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

[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.

[missiedith.livejournal.com]

Trust SPN, this does not surprise me in the least. I stumbled across it in Avengers, and am reading way too much of it in morbid fascination. A bit of me wants to put all these writers in brighly lit rooms and conduct some deep study. How self-aware is this kink? Are people consciously writing about these things in this way for a specific purpose? Or have they latched onto the kink and just brought along the social issues without really thinking about it? Is there an angry feminist commentary/critique I can go read somewhere?

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

In Spn it was legitimately just about the fucking, the filthier the better. I think it was XM:FC that added the social commentary, and then it took off from there. (Happy to chat about it in a corner, but probably not give a primer sober...)

[missiedith.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. I tried talking about a slightly edited version of it with non-fannish people and they just looked at me strangely.

[china_shop]

Heh -- I'm at completely the other extreme from Victoria: I know nothing at all about A/B/O. (Like, okay, I know what the letters stand for? But that's it. I've gone out of my way to avoid it, under the impression that it's inherently dubconny? IDK.) So I'd actually be interested in this too, if only because it seems to be taking over the fannish universe. You know, so long as people don't mind me sitting there, potentially making "ewww" faces. ;-)

What kind of thing were you thinking? Informal chat? Planned discussion? Powerpoint?

[missiedith.livejournal.com]

I was mainly thinking informal chat, unless there was lots of interest and someone very brave offered to mod/explain the world to me.

...but now that you mention it a powerpoint would be so truly hilarious I would... hmmm. I'm trying to come up with something to express how spectacular this would be. I think I would bake a cake. I would then ice the cake, and I would then use writing icing to write a drabble in whatever fandom and to whatever specifications the presenter so desired.

Mmmm cake.

If you're interested, I did stumble across a primer (http://archiveofourown.org/works/403644/chapters/665489) on AO3.

[china_shop]

So it's not that you want to run a discussion yourself? (You could! With powerpoint! *encourages*)

[missiedith.livejournal.com]

You don't get me that easily, sneaky enabler that you are. Like the ads on TV say, I give you a "Yeah, naaaah" on this one.