Wiscon 32 Day 2

[oyceter]

Look! I haven't yet gone to a panel and had my head exploded! Well, I was argumentative in the Id Vortex panel and rolled my eyes a lot in the Real Cities one, but overall things are good. Also, I have bought loads of books from Aqueduct Press, eaten a chili cheese dog, had food that included a deep-fried potato leek thing, other things that I cannot spell correctly while alcohol is in my blood stream, and lamb and spinach and okra stewy things, and babbled about manga and dramas to people, most of whom were probably very bemused! But that is okay because I got to babble to Alaya Dawn Johnson about food and manga and dramas and it was awesome!

OH! Also! I forgot! I woke up super early to go to the farmers' market with heresluck and Yoon, and h.l. was insanely bouncy as she had already made one round around the market at 6:30 before coming back for me and Yoon. I may have ended up leaving with two more jars of jam than I intended to get (3 total, including an apple-something one and a wild strawberry and wild something one and a peach-apricot one look! I can remember this even when I am slightly buzzed!). And! They had fresh made pasta and I got tomato-basil linguine and jonquil! They had lilacs! I sniffed some. And tulips and other flowers I cannot identify and goat cheese with chives (I bought the cheese but not the flowers). And then I got strawberry-rhubarb pie and thought I got a cherry pocket pie because I was very nice and didn't get the cherry pie as the bigger pie because Mely doesn't like cherry and I am very good and share my pie even though sometimes I contemplate not except the pocket pie was actually blackberry. AND THEN! There was a stall! With heirloom tomatoes! In MAY!

They were not as good as heirlooms are in late summer but I DO NOT CARE BECAUSE I HAD TOMATOES! IN MAY! HEIRLOOMS! It was very exciting. (this may be the only sentence in the entire post without an exclamation point.)

Now I cannot remember what else I did after the market. Oh wait. Then I went to Yoon and helen_keeble and daidoji_gisei's readings, which were excellent and people wanted to read more of Yoon's story.

OH! And after dinner with h.l. and Mely and littlebutfierce and mystickeeper and takumashii at the aforementioned place with deep-fried potato leek thingies, we had the Shojo Bodies panel and there were maybe about 7 of us there, but it was incredibly fun and got briefly sidetracked into Japanese history of female sexuality and Takarazuka and I think we ended up going for two hours and it was great!

Also, there is still head-explodey stuff, namely the Elves and Dwarves and Racism in Fantasy panel, which Liz Henry has very awesomely transcribed here. But the most awesome part (the head-explodey-ness is not awesome, obviously) was her post with clips of people's reactions coming out of the panel, and it was just so cool to see people talking about it there and having other people to commiserate with or rant with and to have it be out there! And just, seeing people actively trying to be allies (feminist, anti-racist, anti-ablist, etc.) and trying to talk about these things was very awesome. Possibly I am extrapolating from a few video clips and POC meetups, but it made me really happy. And now I should go to bed because I have a panel at 10 tomorrow...

Comments

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES SO JEALOUS.

Liz's initial post is v. head-explodey, am curious to see the reaction post (kiddo's watching TV now, so no video for me).

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Sounds incredibly awesome and wonderful and I wish I was there!

[nojojojo.livejournal.com]

::sob:: I wish I could be theeeeeeere!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Yay! Dinner was delicious and fun, and I have a long list of manga-recommendations (to add to the ones I was already going to read!).

[erviin704.livejournal.com]

You totally should.

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Yay! Sounds like much, much fun.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Now that you've got me, will you take me to the rest of the panels, please?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the badgerbag links! The videos made my morning.