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The Difficulty with Political Diversity

The Difficulty with Political Diversity

At the last Worldcon, there was a panel whose title I liked, but which I did not want to attend because the panelists lacked diversity. The title of the panel was: “Ideology versus Politics in Science Fiction”. It caught my eye, because I follow politics closely. The description ended with a very good question, asking how politics might be represented in SF in an authentic way, whilst remaining…

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On Worldcons and World Cups

On Worldcons and World Cups

Normally it is considered foolish to insult customers. But others do it, so why not me too? Like others, I do foolish things from time to time, not least when honestly stating my point of view. However, I try to back those views, no matter how outrageous, with objective data. Today I want to discuss who belongs to the supposed mainstream of science fiction ‘fandom’, and who sits on the periphery.…

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Please excuse the blatant plug here, but should any of you be members of The World Science Fiction Society, we'd really love it if you'd nominate us when the voting opens....

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COSPLAY PART 3: The Skittledog Edition

Helloooo! I said I'd post the last of my photos from Worldcon, and as it's Halloween...

These are all pictures taken by the lovely skittledog, who I met at the con, and are all Fool pics (I spent two days in the Fool costume and only one in the Amber one). So without further ado...

More under the readmore...

There aren't loads in this batch, but we have wonky-collar fool...

(there are a lot of wonky collar photos; the white linen and the black linen were different thicknesses, which didn't help. I'm kind of spacing out in this picture because I've just had my picture taken with Robin Hobb for the first time.)

...then there are strange, daylight Fools...

... who would like you to pause, consider the possibility that you are much more interesting and exciting than you think you are, and then carry on with your life (saving of the world not obligatory). Then there are Fools who like their music...

(I sat so fricking still through chunks of the concert, because every time I moved I jingled and I was terrified of annoying everyone ever, but I jingled along when we were all clapping.)

...and Fools who would like to be able to hear it better...

... and Fools who got to the end of the day sleepy and oddly less pale than they were in the morning (I need better makeup skills)...

...there are Fools who found a big, awesome group of friends...

...and a crossover...

...which should probably never hap-

- you know what, I'm not going to ask.

There also masked Fools...

(someone just gave me it I DON'T KNOW)

...dancing Fools...

And finally, in my favourite skit photo: bubble Fools:

To skittledog and everyone I met at the convention, thank you so much for being so friendly! And if anyone in any of these photos would prefer to have the picture removed, just let me know and I will do so at once.

fyi I know I've never posted the pictures from the original photoshoot I did but it might happen at some point

The only con-related thing I have left to post is the video Skit took of me mucking about. That might go up at some point; it involves me nearly crashing into someone, which is always fun.

I wish you all Happy Cosplay, Happy Costuming, and Happy Halloween!

H

[thepurplewombat]

Sometimes when I'm too shy to ask someone's name I just give them a made-up name.

Like, at Loncon I met these two guys, one of whom will forevermore be known to me as Drunk Irish Jesus and the other Bug-Eyed Pirate.

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COSPLAY PART 2

Seriously, I can't believe it took me nearly two months to get around to posting the second set of these. That was, to be fair, mostly because I thought I already had...

Anyway, thanks to fitzfixesfoolsfits whose response to my cosplay post reminded me that I'd been meaning to do this. There are only three photos of my Amber costume in this set, but I do have a final batch to come that aren't from Loncon3 but are from my earlier photoshoot and might, hopefully, undergo a little editing from the wonderful 1boo. 

Below the readmore are the Amber photos - for the Fool costume, see this post and this post.

Well the first person I met was, appropriately, a pirate:

The thought of Jack Sparrow on a Liveship is both hilarious and bizarre to me. 

The other person I met in this costume was, of course, our illustrious and delightful author...

I was, I'll confess, a little more excited about this than Captain Sparrow (sorry Jack). Robin was really friendly and good about taking a photo, and she had the best reaction to the skill fingers:

Seriously though, she was lovely. And I must thank the wonderful skittledog for these two photos. 

Speaking of skittledog, she (some time ago admittedly) sent me the photos that she took, the rest of which are of my Fool cosplay and weren't included on my previous post. They're also much better quality than my phone photos! Would anyone like me to put them up too? I probably will anyway but I feel a bit too egotistical if I don't ask. 

Also, I swear in the next week I will reveal why I've been so quiet and boast about my exciting news :)

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Randall Munroe's Hugo acceptance speech, Hugos, Loncon 3, Worldcon, Excel Centre, Docklands, London, UK on Flickr.