get_together | Sep. 5th, 2010

Sep. 5th, 2010

arysteia.livejournal.com

Get/Together 2010 is exactly a month away from yesterday. That's Friday 1 - Sunday 3 October. I had a brief panic about how late I am with posting registration forms, but then discovered that's exactly when they went up last year too. Good to be consistent.

I can't confirm costs 100% for sure right now, but they will be a little (not a lot) higher than last year, which is the first price rise in six years, so I say go us! The more people who sign up, the littler that little will be. Make sense? To that end, I'd really appreciate people committing as quickly as possible, and not leaving their registrations to the last minute as generally happens. Can you also please mention it to any friends/flatmates/flisters etc who might be interested, and give them a gentle prod with the pokey stick too.

I'm meeting China any minute to thrash out a few things, so there'll likely be a flurry of postings shortly. Watch this space.

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This year's template (with some minor adaptations):

Registration Form 2010

Preferred first name:

Reader/Writer/Vidder/All of the Above:

My current primary fandom:

My current secondary fandom(s):

Fandom(s) I’ve broken up with:

Fandom(s) I just can’t quit:

OTP forever:

OTP sometimes:

OTP never, baby, OT3/OTTeam/OT?:

My comment on slash is:

I like slash because:

I discovered slash by:

My bullet proof kink:

My major league squick:

My guilty pleasure:

I first found out about (my first) g/t from/by:

Coke/Coke Zero/Sprite/Juice:

Tea/Coffee:

Indian/Thai/Italian:

I would like 15 Minutes of Fame:

I will use it to:

arysteia.livejournal.com

Registration Form 2010

Preferred first name: Victoria

Reader/Writer/Vidder/All of the Above: Reader/Writer

My current primary fandom: Avengers (Captain America/Iron Man) (I know!!!)

My current secondary fandom(s): DCU (Superman/Batman); Supernatural

Fandom(s) I’ve broken up with: Stargate: Atlantis

Fandom(s) I just can’t quit: Smallville

OTP forever: Clark/Lex (I know!!!); Clark/Bruce (It’s a different Clark, okay! It’s an alternate universe!); Steve/Tony; Sam/Dean

OTP sometimes: Holmes/Watson; Kirk/Spock; McKay/Sheppard (fine!)

OTP never, baby, OT3/OTTeam/OT?: Dean/Metallicar; Dean/Pie; SG-1; SGA-1

My comment on slash is: I miss the days where there had to actually be some subtext before a fandom sprang up like a plague of locusts

I like slash because: it’s still hot, twenty years later

I discovered slash by: you’ve all heard the story by now, this one’s really for new-comers (friend’s older sister’s zines, for the record)

My bullet proof kink: control freaks bottoming

My major league squick: partner betrayal, unwarned for threesomes (not cool!)

My guilty pleasure: mpreg (yes, I said it!)

I first found out about (my first) g/t from/by: China and I had too much fun at

sinpozium (which you should totally check out by the way) and wanted to hold our own

Coke/Coke Zero/Sprite/Juice: coke

Tea/Coffee: tea

Indian/Thai/Italian: Indian, Thai, Italian

I would like 15 Minutes of Fame: Yes

I will use it to: debunk the kinkiness of kink memes

erilyn.livejournal.com

Preferred first name: Lyn or Erilyn

Reader/Writer/Vidder/All of the Above: Reader

My current primary fandom: that's a tricky question for the last year. Maybe my gay soap operas (especially One Life to Live and As the World Turns)? Still poking around in bandom and American Idol (though not reading much fic). Glee. Who-verse. Sherlock, though haven't had much time to read the fic.

My current secondary fandom(s): Other shows that I'm watching (but not necessarily involved in fannishly at this stage) include NCIS (Original Flavour and Extra Gay LA), White Collar, Bones, Criminal Minds, Castle, Supernatural. Most of which can be summarised as "...and together they fight crime (or evil)". Yeah, I don't know either. Oh, and Big Bang Theory.

Fandom(s) I’ve broken up with: Torchwood (the show). House and I aren't really seeing much of each other lately either. I tend to never fully break-up with fandoms - sooner or later, I'm re-reading the fic (though whether I'm re-watching the source material is a different matter).

Fandom(s) I just can’t quit: Can you get a restraining order against Smallville?

