Not exactly a con report

This year I actually stayed at Eastercon properly, rather than just dipping in. It's traditional to write up these things by listing and summarizing panels attended, squeeing over cool and famous people met, and going into great detail about food and drink consumed. And, well, there was some of all that, but it also felt like something of an emotional watershed for me in several ways, and I want to try to talk about that before the impressions fade out of my head.

( rambly impressions )

Also I have thinky thoughts about feminism and race, based partly on responses to panels and discussions that I attended, but I think I'll leave those to another post, because this is long enough and filled enough with my issues as it is!