Call for Contributors

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing china_shop is watching the clock/calendar! Skimming last year's organisation posts tells me that this is going up a full two weeks later than last year, but I'm sure you've all been quietly plotting and planning anyway.

First off, and in addition to all our usual fun, I'm quite keen to take a leaf from our sister con sinpozium and have a couple of technical panels. The following are just a few things I'd be interested in, so if you have additional ideas please feel free to add them in comments.

1) Tumblr: anyone out there feel that they could explain how to make tumblr actually work? As an indication, my interaction with tumblr consists of following links, and occasionally scrolling fast through a tag. Could you explain, maybe using screen grabs, how to use tags most effectively, how to use tumblr savior, missing e, or whatever the latest fix is, what the difference is between an ask and a like and how to get your comments in the right place, and just generally how to get the most out of the platform?

2) Latest awesome extensions/apps etc that are making fannish life easier/better: this wouldn't need to be a presentation, but I think it'd be a cool short discussion, if there is anything you've discovered that someone else might not have.

And then we return to our regularly scheduled programming, namely:

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.)

As an administrative issue, the slots that are scheduled in against lunchbreaks are now "Warnings Attached" slots. No judgment whatsoever implied, YKINMK in full force, simply an acknowledgment that some people may prefer to avoid certain things.



Alicia/Kalinda
American Idol
Archer
Authority, The
Avengers, 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
Common Law
Community (Troy/Abed)
Daily Show (Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert)
Daily Show (show)
DC Comics
Doctor Who (new)/Torchwood (Captain Jack)
Doctor Who (classic)
Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23
Due South
Fastlane
Fast and Furious
Flashpoint
Fringe
Full Metal Alchemist
Generation Kill
Glee
Hardcore Logo
Haven
Hawaii Five-0
House
In Plain Sight
Josh and Drake
Ladies of Awesome (ensemble tribute)
Lewis
LoTRiPS Retrospective
Maiden Rose
Make it or Break it
Man Pain
Media Fandoms
Naming Conventions
NCIS
Nip/Tuck (Sean/Christian)
Original Slash Literature
Outrageous Fortune
Parks and Rec
Pegg/Frost
Pop
Pretender, The
Professionals, The
Psych (show)
Psych (Gus/Shawn)
Rare Pairs
Rizzoli and Isles
Scrubs
Sentinel
Sherlock
Six Degrees of Canada
Smallville (Clark/Lex)
Smallville (show)
Smash
Soaps
Sport RPS Tennis (Roger/Rafa)
Sport RPS Rugby Pretty Boys
Sport RPS Soccer
Sport RPS Hockey
Sports Night
Star Trek (TOS)
Star Trek (TNG)
Stargate Atlantis (show)
Stargate Atlantis (Sheppard/McKay)
Starsky and Hutch
Suits
Superman/Batman (movie)
Supernatural
Teen Wolf
Torchwood (Jack/Ianto)
Vampire Diaries
White Collar
X-Men, The


Current Offers:

china_shop -- Slash Pictionary
china_shop -- You're Beautiful (K-Drama)
china_shop -- Welcome to Night Vale
labellementeuse -- Orphan Black
maudlinrose -- Vid Shows 1 and 2
china_shop -- White Collar update
arysteia china_shop -- Pub Quiz Round 2
blademistress -- Damon/Alaric (Vampire Diaries)
blademistress -- Intro to Western Gaming
mab_browne -- Sentinel/Guide Fanon AUs
stickmarionette -- Phoenix Wright
stickmarionette -- World Cup
shihadchick -- Cougar Town
erilyn -- Person of Interest
aworldinside -- Tumblr 101
jocondite -- Les Miserables
arysteia -- Westerns
arysteia -- Canonical Gay Comics Couples
cyphomandra -- Betaing

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Loved the pub quiz, keen for that again. I also really like the idea of the Helpful Trivia discussion. I could come up with at least a couple of things, I bet everyone could.

