The Earth-Noise Intervene

1. I woke up at 6:30 this morning, but it was WORTH IT because we have a HOTEL ROOM at the HYATT for DRAGON*CON. \o/

After the Mariott fiasco experienced by dreadnot et al., I was expecting it to be fucking ridiculous, but it... wasn't. I got in and out in under five minutes. I didn't even have to reload or bitch anyone out or anything.

Then I went back to bed and had this long, involved dream about getting a PM from ninamazing. I think I was running some kind of rival meme to pocky_slash's Not My Fandom Fest (which is fucking excellent, by the way, and you should all go and check it out). And she was all, "It would be a good idea to have clearer rules," and "You can ask me for help if you need it!" It was several paragraphs long, and I remember going through all of them in the dream.

I did wear my PASIV shirt to bed, though, so it's entirely possible this was some kind of extraction attempt.

2. I am at leiascully and coffeesuperhero's! It is lovely to be here again. I often escape here during school breaks. It is a good place for recuperation, because we sleep a lot and drink a lot of beers and watch a lot of TV and eat a lot of good food. It is my happy place.

3. I'm sure there was more I meant to put in this post. I definitely have meant to tell you that the lovely mashimero made me a cover art for my John Sheppard/Tony Stark series! And also that bironic wrote me an SGA/Inception crossover that must be read to be believed (ARIADNE/WOOLSEY, Y'ALL).

Yes. Clearly I am very far behind. But now is for sushi.

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1. I think arymabeth and I just got sort of mentioned in LA Weekly's blog? The article is here; the line was "if you followed Twitter during Dragon*Con last weekend, you would be privy to real time results of who smoked a cigarette with Doc and who was able to snap a cel phone photo with Jackson." and arymabeth and I were all "THAT WAS US, WE DID THAT, WE WERE THOSE JACKASSES ON THE TWITTER."

So yeah. We were probably not alone, though we were quite loud.

2. Who doesn't want con macros? ( Not for fans of not swearing )

3. I found a whole mess of ( Sabine and Lizzy Theatre )

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So. Dragon*Con 2010.

Oh my god, this report is over 3800 words long. This is why I don't write con reports. But anyway, here we go.

( Thursday: Transit )

( Friday: The horrors of prereg, Billy Zane )

( Saturday: Nerds on Parade, Venture Bros, Adam Savage, Telesilla, Nuts on the Road )

( Sunday: What the fuck. )

( Monday: Transit. Again. )

TL;DR

Dragon*Con 2010: The Year We Accidentally Stalked Doc Hammer.

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1. RocknRolla. Where is the fanfiction? Why have the slashers not jumped on this movie en masse? Of what little there is, most of it is Archy/Johnny, which I don't even get (I don't want to read about Johnny. He's a Magnificent Bastard, but he looks like he doesn't shower). Dammit, what we need here is One Two/Bob. It is Gerard Butler and Tom Hardy. It is canon (er, after a fashion). Get on the stick, fandom.

1a. Oh Gerard Butler. I used to hate you so much for single-handedly ruining Phantom of the Opera. Why must you make me love you, with your accent and your badassery?

2. I have the saddest news, Dragon*Con people: Adam Savage and David Hewlett have panels at the same time. I don't know what I'm gonna do. Probably I will go see David Hewlett (because Jason Momoa will be there too) and catch Adam Savage at the panel that night that he is on with (and this could only happen at Dragon*Con) the guys from MST3K, the guys from the Venture Bros, and Dana Snyder. But I get the feeling that the entire con will be trying to get into that panel. Adam also has two panels on the Skeptic track that would probably be easier to get into, but... I'm not a skeptic (it's not that I'm not skeptical, I just think that the skeptic movement is MASSIVELY ethnocentric and self-congratulatory).

I don't know. I need to spent a good long time with the program and a highlighter.

2a. OH MY SHIT I JUST REALIZED GRAHAM HANCOCK IS GONNA BE THERE.

Does he have a panel where you can throw eggs and assorted produce at him? Because I would line up three hours in advance for that shit.

3. Classes have begun. Meh. This semester will be a pain in my ass. However, it is my last semester of classes. Ever. \o/

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1. Still a few more days to play in the mcshep_match Drabble Tree! Go Team Work!

