I'm going to MISTI-con!!

[rayvyn2k]

And it's all islandsmoke's fault. doing.

I actually already booked the flight and the con tickets. I am surprised at myself because this is so far out of my comfort zone I am literally shaking with adrenaline right now. But I'm also very excited.

Smoke was kind enough to offer to share her hotel room with me, so I'm staying at the Con hotel too!! Bonus!!

I have watched a few videos on YouTube recently, and it looks like fun. I hope my anxiety doesn't do me in. I'm usually not good with a bunch of strangers. But I know Smoke will take good care of me, and maybe I'll get to meet some of you guys too, if you're going.

I'm equal parts thrilled and terrified.

But I'm going. EEEEEEEE!!!!

Comments

[nocturnus33]

I'm equal parts thrilled and terrified.
You will have a lot of fun, it is a good thing to challenge your comfort zone. You are brave.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

MISTI-con is lovely. It's sufficiently small to make it un-intimidating, and my experience of the social atmosphere was that it was completely accepting. Want to be with people but too shy to speak? That's perfectly okay. Socially awkward? Also okay. Over-enthusiastic? Just like half the people there.

I'm so happy for you that you're taking the plunge.

[islandsmoke.livejournal.com]

That was my take on the con; one of the most accepting, comfortable places I've been, and I am hideously shy with strangers and in large crowds. But I was comfortable there!

Are you going again? Did you haunt the Snarry Suite? Maybe we've met!

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

I went to the first two MISTI-cons, but for the past five years I've been going to a writing retreat with friends met through HP fandom.

[islandsmoke.livejournal.com]

I was at the second and third, so we might have bumped into each other. Not that I would be likely to remember, alas. No memory for names and faces.

The retreat sounds like fun! I love the people that you can meet through the fandom.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

I've made some of my dearest friends through fandom. :)

[lenaa1987.livejournal.com]

It looks fantastic! It's the one con I would absolutely love to go to. Maybe one day they'll invent that Australia - USA portkey.

[dreamy-dragon73.livejournal.com]

It looks great! I'd love to go, too, but I'd need a Portkey as well.

[islandsmoke.livejournal.com]

It will be lots of fun, and as dickgloucester said, you can always find a group, or a quiet corner, that suits you.