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Yes, I was in England in November. Yes, this has been a long time coming.

On the second part of my transatlantic trip, I flew to London and took the train to Christchurch, Dorset, in order to attend Imaginary Consequences, a larp convention.

This is my third year attending ( Read more... )

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Intercon Pirates! - I feel the exclamation point is necessary - was this past weekend. Despite some preliminary anxiety, this was probably one of my low-key and unstressful Intercons ever.

This was our first year at a new hotel, as our beloved Chelmsford Radisson told us it was ( Read more... )

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Last week I was in Ireland and England, doing some tourism and attending Imaginary Consequences, the British LARPing/freeform convention in the tradition of Intercon.

In the past, we’ve flown through Dublin on our way to England, as Aer Lingus, an Irish carrier, usually has ( Read more... )

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Readercon 26 was this past weekend. It was a decidedly mixed bag for me.

On one hand, I got to see VP tribe! (Including some I hadn’t seen since the workshop itself, like Leigh Five). There were fascinating panels, as there always are. I met new, interesting people. I bought sovay's ( Read more... )

I hadn't been to Arisia in... possibly a decade? I know the last time I went it was at the Ziggurat/Q-bert Hotel/the terrible Hyatt in Cambridge, and there was a snowpocalypse that weekend, and we drove home to Watertown in that. At that time, I promised I wouldn't go back until it was not at that hotel. That took five years or so, and at that time ( Read more... )

Readercon 25! It was a thing that happened, with lots of the most intelligent and amazing people I know--SFF writers and readers.

Here's what I did:

Thursday, as per tradition, I met up with sabredanse for dinner at Burton's, and then we attended the free part of the event. We went to the following panels: (this time we didn't walk out of any!)

Power ( Read more... )

This was a low-key Festival of the LARPs for me. I ran one game, Midsummer Mischief, and played in one game, breakinglight11 and Bernie's game Brockhurst, and so was only around on Saturday of the convention.

I played in Midsummer Mischief on my first trip to Consequences in 2012-- you can read about my experience here. It takes place in a hazy 1920s/1930s of the ( Read more... )

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1. Rich Perry thinks you would make a great Nora Charles in Cafe Casablanca. Yes, you. No, you don't know who he is ( Read more... )