I haven't posted for 11 months and I  have the same question as I did then. But first, is anyone going to Misticon in July in New York? Secondly, is anyone going to LeakyCon in October in Boston?

I had planned to go to both. But it turns out that Ace Comic Con is at the same time as LeakyCon in Rosemont, Illinois. If I go there I would probably be able to see relatives whom I miss very much. But if I go to LeakyCon, will I get to see dear friends whom I haven't seen in two years?

I am really split. It all depends on who will be where.

Is anyone going to Leaky Con except me? It really crept up on me. Can't imagine how I'll be ready in a couple weeks.

This is for the Marvel MCU fans who read this (and I know there aren't very many).  

INFINITY WAR SPOILER ALERT

After 8 years of building up the character of Loki, his stupid death five minutes into the movie was unacceptable in so many ways. We want the big wigs to know how we feel. So on Saturday May 12 we're going to flood Twitter with #LokiLives hashtags. Be sure to tag @kevfeige and @russo-brothers. Tell everyone your favorite Loki moments, how important a character he is, how we resent him only having 5 minutes of screen time, how it makes no sense he would be killed so easily, and most of all  how we think he needs to appear in Avengers 4, and not just in flashbacks. Heck, if you don't have a Twitter account make one just for this. It isn't hard. And please, if you have any interest at all, spread this around to every Loki fan you know.

I've been thinking about a fic where the relationship between Tony and Loki becomes so deep that Loki suggests he transform into a female so he can have their baby. It seems like such a logical step, but I haven't found anything yet. Do I have to write this myself or has someone already done it? Hot sex, even explicit, would be a plus.

On a whim I looked at my LiveJournal Profile with the thought of updating it. It wasn't a good idea. Too much has changed.

In January of 2016 Alan Rickman died, my great-grandson Christopher Bailey was stillborn, David Bowie died, and I was totally bedridden by arthritic damage to my spine in my neck. I'm not sure when Prince died but it was near that time. 

Things got better in some respects. But I won't recover from Alan's death. I still love Harry Potter, Snarry, Snupin, and Snape. But I can't even look at other pictures of Rickman. His death took away a part of me.  Christopher's death was actually even more devastating.

The same thing happened, I guess, when Terry Pratchtt died. I still love his books, and yet I don't read them often. It's too painful. So Discworld... not so much these days. 

But like I said, some things got better. Thanks to spinal injections I'm currently impervious to the compressed and ruptured discs in my neck. And there were good things. Like I got married to my long, long time friend Tom Veal. With a formal wedding and a honeymoon that included a Harry Potter convention and a Caribbean cruise and everything like that.

My name is actually Becky Veal now, but it's hard to change old habits or records.

And I don't live in Sumner anymore, with its volcano evacuation signs. I've moved south and east a bit where Tom and I own a house in Spanaway, Washington. We're still moving in. Until his lease expires on June 30 Tom spends more time in Chicago than here.

"You know, when I said I wanted the real world to be more like Harry Potter, I just meant the teleportation and the butterbeer, not the entire plot of Book 5 where the government refuses to do anything about a deadly threat so the teenagers have to rise up and fight back."

Which tells you in a nutshell how I stand politically.

I have good friends here. Hell, I have wonderful, fantastic, beloved friends here whom I miss all the time. So why did I stop commenting? Why did I stop posting?  How can I come back?

P.S.: Facebook is really pissing me off. But I've been gone so long I don't know how to operate with all these changes. Doesn't mean I can't learn.