Panel suggestions are open!
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con_txtWe are now taking panel suggestions for CON.TXT 2021! Please read this post and comment with your suggestions using the template below.
We are making several changes to the panel proposal process this year:
- Open versus Closed panels. This year, you will have a choice between submitting a panel proposal as Open or Closed. A Closed panel is a panel for which you are submitting the idea as well as the full lineup of mods. If the panel is accepted, the panels committee will not find you any additional co-mods.
An Open panel is a panel you are asking the panels committee to put together—you propose the idea, and we assemble a panel out of the potential mods who volunteer. Every mod selected will be able to opt in or out of the final panel, but no mod will have veto power over co-mod assignment.*
If you would like to have control over the mod lineup of the panel you are proposing to mod, we invite you to use the comments on this post to find co-mods and submit your panel as Closed. (Feel free to edit your proposal post if you fill up a panel before the deadline!)
(*Just to be clear—if we assign you to a panel with someone you do not trust to adhere to the Code of Conduct, please let us know! Our goal is to streamline the panel selection process and simplify communication with mods, not to force you to work with anyone you don’t feel safe around.) - Prerecorded versus live content. While most panels will still be conducted live, we are offering two kinds of pre-recorded panels this year!
- Full-length prerecorded panels. What it says on the tin! This format is best-suited for How-to panels or other information-heavy panels involving a lot of screensharing, but we will consider proposals for prerecorded programming in all categories.
- Minipanels! We’re hoping to do at least one block of short (3–10 minute) prerecorded presentations—basically a big fannish knowledge party! This is a great place to pimp your fandom, share your favorite nifty facts, or rant about your pet peeve.
- Full-length prerecorded panels. What it says on the tin! This format is best-suited for How-to panels or other information-heavy panels involving a lot of screensharing, but we will consider proposals for prerecorded programming in all categories.
Also—not a change from last year, but a thing you may not have known—you can suggest vid shows! If you would like to VJ a vid show panel—or you think someone else should—suggest it here!
All attendees and those considering attending are welcome to suggest panels, regardless of whether or not you want to moderate. Most full-length panels are 50 minutes long but we have had panels run for a longer duration, so please note if you think your panel suggestion needs more time.
If you have an idea for a panel but don’t want to moderate it, no problem—suggest it as an Open panel! If you see an Open panel suggestion and would like to moderate it, drop a comment and volunteer.
Timeline
Now: Panel submissions are open!
Sunday, April 18 (11:59 pm EST): Panel submissions close.
Thursday, April 22: Panel voting opens!
Friday, May 7: Panel voting closes.
Early May: Notification of panel assignments.
May 25: Prerecorded panels and minipanels due.
Beginning of June: CON.TXT 2021 programming schedule posted on our website.
Mid-June: Virtual con instructions go out.
June 25-27: CON WEEKEND!
FAQ:
Q: What is a CON.TXT panel?
A: CON.TXT panels are typically discussions among all attendees, led by one or more moderators who have prepared a discussion outline. Some panels include a lengthier presentation by the moderator, and some are activity, workshop, or game panels. Most panels are 50 minutes long, but some are longer. This year, we are also scheduling blocks of 3–10 minute prerecorded minipanels.
Q: What is a good CON.TXT panel suggestion?
A: You want a catchy, yet informative title and a two- to four-sentence description that raises specific questions. Warn for spoilers if your panel will include them. Use a fannish in-joke or two! Say up front if the purpose of the panel is to attract newbies or to hold a detailed dissection of book eighteen in the series.
Q: Are you taking all suggestions?
A: We'll put all suggestions up for a vote by our attendees, and as many as possible will be scheduled. If your panel doesn't get in, you will have a chance to sign up for a DIY panel slot during the con.
Q: Won't voting eliminate smaller fandom panels?
A: We make sure to offer a wide range of panel topics, and the vote helps us choose among similar panels or decide which suggestions should be combined. It's not a strict numbers cut-off.
Q: What if someone else has already suggested something that I was going to suggest?
A: Panels can have more than one moderator. If they’ve suggested it as an Open panel, comment on their suggestion and offer to co-mod! If we receive panel suggestions that are substantially similar, we may reach out about combining the two ideas.
Q: How many panels can I suggest?
A: As many as you like! We won't schedule you to moderate more than three of them, though, so if they all make it through the voting process we'd appreciate your help in suggesting alternate moderators to take over your panel ideas.
Q: What if my friend wants to moderate this panel I'm suggesting?
