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[fadeaccompli]

So. Um. I'm going to 4th Street Fantasy. (Because, hey, if the spouse is going to go run OgreCon, I figure it's not unreasonable for me to attend at least one more traveling con this summer! ...I'm sure this makes sense somehow.) I don't suppose anyone else who's going is still looking for a roommate?

It's not going to break the bank if I have a hotel room all to myself, but I prefer sharing for various reasons, some of them the purely financial. Big room! Can hold more than one person! It feels vaguely indulgent to flop around in a giant hotel room all by myself.

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[anne]

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!! ...imagine several more screens of !!!!!!!! because !!!!!!!!

[fadeaccompli]

I am all sorts of nervous, because it feels like a con aimed at people who are rather more pro than I am. But! When multiple people who will be there tell me that I should come, I figure they know better than I do what the actual demographic and feel is like, so I will trust them.

[anne]

FFS, who's been feeding you such lies? It's not aimed at writers! It's for people who read books, which okay has a large overlap with writers. Really the demographic is "people who like Steve Brust and Jon Singer."

[fadeaccompli]

No such lies fed! I just garnered that impression somehow. Somewhat, I think, by the way it has a list of people who will be coming on the site, instead of a list of Guests who are separate from the faceless masses of attendees. In the nervous parts of my brain, this implies that one must have a name people will recognize to really be a proper attendee.

[hawkwing_lb]

I have a jealousy. :)

[fadeaccompli]

We gotta get funding to research teleportation devices, I swear.

[hawkwing_lb]

Quantum entanglement.

Either that, or I have to get really rich somehow. :P

[anne]

Nope, what it means is that if the programming people realize that you has A Expertise, you will get pulled out of the audience to be on a panel. Everybody at the con is on the same footing, except that Jo Walton and Jon Singer and the *NHs and Elise are way awesomer than lots of people. But this is not a surprise to people who have been paying attention, and anyway they're all far too polite to mention it. (I don't actually think that Jon and Jo have noticed.)

[anne]

If I ever win the lottery, I'm funding you and Abi.

[hawkwing_lb]

It's kind of you to say so. Come to Worldcon 2014 and I'll buy you a drink?

[anne]

If only! But if I get there, absolutely.

[hawkwing_lb]

I am still at the "if I get there" point myself. :)