I enjoyed Swancon on Friday and spent most of the rest of Easter reading or rereading books mentioned in the panels I attended ( Read more... )

I didn't really succeed in my Swancon goal of meeting more local Supernatural fans. I found a few Dean/Cas people who are a season behind, but was hoping to turn up more Sam/Dean fans who are counting the days until the next episode. The reactions of a few people I spoke to reminded me that expressing an interest in an incestuous fictional ( Read more... )

I'll have to come home part of the time to look after the animals, so I'm trying to work out what I don't want to miss so I can negotiate with my alternative animal-feeder. bardiegrub, here's my preliminary thinking on when I might want to stay in the room!

( Panels I want to see )

First I met someone new while riding near home and we rode together for an hour, avoiding obvious areas of disagreement like bits and horseshoes and focusing instead on how well her young horse was doing on his first ride out with another equine! Then it was into the city for a Perth Atheists Meetup to discuss the convention in Melbourne last month ( Read more... )

12.  Make my own hand cream/lip balm from beeswax. I need to perfect my recipe, but want to keep doing this. My sister and brother-in-law keep bees, so I have a steady supply of beeswax ( Read more... )

I don't have the long history of Swancons that many of you do, but this one seemed very well run and enjoyable to me. Many thanks to the committee.

My top 10 from the past four days:

1. Seeing aliens and people in long cloaks with lightsabres at the Masquerade. My interest in SF/F doesn't go much beyond Star Wars (and the original Battlestar ( Read more... )

Swancon is the annual Western Australian science fiction (with a side order of slash) convention.  Way too much SF and too little slash for my taste, but it's the best thing on offer for a slasher here.  I attended for the one day with the most slash on the program.

( Notes )