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Nine Worlds
Aug. 19th, 2014 02:41 pmI seem to be a bit behind with these updates. It's been a pretty busy week with conventions and other conventions.
So Nineworlds. I do like this one. It's a lot fresher and more sparkly than most of the cons I go to with none of the cruft that seems to develop with a convention running for a long time. I do have reservations about it though. The Ultra-PC aspect especially. Any of the LGBT, feminism or race related talks seemed to be an echo chamber. Nobody had a dissenting opinion, and even if they disagreed on a point seemed to be treading on eggshells rather then break consensus. Also bar prices. We are no charging this to our employers! A fiver for a beer is too much! And it would be nice to have better chill-out space.
But what I did like was there was a really nice vibe. People are lovely. The streams are unashamedly geeky. There are some awesome costumes. Queen Tribute band was very good, and when they played Princes of the Universe of course there was a sword fight!
Decided to dress as the Dread Pirate Roberts on the Friday. Part of the show and tell, chaos costuming. It was a simple costume. I even finished it off in my room just to make sure it was as chaotic as possible. Some people wanted to take my photo. Always a good feeling, especially when the outfit is such low effort.
Saturday I was Indiana Jones. A very practical costume, because I can use it with my bag! Didn't get nearly as many people wanting to take my photo though. Finally met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pickwick (briefly) so that was good! Went to the Whedonverse Quiz but that was hideously hard. Went to the brain hacking talk but they didn't offer an upgrade. Room was a little too full and very stuffy which I found not fun, but talk was good. There was a chaotic quiz in the evening which was fun but a little to much for introvert brain. Nice to have a room to hide in. Since I had glue-gun with me I tweaked my cat ears. Spent a lot of time chatting with a new costume geek friend, and a lot of other people.
Sunday I did the geek t-shirt thing because I like my purple space invaders/pac-man/misunderstood-ghost shirt. Got some useful tips on steampunk prop making. Event ended but people were still around. Seemed to end the evening wearing cat ears and curled up with a certain geek. That was nice way to end the weekend.
So Nineworlds. I do like this one. It's a lot fresher and more sparkly than most of the cons I go to with none of the cruft that seems to develop with a convention running for a long time. I do have reservations about it though. The Ultra-PC aspect especially. Any of the LGBT, feminism or race related talks seemed to be an echo chamber. Nobody had a dissenting opinion, and even if they disagreed on a point seemed to be treading on eggshells rather then break consensus. Also bar prices. We are no charging this to our employers! A fiver for a beer is too much! And it would be nice to have better chill-out space.
But what I did like was there was a really nice vibe. People are lovely. The streams are unashamedly geeky. There are some awesome costumes. Queen Tribute band was very good, and when they played Princes of the Universe of course there was a sword fight!
Decided to dress as the Dread Pirate Roberts on the Friday. Part of the show and tell, chaos costuming. It was a simple costume. I even finished it off in my room just to make sure it was as chaotic as possible. Some people wanted to take my photo. Always a good feeling, especially when the outfit is such low effort.
Saturday I was Indiana Jones. A very practical costume, because I can use it with my bag! Didn't get nearly as many people wanting to take my photo though. Finally met
pickwick (briefly) so that was good! Went to the Whedonverse Quiz but that was hideously hard. Went to the brain hacking talk but they didn't offer an upgrade. Room was a little too full and very stuffy which I found not fun, but talk was good. There was a chaotic quiz in the evening which was fun but a little to much for introvert brain. Nice to have a room to hide in. Since I had glue-gun with me I tweaked my cat ears. Spent a lot of time chatting with a new costume geek friend, and a lot of other people.Sunday I did the geek t-shirt thing because I like my purple space invaders/pac-man/misunderstood-ghost shirt. Got some useful tips on steampunk prop making. Event ended but people were still around. Seemed to end the evening wearing cat ears and curled up with a certain geek. That was nice way to end the weekend.
