Please save Wincon! (Let me help you do it!)

Hi tumblr friends,

I’ve reblogged a LOT of stuff about Wincon in the last couple of months because we’re running an Indiegogo campaign to try and fund this year’s con. At this point, this campaign has two days left, and we need $5000, so I figure I should tell you about me and Wincon.

I went to Wincon for the first time in 2008 because my girlfriend at the time, ciaan on LJ, bought me a ticket for my birthday (Wincon makes a GREAT birthday present!). She had gone to the very first Wincon, and loved it, and met a ton of great people, but she was going to be one of only two people I knew there, and I was afraid I’d basically just sit in a corner by myself all weekend.

I’m not super good at making friends on the internet. I don’t know how to approach people, so I basically wait for them to come to me. But I’m pretty fun in real life, and there’s nothing I love more than hanging out with fanpeople and talking about what we love and why we love it. And at my first Wincon, I got to do SO MUCH OF THAT. I got to talk about canon and fanon and fic and kink and see other people’s eyes light up in recognition. People I’d never met before recced me fic and made me laugh until I cried. It was amazing.

I met some really, really amazing people, people who have had a massive impact on my real life since then. Like dazy-laze, who found me a place to stay when my job sent me to a foreign country. Like affectingly and Wendy, who invited me to visit when I desperately needed a weekend away in 2012. Like psycholinguistic, whom I see every day and who may be my favorite person in the whole wide world. And like river-b, whose couch I cried on for a week when the person who bought me my first Wincon ticket died in 2013.

Which brings me to my point. Friends, let me offer you The Ciaan Memorial Wincon Scholarship Fund. I will buy Wincon registrations for up to four people who message me before the close of the IndieGoGo campaign, in honor of the person who took me to my first Wincon. Because Wincon is great, and fandom only gets better when your fandom friends are your friends in real life too. <3

If you want to learn more, or contribute yourselves, the campaign is here. Don’t wait, guys! This is our last chance!

Fic: Tourbox [Nick/Louis, 1700 words]

From this post of tropes. (not too late to request! I’m hoping to kickstart myself into writing again).

33. Through His Stomach, for @underthisweather 

Edit: also posted here at ao3. 

Tourbox by sunsetmog [Nick/Louis, ~1700 words]

There’s a card waiting on Louis’ doormat when he gets back from the studio on Tuesday night, two weeks before tour starts. Again. We tried to deliver your parcel whilst you were out. Please leave __ hours before collecting this from your local delivery office. Someone has scrawled some kind of symbol above the line that could either be 24 or 48.

He hasn’t ordered anything from Amazon recently, so it’s probably from a fan who has got hold of his address. There’s always the potential that it’s homemade cake with someone’s teeth in it. The world is a wacky and disjointed place at the best of times, and when it comes to the kinds of things he gets through the post, the best of times tends to be outweighed by the worst of times.

He dumps the card on the windowsill, next to a pile of other crap he never knows what to do with, and then forgets about it.

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