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What the Fuck Is Geedis!?

Comedian Nate Fernald came across Geedis pins and a forgotten fantasy universe while he was searching for pins related to the band The Jam.

The pin was in the likeness of a hunched brown monster with crazed green eyes, labeled simply, “Geedis.” Nate bought the pin since he was fascinated but couldn’t find any information on where this strange creature was from. He contacted the sellers who were unable to provide him with answers either.

He finally took to twitter where someone pointed him to a picture of a sheet of stickers featuring a detailed illustration of Geedis, as well as additional characters, labeled “The Land of Ta.” (bottom left)

Now that he found out where Geedis came from, he had to figure out what The Land of Ta was. After Fernald posted the stickers to his Facebook page, a couple of other sticker sheets that appeared to be from the same series turned up. One sheet is labeled “Women of Ta,” (bottom right) and features variations on the well-worn fantasy theme of absurdly-busty-female-warrior-monsters. 

Small print on the sticker sheets indicate that The Land of Ta was created in the early 1980s by a company called Dennison Company, which is today known as the adhesive label company Avery-Dennison.

It has recently been found out that the artist behind Geedis is Sam Petrucci. The origin of the pins and “The Women of Ta” still remains unsolved.

If you’re interested in following this mystery, check out this podcast:

Medusa and her gargoyle girlfriend!💕💕 I really liked the designs that @beebeedibapbeediboop made in ThisPost! Her drawing made me smile all day! ^w^ 🌸 and I hope it dose for you too!!

Did you know Nintendo trademarked the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong” in 2013? Buuuuttt…..

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 That ball pit up there? That thing quickly started a rumor that the staff would give an ‘extra hour in the ball pit’ to make up for missing the Welcome To Night Vale Q/A. This is what started the ‘extra hour in the ball pit’ meme.

People payed 17,000 bucks for this con. Literally nothing happened. 

dashcon actually took place in july 2014, which places it in the era of tumblr where superwholock had fully fallen out of fashion. it was even more of a trainwreck than previously described. this post gives a great rundown of all that happened and i definitely recommend reading through it. there’s also a wikipedia page! and a knowyourmeme page! and a fanlore page! but here are some highlights:

the wtnv panel was cancelled because the con didn’t pay the wtnv team’s transportation and performance fees before their panel, so wtnv walked out as they had full right to imo. here is their apology. well-known artist gingerhaze apparently didn’t have her hotel room paid for and had to sleep on wtnv’s pull out couch. yikes!

the con was run by a few people who were superwholocks (and the dregs of it) the homestucks in the ball pit was simply one of the first iconic images out of the con. tickets were $65 for a first time con that was basically empty by saturday afternoon - all the vendors packed up and left.

okay, the $17,000 bit? not to be glossed over, because what happened was at the end of the first night of the con the organizers made a speech to the crowd asking for $17,000, or else the hotel would kick them out. so they passed around a hat and people just dumped money in - no signing of names, no nothing - until they got the money. then there was loud wailing of “we are the champions.” there was a lot of suspicion, and basically everyone considers it to be a scam.

here is a screenshot of informative panels one could attend:

apparently, names and descriptions were changed by con staff - reports from the “homoerotic subtext” panel actually said the panel was about queerbaiting in the media! which is cool.

following it, there was speculation on the con’s llps, allocation of payment, and just a whole bunch of stuff that could easily pile into a bunch of lawsuits. i havent heard anything about any of them coming to fruition… pity.

anyway, here’s a pretty good description of the whole affair (warning for volume and flashing in the link)