A: That's fine; you can put your friend's name in as moderator and we'll consider it to be their suggestion. Please don't put people's names in without making sure they're willing!
Q: What if I suggest a panel now and then change my mind later on?
A: We'll check in with all potential moderators after voting to make sure you're still enthusiastic about the topic.
Q: Do I have to have a co-mod?
A: For this virtual con, you do at least need to have a tech mod—it’s just too much to ask one person to lead the whole discussion and manage muting and unmuting and chat on their own. However, if you’re sure you don’t want help leading discussion or presenting, you can submit a Closed panel of just yourself, and we will only assign a volunteer to help out as tech mod.
Q: How do I pick a category?
A: A Meta panel is one with a topic that's not tied to any particular fandom, although certain fandoms may be discussed or used as examples. A Multifandom panel has a topic that's common across several specific fandoms. A Single Fandom panel goes into depth in a particular fandom. An Activity panel can be something like a podfic recording session or a game of Pictionary. A How-to panel teaches attendees how to do something.
To propose a panel for CON.TXT 2021, please comment on this post with the following information:
Title: A Short Yet Interesting Title
Mod(s): The badge name(s) of interested moderator(s)—please list your own badge name if you would like to moderate
Open or Closed: Use “Open” if you would like the panels committee to assign mods to this panel. Use “Closed” if the co-mods named are prepared to mod the panel on their own.
Type: Full-length live panel, full-length prerecorded panel, 5-minute minipanel, or vid show.
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom, Single Fandom, Activity, How-to
Description: This is a longer description of the panel, which will be included in the con program. This should be as specific as you can be in a paragraph!
Other notes: These notes will not be part of the final listing for the panel and will not appear in the con program, but can include things like technology requirements or general thoughts on panel content which you'd like to flesh out in further comments.
To propose a change or expansion to an already-suggested panel or to volunteer as an additional moderator for one, please reply to the suggestion and not to the main post so that each panel's discussion is threaded. Note that if two suggestions seem very similar we may merge them into one, so check what's already been proposed before suggesting a new panel. If a similar idea exists, comment to ask if the original suggester wants to work with your ideas.
An example from 2018:
Title: Werewolf Torts and Undead Annuities 201
Mod(s): v_greyson & maralenenok
Category: Meta
Description: Do zombies get life annuities? Does a lawyer with a demonic possession have a conflict of interest? We’re back for Volume 2 of supernatural legal and actuarial hypotheticals! No prerequisites or required reading, just bring your questions about vampire life insurance and whether entering the fairy ring in the forest is actually a legally binding contract.
Other notes: We will not be providing legal, financial, or any other kind of advice.
Feel free to brainstorm away in the comments section!
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Date: 2021-03-24 02:06 pm (UTC)On another note, I drove by the hulk of the old con hotel last week. It's being dismantled in preparation for the new Amazon HQ and was SO SAD.
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Date: 2021-03-24 03:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-03-25 05:32 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Noxelementalist, whoever else is up for it
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Now that we're living in the so-called "Golden Age" of TV, it's easier than ever to find and revisit the fandoms you thought nobody else remembered or got around to seeing. so let's talk about some of these "lost but not forgotten" fandoms who are just waiting for the right folks to find it again- rare shows/rare pairing shippers welcome!
Other notes: Not really? Experience shows this depends a lot on how extroverted people are that day. Too few and it becomes like a series of mini-panels pimping fandoms. Many and it can be a fun conversation.
Title: You're Tearing Me Apart Lisa!
Mod(s): needs more of a host than a mod, but whomever
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: activity
Description: Need to unload? Feel like indulging your inner bad movie fan? Come join us for a showing of the so-called "Citizen Kane" of bad movies, Tommy Wiseau's 2003 flick, The Room. Note: while all participation is virtual, a viewer participation guide will be provided for those who want to play along.
Other notes: bring a sense of humor. I'm okay with substituting Rocky Horror in place of this flick if needed. The easiest viewer guide for the room I can find at this time is available at http://www.kristianfletcher.com/THEROOM_viewersguide.pdf (we'd likely modify it some).
Title: Bring Your Fandom to Work
Mod(s): whoever wants it? I can mod, but see "Other"
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: It's always that one detail about your job/school/hobby that throws you out of a story. It's time for you to share your expertise to save a writer! Bring your pet peeves that Everyone Gets Wrong in fic, and show us how it's really done.
Other notes: Personally I think it's helpful to rotate mods/get different professions in the room. The larger bit though is to make sure a list of the peeves is shared out later (last year this got kinda wiped out between those who posted in chat vs in Discord).
