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[dashcon-two]

DashCon 2's Pre-Registration Event

And a happy anniversary!

Hi all,

We have more details about the pre-registration event! You can find them linked on our website. Pre-registration means you can come and pick up your badge/any relevant materials (e.g. your voting token) the evening before, skipping the line.

Pre-Registration

DATE: July 31st, 2026 TIME: 4:00 PM – 8:30 PM LOCATION: Wilket Creek Park Picnic Area #4, 1000 Eglinton Ave E, North York, ON M4P 1E2

We’ll have a large multicoloured flag with the DashCon 2 logo on it identifying our picnic spot :)

As a reminder, the pre-registration event is a Cosplay Picnic and Little Guy Show-and-Tell.

COSPLAY PICNIC

You are invited to dress up in cosplay and bring snacks/packed lunch to eat on the grass. DashCon 2 will have some pre-packaged fruit and veggie plates for you to sample, but we don’t expect supplies to last, so please bring your own food if you’d like to eat!

LITTLE GUY SHOW AND TELL

In cosplay or not, we encourage bringing a little friend to introduce to folks around! It’s a great conversation starter. Examples of Little Guys include stuffed animals, crochet plushes, rocks with googly eyes—any inanimate object that brings you joy and you want to introduce to other people. Please do not bring live animals.

Con-Going Crash Course

For many of you, DashCon 2 might be your first convention. But even veterans might benefit from the tips & tricks Con-Going Crash Course, an all rounder guide to attending a convention. This video is currently available on our Youtube for you to watch to get an idea of everything you need to know/consider for attending a convention!

An absolutely massive thank you to Cinnacorn and Duskroads for the tremendous amount of time and effort you’ve put into this. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

Just one more thing.

As some of you may have noticed, although it’s pretty late now, today is July 5th, the official one-year anniversary of DashCon 2.

It hasn’t felt like a year, really—time moves so much faster now.

I’m a different person now that DashCon 2 is in my life. Event planning is my career now. I have new friends, a small but not inconsequential internet presence… and when I go to friends’ weddings, sometimes my reputation precedes me??? Absolutely shocking to get hit with I like your shoelaces completely unironically IRL.

As an organizer, I can never truly attend DashCon 2. That day was a blur of adrenaline and Monster Energy. I was building a castle I’d never walk inside. So I feel DashCon 2 through the contours—the effect it has on other people. Through you.

I am beyond grateful for all of you. Sometimes I rewatch the montage of the ending dance party, with the headbanging Miku circle, and I cry. I’m being serious. The greatest joy of my life is getting to make all of you happy.

Rock on, Mikus. Happy Anniversary.

See you in August.

[codex-entry]

Pathologic, For Those Who Will Never Play It (Haruspex's Route) premieres July 4th, 10AM PST.

I hope to see you there <33

[kilncreatures]

walky pink shark

[atinybitofhopepunk]

I draw the walky pink shark experiencing whimsical joy at seeing a butterfly

[kilncreatures]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[sapphling]

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

[wileycap]

[dinomoder]

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

[beardedmrbean]

[0fficelady]

[a-book-of-creatures]

Made some stickers for when you just gotta express yourself with a failed cake

[thelatestkate]

Shop , Patreon , Books and Cards , Mailing List

[mysterycat-official]

I lowkey hate when programs talk to me in a friendly way. "don't worry, nearly there!" Shut up. It should say "loading 64.3% completed. Do not turn off device" and absolutely nothing else. You arent my friend you are computer. Act like it

[ruffboi-mags]

So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

[movebackintime]

https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI

Here ya go

[laziestgirlintown]

In case you need a comfort watch and because Youtube search nowadays sucks rancid putrescence, I remind you of the Princess Bride Home Movie from the lockdown, starring everybody

[keplercryptids]

hey, it's okay if the only thing you did for pride was exist. i'm glad & grateful you are in the world. your survival is a celebration.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[murkymarco]

Caught myself spiraling and then remembered it's just my body not wanting to exist in these temperatures

[json-derulo]

it sucks that the overwhelming majority of medical messaging around salt/sodium is "evil poisonous substance that you're definitely already eating way too much of," because like. you do still need it. (trust me, as a POTS-haver, I've had to completely rewire my own brain about salt.) and you need more salt when the entire northern hemisphere is hot enough to fry an egg on. ever tried sucking down the recommended 64oz of hydration per day entirely as water, only to find you're peeing constantly without any of the purported benefits of being "hydrated"? assuming you don't have another medical condition that causes frequent urination, your body probably needed more salt/electrolytes to be able to hold onto that water and make use of it. if there was ever a time to keep a sports drink/pedialyte/etc within constant reach, it's when the heat index is 110°F/43°C.

[json-derulo]

it sucks that the overwhelming majority of medical messaging around salt/sodium is "evil poisonous substance that you're definitely already eating way too much of," because like. you do still need it. (trust me, as a POTS-haver, I've had to completely rewire my own brain about salt.) and you need more salt when the entire northern hemisphere is hot enough to fry an egg on. ever tried sucking down the recommended 64oz of hydration per day entirely as water, only to find you're peeing constantly without any of the purported benefits of being "hydrated"? assuming you don't have another medical condition that causes frequent urination, your body probably needed more salt/electrolytes to be able to hold onto that water and make use of it. if there was ever a time to keep a sports drink/pedialyte/etc within constant reach, it's when the heat index is 110°F/43°C.

[radawaycuntt]

Let’s have so many fucking issues and problems together

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-