Dragon*Con Day 3: I like the way you move.

[momebie]

Back to day 2!

Saturday didn't start as early as Friday, but it was still about 7:30 when I dragged myself out of bed. The first half of the day was kind of a blur. barbed_whispers and I sat in on the Weird West panel (which you can read a little more about here), and then theemdash and I showed up to the DarkHorse presents panel early and busted in on some sort of

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[roadrunner1896]

If you let your female characters run around naked, you could probably sell to a whole new audience.

[momebie]

Ha.

"Amelia, where were you keeping that gun?" Derek asked, looking over her pale skin, now streaked with dust.

"You don't really want to know," she said. "Nate taught me."

[roadrunner1896]

See? It works. :D

[momebie]

Totally. I'll see if I can finnagle in more nudity for you. :p

[jedi_iwakura]

[momebie]

The part of her talk I heard was very interesting. And her reading dealt with a birth, so you know that was full of crazy description. (Something about the woman being married to brothers? I don't even know. I know barbed_whispers was sad she missed that bit, though!)

Also, she passed around comic panel pages and art, so I'm assuming that if she hasn't already released a graphic novel, she's going to. I didn't get the context for that, though.

[jedi_iwakura]

[momebie]

All of my friends are pervs in some way. 'Interesting' is just par for the course around here. :p

[soundandvision]

What? Labyrinth & Boosh & random Marie Antoinette with Louis XIV (or is that Count Ferguson?)? Ugh, I need to get my butt to some Cons. Also, am totally looking forward to listening to the ST song when I get home from work! ;)

[momebie]

There was a Jareth too! But when I saw him I was way up on the Atrium level and he was way down on the Marquis level and my camera isn't that good. And I'll admit to not being sure if the MA/Louis XIV people are actually them, but the reason I took pictures of them was because my brain pinged on the fact that in our book, the upper class have French backgrounds.

And yes, get thee to a con! I would say you should come to Dragon*Con, since I know lots of people who come from all over for it, but I realize how it might be far away. But I'd love to hang out with you if you could.

[paragraphs]

I wouldn't call Gabaldon romance, but damn, there is an amazing romance at the center of her books. Mind you, I only read the first one--they take forever to read--but they are more along the lines of first-person, time-travel historical fiction. OUTLANDER, the first one, was fabulous. Just wonderful. I always thought I'd get around to reading the others but haven't. They are big and I am a slow reader due to no time to read.

She writes a mystery series, Lord John, also. Believe he is gay.

Very interesting person too--think she was an oceanographer or something before. Science of some sort.

You know if I went next year I'd always be at the writer tracks. I'll have to see what they are doing, if they even know yet. ;0

[momebie]

Hee! I didn't pull the romance thing from her, but from someone at the panel. Actually, I was trying to get to the front of the room to get a seat as people were leaving and I ended up getting caught mid-stream with the director of the track. She seemed perplexed that I was there when I didn't know who the writer was. Oops.

I actually quite like time travel stories, but it's the romantic bit that puts me off. The thing I can't get behind about romance is all the happy endings. I tried to write a romance once, everyone ended up dying. It's good that I know my limits, though. :p

If you went next year I might actually spend some time at the writer track. I doubt they'd know right now, but in a few months they'll probably start shaping things. COME C, COME. Actually, only come if it won't interfere with Nick time, but you know. Don't make me put on my whiny voice!

[paragraphs]

The tale of Jamie and Claire is brutal, to say things were happy for them...yes and no. It is so well-done, their story, and Gabaldon pulls no punches re: reality, and Claire's story (she is the focus, not the romance) that I am sitting here wanting to reread the damn thing myself. LOL. It is a long, unwindy tale that isn't boring one whit.

Funny thing--I was such an innocent back when I read it, I didn't get a very important aspect of the tale referencing to your friend up there's buggering comment. LOL. Oy! Such a ditz.

I'll seeee on D*C. Depends on finances, honestly--with TWO kids in university? I am scared to death of how we're going to do this. Not so much Tiff anymore, but Kelly. Hopefully being a poor widow single mum will be the key. I hope.

[jedi_iwakura]

[tranquilmayhem]

You have so many good videos and pictures! I'm glad we seemed to take different videos, though... I just finished uploading Happy Birthday (My Olde Friend). (I wish someone would have recorded the proposal during Abney Park's concourse show, though. So adorable~)

Voltaire and Hellblinki are indeed going on tour together, but I think Voltaire likes to stay up north most of the time. *Sigh.*

[momebie]

I got a picture of the proposal on my phone, but that's it. It's not very clear, because my phone sucks. I seriously almost teared up, though. (HM. Image didn't work. Linking instead!)

A lot of people go on tour and only get as far south as Atlanta, which makes me a sad panda, because I can't just up and drive 7 hours on a Wednesday night most weeks. :(

I ONLY EDITED THIS COMMENT FOUR TIMES. Sorry.

[tranquilmayhem]

Aww, I think that picture's nice!

People like to totally skip over my state of South Carolina. But because of our stupid politicians, I can't really blame them. XD

Did you hear about the Hellblinki pirate ship?

[momebie]

NO. D: They mentioned something on the concourse about something to do with pirates the might get them kicked out of the Marriott, but I never learned what it was.