Connnnn!!!

[ldhenson]

Ladies, it's been a blast.

It's already been several days since MW ended, but I picked up a souvenir cold at the con and haven't been up to posting until now. Who says the best things in life aren't free? :-)

Okay, so the traffic was awful getting there and the Denny's is no more and I had no budget for zines, but the con itself was great as always and getting to hang out with everybody is, of course, the best part of all. ::waves to silver_cyanne, partners4life, bklyn_girl, and my three roomies who aren't on LJ but you know who you are!::

There's something to be said for going to a con at which your primary fandoms are under-represented (same thing happened to me a couple years ago, when my fandom was OUATIM). Nothing to buy, but then again, no pressure to buy, which was a blessing in disguise as I didn't really have a budget. Strangely, Batman Begins had zero presence, which I didn't expect at all as comics usually have their own little niche at MW...expecially with X-Men III coming out during it. I only saw one Bruce/Ducard fic in a mm zine, and the fan who bought my Bruce Wayne tin said it was the only BB thing she could find.

Speaking of tins, I was very happy with how they turned out. I brought 27 and sold all but 7, which was almost exactly what happened last year (only then, I brought 28). Oddly enough, the House tin was the first to go, both years.

I made an effort to jump-start TDD again while at the con, and special thanks to my roomies for talking through my plot with me--and putting up with my incessant scribblings-out and squinting at furnishings while I tried to choreograph action scenes--even though they aren't Newsies fans. And no, I'm not going to have Merry and Pippin make a cameo appearance, nor am I going to maim my boys in quite the creative ways you came up with, nor are the dragons going to spontaneously invent jet-propulsion technology. But I do appreciate the suggestions. Hee.

More detailed con report later, when I'm more lucid. (Did I mention my average bedtime at the con was something like 2:30 or 3 a.m.?)

Comments

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

And no, I'm not going to have Merry and Pippin make a cameo appearance

*snickers* You know, I'd never ever thought of LotR and Newsies as a crossover before, but now it strikes me as ideal. I mean, LotR's just dying to be recast as a Newsies-era AU.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

It's a fine life
Carryin' the One Ring through it all
It's a fine life
Carryin' the One Ring tough an' tall
Every morning
We goes where we wander
Don't much like that Gondor
Get me outta Mordor
It's a fine life
Carryin' the One Ring...

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

The only problem I'd see is what to do with the elves. Printer's ink and smudge-prone newsprint would horrify them.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

And Gandalf and Saruman are going to have to settle for being "The Smudgy Greyish Off-White."

Is Spot going to be the token Dwarf?
::ducks and runs::

[partners4life.livejournal.com]

It was so good to see you again. I am glad we got to spend time together.

Hugs!

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

::hugs back::

Cons are never long enough, are they?

So, did you put your SGA art up yet?

[cyanne]

Late as always, but just wanted to say that it was so good to get to spend time with you. I still haven't figured out how it can be Thursday night one minute and Monday morning the next, it all goes so fast. I'm already looking forward to next year.

Best of luck on the fic, hope it's going well and the characters are cooperating. Sometimes it seems that getting them to talk to you is like herding cats, or maybe it's just me.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

It was great to hang out with you, too. Thanks so much for the DVDs! Everytime I watch them I'll think of us in the atrium at 4 a.m. :-)

Man oh man, sometimes I think I'm the world's slowest fic writer. I still haven't finished that scene I started working on at MW.