Looking Ahead to the Summer HP Cons

[pennswoods]

It looks like there are 3 US-based HP cons taking place this summer that I know of, and I'm curious to know who's planning to attend which one. Take my poll and spread the squee!

[Poll #1817323]

Comments

[irishredlass.livejournal.com]

Please let me know of your findings. Drox and I did a similar poll with less wibble room in it. I would love to do Leaky because it is so close for me, but it did not look as though many were attending. I will do Ascendio if that is where the masses go, but FL heat and humidity in costume is going to be murder.

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

I'll be at Leaky Con and at Luuuubricus (yay!).
Sadly, Ascendio is at the same time as Comic Con, so I can't attend that one. :((

[elenauial.livejournal.com]

LUBRICUSSSSS. :D I'm so grateful and feel so lucky that it happens in Seattle, because I never have the money to travel for a con, nor would I be able to find someone to take care of my son for that long.

But I wouldn't miss Lubricus for the world!

[cabepfir.livejournal.com]

Please do a meeting in old Europe!

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

wth, the poll buttony things don't show up for me so my answers: yes to Ascendio, no to LeakyCon and omg if I win the lottery I will so be returning to Lubricus. I got fairy godmother'd for Ascendio, which is really the only reason I'm even doing a con this year. WHY CAN'T ALL FANDOM WIN A MAGIC LOTTERY.

[arcanetrivia]

Leaky is too close (timewise) to Lubricus for me to do both, especially with other things involving double plane fare (me and husband) possibly going on this year.

Ascendio is in Florida in July, which should say it all, but also the hotel is faintingly expensive and HPEF doesn't seem to know how to make a con fee reasonable, so.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

I'm especially sad about Lubricus as I will actually BE in Seattle this summer... but in June, not August.

*sobs forever*

[magicalpresence.livejournal.com]

*sigh* wish I could go! I loved my time in Seattle though :)

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

I wish ... one day I'll make it to another HP con!

[lunalovepotter.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really really wish I could go to at least one of them so we could meet in person again - our encounter at Lumos was entirely too brief! But my sister's wedding this year (not to mention the surrounding events) has to take precedence. I hope you have a blast and take lots of pictures!

If my circumstances change, I will certainly let you know. :)

[reallyginnyf.livejournal.com]

I'd really love to make it to my first-ever con this year as a great big "fuck you" to agoraphobia. But I had a diagnosis confirmed last week that rules out the Florida climate in a big way and I'm not really a slasher. So I'm going to try for Chicago. I'm acclimated to Midwest heat and humidity so Chicago in August shouldn't be too bad.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

August cons (and Dragon*Con) are impossible for me with Eldest Boy's Sept. 1 bar mitzvah, so it's Ascendio only for me this summer. But I will be in DC the weekend Avengers comes out, so I'm going to use that for my Alternative Fannish Summer Moment (even though May isn't technically summer).

[samtastic4.livejournal.com]

waaa!!! i wanna go to both!!! lubricus is for sho, obviously, but even though i think hpef is too big and not slashy enough, i still like going, but i am on the fence...plus i just calculated that it would cost about 1600 just to go to ascendio...grrr, why must it be so expensive!!!??

[dragonsinger954.livejournal.com]

While most cons I would love to go but scheduling and financing don't work,

When it comes to Leaky, No way no how. Ever

[pern-dragon.livejournal.com]

I can't even express how bummed I am that I can't do any cons, but specifically Lubricus, this year. *wails and gnashes teeth and rends garments* I SO enjoyed Lubricus last summer, and I would LOVE to *cough* come again *cough* but the money factor is a huge problem right now. :( I will just have to sit here and enviously devour everyone else's updates and such when the time comes.

[ravenna-c-tan.livejournal.com]

I am going to Ascendio by hook or by crook. I missed Infinitus (for something else that was way awsome--I got picked to go to an astronomy camp for professional science fiction writers...) and I REALLY want to go to Night of a Thousand Wizards. It's silly maybe, but I really don't want to go to the theme park for the first time with a bunch of muggles. So I've bought my con reg and everything already, have roommates all lined up, etc.

Full disclosure: I also got roped into helping arrange fanfic readings at the con! So I'm on the fringes of the concom. :-) It definitely means I want there to be lots of slashers there reading *hint hint*...

Alas, I'm already booked for three other non-HP cons in August. (The Floating World, which is a fetish/BDSM con in New Jersey, the Fetish Fair Fleamarket in Houston which I run even though I'm from Boston, and Worldcon in Chicago, which is the oldest running multilfandom convention.)

[sugareey.livejournal.com]

Ascendio...I gave in for, specifically because they wanted more Quidditch again, and I couldn't say no. So, I'll be running IQA Quidditch with the second best team in the whole world, doing a couple of panels for it and selling merch. Also, will be bringing BF, sister and we'll be rooming for a couple of awesome HPers. And, I'm seriously considering selling my artsy stuff at the Craft Faire.

Leaky...I am organizing all things Quidditch there but I am NOT going to the con since I'm going to Chicago in October for a work conference.

Now, like I told emmagrant01, I am a serious maybe for Lubricus. I'll be contributing at least something to the con no matter what, but I think my days off are feasible. I just need to see if finances will be okay by then, since I'm looking for a new apartment for the Spring/Summer, and I'll need to get transportation to the airport. And well, airfare from Boston to Seattle is not exactly nice. I am hoping I'll be able to figure things out by April or May at the latest. And if I do go...be able to find roomies!