Alas Con.TXT

[ride_4ever]

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.)

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[sperrywink]

I always enjoyed contxt when I went.

[ride_4ever]

Me too. I was so looking forward to it for 2020, so relieved when they announced the rescheduled 2021 date, and now so sad....

sad

[oldtoadwoman]

Oh, that's sad. I'd never been (and it's been years since I've been to any convention at all), but… I dunno. Before I could blame my own laziness for not doing more fun things. Now that more fun things are disappearing altogether, I can't even pretend that "someday I'm gonna…"

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.

Re: sad

[ride_4ever]

TYK for the sympathy.

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?

Re: sad

[oldtoadwoman]

Yeah, virtual cons don't sound like fun. All my favorite con memories involve random conversations in nearby restaurants or hanging out in someone's hotel room et cetra.

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

[juniperberry]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, dear. I've always been too broke to go to cons, but the closing of a hotel (and the subsequent cancellation of a long-standing convention) really sucks.

:hugs:

[ride_4ever]

TYK for the sympathy and the hugs. *hugs moar*

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.

[juniperberry]

Yikes, those are rough. I can kind of see the logic, but that's still rough.

:moar hugs:

[clarasteam]

*hugs* ah, I'm sorry to hear this, both the loss of next year's con and of one of your favourite con hotels.

[ride_4ever]

TYK for the hugs and sympathy! *hugs moar*

[clevermanka]

Ugh. Just one more shitty thing to add to the pile. I'm sorry, bb, that sucks a lot.

[ride_4ever]

Yeah, sucks like a vacuum.

TYK for the sympathy, bb.

[hurry_sundown]

Well damn and a half. I was signed up for this year, but looking forward to next year.

[ride_4ever]

Missed a chance to meet you IRL at a con? DOUBLE damn.

[hurry_sundown]

Sad am I. But someday ...

[ride_4ever]

Well, some time we should compare future con plans...when we get to the future where we can plan cons again.

[navaan]

Oh no. :( That's so sad to hear and I'm sorry you're losing one of your fave venues. So sad that it means the cancellation of two cons in row too. *hugs and sympahties*

[ride_4ever]

Sad times, but comforted by fellow fen.

Thank you kindly for the sympathy and hugs.