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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!
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