#Worldcon

Michi the Adorable Tiny Demon 🇵🇭🇺🇸🔥🍜📖🦄

GeekMelange

Seeing some “but how do I find folks who can help my con be better?” and look. I’m glad y’all are asking, really, but this is important: It is not

N. K. Jemisin

nkjemisin

For those wondering: I pre-recorded an acceptance for last night because I do not attend Worldcon anymore. Sometimes that's bc I'm busy, but mostly it's bc I would rather have

Shiv Ramdas Traing To Rite Buk

nameshiv

A lot of the debate around worldcon venue bids is pretty uncomfortable to watch, from every angle tbh. Rant Time.For one: No place where attendees are at risk for their

Amal El-Mohtar

tithenai

Good morning, friends. It's the end of #CoNZealand (for me anyway) & I'm drinking coffee on a rainy morning & reckoning with the experience of it all, & want to

John Scalzi

scalzi

1. I thought the Hugos were tonight so last night I played video games and did not see the show, only the list of winners. I am loath to comment

lecuyerv-MyMagpieMind

lecuyerv1

1) I don’t blame @MaryRobinette for not standing up to GRRM and the Worldcon staff. You have to be a SMOF to take on SMOFs. For me, that meant giving

Bryan Miller

bmiller808

Okay, Book Twitter. I need your help. I lost my place in the CZU fire. My collection of *personally* signed books from authors I love is gone. I’m sad. But

Fran Wilde

fran_wilde

The host country’s *own awards* got buried & then un-named during the Hugos. This is a disgrace. If we are going to call it a World Con, it cannot be

Maureen E. LaFerney

elvenjaneite

Weirdly converging thoughts after the twin debacles of ALSC and the Hugo Ceremony yesterday: if you want to be an actual organization, you have to do the work of structure

Chelsea

anoutlawlife

I feel. Ugh. Like every year that we manage to end a #HugoAwards saying "yes! Progress!" we follow it up with three more 'what the fuck' years. And I *get

Sascha Stronach is Screaming

understatesmen

I feel like the SJVs and the Retro-Hugos were a microcosm of the issues with the main Hugos Awards: more interested in venerating dead racists than showcasing anything challenging, new,

Emma Osborne⚡️

redscribe

So. WorldCon. I don’t think the old white fucks who rambled for hours about their favourite fascists will ever understand how much damage they did to BIPOC, queer, disabled and

Kate Elliott is working

KateElliottSFF

My dad taught history so, yes, it's important to understand the history of Worldcon & the Hugos. It matters to see what won in the past but also WHAT DIDN'T

Foz Meadows

fozmeadows

So, I don't have the energy to formally blog about the Hugos and Worldcon, but I still have some thoughts to share about the SFF community in relation to both,

Sek Han Foo 🦏

SekHanFoo

Thread #3 on #HantuOne of the things mentioned in the #ConZealand #WorldCon2020 How Scary Can You Be panel is "school horror" helping children deal with trauma in their lives with

Brandon O’Brien, virtually @ CoNZealand

therisingtithes

I wanna say a thing that I said yesterday in a Zoom barcon with other, much smarter folks like @SarahPinsker & @BenCKinney: we need to do a better job of