cons: still a delight

[giddygeek]

MJ! It was a mix of good time and GREAT time for me. I loved the new hotel, which was super classy but staffed by people who seemed both greatly competent AND friendly. I adore the con comm and my fellow volunteers and I only once stole a volunteer button, although I did multiple times stuff the suggestions box with drawings of Mark Hamill's penis

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[taffimai]

I agree about the fan casting issue. I will never accept the (perfectly lovely) actors playing Rachel Berry's dads, when they were clearly destined to be played by John Barrowman and Jesse L. Martin.

[giddygeek]

Fan-brain is a hilarious thing! When something settles in, that's it, even if you're directly contradicted by canon--it's just, when an idea is as good as Barrowman the gay dad how can you possibly shake it loose!

[ldthomps]

There's something truly special about sitting in a room with people who are this mix of bright and quick with a joke and deeply thoughtful and silly and earnest, and just talking out all these ideas about canon/fanon/fandom--it's brilliant.

You CAPTURED it perfectly there. Yay, MJ! :D

[giddygeek]

<3<3<3<33333 Yay MJ indeed--yay the fangirls, who are so good!

[kassrachel]

I just--came away feeling like I'd done a good job of managing my social experience, and so was very satisfied.

Me too, this year! Which is awesome. It's amazing how much of a difference that makes in my con experience overall.

The Home vid from the vidshow is a brilliant piece of pimpworthy fanwork and I was very pleased to offer my obsessively enthusiastic yes it's good to everyone who asked, and many who didn't. :D

YES. ♥ I adore bironic for making it for me for Festivids this year! along with two other totally adorable Big Eden vidlets, omg.

There's something truly special about sitting in a room with people who are this mix of bright and quick with a joke and deeply thoughtful and silly and earnest, and just talking out all these ideas about canon/fanon/fandom--it's brilliant.

Yes to this, x a billion! This is what I love about fan cons.

[giddygeek]

High fives for those of us who figured out how to make the best of our experience! It really does take a little while to learn--and it's different (I think) for each con, which is interesting to me. I'm glad you had such an excellent time, too!

Yes, I have to go send bironic a love letter about that vid. It was made for rolling around and wallowing in, my two favorite things! *grins*

<3<3<3 to all the fangirls and all their talking and opinions--I am reminded by every con how fangirls are just my favorites. :D

[esteefee]

sounds like you had a glorious time. \o/ I wish I could have sat in on your panel.

I will never forget sitting down at Bitchin' Party and popping in Big Eden for some fen who hadn't seen it. o_O bweee!! it did not hurt that they were a bunch of dS fans; they all fell over when they recognized Eric Schweig.

You will love Elementary, I think. Lucy Liu gets to be utterly brilliant, no lie. It just keeps getting better and better, TMOT.

Although, yeah, I trust we will have our own Sherlock someday. :)

[giddygeek]

A very good time indeed! My Fall Out Boy panel had trivia and prizes, including a terrible cafepress pin made by moi, and the friendship panel diverged into Recommending Lady Friendships We Can All Love, so that was A++!

Bitchin Party is somehow both on my list of Things I'd Like to Do, and always under my radar. Sounds like a blast! And yay for being able to introduce a roomful of people to the sweetness that is Big Eden. <3<3<3<3<3333333

That's the thing which reassures me about Elementary--everyone was like, no, they do not make her passive and a mom or whatever else you'd feared--it's badass Watson played by badass Lucy Liu. I could be in for that!

Someday, someday, someone will say, you know what would rock is an amazing lady Sherlock, who is as difficult and brilliant as every other Sherlock, and I will be ALL. OVER. IT. Sigh. Someday!

[sheafrotherdon]

I'll add my voice to those suggesting you'll love Elementary. It's a slow burn of a show, building bit by bit, week by week, and it's so satisfying to see how the characters shift and grow. And the dynamic between JLM and LL is just amazing. LL kicks all the ass, and wears a fantastic array of scarves, all of which I waaaaaaaant. YAY \o/

[giddygeek]

I do love a good slow burn, and I am always so in for the satisfaction of watching people grow together, partnerships becoming friendships becoming mutual brilliance etc--I just didn't want to be disappointed. Thank goodness I know braver folks than myself, who are willing to test the waters and report back! *grins*

I see the gifs on tumblr and sigh over her bold, fashionable attractiveness. Lucy Liu, how such an utterly lovely human? *_____________*