Things happen, even IRL

[extrapenguin]

Now that my sibling has finally stopped dragging their heels and bought a Worldcon membership, I can reserve a hotel room for us! I went for the nearest-by option in the price range. This is A Success in my adulting life. Now, the plane tickets...

fandom_stocking now has a list of needy stockings available! Full disclosure: I am on it.

For those of you who are exchange mods, morbane was in correspondince with AO3 over the Reveals Bug – and discovered that there moderation queue functionality is apparently a bug. Post with explanation. I'm drafting together an e-mail to AO3 over this, asking them to please not "fix" this "bug".

In the realm of actual post-posts to make, I have an idea for a post that is half condemnation of Hogwarts House sorting and half rage at the "archetype and 1-2 quirks" school of characterization, a half-post idea that's basically just me quoting stuff someone else wrote on Tumblr + adding a few other translations of the relevant passage, and of course the "OCs must serve either as foils or worldbuilding" post, but: tired. I have to pack and do a ton of bureaucracy and ugh.

space_swap fandom pimping post will go up over the weekend.

Comments

[oanja]

Ooh, are you guys going to the one in Ireland this year? I've been waffling about if I should go or not for a while now. I went to the one in Finland a few years ago and it was so much fun! But at the same time, it's so much money. D:

[extrapenguin]

Yup, we're going to the one in Ireland! It's a bit expensive, but then again, how many Worldcons will there be in Europe in the near future? If they're all in America it'll be even more expensive.

[oanja]

That's true. Maybe I need to look into it some more. (I kind of want to go to the 2020 one in New Zealand though, so if I want to do that, I really should skip this one and save the money, just the flights there are so freaking expensive, but I've wanted to go there ever since the freaking lotr movies came out and this would be a cool combo reason to go)

[extrapenguin]

Yeah, better skip Ireland and save up the money then! (Ireland is objectively not that interesting, despite the colossal tourism industry. A lot of it is fueled by Americans who have one Irish ancestor from the 1800s and want to ~reconnect with their heritage~ in the cringiest way possible. Another big chunk is Catholic countries sending kids over to learn English in a safely Catholic environment...) Or perhaps investigate flights to and from New Zealand, and how much they'd cost, plus hotel rooms. Hotels only book for a year in advance, IIRC, but con hotels would get some discount rates.