get/together

It's time, folks. Share your latest great discovery with the masses. Remind us all how much we used to love old faithful before a new shiny caught our eye. Lead us through your latest (inevitable?) renaissance. In other words, please volunteer to present something at g/t this year.

The list so far:

stickmarionette Hamilton
labellementeuse and aworldinside Critical Role
meelie and maudlinrose Vid Shows
jocondite Versailles
jocondite Bloomsbury/Cambridge Apostles
arysteia Pub Quiz
arysteia What are we going to do with Imzy???
blademistress Life is Strange (game)
blademistress Victor Frankenstein
blademistress Unreal
mific Audiofandom (podfic, podcasts, audiobooks)
mific Art Show

Any mistakes or omissions (or late cancellations/withdrawals) please let me know asap. I've erred on the side of strictness re timings; there'll be inevitable pushback on the day, there always is.

Saturday

10am: Set-up of Hall
10.15: Slash Pictionary (arysteia)
-- second ninth verse, same as the first
11.30: Show Pimp (china_shop)
-- White Collar
The threesomefest continues: it's like fanfic on the screen
11.45: Marvel Comics for Movie Fans (arysteia)
-- Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask...
12.45: WARNINGS APPLY (mab_browne)
-- Maiden Rose
Id-fest in a dangerous time
1pm: LUNCH
1.45: Show Pimp (meelie)
-- Teen Wolf
There's not as much knotting as you'd think
2.15: Panel I (erilyn)
-- Queerbaiting & Related
When does it go from funny to offensive?
3.45: Show Pimp (china_shop)
-- Parks & Recreation
To know Knope is to love her
4pm: Show Pimp (cross_stitchery)
-- Lewis/Don't Trust The Bitch In Apartment 23
Two great tastes that taste great together (or something)
4.20: Ship Manifesto (blademistress)
-- Duke/Nathan/(Audrey?) (Haven)
Pimpmaster Blade gets me every time
4.40: Show Pimp (aworldinside)
-- Sports Night
Back from Europe just in time
5pm: Vid Show I (china_shop)
-- Premier Show
Our only resident vidder has at
6pm: Kitchen Duty and Tidy Up
6.30/7pm: Dinner
-- Tandoori Heritage

Sunday

10am: Ship Manifesto (dewey3067)
-- Steve/Danny (Hawaii 5-0)
Just the slash (and maybe the dog)
10.20: Show Pimp (china_shop)
-- Smash
The gay bits
10.45: Retrospective (missiedith)
-- Lotrips
A blast from Wellington's past
11am: Panel II (arysteia stickmarionette labellementeuse)
-- The Powers that Suck
When creators actively troll the fanbase
12.30: Show Pimp (china_shop)
-- In Plain Sight
Snark and Badassery in Albuquerque
12.45: RPF WARNING (shihadchick)
-- Lady Footballers
They're Superhot!
1pm: LUNCH
1.45: Show Pimp (dewey3067)
-- Common Law
They're the yin to each other's yang
2pm: PUB QUIZ (arysteia china_shop)
-- The Inaugural Fandom Quiz
Alcohol not actually allowed
3.30: Panel III (arysteia)
-- The Fannish Id & Related
All fandom all the time
5pm: Vidshow II (labellementeuse)
-- Lord King Bad Show
I bullied Tui into it
6pm: Clean Up Kitchen and Hall
6.30/7pm: Dinner
-- Siam Thai

Any questions or comments, please make them to this post. This is basically it though. We've attempted to address any concerns that have been expressed over the last few years, including but not limited to: more panels, more discussion, less/shorter blocks of run-on footage, earlier lunches, etc.

Friday: Typical Wellywood Fangirl Fun

tbc: Skivers’ Morning Tea/Second Breakfast/Lunch/Afternoon Tea (anyone who’s in Wellington, off work, and in the mood)
-- This one needs to be confirmed as I'm actually meant to be at work this year D:
7pm: Fangirl Friday I (Wellingtonians, plus early arrivals)
-- Dinner at the Oaks
8.30: Fangirl Friday II (Wellingtonians, plus subsequent arrivals)
-- Dessert at Olive

