WisCon!
1. I went! I was on panels and everything! Check out #QueeringText and #UsingTumblr for the upshots of the ones I was on.
2. The other upshot of the Queering the Text panel: I may or may not have said I would write fic where Stiles wakes up as a girl in the same body she went to sleep in.
3. Saturday night I got unexpectedly fantastically drunk on the homebrew at the--uh, I have no idea which party that was. But their hard cider was really great! And then I vaguely recall being down in the lobby having a lot of feelings about The Hockey Sweater, wolf puppies, and Commodore Jole and his sailboat.
Then I felt like I was going to throw up, and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iulia took me upstairs and very patiently shepherded me through not throwing up, getting into jammies, hydrating, getting into bed, and so on. She even plugged in my phone, you guys. She's the greatest.
4. I should probably mention that a bit earlier on Saturday night we watched the hockey game together and in the course of pretending to punch Iulia in the face for celebrating a Chicago goal I came perilously close to actually punching her in the face. /o\
5. Further annals of marriedness: Iulia and I wore matching jerseys all day Saturday (Red Wings, Lidstrom and Yzerman) and Sunday (Blackhawks, Toews and Kowalski). People were confused when we no longer matched on Monday.
6. We roomed withfairestcat and commodorified, both of whom put more effort into clothes and makeup for any given evening of parties than I put into clothes and makeup for an entire year, which was fascinating to watch.
7. Cat and Marna were both on the panel I got up early enough to go to on Sunday morning after being magnificently drunk Saturday night: What We Write About When We Write About Rape. The panel description:
So I was there mainly for psychic wolves, because, uh, I find myself writing a lot of dub-con lately and I would like to talk to people about what is up with that--there are a lot of these tropes in fic that we keep returning to, that, as I thinkellen_fremedon or fairestcat said, problematize consent that doesn't need to be problematic. I'm curious to talk about why that is, what we're doing there.
Probably inevitably, though, the panel took a sharp and irrevocable turn into "What We Read About When We Read About Rape," and involved a lot of people talking about the narratives that did or didn't work for them as readers, so it was a whole other thing.
8. Haiku earring party! I wrote and Iulia betaed a haiku to earn Iulia a pair of earrings (I don't wear earrings but like writing haiku; Iulia likes earrings but is not always into writing haiku, so the division of labor works out well.)
9. Viiiiid paaaaarty! Which was awesome and full of vids and fangirls and also just made me pine for VividCon. Can it be time for VividCon right now?
10. Sunday night turned into lots of fangirls on the floor in somebody's hotel room, passing around whatever drinks people had left at that point in the con (Fruit Loops vodka made an appearance), which is always pretty much my favorite part of any con. ♥
2. The other upshot of the Queering the Text panel: I may or may not have said I would write fic where Stiles wakes up as a girl in the same body she went to sleep in.
3. Saturday night I got unexpectedly fantastically drunk on the homebrew at the--uh, I have no idea which party that was. But their hard cider was really great! And then I vaguely recall being down in the lobby having a lot of feelings about The Hockey Sweater, wolf puppies, and Commodore Jole and his sailboat.
Then I felt like I was going to throw up, and
iulia took me upstairs and very patiently shepherded me through not throwing up, getting into jammies, hydrating, getting into bed, and so on. She even plugged in my phone, you guys. She's the greatest.4. I should probably mention that a bit earlier on Saturday night we watched the hockey game together and in the course of pretending to punch Iulia in the face for celebrating a Chicago goal I came perilously close to actually punching her in the face. /o\
5. Further annals of marriedness: Iulia and I wore matching jerseys all day Saturday (Red Wings, Lidstrom and Yzerman) and Sunday (Blackhawks, Toews and Kowalski). People were confused when we no longer matched on Monday.
6. We roomed with
fairestcat and commodorified, both of whom put more effort into clothes and makeup for any given evening of parties than I put into clothes and makeup for an entire year, which was fascinating to watch. 7. Cat and Marna were both on the panel I got up early enough to go to on Sunday morning after being magnificently drunk Saturday night: What We Write About When We Write About Rape. The panel description:
From bodice rippers to psychic wolves to magical healing cocks — what are some of the tropes writers use to talk about rape and rape culture? What is the appeal of approaching these topics from a fantastical point of view, whether it be through genre fiction, erotica or fanfic? And how do we use fiction to subvert cultural narratives about sexuality and consent?
So I was there mainly for psychic wolves, because, uh, I find myself writing a lot of dub-con lately and I would like to talk to people about what is up with that--there are a lot of these tropes in fic that we keep returning to, that, as I think
ellen_fremedon or fairestcat said, problematize consent that doesn't need to be problematic. I'm curious to talk about why that is, what we're doing there.Probably inevitably, though, the panel took a sharp and irrevocable turn into "What We Read About When We Read About Rape," and involved a lot of people talking about the narratives that did or didn't work for them as readers, so it was a whole other thing.
8. Haiku earring party! I wrote and Iulia betaed a haiku to earn Iulia a pair of earrings (I don't wear earrings but like writing haiku; Iulia likes earrings but is not always into writing haiku, so the division of labor works out well.)
9. Viiiiid paaaaarty! Which was awesome and full of vids and fangirls and also just made me pine for VividCon. Can it be time for VividCon right now?
10. Sunday night turned into lots of fangirls on the floor in somebody's hotel room, passing around whatever drinks people had left at that point in the con (Fruit Loops vodka made an appearance), which is always pretty much my favorite part of any con. ♥
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It's on my list! With ... everything. I did come out of WisCon newly determined to finish my Aral/Jole series in the foreseeable future....
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only Jole-stalker left here, in a sea of wolfie friends. But I would read the hell out of anything you chose to write about Jole and the sailboat, or more conversations between Jole and Cordelia (pls?) or Jole on Sergyar, or just about anything. Also, of course, Jole/Aral. Of COURSE we are keeping our fingers crossed for hot Jole/Aral sex. I had a long conversation with Jole in my head this morning. I blame you, in a good way.
I'm glad to read that you had such a good time at WisCon! Are you allowed to wear Red Wings and Blackhawks jerseys sequentially? And, your thoughts on the hockey outcome?
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And, well, no one stopped me from wearing my jerseys sequentially, though
Hockey, sigh. I mean, most years your team doesn't win, right? That's just math. And I've been following the Wings for 17 seasons or so, and while they did win in four of those, they also lost in thirteen of them. It's what happens; it's disappointing but that's all. I found myself doing the equivalent of the post-game handshake line with my friends on twitter who are Hawks fans, where they would make a cautiously sympathetic sort of noise and I would say, yeah, we're cool. *g*
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