FogCon 3

[chinders]

Ok, before I get too far from it, con report!

We got into town on Thursday, which was very nice, because we had all morning Friday to relax, and we also got to have a lovely conversation over dinner & drinks with Daniel and Wendy, who probably have LJ names but I don't know them.

The theme of the con this year was Law and Order, for reference.

Comments

[metaphortunate]

That sounds lots of fun! I wish I had gotten to go to more panels.

But I enjoyed my time at the con so much. SO MUCH.

You should totally go to Wiscon some day, it is the best.

[serenejournal]

Yes! So awesome to see so many of my awesome friends of awesomeness. And by the way, dahlings, you both looked FABulous!

[chinders]

It was lovely to see you, sorry we didn't get to spend more time together!

[chinders]

It really was a lot of fun. It was great to see you! We should maybe try to meet up for lunch some weekend. Maybe the kiddos will want to play together, who knows.

[serenejournal]

Ten minutes into that panel, when said white guy started whining about not being allowed to read lesbian erotica in public to lesbians, I realized two things:

1) I had had maybe three hours of sleep the night before, with the concomitant level of impulse control; and
2) I had hard objects in my purse

In order to keep myself from throwing hard objects at his head, I left.

[chinders]

What a good choice. I ended up snapping at him for talking over the moderator while she was trying to moderate at one point, and I think all the other panelists wanted to high-five me.

[tiger_spot]

<3

[pantryslut]

Certain 4 year olds love their zombies...

[chinders]

They really do, don't they?

[mrissa]

That definition of dystopias makes sense to me. Otherwise nearly everything is a dystopia to somebody--and while people feel it's deep to make that point once, we've all heard it made once and thought about its implications, and it's actually more useful to have a distinction there than to keep making the point about how nothing is perfect. Not-perfect is not the point of a dystopia; deeply and pointedly crappy in a particular direction is.

[chinders]

Yes. I was also bothered by how one person on the panel kept talking about how people who were on top of a given social order were living in their own utopia, and I kept making frowny faces, because no. As a rich white person, I am high up in the social order of the US, but that does not make this my utopia. No one has ever written a utopia and said "everyone shall worship me and despair!" Those are called manifestos. Utopias are generally "and here is how we shall all get along for the mutual and universal betterment of mankind."

But then I'm kinda picky.

[mrissa]

Well, and--okay, look, I know not everything has a high school metaphor. But it turns out some things do have a high school metaphor

[chinders]

Yes. Well said.

[bad_latin]

Sounds awesome, and what a fun writeup! Makes me wish I could have been there.

[chinders]

It really was delightful. Maybe next year :)