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Calling for more panel moderators!
UPDATED 6/18:
The panel votes are tallied and the schedule is coming together, but we are still looking for a few more people to join our cohort of forty-something panel moderators. We have eight popular panels with no moderators at all and four with only one moderator who'd like to work with a co-mod or two.
At CON.TXT, a panel moderator leads (or co-leads) a discussion among the attendees. Generally mods prepare leading questions to keep the conversation moving; some panels include a lengthier presentation by the moderator. We can work with you ahead of the con if you'd like some guidance.
Interested? Email us asap to volunteer as a moderator.
The following panels currently have no moderators, so if you take them on you're welcome to update the descriptions to your satisfaction -- but remember that they were voted in based on the current descriptions, so you might want to keep that in mind.
Title: Writing Outside the Binary (Meta)
Description: What are good fandoms and communities in fandom for non-binary-gendered or genderqueer characters (canon or fanon)? What are good fanworks to rec? Share the joy of writing an OT4 where everybody has a different pronoun, talk about what we'd like to see in fandom and fanworks, and share tips on writing nonbinary and genderqueer characters.
Title: But That Wasn't in the Book! (Multi-Fandom)
Description: Novels have always been translated to the screen, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Let's talk about the most recent adaptations (A Wrinkle in Time, Altered Carbon, Game of Thrones, whatever else). What makes them better or worse? What books haven't been made into movies that need to be? What should never have been touched?
Title: Fandom Drought (Multi-Fandom)
Description: I haven't found a new pairing since Hannibal was cancelled. What do you do to find a new fandom or pairing? How long have you ever been without a fandom? Come pimp your fandom or hear about obscure ones.
Title: Large Fandom Speed Dating (Multi-Fandom)
Description: You're between fandoms, and you want something where there will be new fic every day--let us match you with the large fandom you've been waiting for.
Title: Black Lightning (SIngle Fandom)
Description: Let's talk about Black Lightning--what it has to say in dialog with the rest of the DC tv-verse, and in thematic dialog with Black Panther and other Black-led superhero stories. (And, of course, about the awesome women.)
Title: But They Keep Not Running Away: Marvel's Runaways (Single Fandom)
Description: The Runaways is a great comic and now a fascinating live action show. The actors playing the kids are amazing, and even better are the adults! Let's talk about all the great cross-generational, cross-species, and incestuous slashy goodness. And why is it taking them so long to run away?
The following panels have one moderator already, so if you join them you can decide amongst yourselves whether anything should be updated. We'll put you in touch if you're not familiar with each other already.
Title: Zines and Archives (How-To)
Current mod: Melannen
Looking for: prefer to have a co-mod or two who was/is involved in slash fandom zine communities
Description: Learn all about non-computer-based fanfic. What are zines and zine fandom like? How do you read them, learn about them, make them, own them, archive them?
Title: Good for a Laugh (Multi-Fandom)
Current mod: monkeypie
Looking for: anyone
Description: Smart sitcoms can combine sharp writing with great characters to deliver more than just a good joke. Current comedies like Brooklyn 99, One Day at a Time and the Good Place have all given us queer characters and addressed current issues of race, class and gender. Or maybe you're more interested in discussing which Golden Girl was the best? Let's talk about modern and classic sitcoms that have something more to say.
Title: One-Shot Wonders (Multi-Fandom)
Current mod: KateKintail
Looking for: anyone
Description: Drowning in WIPS? Don't have time to read yet another novel-length fanfic? Come share your favorite one-shot recs! This is your opportunity to share that perfect one-shot you read once upon a time that will make everyone fall in love with your favorite fandom or pairing. Or maybe you've got a one-shot that's too wild or too hilarious to make it onto a normal rec list. Bring us your PWPs, your fluff, your crack pairings yearning to be read!
Title: You Must Be At Least Four Centuries Old To Enter (Multi-Fandom)
Current mod: Melannen
Looking for: anyone
Description: The best fandoms are the old fandoms. The really old fandoms. From Shakespeare to Gilgamesh to the Sagas of the Icelanders, when will our OTPs finally get together? Which ancient text is slashiest? Which is the best adaptation of Journey to the West? Is it really best translated as the "The Discourse"? What is our favorite Julius Caesar joke? And will we finally solve, once and for all, the question of whether Achilles was a bottom?
Just added!
Title: Once More With Feeling (and Singing Along): The Buffy the Vampire Musical Singalong! (Single Fandom)
Current Mod: Cinco
Looking for: anyone, but would especially love help editing the video file before the con.
Description: In honor of BtVS's 20th anniversary, let's sing along to the musical episode (slightly trimmed for time) and roll around in all those feels. Buffy returns from the dead but is emotionally checked out! Giles decides to go back to England for reasons that were never particularly clear to your mod! Dancing vampires! Production numbers about dry cleaning! Buffy/Spike, before it all went wrong! Anya/Xander, before it all went wrong! Tara/Willow, in the midst of it all going terribly wrong! Captions provided, snark and cosplay welcomed.
Title: Ace Spectrum in Fandom Redux (Meta)
Current Mod: Neotoma
Looking for: anyone
Description: Let's talk about being ace in fandom--as a fan, and as a character. We'll talk about representation in our shows, inclusion in fannish spaces, and The Discourse--oh, The Discourse.
Title: Fandom's Kitchen: Food & Fanworks (Meta)
Current Mod: Neotoma
Looking for: anyone
Description: Sometimes the feelings are on the plate. Sometimes the sandwich means I love you. A discussion of food in fandoms and fanworks, and recipes and food AS fanworks.
Title: Fairy Tales (and Where to Find the Good Ones) (Multi-Fandom)
Looking for: anyone
Description: Fairy tales are an old-old fandom, and some of the modern retellings are pretty great. Perhaps it's the female leads that are kicking it up? Let's talk about which version of Red Riding Hood and Cinderella we love best, and why Evil Queens simply rule.
Title: How Slash Fandom Talks to Itself (Meta)
Looking for: anyone
Description: Fandom is all over the web, on a bunch of different social media sites with different norms and formats, and seems to still be seeking a perfect home. Where are we now? How do those places work, and how can people find fandom friends in them? What do we want in an online home for slash fandom?