfits, they deserve respect for their dedication. And there are lots of outlets for that too, which is great (e.g. SCA).
However, if someone gets their tabbard in a bunch because some sci-fi cosplayers ruined their sense of immersion, at what is arguably a pay-to-enter medieval-themed shopping mall, they may deserve what they get.
A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.
These people are the backbone of every Faire. Huzzah!
Depends on the event. There is a time and a place for the game.
A menagerie if you will
I wear a TNG uniform to my local ren fair every year - it almost exclusively generates excitement and high fives.
What a coincidence: just yesterday I rewatched the warehouse 13 episode where they’re at a civil war reenactment LARP and someone complains about the fucking trekkies always crashing their party as RPG time travelers.
I was at a ren fair earlier this year wearing my MST3K shirt and several people in real cosplay stopped to tell me how much they loved my shirt.
Also, there was a guy wearing a shirt that just said “This is my ren fair costume.” Respect to that guy.
I use it as the only public event I will wear my JNCOs to. That and my “Fuck yeah, swords.” shirt.
Rock those JNCOs man!
I try. Believe it or not they are still the same pairs I had from when I was 20. Honestly some of the best jeans I’ve ever owned.
I’m jealous! My highly religious parents wouldn’t allow me to get those when I was in highschool in the 90s. They were definitely high quality jeans.
Still available too! https://jnco.com/
I like how the male models on that site are just the same picture of two different dudes with the clothes pasted over them.
Kikwear is still around too. Though their store isn’t showing many products right now. There’s a brick and mortar near me that carries them.
My highly religious parents wouldn’t allow me to get those when I was in highschool in the 90s.
Which southern state are you from? lol
The Star Trek cosplayers don’t bother me… it’s the fucking furries. Like no judgement, you do you, but how is a full pink fur suit even slightly on theme?
The furries I saw at a ren faire recently had theme appropriate attire for their fursuit. I was jealous that they had two costumes!
Those are Stimpies though. Stimpies of the Ren faire.
Slow clap
Nice
I mean someone is already cosplaying some romanticized ideal of someone 200 years ago is it really that much of a stretch to have someone dressed as an anamophized dog-man?
I hope this comment is satire because it’s hilarious.
It was hilarious the first 500 times. I know some fairs have soured on it and want people to stop
Understandable. Plus, the landing team would usually dress incognito so as not to violate the prime directive anyway, right?
So what are they doing dressed in their usual uniforms?
Maybe they got thrown back in time against their will, versus being a normal away mission?
Normalize invading the ren faire dressed as Mongols
Well, the renfaire people only get to be upset if this is the only anachronism in costumes
My friend who used to work at a ren faire says it’s a lazy overdone joke and the people who do it tend to be dicks.
I think if you’re going to go as a trek person they need to be in full renaissance clothing to not break the prime directive, but they can have pointy side burns.
And a tricorder that they occasionally check while trying to look sneaky.
I want to see the “bring out your dead” cart guy from The Holy Grail.
Someone needs to coordinate an S.C.P. containment team cosplay to crash the Ren faire
Even as someone who loves Star Trek: That would be incredibly selfish since it would crush immersion for all the fair visitors except a few trekkies.
The immersion? I’ve been to some and people dress up as like fairy’s and elves and all sorts of fantasy shit.
Same. It used to be a lot more of historical reenactment, and a lot of the performances and stuff still reflect that.
But the last few times I’ve gone it’s mainly been a themed craft show with corsets and tunics, and yeah, people with wings, steampunk hats, and Cloud’s buster sword, or tails hanging out of their pants. :|
Renaissance times must’ve been wild, y’all. Lol
Imma be honest. I don’t get the whole LARP scene. It’s weird AF. Happy for people finding something they like but damn.
IDK man, the more historical Renaissance fairs still exist, with people a bit more strict about dressing period-appropriately. The ones you’re talking about are basically a whole separate thing, it’s basically a fantasy-inspired comic-con, and attracts a whole different audience.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with either. I think it’s awesome that there’s places for people to sell their niche handmade goods while sporting the fashions of 17th-century France or whatever, as well as places where people can dress up like fantasy creatures, tails and all.
Maybe there is a cultural misunderstanding on my side? Where I live, we have so called “medieval markets” which are actually more like a fair than a market and everything there, like market stands and costumes are pretty strictly in medieval style. Those events are very much about diving into another historical era for a few hours. Sure, most of the guests are not in costumes but I imagine having furries and trekkies in costumes there, would impact the overall atmosphere much, much more. I assumed that renaissance faires in America where similar events but I now I wonder if I assumed wrong and maybe they are more like fantasy conventions?
going by your username Im gonna assume youre german. you see all kinds of costumes and clothings at the MPS for example and imho noone is bothered by it
OK then, maybe I am just too much of a purist. However I found this when I made a quick search.
Seit einigen Jahren gibt es allerdings einen Konflikt zwischen zwei Gruppen der kostümierten Marktbesucher. Die einen sind diejenigen, welche sich in fantasievolle bzw. mittelalterlich wirkende „Gewandungen“ jeglicher Art kleiden, die anderen jene, welche auf Authentizität hohen Wert legen. Letztere Gruppe – auch als A-Fraktion bezeichnet (von Authentizität abgeleitet) – kritisiert die Qualität der historischen Darstellung bzw. dass dem Besucher nicht verdeutlicht wird, dass das Dargestellte nicht dem historischen Mittelalter entspricht.
Soße: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelaltermarkt#Authentizität
sounds more like „if you wear a medieval looking costume, do it properly“ tbh
Probably, idk
Is everyone dressed up at these fairs?
I don’t see how a few people in trek costumes would crush immersion if plain clothes people don’t either. It’s both or neither, not one or the other.
Maybe there is a cultural misunderstanding on my side? Where I live, we have so called “medieval markets” which are actually more like a fair than a market and everything there, like market stands and costumes are pretty strictly in medieval style. Those events are very much about diving into another historical era for a few hours. Sure, most of the guests are not in costumes but I imagine having furries and trekkies in costumes there, would impact the overall atmosphere much, much more. I assumed that renaissance faires in America where similar events but I now I wonder if I assumed wrong and maybe they are more like fantasy conventions?
It sounds like it’s basically the same. My understanding is this type of thing actually started in the US and was exported to Europe, ironically enough. But yeah, many (most) guests are not in costume. I don’t see how some guests in Trek costumes would harm anything.
A not insignificant number of guests are usually dressed like regular modern day people. Ren faires are for everyone, and most people don’t own period costumes. It’s usually encouraged for guests to dress up, but it absolutely is not required.
This would also work with Stargate
This is gold
Well glad you are apologizing at least