Title: Canon Tea and Coffee Shop
Mod(s): ...not sure you'd need a formal mod so much as a host?
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Activity
Description: Feeling a little overwhelmed from the other panels and just want to unwind for a bit? Well break out the beverage of your choice, kick back, and chat with fans about how their con and life is going!
Other notes: I'm labeling it with tea and coffee because I want to be sensitive to any AA folks out there and not force folks to be drunk/drinking alcohol.
[Note: following inspired by that one Twitter post of 2005 ConneXions' program]
Title: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
Mod(s): whoever
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Multi-fandom
Description: From Harry Potter and BBC Merlin to Guardian and MCU, magic gets used and intermingled A LOT with possible sexy times. But what complications or advantages does magic bring into relationships, and how do we dissect an existing magic system so we can use it believably in canon?
Other notes: Content-wise I'd like to see this panel discuss both the ways magic is and is not used with character consent, though I'd leave the balance up to the mods.
Title: Can Fandom be Healthy?
Mod(s): Whoever
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel or full-length prerecorded panel
Category: ...How-to??
Description: a lot of fandom can be pretty sedentary, and fandom is often a place of escape for those in rough mental well-being. How can we as fandom help to promote a better sense of physical and mental well-being given this?
Other notes: i'd appreciate mods be body positive folks.
Title: Who Watches the Watchers?
Mod(s): whoever, though I don't mind modding if needed
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Multi-fandom
Description: Spirituality and Religion can be a huge thing in a show's canon, from characters becoming or getting confused for divinities and vice versa (think: Xena, Buffy, BBC Merlin, Supernatural, Star Trek, etc.). How do we best depict these values in fanworks, and how do our own "faith backgrounds" impact this?
Other notes: I would *greatly* appreciate a mix of mods, at least 1 of whom *isn't* Christian, if possible, because content-wise you'll have a large range of beliefs and backgrounds to work with.
Title: The Other Closet
Mod(s): whoever
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: ... How-to?
Description: Even in today's world there can be an...awkward moment when you have to tell someone "hey, I am totally into Steve and Bucky boning." So who, and how, do you tell folks you're into slash? Is this a first date conversation, or should a ring be put on it first? And should your parents, siblings, coworkers, etc., EVER find out?
Other notes: bring a sense of humor?
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Date: 2021-03-24 04:12 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Lanna, would like co-mods
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom
Description: Highlander? Sentinel? Due South? What would your 90s show be like if your show was now.
Other notes: I'd like this to discuss pretty much any classic 90s fandom, and so would love co-mods who know/are in those fandoms. I'm only in Highlander.
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Date: 2021-03-25 08:53 pm (UTC)Would you include stuff that straddled decades, like Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, STTNG (80s-90s), Stargate SG-1, ST: Voyager, Buffy, Farscape, Earth: Final Conflict? (90s-2000s?)
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Date: 2021-03-24 04:28 pm (UTC)ProfitAlso FunMod(s): I'm in, and I think
Open or Closed: Open for now--co-mods who have worked on other cons, especially traditional SF cons, would be great.
Type: Full-length, live
Category: Meta
Description: Interested in joining your local concom, or starting your own con? Or just in seeing what happens behind the scenes? We'll talk about best practices and horror stories, the emergence of the online convention, and what lessons we can take from online cons when we can start getting together in person again.
Title: "But the Twentieth Century Will Be Happy": Writing Historical Fandoms 201
Mod(s): Me! and a couple of co-mods would be great
Open or Closed: Open for now
Type: Full-length, live
Category: Meta
Description: We've had a lot of panels about research; this panel is for talking about the problems that more research doesn't solve: How to write that story that goes AU from historical canon, when only ten people in fandom will spot the divergence point? What about the historical AU of your historical canon? How to bring new readers in your tiny fandom up to speed without boring everyone who already knows the background? Or to pin down a canon that doesn't seem to know what year it takes place? What about older canons that were historical fiction when they were made--and the study of history has moved on? Or canons that were futuristic--and actual history has moved on? This panel is all about the squishy space between what your research says, what the reader knows, and what the canon believes about history.
[My current fandom is Les Miserables, and I've done a lot of historical one-shots for Yuletide; I would love to have co-mods with backgrounds in other fandoms.]
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Date: 2021-03-24 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-03-24 04:31 pm (UTC)Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: We've all been there. A meander down the wrong road and suddenly you're working out quarry locations and how much rainfall they get a year. Let's share our weirdest details that we worked out for ourselves but never managed to fit it into the story.
