Take a look at this pamphlet for the Cereal Convention:
You have over a hundred people coming from all over the place at the same time, and the convention is only a day long (August 12th)? That sounds inefficient. Even my department's niche grad student conference was held longer than that.
No kidding. Conference/convention fees are expensive, and I wouldn't pay all that money and travel all the way just so I can attend it for only a day. I guess a travel grant could alleviate the cost, but I doubt the organizers are charitable kind of people. Nor do they have that kind of budget.
And why are there so many sessions taking place at the same time? The organizers should know their attendees' interests may overlap. What if there's someone who wants to check out both the Woman's Work and Religion panel discussions?
A sensible conference would try to spread them out and diversify the events so that the attendees won't miss out that much when they attend others: They could have a poster session, speed networking, etc. in one room while another room has a panel session going on.
We do see people chilling in bars and walking around, but they're also missing out on at least THREE different panel discussions they paid for as a part of the fee.
The organizing committee even lost their guest of honour and were saved (?) at the last minute by slapping the Corinthian on their event. Maybe they should've hired people with more event planning experience under their belts rather than murdering.
P.S. At least they ensured the projectors are booked and they have access to light controls:
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FORGOT to show you some photos from
✨ The Owlcon 2023, Feb 5✨
It was the best fest I ever visited!
I were there in the Collector cosplay and the only one with the mantle:
( One of them is my new best friend!!! 🌟)
After that I decided to draw us
Also Emperor Belos and Philip Wittebane were defeated…..
Twice.
Thrice.
And my best-ever figure again cuz it's awesome AND I LOVE IT 🌟
BUT IT'S NOT THE LAST
Here's my new figure... 💞💞💞
Well, that's all 🪄
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King’s Dad was a Collector Theory
Going off of tonight's episode, we were given murals of events that happened in the past, similar to how we were told of Caleb’s past through murals as well.
Though this time, the murals depicted events that occurred during the Collector’s time. I’ve organized them in the timeline that I see best fits the story and came to the realization that we’ve seen a similar scenario play out with another character’s past.
According to the mural above, in the beginning, there were four original Collectors that were tasked with observing and preserving objects throughout the galaxy. And if anyone opposed, the Collectors would eradicate them. Despite this, all Collectors are seen to have the signature expression of joy, they’re always seen looking happy doing what they do. Eventually, a fifth collector is born (the purple one who we can assume is the Collector we see in the show) and he is seen being happily welcomed by the other Collectors.
Then we move on to the next mural above. The most interesting mural. It can be read in so many ways. Yet it’s the mural that I think reveals the true origins of King’s father. As I interpreted it, the mural depicts one of the Collectors discovering a skull and placing it on his head... then he’s seen becoming a titan. Notice the eyes. His yellow eyes are noticeably the only feature that remain the same, indicating that this is the same Collector that placed the skull on his head.
The mural above shows a Collector becoming a Titan.
You may believe that the mural shows two different Collectors and a Titan but that is not true. Because we have the next mural below.
The mural above shows the exact same Titan/Collector with his yellow eyes. And next to him we see what a REAL Titan actually looked like. Notice that real Titans had RED eyes. The eyes aren't the only noticeable distinction, however. REAL Titans seem to have had a very skeleton-like body with bat wings. The Collector that became a Titan is vastly different. He still holds his yellow eyes but now has a blue body of fur and no wings.
Another thing to notice is that the mural above shows a battle between the yellow-eyed Titan and the red-eyed Titans. We know this battle well. It was the battle where King (as an egg) hears his father scream for him in a roar. And what can be seen in the mural? An egg. This is very much the battle that King hears, where his father can be heard fighting for him. And judging from where King’s egg is located in the mural, it seems that he was taken from his father.
His father being the yellow-eyed Titan that we now know came to be after a Collector was seen placing a skull on his head.
This Titan was never seen again after this battle.
We move on to the next image above. Where the other remaining three Collectors (along with the new purple one) have located a certain planet.
But one Collector is missing.
And the Collectors look eager... as if they at last found who they were searching for on this very planet.
They had found the location of their missing brother.
The planet the remaining Collectors had arrived on... was none other than where the Boiling Isles is.
And, while in the beginning they all looked so excited to have finally found this planet... now they looked enraged. The mural above clearly showing the remaining three Collectors long losing their signature joyful expressions. They’re not happy with what they discovered on that planet.
Notice that our purple Collector is also missing. And the flames at the Titan’s feet is now purple, too. Seems like purple Collector was sent in first to find their missing brother, and when he too didn't return, that’s when the three finally all stepped in to see why now two of their brothers hadn't returned from this planet.
Only to be met with the discovery that their long lost missing brother... is now gone. And their purple youngest one is nowhere to be found. And the only ones remaining are the real Titans who had won that battle against the yellow-eyed Titan. And those Titans now looked terrified.
What had happened on this planet was obvious to the Collectors: the Titans had killed their brothers. And, in anger, they:
Collectors are known to eradicate those who oppose. Destroying is something that is also in their job description. They are very capable of killing. And this seems to be the fate that all Titans fell into when the three remaining Collectors arrived on the Boiling Isles and discovered the fate of their missing brothers.
So... what happened?
In short, a Collector fell in love with the Titan’s world. So much so, that he gave up on who he was supposed to be: a Collector. And chose to live as a Titan... and even had a Titan baby. A baby we now know as King.
A story exactly similar to someone else’s in the show: Caleb’s.
Caleb was also a someone who was different. He was a human. But he fell in love with the Witch’s world. He gave up on his life in the human world and chose to live as a witch... and even had a baby with one.
Two men who chose to forget their old lives to continue living in a new world that they had fallen in love with.
And they both paid the price in blood.
Speaking of blood, a Collector’s blood may be the reason “Titan blood” is where magic comes from. Because it turns out it’s not actually “Titan Blood”... but blue Collector blood. King’s dad’s blood. But that’s a theory for another time.
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Uh. I did not think that pictures on the right might be more than just pretty celestial objects.
They show Demon Realm being destroyed. The sun being too close, meteors falling past the moon.
The purple ball is the Demon Realm’s planet. All the planets standing right behind each other.
The bright explosion? The sun? Is it a tablet nearby or the moon?
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The fact that the serial killers--sorry, collectors--call their convention a "cereal convention" is the funniest thing in the world to me. It's a pun! It sounds extremely mundane!
The hotel staff must be wondering why a convention about cereal has panels about religion and not, like, marketing or box art or something, but it's not going to raise a lot of eyebrows. It works!
And I cannot stop laughing about it.
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