I had the squiggly wiggly wailing kid sitting next to me. And honestly that stupid kid (1 and 1/2) spent more time on MY lap than in his own mother's. This was the MDW to SAN flight. 4 HOURS!!! OMG....I was ready to toss this kid out of one of the windows.
But other than that.. we loved the con. I for one LOVED the 5th floor decorations and can;t WAIT to see the rest of the hotel like that. I thought the 5th floor hallways looked brighter and wider. And we loved the sconces on the walls. they were gorgeous.
I had a feeling that was your door. LOL :)
Ours was the ships one on the third floor. The one with the die cut ships and sailboats surrounding pics of our personal favorite ships. :-)
We're going to do the kink panel again next year, it was so much fun!
The restaurant seemed to really be improved over last year. the Food was fabulous. We didn't notice the later opening time because we slept in those two days. We only had 1 day when we really needed to be up and downstairs before 10 and that was Saturday.
I adore the laid back of Media West, but I really do want an not a reinvention, but a resurgence of the con. Grumbling about the whipper snappers tastes isn't mentoring them or helping them to know what fandom is about or was about. One thing about most of the young folks I see around here, especially at the anime cons is that BOY are they creative! We need an influx of creative younger folks or fandom as WE know it will die out. And no one wants that. :-( Anime cons are thriving right now, because its about the creativity. Costuming, vidding (Anime vids can be amazing!) drawing.. you should see these kids draw! and of course fic.. and yaoi yaoi yaoi! Not all Anime cons have guests out the wazoo... so it isn't that they want BIG NAME GUESTS. I do think a lot of it is that the older media fen don't want the younger fen playing in their sandbox and ignore them or want them to go away, rather than teaching them.
When the new Trek movie came out and I watched NEW K/S fans be stunned and shocked that K/S are the grandfather's of slash... I cried. They should have known this! Where are the mentors? Why don't these kids know this?? (And yes, I have mentored and do mentor fans.. so my money is where my mouth is. :) )
I frankly don't want MW to end, or go away. I would love to see older fans embracing the younger fans and coming together for a weekend of FUN FUN FUN and some fic. :-)
I need my weekend of chillaxing with the peeps.
I want to see more media cons like M*W happening. I'm toying with seeing if I could throw one out here in the Bay Area. The only thing like it we have here is BAScon. Which is fine.. but it's slash oriented. Not that slash is bad... but I would love to see a generalized media con like MW out here. With fun for slashers, genners and femmeslashers alike. (We femmeslashers tend to get forgotten. I like it being about the girls too! :'( )
*getting off my soapbox and I am NOT bashing or flaming in any way... I'm just discussing my POV. Sorry if I stepped on any toes... it was not intentional*
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But other than that.. we loved the con. I for one LOVED the 5th floor decorations and can;t WAIT to see the rest of the hotel like that. I thought the 5th floor hallways looked brighter and wider. And we loved the sconces on the walls. they were gorgeous.
I had a feeling that was your door. LOL :)
Ours was the ships one on the third floor. The one with the die cut ships and sailboats surrounding pics of our personal favorite ships. :-)
We're going to do the kink panel again next year, it was so much fun!
The restaurant seemed to really be improved over last year. the Food was fabulous. We didn't notice the later opening time because we slept in those two days. We only had 1 day when we really needed to be up and downstairs before 10 and that was Saturday.
I adore the laid back of Media West, but I really do want an not a reinvention, but a resurgence of the con. Grumbling about the whipper snappers tastes isn't mentoring them or helping them to know what fandom is about or was about. One thing about most of the young folks I see around here, especially at the anime cons is that BOY are they creative! We need an influx of creative younger folks or fandom as WE know it will die out. And no one wants that. :-( Anime cons are thriving right now, because its about the creativity. Costuming, vidding (Anime vids can be amazing!) drawing.. you should see these kids draw! and of course fic.. and yaoi yaoi yaoi! Not all Anime cons have guests out the wazoo... so it isn't that they want BIG NAME GUESTS. I do think a lot of it is that the older media fen don't want the younger fen playing in their sandbox and ignore them or want them to go away, rather than teaching them.
When the new Trek movie came out and I watched NEW K/S fans be stunned and shocked that K/S are the grandfather's of slash... I cried. They should have known this! Where are the mentors? Why don't these kids know this?? (And yes, I have mentored and do mentor fans.. so my money is where my mouth is. :) )
I frankly don't want MW to end, or go away. I would love to see older fans embracing the younger fans and coming together for a weekend of FUN FUN FUN and some fic. :-)
I need my weekend of chillaxing with the peeps.
I want to see more media cons like M*W happening. I'm toying with seeing if I could throw one out here in the Bay Area. The only thing like it we have here is BAScon. Which is fine.. but it's slash oriented. Not that slash is bad... but I would love to see a generalized media con like MW out here. With fun for slashers, genners and femmeslashers alike. (We femmeslashers tend to get forgotten. I like it being about the girls too! :'( )
*getting off my soapbox and I am NOT bashing or flaming in any way... I'm just discussing my POV. Sorry if I stepped on any toes... it was not intentional*