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[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

[hamsterwoman]

Woo, Worldcon! After the fun I had last year in San Jose, I am really looking forward to living vicariously through my flisters who are going to be attending in 2019 :)

I'm also looking forward to your Hogwarts House sorting condemnation post (even though I love sorting people/characters into Hogwarts Houses as shorthand/discussion driver ;)

[trobadora]

Wow, thank you for the link to Morbane's post! Yeah, I seriously hope they won't "fix" that ...

[sewn]

Ah, I wish I could go to Worldcon this year! (Can't afford it rn.) I had a great time in Helsinki. I'd never been to a con that size and I got such a kick out of everything.

[ehyde]

My preferred method of character sorting, if I'm going there at all, is by Magic: the Gathering colors. It's mostly useless because it doesn't come with that same widespread familiarity as Hogwarts houses, but it's more interesting.

I'd be interested in your thoughts on OCs--I still, in 2019, see people say they won't read fics with OCs.

[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: