1. The theme of the convention may be comedy SF/F, but the unofficial cultural gestalt theme from the collective unconscious is steampunk. More — a lot more — on that later. The brief note of my thinking is, why do we as a culture choose this moment to attach ourselves to a mythos that glorifies colonialism, freedom from society, and individual achievement over cooperative action?
Understand that I love steampunk. LOVE IT. I am pining for a pair of those freaking awesome goggles for sale in the Dealers’ Room. PINING.
2. I also love working Ops. I am exactly that person who, if there is a crisis, I want to be in the middle of it. Because I think — rightly or wrongly — that can do good, can help. Working Ops gives me a defined role and lets me exorcise that urge in a useful fashion.
3. Every year, as I spend time in Theater Nippon, I remember how much I love J-Pop. Because, as Silmarian twittered to me during the con, I am not-so-secretly a twelve-year-old girl. I actually dispute that. I am a fourteen year old girl, in my musical taste, thank you very much. 
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