Wiscon 33: Monday

[oyceter]

I have so much to think about and to say that I don't even know where to begin!

And so, the things that require less brain power on my part:

• I have been trying to convince an entire host of people to read Marjorie M. Liu and Joey Hill. Liu is the paranormal romance writers with wereleopards and weredolphins (but not together) and psychics and dragons and shapeshifters and Faerie and gargoyles and witches and demons. And when you think that's all Liu can do, she throws in mermaids and someone biting off someone else's nose! Liu's plot theory seems to be that more is more, and on top of that, if you add some extra sprinkles and frosting, it makes everything EVEN BETTER! So: not always comprehensible, but always entertaining, and with lots of mixed-race characters! (This is the Dirk & Steele series. I don't like the Hunter ones so far.)
  
  Joey Hill's A Witch's Beauty involves a descendant of the sea witch in "The Little Mermaid" with tentacles, an angel, their pure true love, and an apocalypse which is incomprehensible but also contains a zombie dinosaur. It is AWESOME.


• Alaya Dawn Johnson has a boy-eats-boy story in the upcoming anthology Zombies vs. Unicorns (possibly this is a working title?). Well, since I haven't finished the story yet, I do not know how much actual eating there is, but there is definitely ear nibbling and a wonderful narrative voice.


• Liz Henry's superpower is simultaneously being on a panel and writing it up. Also, her wheelchair has blinky sparkly lit-up wheels OMG!


• Somehow, I managed to miss Geoff Ryman doing a keg stand.


• hysteriachan, I met troubleinchina, yay! Thank you for introducing us!


• Next year, there should be a panel called the Oppression Olympics, where funny and awesome people throw darts at Venn diagrams with intersecting oppressions and make smart comments. There should also be one in which people talk about the most cracktastic things they have read. Or it can just be about talking penises! I am pretty sure there is enough talking penis SFF and people who have actually read it to hold this panel, which is, again, AWESOME.


• My Sekrit Plan for next year is to actually get anime or manga stuff on the programming.


• I now know what Liz Henry and sparkymonster's love child looks like, and my life has been vastly improved.


• Nisi Shawl was awarded the Tiptree (the co-winner could not make it) and Tempest made a speech that made me cry, and Nnedi Okorafor and Mary Anne Mohanraj are guests of honor next year, and things are not perfect, but, oh but, they are changing.


• I wish I could put deepad on every single panel, because she is amazing and I fangirl her like whoa. And oh, I am meeting so many cool people here, from people I have seen before like ladyjax and coniraya and mystickeeper and littlebutfierce and jonquil and veejane and heyiya and coffeeandink and sparkymonster and vito_excalibur and daedala and I did not get to see enough of Cofax or takumashii or Ivy or oracne or oursin or Tempest or Nora or Alaya or Yoon and I got to meet the_future_modernes and hari_mirchi and karnythia and izzybelbooks and Andrea Hairston and Diantha Sprouse and and and and

Comments

[maevele]

liz and sparky's lovechild wut?

[sparkymonster]

Check the cover of the WisCon Chronicles vol 3!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/3544430316/

Now you know what woudl happen if Liz and I had a steampunk love child.

[vito_excalibur]

Your icon. I LOL at it. :)

[inkstone]

How was the shounen manga panel? :D

[oyceter]

It was not as in depth as I wanted it to be, but I think a lot of that is because most of the people there (myself included) did not read that much shounen, so there wasn't as much overlap as there was in the shoujo one last year.

On the other hand, two teens (I think) showed up, and I was all, YAY!

I've missed you!

[laurashapiro]

Am reading Nisi Shawl's book right now and having my mind quietly blown. So envious that you got to meet her!

Can't wait to read all your other thoughts about the con. I've been yumming up badgerbag's posts but I look forward to your thoughts, and mely's and cofax's as well.

Re: I've missed you!

[oyceter]

Oh! I'm really looking forward to reading it, although also a little scared because I tend to bounce off short stories in general. I am so sad I forgot to bring it to the con to get it signed.

