obscure? Not any more

I went to Lush cosmetics today - I love their bath fizzies.  My T-shirt was the GenCon shirt I got in the mail.

To my surprize, the sales girl said, "Oh GenCon!  Are you going to YoumaCon?"  She was a fan.  She even understood my musing about WorldCon.

Huh.
I use to think that we were a very obscure group of fans.  That there were only a few of us in the wide world.
Not so.
Certainly, San Diego Comic Con should teach me that is no longer the case - but it just seems odd that at the high-end cosmetic store; I find fans.  Well, good.  We are no longer the few, the smart, the misunderstood.  I guess I am now a trend setter (I was gonna say 'hip', but that's showing my age).

   I think it might be important to remember, when planning new pictures, to remember that they have a wider appeal than I think they do.  Dragons seem fairly mainstream - certainly Smaug will be well recieved.