OTP forever: Kyle/Oliver, Luke/Reid, Jim/Blair, Bodie/Doyle, Wes/Gunn, Fraser/RayK, Clark/Lex, Mckay/Sheppard, Mulder/Krycek, my sparkly popboys, Frank/Gerard, Pete/Patrick, Kirk/Spock (and really, if I stop focusing on fannish slash pairings, Jack/Jennifer from Days were possibly my first OTP, and I still have love for them. Sonny/Brenda from General Hospital too).

OTP sometimes: Morgan/Reid, Jack/Ianto, Chris/Vin, Mac/Victor, Dan/Casey,Van/Deaq, Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, Seregil/Alec, Alan/Billy, Brian/Justin, I could keep going and going...

OTP never, baby, OT3/OTTeam/OT?: hmmm...Nine/Rose/Jack

My comment on slash is: To quote Evolution (a very underrated movie) - "there's always time for lube!"

I like slash because: it's hot, and while I can get good het (sometimes, okay, maybe occasionally) from mainstream media, we're still kinda screwed on the gays (*shakes fist at soap opera producers*).

I discovered slash by: same story as always - needed more Krycek fic (had run out of gen and het), so I cautiously started checking out the ones labelled slash and found that a) they didn't (necessarily) involve cutting/bloodplay like I'd assumed and b) HOLY FUCK GIMME MORE.

My bullet proof kink: don't know why, but I love wake up married/arranged marriage/pretending to be married stories, coming out/getting outed, pining

My major league squick: chan, incest

My guilty pleasure: wallow fics - where they're not very well written, but are adequate enough so that I don't get too annoyed while immersing myself in OOC-ness and over-the-top melodrama.

I first found out about (my first) g/t from/by:

arysteia and

china_shop when it was born. I couldn't make it to the 1st one but have been to the 2nd, 3rd and 5th.

Coke/Coke Zero/Sprite/Juice: Coke Zero, Coke, Sprite

Tea/Coffee: No thanks

Indian/Thai/Italian: All of the above (and both places we ate at last year were good)

I would like 15 Minutes of Fame: when do I not?

I will use it to: I already have a Glee pimp video mostly finished :) And not just cause I've done something music-related at every GT I've been too (though it is nice to continue the trend).

Current Mood: rambling

ariadne83

Registration Form 2010

Preferred first name: Mary-Anne

Reader/Writer/Vidder/All of the Above: Reader/Writer

My current primary fandom: As The World Turns

My current secondary fandom(s): Stargate Atlantis; Supernatural

Fandom(s) I’ve broken up with: Battlestar Galactica; Torchwood; House; Entourage

Fandom(s) I just can’t quit: Stargate: SG-1; Star Trek (2009)

OTP forever: Luke/Reid; Keller/Vega

OTP sometimes: McKay/Sheppard; Jack/Daniel; Kirk/McCoy; Dean/Castiel; Jack/Ianto; Vince/Eric (I could go on at length but I won't)

OTP never, baby, OT3/OTTeam/OT?: Sam Carter/Martouf/Lantash

My comment on slash is: The more the better

I like slash because: What's not to like? When I fall in love with a character I always want to know what's going on in their head, or what their day-to-day life is like outside of canon and slash seems to lean more towards that type of story. Plus: it's hot

I discovered slash by: I blame Karl Urbane. I fell in love with gay Nurse Jamie during my formative years (canon gay FTW!) and spent the rest of my life trying to recapture the magic

My bullet proof kink: Snark/antagonism --> rough sex

My major league squick: Dub!con masquerading as romance (dub!con that admits that it's dub!con is A-OK by me but I really don't like surprise!coercion)

My guilty pleasure: Cheating fic (the angstier the better); May/December porn

I first found out about (my first) g/t from/by: Searching LJ for other NZ fans

Coke/Coke Zero/Sprite/Juice: Coke

Tea/Coffee: Coffee

Indian/Thai/Italian: Thai, Italian, Indian

I would like 15 Minutes of Fame: Meh. Not really.

I will use it to: Give to someone who actually wants it.

labellementeuse.livejournal.com

Preferred first name: Tui

Reader/Writer/Vidder/All of the Above: Reader, sometime writer (well... I do Yuletide. And I totally did two kink meme fills a month ago. And I have a lot of WIPs?) Also I'm getting to be a big Vid Fan.

My current primary fandom: Young Wizards, always and forever. But also Supernatural (again) (sigh) (ironic b/c I'm pretty sure last g_t I explained to many many people how I'd definitely forever broken up with it)

My current secondary fandom(s): Due South, Doctor Who, SPNRPS, erm ... IDK, a tonne of other stuff. I'll watch vids in any fandom. Also, you know how there are people who are like, vidding is my fandom? But what they really mean is they are snobby and like really good vids in any fandom, but because they'll watch any fandom they have high standards? So yeah, lately femslash is my fandom. In that sense. Also I've been reading some Harry Potter. and White Collar although NGL, mostly I've been reading China's.

