San Diego ComiCon, Cosplaying And Does The Internet Need Another FicMeta Community?

*cracks knuckles*

Allrighty, I'm trying to cram a lot of stuff into one entry, so I'll use cut-tags and you can pick and choose.

I've decided to put my San Diego Comic Con report here rather than on my regular journal¹, as that journal is 98% f-locked and riddled with filters. Besides, most of what I've got to say is of a fannish bent, anyways.

( SDCC Overall )

( DW and TW Panels )

( Cosplay Meetup Madness! )

( Why Don't I Hang Out With You Dudes More Often? )

( Does The World Need Another MetaFic Comm - Specifically a Torchwood One? )

¹ - britgeekgrrl

PS. I've finished Twilight Streets but I'm going to save my thoughts on that for another entry. This one is long enough!

Costuming Crosspost

Alrighty, I've just posted this on my costuming and craft filter on britgeekgrrl but, given the fannish nature of, um, all of my costuming, I decided to crosspost here, also.

Incidentally, if you want on to the aforementioned filter, let me know and I'll add you to it - although I warn you, it's a lot of "Sewing gods, why do you hate me so?" sort of angst and such.

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This is more about cosplaying, per se, but also costuming too.

( It meanders a bit... )

BTW, The TARDIS bag made for me by the fabulous praedestinatio was, I think, a bigger hit than anything I wore all weekend, and that includes the FanPerson Appreciation outfit. (Mental note: make sure you don't have plans for dinner away from the convention center before donning such gear. My god...)

More SDCC and Related Stuffage

This is a postscript, of sorts, to the first SDCC report, although you know I'm going to add pix as I find them.

More Doctor Who cosplayers than you can shake a sonic screwdriver at! And that wasn't even all of us, as I think some of the gang stepped out to take pix, bless 'em.

The chap in the middle of the photo, holding the comic, is Tim Tony Lee (I think his name was), writer for an upcoming Doctor Who comic (the one in his hot little hands, naturally) due out from IDW in August. He wanted a photo with all of us and, by gum, we did our best!

(edited to update and correct URL)

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A few folks in the TW/DW RP crowd asked after a particular RP bit when I mentioned it during SDCC.

( Breaking the 'please oh please don't tell us about your characters' rule... )

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I was just blowing the dust off an old TW fic idea which had been rendered redundant by the re-introduction of the Sontarans but as the convention has my brain fizzing again, I've realized that the story itself is salvageable. I just have to tweak the antagonists. A lot.

Moreover, I think I just figured out how to cut a whole bunch of dreary exposition which had me banging my head against the wall.

Gwen: Jack, I don't suppose you'd be willing to catch a sexually transmitted disease for the sake of research?
Jack: What?
Tosh: A potentially alien STD.
Jack: WHAT?
Owen: Best man for the job, I'd have thought.
Jack: Well, that's as may be but... *beat* Who's got it? Are they cute?

And lo, four pages worth of characters-staring-at-computers is done away with.

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Okay, I think the worst of it is out of my system, now...