Things that are awesome and end badly
Aug. 1st, 2014 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lokifanI am getting really, seriously excited for Loncon/Worldcon.
I am trying to work out what I’m going to wear (spoiler: I have NOTHING, argh). I managed to get the Thursday and Friday off work, because I am going to be off work all that week due to lack of a class to teach. I’m teaching Monday morning, which… oh fuck. I’m gonna race from work in the afternoon to see a Doctor Who panel on transformational vs affirmative fanvids (I just wanna watch Handlebars on a big screen surrounded by other fans and this seems like an awesome opportunity to do that) then go home and die. People shouldn’t have to get up at 6:30am and teach teenagers for three hours after they’ve spent four days squeeing and partying their faces off on limited sleep. There should be a law.
I made a massive epic list of all the programming I want to see over the five days. There is SO MUCH great programming and half the time I can’t choose between like five options - seven o’clock on Saturday has a thing about monarchy in fantasy AND fan history & fan studies AND the education and training of young protagonists AND the Other becoming knowable AND this thing called ‘imagining the city’ and I would happily go to any of those! I think ultimately I will probably choose the monarchy in fantasy one, because in another life I’d be doing a master’s thesis on stuff related to that, but I’m leaving the other stuff on my Epic List because it will all depend on who I meet, what they want to do, and if I want to do barcon type stuff instead.
It looks like my choice of programming is gonna be very heavy on the literature, transformative fandom, and academic tracks (to absolutely no one’s surprise). Which is awesome, but I am actually pretty into astronomy and cosmology so I’m sad to be skipping the stuff on that. That said, the British Interplanetary Society gets SO MUCH SIDE-EYE from me. Y’see, back in the day they designed a spaceship based on extrapolated technology, right? And they called it Daedalus. And then recently they did a new version, which as you might imagine, they named Icarus.
FUCKING ICARUS.
*torn between tearing my hair out and dying of LOL*
I remember when I heard about the film Prometheus I was like, “that is stupid, no one would build a spaceship to go and see the creator-race and name it Prometheus!!!” BUT APPARENTLY I WAS WRONG.
I am trying to work out what I’m going to wear (spoiler: I have NOTHING, argh). I managed to get the Thursday and Friday off work, because I am going to be off work all that week due to lack of a class to teach. I’m teaching Monday morning, which… oh fuck. I’m gonna race from work in the afternoon to see a Doctor Who panel on transformational vs affirmative fanvids (I just wanna watch Handlebars on a big screen surrounded by other fans and this seems like an awesome opportunity to do that) then go home and die. People shouldn’t have to get up at 6:30am and teach teenagers for three hours after they’ve spent four days squeeing and partying their faces off on limited sleep. There should be a law.
I made a massive epic list of all the programming I want to see over the five days. There is SO MUCH great programming and half the time I can’t choose between like five options - seven o’clock on Saturday has a thing about monarchy in fantasy AND fan history & fan studies AND the education and training of young protagonists AND the Other becoming knowable AND this thing called ‘imagining the city’ and I would happily go to any of those! I think ultimately I will probably choose the monarchy in fantasy one, because in another life I’d be doing a master’s thesis on stuff related to that, but I’m leaving the other stuff on my Epic List because it will all depend on who I meet, what they want to do, and if I want to do barcon type stuff instead.
It looks like my choice of programming is gonna be very heavy on the literature, transformative fandom, and academic tracks (to absolutely no one’s surprise). Which is awesome, but I am actually pretty into astronomy and cosmology so I’m sad to be skipping the stuff on that. That said, the British Interplanetary Society gets SO MUCH SIDE-EYE from me. Y’see, back in the day they designed a spaceship based on extrapolated technology, right? And they called it Daedalus. And then recently they did a new version, which as you might imagine, they named Icarus.
FUCKING ICARUS.
*torn between tearing my hair out and dying of LOL*
I remember when I heard about the film Prometheus I was like, “that is stupid, no one would build a spaceship to go and see the creator-race and name it Prometheus!!!” BUT APPARENTLY I WAS WRONG.
