On conventions, meeting other fans, Jossverse, anime, and location location location.

Well, it's three days until Fanime Con.

My first anime convention in two years. I'm excited.

I'm a little bit nervous about the social situation I'm getting into... I will seeing some old friends which is a good thing, probably gonna have to avoid a person I used to think of as a friend who was shitty to me then didn't talk to me in like 3 months, I've got the almost-awkward-but-not-because-I-am-determined-that-it-not-be-so of staying in a room with 3 guys one of whom I have briefly gone out with, the good of possibly seeing a new friend from my speech class last quarter (if he ever gets his pass which he doesn't think will happen), and a host of other funny but slightly nerve-making things. I am so incredibly excited. The last time I went I was 18...now I'm 20. Will it be different for me? I expect not much, except that I will undoubtedly be in the older half of the people going.

Speaking of Cons...

I wish there was some kind of general SciFi convention in Northern California... I'm always going to regret that I was never able to go to one of those East Coast or Canadian conventions to meet all the lovely people on my friends list last year or the year before when we all watched Buffy and wrote B/S fic at the same time. Still, maybe some day. Are there any major conventions in Southern California? Maybe I could go to one of those next year, and meet all the SoCal Buffy fans.

And the fic writers. God, I wish I could meet more fic writers in person! Of Jossverse, anime, whatever.

I would love to talk face to face to someone whose fanfiction I have enjoyed, reviewed, praised or critized. That would be so wonderful. Just... meeting other fans is wonderful. Knowing that you can talk in a fast, excited voice about how much you loved it when one character said this and another did this, and whether this plot twist changes the characterization for the future, whether something is a symbol or foreshadowing or a parallel, and what does it mean, and oh to talk forever.

I love cons. I love meeting other fans.

Read an extremely angsty Trigun fic called "Simple & Clean" while listening to this

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Trespassers William - Lie In The Sound

I love you more than I should
So much more than is good for me
More than is good
Oh the timing is cruel
Oh I need and don't want to need
More than I should

I am falling, say my name
And I'll lie in the sound
What is love, but whatever
My heart needs around

Oh my sheet is so thin
So I say I can't sleep because
It's so very cold

Oh but I know what I need
And if you were just near to me
Would you go...

I am falling, say my name
And I'll lie in the sound
What is love, but whatever
My heart needs around

I am falling, say my name
And I'll lie in the sound
What is love, but whatever
My heart needs around

And it needs you too much now

Now I wish I had some truly angsty Vash/Meryl icons. That's what I need. Anyone got any just lying around?

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