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Jul. 30th, 2020 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayLess than two working days until my week off! Woo hoo!
I definitely need it. Today I barely restrained myself from writing a sarcastic response to a request for something that doesn't exist yet (apparently people think I'm psychic) so it's needed. I managed to write a polite response, but honestly. This person knows the thing doesn't exist yet, knows it's something there's no algorithm I can write to predict the thing, and therefore I don't know why he was asking for the thing.
I'm a wee bit grumpy right now.
First shift as an ops rover for virtual Worldcon went well, I think. We seem to be getting the hang of how to manage it and a lot of the early glitches are getting ironed out. Hopefully everyone is enjoying their con time. I spent a couple of hours being a stand-in for the Hugo ceremony rehearsal, so hopefully there will be no glitches with that!
Being staff on a convention is always an interesting experience. You end up seeing a lot of the bits of a convention that aren't working well, so it can be hard to tell whether the majority are having a good time. In terms of being staff on a convention where I can't get to any of the programming due to timezones and day job, it's doubly difficult. Normally I'd get to experience some of the con outside the staff role, but this time I'm not so all I'm seeing are the bits where something has gone wrong. OTOH, I am impressed that with all the moving parts and tech and people who don't know how to use the tech, we're not getting as many issues as I expected and everyone is working hard to get issues ironed out fast.
I suspect that a lot of conventions are going to be virtual or blended virtual/offline for a couple of years, so what we're learning at events like ConZealand and this year's![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vidukon_cardiff are going to be the model for conventions for a while. It's a good thing for us to work at getting issues worked through and figuring out all the necessary tech so that we can keep events like this going through these weird times.
In other thoughts...
Guardian is a lovely, lovely fandom and everyone was right about there being some great fic. Apparently my time in superhero fandom prepared me well for a fandom where secret identities and fix-its would be major themes :D
I definitely need it. Today I barely restrained myself from writing a sarcastic response to a request for something that doesn't exist yet (apparently people think I'm psychic) so it's needed. I managed to write a polite response, but honestly. This person knows the thing doesn't exist yet, knows it's something there's no algorithm I can write to predict the thing, and therefore I don't know why he was asking for the thing.
I'm a wee bit grumpy right now.
First shift as an ops rover for virtual Worldcon went well, I think. We seem to be getting the hang of how to manage it and a lot of the early glitches are getting ironed out. Hopefully everyone is enjoying their con time. I spent a couple of hours being a stand-in for the Hugo ceremony rehearsal, so hopefully there will be no glitches with that!
Being staff on a convention is always an interesting experience. You end up seeing a lot of the bits of a convention that aren't working well, so it can be hard to tell whether the majority are having a good time. In terms of being staff on a convention where I can't get to any of the programming due to timezones and day job, it's doubly difficult. Normally I'd get to experience some of the con outside the staff role, but this time I'm not so all I'm seeing are the bits where something has gone wrong. OTOH, I am impressed that with all the moving parts and tech and people who don't know how to use the tech, we're not getting as many issues as I expected and everyone is working hard to get issues ironed out fast.
I suspect that a lot of conventions are going to be virtual or blended virtual/offline for a couple of years, so what we're learning at events like ConZealand and this year's
vidukon_cardiff are going to be the model for conventions for a while. It's a good thing for us to work at getting issues worked through and figuring out all the necessary tech so that we can keep events like this going through these weird times.In other thoughts...
Guardian is a lovely, lovely fandom and everyone was right about there being some great fic. Apparently my time in superhero fandom prepared me well for a fandom where secret identities and fix-its would be major themes :D
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Date: 2020-07-30 04:33 pm (UTC)Right up until ZYL has it confirmed that SW was the Black Cloaked Envoy I was rolling around in glee because it reminded me so much of my time in the Smallville fandom.
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Date: 2020-07-31 07:50 am (UTC)As great as it is after ZYL knows, there is a lot of fun to be had in the episodes before we he doesn't know and SW is so very, very bad at pretending not to be the Black Cloaked Envoy :D
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Date: 2020-07-31 04:00 pm (UTC)So very bad. Like in the first episode I didn't even realise it was supposed to be a secret because it was quite obviously him even when SW hadn't actually used his powers
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Date: 2020-07-31 04:17 pm (UTC)And the whole "it's fine, I know I fell off a high roof but this bush broke my fall and I'm fine" moment was just...he's terrible at secret identities. TERRIBLE.
I love him.