WisCon 2018: Day 4
Last day! I am always equal parts glad and sorry to see a con end: sorry to be saying goodbye to my friends and to the opportunity for an interesting conversation lurking around every corner, glad to be going home to my family and my bed and a regular sleep schedule.
Today was a light schedule: quick breakfast in Michelangelo's; one panel about the Defenders series, in which all agreed that Danny is the worst, Claire is the best, and none of the series has yet had a good season 2; and lunch in the hotel restaurant (we had an awesome server this time). I also picked up my art purchase, bought some more jewelry, and had another wander around the sign-out as![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
renay got more authors to sign her copy of How to Suppress Women's Writing, which is rapidly becoming the most wonderful autograph book that ever existed.
We then hit the road for the Chicago airport, where we arrived rather early, in time to have some dinner (and buy some Garrett's caramel corn for later), hang out a bit, and now write this post. My flight is in about an hour, and I am ready to head home, even as I am sad to go.
I did want to touch on an issue that some of you maybe heard about: the fact that someone was banned from the con because of an incident during a panel. I wasn't there (it was on Sunday morning, duringjustira's panel about neo-pronouns), so my reports are of necessity second-hand, but from my limited view it seems that the Safety team dealt with the issue quickly and to the satisfaction of most of the people involved. Since I wasn't present, I'm not comfortable sharing much more, but two folks who were have posted about what happened: one of the other panelists and a person who attended the panel. I expect a full report will come from Anti-Abuse eventually, and I hope that the situation is well resolved. No con is ever going to be perfect, but I'm happy to support a con that takes these issues seriously and works hard to resolve them in a timely manner.
So that's it for me and WisCon this year. I have every intention of coming back next year and look forward to seeing everyone again then! (Especially as I won't be making it to FogCon in 2019.) And now I can't wait for Worldcon even more than I couldn't wait before.
Today was a light schedule: quick breakfast in Michelangelo's; one panel about the Defenders series, in which all agreed that Danny is the worst, Claire is the best, and none of the series has yet had a good season 2; and lunch in the hotel restaurant (we had an awesome server this time). I also picked up my art purchase, bought some more jewelry, and had another wander around the sign-out as
renay got more authors to sign her copy of How to Suppress Women's Writing, which is rapidly becoming the most wonderful autograph book that ever existed. We then hit the road for the Chicago airport, where we arrived rather early, in time to have some dinner (and buy some Garrett's caramel corn for later), hang out a bit, and now write this post. My flight is in about an hour, and I am ready to head home, even as I am sad to go.
I did want to touch on an issue that some of you maybe heard about: the fact that someone was banned from the con because of an incident during a panel. I wasn't there (it was on Sunday morning, during
justira's panel about neo-pronouns), so my reports are of necessity second-hand, but from my limited view it seems that the Safety team dealt with the issue quickly and to the satisfaction of most of the people involved. Since I wasn't present, I'm not comfortable sharing much more, but two folks who were have posted about what happened: one of the other panelists and a person who attended the panel. I expect a full report will come from Anti-Abuse eventually, and I hope that the situation is well resolved. No con is ever going to be perfect, but I'm happy to support a con that takes these issues seriously and works hard to resolve them in a timely manner.So that's it for me and WisCon this year. I have every intention of coming back next year and look forward to seeing everyone again then! (Especially as I won't be making it to FogCon in 2019.) And now I can't wait for Worldcon even more than I couldn't wait before.
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