SpoCon was fun this year; got good responses to the historical programming I was part of, and got to have a good time socializing with long-time convention-friends -- you know, the people you only see about every 6 months, but whom you've known for years (almost decades, in some cases). I have some misc. pics I intend to post, but I since believe ( Read more... )

I feel a bit frivolous about posting all this after taking a look at the storm reports from the Southeast (and the news in general); crossing my fingers that everyone in LJ land from that area is doing OK.

Anyway, as mentioned, this last weekend at Norwescon was a very good time -- great guests (I got to hear both Jim Butcher and Patricia McKillip ( Read more... )

Whew! Survived RadCon once again. The historical group's programming was *very* well received (which is always both a relief and a compliment), and I even managed to sneak in a little partying and costuming/cosplay; I have a couple of pictures (of the costuming, not the partying) under the cut for size-kindness.

( Click for Dr. Joan Watson and some Generic Steampunk )

Y'know, I really have no interest in seeing Tron Legacy. It's not that I don't have a great fondness for the original Tron, which I still love even if it is a cheesy movie at heart and some of the computer effects are underwhelming by today's standards. When it came out (I saw it in the theater, being the dinosaur I am), it was mind-blowing, and ( Read more... )

Normally this'd go under the "historical" filter, but Fry was being so darn cute I'm leaving it as an open post. This is what happens when you work on garb with a "helpful" kitty around. As a teaser, here's Fry assisting with the layout of my new Anglo-Saxon underdress (hopefully to be finished by this weekend):


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Things are showing up on Facebook, so here are some more pics -- I was delighted that someone caught the moment of wolf-dog meeting wolf-fursuit (it's sooo cute!), and, for the hell of it, ladymustapha got some shots of me hobnobbing with fandom elite during our historical Shoot The Knight demo. Ganked the images, crediting them, hoping I'm not violating the ( Read more... )

As usual, I didn't end up with many pictures of myself from MisCon (and I wasn't wearing anything unusual or spectacular, so that's no *great* loss), but I got some nice shots of other peoples' outfits. For no other reason than that they're fun, here they are.

( Under the cut: Mercy Thompson, an excellent fursuit, and the MisCon organizer in drag. )

I've had Norwescon pics sitting on the camera since the beginning of the month, time I started posting! (Thanks to countessaleska for the computer time!) I'll start with some costuming stuff and will try to get other pics up in the near future.

( Steampunk costuming under the cut. )

Whew! Always takes a day or two to get my brain back online after a convention, but I'm getting back in the groove of things.

sahiya, if you're out there, your help_haiti fic is my next writing priority. As I said, I should have at least the first part up by the 20th (which, IIRC, was the deadline). The rest of it, TBH, will probably trail in after this next ( Read more... )

Some random pics of me from this weekend, mostly for potential costuming interest; I'm posting this on the public filter so's I can link people to it from outside the f-list, though this is the sort of thing I'd normally put under the "historical reenactment" filter. But I'll be putting it under a cut, so it won't take up *too* much friends-page ( Read more... )