touring fangirl

[jmtorres]

So I will be in NYC June 12-June 17. The purpose of my journey is: fangirl (verb, intransitive).

I am interested in hanging out with my friends and making new fannish friends! Therefore, if you live somewhere reachable by the subway system, I am willing to come to you. If you live somewhere withing a day trip of the city and there's something you wanna do (like hang out with me! or go to a museum or see a show or something social with me!) you could come to me.

I have this vague idea about rereading So You Want to Be a Wizard and recreating Nita and Kit's Ordeal (hopefully without actually changing universes). This might be a multi-day endeavor, or I could just be overly optimistic, given the amount of time I spent communing with my laptop on grey_bard's couch when last I visited. Also probably I should just acquire braces for all my joints now and bring them with me pre-emptively.

More realistic and concrete plans include going out to Coney Island to go to the beach, as I live in a landlocked location but am part selkie on my mother's side and cannot resist the call of the sea.

I am interested in (but last time failed to make plans I followed through on regarding) MoMA, the Guggenheim, visiting the New York Public Library on a day when it is open (last time I managed to go by on July 4th, which is, in fact, a national holiday, when libraries are closed), Paley Center, probably many other historical sites or museums I have not heard of. I will probably visit one of these this time (maybe two, I'm pretty sure the library is somewhere on the Ordeal walking tour).

I will almost certainly spend at least part of one day in Central Park.

Also I am interested in food. I like many kinds of food. I like trying new foods. New York is a great place for this and hey yeah. I also like trying new drinks and would not mind getting medium trashed one night of my trip if a few people knew a good place for that and wanted to hang with me for that ("medium trashed" = walking a bit wobbly, I love people, I may be interested in snuggling other interested parties).

I might like to go see some form of live entertainment (theatrical, musical, burlesque, who knows). Maybe!

But: fannish people. I totally want to hang out with you and meet more of you. You should say hi if any of the above sounds like cool stuff to do! And like, look, I kind of fail at keeping in touch with people, so even if it's been years since we've talked, if you wanna meet up I would be excited for it! Even if we've never really talked personally, just been on each other's reading lists, I would be excited for it! Like, don't think this invitation is just for my besties. This is for everyone I have conceivably run across in fandom like, ever. I am totally serious, I want to hang out with you.

Fair warning: I might talk about Teen Wolf.

Comments

[mecurtin]

I am hereby pencilling you in, though the family's transportation schedule (feat. Mom's Taxi) is so complex it might fall through.

[holli]

You should go to Dead Horse Bay! It's a place in Brooklyn where a turn-of-the-century dump is being eroded by the sea, so tons of old glass and ceramic litter the beach. You can collect all kind of cool old bottles, many intact, and other interesting bits and pieces. I've been wanting to visit for ages.

[tarzanic]

Hi, I'm a fannish person and it looks like I'll be in town then too. I'm still nailing down plans, but it looks likely. Are you interested in possibly meeting for lunch on the 14th? Or checking out the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company?

[viridian5]

visiting the New York Public Library on a day when it is open

I resemble that remark!

I'm open to doing stuff, one on one or in a group.

If you'd like to revisit it, here's the link to my guide to Manhattan's highlights.

I don't mind hearing about Teen Wolf, though I hope you haven't turned into an Omegaverse fan....

[elspethdixon]

seanchai and I both live in Brooklyn (with immediate access to the 2/3 and 4/5 subway lines), so if you and grey_bard would like to meet up with us at any point, we'd be available.

ETA: And sadly, it looks like you'll be missing the Brooklyn Mermaid Parade by less than a week. Darn. I was going to sugest that as a cool thing to go to.