I was thinking about pimping Orphan Black but I'm not sure I have time before g/t to put anything together, so if anyone else wants to take that over I'd be grateful.

(tui too lazy to log in)

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

If I can get organised, I thought I might do a quickie presentation along the lines of 'Why are sentinels in my Teen Wolf feed, why is Teen Wolf in my The Sentinel feed'. Sort of a quick and dirty and (since this is me) highly biased look at the spread of sentinel/guide fanon.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

I LIKE IT! ANOTHER!

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

How long? 15? 20? 30?

[china_shop]

I'm going to make a promo reel for You're Beautiful (K-Drama), and if anyone else wants to take on Night Vale that would be awesome (please!!!) -- I'm only 7 eps in and don't do tumblr, so I have no idea really. I just keep seeing it mentioned everywhere and figured we should have something.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

\o/\o/\o/

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

I’m a bit worried about finding the time for it but I’m planning on doing a Vampire Diaries Damon/Alaric OTP pimp (more vampires, sorry) and a run down on some of the biggest western game franchises and how the kind of stories they can tell have changed especially in regards to incorporating LGBTQ and ladies in their stories. This would likely be a quick run down on Mass Effect (which will also show an OTP I think a lot of fangirls would be into – Male!Shepard/Kaiden, possibly Female!Shepard/Liara) maybe touching on the Tomb Raider reboot which was amazing, and possibly Bioshock. Some of these games have crazy audacious worlds and stories and get to play with big concepts and I’d like to share some of that.

[china_shop]

That all sounds excellent, yay!

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

I really like the sound of that! And now for something completely different... \o/

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

Everything I needed to know about Bioshock I learned watching my kids play it - and it is indeed an amazing piece of world building.

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

i've kind of got nothing this year, but am available to help China with pictionary if required? SORRY BROS.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's okay dude, I've kinda got nothing either. But I will find something because otherwise I will be FAILING AS A MOD.

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD PIMP COUGAR TOWN. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW IT'S GREAT.

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

I will be doing my Phoenix Wright pimp, version 2.0. :D

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

\o/

I really enjoyed 1.0, so yay!

[maudlinrose.livejournal.com]

I'd better sort out my shit and watch a bunch of this year's vids, yes? I'm super-looking forward to this :D

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Yes, get on that. Bad fan, no churros. ;-p

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

I also have a vague idea about doing a World Cup primer, if that's okay. :D

[aworldinside.livejournal.com]

I could ... maybe do the Tumblr thing? I've been using it for years, and I can explain Tumblr Savior and XKit (the latest fix), and the difference between an ask and like etc.

Graceland is also a possibility but it would likely be a brief intro thing.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

That would be pretty awesome if you could/would. :D:D:D (I'm not actually stupid, *g*, and I'm sure if I applied myself I could figure it out, but...)

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

Okay, Blade talked me into a Cougar Town pimp, so give me 15 or 20 minutes, whatever fits the schedule. :D?

[belle-bing.livejournal.com]

Oh fuck yes. annon_of_rhi and I love that show.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Missed this being posted! Shall I do Murder Batman? It may be v 1.0 or 1.5, depending on if I get inspiration to tweak it :)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's gonna be any changes, so put me down for 20 min :)

[missiedith.livejournal.com]

So this might squick a whole bunch of people, but I really want some discussion about this A/B/O thing. (I only just came across this in the last couple of months, has it been around forever and I missed it?) Maybe it would be better for me to find someone to gabble to about this at lunch or something, but I'm kind of fascinated/bemused that fandom has created all these extra genders in order to discuss gender-based social conventions, roles and discrimination.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

It's been around for years, yeah. I was there the day it was born, on the Supernatural kinkmeme. We never dreamed quite how much it would grow, or how far it would go, though.

[jocondite.livejournal.com]

I could possibly pimp Les Miserables (novel + musical versions + movie, focus on Les Amis de l'ABC) if there's space, but it would depend on how organised I am in the next few weeks & whether Blade can teach me her ways.

[china_shop]

Cool!