Dragon*Con preplanning!

[sorcyress]

ETA 19Aug: I'm gonna make this a toppost for the month, so that I can find it real quick. I'm also going to update it occasionally, with the most recent list of things I plan or need to do.

So, guys. I'm going to Dragon*Con. For the first time ever, zohmygod!

I hear it's really really big and scary there, and that there's several billion things to do that I would like to do. So I'm not definitely sure what on earth I'm going to be doing (besides hiding in a corner).

THINGS I KNOW I AM DOING, HOWEVER!:

• I know I'm doing the live action Dr. Horrible show --I'll be one of the random extras running about, woooo! This takes out Thursday (rehersal) and Friday nights (show, and you should totes come!), though of course I'll be around after it ends.



• I am almost certainly attending-or-walking-in the parade, because I think my mother will kill me if I don't. Soyeah. Details to come. NTS, talk to Paula about borrowing a dress for being Queen Elizabeth possibly.



• My late nights/early mornings/not so early mornings are very plausibly going to involve being dragged to various and sundry parties by Sparr. I have no idea.



• I insist, insist, fucking INSIST on hanging out with zaphod_groupie for at least ten minutes, somewhere along the way. She's only been my older sister since 2005 or something, I really ought to actually meet her.



• And on a related note, her Gabity-Gabe is I believe gonna be at D*C, and I should give him hugs, which I'm sure I've promised to him at least once.



• So, I mentioned that I was gonna be at D*C in rm's journal, and she responded by being excited and telling me that we should hang out. This is basically filling me with a) glee and b) headdeskery over how fangirly I'm being over someone who is, you know. A normal person who I totes want to be when I grow up. So I'm hoping to do some hanging out there.



• Similarly, I might break my "never going to con panels unless I get dragged by a boy¹" rule and show up to some of her panels 'cause they sound cool. Oh! And the director of HorribleTurn is doing a panel, I believe. So that would be rad.



• Costumewise, I'm gonna break out the Daria-goodness for a while, probably tart it up as a Booty Chest girl², possibly bring a "French Cuisine Kills Bunnies"³ sign, run around with mom as a cowboy or Australian girl⁴, and potentially dress up as one or two more secret things



• Blood Drive opens at two on Thursday, which should be after I arrive. I've wanted a Heinlein pin for-ev-er, and before the con actually starts *may* give me time to be well rested and fed beforehand, give blood, and recover some afterwards.



• Oh yeah, dragon*con has Simply Obscene amounts of dancing, doesn't it? Yeah, do that.

Annnnd that's it for "planned" stuff. What HELLS IMPORTANT thing am I missing? And who else is gonna be around and want to hang for food or something?

Also, you know what I will be able to do at DragonCon that I haven't been able to do at ANY CON PRIOR?

My 21-year-old butt will be able to go to ALL the parties. Boo-to-the-fuck-yah!

~Sor
MOOP!

1: This is inadvertent but true --in five years of cons, I've only ever been to two panels --one on Regency men's fashion, which, okay, wasn't *really* being dragged by a boy though Magus was there looking pretty, and one on...um...rope. *coff*.
2: See also, this, and seriously, go watch the third episode of Middleman if you haven't.
3: ...first episode of Middleman. Easy costume, otherwise.
4: See also, Dr. Horrible and HorribleTurn respectively.

ETA: Crap and a half, I left my stripper heels in MA, didn't I? Oh well, I will have a slightly subpar Booty Chest outfit then.

Comments

[malakhgabriel.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Nope. No Dragon*Con plans for me.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Oh sadface, I thought you were! Well fine, on one of my trips south, I'll have to wander off to where you guys give and give you a hug then. Ha!

~Sor

[malakhgabriel.livejournal.com]

Please do! There's not much to do or see in Baton Rouge (aside from our awesome kink scene), but I'd be thrilled to get hugs and maybe even wander around New Orleans with you.

I know at least one (probably several) of my friends here in BR are going, and you may sorta know them.

[sildar.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I'm gonna be there, too.

[harena.livejournal.com]

What HELLS IMPORTANT thing am I missing?

Durham's on the way from Maryland to Atlanta and vice versa >.>

[rm.livejournal.com]

At some point I will be planning a dinner w/ friends and what not, off-site. Do you want (potentially -- I know we're all juggling a lot of schedule) in?

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

That sounds cool and fun! I am not always great at groups of people where I only know one person, but I can usually handle fannish pretty well.

Do you have/need my cell phone?

~Sor

[rm.livejournal.com]

Need your cell phone. Mine is 646-263-3731, and I'm much better texting at Dragon*Con if that's possible for you, because all the sensory input makes it hard for me to follow a mobile call generally.

Off-site dinner will be small (not more than ten, probably less) and involve fen, several of whom you know online. Onsite stuff, is like, whoever piles into wherever whenever.

[genarti]

I will be there! With a bunch of friends I rarely get to see, so running around like the proverbial chicken in a cosplay outfit, especially since I always try to go to several panels at a con too. But I will be!

If you see a tall lady Spock or a tall Anthy Himemiya -- uh, purple hair, big red ballgown, silly epaulets and stuff -- you will probably have spotted me. :D

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Waitwait, Utena Anthy? 'cause that's totes cool, and I *really* need to watch more Utena.

I will assume that I will see you later in the fall, so I will not stress overmuch about getting to hang. But I do hope I'll get to say hi!

~Sor

[genarti]

Utena Anthy yes! The Rose Bride dress. And you totally do; I feel this is true of pretty much everyone, because Utena is AWESOME. And, you know, bizarre and dark and confusing and meta, and much of this is part of why I consider it awesome.

And yeah, I was figuring that we both have people we see a lot less often who'll get meet-up priority, but I'll definitely keep an eye out!

[xalolo.livejournal.com]

*-Finding the two girls cosplaying as Win and Banana and claiming Cake from them.

[petrona.livejournal.com]

I'll be there. Hope we run into each other. Would love a pic of you as Daria.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

tell me more of this dancing? Is it couple dancing or regencyish or . . . ?