oyceter. Wiscon 33: Monday

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!

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

Sakura of DOOM