Title: Baby's First Fanfic: sourcing good "introductory" fanfic for non-fannish friends
Mod(s): me and/or/and+or others?
Category: Meta/Multi-Fandom
Description: Whether a friend who's never read fic wants to see what it's all about, or you're the one who's on a crusade to convince someone fic can be amazing - not every fic is the perfect introduction to fandom. In this panel/discussion, we'll try to source fic recs that are good 101 fics, for a variety of fandoms, genres and fic-lengths.
Other notes: Needs fleshing out but I think the format would be a panel or discussion based on both advance submissions of recs, and also audience participation. Hopefully we will all leave with a toolkit of recs for our curious colleagues, our older relatives during holiday meals, our friends who don't understand the concept of reading any fiction that isn't a print copy, or that annoying facebook dude who argues that fanfic is inferior to literature and you just want to tell him TAKE THIS and SEE and even though that 120k RPF dubcon d/s fic is one of the most amazing pieces of literature you've ever read, it probably won't do the job in this case.
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Mod(s): me and/or/and+or others?
Category: Meta/Multi-Fandom
Description: Whether a friend who's never read fic wants to see what it's all about, or you're the one who's on a crusade to convince someone fic can be amazing - not every fic is the perfect introduction to fandom. In this panel/discussion, we'll try to source fic recs that are good 101 fics, for a variety of fandoms, genres and fic-lengths.
Other notes: Needs fleshing out but I think the format would be a panel or discussion based on both advance submissions of recs, and also audience participation. Hopefully we will all leave with a toolkit of recs for our curious colleagues, our older relatives during holiday meals, our friends who don't understand the concept of reading any fiction that isn't a print copy, or that annoying facebook dude who argues that fanfic is inferior to literature and you just want to tell him TAKE THIS and SEE and even though that 120k RPF dubcon d/s fic is one of the most amazing pieces of literature you've ever read, it probably won't do the job in this case.