DragonCon 2025

DragonCon was an absolute joy this year. Thanks to everyone who came and said hello. I’m sorry if I missed you.

For any who haven’t been, DragonCon is an annual convention held in Atlanta. It’s a very long weekend of costumes, panels, and parties. It’s basically nerd Mardi Gras.

It’s one of the few places where I end up wearing all of my various hats. I’m a scientist/costumer/author, and end up being pulled in several directions at once. This year I was on eight panels across four tracks.

The highlights:

Witchcraft Beyond Hogwarts, with Cinda Williams Chima, Liz Delton, Richard Fierce. It’s always a delight to talk craft and magic with other authors and the YA Lit track folks are absolutely wonderful to us.

Solve for X, which was basically Nerd Nite at dragon con. The brilliant host, Rae Pendergrass had the clever idea of having Game Changer style games between each of the three speakers, and I had the joy (and terror) of being one of the contestants. We also got to meet T. Kingfisher and share distressing animal facts with her.

David Moscato, T. Kingfisher, R. A. Consell, Dr. Kali Holder, and Rae Pendergras at DragonCon 2025

And my big show of the weekend: Science V. Movies. I’ve moved from panelist to host. That meant I spent the year collecting strange and terrible clips of “science” from across the cinematic spectrum and force professional scientists, professors, and doctors to explain why that science is actually entirely correct. The logic being that Hollywood wouldn’t spend millions of dollars on a film and get the science wrong.

It was an absolute riot, as always. Sorry to all those who fire code prevented from attending. We filled every seat and then some.

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