Other notes: I may be open to mod this, but would love it if someone else would.
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Date: 2021-03-24 05:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-03-29 01:03 am (UTC)Mod(s): Set (sansets)
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: vid show
Category: Multi-fandom
Description: The last year has been rough. Come join us to relax and squee with some vids that bring uncomplicated joy.
Other notes: I'm absolutely going to be soliciting suggestions if this is voted into the con, because I want as diverse a representation of uncomplicated joy as I can get, and I KNOW that there are a bunch of fandoms out there that I don't know anything about that still have joyful vids.
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Date: 2021-04-01 01:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-03-29 10:08 pm (UTC)Mod(s): queercore curriculum (and anyone else welcome!)
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: From Pride and Prejudice to Harry/Draco, enemies-to-lovers is one of the greatest romance tropes of all time. Let's compare our favorite enemies-to-lovers ships and discuss why we find this trope so irresistible in fandom and beyond.
Title: The Magnus Archives: Make Your Statement, Face Your Fear of a Post-TMA World
Mod(s): queercore curriculum (and anyone else welcome!)
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Single fandom
Description: So many of us discovered The Magnus Archives in 2020, which was a year so genuinely terrifying that it's no surprise that a horror podcast dedicated to understanding fear was such a big hit. Come discuss what we find so compelling about The Magnus Archives, including our favorite Entities, avatars, and statements, and where we go from here now that The Magnus Archives has ended.
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Date: 2021-03-30 12:30 am (UTC)Mod(s): kitschful, tentatively, though I'd need minimum one more mod to help with Apple devices, or just. Some volunteers to take over entirely.
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length prerecorded panel
Category: How-to
Description: So you've fallen into a cfandom that you watched the drama for on Netlix or Youtube! ...Now where is the rest of the content? Learn the basics of navigating sites like Weibo, JJWXC, and Mao-er FM, signing up for Alipay, ordering from Taobao, using translation apps, and more.
Other notes: The description is ambitious, inclusion of elements dependent on time/mod availability. I would need a fair amount of help with this, if I could even mod. Ideally would take suggestions beforehand of things folks need the most help/guidance with.
Co-writing panel suggestion
Date: 2021-03-30 12:41 pm (UTC)Mod(s): the_leaky_pen (you may know me as thehonestpuck) & anyone else who has experience collaborating on fan content who might like to do this
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: How-to? Maybe
Description: Have you read co-written fics (or seen co-created vids) and wonder how the authors/creators did that? Are you interested in collaborating with someone and don't know where to start? Here a few experienced co-creators will talk about their processes in working with others on creating fanworks.
Other notes: I would love to have creators who have collaborated in a variety of mediums on this panel. I can speak to co-writing fic, but that's all.
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Date: 2021-04-06 12:02 am (UTC)Re: Co-writing panel suggestion
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Date: 2021-04-01 01:55 pm (UTC)Mod: corbae
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: Pre-recorded panel
Category: How-To
Description: Have the basics of Ao3 tags and filters down but want to learn more? Prepare for your quest by learning about Advanced Search, hidden search operators, and tips on using tools like Google, the Wayback Machine, and Fanlore to find the fic of your heart.
Title: User scripts for fun and profit
Mod: corbae
Open or closed: Closed
Type: Pre-recorded panel
Category: How-to
Description: Learn how to use user scripts to enhance your Ao3 experience.
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Date: 2021-04-01 03:11 pm (UTC)Mod(s): corbae & v_greyson
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Aliens made them do it, huddling for warmth, arranged marriages, and fake dating: Forced intimacy tropes are all over fandom. We’ll talk about the hallmarks of forced intimacy tropes, why they appeal to us, and our favorite examples.
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Date: 2021-04-03 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-03 07:26 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Dee Laundry and please more mods
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom
Description: Why do I adore shows where characters play-act as different from themselves? Leverage, Quantum Leap, Mission: Impossible, Three's Company, Remington Steele, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, "undercover" episodes of X-Files and other spy/cop/agent shows, the switch in Good Omens, Mirror AUs and bodyswap in sci fi shows, polyjuice potion, the "everyone is Janet" ep of The Good Place... Come help me (or someone who looks like me) sort this all out, with recs of good canons, fannish tropes/tags, and fanworks for identity play.
Title: Name That Kink!
