E-con Rundown

[corilannam]

Eclecticon is pretty much a yearly event for me, since it's close and cheap and people I know are usually there. It's a nice, lowkey convention, great for shopping, chilling, and chatting. I got in plenty of all three, which I really needed this weekend. There was much Stargate zineage, much gushing over pretty Stargate pictures, much ignoring of insane Stargate fans, and so on.

On the non-Stargate side, I got to hang with rosemitchell (and her gorgeous Munchkin, who got her first trip around a dealer's room, and can now say "Lex!" to no one's surprise),obi_ki, qurinas, epeeblade, and at least chat in passing with natlyn, lanchid, tayawulf, taffimai, among others. kris4n6 and ndannais made their first Eclecticon trip, and hopefully had a good enough time to go again, despite the exhaustion. Next year, must have Jedi Plushie Theatre.

A few other random good things about the weekend:
--really, really cheap Chinese food, consumed with gay porn on in the background.
--a whole hour of SG vids, most of which were quite good (plus, finally getting to see Carol S.'s "Language" which I'd wanted to see for quite a while). The sad part? Not getting to take them home with me.
--getting the new teaser poster for Troy, which is gorgeous in a way that few other recent movie posters have been gorgeous.
--getting to walk out of the Stargate panel with the really annoying people.
--not being at work on Friday.

Now, of course, I'm karmically paying for my fun with work stress, and the fact that although my VividCon DVDs were waiting for me when I got home, my DVD player has decided it wants nothing to do with playing them. Or anything else, really. Ah well. I get to see Love Actually again tonight, and freak out people on the Metro with my new SG-1 slash zine. Always something to look forward to. *g*

Comments

[epeeblade]

Hey, I can burn some of Carol's vids for you...

Just remind me. I have SO many SG vids on this pc they won't even fit on a single CD...

Oh, and um, send me your addy ;)

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yay! That would be fabulous, thank you. I'll e-mail you my address. I'll take whatever you've got of hers -- and, you know, any others you think are worth sharing. *g*

[destina.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Carol's Language vid is, to me, an illustration of how I think about writing. It's a visual representation of what I want my stories to be; layers, subtext, etc. Does that sound weird? Probably. It's one of the three vids that helped jump start me into SG fandom -- the other two being Lynn's In Your Eyes and Carol's What If I Came Knocking.

Mmmm. Vids. :-D

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Nah, that's not weird, because that's exactly the feeling I had -- like I was digging into a really juicy, complex story. I was very frustrated because I was sitting in the back and people were talking, so I couldn't concentrate on it as much as I wanted to.

I *adore* Lynn's In Your Eyes, though that's another I've only seen once. I don't think I've seen What If I Came Knocking, though I think the song is excellent material. The vid that really first made me want to watch Stargate was shalott's Solsbury Hill -- though it was still a while before I succumbed to the urge. *g* Still, I get something new out of it every time I watch it.

[hallucinateme.livejournal.com]

There was much Stargate zineage, much gushing over pretty Stargate pictures, much ignoring of insane Stargate fans, and so on.

PLEASE school me on how you were able to achieve this amazing feat! My only way to be succesful in doing this was to bury my head on the sand after tossing my computer out of the window. :)

Glad you had fun.

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

I've managed to avoid them online by not being on any Stargate lists and running away fast whenever anyone I don't know is talking about Stargate around me. That way, they can't dig in the claws of annoyance.

And actually, that's the key to avoiding them in person, too. *g*

[noelql.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I'm so sorry that your Vividcon DVDs don't work. Disc 2 works in our Sampo region-free DVD player, but Disc 1 only works in the DVD player on my computer. So, they are definitely finicky. Let me know if they give you a hard time about replacements and such, and we can dub off videotapes for you. Or I can try to import them into the computer and re-burn DVDs. Let me know.

Hope you had a good Monday.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

this is ot, but my fannish e-mail is down and i'd rather leave a comment than get a new e-mail address.

hi. i'm cim. we've talked once.

i've just read 'demi-gods and hungry ghosts' and i was so frantic with excitement and appreciation that i kept forgetting the name of it as i tried to compose feedback. i had to take little breaks reading it, when it got to be too much. on the first reading, i couldn't detect a single real flaw.

it's beautiful. i think it's the best story i've ever read in this fandom. it's incredibly powerful. thank you.

about as coherent as i can get is the review for my recs page: Demi-Gods and Hungry Ghosts, by Cori Lannam, is NC-17 Q/O set during or after Episode III, and without question the best story I have ever read in this fandom. It's brilliant, wistful, painful--tragic and hopeful, confusing, flawlessly paced, beautifully written.