Xena Fandom: Found my London Con Journal

In searching through my old gaming stuff, I ran across a journal that I had at the London Convention.  All the fans signed at the back, and obviously I can't post those signatures since they're people's real names -- but over the next few days I'll see what I can scan in.  It has my recap of my conversation with Steve Sears about blood innocence from about twenty minutes after it happened.

Xena Fandom: Two Announcements

These two announcements completely unrelated to each other but both related to Xena fandom, so...

Announcement 1: Well, I haven't heard any objections yet to my convention of naming Xena fandom people after Suikoden characters.  However, I thought of a few new liberties.  First, there's one fan where I thought of a Suiko character who has the same first letter as her given name rather than her fandom name, but I want to use it anyway since that character seems like a perfect fit, and since I helped come up with her fandom name, it "squeaks a little when I turn it around" (to steal a line from the Mallorean).  So I want to use my first idea.  And second, there's a fan whose online name begins with a "U."  I can't think of any Suiko characters whose names start with "U" off the top of my head, but there's Yuiri, Yumi, and Yun from Suiko III whose names start with the same first sound.  Therefore, all naming will be phonetic.

Announcement 2: I just finished reading the results of my friend's master's survey on autism and religion.  It made me want to write about my own experience with Asperger's.  That's actually very tied up with my experiences in Xena fandom, but it doesn't have to do with one good story, you know?  I didn't get the diagnosis until my last couple of years in the fandom, and there are as many painful experiences wrapped up with it as good ones.  So rather than trying to manhandle a Xena fandom post into something that would relate, I've decided to create a separate page.  At this rate I'll fill up my page quote ... but blogger says I can have up to 10, so I haven't used them all up yet.  Look at the "tabs" up at the top if you haven't already for the pages.

Suikoden Announcement

I even have to put a spoiler tag around my announcement...

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Right now I haven't done a lot of Suikoden posts because I'm in a somewhat-more-boring-than-usual part -- I'm taking Sheena back to Gregmeister to form an alliance with Lepant.  I've actually been more involved in my "bad" game (the one I'm rushing through to see Clive's story).  I've been using my "bad" game to see all the different Suiko I characters meet Hix and Tengaar (one by one, then resetting it so in the game's opinion I still haven't met Hix and Tengaar).  Viktor and Flik was the best, when Tengaar said not to be rude and that Flik hadn't finished his own journey-to-adulthood yet.  But Meg was also awesome, when she finished with "they're so in love."  I'll edit this to put in screencaps once I get my VHS tape uploaded to computer format, but that'll be awhile.  I'm really looking forward to finding out what happens when I bring Tir McDohl to meet Tengaar and Hix.  But anyway...

When I get to the "Running Away with Nanami," arc, I will make a massive Suikoden and Xena post and I will give Xena as much love as Suikoden ... because "Xena" has some pretty tremendous running away arcs too.