Plokta.con a brief report.

[cdave]

Awesome.

There was serious science fiction, silly fun, fandom, crafting, and beer galore. All that and yet it was very lightly programmed with at most two rooms and scheduled breaks to go and take advantage of the incredibly cheap food.

On a more personal note I think I can no longer call myself a neo fan. I recognised about 2/3 of the members names before the con, and actually managed to talk to quite a lot of people over the weekend I'd only really nodded in passing at before.

I didn't manage to see the pool that everyone seemed to be raving about, or much of the grounds and bunnies. However I don't think it's fair to blame that entirely on my naive desire to do the programme. It's more like the 7 hours so I spent cutting, folding, getting confused, refolding, getting gin, rerefolding, and gluing together the spectacular behemoth that was the papercraft Howl's Moving Castle.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Adequate, surely!

[cdave]

:D Yes!

Go team adequate!

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

You stopped being a neo fan on, er, Sunday of Eastercon, if I remember correctly. :Þ

[cdave]

I do have a tendency to jump into things feet first. I picked up the name Crazy Dave because I refused to be called Keen Dave when I started invading the physics society committee meetings as a first year.

This Eastercon was where I felt like I hit the critical mass of fans I know that I didn't have to invite myself into random conversations with strangers. I still did, but it was out of choice rather than necessity.

[robthefish.livejournal.com]

Please post picture of the castle :-)