I swear I used to could drabble. Everything I keep coming up with is just... strange. Oh well. I did my ten.

2. Saw Iron Man 2 again. I think, after reviewing the evidence, that I liked it better than the first one, even though it didn't have Jeff Bridges in it. Better pacing and explosions.

2a. Still can't believe the dog ate my Batman jammies. I'm pissed, but I do have brand new Iron Man jammies to compensate. They are, in fact, so loud that I don't know if I'll be able to sleep, but I love them anyway.

3. I've been writing more, but with everything coming up, I keep socking stuff away, hoping it'll fit into something I'm doing. And let me just tell you, either I'm going to bingo at kink_bingo in a heartbeat, or you're going to see a lot of, shall we say, uncharacteristic stories all of a sudden, like, on a Tuesday. Something's got to give from my writing schedule, though, and it might have to be sgareversebang. :\

4. Hurrah, I get to go back to Nashville tomorrow! Where I will sleep in my own bed, with my own pillows. Mmm. It will be sinfully decadent. Only clean sheets could make it better.

5. My Cally costume is all but done! I just have to put the wings on and do some heavy ironing, and we are in business. I had pictures, but they were all so unreservedly awful that I felt bad posting them (hey, I took them with my webcam. My integrated webcam). Now all we have to do is make arymabeth's BSG fatigues, and we will be done for the Dragon*Con! Hurrah!

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1. Re: the SGA plagiarism drama: I haven't seen anybody mention this, and I came upon it totally accidentally and in a spectacularly ass-backwards way, but jdr1184 undeleted her journal and came back to man up and apologize. Granted, her apology leaves a little to be desired (but I of course have no way of knowing if she's contacted the authors involved directly), but she did take total responsibility for her actions, which I thought was quite classy and unexpected of her.

ETA: Aaand deleted again.

2. OMG, Kink Bingo is over!

( Recapping and pondering my stories )
( Ten Recs! )

2a. And while we're on the subject of recommendations, Hang On Tight is a heartbreaking and lovely story that just really hasn't gotten the attention it deserves.

I swear one of these days I'm going to make a rec list of nothing but stories that made me weep openly. And speaking of which, if you haven't read Interstitial yet, hie ye to it, and bring tissues.

3. You know what I always thought would be insanely fun? A challenge where you had to write as if you were someone else from fandom (who had also signed up for the challenge, obvs).

Of course, the problem would be that if you didn't have a group of people who liked to laugh at themselves, it would be a non-stop drama fest.

4. I must, must break 30000 words on Big Bang before Dragon*Con. I've been slightly discouraged by the fact that I can't find a word count utility that's not fantastically unreliable. OpenOffice's built in one just sucks, frankly; there is absolutely no reason that my story should be 26800 words on one computer and 27300 on another. Even if it counted markup, which it doesn't, there is absolutely no way there are 500 words of markup in this story. And the most common Java applet leaves out numerals, and ARGH. You would think that 500 missing words in a ~27000 word story would not be a big deal, but when it's the difference between being in the middle third and being out of it, it's really incredibly discouraging.

Also discouraging is that I really still don't know what the story will look like when it's done. The back half is maybe 5000 words from done, and most of that is porn and John angsting, honestly, so it's pretty much fine; but the front half is still a shambles. I know pretty much all the stuff that happens; unfortunately, all the stuff I've left is political intrigue and Rodney freaking out, and it needs to hang together right or the story won't work. Maybe I'll try ploting it on notecards, once I get another five or six thousand words down.

4a. OMG DRAGON*CON. I HAVE NOT STARTED PACKING. MY ATLANTIS COSTUME IS STILL IN BITS. I NEED TO WASH EVERYTHING I OWN. But I have tomorrow off! So maybe it will get done.

5. ...I never did eat dinner, did I? I should get on that.

6. Is Semagic acting broken for anybody else?

You know what makes me happy? Con videos on youtube!





And speaking of cons, all these epic emails I keep getting from mah fangirls about Dragon*Con (wherein we will, apparently 1) have an orgy 2) chase people around with nets 3) become like unto ever Mulder/Scully fic ever) amuse me to no end.