Mod(s): Dee Laundry
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: 5-minute minipanel
Category: Activity
Description: Game - In the presented 2 & 1/2 minute vid, originally created for an "All You Can Kink" challenge, how many kinks can you spot? Winner will have Kink-Spotting Royalty bragging rights for all time. (Knowledge of the canon not necessary, but must be able to tolerate massive US 1980s-ness. Content notes will be provided beforehand.)
Other notes: Will need help showing vid online / moving from Zoom room to vid and back.
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Date: 2021-04-05 11:45 pm (UTC)Mods: me and
Open or closed: Closed
Type: Full-length, live
Category: Activity
Description: Fannish pictionary brings characters from disparate fandoms together under strange and often sex-ay circumstances. Ever felt a deep yearning to draw Alexander Hamilton and Black Widow having a threesome with Pete Wentz? Join us for fannish pictionary to make your dreams come true.
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Date: 2021-04-07 04:22 pm (UTC)1) in the Timeline, at: Beginning of June: CON.TXT 2020 programming schedule posted on our website and,
2) after the Q&A at: To propose a panel for CON.TXT 2020, please comment on this post with the following information:)
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Date: 2021-04-07 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-07 10:47 pm (UTC)Title: The Unabashed Queerness of Shan He Ling![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Mod(s): me (
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Single fandom
Description: A super-brief intro to Shan He Ling (Word of Honour) and then just. a lot of talking about the queerness of it all.
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Date: 2021-04-07 10:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-04-10 12:59 am (UTC)Mod(s): neotoma, greenygal
Open or Closed: Closded
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Single Fandom
Description: DuckTales (2017) brought back the entire Disney Afternoon in a witty show with great stories, an amazing cast, and coherent character arcs. Let's gush!
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Date: 2021-04-13 01:38 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Dee
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Autistic people and cousins (ADHD-havers etc.), who were the first characters whose minds you identified with? Where you were struck with the joy of: "That being thinks like me!" Spock, Data, the replicants in Blade Runner? Let's take some time to share our autistic icons, then flap, rock, and cheer in celebration. (In this panel, the character does not have to be autistic themselves. We're talking icons to autistic people, regardless of whether the icons are autistic.)
Other notes: none
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Date: 2021-04-15 02:02 am (UTC)Mod(s): alpheratz & verity
Category: Activity
Description: Top/bottom discourse got you down? Not sure you've fully considered your character's circumstances in making this most important of decisions: whose dick goes in whose ass? Worry not: we have the solution! Join us for a quiz show where you'll learn to recognize why no one should top, no one should bottom, and why others are wrong to write either!
Other notes:
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Date: 2021-04-17 04:35 pm (UTC)Mod(s): me and corbae
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Multi-fandom
Description: We'll talk about less frequently spoken about danmei! Come join us to chat about Peerless, Golden Stage, Female General & Eldest Princess, Qi Ye, and more!
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Date: 2021-04-17 05:50 pm (UTC)Title: Werewolf Torts & Undead Annuities Vol. 4
Mod(s): alpheratz & v. greyson
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Join us for a comedy adventure through more supernatural legal and actuarial hypotheticals! Examples of previous discussion topics include: Do demonic cultivators have higher life insurance premiums? Do werewolves on the moon owe property taxes? If you were split into a good twin and an evil twin, would your retirement account be divided? Can ghosts testify in court? Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Please consult a qualified risk assessment professional before attempting to raise the dead.
Title: Why We Need Leverage in 2021 (with a bonus introduction to Leverage)
Mod(s): everyfragment & v_greyson
Open or Closed: Closed
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Single Fandom
Description: The rich and powerful take what they want. Leverage is a show about the people who steal it back for you. We’ll start with an introduction for new fans, talk about our favorite heists and moments, and get excited for Leverage 2.0. If you like found family, humiliating greedy corporations, wiping the floor with corrupt politicians, or designing brewpub menus, this is for you. Let’s go steal a panel!
Title: Show Us Your Kitties
Mod(s): TBD
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Activity
Description: After many months of quarantine, we can all agree that the best part of any Zoom meeting is a pet making a guest star appearance. Let’s go around and show off our cute pets (or human children, if they want to say hi) or something neat in our homes that doesn’t normally appear on camera, like new art prints or a possibly haunted statue that you bought from an online thrift store (not that this has happened to me, or anything).
