Morrrrre Azkatraz

Let's see. Who else did I meet at Terminus?

At Erotic HP Night of course I got to see lots of Dacro, Mijan, and Slashpervert.

In the course of the con, I met both nuclearsugars and nuclear_polymers (Alyse), wrote a Gryffindor Spin the Bottle story for Sesheta_66, re-met Alisanne, finally met Rubymiene!! And coffeejunkii!! Both of whom I've known forever through LJ but hadn't met before. And apparently re-met Cordelia V. although neither of us could quite figure out where we'd met before! It wasn't at an HP con! Saw some of the Boston-area crowd, NQDonne only briefly (since she was helping run the con), BewaretheSmirk, Lesyeuxverts, & Potteresque_ire. Re-met sassy_cissa and met oldenuf2nb for the first time (her first HP con). Wook77, Anneke, and Romaine24, who wrote one of my favorite HD stories ever, except I can't remember the title of it... gah. Samantha, Isis, Slashpine... and I am sure there are more I'll think of as I mull over the con. Yolanda! Oh, and Lev Grossman, though I don't think I can count him as a slasher or ficcer... even if he did write a book which made the C. S. Lewis estate upset.

Dizilla/Diana Moon wrote me a haiku, which I interpret as Snape/Draco, because I'm like that:

against silver-white
tangled with black-satin sheets
forget tomorrow


I better go to sleep now. I'm having lunch with a friend and then visiting the San Francisco Asian Art Museum tomorrow.

Yet another Azkatraz post

I keep coming up with more people I met at the con. Like Leela_cat! And Bryoney. And Roslyn. And Ted and Nabil and Kim, somewhat tangentially to the con. And there's no way I'm going to get through these wrap up posts without having left someone out. A big hi to Gwendolyn Grace and Heidi, too, who worked their tails off at the convention and I think can be quite proud of the result. Which isn't to say there were not snafus. There were, which often had to do with communication between concom and attendees. But overall it was quite an undertaking.

I had to choose between going to the panel on Cross-Gen and the panel on Queers in the HP Universe. In the end my inner Draco made me go to the Cross Gen one because he's anxious that I haven't written any Snaco in so long. (Draco, I said, I haven't written any fanfic at all in a while because of original fic deadlines... He just sniffed and said he didn't care.) Cross Gen panel was really great. All the panelists were funny and smart and the audience really got into the topic (as you'd expect...)

And I got arrested! Two Aurors came and got me from the Craft Faire at the end. One of my roomies had put out a warrant for my using inappropriate charms on a teakettle. After I bailed myself out by writing a drabble, I put out a warrant for her arrest, too, as well as Mijan. The "Jail And Bail" scheme was all a charity fundraiser. The con's designated charities were the Harry Potter Alliance (which I won a T-shirt in the movie line for knowing) and Amnesty International. It was fortuitous I was jailed, actually, because at the jail they had bread and water! So I had a roll to keep me going. (It's because of things like this I didn't really eat an actual meal most days. And I ate way too many Tim Tams and Violet Crumbles at the HD meetup!)

I missed the fashion show while getting dressed for the ball, but the ball itself was great. The DJ was a real mix master, and he managed to mix together a very diverse list of styles of music and eras and yet keep the dance floor packed. The ballroom was too small and the dance floor also too small, for a group like ours. Nothing could really beat the Terminus ball where it was in a huge 1920s style ballroom with high frescoes ceiling, surrounded by balconies, and literally a thousand people could be dancing at once (and were). The Parc 55 is a modern building and just not made for that kind of grand party. But we had a lot of fun anyway. Lots of people made costumes. Justin (another one I haven't mentioned yet!) wore Snape ropes with prison stripes! Perfect!

Got to go now, off to lunch and then museum!

First pics from Azkatraz starting to appear...

And now the mass hunt to friend everyone I met -- across LJ, IJ, and Dreamwidth. (I'm the same on all three if anyone's looking for me: ravenna_c_tan...)

I had a nice chat with pir8fancier at the HD meetup that consolidated my feelings of why I love writing fanfic even if it's "for free" and all that. I realize that's part of the fun of it for me. It's writing that isn't "work" at all for me, so it's sustaining and creative for the pure fun of it instead. It's work-like in that I apply my craft and expertise, but it's for me and for my friends in fandom and not for "work." I also met benevolntgodes (I think I spelled it right...) and now have to look for her to friend, too.

Never did get to say hi to furiosity, tracy_loo_who, or chaeche. Did I mention the Snapecast meetup was really terrific? It was at this very fancy schmancy wine bar, where we tasted some nice wines and they had some nice little fancy cheese to taste with it. Yum.

Thus far I've come across one photo of myself, at the Snapecast meetup, but you can't really tell it's me. It's the back of my head... (Butch buns rule.)

Aha, here's one of the post-Drink & Draw continued drawing and drabbling group in the Great Foyer:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpef/3746027177/

I'm way in the back, just to the right of GatewayGirl (in the red shirt) and behind Sasha (stupid_drawings) in the gryffindor striped shirt.

And check this out, Rana (chibitoaster on LJ, littleblackbow on IJ) is drawing a Draco for me in my book! Here:
http://www.sfweekly.com/slideshow/view/28039792/11

Here is the art: http://www.sfweekly.com/slideshow/view/28039792/12

Wireless where I am staying is really flaky, making it hard to look at photos. There are about 900 of them on flickr right now tagged with "azkatraz" (it was around 850 when I started but clearly someone is uploading more as I look...) so I will look at them later when I have better bandwidth!