The 11th Hour :-D
Jun. 18th, 2012 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI has a photo with Matt Smith. He soniced my vortex manipulator, so it should work now.
And I told him my dissertation topic and he wrote Good Luck on the DVD cover. (Even autograph pen doesn't work very well on shiny covers, but is still good.)
Also there were lots of other guest people and I took notes and that was fun.
And there were parties and I danced a lot.
I even spoke a tiny bit to other humans.
... not so many other humans. As ever I apologise to anyone I appeared to ignore or stopped talking to when they wanted to talk. I was :-( about not talking but I was bumping into out of spoons error all weekend. Very difficult. Many people, much noise. People are nice, but talking and listening and not running away is hard.
So I wasn't specifically ignoring people, just being me.
Except that one drinky guy on Sunday night. I wasn't ignoring him particular before he was all why are you sitting alone why not sit with me, but then he was weird so after that I was avoiding. Hands stay to yourself until invited. Not cool. >:-(
But that was like a minute out of a whole weekend. People are mostly awesome.
I liked Saturday night costumes. I brought my shiny guns and shot Daleks. Also danced a lot.
... Saturday Karaoke was less good.
At conventions everyone does the same dances all together, which they learn by going to conventions and copying the other people dancing all together. It's a communal experience.
Karaoke is one person standing up and singing stuff. By copying the words on a screen. And everyone else in the room can either try and dance to it or have nothing to do. It's like the total opposite of communal.
Karaoke is the ideological antithesis of con dancing.
Putting both in the same disco should be like some kind of matter/antimatter reaction.
... also when people can't really dance it only matters to the people standing next to them when they mix up left and right, but when people can't really sing then all of everyone knows for quite a few minutes in a row.
Karaoke is fun for people who want to do it and dancing is fun for people who want to do that but putting them both in the same hall is anti fun.
(ymmv obviously)
(though it was also fun to have brought the toy rifle with the targeting light, because there's judgey and there's judgey with light effects)
Costumes are excellent shiny. Eyepatch and fez party is good. You can tell which tables are full of fans then because hats everywhere. Sunday night party worked pretty good, though it was pretty empty too.
I have no photos because my camera wouldn't work. Probably it needs new batteries and shaking a lot.
I made lots of notes. If it's like the Hub I'll keep having the intention to type them up any day now.
Probably most things ended up on twitter straight away though.
Everyone's on twitter or tumblr now. I don't grok.
Anyway, had lots of excellent fun, am home now, am going to take a while catching up on f-list, and I should probably eat and sleep and stuff.
And I told him my dissertation topic and he wrote Good Luck on the DVD cover. (Even autograph pen doesn't work very well on shiny covers, but is still good.)
Also there were lots of other guest people and I took notes and that was fun.
And there were parties and I danced a lot.
I even spoke a tiny bit to other humans.
... not so many other humans. As ever I apologise to anyone I appeared to ignore or stopped talking to when they wanted to talk. I was :-( about not talking but I was bumping into out of spoons error all weekend. Very difficult. Many people, much noise. People are nice, but talking and listening and not running away is hard.
So I wasn't specifically ignoring people, just being me.
Except that one drinky guy on Sunday night. I wasn't ignoring him particular before he was all why are you sitting alone why not sit with me, but then he was weird so after that I was avoiding. Hands stay to yourself until invited. Not cool. >:-(
But that was like a minute out of a whole weekend. People are mostly awesome.
I liked Saturday night costumes. I brought my shiny guns and shot Daleks. Also danced a lot.
... Saturday Karaoke was less good.
At conventions everyone does the same dances all together, which they learn by going to conventions and copying the other people dancing all together. It's a communal experience.
Karaoke is one person standing up and singing stuff. By copying the words on a screen. And everyone else in the room can either try and dance to it or have nothing to do. It's like the total opposite of communal.
Karaoke is the ideological antithesis of con dancing.
Putting both in the same disco should be like some kind of matter/antimatter reaction.
... also when people can't really dance it only matters to the people standing next to them when they mix up left and right, but when people can't really sing then all of everyone knows for quite a few minutes in a row.
Karaoke is fun for people who want to do it and dancing is fun for people who want to do that but putting them both in the same hall is anti fun.
(ymmv obviously)
(though it was also fun to have brought the toy rifle with the targeting light, because there's judgey and there's judgey with light effects)
Costumes are excellent shiny. Eyepatch and fez party is good. You can tell which tables are full of fans then because hats everywhere. Sunday night party worked pretty good, though it was pretty empty too.
I have no photos because my camera wouldn't work. Probably it needs new batteries and shaking a lot.
I made lots of notes. If it's like the Hub I'll keep having the intention to type them up any day now.
Probably most things ended up on twitter straight away though.
Everyone's on twitter or tumblr now. I don't grok.
Anyway, had lots of excellent fun, am home now, am going to take a while catching up on f-list, and I should probably eat and sleep and stuff.
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Date: 2012-06-18 07:33 pm (UTC)Eye Patch and Fez party....
(I think you look fantastic)
dancing
Companion/Monster/Nightmare party...
with laser guns of awesome
History Party...