Fandom(s) I’ve broken up with: SGA, I guess. I haven't read any SGA for ages. Firefly. Battlestar Galactica.

Fandom(s) I just can’t quit: Oh Supernatural.

OTP forever: Choosing to define this as OTPs that make me cry if they're broken: Tom/Carl, Parker/Eliot/Hardison, Merlin/Arthur (honourable exception for Merlin/Arthur/Gwen/Morgana with a side of Lancelot), McKay/Sheppard, Remus/Sirius (OTP OF DEAD), Ron/Hermione, Clark/Lex, John/Aeryn, Rory/Paris, Fraser/Kowalski (I TRY but I just can't get into F/V)

OTP sometimes: Nita/Kit, Tom/Carl, Kit/Ronan, McShep, Sam/Dean, Dean/Castiel, Dean/Jo, Carter/O'Neill, Rory/Paris, J2, Tim/Steph, Tim/Kon, Steph/Cass, Tim/Bart, Bart/Kon, Tim/Dick, imma stop listing DCU pairings before this gets out of hand, Bruno/Boots, Kara/Lee, Angel/Cordelia, Anya/Money, Buffy/Angel (SHUT UP), Willow/Tara, Gunn/Fred, Parker/Hardison, Buffy/Faith, Xander/Anya um um, I read a lot of fanfiction, y'all.

OTP never, baby, OT3/OTTeam/OT?: Team Tardis in most variations. Nita/Kit/Ronan, Fraser/Kowalski/Vecchio, Bart/Tim/Kon, Hardison/Parker/Eliot, Fred/Gunn/Wes, Harry/Ron/Hermione, Neal/Peter/Elizabeth, lots of others, I'm a big fan of the OT3.

My comment on slash is: I have to have a comment on it? Yikes. Um, it's not the shining force for good that some people think it is? Did you know subtext is an anagram of buttsex?

I like slash because: ~~It's shiny. Sometimes it has less icky gender dynamics. (Sometimes it has *more* icky gender dynamics, that one's not a plus.) Uhhh. I like exploring same-sex chemistry in a way TV etc won't?~~ Wow, I was way smarter last year, this is what I said then: "It's diabolical and nutritious! Sometimes I like slash because it develops a relationship between two characters that I feel have great chemistry (Rory/Paris.) Sometimes I like it because it's the best way to read a show (Clark/Lex, McKay/Sheppard) - i.e. it's more revealing. Sometimes I like it because two characters are really in love, or have a relationship that would be flirtatious or romantic if they were opposite sexes, but heterosexism means that relationship won't be explored fully on-screen (Fraser/Kowalski, Tom/Carl). I always enjoy the element of subversiveness to slash and the opportunity to read about queer characters."

I discovered slash by: This one Remus/Sirius fic, back in the day.

My bullet proof kink: d/s, I guess? Dirty talk.

My major league squick: Extreme underage, necrophilia, monging (fuck you very much, SPN), etc. scat, obvs. Erm, I feel like spelling these ones out actually makes me look bad. IT'S A VERY KINKY FANDOM, OK. Canonically gay people having het sex. Increasingly, the only-gay-for-you trope, although that's such a staple in buddy-slash that I go back and forth. Non-con that isn't identified as non-con. Lifestyle BDSM. Bloodplay.

My guilty pleasure: Kidfic allll the way.

I first found out about (my first) g/t from/by: A bunch of people on the flist have been going for awhile and then I met

china_shop and she said come, so I did.

Coke/Coke Zero/Sprite/Juice: Water.

Tea/Coffee: I'm fussy so I'll bring my own (apple tea, probs, if anyone wants to go splits on a tin?)

Indian/Thai/Italian: I'm easy. also, I like all of those foods.

I would like 15 Minutes of Fame: SORT OF MAYBE YES?

I will use it to: Showcase the joy of multifandom vids! Or, alternatively, the woe of meta vids. I'm not sure?

YAY I'M EXCITED. ~~Trying to make up for my (post-g/t) registration by being FIRST this year.~~ Darnit. Second?

Current Mood: bouncy

arysteia.livejournal.com

We will be at the same location as last year, Park Bowling Club in Kilbirnie. It's spacious, central, and the neighbours are cheerful and tolerant. We've got a list of a few niggles from last year (heating, electrical sockets, boot heels, etc) so I'll be making a housekeeping post about that sort of thing later on.

