Sunday Keycon 2009
By Sunday, the con reached a lazy feel. Everyone was tired (or hungover) from the night before, and the morning panels were more subdued than Saturday's. I was still enough of a freak to show up to the 10am session with Katherine and Viola about Food in Fantasy. Biggest pet peeve for pretty much everyone there? Unnecessarily creative names for food. When the characters wear silk and linen, they walk past birch and pine trees, they have horses and dogs and cats, why do they eat snooberries? Unless these berries are somehow significant to the plot, providing some kind of magical power or something isn't "berries" sufficient?
Autograph session at 11 for just about all the guests who had been there. Kelley's voice was getting patchy from having done so many panels the day before, so I forced some chammomile tea on her and got some reading done, since I wasn't really excited by any of the panels at that point and the next one I wanted to go to was in that same room. So when all the autograph seekers had fled, Liana K did a panel about Feminism in Fantasy, which was fun and interesting.
At 2 was Kelley and Tamara talking about faeries, goblins, and assorted mythological creatures in modern days. Where are they? Mostly they're still around, they just show up in different forms than they used to. (Although if you go into some of the more rural areas, you'll find a surprising number of people still adhere to the old ways.)
Closing ceremonies were... anticlimactic. There really wasn't much to them, and I'm not sure why they asked the guests to attend, since they were only briefly acknowledged before moving on to the next thing. It wasn't like last year, where each of the guests had a moment to talk about their Keycon experience.
I didn't go to the dinner this year; I had considered it, but the tickets were 30$, and since I'd paid 40$ to go to the entire convention, I thought perhaps not. Last year we hosted the Aurora Awards, which made the price worthwhile, but this year it was just a dinner.
Laid back lazy Sunday is a good way to end the con, I think. We went and picked up the kids, and pretty well everyone went to bed early. A good time was had by all. Now I have two months to recover before heading to Toronto for Polaris.
Autograph session at 11 for just about all the guests who had been there. Kelley's voice was getting patchy from having done so many panels the day before, so I forced some chammomile tea on her and got some reading done, since I wasn't really excited by any of the panels at that point and the next one I wanted to go to was in that same room. So when all the autograph seekers had fled, Liana K did a panel about Feminism in Fantasy, which was fun and interesting.
At 2 was Kelley and Tamara talking about faeries, goblins, and assorted mythological creatures in modern days. Where are they? Mostly they're still around, they just show up in different forms than they used to. (Although if you go into some of the more rural areas, you'll find a surprising number of people still adhere to the old ways.)
Closing ceremonies were... anticlimactic. There really wasn't much to them, and I'm not sure why they asked the guests to attend, since they were only briefly acknowledged before moving on to the next thing. It wasn't like last year, where each of the guests had a moment to talk about their Keycon experience.
I didn't go to the dinner this year; I had considered it, but the tickets were 30$, and since I'd paid 40$ to go to the entire convention, I thought perhaps not. Last year we hosted the Aurora Awards, which made the price worthwhile, but this year it was just a dinner.
Laid back lazy Sunday is a good way to end the con, I think. We went and picked up the kids, and pretty well everyone went to bed early. A good time was had by all. Now I have two months to recover before heading to Toronto for Polaris.