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Here's the program cover I made for the last Muskrat Jamboree, which just wrapped up this morning. It was the best to hang out with you guys. I miss you already. Thank you for letting me yell so loudly about Captive Prince. Excuse me as I drop like eighteen bucks in this airport Pinkberry to ease the pain of leaving. LOVE U MJ.
YESTERDAY i talked bleep0bleep into coming to mjboston so like, hold ur butts because i will come for you HARD if you even so much as blink my way.
just spent an hour facetiming with kalpurna trying to sort out which post-MJ hangover happened what year. "when was the year we tried to watch zoolander and got angry at it for being too plotty?" "was that the same year we got kicked out of the teen room at the BPL?" "that cannot have been last year, last year was the one where you tried to order breakfast french fries."
anyway, it reminds me that there is a new info post on cancellations/transfers up at the MJ LJ comm!
and if you HAVEN'T registered but you DO like hanging with fangirls in a big hotel even though they might be giant embarrassments (me), you should look into that, pal.
Favorite Muskrat Jamboree Memories, You Say...
CHRIST, WHERE DO I START. I think I'll stick with the VERY FIRST MJ, or as well like to refer to it, TrashCon 2007 (just kidding; I refer to it like that; for lo, we were classless and it was glorious)
I WILL PREFACE THIS BY SAYING WE HAVE ACTUALLY SINCE THEN GROWN COUTH AND HAVE NEVER SINCE DISPLAYED SUCH VULGARITY AT THE CON SINCE. WE ARE NOW ALWAYS ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR. PROMISE.
Join me now as I go down memory lane to when we were all drunken trash and having the time of our lives in East Somerville's classy, CLASSY Holiday Inn.
SO. Back when the con was JUST A BABY STARTING OUT, we were so very young and naive. I, for example, fully expected the hotel-provided sound system to NOT CRAP OUT ON ME MID-FIRST-VID, but it did. Being the Vid Show Person, I initially flipped my lid. While tleed ran to get help from bewildered hotel staff who were the lucky ones to be on call at the time, I called upon some friends in the audience to entertain us all with jokes. (Which went something like: "What is the difference in how lesbians build houses?" "What?" "All tongue in groove, no stud!" and "What do you call a lesbian with long nails?" "SINGLE!" At which point, the very nice man working on the sound system blushed harder than I have ever seen a grown man blush and emotions along the lines of "AM I ALLOWED TO LAUGH AT THIS IT'S REALLY FUNNY BUT WILL I OFFEND EVERY SINGLE WOMAN IN THIS ROOM" ran across his face like a scrollboard.) And then, somebody - either jamwingles or warmbrightwings, I believe - started a Barrett's Privateers singalong to BEAT ALL OTHER SINGALONGS, and it instantly became an MJ CLASSIC, a moment of fangirl love to beat all other moments of fangirl love. It was glorious.
Also glorious was the moment when other - no less bewildered - hotel staff emerged in the room with a set of giant speakers covered in plastic they found in some dusty corner in the basement, followed by a harried but a triumphant tleed. The vid show was saved.
Oh, and also tleed and I getting caught making out in the stairwell later that weekend by a fangirl who was just drunk enough that she completely didn't question why tleed had her hand in my pants (we were not yet fully a couple at the time, I should add) and simply informed us she was So Very Drunk, then proceeded to run back out of the stairwell none the wiser.
OH ALSO, who remembers the underage cheerleaders who were occupying the hotel alongside us? I DO I DO. Best moment:
Two fangirls enter the elevator. Three underage cheerleaders are, apparently, riding up and down the elevator looking for entertainment. Two fangirls patiently ride alongside them to get to their floor.
Underage Cheerleader: "Let's go downstairs! There's LESBIANS in the LOBBY!"
Two fangirls: *attempt not to die*
AND LO, SOME OF MY FAVORITE 2007 MJ MEMORIES.
snugglederek replied to your post: I hope you dummies are thinking REAL H...
could you tell me a little more about it? because this sounds totally awesome and if i can get time off of work i would love to go
CAN I EVER.
The hard and specific details are on mjboston's LJ counterpart ( spelled out as muskratjamboree) because that's where it started in 2007, back in the ancient age of LJ. This is iteration FIVE. The name starts from a Due South joke, but the fandom spread is wide and all encompassing.
In category, it's a slash con, but it's not as serious or academic as ConTxt or some of the others. It's SUPER social, and all the panels are voted on by the congoers.
It's in Boston, March 20&21st! I like rolling up early on the Thursday and getting everyone in my pocket as quickly as possible. Then on Friday, the panels start, and LIKE I SAID, it's super casual, like a generally directed fan conversation featuring an easel where I like to make moderators write down MORTIFYING THINGS. In the evening, there is a vid show, featuring vids suggested by congoers, followed by a LIQUORED UP dance party. That's BASICALLY my favorite night. I like getting fancy as fuck and screaming I LOVE THIS SONG at random strangers.
SATURDAY there are more panels and then the con ends at 5 and usually people throw a ton of room parties, and you can surf from one room to the other, watchin the good parts of a canon, getting pimped into a new canon, generally yelling excitedly, or my favorite, DRINKING. kalpurna, barnacling and I threw one last time that was basically the greatest night of my life.
PS DID I EVER TELL YOU THE FIRST TIME I MET LLASSAH? It was at an MJ Party where I was drunk as fuck and swaying sideways until I landed on her and she propped me up while saying soothing things. I think she managed not to spill her own drink which makes her a rock star.
ANYWAY, MJ is the con 4 u if you just love fandom an awful lot, and you like seeing fellow fans socially and talking about fun fandom trends and complimenting fellow fans for how pretty they are. They are pretty. They're all just so pretty.
I hope you dummies are thinking REAL HARD about coming to mjboston in March Every time a planning email shows up in my inbox, I start getting REAL PUMPED about it. kalpurna is gonna be there! theopteryx is gonna be there! llassah is gonna be there! All my faves are bouts to get hugged until their faces fall off!
I'm always way more excited about the social aspects, like the official DANCE PARTY and the room party I'm definitely gonna throw but I just reread my impassioned plea for a knotting panel from 2k13, and I'm laffing trying to think about what grosso panel I'm gonna be excited about this year.
REGISTRATION IS OCT 4TH. PREPARE YOUR BUTTS.
