Xiefest II update!

[xie_xie_xie]

Well, I'm so excited at the response to my query about interest in a fandom gathering at my new place in Michigan! It's looking like one of the following weekends:

Oct 14-16 or Oct 21-23

The nearest major airport is Detroit, about 45 minutes away. Bunny has offered her house (around 40 mins from here) for sleepover purposes, and I have a guest room and a large living room with a sofa bed. So if you need a place to stay, or even just a place to unroll a sleeping bag, we can fit you in! And I'm sure we can arrange some kind of airport pick-up for anyone who flies in and doesn't want to rent a car.
Where I am exactly is here:

http://goo.gl/SmWb4

These are photos of my house before I moved in -- the two with furniture? Not my stuff. ;)

http://pics.livejournal.com/xie_xie_xie/gallery/0001aa9d?.view=grid

Please let me know if one of those two weekends is a "no" but the other is a "yes," and we'll pick the one that is best for everyone!

YAY!!!!

And if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about:

http://xie-xie-xie.insanejournal.com/323244.html
http://xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com/227663.html

And to reiterate: If you're reading this, you're invited. This is an open fandom gathering, and by "fandom" I do mean QAF, but if you have drifted away to other shiny things, as long as you were once one of us, you're welcome to join in!

Comments

[xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com]

DEFINITELY get through the whole series before then, or we'll tie you down and force you to watch. ;)

And PLEASE dont' buy into the whole fanon insanity about hating Season Five, PUHLEEZE... I mean, if you genuinely don't like it, I respect that, but come to it with an open mind? Fandom RUINED it for me and it took me a long time to see it clearly and not through a poisonous filter!

It's not my favorite season, but I really love it now!

http://xie-xie-xie.insanejournal.com/141190.html

[nemesia-poo.livejournal.com]

Hi Xie! I would love to go to your party but unless I began swimming right now, I doubt I'll make it.

I haven't finished reading your 513 debate but I wanted to say that I liked 513 the first time I watched it. Without having any contact with the fandom before. And when I got on the fandom and "read" all the negativity around it, I was pissed. There was so many agressivity that I began wondering if my IQ was so low that I couldn't understand what was happening on the screen.

Now I get that it's mostly a "I didn't like it"(that of course I respect and understand) enormously reinforced by gossip and bad vibe. But what still makes me roll my eyes is the "CowLip hates us". I may be extremly naive, but if you make B/J monogamous, and I don't like it, I don't go all "Xie hates me", I assume that's the story you want to tell and if it's not the story I want to read I just read other thing and problem solved.