Saturday

10am: Welcome; GTKY; Teas and Coffees, etc
10.15: Slash Pictionary (shihadchick)
-- second eighth verse, same as the first
11.30: "Show" Pimp (arysteia)
-- The Avengers
Why the Marvel Cinematic Universe is kicking DC's ass
12.15: Made of Awesome
-- Women in the Nineties and early Noughties
Aeryn Sun, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Renee Montoya, Kenzi
12.45pm: Lunch for RPSers/Classic Fandoms Episode Watch
-- Highlander: xxx
Maybe next year someone will finally pimp it
1.30: Lunch for FPSers/Sports RPS (stickmarionette and shihadchick)
-- Ice Hockey
Beauties and Beast Mode: NHL Highlights for Fandom
-- FC Barcelona Class of 1987
Childhood Sweethearts Seek Happy Ending
2.15: Panel I (china_shop)
-- Rare Pairs
Witty comment goes here
3pm: Show Pimp (cross_stitchery)
-- Rizzoli and Isles
Witty comment goes here
3.15: Ship Manifesto (blademistress)
-- Troy/Abed
Witty comment goes here
3.45: Panel II (cyphomandra)
-- Original Slash
A highly biased guide to m/m romance, BL manga, and anything else with unrecognisable (mostly) men smouldering at each other
4.15: Panel III (alasen and meelie)
-- Naming Conventions
Witty comment goes here
4.45: Show Pimp (aworldinside)
-- Fringe
Witty comment goes here
5pm: Show Pimp (china_shop)
-- Archer
Witty comment goes here
5.15: Vidshow I (meelie)

7pm: Dinner
-- Tandoori Heritage
8.30: split programme, tbc

Sunday

10am: Show Pimp (alasen)
-- Hawaii 5-0
Witty comment goes here
10.30: "Show" Pimp (arysteia)
-- X-Men
You thought Clark and Lex were the only ones with foe!yay and an illicit love child...
11.15: Panel IV (vaudevilles)
-- Debutching Strong Women
How a sad lack of butch-girl eye-candy is turning me Bi
12.15: Show Pimp (cross_stitchery)
-- Suits
Witty comment goes here
12.30: Lunch for all -- Freedom! Unity!
1.15: Inaugural Grand Fandom Debate
-- Mpreg is a Blight Upon the Earth!
What do you mean my kink is not okay?
2.15: Panel V (arysteia)
-- Man Pain
I've paid the price twice! But was it the only way to get a backstory?
3.15: Ship Manifesto (blademistress)
-- Alicia/Kalinda
Witty comment goes here
3.45: Made of Awesome II
-- Women of Today
Parker and Hardison¹; Elizabeth, Diana and June; Olivia, Loretta West, Kono, Lois Lane, Dana Scully
4.15: Panel VI (arysteia)
Focus on Feedback/Orphaned Discourse
5.30: Vidshow II (meelie)

7pm: Dinner
-- Siam Thai
8.30: split programme, tbc

1. Honorary Woman Emeritus, *g*

Note 1: I'll let you know about Friday as soon as I've gone to Staff Briefing Monday ;-p

Note 2: There'll be a top level comment to this post where I attempt to wrangle the Ladies of Awesome. Please go there if that's you.

Note 3: Lunch breaks are scheduled at 45 minutes instead of a full hour. Partly to pack in as much as possible, partly to get the second slot on day one as early as possible. You are, of course, free to come and go as you please.

Note 4: The debate has been suggested/requested several times over the last few years, and this year we're taking the plunge. See the second top level comment for details if you're interested.

Note 5: Clearly there is a little buffer space between the end of scheduled programming and dinner. I won't bet against the idea we'll be running late by then... plus we need to clean up. :D

A formal call for volunteers/pimps/presentations etc will go out in the not-distant future, but since THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN has closed the school I'm seizing the moment to kick off an idea I've been mulling over.

Inspired in part by the success of these two categories in the Vid Oscars last year, and in part by morebliss's and my Epic Rewatches of Doom of the X-Files and SG-1, I want to see if we can put together a themed tag-team presentation in an area(s) that typically are under-represented. To be blunt, g/t is a sausage fest, and a pretty white one at that. And that's fine, because we're there to celebrate what we love, when we love it most. No harm, no foul, no criticism, no pressure.

BUT.

Watching 200 hours of X-Files in a fortnight reminded me intensely of how very, very much I was in love with Dana Scully when I was nineteen/twenty, lo these many years ago. And how sad I was that she'd never get her day in the sun/on the projector. And then I thought about my other big girl-crush, Lois Lane, and how outrageous it is that that big dumb alien Clark Kent gets all the airtime (not least from me) and so on.

SO.

