The better M*W report
Jun. 1st, 2004 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsIt's amazing what food and rest will do. I tried, hard, to get through a decent day's work and wimped out right around early lunchtime. I just Could Not Concentrate!
Now, after some down time and a heapin' helpin' of TGI Friday's new PMS Cuisine (the steak w/bleu cheese and a side of broccoli, with a chocolate shake) I feel infiniately better.
It seemed like a small con, although the registration had been topped out. A shade fewer flyers, not as many people in the feeding frenzy, not as many room dealers. And the video contest was only 3 hours long. Several great ones, but my personal top favorite was the one to Veteran of 1000 Psychic Wars. It started with a shot of Arkham Asylum, then cut to the Emergency ambulance pulling up, and then went into clips from assd shows, psychoanalyzing the characters as they "displayed their behavior" and were admitted. I didn't know the middle two fandoms, but it started with Star Wars original - Luke. "Patient believes self to have developed paranormal powers after death of family. Kills on the orders of deceased mentor. Constant rebellion against authority. Diagnosis - Paranoid schizophrenia." Buffy (heavily edited with the one episode of her in the nuthouse) was "Believes self to be superhero. Believes world to be inhabited by ghosts and demons to be fought. Rebels against constructed authority figures. Upon distruction of false reality, became comatose..."
It was a good con. I bought lots of zines - heck, I bought lots of stuff, and still came home with a little money to spare. In addition to roughly 30 BatB zines and two of the world's most expensive bathrobes, I got two t-shirts custom made (10th Kingdom logo and the old BatB "Walk on the Wild Side" poster) & some CSI graphic novels. There was some good art this year, but nothing I wanted to bid on.
Our door decoration, courtesy of Smap was "If you give a fan a show... she might want to collect memorabilia about it. If she collects memorabilia, she might want to talk to other fans... (right up to "If she goes to the music vids, she might see another show.") There was one of an Aztec gold piece with the caption "Got Curse?" (Pirate fandom was hot - too hot; there was little to feed it so the art and zines sold out on Thursday.) A slash fan had set up a Massachusetts Licensing Board and offered people the ability to marry off their favorite slash pairs. One room had a Thrush Going Out Of Business sale. There was a door advertising a painfully dull cartoon called Adam and Andy. Frankly, Leonard and Larry did it first and much, much better. The person who collects theme-related cartoons all year and posts them was back; in retrospect, I wish I had written down the names of the ones I hadn't known so I could see if they had LJ feeds. (One was of a boy having a LotR dream, including a part where he tries to bribe Gollum out of The Ring by offering an Anakin Skywalker action figure mint in box. The look on Gollum's face was priceless, as was the line "Hobbitses must be out of his mindses.")
I went to a few panels and was on 5. Tish and I, although we kept dragging each other off topic, make a good compare/contrast when we discuss returning to fandoms, as we left for different reasons and we had drastically different experiences on return. But the best panel for this year (and, in comparison, several years) was my Percy Weasley - Death Eater or Double Agent? It was the best attended, and everyone had a firmly-held point of view. Some were resolutely "Deatheater!" and some unshakeably "Double Agent!" and the two teens sitting dead center of the audience didn't really care, but by George, they wanted Percy to pay for breaking his mother's heart! It was a rocking panel, and (pauses to fluff hair) I got several compliments on how I moderated it. Including one person who came up to me the next day to say again how good a moderator she thought I was!
It's a style that doesn't lend well to a well-stocked panel - I wasn't so successful using it at the Joan of Arcadia for non-Christians panel - but when I'm up there alone with a hot room, it was magic!
We never did have a consensus, though there's a fair number of people (including me) who hope that what Percy is really doing is inadvertently selling off his soul and he will redeem himself by becoming a double-agent. There was much discussion as to how far he will have to go for that redemption, including some discussion on how he might be the next character to die, possibly *in* that act of redemption. (An idea that got dubbed "The Passion of the Percy.")
Book #6 can come out any time now, thank you very much!
