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:
Future redeemed durge helping out on murder cases because they know all the different ways to kill someone, and also how to avoid getting caught.
“What could have made these wounds?”
“That’s gotta be a sculpture. Decently sized one, too. And with all those lumps, it’s probably a Glarg Flungleson.”
“But then where could the killer have put the murder weapon?”
“Well if I was them- hypothetically, of course- I’d auction it off, but make sure it went to some paranoid rich guy who’d lock it up in a vault and deny he even has it. But honestly I’m not sure they’re that smart. They probably just sold it to some random.”
Then they catch the serial killer who’s like “omg hi! I love your work, you’re an inspiration to all of us”
“Oh come on.”
“What do they mean by that?”
“Uh…I mean…your detective work, of course. It’s so much fun trying to keep out ahead of you. Yep. That’s what I meant.”
Watching the Sandman rn and having thoughts about the Corinthian.
When i listened to the audiobook i never saw him as anything else but a nightmare who really likes having his playthings out there with him. But in the show he just takes joy in living. He loves to seduce people, loves to receive admiration and praise, loves to deceive people into loving him.
Every single person he meets in the show is immediately taken with him and unless he takes action against them, they ask him to come back, to meet again. He is incredibly good at pleasing people AND we even see him have fun with people without wanting to hurt them. He isn't merely a sadistic nightmare he is taking joy in living, being human, eating icecream, having sex, driving a car. He is non-understandable to Dream because just like Hob he loves to live and be alive.
He, just like Gault strives to be more than he is and if he weren't a serial murderer with a weird eye-fetish I would honestly be sad for him.
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!
My first Hannibal x Sandman crossover! XD Jorassicworld was talking about Dragongram at some point and I was like HUU HUU THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CEREAL and she was like HUU HUU I WANT A COMMISSION and thus, Hannibal attends the Corinthian's Cereal Convention to show off his cool new brand!
(For the uninitiated, Dragongram is Dolarhyde x Will, but OOPS! ALL CEREAL now)
I spent so long lovingly, painstakingly, placing each dumb cereal piece XD
Fiddler’s Green is so innocent that despite walking into multiple, very questionable, panels at the Cereal Convention, it took him a while (and after seeing the corinthian) to realise that something was amiss. And the fact that he also went into the women’s panel is so cute.