[oursin]

Wiscon is always a blend of the yay for the people one met and conversations one had and a waaaaah for the people one didn't manage to meet or only in passing to say hi and the conversations that did not take place.

[trouble]

Oh good, I'm normal! :)

Liz Henry's superpower is being awesome all the time.

[oyceter]

I knooooooow! It's never long enough =(.

[umadoshi]

hysteriachan, I met troubleinchina, yay! Thank you for introducing us!

Oh, yay! I'm glad you got to meet up. (And jealous. Oh, why the eternal con date conflict?) ^_^

It sounds like a fantastic weekend!

[trouble]

*laugh* We met because I glanced behind me when someone in front of me was being STUPID STUPID STUPID and noticed her name-badge. We talked for three minutes, but I managed to tell her she was awesome. It worked well for me! :)

(Also, Oyceter, I met Unusual Music for the last ten minutes of Con before I had to catch a plane. Neither of us realised the other was there! Woe!)

[oyceter]

It was so awesome! I talked to so many awesome people!

[sparkymonster]

and and and....

OH MY GOD AND

[(Anonymous)]

totally and and.

every year i cry heartbrokenly on the plane that it's over! waaaaah!!

i bought dirk steele on ipod kindle and am reading it. woah candy frosting!!!!!

[oyceter]

AND!

I am super happy you kind of opened and closed the con for me, thanks to serendipitous plane schedules!

[vehemently]

Need moar time! Sleep is for wimps!!

I am so glad we got to talk this weekend. Because you are wonderful.

[oyceter]

Haha, I know! I have spent the past two days just catching up on sleep and Internet.

I am really glad I got to talk to you too ^_^.

[daedala]

Hooray!

[oyceter]

Yay! Also, I will email you re: corset once I find my measuring tape.

[cofax7]

Somehow, I managed to miss Geoff Ryman doing a keg stand.

I both witnessed this, and participated--my keg stand did not require outside assistance! (Although to be fair mine was necessarily of less magnitude since I was in the Very Short $5 Dress of Awesomeness.)

I was sad that I didn't see more of you, but as I said to ladyjax and vito_excalibur, that just means we'll have to do more local get-togethers.

[vito_excalibur]

Goddammit! I miss the best stuff!

(I did not, however, miss the Very Short $5 Dress of Awesomeness. Rawrr. :)

[vito_excalibur]

And and and -

yeah. I am so glad I got to hang out with you this year!

[oyceter]

ME TOO! And! I will make enough holes in my crazy grad school schedule to monopolize more of your time!

[oracne]

I would be on the Crack panel.

I would moderate it.

At least, I would moderate it by adding to each person's comments, "Also, there were PENGUINS."

[sparkymonster]

CRACK PANEL MUST HAPPEN!!!

THINK OF THE BLUE EYED SPARKLE PONIES AND THE SHAPE SHIFTING MERMAIDS!

[fridgepunk]

The key to oppression olympics is that you'd throw darts at the ven diagrams, and then have an arguement about which oppression/set of oppressions scored the most surely?

[oyceter]

Bwahahaha! I think you are right!

[shewhohashope]

Boo! Having a good time without me is not allowed.

[oyceter]

I am so sad you weren't there! We all missed you a lot, and well... I am so sad you weren't there! I wanted to meet you so badly =(.

[kate_nepveu]

I'm so glad it was fun!

[oyceter]

It was awesome! Also, thank you so, so, so much for con_or_bust. I got to meet people I wouldn't have otherwise without it and see them on panels and etc., and they and Con or Bust made my con ten times more awesome.

[futuransky]

Yay! It was so great to meet you and [Bad username or unknown identity: coffeeandink"] at more length this year. And :(:( that it's over (though it was good to get a full night's sleep last night...).

I also share your desire to put deepad on EVERY PANEL EVERYWHERE.

[oyceter]

YES! And next time I am in SoCal I must remember to look you and Ivy up.

Also, yes, Deepa is AMAZING.