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MediaWest*Con 29 -- Day 1
May. 22nd, 2009 09:07 pmThis looks like it's going to be another slow year. There are comparatively few room dealers and hardly any doors decorated. There are also fewer event rooms available due to hotel remodeling, so there is no dedicated video room this year. The songvids are still going, but there isn't a regularly scheduled video programming room. I'd been hoping to see some uncut episodes of Merlin.
I did go on my regular Friday shopping spree. Today's haul included 4 Supernatural zines (Blood Brothers 3, Brotherhood 8, Route 666 1, and Route 666 2), 2 T-shirts (one for Stargate Atlantis and one with the golden seal of the Guild of Radical Militant Librarians), 2 Stargate Atlantis paperbacks, 2 Man from UNCLE fridge magnets, a cross-stitch pattern of one of the opened space gates from Stargate Atlantis, and the Supernatural season 3 trading card set. Oh, and remember the notebooks Media Mugs made from pictures I gave them? I picked those up today. They exceeded my wildest expectations. The covers came out sharp and clear with perfect colors. They came out so great that I'm almost afraid to use them.
Since there were so few dealers, I was also able to start attending panels today. The first one was on grammar tips that covered homonyms (pear, pair, and pare) and improperly placed modifiers ('John tapped Rodney on the shoulder, who continued typing obliviously'). One woman's significant other is a published author who was recently told by his editor to remove all the semicolons from his manuscript and replace them with commas because no one knows what semicolons are for anymore. 8-(
The second panel I went to was on whether or not the McKay/Keller relationship worked on Stargate Atlantis. The room was unanimous in thinking it didn't, so after we discussed all the reasons why we thought it didn't work, we moved on to discussing who would have made a better girlfriend for Rodney. We concluded that no one on the show would have because the all-male writing staff on that show had no clue how to write women. We finished up with the traits someone would need to be a good girlfriend for Rodney.
The next panel was about e-book readers and how to format fan fiction for them. It mostly wound up being a comparison between the Sony and the Kindle. I read fic on my PDA with Mobipocket and I had hoped for more formatting tips. I have a lot of fic in Mobipocket, but I was hoping there was a faster way to get it there, and maybe a way to make it look a little nicer.
After a break for dinner and another hall crawl, I went to a panel on the pros and cons of canceling Stargate Atlantis. Feelings are still running a little high over the way the show was canceled, but the panel mostly discussed seasons 4 and 5 and what we liked and didn't like.
Agent With Style is running behind schedule, so I probably won't be able to pick up the zines I pre-ordered from them until tomorrow.
Time to go find a beverage and read some fic.
I did go on my regular Friday shopping spree. Today's haul included 4 Supernatural zines (Blood Brothers 3, Brotherhood 8, Route 666 1, and Route 666 2), 2 T-shirts (one for Stargate Atlantis and one with the golden seal of the Guild of Radical Militant Librarians), 2 Stargate Atlantis paperbacks, 2 Man from UNCLE fridge magnets, a cross-stitch pattern of one of the opened space gates from Stargate Atlantis, and the Supernatural season 3 trading card set. Oh, and remember the notebooks Media Mugs made from pictures I gave them? I picked those up today. They exceeded my wildest expectations. The covers came out sharp and clear with perfect colors. They came out so great that I'm almost afraid to use them.
Since there were so few dealers, I was also able to start attending panels today. The first one was on grammar tips that covered homonyms (pear, pair, and pare) and improperly placed modifiers ('John tapped Rodney on the shoulder, who continued typing obliviously'). One woman's significant other is a published author who was recently told by his editor to remove all the semicolons from his manuscript and replace them with commas because no one knows what semicolons are for anymore. 8-(
The second panel I went to was on whether or not the McKay/Keller relationship worked on Stargate Atlantis. The room was unanimous in thinking it didn't, so after we discussed all the reasons why we thought it didn't work, we moved on to discussing who would have made a better girlfriend for Rodney. We concluded that no one on the show would have because the all-male writing staff on that show had no clue how to write women. We finished up with the traits someone would need to be a good girlfriend for Rodney.
The next panel was about e-book readers and how to format fan fiction for them. It mostly wound up being a comparison between the Sony and the Kindle. I read fic on my PDA with Mobipocket and I had hoped for more formatting tips. I have a lot of fic in Mobipocket, but I was hoping there was a faster way to get it there, and maybe a way to make it look a little nicer.
After a break for dinner and another hall crawl, I went to a panel on the pros and cons of canceling Stargate Atlantis. Feelings are still running a little high over the way the show was canceled, but the panel mostly discussed seasons 4 and 5 and what we liked and didn't like.
Agent With Style is running behind schedule, so I probably won't be able to pick up the zines I pre-ordered from them until tomorrow.
Time to go find a beverage and read some fic.
