Saturday, May 26th
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It's been a pretty wonderful con so far. The panels yesterday were pretty great. One about fairy tales (A Princess With A Sword Is Still A Princess) featured a favorite panelist of Jack and myself, Lisa Blauersouth, as well as the ever impressive and ever entertaining Na'amen Gobert Tilahun. It was a great panel, and the discussion of fairy tales was helpful to me in my thinking on By Half Measures.
I'm not good with faces but twice so far during the con I have recognized someone I couldn't see by their voice... first![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong and then mmohanraj, who I heard on the other side of a display in the art gallery. Coincidentally I had just spotted one of her photographs on display, though I hadn't read the card yet so I didn't know I was looking at her work. Shira (shadesong) is I believe the person here that I've known the longest (if only by a day or so), as so many of my older friends weren't able to be here this year, and Mary Anne Mohanraj... well, I got to WisCon my first year ahead of the rest of my group, who had been here before when I hadn't so I felt pretty lost. brainwane, who among her many other fine qualities is also basically a walking human icebreaker, rescued me at the Gathering, but Mary Anne was the guest of honor at WisCon 34 gave me a huge pick-me-up at the guest of honor reading when I went through the receiving line and she had some very nice things to say about me and my work.
Other luminous and wonderful people we have been able to connect with so far include but are not limited toktempest and piglet, who was kind enough to come up and say hello to us at dinner. I was kind of tongue-tied at the moment, but I'm reasonably sure I manged to say hello back.
The panels we've seen so far have been pretty uniformly awesome. Aside from the aforementioned fairytale one, there was one about asexuality in sf/f (and to an extent in popular fiction in general) overseen by Tempest, and a mammoth panel with a huge number of contributors from the essay collection Chicks Dig Comics that unexpectedly included someone I've gotten to know on Tumblr recently, Spastamagoria.
I popped up to the party floor between the last two panels of the night, but didn't have the wherewithal for much socializing so I just stopped off at the Circlet Press party to say hi to Cecilia Tan.
Jack and I finished the night off in the con suite, in a game of Apples to Apples with two people whose names I regrettably did not catch. So far, the con has pretty much been the experience that I had hoped to be able to share with Jack and Sarah last year.
Jack hopes that we can manage to meet more people in the next couples days... we're a party of relatively withdrawing people in real life, and we're missing our extroverts.
As always, if you want to come up and say hello, feel free. If you're on the lookout for me or you're not sure if you're looking for me, I have a light-up Tinkerbell hanging off my collar for recognizability... as someone who experiences a lot of uncertainty about identifying other people, I like to leave as little room for doubt as possible.
The State of the Me
Still doing great! Yesterday I kind of wore out my legs, but no sniffliness or other signs of impending respiratory complaint or anything.
Plans For Today
We're about to start our panels for the day with "How Society Maintains Poverty" and then we'll see where we go from there. I will probably check in at the Chicks Dig Comics party tonight.
It's been a pretty wonderful con so far. The panels yesterday were pretty great. One about fairy tales (A Princess With A Sword Is Still A Princess) featured a favorite panelist of Jack and myself, Lisa Blauersouth, as well as the ever impressive and ever entertaining Na'amen Gobert Tilahun. It was a great panel, and the discussion of fairy tales was helpful to me in my thinking on By Half Measures.
I'm not good with faces but twice so far during the con I have recognized someone I couldn't see by their voice... first
shadesong and then mmohanraj, who I heard on the other side of a display in the art gallery. Coincidentally I had just spotted one of her photographs on display, though I hadn't read the card yet so I didn't know I was looking at her work. Shira (shadesong) is I believe the person here that I've known the longest (if only by a day or so), as so many of my older friends weren't able to be here this year, and Mary Anne Mohanraj... well, I got to WisCon my first year ahead of the rest of my group, who had been here before when I hadn't so I felt pretty lost. brainwane, who among her many other fine qualities is also basically a walking human icebreaker, rescued me at the Gathering, but Mary Anne was the guest of honor at WisCon 34 gave me a huge pick-me-up at the guest of honor reading when I went through the receiving line and she had some very nice things to say about me and my work.Other luminous and wonderful people we have been able to connect with so far include but are not limited to
ktempest and piglet, who was kind enough to come up and say hello to us at dinner. I was kind of tongue-tied at the moment, but I'm reasonably sure I manged to say hello back.The panels we've seen so far have been pretty uniformly awesome. Aside from the aforementioned fairytale one, there was one about asexuality in sf/f (and to an extent in popular fiction in general) overseen by Tempest, and a mammoth panel with a huge number of contributors from the essay collection Chicks Dig Comics that unexpectedly included someone I've gotten to know on Tumblr recently, Spastamagoria.
I popped up to the party floor between the last two panels of the night, but didn't have the wherewithal for much socializing so I just stopped off at the Circlet Press party to say hi to Cecilia Tan.
Jack and I finished the night off in the con suite, in a game of Apples to Apples with two people whose names I regrettably did not catch. So far, the con has pretty much been the experience that I had hoped to be able to share with Jack and Sarah last year.
Jack hopes that we can manage to meet more people in the next couples days... we're a party of relatively withdrawing people in real life, and we're missing our extroverts.
As always, if you want to come up and say hello, feel free. If you're on the lookout for me or you're not sure if you're looking for me, I have a light-up Tinkerbell hanging off my collar for recognizability... as someone who experiences a lot of uncertainty about identifying other people, I like to leave as little room for doubt as possible.
The State of the Me
Still doing great! Yesterday I kind of wore out my legs, but no sniffliness or other signs of impending respiratory complaint or anything.
Plans For Today
We're about to start our panels for the day with "How Society Maintains Poverty" and then we'll see where we go from there. I will probably check in at the Chicks Dig Comics party tonight.
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on 2012-05-26 02:15 pm (UTC)