The DiaCon Diaries, Part 2

Now that my brain and I are both back in the U.S., I'll see if I can write up more of my DiaCon report. I did manage to post about Thursday, the first day of the con. Now I'll try for Friday... which was a really awesome day, so this might get long, depending upon how much I can remember!

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Well, I certainly didn't miss the last piece of programming of the day, "Sensual Stories for Deviant Adults", the daily_deviant fic reading! \o/ Holy bovine, y'all. The thing went better than I possibly could have hoped or imagined! Everyone did such a fantastic job, and just... ::flail::

I counted about 60 people in attendance -- roughly half the con. We had program sheets with author bios and links and such which I think turned out looking pretty nice. Also, thanks to its_art, we have Daily Deviant buttons for everyone. As a side note, I gotta say, I can't begin to describe how awesome it was seeing most of the con attendees walking around with d_d buttons. So awesome! :DDDDD

So the reading... was amazing! OMG, sabethea, kelly_chambliss, ragdoll, silvernatasha, gatewaygirl, and kabal42 (a last-minute addition, since we weren't sure whether he'd be able to get away from working the con long enough to participate) did an unbelievable job! I read also, by the way, but have no idea how I did. I mean, I was looking at my paper, so if people were checking their watches or yawning, I didn't see it. Heh. And if it was really terrible, someone should probably tell me so that I don't ever do it again...! Honestly, I can't even tell you how thrilled and impressed I am with how everyone did. I think sabethea, kelly_chambliss, silvernatasha, and gatewaygirl were the big stars in the end.

For anyone interested, here's a list of what was read by whom:

sabethea read Getting In On the Christmas Spirit (Severus/Remus with a side of implied Sirius/Buckbeak and a voyeuristic portrait!Walburga -- completely hilarious and wrong, and even more so when performed beautifully by the author)
kelly_chambliss read Reflections in a Golden Frame (The Mirror of Erised and various characters, pairings, and perversions -- even more brilliant read aloud by the author than written)
ragdoll read an excerpt from Different for Girls (Tonks/Fleur with corsetting, cunnilingus, and a last line that cracked everyone up)
r_grayjoy read Everything He Has to Give (Severus/Remus -- one I wrote for the "semen kink" of which I'm still rather fond)
silvernatasha read Count for Me (Percy/Lavender in which Percy gets Lavender's birthday spankings -- humorous and hot in turn, and had the audience alternating between giggling and panting)
gatewaygirl read an excerpt from A Confusion of Will and Desire (Harry/Draco with Draco teasing Harry terribly, which results in frantic bathroom smut -- classic H/D that steamed up the room)
kabal42 read The Red Queen (Ginny/Pansy -- leather, rubber, fetishized* clothing, spanking, and D/s hotness to end the reading with an appropriate helping of kink!)

After all that, I was pretty much done for the day, so I wrote up the Thursday report, stuffed some goody bags, and rested while most everyone else went to see DH2.

Hmm, I think that's quite enough for now. Saturday report in the next post!


*Ahahaha, spell check tried to change "fetishized" into "fertilized"! ::dies::