Alas Con.TXT
Jul. 19th, 2020 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Alas, the lovely Pentagon City Residence Hotel in Arlington, VA will be closed permanently in September due to Covid-19 financial complications. What does this have to do with fandom, you may ask. This hotel has been the Con.TXT con hotel for several years. Con.TXT 2020 was cancelled due to Covid-19 and rescheduled to 2021 -- with the closing of the hotel that was already set to be the July 2021 Con.TXT location, Con.TXT 2021 has now also been cancelled.
(And btw, this was one of my favorite con hotels.)
(And btw, this was one of my favorite con hotels.)
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Date: 2020-07-20 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-20 12:38 am (UTC)sad
Date: 2020-07-20 12:39 am (UTC)I need something to fantasize about to look forward to and it's not going to be conventions or live theater or going out to dinner with friends for the foreseeable future.
My sympathies on losing one of your favorite con hotels.
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Date: 2020-07-20 01:21 am (UTC)For many fen, the current fun thing is the cons having gone online -- virtual cons on Zoom or similar. Not my thing though.
When you did go to cons, which ones did you attend?
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Date: 2020-07-20 03:39 am (UTC)I knew my answer would get long, so I typed it up here under my fandom tag.
short version: a bunch of Star Trek and Xena Creation cons that kind of blur together, an Earth2 con, a Stargate con, and a few other random things
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Date: 2020-07-20 01:21 am (UTC):hugs:
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Date: 2020-07-20 01:34 am (UTC)Even if cons weren't cancelled I would have trouble going anywhere out-of-state right now. I have a full-time job and we now have travel restrictions -- if we go out-of-state we have to then stay home for two weeks upon return and we have to use our accrued vacation time for the two week of staying home -- and if we don't have enough accrued vacation time to cover the trip PLUS staying home from work for two weeks upon return we just can't go out-of-state at all.
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Date: 2020-07-20 01:46 am (UTC):moar hugs:
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Date: 2020-07-20 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-20 01:55 pm (UTC)TYK for the sympathy, bb.
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Date: 2020-07-21 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-21 01:21 pm (UTC)Thank you kindly for the sympathy and hugs.