Meeting James Moran and Toby Whithouse

[alumfelga]

James Moran and Toby Whithouse were in Poland! They came for Serialcon, and there were several panels with them. I went to two: a panel called "Inside Doctor Who" with both of them and Tom de Ville (who's a writer and a Doctor Who fan), and a panel with Toby Whithouse about writing supernatural creatures and writing in general

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I must say, it's nothing like cons for 10,000 people who sold their organs to get there. It was still a relatively small and free event, and I loved it this way. I know you can't do it like this if, say, David Tennant was about to come.

Free event? You didn't pay an entry fee? But someone must pay the location and technical stuff like video screens and also hotel and flights for the writers?

Medieval times! I can't even imagine :D

People always find a way! There were fanclubs. There were ads in sci-fi magazines to join your local club to find people. My friend once saw someone with a Trek shirt on the bus and started to talk to her. You had to look for small signs!

And there were the fanzines with the fanfictions which you had to buy.

I was in a David Hasselhoff fanclub in the early nineties. There we had so called friends letters. It was a little book, you wrote your address in and then sent it to another friend. Once the book was full, it was returned to the first owner. This way you could collect friends with same interests. Some of these had international adresses even.

Does that thing with rhyming phrases exist in German? You know, like jiggery-pockery or hocus-pocus, making words sound like spells or childish. It doesn't really in Polish, and I think making a new word and using *google search* diminutive instead was a good choice.

I do know hokus-pokus or abracadabra. I can't think of any others at the moment, though. If I stumble about one, I'll let you know!

Yeah. People just spread spoilers with no warnings.

I don't mean people, I mean news pages like Radio times. They make it their headline so when someone shares the article, you read it before you even have a chance to look away.

[alumfelga]

Free event? You didn't pay an entry fee?
That's right. At least for now, it could change in next few years.

But someone must pay the location and technical stuff like video screens and also hotel and flights for the writers?
Serialcon is now a part of a festival of independent movies, the same one that invited Benedict Cumberbatch few years ago. This festival lasts about a week, there are screenings, panels with movie directors and actors and other things. You pay if you want to come. Serialcon started as a separate event, but since last year it's under the festival's wings, so I imagine there was some money transfered. The rest is sponsors.

My friend once saw someone with a Trek shirt on the bus and started to talk to her.
Sometimes I see on the Internet: "hey, I was on bus X yesterday and I saw someone with Sherlock t-shirt. Want to talk?" I'm like: if you wanted to talk, why didn't you come over to that person?

I don't mean people, I mean news pages like Radio times. They make it their headline so when someone shares the article, you read it before you even have a chance to look away.
This is also true. It shouldn't be done.