Baffled

[james_davis_nicoll]

What part of "GRRM is far too important to fill out the forms every other panelist filled out," do people not understand? Do people not understand the burden being better than everyone else imposes on GRRM?

Comments

[patrick_morris_miller]

Looking forward to his filibuster on the subject next time he's the toastmaster at a Worldc.... (collapses in laughter)

[replyhazy]

But we were told he's not our bitch!

[patrick_morris_miller]

Now I want to see what happens when you put GRRM and John Romero in the same room.

[rydra_wong]

But it "wasn't for lack of trying"! He wrote to the organisers asking for a phone number so he could chat about it, and they sent him a link to the application form! He "attempted to get in touch" with them twice more!

What else could he possibly have done? Except fill out the form they sent him.

Alas, he has been "frozen out" because they wouldn't fill in the form for him, I guess.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/17/game-of-thrones-writers-dismay-as-he-is-frozen-out-of-glasgow-sci-fi-event-worldcon

[kithrup]

Someone elsewhere pointed out that he has multiple assistants to deal with things like paperwork.

[mecurtin]

My favorite was the person who guessed he started filling out the form but never finished

[flemmings]

Buuuurn.

[jbwoodford]

He could've had someone at HBO finish it for him. (Seen on BlueSky.)

[roseembolism]

Meanwhile Sanderson kept filling out forms until they begged him to stop. Then he designed five new forms...

[replyhazy]

And they were LONG forms

[jhetley]

Always good to have someone new to mock. Although the resource seems limitless.

[elusis]

Oh I think GRRM has been eminently mockable for some time now.

[princessofgeeks]

LOL

[neotoma]

Wow, Glasgow WorldCon had an egalitarian process for proposing and volunteering for panels and GRRM couldn't even bother to get one of his assistants to do it for him.

[roseembolism]

It's a pity. The "Over-privileged White Men in SFF" and the "How to Properly Pronounce People's Names...George" panels were right there for him.

[azurelunatic]

I do appreciate learning about new tempests in fandom's industrial-size tea service via your snark.

[arkessian]

It is an invaluable service James provides.

[magedragonfire]

You know he's way too busy working on The W- - hahah - The Winds of Winter *wheeze* to have time to write anything else, including forms!

[viktor_haag]

George is an artist; he doesn't owe any writing to anyone! He's making progress on the forms, though. They should be done by the end of the year. This time he promises. PROMISES.

[(Anonymous)]

It seems like a whole lot of revealed preferences, on all sides.

[(Anonymous)]

The administrators prefer that people apply for panel slots, and GRRM prefers not to apply.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Bartleby the Panelist.

[philrm]

Bartleby the Paneler.

[(Anonymous)]

Hm.

I wondered if this famous form was online, so I just wandered over to Glasgow2024's website to see if I could find it. The page does not appear to be immediately obvious, and besides, the deadline for filing as a participant was 15 April. But I do note that the page for programme participation
( https://glasgow2024.org/about/policies/programme-participant-selection/ )
has the following:

Whilst in the first instance we are looking for attendees who will contribute in valuable ways to our convention, it is also important that we do our best to place people on our programme who are aligned with the values and principles set out in the convention Code of Conduct and our diversity policies, including specifically our Anti-TRASH statement.

We will additionally prioritise the participation of underrepresented voices from within the wider speculative fiction community.

I find myself wondering if GRRM wanted to have a conversation about what might push the boundaries of acceptable behavior before committing to not doing that by signing the form.

But perhaps I'm being uncharitable.