Meanwhile, a con report: Rainbowcon

[mneme]

So as long as I'm doing a touch of backed up blogging before doing the necessary things (which is to say, upgrading our cleaning supplies and other things hilight by the recent plumbing disaster; see the last post), I might as well do a short con report -- because Rainbowcon, last weekend, was -amazing

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Re: Ball of Yarn?

[mneme]

*nod* It's not a common format, and I've never seen an attempt as successful as the one that created the term at OVFF. Part of the issue, I think, is that you need a sufficient density of people wanting to follow/perform that you get a dense web; in that situation the cats cradle mechanic can be a lot more pleasant than the more usual moderated chaos version where someone starts writing down (or just repeating from memory) the list on the queue; in that setup, often the circle will bounce back and forth between two or three topics for a while, as people following for topic 1 end up going after people following for topic 2, and so on.

In those specific situations it can be great; the issue with it as a "pre-planned" format is that unlike poker chip bardic, which can adapt to low energy filking reasonably well, with cat's cradle you end up just passing the ball around (or as happened at Rainbowcon, having it turn into a buckyball, where the person stuck with the ball after just having performed passes it to someone and asks them to do something). Those situations can be fun too, but they aren't really cat's cradle.