Conceptualizing My Own Nonhuman Discord Convention

March 22nd, 2025

At the closing ceremonies for the Centaurus Festival, the Sol System, one of the moderators, encouraged others to go out and make more nonhuman related conventions. As I'm writing this, I just finished attending the second day of Shining Hearth, a Discord convention for people on the elfae spectrum. Going to two alterhuman conventions has really got me thinking: What if I, hypothetically, started my own alterhuman convention?

As of right now, this is only a concept that entered my mind. I don't yet know if I actually want to pursue this, but my idea would be for an 18+ convention that takes place at night as opposed to during the day (in the US at least), centered on things like horror, the macabre, and nonhuman identities that may be darker or more monstrous in nature. Ideally, it would take place in October, because Halloween.

That's basically my pitch. I'm still workshopping what the potential name might be, but I do also wonder how many people would be interested in a convention like this.