{"id":8150,"date":"2015-10-09T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2015-10-09T14:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:39:25","slug":"vcon-40-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/vcon-40-and-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"vcon 40 and photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

So yeah, hey, I went to VCON 40!<\/p>\n

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It’s a little bit of a blur, mostly thanks to too much fun crammed into too few days followed by unfortunate con crud. All of the panels I was on went really well, and most were heavily attended – the exception being Sunday morning at 10am on self-publishing, that one not so much. None of us were awake, and by “us,” I mean “VCON members” – this is a pretty seriously late-nite con.<\/p>\n

I hung out with the hot tub crowd for a bit, and one of the surprisingly large number of fem!Sheps (the two most technically impressive were in the masquerade, see below) kept me in alcohol and unexpected affection. I got to wave papers in the air like a five-cent street-corner Leninist during the Puppies panel and that’s always a good day.<\/p>\n

They had a Family\/Fannish Feud PM game-show that was not remotely worksafe but our team didn’t make it up on stage, which is a damn shame. They also had super-snazzy technology that my version from some years ago didn’t have and it was pretty sweet – you can see the projector in shots from below.<\/p>\n

Captain Canuck picked up Steve Rogers and<\/em> his punching bag, which was pretty hilarious but didn’t stay posed long enough for me to get a shot. The Turkey Readings – wherein terrible works of fiction are read and acted out by audience members, with the rest of the audience bidding in cash to make them stop – had some new people and some prime<\/em> material this year.<\/p>\n

The Dead Dog almost imploded, because the hotel totally didn’t separate “quiet” and “party” spaces and shut it down, even though I have it on good authority that this was in the contract and there will be repercussions<\/em>, and everyone including everybody<\/em> snuck off Elsewhere to By God We Will Have a Dead-Dog and did. When I left just before 4am, it was still going pretty strong – just every so often we had to suddenly All Be Very Quiet, with concordant shushing and sssssssssh and apparently being a party made up entirely of snakes.<\/p>\n

Ain’t no party like a Slytherin party, is what I’m saying.<\/p>\n

So, yeah! Bought next year’s memberships already, will be there for 41. You should too, it’s great.<\/p>\n


Guests of Honour<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Fannish Family Feud<\/i>
The room was actually packed, the empty seats are where the two teams
were sitting before they went up on stage.<\/center><\/p>\n


Holy Shit It’s Finally October of 2015 And Marty is Here<\/i>
I kept calling him Calvin.<\/center><\/p>\n


Masquerade Winners<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


I found an alchemist and loaded up on void, fire, and frost salts<\/i>
Time to make some potions!<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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