synesthesia

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Look at all these amazing reasons to come to ArmadaCon. So much is happening, there’s loads to see and do, ALL INCLUDED in your Weekend Ticket. Tickets available in advance from www.armadacon.org or on the door.  Single day tickets, and concession rates available. Friday 3rd November, Main Hall from 6pm, includes:

Opening Ceremony & Welcome

6 Degrees of Separation Game Show

Japanese Tea Ceremony

Dealers & Gaming hall open til late, including Eldritch Horror taster game at 10pm

Saturday 4th November, Main Hall from 10am, includes:

David Wake on Fictional Board Games

RB Watkinson on the Fractured Portal

Chris Chapman on making Doctor Who Documentaries

Jonathan Green on How to Write an Adventure Game Book

Charity Auction

Masquerade

Live Action Fighting Fantasy read through

Second Hall – Saber Academy Fight School

Multimedia Room - Video Game Tournament

Dealers & Gaming room til late, including Lego speed build competition, megadungeon roleplay, photographer, & taster board game sessions

Sunday 5th November, Main Hall from 10am, includes:

RB Watkinson on writing

Jonathan Green on Pax Britannia

Chris Chapman and The Ice Warriors

Authors’ Panel on how to write & the art of writing

Charity Raffle

Second Hall – Saber Academy Fight School

In Star Trek:Discovery, the crew is on a mission to beat the Klingons, particularly before they can unite into an empire and be even more of a threat. Captain Lorca is on the war path and is willing to weaponise *anything* if it will end the fighting. But he already has the weapon needed, right there in his readyroom! No, not the guns or knives (or Ripper!) There on his desk, fluffy and unassuming… is a Tribble!

Maybe its not just a visual joke to appease the fans

…Remember the DS9/ST:OS cross over ep, Trials and Tribble-ations? Worf tells Odo that Tribbles are “mortal enemies” of the Klingon empire, “an ecological menace, a plague to be wiped out. Hundreds of warriors were sent to track them down throughout the galaxy, an armada wiped out the tribble home world. By the end of the 23rd century they had been eradicated." 

You with me so far?

What if it’s Captain Lorca that weaponises the Tribbles! They have a super fast ship, so they can zoom in and drop a Tribble in a grain silo and GTFO before anyone notices… That would mean that the Klingons will be distracted by, what Odo jokingly calls ‘The Great Tribble Hunt’ for the next 50ish years, and Star Fleet can win :D