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[seekingferret]

I am.. considering going to in person cons a bunch in coming months, if I can overcome my inchoate terror.

Heliosphere, the local-ish con started by people annoyed with Lunacon, skipped the past couple years but is having an in person con next month, and instead of being kind of annoyingly placed at the M.C. Escher Hilton in Rye, NY, is going to be at a hotel about a mile and a half from where I work, in Piscataway NJ, so I'm having a lot of trouble resisting going to it. Cons are never that convenient to get to!

I've been helping with Balticon program a bit, which has me thinking about going to that. Also I have a membership to Chicon that dates back two years to a time when i was way more optimistic about the pandemic ending in the next two years. And I'm strongly tempted by Fanworks Con, also in Chicago this summer.


Excepting Chicon, none of these are massive cons where I'm likely to be swept up in big crowds. All are requiring proof of vaccination, I believe. If I stay masked, they're likely to be fairly safe. Even so, my Bite of the Apple theory says that I probably shouldn't go to all of them. Not sure how to decide.

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[redstapler]

"[Lunacon] is going to be at a hotel...in Piscataway NJ"

WHOA.

Hasn't it been at the hotel in Rye for like 30+ years???

[seekingferret]

Lunacon has been defunct for the past five years or so. I dunno all the details about Heliospere; I've been to a few Lunacons but never a Heliosphere, but if they're going to be this easy to get to...

[dirty_diana]

I feel this so hard. I still have a membership for fanworks, and the vaccine/mask policies make the con itself seem a bit less scary, but I'd sure have to deal with the question mark of airports and planes. I just don't know! Aahh. Good luck to both of us deciding, I guess.

[seekingferret]

Yeah, airports are scary. At least Heliosphere and Balticon I can get to by driving. In theory I could drive to Chicon and/or Fanworks, too, it's a twelve hour drive and I've done it before, lol.

[starlady]

At this point I'm hoping to do Star Wars Celebration at the end of May and Fanworks, pending finances, vacation time, and no new concerning variants for both. And that will be it for this year.

I would have a very hard time resisting Heliosphere in your geographic position too.