Back from Morphicon

[beetiger]

bard_bloom and projectmothra and lediva and I were at Morphicon this weekend, with the Blooms being GoH. I haven't been at a regional con in a loooong time, and even though I really don't know most of the local community, they were really quite lovely to us and in general ran a fun little con.

They're incredibly generous to their top sponsors (hypertrophes), feeding them dinners and ice cream and putting them up on banners and offering them piles of stuff from the GoH (they gave each of them two of our books and a tarot reading from us). And we discovered an alternate use for the Crowdsource Tarot -- adding "in bed" to the end of the divination meanings, like one does with fortune cookies.

We sold a modest amount of books and bee jewelry and Tarot decks, but that was fine with me since I didn't really feel like I was there as a vendor, so it was more just a way to be guesting at people.

projectmothra had a great time, being on relatively low supervision. He found lots of people to play Flux and other games with him, sold homemade lipbalm to make money which he then immediately spent in the dealer's room or artists alley (where everyone gave him discounts), and generally got doted on all weekend.

The smallness of the con meant some stuff was sparsely attended. I tried to do a freak parenting session, but failed, since there were only two families there with young kids, us and one other who decided to watch cartoons in that slot. The Iron Author session was fun but only got two contestants.

lediva and I did a polyamory panel which was well attended, and went off well despite the usual mix of people's level of knowledge, interests, and concerns. It was the one part of the con where I distinctly felt a little bit older than the attendees -- lots of people still learning how to negotiate their relationships and their sexuality in ways in which I feel pretty settled about.

The staff also let me strip and get in the jacuzzi in the Presidential Suite they were using for panels once it was afterhours. They get piles of brownie points just for that.

Many thanks to Jewel, Savant, Foxx, SonicBlu, and all of the folks who took such good care of us!

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fun little con. Y'all continue to be impressively brave in being willing to do a polyamory panel! It sounds like it was a bit of a Polyamory 101 panel; I like the distinction that WisCon makes in some panels of this sort, where there's frequently a basic level where imparting the background becomes the purpose of the panel and no more "advanced" topics can be discussed.

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

I've been on several polyamory panels and it seems like most of them have at least a little of this. After a while it almost feels like you're rehashing the same material over and over again, although really this can depend on the convention, the description of the panel, etc. It seems to me that if you pitch the title and description of the panel in the right way you can avoid some of the "101" feeling, but it never goes away completely.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a tiny con (abut 300 people), and a regional con in Ohio, so we really weren't sure who we'd get. The group was moderately experienced with information on polyamory, they were just not that experienced with life yet.

[lmacleod.livejournal.com]

Wish I could have gone but congrats on being GOH!

Crowdsource Tarot?

[tn-grrl.livejournal.com]

Hi - I was showing a friend my Crowdsource Tarot deck today, and she was enchanted.

Do you still have them for sale directly, or do I need to send her to a retailer (I found a store selling them online)?

Thanks! :)

Re: Crowdsource Tarot?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I still have a few around. Paypal $22 (that's $18 for the deck and $4 for shipping) to vickib AT gmail DOT com, specify that it is for Crowdsource in the comments. Thanks!