Arisia, Saturday and Sunday

[juldea]

Let's see if I can remember enough about the past two days to make another pro/con post. ;)

Pros:

Looking great in awesome outfits. Woot for little black dresses and cleavage.

Hair porn. I went to the braiding vendor and got an awesome crown done that is STILL IN!

Helping shadowravyn into her corset Saturday morning. (Later I would point to her cleavage and exclaim, "I did that!")

Being recognized in the podcasting panel.

Being gifted with Staff Den food after agreeing to cook crab rangoon for them.

redknight's party, and the late night Guitar Hero that ensued

The Vanilla Monogamy Meet & Greet not sucking!

Contributing well to the Gripe session.

Talking to someone from the RHPS cast who absolutely listened to me and didn't brush me off!

Meeting up with laura47 when she came over after Mystery Hunt ended.

londo cowering the hotel restaurant waitress into servicing us well.

Having MULTIPLE options of how to volunteer next year!

Hanging out at the Dead Dog for hours, music geeking with DJ Johnny Zed into the night.

Going home with londo every night. ♥

Cons:

Not making it to the Art Show before it closed.

Waking up every morning and inevitably missing the first few things I wanted to do by the time we got to the hotel.

Also not making it to all the events I wanted to due to overlapping schedules, being shanghaied, etc.

NO ONE mentioning my Jonathan Coulton shirt. :(

No Jonathan Coulton. >_>

Stomachaches/headaches

STILL being too injured to bellydance

Not knowing if flirting with someone will make them try to have sex with me and require beating off with a stick. :P

The issues that arose at the vanilla monogamy meet/greet (somewhat related to the above)

It being over. :(

Comments

[nemoalia.livejournal.com]

hee hee -- a "vanilla monogamy" meet and greet! Rock on!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yep! Fandom (while I can only speak for the Boston circles, everything I've seen indicates it's widespread) seems to consist mainly of polyamorous couples, or at least they're the most outspoken and the past years I've been at Arisia I've seen multiple poly panels ("How to come out as poly" "poly meetmarket 'n' greet", "kids and polyamory", etc) and there are even some people who look down on monogamists as less enlightened (although I have seen this only VERY RARELY and I don't attribute it to everyone.) No one has any clue who put the monogamy meet 'n' greet on the con schedule, but it was a fun thing to do for some of us to get together and laugh about some stuff. ;)