I would LOVE to see a loosely connected set of segments on awesome women of fandom who otherwise never get their day. Is there someone that YOU love? alasen, what about Xena? vaudevilles, still feeling the Starbuck? labellementeuse, did Nikita live up to expectation? Or tell us why Batgirl was the best comic of 2011 (and Dan Didio should DIAF). Anyone and everyone else??? Just five or so minutes each, to encapsulate the Awesome, be it a couple of clips of key moments, or a songvid that sums her up, and/or a tiny summary of why you love her.

I see a secondary opportunity here too, in that it might coax those of you who are traditionally too reticent to present, or too busy to put together a whole Thing, into playing. Join me!

And then I thought, huh, we should also do non-white characters who never get their moment either. So if there's a character of colour who you love, please wow us with a tiny tribute to them.

Who's with me? Comment here to either volunteer or suggest characters. (But seriously, volunteer! Five minutes!)

Volunteers So Far:

Lois Lane - arysteia
Dana Scully - arysteia
Parker (Leverage) - morebliss
Hardison (Leverage) - morebliss
Elizabeth, Diana and June (White Collar) - china_shop
Aeryn Sun (Farscape) - china_shop
Loretta West (Outrageous Fortune) - blademistress
Cass Cain (Batgirl II) - stickmarionette
Steph Brown (Batgirl III) - labellementeuse
Renee Montoya (DC) - labellementeuse
Kono (Hawaii 5-0) - cross_stitchery
Kenzi (Lost Girl) - alasen
Olivia (Fringe) - the_antichris

[Alicia/Kalinda (The Good Wife) and Troy/Abed (Community) covered elsewhere by blademistress]
[Rizzoli and Isles and Suits covered elsewhere by cross_stitchery]

Much belated, and you all know how religiously we follow these things anyway...

Saturday

10am: set up at the hall
10.30: meet and greet, coffee/tea etc
11am: Slash Pictionary (china_shop)
-- second fifth verse, same as the first
12.30: Doctor Who (arysteia)
-- Forty five years in time and space
Old skool meets new, creating an explosion the approximate size of Belgium
1.30: lunch break (and political activism)
2.30: Nip/Tuck (blademistress)
-- Christian/Sean: Doctors Without Borders (Or ethics. And sometimes pants)
Now with 300 ccs less blood.
3.30: Soccer RPS (stickmarionette)
-- Soccer RPS Part II: Would You Like Some Football With Your Drama?
Yep, still gay.
4pm: The Professionals (kiwisue)
-- Bodie and Doyle -- kickin' it (and kickin' ass) old skool
4.30: The Sentinel (cross_stitchery)
-- Jim and Blair -- sense and sensuality
5pm: Vid Show 1 -- we bring the funny
6.30: Doctor Who (arysteia)
-- Doctor/Master -- clex for clever people
Foe!Yay -- it's the new black (and white... and all shades of grey...)
7.30: the acquisition of dinner
8pm: The Late Show (adults only)
Vid Show 2 -- we bring the pron
Bad Fic and Alcohol -- we dull the pain
dvd watching to end at 10pm

Sunday

11.30: brunch at Fidel's
12.30: set up and drinks
1pm: Torchwood (morebliss)
-- Jack/Ianto: No Plot Please, We're Torchwood
Welsh tea-boys and the omnisexual immortal ex-Time-Agents who love them
1.30: The Daily Show (china_shop)
-- clipshow
2pm: Smallville (arysteia)
-- Clark/Lex Redux -- "Just when I thought I was out... They. Pull me. Back in!"
Come on, admit it, it wouldn't be g/t without a Renaissance.
2.30 Vid Show 3 -- we farewell (or wave hello again) to the fandoms of yore
3.30: Media Fandoms (stickmarionette)
-- We Report, You Decide: RPS fandom and the Media
Slashers and those who enable them.
4.30: Flashpoint (china_shop and woolly_socks)
-- I don't know enough about it to fashion a witty blurb, but apparently we should be
watching...
5pm: pack up, clean up, farewell once more sweet attendees

Right then.

First official post of the 2008 season.

Dates: Main event Sat 4th and Sun 5th October. Welcome dinner, gossip, vids etc Fri 3rd for those who have already arrived.

Accommodation: Nomads Capital. It's a very nice, very new, hostel smack in the centre of down-town Wellington. What we hope to do, ideally, is put together groups and book the rooms so noone gets accidentally left off like happened last year. Prices are $31 per person for an Ensuite Quad, $23 for a ten bed dorm, and various combos in between. I can poll to see which options you favour when we get a stronger idea of numbers.

