221B Con Post Mortem Part II
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anarfeaSo, clevermanka and vulgarweed pointed out that there was something hinky going on with my last post, and I realized I accidentally cut like half of it. I was going to edit it but realized that probably no one would read the edited version, so I'll just do another post of additional thoughts on 221b Con.
Amendment: it was in fact Vulgarweed who read my cards, andsplix and Clevermanka who I was missing. Arg.
In addition to being on panels, I also went to panels. I went to Vulgar's AU panel, which was awesome. And I went to the Mystrade and Sherlolly panels, which were fun (although unfortunately the Sherlolly panel was sparsely attended compared to previous years). I got to meet Hastalux! Who is one of my favorite new writers, and a Mystrader. And I got a Mystrade t-shirt, as well as a "Mary Him, Murder Him, Do What You Like With Him," T-shirt from Fox Estacado.
I went to the fanfic workshop, which was something of a disappointment as this year they cancelled the actual workshop portion. Usually they have an hour of panel, and then split into two groups, one of people who want to write flash fic, and one of people who want to talk about fic in small groups with the panelists. This year, they forwent the group discussion in favor of extending the panel for 2 hours. And it was a great panel but I really missed the workshop. It was my favorite part of last year's con. I think I will send a feedback to the moderator expressing my disappointment.
Also a disappointment, the kink panel. They only had two panelists, a dom/sub couple. I heard that there were supposed to be more panelists but that they backed out? Anyway, nothing against the couple hosting the panel, they were lovely. Just it would have been nice to get more perspectives, and last year's panel was much more lively.
I spent a lot of time in the bar, as usual. Although amazingly I played no Cards Against Humanity this year. Berlynn had a new game where you pick a card that says a topic, say "Hufflepuff House motto," or "taunt to yell at an opponent" or "political slogan," and then you have one minute to find a passage in a book (everyone has to have a book to play) that is relevant to the topic. Since Berlynn was mostly passing out copies of her books which are porn, these were all pretty hilarious. And I won, which was a bonus.
I bought two books from Carnation's table: Dreams and Machines by Berlynn Whol (I edited one of the stories in it!) and A Land So Wild, by DoctorNerdington. I'm looking forward to reading both of them, and I'm really proud of Lee and Colleen who I know sold almost all the books they brought this year.
I also went to the Scrubbing Your Fic panel, which was mostly hosted by folks affiliated with Carnation, but I think that warrants its own post.
clevermanka and vulgarweed pointed out that there was something hinky going on with my last post, and I realized I accidentally cut like half of it. I was going to edit it but realized that probably no one would read the edited version, so I'll just do another post of additional thoughts on 221b Con.Amendment: it was in fact Vulgarweed who read my cards, and
splix and Clevermanka who I was missing. Arg.In addition to being on panels, I also went to panels. I went to Vulgar's AU panel, which was awesome. And I went to the Mystrade and Sherlolly panels, which were fun (although unfortunately the Sherlolly panel was sparsely attended compared to previous years). I got to meet Hastalux! Who is one of my favorite new writers, and a Mystrader. And I got a Mystrade t-shirt, as well as a "Mary Him, Murder Him, Do What You Like With Him," T-shirt from Fox Estacado.
I went to the fanfic workshop, which was something of a disappointment as this year they cancelled the actual workshop portion. Usually they have an hour of panel, and then split into two groups, one of people who want to write flash fic, and one of people who want to talk about fic in small groups with the panelists. This year, they forwent the group discussion in favor of extending the panel for 2 hours. And it was a great panel but I really missed the workshop. It was my favorite part of last year's con. I think I will send a feedback to the moderator expressing my disappointment.
Also a disappointment, the kink panel. They only had two panelists, a dom/sub couple. I heard that there were supposed to be more panelists but that they backed out? Anyway, nothing against the couple hosting the panel, they were lovely. Just it would have been nice to get more perspectives, and last year's panel was much more lively.
I spent a lot of time in the bar, as usual. Although amazingly I played no Cards Against Humanity this year. Berlynn had a new game where you pick a card that says a topic, say "Hufflepuff House motto," or "taunt to yell at an opponent" or "political slogan," and then you have one minute to find a passage in a book (everyone has to have a book to play) that is relevant to the topic. Since Berlynn was mostly passing out copies of her books which are porn, these were all pretty hilarious. And I won, which was a bonus.
I bought two books from Carnation's table: Dreams and Machines by Berlynn Whol (I edited one of the stories in it!) and A Land So Wild, by DoctorNerdington. I'm looking forward to reading both of them, and I'm really proud of Lee and Colleen who I know sold almost all the books they brought this year.
I also went to the Scrubbing Your Fic panel, which was mostly hosted by folks affiliated with Carnation, but I think that warrants its own post.
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Date: 2019-05-28 09:08 am (UTC)She also runs the left coast sherlockian symposium and I want to volunteer at that, since I don't care about the actual symposium topics!
(Lol I still remember how I found out they live so close to me--2017 I worked registration and had to look at everyone's IDs, and the first Oregon one I saw I was like "holy shit you live literally less than a mile from me" and looked up like oMG HI.)
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Date: 2019-06-01 08:23 pm (UTC)