What's that? Some new fandoms at last? Let's hear about them!

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Word on the street is a few of you are very excited about your new fandoms. I hope that means you've got follow through and are going to pimp them to the crowd. Now is your chance to volunteer!

As always, reminiscing about old fandoms is also welcome. Got your own version of my Inevitable Smallville Renaissance?

Got a hot topic to discuss? Mod a discussion yourself if you want to, demand suggest someone else do so if you prefer. Feel free to just brainstorm topics too, as I will allocate more time if there's a lot people want to cover.

Got a character that everyone would love if they only knew them? Or someone we already love but would enjoy being reminded about? Got a vaguely fannish game to play?

Please volunteer in comments to this post, or @ or DM me on twitter.

Last year we experimented with "two minute pimps", ie low pressure starter pimps, maybe for first timers who've never presented before, or for little tidbits you want to introduce but don't think you can put together a whole presentation on. Please do think seriously about whether your two minutes is going to morph into ten or fifteen, in which case you should snag a proper slot, but if you've got something that's around five, say, then let me know and I'll measure the slot needed for the hors d'oeuvre platter.

Please also feel free to think outside the box – we've had a couple of quite "different" presentations the last couple of years, in the form of historical/literary primers, art and audio presentations, etc, all of which were wonderful, and warmly received. The official g/t definition of fannish content is "friends and fellow fans will be interested in seeing/hearing this", so if you're not sure please do ask.

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Pictionary -- shihadchick
Pub Quiz -- china_shop
Black Sails -- arysteia
Cagney and Lacey (and a touch of 80s nostalgia) -- arysteia
Critical Role (the new campaign) -- labellementeuse
The DnD Renaissance (was it inevitable? ;-p) -- labellementeuse
The Silmarillion -- jocondite
Miss Sherlock -- stickmarionette
Saturday night vidshow -- maudlinrose
Sunday night vidshow -- meelie
Steven Universe -- chruskit
Star Trek Retrospective -- mab_browne
Buzzfeed: Unsolved -- shihadchick
Lucifer -- dewey3067
Points Novels -- kiwisue
So you want to PRINT that fic as a book/zine -- tyellas
So we're going to have Worldcon in Wellington in 2020 -- tyellas
Jurassic Park 3 -- blademistress

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Potential Discussion Topics:

Early days on pillowfort from early adopters
How do you fandom crush? -- china_shop

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'll take 10 minutes to talk about the new Critical Role campaign.

Do you think 10 minutes on the D&D renaissance would be amusing? A quick guide to D&D? Something like that?

T

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

I do think that! What got the ball rolling so hard? (I assume it was CR but look forward to being edified.)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to do Elf trash. Working title: 'Morgoth is why we can't have nice things: the endless suffering of the Silmarillion (in conclusion, cousins)'.

- bryoniadioica

wow I am way too lazy to ever log in here again

[(Anonymous)]

By elf trash I do mean "the Silmarillion" but I guess there's not much obvious difference.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Trololol, I'll give everything its proper name in the timetable post. ;-p

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be pimping Miss Sherlock and will probably take up 25-30 minutes total if that's okay.

- S can't remember her password

[(Anonymous)]

one of the vidshows please :)))
- hazel

[(Anonymous)]

10 minutes to talk about Steven Universe would be great
(First-timer, but there is too much to talk about in 2 or 5 min)

-chruskit

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

Okay, so this is the year for the Star Trek retrospective - at this point I see this as working out to a brief history of a NZ fangirl ie me, plus a 'this is why Kirk/Spock are an Ur-slash couple' presentation. That part will need careful negotiation with my eldest who has certain technical skills I will need. Wish me luck.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

I DO WISH YOU LUCK!!! ALL THE LUCK IN THE WORLD.

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

I detect some enthusiasm for my task. :-)

Also, can I request a Blake's 7 vid if any of the vid show organisers can find an appropriate one, in honour of Jacquie Pearce who passed away this week.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Omg, Servalan! I saw that. Will do. I also saw a fabulous tweet about her fucking a Russian priest which I will try to track down for you.

I am indeed enthused. I loved your Thirty Years Before the Mast so much, and Thirty Years in the Captain's Ready Room will be just as great. I did Star Trek For Noobs when STXI first came out, but I'm very much an intermediate person on the timeline.

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

I have begun negotiations and it looks like her terms will be reasonable. So far, so good.

[(Anonymous)]

Did someone already do a Lucifer one last year? I have a vague recollection... if not, I could do a 10-15 minute overview, without too many spoilers.

- Dewey

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Not that I recall? It may have come up briefly in discussion but like Gandalf I have no memory of this place. Do it in any case. ;-p

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

ngl I assumed I was covering pictionary (and past Claire has left a trove of options anyhow XD), and may I also have 30min please for Buzzfeed: Unsolved, title tba.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

After last year's 'wow' responses to the thought that Bodie & Doyle were at least an inspiration for Nico and Philip in the Points novels (and there is a new one out this year, and I'm currently doing a complete re-read) - I could do a quick overview of the books? Maybe 10 minutes.

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Could I have tiny slots for "So you want to PRINT that fic as a book/zine" and "So we're going to have Worldcon in Wellington in 2020."

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

You most certainly can. *\o/*

[china_shop]

I'll do another Kdrama reel (probably Goblin). 15-20min.

(Also, if anyone's watching Guardian (Cdrama), I would really love a promo/pimp for that. I keep seeing references and I want to know more, but don't really have time to investigate.)

ETA: Discussion topic: how do you fandom-crush? (self-insert or not, virtually stalk actors or not, specific characters/people or pairings, etc.) I'm happy to mod this.

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

Originally I thought I had nothing this year and then I thought maybe I should do the slash in unusual places thing I've been threatening for years. And then I thought I should just straight up do 15 minutes on Jurassic Park 3 because it's funny and great.