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Yay, I got to watch almost the whole vid party. At in-person WisCon I can only stand an hour or two in the room.

Yay, watching people squee and comment in one window while the vid plays in another window.

Yay, so many amazing vids. The love and effort and talent that goes into them.

Wistful, not being able to hear the reactions. Wistful, not being able to hug people as I come across them.

Sad, having the party suddenly come to an end and I'm back in my silent house having tons of feels.

Yay, I got a WisCon experience at all. Traveling, especially involving airplanes, has been a big nope for me for the past couple of years.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/618298096035741696/escape-rooms

I have fanfic brain. Some of these would be interesting settings.

The Floor is Haunted

The Tortoise and the Crypt

Nuclear Zombies Nursery

"The Cat Abounds — Help Timmy play a game of hide and seek with animals. But you can't hide from the cat, the cat is always watching" (does this mean it's Ceiling Cat?)

Forgotten Pharaohs Pet Shop

Andy Serkis is livestreaming himself reading The Hobbit for charity.

The GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/thehobbitathoncovid19appeal

The livestream (as of Friday 8 May, 1:30 pm PDT):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QOF_r_Y5-A

I often read aloud to myself. I also listen to audiobooks, and I think my reading skills are much poorer than those of the audiobook narrators I like.

I still think that's probably true, but I feel better about my reading, listening to Serkis's livestream. He's doing a great job but it's full of stutters and errors the same way my reading is. (OK he's 11 hours into his marathon, but he sounded similar at the beginning.)

And I have more respect for audiobook engineers and narrators, who probably have to work harder than I realized to put together a seamless, dramatic performance (the kind where the narrator uses a different voice for each character).