And now I'm off to catch up on other things, and to kick around my newest icon idea - "What Would Joan Do?"
Now, after some down time and a heapin' helpin' of TGI Friday's new PMS Cuisine (the steak w/bleu cheese and a side of broccoli, with a chocolate shake) I feel infiniately better.
It seemed like a small con, although the registration had been topped out. A shade fewer flyers, not as many people in the feeding frenzy, not as many room dealers. And the video contest was only 3 hours long. Several great ones, but my personal top favorite was the one to Veteran of 1000 Psychic Wars. It started with a shot of Arkham Asylum, then cut to the Emergency ambulance pulling up, and then went into clips from assd shows, psychoanalyzing the characters as they "displayed their behavior" and were admitted. I didn't know the middle two fandoms, but it started with Star Wars original - Luke. "Patient believes self to have developed paranormal powers after death of family. Kills on the orders of deceased mentor. Constant rebellion against authority. Diagnosis - Paranoid schizophrenia." Buffy (heavily edited with the one episode of her in the nuthouse) was "Believes self to be superhero. Believes world to be inhabited by ghosts and demons to be fought. Rebels against constructed authority figures. Upon distruction of false reality, became comatose..."
It was a good con. I bought lots of zines - heck, I bought lots of stuff, and still came home with a little money to spare. In addition to roughly 30 BatB zines and two of the world's most expensive bathrobes, I got two t-shirts custom made (10th Kingdom logo and the old BatB "Walk on the Wild Side" poster) & some CSI graphic novels. There was some good art this year, but nothing I wanted to bid on.
Our door decoration, courtesy of Smap was "If you give a fan a show... she might want to collect memorabilia about it. If she collects memorabilia, she might want to talk to other fans... (right up to "If she goes to the music vids, she might see another show.") There was one of an Aztec gold piece with the caption "Got Curse?" (Pirate fandom was hot - too hot; there was little to feed it so the art and zines sold out on Thursday.) A slash fan had set up a Massachusetts Licensing Board and offered people the ability to marry off their favorite slash pairs. One room had a Thrush Going Out Of Business sale. There was a door advertising a painfully dull cartoon called Adam and Andy. Frankly, Leonard and Larry did it first and much, much better. The person who collects theme-related cartoons all year and posts them was back; in retrospect, I wish I had written down the names of the ones I hadn't known so I could see if they had LJ feeds. (One was of a boy having a LotR dream, including a part where he tries to bribe Gollum out of The Ring by offering an Anakin Skywalker action figure mint in box. The look on Gollum's face was priceless, as was the line "Hobbitses must be out of his mindses.")
I went to a few panels and was on 5. Tish and I, although we kept dragging each other off topic, make a good compare/contrast when we discuss returning to fandoms, as we left for different reasons and we had drastically different experiences on return. But the best panel for this year (and, in comparison, several years) was my Percy Weasley - Death Eater or Double Agent? It was the best attended, and everyone had a firmly-held point of view. Some were resolutely "Deatheater!" and some unshakeably "Double Agent!" and the two teens sitting dead center of the audience didn't really care, but by George, they wanted Percy to pay for breaking his mother's heart! It was a rocking panel, and (pauses to fluff hair) I got several compliments on how I moderated it. Including one person who came up to me the next day to say again how good a moderator she thought I was!
It's a style that doesn't lend well to a well-stocked panel - I wasn't so successful using it at the Joan of Arcadia for non-Christians panel - but when I'm up there alone with a hot room, it was magic!
We never did have a consensus, though there's a fair number of people (including me) who hope that what Percy is really doing is inadvertently selling off his soul and he will redeem himself by becoming a double-agent. There was much discussion as to how far he will have to go for that redemption, including some discussion on how he might be the next character to die, possibly *in* that act of redemption. (An idea that got dubbed "The Passion of the Percy.")
Book #6 can come out any time now, thank you very much!
And now I'm off to catch up on other things, and to kick around my newest icon idea - "What Would Joan Do?"
