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    <title>Home from Wiscon</title>
    <published>2017-05-30T19:55:50Z</published>
    <updated>2017-05-30T19:56:31Z</updated>
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    <dw:music>"Get Lucky" - Halestorm</dw:music>
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    <content type="html">Wiscon has been one of my favorite conventions since I started doing conventions on a regular basis in 2000-ish.  When I fell off the face of the planet stopped going to conventions on a regular basis, Wiscon was one of the ones I missed most, so it makes sense, I guess, that when I crawled back up onto the face of the planet a few years ago and decided I'd poke at conventions again, Wiscon was the first convention I went back to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't necessarily love the whole "getting to Wiscon" part of the convention (I don't think I've ever been somewhere that's had a direct flight into Madison, not even when I was travelling for work), and travel lately seems even worse for me than it was in The Before Times, but it's a trip I'm willing to make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've seen a lot of folks say a lot of different things about Wiscon. &lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://aynjel.dreamwidth.org/970.html#cutid1"&gt;It's a trap!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I love Wiscon.  I love the opportunity to see folks I don't get to see very often anymore.  I love that the convention grows and changes with new fandoms and new fans.  I love that we can have a thoughtful and still squee-filled spilling-out-of-the-room panel for a TV show that ended 15 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I have a day and a half left to unwind and get myself ready to walk back into my day job... where gender and pronouns are assumed, everyone's straight until proven otherwise, and the merry-go-round of fail keeps turning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=aynjel&amp;ditemid=970" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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