We'll likely eat at the same (or similar) restaurants too -- there are others further afield, but I'm assuming those without cars would prefer not to have to make multiple journeys back and forth.

With regard to accommodation, I know there were a couple of requests from last year to look into a group booking somewhere, and China and I did investigate the Brentwood, which would have been my first choice, but unfortunately they're all booked up for a conference. More surprisingly, so is the old faithful 747. Failing either of those, there's always X-Base and Nomads, both of which have housed g/ters reasonably happily in the past, and both of which are on the direct bus route, both from the airport and to/from the venue. Please feel free to put together a party in the comments to this post as needed.

china_shop

Registration Form 2010

Preferred first name: China

Reader/Writer/Vidder/All of the Above: All of the above. Also comm mod and occasional beta.

My current primary fandom: ♥ ♥ ♥ White Collar ♥ ♥ ♥

My current secondary fandom(s): Vidding. Also watching and enjoying Outrageous Fortune, Eureka, Doctor Who, Daily Show, Lovejoy and, occasionally, Pysch. Think I've just about given up on Leverage though.

Fandom(s) I’ve broken up with: Due South/Canada fandom (after five years!)

Fandom(s) I just can’t quit: n/a

OT3 forever: Elizabeth/Peter/Neal (White Collar)

OTP sometimes/OT3/OTTeam/OT?: Peter/Neal, Elizabeth/Peter, Elizabeth/Neal (White Collar; especially in the context of the OT3 or pre-OT3), Van/Munter and Cheryl/Wayne (Outrageous Fortune), Jack/Henry (Eureka; though that's really more wishful thinking than anything much in the show -- they do that talking about being best friends but never really hanging out thing), Jon/Stephen (Pundits; in a BFF kind of way), John/Aeryn (Farscape; their love is so epic). *redacts stuff about Due South pairings* (I am over-thinking this waaay too much for a con registration form!)

My comment on slash is: Playing at subverting the dominant paradigm. Also, F/M/M OT3s are the new slash.

I like slash because: Their love is so hot. And intense. And pretty. And did I mention hot? And they reeeeally like each other, and sometimes they flirt. What else am I supposed to do with that, srsly?

I discovered slash by: Following

eliade from Buffy/Spike to Spike/Xander.

My bullet proof kink: Genuine like, partnership, equality, banter.

My major league squick: Any kind of consent issues, including power differentials.

My guilty pleasure: Writing, even when I'm way behind on my reading. Ditto with vidding.

I first found out about (my first) g/t from/by: We built this city on rock and roll. \o/

Coke/Coke Zero/Sprite/Juice: Juice

Tea/Coffee: Milo

Indian/Thai/Italian: Thai, Indian, Italian, but I'm not too fussed.

I would like 15 Minutes of Fame: Several times over.

I will use it to: Pimp White Collar; meta on writing OT3s; meta on something else, probably. \o/

dewey3067.livejournal.com

Preferred first name: Dewey

Reader/Writer/Vidder/All of the Above: Reader

My current primary fandom: SGA (I think I may be the only one left...)

My current secondary fandom(s): White Collar, Castle - tho not reading

Fandom(s) I’ve broken up with: I haven't really broken up, I just never call.

Fandom(s) I just can’t quit: due South, The Sentinel

OTP forever: McKay/Sheppard, Fraser/Kowalski, Jim/Blair

OT3/OTTeam/OT?: Neal/Peter/Elizabeth (at least when China writes them); OT4 SGA-Team

My comment on slash is: Gimme more.

I like slash because: I seem to never get tired of reading about how the guys finally figure it out. And because fanwriters have shiny, shiny brains that I just adore and they share with us. What's not to like?!

I discovered slash by: innocently clicking on some links many many years ago.... (um, about 12 years now)

My bullet proof kink: Really hot but tender with a side-order of snark.

My major league squick: humiliation, non-con, dub-con

My guilty pleasure: Harlequin-type stories. (And I admitted last year to mpreg and genderswap so I'll own up to them again.)

I first found out about (my first) g/t from/by: China (And this will be my 2nd year)

Coke/Coke Zero/Sprite/Juice: Coke

Tea/Coffee: Tea

Indian/Thai/Italian: Italian/Indian/Thai

I would like 15 Minutes of Fame: Nope, thanks anyway.

And, hey! Any of my roomies from last year who want to room again - I'd be willing and able!