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Hey, as I've been hinting around, I've got to call a hiatus. Basically, my senior thesis is due ~~two years early fuckkkkk~~ at the end of this month, after which, I've got to move back to the States. Which means I'm going to be completely nonexistent on the RP front for more than a month. At least until after May 17th.

I'm going to keep backtagging (even if it takes me a million years god I am so slow sorry), and I should be around on AIM (just not as much as I usually am), but new posts and new threads? Not happening as much.

I WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS I CAN!

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IT IS AMAZING. The whole reason I've been in Great Britain this semester is so I can handle all the letters from the 1700s and read through them and wallow in them and IT IS A HISTORY MAJOR'S DREAAAAAAM.

oh my god primary source documentation

oh my god

did you get to use the little white gloves

yes.

hells yes

hells fucking yes

oh my god we are such dorks ._.;

(Man my field of study just means that I get told things like "Man Issac Asimov was a huge dick" and then I get locked in closets at MIT by accident :| )

What's this now about Asimov being a dick?

OKAY So I was at Boskone which is a local Boston SF literature convention that has been running since about 1940. It's currently run by the New England Science Fiction Association.

On Thursday night when I was helping with convention setup, I ended up chatting with an older gentleman who'd been in the SF fandom for a very long time. I... hope I am remembering the conversation correctly, but it went something like this:

Me: "So, you were in the MIT Science Fiction Society back in the day?"
Him: "Yeah, back when it first started. I remember there was this one guy who came to all the meetings, he was such a jerk. Flirted with all the women who tried to show up, said the dumbest things at meetings, thought that getting published made him all that. Arrogant asshole."
Me: "Yeahhh, there's one in every fandom group. Some things never change."
Him: "Yeah, that Asimov guy. We told him to leave but nope. What a dick."
Somebody else: "Man, I miss that dick."

I didn't say anything because I was too busy trying to figure out where my jaw went after I'd dropped it.

*E* this is the same weekend I got to have tea with Charles Stross and listen to him complain about American tea; also hang out with one of the editors for TOR. Boskone is AWESOME.

Edited 2011-04-05 19:26 (UTC)

I HAVE NO WORDS WOW THAT WAS A STORY WOW
WOW
WOW
and lol

THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH MY REACTION YES

I wish I could remember the guy's name - hopefully this summer I can get back to more NESFA meetings and see him again

also after this conversation the guy got into an argument with a friend about whether or not Asimov ACTUALLY got any of the tail he chased or if he was all talk. Guy's opinion was that if Asimov had actually gotten any ladies he wouldn't have known what to do with them, it was all show.

!!!!

I don't know how I feel about Asimov being adorable-ified like this. I don't think I can take it.

you think that's adorable you should see ray bradbury:

(Ray is the derp in the striped shirt in the back)

(also he nearly passed out during one of the panels at the 1939 Worldcon due to sleep deprivation and the panel being really, really boring. This was before he was a real pro - he'd done a few short stories in the pulps I think but he wasn't well known yet.)

He meaning Ray. Asimov... he was THERE but I have no idea what he DID at Worldcon.

Probably flitred with the ladies and got called an ass by the other nerds.

but akjasldjsa HISTORY YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL WHY.

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