my favorite part of this photo is the random Yelena creeping in the background.

being Kate was SO MUCH FUN. she's so high energy and I had had a quantity of coffee that day. we got a lot of good attention and one little boy told me, "you sound like Kate Bishop," at which point I told him it's because I AM. lol.

oh you look great!

the con was ..... weird. this year. it was weird. it wasn't as exuberantly joyful, not as community oriented, not really about the things cons are usually about for me. I kept to myself and my small group of folks I usually hang out with. I feel like a lot of people just weren't feeling it.

but I think I'm going to need to relearn how to do the extroverted side of fandom, among strangers. it's been nearly 2 years of "DONT GO BY STRANGERS" and I feel like it shows. obviously nothing is over and there's still a risk, but.

small kids at our charity events are super shy about coming up to us and it's like ... if they're under 5 years old then this is kind of all they know. which is sobering and I don't know how this is going to affect them long term but lbr no one knows how it will affect all of us long term

gloaming: Thank you! folks especially liked lucky too