Redemption 13: The best bits, according to the Dead Dog

[beccaelizabeth]

I went around the dead dog party asking everyone

What was your favourite part of the convention?

and making a list. One of the con committee said the list would be useful to them, so I share.



Virginia Hey [ vote tally : x6 votes]

Masquerade [x4 votes] and two for Cabaret

Saturday Disco [x3 votes]

Hustings [for Ruler of the Universe elections, x2 votes]
Man of Iron [B7 Script reading, x2 votes]
Bujold panel [x2 votes]
Unlikely Slash Pairings [panel, x2 votes]
Fanfic turkey reading [x2 votes]

(someone wrote 'My panels' but didn't put a name. Lots of people said that but also said they didn't write it down because it seemed too self centered. I think it underlines the participatory nature of the con. People have fun from Doing, not just watching.)
'various discussion panels' (and other votes for 'the panels' in general)

Game of thrones panel
The "Who is your favourite Doctor Who companion" panel
Stories as Myth panel
Merlin panel
Differential Analyzer
Is SF a Dangerous Preoccupation

Kim Newman

B7 drinking game
Starship Cool Wall

Wedding
Servalan [for Ruler of the Universe]

Morris + Longsword

Strangling people in the Courtyard (the stage combat workshop, also their vote for moment most likely to worry wandering mundanes)

Cosmos - So very full < - the all you can eat restaurant they'd just come back from, not strictly part of the con but part of the very varied meal options within even my walking distance of the con hotel, a very helpful feature of the venue.

Dancing, geeking, & catching up with people ! :-)
The people
Seeing everyone again after two years

(and many more along that theme that then wrote down something more specific)


What I wrote was my favourite bit was my ability to speak this weekend. Usually I stutter all weekend too much to interact very much at all, until the small hours after the Sunday disco at which point everyone else is too tired and has gone away, which leaves the place empty enough my talking comes back. At Redemption I could just speak when I had something to say. Even by the Sunday evening, when I was writing down this question because my stutter was back, I could still talk better than is often the case. And while this doesn't seem like something a con committee could bottle, as I said in my last couple of posts under this tag, there's things about Redemption like the scale, the panels having moderators and people mostly putting their hands up and waiting, and just the generally participatory nature of the place that actually makes all the talking much, much easier.

And if I had to get any more specific than that I'd say I liked the way the panels could range from squee to theory and across several decades of television and several centuries of books and nobody batted an eye. These are the tales of our tribe, and we can have Serious Thinkings about them or just share the bits we like best.

I like it.

And if I ever finish this academic stuff ( and I really, really need to finish this academic stuff ) I intend to go looking for more quite a lot like this con.

Comments

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

You did very well at the talking thing this year, and I loved your list idea.