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.
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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
So… Elf girl?
Never forget the episode where it was upside down
Stargate- thousands of inhabited planets, and almost all of them look like Canada.
Eh class
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’ve seen that as well, it’s slowly growing. Unsurprisingly the correlation of ren faire goers and trekkers is high.
Is “trekker” the new “trekkie”?
…considering the term is nearly sixty years old i’d say no.
Edit: exposing myself as an olde farte but in fandom circles back in the day there was a sharp line between trekker and trekkie . Oooh you didn’t want to be seen as a trekkie, they were the fans that …well looking back at it, the trekkies were openly obsessed over the series and had all the fun cosplaying and being free about it, the trekkers were the ones that pretended they weren’t mad about trek and thus were allowed out into respectable society. Cringe factor i suppose. Heh. But old name habits remain.
Fair enough, though I’m not too far behind ya there. I suppose it’s similar to the dichotomy of geek v. nerd, insofar that the distinction is lost on those outside the group (much to our chagrin/cringe). 🖖🏽
It’s also an age thing - I mean every fandom has Those Fans, but in general being a fan of something and buying / wearing merch is now nbd. Nerd’s gone mainstream.
Back when those terms were coined? Sooo not the case. Like, it could literally get you beaten. Wild times.
That’s what I’m sayin’! It took me so long not to reflexively whip around to see who said “nerd” and would there be a slap fight. 🤪
(FYI: class of '95 was when this was peak for me)
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
My favorite, when I was working any last point of contact with customers: “It’s only a crime if you get caught. At least, that’s what I figured when I wonder why mgmt gets a cut of my pay.”, and the deadpan is essential. 🤘🏽
I usually said something like “I already filled my theft quota for today”
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What a perfect comparison. I would agree it’s in the same neighborhood. It was funny the first 8 million times.
Unfortunately the internet hellishly complements our copycat tendencies
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…
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.
Some Faires have a time traveler day for things like this.
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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.
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Rock those JNCOs man!
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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
JNCOs
Junior non-com outfits?
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?
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?
Yes.
I hope this comment is satire because it’s hilarious.
Normalize invading the ren faire dressed as Mongols
Yeah, give Trump a good reason to build a big ass wall! XD
I want to see the “bring out your dead” cart guy from The Holy Grail.
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?
Depends on the situation. Sometimes they only find out that the planet they’re beaming down to is actually a 1920’s mafia planet or a Nazi Germany planet after the fact once they get there, and then it’s like, “Bones, Spock, and also random Crewman, we’ve just beamed down to a mafia planet, we need to get some proper clothes before we’re spotted. Oh no, we’ve been spotted, beat these mafia guys up and steal their clothes quick before we’re spotted again.”
Although to be fair those sorts of episodes actually didn’t involve time travel, since they were other planets that for some reason or another became entire planets of mafiosos and Nazis, but the prime directive still applied.
Maybe they got thrown back in time against their will, versus being a normal away mission?
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.
It might not be an away team, but instead they got thrown back in time type of situation, which in that case they would just have their normal outfits.
This would also work with Stargate
Someone needs to coordinate an S.C.P. containment team cosplay to crash the Ren faire
I’ve never been to a ren fair in my life but I can feel it in my bones that this is one of those eyeroll inducing things where a million of people have done it but they all think they’re the first.
Same probably goes for Doctor Who.
Apparently it’s pretty common for ren fair people to wear a starfleet badge hidden somewhere and if this happens pull them aside in character, subtly show the badge and rip into them for violating the prime directive.
have done it but they all think they’re the first.
It’s not about the first, it’s about the best.
I mean it kinda seems like there’s exactly one way to do it. They’re not elaborate costumes by any means, and they’re uniforms so you can’t exactly get creative with it.
I mean it kinda seems like there’s exactly one way to do it. They’re not elaborate costumes by any means, and they’re uniforms so you can’t exactly get creative with it.
Not with the costumes maybe, but with the acting, you definitely can.
All I’ve got left is my bones
This is gold
Well glad you are apologizing at least
