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MediaWest*Con 28 -- Day 2
May. 24th, 2008 09:16 pmBF and I started the morning with the Holy Mother Grammatica panel. She didn't do a grammar quiz this year like she usually does. The first half of the panel was about writing good fiction and the second half was discussion of our favorite grammar pet peeves. I had a button made with the slogan on Holy Mother Grammatica's T-shirt: Its uncredible how well at grammer I am. I was disappointed that time ran out before we got to the fic bloopers. I love the fic bloopers. I'll be making my annual blooper post after I get home.
BF and I split up while I went to a panel about the general fannish experience on LJ. It was mostly enjoyable, except for the one woman in the back who kept piping up with comments like, "And you enjoy this?" and "Why do you spend so much time on this?" I totally get that LJ isn't everyone's cup of tea, but if you don't have an LJ and have no interest in getting one, why attend a panel on it to look down your nose at people who do enjoy it?
In the break between panels, I did the full hall crawl. It was very disappointing. There have been years where almost every door was open and everyone was selling something, even if it was just their own used stuff. This year, there were only 5 or 6 rooms on each floor with a room dealer. I finally managed to pick up my last 2 zines though: Brotherhood 4 and Brotherhood 6 (both Supernatural zines). That should do it for me for the weekend. I also did a first pass through the art show before heading back into the panels.
Late in the afternoon, I went to a panel on making LJ icons. Unfortunately, it was all about PhotoShop (I use Irfanview). I still got some good tips on adding text, though, which is something I'm not very good at yet.
My last panel of the day was on how LJ is changing fandom. Unfortunately, people only seemed to want to discuss the wank. There were also a few people who knew nothing about LJ and wanted it all explained to them (which is cool, but there was actually an entire panel on that exact topic where they could've asked questions), and the same woman from the earlier panel continued to profess her bemusement at our interest from the back.
After dinner, I spent some quality time with my laptop until the slash competition vids. It was a really short show this year. Only four vidders entered and the entire show only ran for 35 minutes. It's usually much closer to an hour, sometimes longer. Half the vids were from The Professionals. I've never seen The Professionals, but I have seen so many vids for it over the years that I suspect I've seen every frame of the series, just not in order (and without dialogue). ;-)
Time to call it a night.
BF and I split up while I went to a panel about the general fannish experience on LJ. It was mostly enjoyable, except for the one woman in the back who kept piping up with comments like, "And you enjoy this?" and "Why do you spend so much time on this?" I totally get that LJ isn't everyone's cup of tea, but if you don't have an LJ and have no interest in getting one, why attend a panel on it to look down your nose at people who do enjoy it?
In the break between panels, I did the full hall crawl. It was very disappointing. There have been years where almost every door was open and everyone was selling something, even if it was just their own used stuff. This year, there were only 5 or 6 rooms on each floor with a room dealer. I finally managed to pick up my last 2 zines though: Brotherhood 4 and Brotherhood 6 (both Supernatural zines). That should do it for me for the weekend. I also did a first pass through the art show before heading back into the panels.
Late in the afternoon, I went to a panel on making LJ icons. Unfortunately, it was all about PhotoShop (I use Irfanview). I still got some good tips on adding text, though, which is something I'm not very good at yet.
My last panel of the day was on how LJ is changing fandom. Unfortunately, people only seemed to want to discuss the wank. There were also a few people who knew nothing about LJ and wanted it all explained to them (which is cool, but there was actually an entire panel on that exact topic where they could've asked questions), and the same woman from the earlier panel continued to profess her bemusement at our interest from the back.
After dinner, I spent some quality time with my laptop until the slash competition vids. It was a really short show this year. Only four vidders entered and the entire show only ran for 35 minutes. It's usually much closer to an hour, sometimes longer. Half the vids were from The Professionals. I've never seen The Professionals, but I have seen so many vids for it over the years that I suspect I've seen every frame of the series, just not in order (and without dialogue). ;-)
Time to call it a night.
