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ravenna_c_tanLet's see, what else...
Dracofiend, Venturous1, Winnett, and everyone else who got photos of me, link link link! I did not have my camera at all so I am pictureless! And yes, it's perfectly OK to identify me in your photos as Ravenna C. Tan (or Cecilia Tan, but most people in HP fandom know me as the other!) and I do not care if it is f-locked.
I especially need pics of Erotic Harry Potter Night! It was such a lovely performance space.
Erotic HP Night was an absolute blast. Four of us read from the zine (which I still have copies of to sell, by the way! I'll post separately about that later...) in the theater space of the Center for Sex & Culture, a nonprofit organization that hosted us very happily. Their staff even dressed in robes for the occasion.
I went to less formal programming this con than previous ones mostly because I was presenting more of it myself! My talk on "Making the Jump from Fan Writer to Pro" went well, I stayed right on my notes and right on time, and I really really believe that many of the next wave of professional erotica, fantasy, and romance writers will come right out of this wave of fandom. Hopefully I convinced some people in that room to give it a shot. I will post my notes later as soon as I put them in some more readable form. (the outline is in sentence fragments.)
The Snarry meetup and HD meetup were really fun. I finally got to talk with some folks who I saw in passing at Terminus but hadn't had a chance to sit down and talk with.
I never did get around to telling Amanuensis that I finally watched Death Note, though. And then read the manga...
Swtalmnd was there but I never got a chance to say hi. Barely got a moment to say hello to Femmequixotic and BethBethBeth.
Really enjoyed hanging with my roomies GatewayGirl and ClueGirl, and we had a visit from themostepotente and xylodemon, too. These conventions are kind of like sleepaway camp, aren't they? Except I make slash & smut instead of lanyards and wallets.
Speaking of lanyards, I gave the really nice Hufflepuff book-thong I won at the HD meetup to red_rahl, because she will get a lot more mileage out of it than me! Puffs represent! (This Ravenclaw is reading mostly ebooks now anyway...)
So, because I taught a seminar in the MPA program, too, I was invited to hang out during their lunch hour, where we had a Bertie Botts Beans tasting! So, Jelly Belly, who has been making them since the beginning, has apparently lost the franchise and a cheaper company is taking over the manufacturing. This has left Jelly Belly with beans that they have developed the flavors for, but which they will now have to sell under some other name. (I'm sorry, I forgot the name...)
We tasted Pencil Shavings (which did taste woody with a sharp aftertaste) and Toothpaste (which tasted like Cool Mint Listerine), as well as Moldy Cheese (which didn't really taste like much to me...) and Rotten Egg, which I decided to skip tasting.
The wonderfully sadistic thing is they will be selling these "ick" flavors in a package with normal flavors that LOOK IDENTICAL, so you won't be able to tell which one you are getting. I predict these will be a hit with six-year-olds birthday parties and stoned college students.
We also tasted some of the previously known flavors like Black Pepper, which was a bit of a favorite for everyone at my table. I've had the old flavors before many times. My favorite is still grass. Did you know the "booger" flavor is just a little mushroom and salt? And they make "vomit" flavor by mixing in pepperoni pizza.
The things you learn...
Dracofiend, Venturous1, Winnett, and everyone else who got photos of me, link link link! I did not have my camera at all so I am pictureless! And yes, it's perfectly OK to identify me in your photos as Ravenna C. Tan (or Cecilia Tan, but most people in HP fandom know me as the other!) and I do not care if it is f-locked.
I especially need pics of Erotic Harry Potter Night! It was such a lovely performance space.
Erotic HP Night was an absolute blast. Four of us read from the zine (which I still have copies of to sell, by the way! I'll post separately about that later...) in the theater space of the Center for Sex & Culture, a nonprofit organization that hosted us very happily. Their staff even dressed in robes for the occasion.
I went to less formal programming this con than previous ones mostly because I was presenting more of it myself! My talk on "Making the Jump from Fan Writer to Pro" went well, I stayed right on my notes and right on time, and I really really believe that many of the next wave of professional erotica, fantasy, and romance writers will come right out of this wave of fandom. Hopefully I convinced some people in that room to give it a shot. I will post my notes later as soon as I put them in some more readable form. (the outline is in sentence fragments.)
The Snarry meetup and HD meetup were really fun. I finally got to talk with some folks who I saw in passing at Terminus but hadn't had a chance to sit down and talk with.
I never did get around to telling Amanuensis that I finally watched Death Note, though. And then read the manga...
Swtalmnd was there but I never got a chance to say hi. Barely got a moment to say hello to Femmequixotic and BethBethBeth.
Really enjoyed hanging with my roomies GatewayGirl and ClueGirl, and we had a visit from themostepotente and xylodemon, too. These conventions are kind of like sleepaway camp, aren't they? Except I make slash & smut instead of lanyards and wallets.
Speaking of lanyards, I gave the really nice Hufflepuff book-thong I won at the HD meetup to red_rahl, because she will get a lot more mileage out of it than me! Puffs represent! (This Ravenclaw is reading mostly ebooks now anyway...)
So, because I taught a seminar in the MPA program, too, I was invited to hang out during their lunch hour, where we had a Bertie Botts Beans tasting! So, Jelly Belly, who has been making them since the beginning, has apparently lost the franchise and a cheaper company is taking over the manufacturing. This has left Jelly Belly with beans that they have developed the flavors for, but which they will now have to sell under some other name. (I'm sorry, I forgot the name...)
We tasted Pencil Shavings (which did taste woody with a sharp aftertaste) and Toothpaste (which tasted like Cool Mint Listerine), as well as Moldy Cheese (which didn't really taste like much to me...) and Rotten Egg, which I decided to skip tasting.
The wonderfully sadistic thing is they will be selling these "ick" flavors in a package with normal flavors that LOOK IDENTICAL, so you won't be able to tell which one you are getting. I predict these will be a hit with six-year-olds birthday parties and stoned college students.
We also tasted some of the previously known flavors like Black Pepper, which was a bit of a favorite for everyone at my table. I've had the old flavors before many times. My favorite is still grass. Did you know the "booger" flavor is just a little mushroom and salt? And they make "vomit" flavor by mixing in pepperoni pizza.
The things you learn...
