{"id":241,"date":"2024-08-14T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munchkinstein.co.uk\/?p=241"},"modified":"2024-08-15T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:28:22","slug":"incoherent-thoughts-on-a-great-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/incoherent-thoughts-on-a-great-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoherent thoughts on a great weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some final thoughts on <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/tag\/glasgow2024\/\">#Glasgow2024<\/a> Worldcon before I get too distracted back into the real world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cons are flipping lovely. This is my thirtieth year of going to them (!) and I couldn&#8217;t have had a better one to mark that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After thirty years it turns out a lot of people at cons know me. This is weird.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Volunteering for panels and events is great and gives something back<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I volunteered for a bit too much possibly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All fun, but I missed so many people and things<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Those who volunteer for the behind the scenes stuff are to be lauded to the highest of hills and proclaimed before the gods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have now appeared twice on stage at the Armadillo and want an Equity card<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have now been part of a brilliant team who produced an excellent (if I do say so myself) anthology which not only launched but sold the fuck out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will live off that joy for a very long time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Worldcons are huge. While it means more chances of seeing old faces, it also means more chances to miss so many people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I possibly prefer the Eastercon size just so I can get around everyone and not have to trawl three bars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cons are a surreal world where you can buy books and not care about having time to read them or space to store them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People at cons like tablet. I may bring more in the future.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Despite all the gravitas of Worldcon, there is still room for silly items with trebuchets or people in dinosaur costumes and that is wonderful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I can moderate panels successfully and should be braver about volunteering for that in the future.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Even after five days, I still enjoy the Dead Dogs parties for their ability to throw up weird conversations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I can identify Parma Violets by smell alone, even after five days of drinking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thanks to volunteering, I drank less of a night than I used to and this is no bad thing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I nonetheless still drank enough to over-enthusiastically pimp tablet, so it&#8217;s still a bit of a bad thing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I co-edited a book that sold out!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No matter how sober I am and how many notes I prepared, I will always come away from a panel realising I forgot something.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many people like Alasdair Gray, this is good.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I really need to set aside time for the Art Show as I barely saw it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This probably saved me considerable money, so maybe not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Glasgow cons are great, someone should run more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not me<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Worldcons are great, but flipping expensive, someone should run more close to my house.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not me<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A con with two ceilidhs is a work of genius<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But maybe put the first one in a bigger room next time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Dead Dog ceilidh is a work of genius, letting me sweat out so much of the crap I ingested all weekend<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talking about writing in the bar is a joy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saying on a panel that I do writing is a special wee thrill<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I need to write more so I can keep doing that<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cons are flipping lovely. Here&#8217;s hoping I get to more soon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m already signed up to Fantasycon in October and Eastercon and World Fantasy next year will be looked at just as soon as my credit card stops smoking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yay for the surreal, joyous, nonsensical world of gibberish that exists inside a con venue. May it always be there but may I remember to pace myself when in it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Would you take tablet from this man? <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"333\" class=\"wp-image-242\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tablet.jpg\" alt=\"Me in a white shirt and blue waistcoat holding a tin full of tablet over a table with some Gallus tote bags on it \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tablet.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tablet-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tablet-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tablet-768x1706.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tablet-692x1536.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some final thoughts on #Glasgow2024 Worldcon before I get too distracted back into the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,19,8,2,13,10],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-blether","category-conventions","category-hurrah","category-huzzah","category-sillyness","category-writing","tag-glasgow2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}