30: Try to Always Use Chaps in a Gender-Neutral Way

John can’t make a poll, Alison knows the religious forms, and Liz has one more games thing (sorry).

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• Letters of comment
  • Ang Rosin
  • Chris Garcia
  • Claire Brialey
  • DC
  • Farah Mendlesohn
  • Ian Snell
  • Mark Plummer
  • Pat McMurray
  • Peter Sullivan
• Swancon had to cancel the day before the con due to three-day lockdown (ouch)
• DisCon III
  • They’re changing dates to December!
  • This has raised questions about the deadline for site selection
    • These questions were not as academic as they initially seemed
  • Baen’s bar is back
    • Toni Weisskopf (former DisCon III Guest of Honour) thinks all the disputed posts are okay (including the ones that are advocating armed insurrection)
    • Mike Glyer makes a stand
• Hugo Awards
  • Best Video Game
    • What is a Let’s Play?
    • Minesweeper: The Movie
    • Pokémon Detective Pikachu
• FIYAHCON
  • A FIYAHCON retrospective
  • FIYAHCON published details about their platforms and costs
  • FIYAHCON 2021 registration is open, including options to donate memberships
    • You can donate to the General Fund for running costs, but they have hit their membership donation target
    • Reclamation 2022 have also implemented donations to allow less able fans to attend, with a recommended amount of £10 (if you can afford it)
    • DisCon III and Chicon 8 have similar funds; so did Dublin 2019
  • FIYAHCON also announced Ignyte Award nominees
• Music credits
  • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.