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Jun. 13th, 2026 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressIiiiiiii am at Pinewoods!
It is the...fourth? Third? Hangon, lemme see if I can check!
I can check! It is the fourth year LCFD has hosted their spring camp at Pinewoods, which means it's the fourth year I've gotten to attend! I like this session! I like this session _so much_. The highlights are obviously the people, all of whom are thrillingly attractive and carrying quite a lot of gender about them, but here are some of the highlightiest bits:
*Lindsey Dono is calling! I met her several years ago at a YDW and immediately went head-over-heels heart-eyes for her calling abilities, she's _fantastic_ at it, and really wonderful at teaching-level calling. So that's a delight, and someday I really will have to travel to her coast and visit her on her home turf!
*Many good little conversations and connections have been had with various people in various capacities. It feels like _home_ and it feels like _FAMILY_ and I am so happy about both of those things!
*The music is absolutely stunning. Cecilia Vacanti especially is just fucking _phenomenal_ in a way that keeps accidentally surprising me --I need to stop letting that happen and just embrace the fact that she might be one of my favourite contra musicians!
*Jamie asked me about my collar, and I was able to give a very happy "It's not for anyone but me, it's just been a while since I regularly wore one and this felt like a good space for it!" Which is true, and it's actually _really_ nice to have something substantial around my neck again and know that it's not going to get me into serious trouble at work.
(look, it's 2026 and society is a shitshow. The way we get joy back is by embracing and loving and being in solidarity and community with the filthy perverts who have always been the backbone of the queer community. I stand with my siblings! Or kneel, more likely! Respectfully kneel. Maybe grovel a bit.)
*I got some very good knitting-and-gossip time with Lucretia during the back half of the dance! I am so happy to see my crew friends especially! I am so excited to come join them and be a crew friend in the second half of July!
*It is unbearably humid (this is not a plus) to the point where I have _actually gone in the pond_. In early June! This basically never happens to me, I am far too unable to handle the cold to actually go into Long Pond much before Scottish sessions, usually. I am pleased about having pond access, and not exactly pleased that it is both eight hundred percent humid and not actually that hot. I mean, I'd be less pleased if it was more hot, but it feels awful being cool and sticky at the same time.
*The post-dance snax were _very_ good. A true abundance of cheese and crackers! I am a simple white people and you can absolutely control me with cheese.
*And the dancing is quite good! The floor is enthusiastically full, but not brutally so, and Lindsay is very proactive about managing placements. I am very much looking forward to the fancy dress ball tomorrow! I should figure out before lunch if I have any Talents for the Talent Show!
I hope you are having a good weekend as well!
~Sor
MOOP!
It is the...fourth? Third? Hangon, lemme see if I can check!
I can check! It is the fourth year LCFD has hosted their spring camp at Pinewoods, which means it's the fourth year I've gotten to attend! I like this session! I like this session _so much_. The highlights are obviously the people, all of whom are thrillingly attractive and carrying quite a lot of gender about them, but here are some of the highlightiest bits:
*Lindsey Dono is calling! I met her several years ago at a YDW and immediately went head-over-heels heart-eyes for her calling abilities, she's _fantastic_ at it, and really wonderful at teaching-level calling. So that's a delight, and someday I really will have to travel to her coast and visit her on her home turf!
*Many good little conversations and connections have been had with various people in various capacities. It feels like _home_ and it feels like _FAMILY_ and I am so happy about both of those things!
*The music is absolutely stunning. Cecilia Vacanti especially is just fucking _phenomenal_ in a way that keeps accidentally surprising me --I need to stop letting that happen and just embrace the fact that she might be one of my favourite contra musicians!
*Jamie asked me about my collar, and I was able to give a very happy "It's not for anyone but me, it's just been a while since I regularly wore one and this felt like a good space for it!" Which is true, and it's actually _really_ nice to have something substantial around my neck again and know that it's not going to get me into serious trouble at work.
(look, it's 2026 and society is a shitshow. The way we get joy back is by embracing and loving and being in solidarity and community with the filthy perverts who have always been the backbone of the queer community. I stand with my siblings! Or kneel, more likely! Respectfully kneel. Maybe grovel a bit.)
*I got some very good knitting-and-gossip time with Lucretia during the back half of the dance! I am so happy to see my crew friends especially! I am so excited to come join them and be a crew friend in the second half of July!
*It is unbearably humid (this is not a plus) to the point where I have _actually gone in the pond_. In early June! This basically never happens to me, I am far too unable to handle the cold to actually go into Long Pond much before Scottish sessions, usually. I am pleased about having pond access, and not exactly pleased that it is both eight hundred percent humid and not actually that hot. I mean, I'd be less pleased if it was more hot, but it feels awful being cool and sticky at the same time.
*The post-dance snax were _very_ good. A true abundance of cheese and crackers! I am a simple white people and you can absolutely control me with cheese.
*And the dancing is quite good! The floor is enthusiastically full, but not brutally so, and Lindsay is very proactive about managing placements. I am very much looking forward to the fancy dress ball tomorrow! I should figure out before lunch if I have any Talents for the Talent Show!
I hope you are having a good weekend as well!
~Sor
MOOP!