Missing Gallifrey One
Feb. 19th, 2025 07:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valoiseI've never been to the really huge for-profit conventions. My first exposure to cons was with Highlander Worldwide (HLWW) in 2006 in Leeds. A wonderful fanclub run event. I made so many friends there and this led me to the even smaller events run by the the Peter Wingfield Fan Club (PWFC). Until the start of the pandemic these groups and the friends I met there formed the core of my fandom family, even as the events themselves become less frequent.
From these groups I dipped my toe into a number of regional and larger cons. Worldcons, Vividcon, and Gallifrey One ended up being the ones I attended the most. Vividcon died in 2018 and I miss it a lot. Now that I live on the east coast I've found a couple of cons that I like (Long Island Who and Balticon) but haven't made the kinds of friendships that smaller events like HLWW, PWFC and Vividcon made possible.
This year because of really crappy weather and the likelihood of canceled flights making travel a real shitshow, I canceled on my current fav last weekend, Gallifrey One. The same crew of fans have been running Gally since 1991 and at the closing ceremonies it was announced that 2028 was going to be the last one. All things come to an end, but I'm more determined than ever to make the next three Gallys.
From these groups I dipped my toe into a number of regional and larger cons. Worldcons, Vividcon, and Gallifrey One ended up being the ones I attended the most. Vividcon died in 2018 and I miss it a lot. Now that I live on the east coast I've found a couple of cons that I like (Long Island Who and Balticon) but haven't made the kinds of friendships that smaller events like HLWW, PWFC and Vividcon made possible.
This year because of really crappy weather and the likelihood of canceled flights making travel a real shitshow, I canceled on my current fav last weekend, Gallifrey One. The same crew of fans have been running Gally since 1991 and at the closing ceremonies it was announced that 2028 was going to be the last one. All things come to an end, but I'm more determined than ever to make the next three Gallys.
