Son of Silvercon

WE GOT FLYER.

June 15. Arrgh.

Man, my mute and hide reply buttons are getting a workout today.

Just a couple of weeks until pre-registration closes on June 15. $50 at the door.

@DieinPlace You might want to drop by @SonOfSilvercon in July. Maxwell Drake said he'd be back after being our GoH last year and he's written a bunch of Harn stuff.

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall. That’s not what Sears was. Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose. It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit. A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail. That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things. Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them. People call it the death of a department store. I don’t. Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now. Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.

Shall we deal you in? Pre-registration is $40 until June 5, with some discounts available. SonOfSilvercon.wordpress.com has the deets.

@FoxFier3 It's a really nice hotel, too. Stayed there overnight on the way back from LTUE a couple years back.

@SonOfSilvercon That's wonderful, they DID finally get another place to stay!

Grok's idea of potential art for Son of Silvercon if we'd decided to hold it in Elko. (The original version lacked panties. Bad Grok!)

We reviewed Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe! It's fun and pretty but suffers from minor issues, mostly b/c it's the middle film in a trilogy based on Tomino's novels. It can't top Hathaway 1 but sets things up for the big finale~

Another "never will be" piece of art, unless some fit of madness inspires me to move the convention to West Wendover. Can you guess who Fission-chan is saying goodbye to?

@ryotoriaez 🙏

地震かと思ったら、ただの目眩でした笑

Across 3,500 km, a straight line connects 7 ancient sanctuaries, all dedicated to Saint Michael. From the West to the Holy Land, all perfectly aligned. A coincidence? Or a divine plan? Here's the story behind the Line of Saint Michael

@FoxFier3 You must have a gigantic mansion. wyndhamhotels.com/ramada/elko-ne…

@SonOfSilvercon ...wait, Elko, like, the "has three digit population" Elko? The one hotel is only twice the size of my house Elko? <= high desert kid

@DavidJohnButler Burning Man is regarded by Reno residents as something akin to an annual outbreak of plague brought by particularly loud and obnoxious rats.

Tennessee has been done dirty.

WHO WANTS TO TURN INTO A FROG?

Hotel reservation link is up at the website. If you have problems, email me and we'll get you squared away.

There is a pattern. Every time I start a fundraiser. I get savagely deboosted. I don’t really care about engagement. But I do care about sending STING Interceptors to the 105th Border Guards so they can save lives. So if you see this. Please help. RT’s are free after all.

Newsletter 7 is out. Hotel info! Staff artist info! Your chance to suggest programming! Didn't get it? Email fission.chan@gmail.com and ask for your copy!

It is insanely stupid and counterproductive for Jewish communists and leftists to go after my good friend @travis4nh for ludicrous claims of antisemitism. I can scarcely think of a strategy better designed to *produce* antisemitism where none existed. 1/ x.com/isengrimm3/sta…

@caitliniwalsh Ooooof. Back problems are the worst. Sent email - keep me posted!