Calls for Papers 2011

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic response to the Awesome Ladies booty call. You rock mightily yourselves, ladies!

So then. It's comparatively early days yet, but it's never too early to start hatching plots. So start thinking about any other presentations you might like to make. No commitment required now, but if you've got an idea you'd like to call dibs on, do it here, and avoid the rush. Also, if you have a suggestion you'd quite like someone else to take on (no guarantees) add that to the list too.

Basically there are a few categories here (no hard and fast rules):

1) Show Pimps -- is there an awesome new show (or a magnificent old one) that everyone should be watching? Let us know! Put together a few clips, or a basic primer (powerpoint, picspam etc) to advertise and convert the masses. [This includes media other than tv shows, natch.]

2) Ship Manifestos -- is there an OTP (or OT3 or...) that is oppressing fandom fairly leaping off the screen? Do likewise.

3) Panel Discussions -- everything you wanted to know and were afraid to ask. (You don't have to moderate, though you can if you'd like. Just chuck your questions down.)


American Idol
Authority, The
Bandom
Bandom (Gerard Way)
Bandom (MCR)
Bandom (The Like)
Being Human
Better off Ted (Phil/Lem)
Boston Legal (show)
Boston Legal (Alan/Denny)
Captain America/Iron Man
Daily Show (Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert)
Daily Show (show)
DC Comics
Doctor Who (new)/Torchwood (Captain Jack)
Doctor Who (classic)
Due South
Fastlane
Fast and Furious
Flashpoint
Full Metal Alchemist
Generation Kill
Glee
Hardcore Logo
House
Josh and Drake
Make it or Break it
Media Fandoms
NCIS
Nip/Tuck (Sean/Christian)
Outrageous Fortune
Pegg/Frost
Pop
Pretender, The
Professionals, The
Psych (show)
Psych (Gus/Shawn)
Scrubs
Sentinel
Six degrees of Canada
Smallville (Clark/Lex)
Smallville (show)
Soaps
Sport RPS Tennis (Roger/Rafa)
Sport RPS Rugby Pretty Boys
Sport RPS Soccer
Star Trek (TOS)
Star Trek (TNG)
Stargate Atlantis (show)
Stargate Atlantis (Sheppard/McKay)
Starsky and Hutch
Superman/Batman (movie)
Supernatural
Torchwood (Janto)
White Collar


Current Offers:

arysteia -- Marvel Comics (The X-Men)
arysteia -- The New MCU (The Avengers)
blademistress -- Alicia/Kalinda (The Good Wife)
blademistress -- Troy/Abed (Community)
china_shop -- Archer
cross_stitchery -- Rizzoli and Isles
cross_stitchery -- Suits
stickmarionette -- Sports RPS (Football OT3)
shihadchick -- Sports RPS (Hockey)
alasen -- Hawaii 5-0
aworldinside -- Fringe
china_shop -- [something something popular vs rare pairings something]*
vaudevilles -- [something something debutching staunch women something]**
arysteia -- [something something manpain + women in fridges something]**
alasen/meelie -- [something something naming conventions something]**

* discussion
** presentation --> discussion

Highlander -- China and I were talking about how odd it was no one's ever done such a classic fandom (for which several of you have worn the t-shirt to g/t!). Any old school fans want to cross this one off the list at last?

Re accommodation: dewey3067 has done a great job organising rooms at the Brentwood, which apparently are moving fairly fast, as predicted. The full details of the current group booking, including pricing etc, are in the last comment on that post, which will be edited to reflect current status. Go check it out, and confirm your details as appropriate. If you need to add yourself, please move quickly.

Comments

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Can someone do Suits? I have been hearing stuff but there's no way I'm bothering to pick up a new fandom between now and November, so ... If anyone out there is ~feeling it?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

PS, also, this Marvel almost-a-virgin is super excited for the Avengers pimp!

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha. Been there. A DC girl all my life, then it was like the Rapture, and I was carried away to Marvel Heaven. Which, given DC52, is indeed a better place. ;-p

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

but I just love the Batfamily so much :( except for Bruce :(

I do want to pick up some things in the DCnU! Like Static, and the Apollo/Midnighter thing! But yeah, I think I might have a wee Marvel holiday.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

I think I will love my old sweethearts more for having some time apart.

Marvel just seems *nicer*. Unless you're a Spiderman fan, in which case Quesada actively enjoys your tears, and trolls regularly to ensure your pain never diminishes.

But there's a wonderful quote, I think from Mark Gruenwald, about how at Marvel continuity is a tree, and it gets a healthy pruning fairly regularly. But at DC it's a highrise, and every now and then the whole thing gets demolished. Even when many of its tenants are still quite happy with their accommodations. D: D: D:

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh. That tree metaphor makes Marvel sound so nice. Oh gosh, where should I start?

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Gawd, the question every comics fan both loves and fears...

I'll think about it some more, but off the top of my head I'd say New Avengers (2005) was a good jumping on point. Tony and Steve get back together after being 'on a break' (as opposed to the Civil War divorce) and found a new team, which is pretty cool, though lacking some of the classic members. It'll then collide you into the whole Registration debacle, which was massively unpopular in some fandom quarters but highly successful saleswise, and which I personally really enjoyed.

It was actually where *I* started -- the maxi issue where Tony has a breakdown over Steve's corpse and all the remembrances was so moving I went back and read the whole event, and *that* was enough to make me go back and read everyone's back stories. There's about five different Avengers teams operating at the moment, none of which I can personally vouch for (too busy, not uninterested) though Avengers Prime is worth reading to see Tony and Steve reconcile again, and go on a bromance road trip with Thor and fight trolls and such. ;-p

Depending who your favourite characters are, you can then read their individual arcs -- Tony's battle with alcoholism, Steve re-finding Bucky (Winter Soldier was excellent) etc. You might also like Alias, a mini about Jessica Jones, a c-string hero who forges a new life as a journalist and marries Luke Cage.

X-Men, I'll have to do some more homework, but as far as isolated trades or novels go... God Loves, Man Kills (1982) is excellent -- it provided most of the inspiration for the second X-Men movie, and Magneto is a good guy (well, a bad guy fighting on Xavier's side against a worse foe, a trope I love).

There's also some cool stuff where Erik and Charles have post-war adventures in Israel, but I'd have to look that up.

[Too confusing? I'll make a required reading list for Nov.]

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

No no, it's good! Brilliant actually! I follow along well :) I will have a poke around in my usual places and see what I can find. Having a very comics weekend, actually, trying to finish re-reading No Man's Land (attempting to - and succeeding at! - remembering why I ever liked DC).

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Cross-Stitchery is a possible here, depending. *fingers crossed*