Fun Desert party

[winter_elf]

Well, that was fun. Just got back from the gold special desert party. Last time I did the 'gold' thing at creation was for the ORC (LOTR), and while it was okay, the party wasn't as much. The actors were on a stage and didn't really interact. This time, a whole bunch of round tables and a number of actors who went table to table. Yea, short time, but a few questions and all. We had two empty seats at our table, either side of me actually, and every star who sat, I was next to! Oh god, if only I'm that lucky tomorrow!! And you know, a fun group at the table, I wouldn't mind finding them tomorrow.

I was at a table with mostly Battlestar Galactica fans, one other Stargate and TWO journalists! So, we actually had quite the conversation going. She was doing an article about female roles and female fans and why the dynamic has switched. She seemed surprised that a lot of the con was female and not as many men. Though the Battlestar con has a LOT more men (60/40) than the Stargate (10/90). So we talked about quite a number of things - like how long we've been fans, our first show we were fans of, why we were fans, why we came to conventions, what conventions we've been too, what we thought of the subject matter brought up in shows, female role models, etc, etc, etc! (Ailene would have =LOVED= talking to this lady). She writes for Discover I think she said. At the Table, I was the 2nd oldest - one lady was in her 50's, one who was too young to drink and three in their late 20's/early 30's I'd say. I was the biggest con veteran. A few who'd done a few other cons, but not a lot. One lady ran a Supernatural website and had just done the Supernatural con in Chicago last weekend. Whew! All mentioned chatting online a lot (especially the website lady). Several of us had been fans of sci-fi a long time.

I'm even more nervous about tomorrow!

Comments

[april-art.livejournal.com]

That sounds great! I'm glad you had fun. ^___^