Ashe Valisca the Data Dog

Meowdy old friend

It is 330am. I have been awake since 730 yesterday. Flying to Denver then on to Miami for a cruise...

With my inlaws. Send help

My brand

Happy Birthday

I'm just glad the chin strap version exists. Works better then the whole jaw piece

I recommend the executive assistant dog type.

I am sweet and innocent

I don't know what's worse. Pineapple or toothpaste on pizza.

I should add I tried my best to make the parade accessible and strived to find accessibility options. With a massive parade it is difficult for a team of volunteers to maintain a fully accessible parade experience.

Notice what I'm talking about and what I've not commented on.

Or telling people that they could not bring in their personal photographer and videographer because they are an influencer and needed the content.

My personal "favorite" was the person who suddenly had to reschedule their panel because they forgot they were getting their suit just before the cok and they had to join the parade for their debut.

Is hard and getting them an audience is harder. Executing that parade when I handled it required that my entire senior team and I were tied up dealing not only with the parade but also with all the parade adjacent items. And those items were often people trying to "game the system"

And for those that say, "let everyone be in the parade". Then be prepared for the convention to come to a grinding halt from 11am until 6pm.

And if you counter "well just still schedule other stuff opposite it" yeah good luck with that. Getting people who are willing to be opposite the parade

It meant that sometimes we had to make unpopular choices because of the venue staff and the Fire Marshal, the logistics of 3500 suiters who want to be in the parade. Are you accounting for the structural restrictions for weight. Which guess what was a real concern we had to deal with.

So many armchair directors would have advice of how they would have done it, and they were usually very wrong. Running an event at scale has complications. Running an event tied into a city to the point of shutting down streets, working with unions and vendors is a logistical nightmare.

Most of those times I didn't agree with the press release answer I had to give. Some of those ever resulted in me getting death threats that crossed into needing to contact law enforcement.

When I had to make decisions about the parade though, there was never a right answer.

One of the advantages of having retired from running a con is I get to once again have public opinions. Sometimes those opinions are complicated, sometimes those are pretty simple.

There were many times I was the person who had to fall on the sword regardless of my actual opinion on the matter.

When I first met these characters I wanted to be serene and balanced like Ozy. What I needed was to be more like Milo just unafraid of being myself.

Any chance of ever doing wides for those?

There is a reason I cringe every time I hear someone is using sqlite.

Yeah this tracks

But did you die?

Excuse me. The Variety Pack pays you very well.

I am not ignoring you...I am overwhelmed and busy

At the launch for MirrorSight this weekend. I had to play a role based heavily on a very old PC from an old game.

Oh no...

Just tell them. Be firm and polite

I am getting a bit annoyed at the fit of the sleeves on the armor. The problem is mostly my own making.

It's coming up on a LARP weekend at Numina so I am working at jamming to "Off with his shirt" and having internal discussions with my character brain about his mental health.