You skipped my queues and my lines

[sovay]

I got to Readercon and Fiona Maeve Geist greeted me with a copy of the Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine in the Time of Nazis (2015), so nothing about this weekend can be all bad.

Actually my first panel was a lot of fun; we discussed all kinds of ambiguity in horror, from vagueness to liminality to dislocation, and only in the last thirty seconds clarified the idea of horror as a genre of concealment and revelation, which I would like someone who isn't me to write about. Afterward I hung out with rushthatspeaks, handful_ofdust, and ashnistrike, talking Indonesian horror and Canadian politics. I may or may not spend tomorrow on either side of my reading literally in bed; it seems that I am not just in pain, I am in fact sick. Immune system, this is not what I asked you to do. We'll see how much sleep I can get tonight. At least I have central air on my side.

My phone remains a flip phone, profoundly not designed for photography; you point it faceward and hope for the best. I decided I liked this attempt despite the blur.



After the fact it occured to me that I might be less blurry with better lighting. I am more often photographed with my hair loose than braided, but that's what it looks like at the end of a day.



I hope there are copies of my collection in the dealer's room. Three people have asked me so far. That's nice. It makes me feel less like my book is over.

Comments

[asakiyume]

These are lovely pictures. Your being sick is not. I hope you take every opportunity to get horizontal.

[sovay]

These are lovely pictures. Your being sick is not. I hope you take every opportunity to get horizontal.

Thank you. My immediate plans involve pitching over onto this hotel room bed. [edit] The rest of my night, unplanned, turned out to involve either food poisoning or a close facsimile of it. I feel very bitter.

[asakiyume]

Holy effing eff :( This is a cursed timeline; please request a new one.

[choco_frosh]

Holy -----------. Congratulations on still being alive; I hope you're now feeling better.

[sovay]

Congratulations on still being alive; I hope you're now feeling better.

For most of the day I was not, but I think I may cautiously be reapproaching aliveness as opposed to mere not-deadness. Thank you.

[umadoshi]

I think I may cautiously be reapproaching aliveness as opposed to mere not-deadness.

I'm glad to hear that, at least, and I hope so much that tomorrow is far, FAR better.

[thisbluespirit]

Actually my first panel was a lot of fun; we discussed all kinds of ambiguity in horror, from vagueness to liminality to dislocation, and only in the last thirty seconds clarified the idea of horror as a genre of concealment and revelation, which I would like someone who isn't me to write about.

I'm glad. I do hope the rest goes well. <3

[sovay]

I'm glad. I do hope the rest goes well.

Thank you! I have little to do formally today, at least.

[cmcmck]

I like the braiding! It really suits you.

Since my mammoth shearing (20" off) I can't do that atm! :o)

[sovay]

I like the braiding! It really suits you.

Thank you!

Since my mammoth shearing (20" off) I can't do that atm!

I hope you are enjoying your shorter hair. I had to have six inches cut from mine in second grade after a traumatic bubble gum incident and otherwise I just trim for split ends.

[lauradi7dw]

I often am rather bleary-eyed when I check DW first thing in the morning. I read the cut tag as lightning, and anticipated a dramatic photo of an electrical storm up on the hill there.
I like the blurry photo better, probably because it is more of a close-up.

[sovay]

I read the cut tag as lightning, and anticipated a dramatic photo of an electrical storm up on the hill there.

I'm sorry. It was just me and a lamp.

I like the blurry photo better, probably because it is more of a close-up.

Thank you!

[selkie]

Your book is not over, don't be a doof, stop listening to yourself when you're sick.
Ahem: AAAAAH SOMEONE GAVE YOU THAT BOOK, YOU HAAAAAAVE IT, TELL ALLLLLLLLLL.
(and feel better).

You know, it occurs to me you could probably fit in our new chest freezer if the fever starts to get to you. It's only got some English muffins and a quart of frozen stock from 2015 in it.

[sovay]

Your book is not over, don't be a doof, stop listening to yourself when you're sick.

That's reasonable advice and I will attempt to implement it, although I would also enjoy skipping the entire question by not being sick. [edit] There are no copies of my book in the dealer's room, however, because my publisher is not in the dealer's room, and I am sorry about that.

Ahem: AAAAAH SOMEONE GAVE YOU THAT BOOK, YOU HAAAAAAVE IT, TELL ALLLLLLLLLL.

I was not expecting it! She just walked up and put it in my hands. It's like an anthology of Marie-Madeleine's work from fiction to nonfiction to poetry, lavishly illustrated with other decadent art and helpfully supplied context. I'm really hoping it's the tip of the iceberg of translating her. I want to read those proto-noir lesbian drug novels.

(and feel better).

I'M TRYING DAMMIT I'M TRYING.

[thawrecka]

You look great! That panel sounds like a lot of fun, too.

[sovay]

You look great! That panel sounds like a lot of fun, too.

Thank you! It was a good start to the con.

[a_reasonable_man]

How not over is your book? Well, I just got a nice letter yesterday praising my book, which was published in 2002, and I predict that you will be receiving letters praising your book well beyond 2036.

[sovay]

Well, I just got a nice letter yesterday praising my book, which was published in 2002, and I predict that you will be receiving letters praising your book well beyond 2036.

That's really cool!

(Thank you.)

[dramaticirony]

I'm glad the good things happened, and sad for the rest.

The panels and readings have been spectacular so far, thanks for your contribution and every one on the programing team.

My "most on brand" Readercon moment: while having dinner with Alexandra Rowland to discuss commissioning another essay for my zine having the occasion to learn about necropants from someone else at the table who is a scholar of icelandic manuscript history, and who, as a side gig, is starting a zine about contemporary dandy culture.

[sovay]

I'm glad the good things happened, and sad for the rest.

Thank you! We'll see how the ratio holds today.

while having dinner with Alexandra Rowland to discuss commissioning another essay for my zine having the occasion to learn about necropants from someone else at the table who is a scholar of icelandic manuscript history, and who, as a side gig, is starting a zine about contemporary dandy culture.

That is extremely Readercon. Mazel tov!