Call for papers

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Greetings all.

We're in the final countdown now, so this is the place to make explicit and official your intentions vis a vis contributions at the con. If you have a witty title and tag line for the programme (LOL!) stick it in your comment here. If you're still a WIP, can you just give me an indication of what you *think* you'd like to do, so I can shove it on a theoretical timetable, and we can liaise about how long you'll need, what resources are required etc.

This includes: meta discussions you plan to lead/moderate; show pimps/intros; ship manifestos; the ol' slash pictionary; new games; ideas for discussion you *don't* want to lead/moderate but would like added to a general panel, etc. Any ideas you have, throw them on this pile please.

Comments

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Ideas for discussion I *don't* want to lead/moderate

1) serious business:

- the relationship between slash fandom and real-life queerness
- RPF and the fourth wall
- fanfic versus original fiction
- writing characters of a different race / orientation / gender / species to your own

2) fun and games:

- a verbal flashfic challenge: character X and character Y meet at a bar / on a bus / in the afterlife / at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

- a written flashfic game taught to me by the name 'Flapjack', which is like a written version of certain Whose Line is it Anyway? games. The rules: everyone starts writing a story in their fandom of choice, the moderator reads out a new and very random prompt every few minutes, and the writers have to incorporate each prompt into the story. Very odd stories result and are then read out to acclaim/incredulity/hilarity.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Fantastico! On the orphaned discourse list.

I assume game 1 is the same as Instant Crossovers that maudlinrose mentioned? Cool. Both sound great. We did play Consequences one year (remember that old slumber party standby?) and it did indeed lead to some weird fic, but the addition of the prompts sounds like a good addition.

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

We did play Consequences one year
SO GUESS WHAT I FOUND LAST WEEKEND.

:D

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

LOLZ! The notebooks? Because I'm pretty sure I have the fic sheets in the archive.

I need to copy those! Big time!

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

I apparently typed part of it up? we gave Stick a going-away present of EVERY PICTURE OF FANDOM I could find on my computer, and there was definitely a text file of them with that.

I definitely need to bring them/suck less at typing stuff up. And I am DETERMINED this year to borrow my mother's laptop and thus have sufficient battery to RECORD EVERYTHING properly. :D

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Bring everything you have and we'll photocopy them at work. Split the labour.

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

Sounds good!