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Missed it...BY ONE FREAKING DAY!
a year ago
My "Collaboration Confuzilication" event at Furthemore was a total blast. For those unfamiliar with it, it's basically an art jam where people collaborate on a 4-panel comic page with some rules that make the finished results really bizarre and funny.
It was downright wonderful, about 30 people there really getting into it and laughing their heads off at the results. I was SO pumped and SO looking forward to repeating the session at Anthrocon, so last Saturday (3/16) I checked Anthrocon's Discord feed to find out if they'd opened panel submissions...and discovered submissions closed the very day before!
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
I appealed to Kage and the Programming Dept for a break, but was turned down cold. (And it's THREE MONTHS between now and Anthrocon!) It's my own fault for not keeping a closer eye on the Anthrocon website itself, instead of the Discord feed where a lot of stuff gets posted & it was unfortunately easy to miss the announcements re submissions. (On 3/11 they posted submissions would close on the 15th.) Checking the Discord feed every few days turned out to be not a good idea.
The ONE DAY late is what really burns; if I found out I missed by 3 weeks or something, I would've been "oh well..." (like when I missed the ANE submission deadline by several weeks). But what really, really burns is that now I'm going to have to wait a year to propose it again--and 15 months until Anthrocon 2025 takes place. I'm going to a new con in May, "Garden State [NJ] Fur-the-Weekend," and proposed the session to them. (Checked first to make sure submissions were still open, they said they still had room in their schedule.)
I'm still going to Anthrocon of course, not going to stay home and sulk because I made a mistake, the con itself is tons of fun & meeting online furfriends in person is always great...but it's still gonna hurt knowing I won't get to share my "Confuzilication" with the convention.
One freakin' day...as Maxwell Smart used to say, "missed it by that much."ðŸ˜
It was downright wonderful, about 30 people there really getting into it and laughing their heads off at the results. I was SO pumped and SO looking forward to repeating the session at Anthrocon, so last Saturday (3/16) I checked Anthrocon's Discord feed to find out if they'd opened panel submissions...and discovered submissions closed the very day before!
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
I appealed to Kage and the Programming Dept for a break, but was turned down cold. (And it's THREE MONTHS between now and Anthrocon!) It's my own fault for not keeping a closer eye on the Anthrocon website itself, instead of the Discord feed where a lot of stuff gets posted & it was unfortunately easy to miss the announcements re submissions. (On 3/11 they posted submissions would close on the 15th.) Checking the Discord feed every few days turned out to be not a good idea.
The ONE DAY late is what really burns; if I found out I missed by 3 weeks or something, I would've been "oh well..." (like when I missed the ANE submission deadline by several weeks). But what really, really burns is that now I'm going to have to wait a year to propose it again--and 15 months until Anthrocon 2025 takes place. I'm going to a new con in May, "Garden State [NJ] Fur-the-Weekend," and proposed the session to them. (Checked first to make sure submissions were still open, they said they still had room in their schedule.)
I'm still going to Anthrocon of course, not going to stay home and sulk because I made a mistake, the con itself is tons of fun & meeting online furfriends in person is always great...but it's still gonna hurt knowing I won't get to share my "Confuzilication" with the convention.
One freakin' day...as Maxwell Smart used to say, "missed it by that much."ðŸ˜
It's funny; some cons are open to submissions until relatively close to the convention date, while others close the door waaay prior to the convention. (Furthemore is like that.) From now on though, I'm going to be keeping a very close eye on submission deadlines!