LEAKY 2013!!!!

[lily anne evans]

So, as some of you guys know already, 2013's LeakyCon is going to be in Portland, Oregon. No official details are up aside from the location, but I know that Marcus (James Potter), Kat (Sirius Black), and I are all going. Destiny and Jamie are trying to work it out as well. I would completely love it if anyone else from our RPing comminity could try and save up to go as well.

For anyone who is seriously considering this or thinks it's a possibility, let me know so we can start arranging stuff in advance. We can all split rooms to save on cost and maybe we could also plan some kind of epic cosplay group thing. Or better, we could cosplay some of our own characters.

For those of you who are under eighteen, but have lenient parents, I am more than willing to be your "guide" for the duration of the trip. I can set up Skype face-to-face calls with parents and answer any questions about my credibility. Keep in mind that I've worked in daycare since I was about 12. I'm fingerprinted in the state of California, I know CPR and first aid, and I'm 22-years-old. I will not, however, buy anyone under the age of 21 alcohol (except Jillian because she's my best friend, but she'll be 21 by then anyway so yeah).

LET ME KNOW IF ANY OF YOU CAN GO!!!!

The Leaky site is found here: www.leakycon.com/

We can plan group Skype calls later on to plan everything out as well.

[severus allen snape]

LeakyCon. Oh my god. I'm so emotional right now, I can't even handle this. But I will try to coherently say things and not rant about things you don't care about. Basically I want too many things than I can't afford, and I need priorities, and I need help deciding those priorities, and I just wish I had more money. College loans are kicking my ass right now.

Traveling is expensive, and scary. My parents will not let me drive to anywhere that's like farther away than my school (which is four hours) because of good reasons. My car probably couldn't make it that far. I'd be terrified (I don't like driving very much except for on the country roads that I know and I'm comfortable with). I'd be alone. But flying is expensive. (So would gas and what not too though, but flying more so.

That's road block one.

Road block two. I don't have a job. As in I don't have a for real, this is happening, I can plan around it summer job. And I won't for a long time. It's just wayyyyy to far in advance to know if I'll be offered a job in my field. If I'll have an internship. If I'll be back at the lazy job I had this past summer. And when I think about my career, I'd hate to be so let down by finding out last minute that I can't go to the con anymore because suddenly this job is more important. And it sucks. And besides I couldn't even find like dates of this con anywhere.

Road block three. Studying abroad. It might sound whiney but I want to travel abroad so badly. And I already feel like I won't ever make it there for financial reasons (and my parents being just not the type of people who understand why I want to go...and I can't explain something like this). And so that's soooooo expensive that it really pushes everything aside. And like if Leaky Con happens, I can't go to California this winter break (or whenever it works out) because I can't afford two trips.

But with all of these road blocks and all of these reasons to not be able to go. I want to go so badly!! For once I want to be the Harry Potter fan that gets to geek out over everything. I've never been to Harry Potter World. I've never been to a big movie premiere (like the one they shoved in our faces a week before Deathly Hallows Pt.2 came out. I will never forgive them for it. I'm a bitter fan girl over this shit, I swear). And never an IQA tournament. No world cups. No Olympic games. And I sound like I'm a five year old throwing a tantrum.

I just. Yes please. I can only say tentatively that, yes I am so very interested.

edit so even though that's all very true. i was in a bitchy mood last night lol. sorry for the rant guis. i'm more relaxed about it now. yep. leakycon 2013 sounds fucking awesome.