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A Very Con Christmas

They came home for the holidays. They stayed for the folding chairs.

This holiday season. Bring a blanket.

Watch the trailerMake an ugly sweater

PrismaCorp Studios presents a film by everyone who showed up · starring The Clipboard · Badge Maker · Folding Chair #12 · and Glint as the Spirit of the Con · lights by Light Lab · snow by CSS · with The Crew as the whole town

Rated C for Cozy. Contains flannel, mild sentiment and one (1) cocoa montage.

Synopsis

The true meaning of folding chairs

A big-city event planner (played by an extremely confident clipboard) has never met a schedule they couldn’t colour-code. Then a snowstorm strands them in their small hometown the very week of the local fan con.

The chairs aren’t set up. The badge printer is jammed. The only one who can fix it is the gruff-but-lovable Badge Maker, who has opinions about lanyards. With the help of a mysterious, rainbow-hemmed stranger in a knit hat and a town full of people who show up early and stay late, our planner learns what every small-town con already knows.

It was never about the chairs. It was about who stays to fold them.

Holiday-movie bingo

  • Comes home for the holidays
  • Snowed in, conveniently
  • Flannel, immediately
  • A festival that must be saved
  • A cocoa montage
  • Turns down the big-city job
  • Learns the true meaning of something

Bingo. Every square. We checked twice.

Starring

The cast

  • The Big-City Event Planner

    played by The Clipboard

    Has a five-year plan, a colour-coded schedule and has never once sat down.

  • The Gruff Badge Maker With a Heart of Gold

    played by Badge Maker

    Runs the only badge printer in town. The heart of gold is foil, but it counts.

  • The Folding Chair Who Believed

    played by Folding Chair #12

    Has waited by the community hall door since last year’s teardown. Wears a scarf. Cannot be talked out of it.

  • The Spirit of the Con

    played by Glint

    Appears in every scene, in a knit hat. Nobody questions it. Nobody should.

  • The Town Square Lights

    played by Light Lab

    Seven colours, one very long extension cord.

  • The Whole Town

    played by The Crew

    Shows up early. Stays late. Brings a casserole nobody asked for and everybody eats.

  • The Snow

    played by Itself (practical effects: CSS)

    Falls gently, then stops on its own. A true professional.

Official trailer

Watch the trailer

Grab a blanket. Press play.

Captions on screen. Music and sleigh bells if sound is on.
Read the trailer (full transcript)
  1. [A cozy tune: sleigh bells and celesta.]
  2. This holiday season, one big-city event planner…
  3. …is going home. To a small-town fan con.
  4. [Sleigh bells.]
  5. They came to fix the schedule.
  6. They stayed for the folding chairs.
  7. A Very Con Christmas. Warm wishes for whatever you celebrate.

Intermission: the fireplace

Every holiday movie has a scene where someone stares into a fire and Realises Something. Here’s yours. Six seconds of crackle, then a gentle glow.

The fireplace is cold. Somebody fix that.

Official merchandise (that you make yourself)

The Ugly Sweater Maker

Pick your colours, a pattern and a motif. Admire it. Save it as a picture. It stays on your device; nothing is uploaded.

Sweater colour
Trim colour
Pattern
Motif

From the craft-services table

Hot cocoa, small-town style

Makes one big mug. Or two medium mugs and a friendship.

You’ll need

  • 1 mug of milk (any kind you like)
  • 2 spoonfuls of cocoa powder
  • 1–2 spoonfuls of sugar, to taste
  • A tiny pinch of salt
  • A drop of vanilla (optional)
  • Something on top (optional, encouraged)

Method

  1. Warm the milk in a small pot over a low heat. Don’t let it boil.
  2. In your mug, stir the cocoa, sugar and salt with a splash of the warm milk until it’s a smooth paste.
  3. Pour in the rest of the milk, stirring. Add the vanilla. Careful, it’s hot.
  4. Add your topping. Hold the mug with both hands, like you’re in a holiday movie.
  5. Sit in a folding chair. Look out a window. Realise Something.
  6. Volunteer at the next con. Join The Crew

Come home for the con.

Whatever you celebrate this winter, there’s a seat for you. Usually a folding one. The Crew sets them up, welcomes everyone in and stays to fold them when it’s over.

Join The Crew (the volunteer application)

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