#bristolcon

[johannestevans]

Two novellas about just some of the WORST queer people in a nasty fantasy Earth you can imagine, on sale today in the BristolCon Dealer's Room.

Gellert's New Job & Strange Liberty by Johannes T. Evans feature just terrible, terrible queer representation. The shittiest sexiest guys!

And both books are in my Starter Pack eBook bundle if you'd like to buy 10 books together!

[petermorwood]

After BristolCon was over, and before we left for the airport *, @dduane and I had lunch in Pasture.

Despite being tempted by The Meat, we knew from previous experience that eating too much of that before travel is never a good idea - just when you want a little nap is when you have to haul luggage at a scurry - and went instead for starters then Burger and Sea Bass (all absolutely delish).

When I removed the half-pickle toothpicked to the top of the burger's bun, this is what was waiting for me...

Highly amusing, highly Halloween-y, and - unless someone in the kitchen with a seasonal sense of humour made those marks deliberately - a serendipitous accident!

:->

*****

* Going to the airport got a bit more exciting than we liked.

An over-tall lorry clipped a petrol / electro-charging station canopy and brought its high-tension power lines down all over the petrol pumps and across the A38, blocking the main (indeed from the trouble caused, what seems the only) route from Bristol City to Bristol Airport.

Maybe "exciting" doesn't cover how we felt, because though we did make our plane in reasonable time, it wasn't before my FitBit showed me a pulse-rate far higher than anyone merely sitting in a coach should have.

Fortunately we were insured against things like that, and even more fortunately the insurance wasn't needed, but given a choice between "uneventful" and "exciting" at the end of a trip, I'll take the dull option every time... :-P

[crow-caller]

(as usual) I'm going to be at Bristolcon this Oct!

I have gone for years but this is the first year I have any real notoriety I guess. It's a tiny genre fiction con in Bristol UK and a blast- mostly old nerds with surprisingly well known books hanging at a bar and chatting books. I usually participate in a panel or two.

It's a great time and I'd recc it if you're in the area, and if you're already by crazy odds going, look out for me!

[chickensaredoodling]

Inktober #27 Was drawing at the author's panel at BristolCon and the writers really liked it!

[johannestevans]

Thinking about a question @joelcornah just asked in the Genders panel at BristolCon and how you'd engage with a drastically different gender culture that's not based in sexual reproduction or sex characteristics and I think a symbiosis between multiple species could be cool

Not like with the Trill, but say, a larger species whose eggs are disseminated through waterways or equivalent, and different species end up adopting or fostering these eggs - perhaps they have a valuable protein in their spawn bubble once they grow or their shed skins are helpful as they age

Maybe they're useful protector species for these much smaller foster species etc

But once they physically outgrow their respective smaller species, they then join the adult society of their species, and their "genders", these cultural and social behaviours and styles, some from their foster species

[johannestevans]

[johannestevans]

If you can't attend BristolCon in person today, remember that there is a livestream running!

I believe that everything in Panel Room 1 is being streamed (?), starting from the Welcome Ceremony at 9:45 (in 20 minutes)!

BristolCon Live Stream 2025

BristolCon 2025Saturday October 25th 2025 - Sunday 26th October 2025Guests of Honour: John Higgins, J E Hannaford and Ben JeapesLocation: Hi

Both of my panels, Pets in Space at 10am today & Two Genders? That's All? tomorrow are in Panel Room 1, as well as one of the panels I'm moderating, What Potions Can't Heal, but not sure yet what the livestream set up is!

[johannestevans]

The journey for BristolCon begins!