everything but the girl

Wishing you a wonderful and magical 2013.

We're at Disney this week and will spend today in an über-version of the Jewish tradition of going to movies - we're off to Hollywood Studios! We did the MK yesterday and were in before rope-drop so it was basically empty for hours, so we got to have lunch at Be Our Guest and clock 25 rides/shows/meets.

And I woke up this morning to a delicious Galactic Milieu fic by an awesomely brilliant writer who clearly knows what I like and adore - angsty brothers! - and you can read it at http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2012/works/599720

My review was thus: You are the best Yuletide stalker ever! This is the most perfectly heartbreaking, kind-bending, beautifully soul-crushing set of Milieu tales and I cannot thank you enough. I'm crying here at six in the morning for all the utterly messed up Remillard boys in decade after decade and I'm off to save it in kindle so I can read it a dozen more times today.

Wishing everyone who celebrates a Merry Christmas and hoping everyone else either weeps a lot at Les Miz (I'm going on the 27th with my sister) or has a fun-filled day.

I'm fighting a lingering case of strep, over traveled, and overinvested in watching polls about the presidential campaign and news out of the Northeast about Sandy. And my desktop internet access keeps going down.
But if anyone is interested in helping me set up a donation oriented project to help in the aftermath of Sandy later this week, please let me know. I'm not really sure how to do it on tumblr, but because so much finish this is over there now, you need to be some sort of promotional or informational purposes, or you can sign up and bid there too - any ideas on the process? Anyone able to help with graphics?
Of course, all of the procedures, little, text, etc. from Help_Haiti is usable in this context. Unfortunately.

Things To Do While Tumblr Is Down:
1. Book a Flight to @wincon (now I just need to book a flight home, too).
2. Catch up on LJ & DW
3. Read all the two-days-on posts about why Obama didn't mention the 47% Video during the debate and see that they all finally realized that at least a portion of it was because Romney obviously had a step-it-back paragraph memorized, and there's no justifiable reason to give him an opening to give that schpiel in front of a Live Studio Audience and massive viewers at home.
4. Save Big Bird!!
5. Watch the world spin.

Political ad from Michigan. ( Awesome West Wing minifilm.  )
Early voting may start in your state next week! Are you ready?

I just realized something.
I've been liveblogging on tumblr and Twitter and a bit on FB
I have not OPENED LJ. Or DW.

Well, I have now, to post this. But, catch-up time tonight as I rewatch. If you didn't get to see it yet, no spoilers here, but it has been AWESOME!!

I got a copy of the Carpet Book on July 16, and I read it on the 17th (it took a while to DL and extract) while YMing with a friend. Some of the bits of that conversation follow:


HT: Can I ship albus/gellert? Please?
SV: I'm sure you won't be the only one.


HT: Regulus was wonderful!
HT: But my god this is slow......
SV: Regulus didn't show up! He was just a story. *sad*
SV: I wanted him to be real.
HT: I know.
HT: But he is, for me.
HT: I want to go back to his story, the one I started back in
2001. Maybe I will....
SV: I mean, I wanted him to be alive.
HT: I know.
HT: Fucking inferi.

SV: My god, Heidi. After this, really and honestly....no more canon.
SV: No more Lupin.
HT: Wow.
SV: No chance of Sirius coming back...
HT: Wibble.
HT: That's why we have imaginations and AU's
SV: Yeah, but it's never really the same.

SV: Nothing new yet cept the epilogue, but don't read it, it
spoils the rest of the book.
HT: I know
HT: Remus gets dead, doesn't he?
SV: That actually isn't mentioned.
HT: Is it presumptive?
SV: Though I would say from some of the references in the
epilogue that he miiiiight be.
HT: Ok, thanks. I can live with that.
HT: Because? Wedding bonding? Is for life only.

HT: You know what I boggle at?
HT: Wizarding Law.
HT: The wizarding world just took it onto themselves to TAKE
the pottersl home and enshrine it
HT: Did anyone pay Harry for the taking?
SV: Well, if it was a rental property it might have been sold
to the gov't.
SV: What boggles me more is how vague the rest of the
government structure is.
HT: I mean, there's a value to the land. Technically
HT: [/real property]

SV: You're going to love ch 33
HT: Coool.
HT: Is regulus snogging barty in it?
SV: Better. Want to know?
HT: Not yet.

HT: Ok, I'm in snape's memories
HT: Oh love.
SV: See, told you that you'd like that
HT: Oh.
HT: Oh I knew it.
SV: HEE
HT: : copies this convo.....
HT: I told you!
HT: 10 hours ago, I said....
SV: You did! JEEZ!
SV: I can't believe you were right.
HT: : loves this book


HT: Sigh. Oh, hey! Naked Harry. Hellooooo daniel
SV: God, that part was boring.
HT: But will look soooo r-rated on screen. Haha.
HT: Fight the Dark Lord in the name of brave Regulus!

I got home late on Monday afternoon and have been catching up on email, being organizational for Harry's bar mitzvah (omg! six weeks!), looking at everything from Comic Con including the awesome Harry Potter panel that I semi-organized, and Andrew Sims of Mugglecast hosted, and really not suffering much post-con drop because I've been chatting with so many people every minute since, on Tumblr, LJ, FB, Twitter, googlechat and sometimes phone.

I'm working on a playlist of all the awesome videos that people shot, and listening to the two postcasts I participated on: Edition, which was a little silly and recorded in the hotel lobby on Sunday afternoon, and the much more serious Mugglenet Academia on fanfic & transformative works. Download and listen - they were both awesome experiences.

My photos are up over on facebook, and the entire Ascendio flickr pool is at divided into sections here. If you couldn't be there, we'll also have audio recordings online here (and we now have a package of all events which might be of interest to academics, universities, organizations, etc.). Individual sessions will be online shortly.

Now, speaking personally....

This was an awesome event. The entire Senior Staff - Flourish, Gwen, Amy, Femme, Alexa, Mary, Ailene, Dave, Bekki, Mallory, Anastasia, Noe, Zorb - and our awesome team members, including Chris Rankin and Lena Gabrielle and Vicki my saviour, as well as our awesome presenters & guests, plus the IQA and HPA - were brain-blowingly fantastic and seriously, there was nothing that went wrong that couldn't be fixed within about three minutes.

Even the rain the night of NoaTW disappeared quickly!

I...

I don't know what's going to happen next. We all went into this at least a little burned out - but at the moment, I don't know if it's the euphoria from the event itself or what, but...

So there's going to be talk about things beyond 2013 and if you're interested in talking, then let's talk. :D Personally, I won't work with Universal for a long time, if ever, for many reasons, but...

Ellipse.... Ellipse.... Ellipse...

I am ridiculously sad that I can't get to Lubricus, but there is no way I can go out of state between now and The Bar Mitzvah, but I am looking at MistiCon in New Hampshire in May, because I have to be in Philadelphia that Friday afternoon, so I may be able to manage a Thursday night/Friday morning a little further north. And Wincon is still on my agenda, but it entirely depends on Aaron's work schedule, so I won't know until late September. Also, the Vegas SPN con in March!

After Nimbus we didn't know when we'd all see each other again. These days, we know that even if it's not every year, it'll be every so often and sometimes more frequent than that. Fandom is here, fandom is changing and fandom is awesome.

If I didn't see you this weekend, you were missed (and I miss you still). If I did see you and glomp you and drink with you and possibly sing kareoke with you, then I miss you right now.

And I will see you soon.