Venue: At the moment we are strongly leaning towards the Arts Centre, which is also smack centre of town. Location location. This is to be confirmed with the worst secretary in the world (TM).

Costs: To be confirmed when venue is confirmed, but looking very reasonable. Self catered this year, so basic venue and admin costs only.

Attendance: Confirmed -- arysteia, china_shop, morebliss, woolly_socks, kiwisue, cross_stitchery, mab_browne, shihadchick, blademistress, stickmarionette, sethra2000, aworldinside, blue_raven, angel_a.

Official Forms: Will be posted soon. Bwah.

Contributors: arysteia = 1) Doctor Who in 15 Minutes, 2) Doctor/Master -- Clex for Clever People, 3) Smallville Update -- Renaissance/Requiem 3 for the Fandom that Will Not Die; china_shop = 1) Slash Pictionary, 2) Due South part deux, 3) Flashpoint; morebliss = Torchwood; cross_stitchery = Sentinel; blademistress = Nip/Tuck (sans gore); stickmarionette = Update of Soccer RPS.

All remaining fandoms (including those previously visited) are up for grabs to volunteers. Your contribution can take whatever form you like -- pimp reel, slide show, powerpoint, old skool handouts, ship manifesto, you name it. Go nuts. Also panel moderators and suggestions for discussion please.

I think that's it for now. COME! The power of slash compels you!

Most of my flist has been talking Katrina all week, and while my sympathy is real, I'd rather think and talk about something fun today. So... Progress report and updates.

1) chinashop and I met for lunch on Saturday and organised a preliminary timetable. It's pretty open really, we're not aiming for German efficiency and precision, but we think we've worked it out quite nicely.

2) damned_colonial is working on assembling a greatest hits package for panfandom vids, which I think is a neat idea. China and I have scheduled a slot for that on the timetable. Some concern has been expressed about people wanting to show other things at different times, or possibly to subgroups rather than the whole gang, and I just wanted to weigh in and say obviously that's not a problem. There are extra dvds and vcrs around the house, and if Sinpoz was anything to go by there'll be a ratio of one laptop to every two people, so I would encourage everyone to bring anything and everything they feel like (limited only by luggage allowances I guess). I know I was disappointed when I got to Sydney and saw how relaxed everything was that I hadn't brought anything with me from home.

3) Fandom intros. I really am very keen to introduce every fandom represented (or at least every *primary* fandom) before we get down to some of the sessions - it does help to have at least a passing knowledge of who everyone is and what's going on I think. Basically if you're the only one who called it in the poll, the floor is yours. On that basis, I'm taking Smallville, China is doing Due South... and I *assume* d_c will do Age of Sail, hnix House, i_naid Popslash (hey, she's the only one who specified it!), stickmarionette Fullmetal Alchemist (and boy do I need that explained)... Which leaves Sinden, Meelie, Alasen and Girlclone to duke it out over SGA. Oh the curse of being flavour of the month. Pull a name out of a hat!!! This is not the same as the pimping session, if anyone is confused. These are ten to fifteen minute intros of who's who, what's what, who's hot, etc. With slides and porn evidence as desired. I'm writing up a template. Not because I'm a control freak, but because I'm having so much fun I just can't help myself. *sigh* If only I used my powers for good.

4) Fifteen Minutes of Fame. Remember when I said everyone got one? You do. So start planning on how to use it and let me know with vague ideas when they start percolating.

5) Subs/Registration. Ah, the serious bit. I'd like to ask everyone who's coming just to sessions for ten dollars, and everyone who's staying over at the Manor for fifteen. This will allow China and I to purchase snacks, drinks, nametags, spot prizes (Ha! There are games!), breakfast foods, etc. Paypal is probably best. Plus this way you have to come!!! There's no escape now...

And I think that's it for this update. I'm heading back downstairs to watch Lois and Clark. Clark is about to realise he married a clone instead of Lois. Mwa ha ha ha.

Ooh! And also. For those who care. My Clark and Lex figures are fornicating on my bedside table. I originally only ordered Lex, and he's been alone and celibate for over a year. But he looked so sad and lonely I caved and ordered Clark for him. They've been hard at it since I opened the courier box this morning. Do *not* ask how I can reconcile my love for Lois with my love for Lex, it's one of the mysteries of the universe. But when it comes to teh sex, I think you know who has my heart.

Bye now. Get planning your evil plots for world domination well I was going to put something innocuous, but there isn't anything. Get planning on your evil plots.