Nine Worlds and general Britishness
Aug. 13th, 2015 10:11 amI feel I ought to be expansive on the subject of Nine Worlds, the geek convention where Beast and I spent the weekend, but it's always difficult to write a con report after something so big and varied. I naturally spent quite a bit of time in the fanfic track, as usual, but I ventured out into other tracks and generally found something interesting. Was on a couple of panels - RPF, for one, and "women's writing and fanfic" which was quite interesting and enjoyable, and very well moderated. It's much easier to be on a panel than to moderate one!
Overall impression of the con was that it is even more colourful and costumed than in previous years. I wore my sparkly stars and planets T-shirt and was awarded a cosplay token, which was pleasing. I even did some face painting, and it was gratifying to hear a joyful cry acknowledging the Pokemon butterfly I'd just applied to someone's cheek as she left the room. I tasted Giles (Earl Grey) and Buffy (blood orange and spice) flavoured marshmallows, which were amazingly good. I went to a session on 'tropes' in fanfic, and was inspired to combine the 'Canadian shack' with 'Amnesia', which I think would make a very cool story. (And was also inspired to note that neither of my mpreg stories really follows the usual line.)
I was most happy to meet the lovely![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ephemera, although we were mostly going in different directions - that's the trouble with an interesting convention, there's too much to do to be able to sit and have a natter, because you don't want to miss it. And my children's housemates were there, one of whom had crocheted herself an Ood costume (amazing) and another of whom sported a farting hippo, which was greeted with rapture by somebody who recognised what it meant.
However, if you were to ask me for more details, I would be quite unable to supply them. It's a bit of a blur!
There seem to be a couple of memes floating around my reading list. I shall do the British one, as it does not inspire me to point and laugh.
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Overall impression of the con was that it is even more colourful and costumed than in previous years. I wore my sparkly stars and planets T-shirt and was awarded a cosplay token, which was pleasing. I even did some face painting, and it was gratifying to hear a joyful cry acknowledging the Pokemon butterfly I'd just applied to someone's cheek as she left the room. I tasted Giles (Earl Grey) and Buffy (blood orange and spice) flavoured marshmallows, which were amazingly good. I went to a session on 'tropes' in fanfic, and was inspired to combine the 'Canadian shack' with 'Amnesia', which I think would make a very cool story. (And was also inspired to note that neither of my mpreg stories really follows the usual line.)
I was most happy to meet the lovely
ephemera, although we were mostly going in different directions - that's the trouble with an interesting convention, there's too much to do to be able to sit and have a natter, because you don't want to miss it. And my children's housemates were there, one of whom had crocheted herself an Ood costume (amazing) and another of whom sported a farting hippo, which was greeted with rapture by somebody who recognised what it meant.However, if you were to ask me for more details, I would be quite unable to supply them. It's a bit of a blur!
There seem to be a couple of memes floating around my reading list. I shall do the British one, as it does not inspire me to point and laugh.
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