Title: Women of The Expanse
Mod(s): TBD
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Single Fandom
Description: Naomi, Avasarala, Drummer, Bobbie, Clarissa (aka Peaches): The Expanse has brought us a group of complex, competent women of color, with interesting storylines and the agency to make decisions that move the plot. IN SPACE. Did I mention the F/F shipping potential is extremely high? Whether you’ve seen all five seasons or this has piqued your interest and you just want to learn more, come talk about the badass ladies of Earth, Mars, and the Belt. Discussion about men limited to the last 10 minutes of the panel.
Other notes: I could co-mod this one, depending on what else gets in!
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Date: 2021-04-17 09:26 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Maf (Cassie Ingaben), Rae, Anne-Li, Diana Williams
Closed: yes
Type: 5-10 mins pre-recorded panel
Category: single fandom - From Eroica with Love
Description: How many fandoms do you know where the canon is more crack than the crackest fanfiction? Come see various characters steal the Pope, race tanks at high speed on the highway, hide secret microfilms in underwear, dumpster dive for rotten bananas, be a fashion expert’s wet dream and worst nightmare at the same time, climb walls on high heels and backwards, and fight in the Cold War while looking drop dead gorgeous! This mini-panel showcases the manga From Eroica With Love and its time-honoured fandom.
Other notes: With sexy illos!
Title: From Eroica with Love: The Gay Nobleman Who Stole the Pope and Other Classic Tales from the Cold War
Mod(s): Maf (Cassie Ingaben), Anne-Li, Diana Williams
Closed: yes
Type: full-length live panel
Category: single fandom - From Eroica with Love
Description: Old Eroica fan? New Eroica fan? Just watched the Eroica mini-panel five minutes ago and are intrigued? Come and take part in serious discussions about silly clothes, politically incorrect politics, uncharacteristic characterisations, weird fanons from a weirder canon. Let’s hear it for a long-lived fandom spanning from tipp-ex and ditto machine scanlations to Zoom meets and Discord watch-alongs. Vintage is in!
Other notes: We recommend participants watch the pre-recorded minipanel “Eroica: Not Just for Beethoven Fans”
Title: The Aetiology and Treatment of Hanahaki Disease
Mod(s): Maf (Cassie Ingaben), Rae
Closed: yes
Type: full-length live panel
Category: meta
Description: Like going to a medical conference and listening to an immunology paper. Except it’s a bogus paper on an imaginary disease presented by people in lab coats who are not medical doctors. Bring your stethoscope and your sense of humour!
Other notes: All hearts and (hopefully) no flowers.
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Date: 2021-04-18 01:17 pm (UTC)Mod(s): anyone else
Open or Closed: open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom,
Description: Something about one season wonders that we miss, but mostly I just wanted to get ppl talking about the middleman. but also, there's a lot of other amazing one season shows that were canceled before their time that people should tell us about.
Title: "title involving time pun"
Mod(s): zeenell,
someone else with me please, pleasela_dissonanceOpen or Closed: closed
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom,
Description: time travel fixits and why we love them and why they work for some fandoms and not others: star wars prequels, final fantasy xv, the hobbit, etc as starting ground.
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Date: 2021-04-18 01:51 pm (UTC)Title: Murderbot Just Wants To Watch Shows: Fans and Fandom in Recent Media
Mod(s): (please not me I’m exhausted)
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Multi-fandom
Description: Murderbot just wants to sit quietly and watch space dramas, but Adventures and Feelings keep getting in the way. Ms Marvel has to deal with the awkwardness of teaming up with Wolverine after having written fic about him on the internet. How do we see ourselves as fans portrayed in the media we consume these days, and how has it changed? As more folks who came up in Internet Fandom themselves become published creators, how does it affect how we interact with the media?
Title: Pilots, Why? (AKA the Zoom about Zooms)
Mod(s): someone? anyone?
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel?
Category: Multi-fandom? Meta? Not sure.
Description: Planes, spacecraft, giant robots, and the (frequently hot) people who pilot them – what about pilots makes them so compelling, and why do we keep coming back to this theme? What new media have taken flight recently or launching soon? What are some old classics newer folks who like this subject might want to check out?
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Date: 2021-04-18 01:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-04-18 02:05 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Lanna, others would be great
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Single Fandom
Description: Witches and wizards and watches and DEATH, oh my!
Other notes: I don't have very many organized thoughts about panel talking-points, but I'd want to keep it focused on the books and not on TV adaptations (because I haven't seen any of them).
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Date: 2021-04-18 02:16 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Lanna, others would be great
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Wait, that person's not the main character? Those people have never interacted? This storyline isn't fanon but actually really did happen???? Let's talk about reading fic for canons we don't know much about!
Other notes: Would love other mods.