So, MiniMerlin

I don't really know what to say about minimerlin 2010, other than it was awesome and I had a blast. As someone or other commented, it's really more of a big sleepover than a con, which multiplies rather than diminishes the awesome. For those interested, here's the sequence of events as I experienced them:

Friday:
• Arrival at con.
• Episode watching.
• Introductions.
• Dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant.
• Vid show, part I.
• Intoxication.

Saturday:

• Re-arrival at con. (Remember, I commuted.)
• Quiet discussion as people trickled into the con suite.
• Free water ice!
• Cheesesteaks.
• Milkshakes!
• The liberty bell. The National Parks agent totally put felt!Merlin into the crack of the liberty bell. ras_elased has pictures.
• Stopping at Independence Hall so agentanachronism could film something.
• Triumpant return to hotel.
• More quiet discussion.
• The drinking totally didn't begin until like a half hour later than it did last year.
• Pizza arrived at 6.
• Vid show, part 2.
• Merlin trivia game. Our team lost by one point in overtime (?).
• Merlin RPF Hollywood Squares, which should probably be have been scheduled for a point in the con when we were a little more sober. Or not, because as it was it was sorta hilarious. I played ASH.
• Reading porn out loud. There wasn't nearly enough of this, IMO.
• There was a lot of wandering from room to room at this point.
• Hanging out in the consuite after most of the con went to bed.
• Return to New Jersey.

Sunday:
• Arrival in Philadelphia early enough to catch the early mass at Christ Church Philadelphia. Score!
• Re-arrival at the con.
• Hanging out in the consuite waiting for people to wake up and prepare for their day.
• Lunch!
• Goodbyes.

But really, the point isn't so much what we were doing (getting drunk, mostly) as with whom we were doing it (awesome fangirls). I wouldn't document semi-private discussions even if I could, but conversation tended to flow through more or less the regular fannish topics I had a lot of great discussions with a lot of different people (you know who you are). Again: big sleepover. With fangirls. Awesomeness.

Only this time with the added bonus of seeing people I'd met before in meatspace, but hadn't seen in a year. (I hadn't remembered how agentanachronism had gotten onto my flist--other than through awesomeness--in the first place until suddenly she walked into the consuite and a couple of things clicked into place.) It's surprising just how vivid my memories of fangirl interactions--both last year's MiniMerlin and WriterCon--are when usually I can't remember a face for the life of me. Maybe it's an effect of not having to divert all my energy into simply overcoming social anxiety.

I'm going to be catching up on sleep for the rest of the week, though.

BtVS: "A Little Fall of Rain" (Giles et al., gen)

Title: A Little Fall of Rain
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Rupert Giles, Dawn Summers, Faith (BtVS), Kennedy (BtVS), Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg
Summary: The most highly-recommended nephomancers and mazomancers known to the Council all assured Giles the sun would be shining on the Slayers' party. They were wrong.

FNORD.

AO3 Link.

( A Little Fall of Rain )

"Three Times Veronica Mars and Her Father Didn't Have Sex" (Veronica/Keith)

Title: Three Times Veronica Mars and Her Father Didn't Have Sex
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Pairing: Keith Mars/Veronica Mars
Summary: Crossing the line without going all the way.
A/N: Sequel of sorts to Towards Zero.

( Three Times Veronica Mars and Her Father Didn't Have Sex )