These are panels from 2014's schedule that I'd love to see repeated.
Title: Slash Through the Ages Mod(s): Open or Closed: Open Type: Full-length live panel Category: Meta Description: Let's talk about our grandparents' slash. And their grandparents' slash. And all the way back to people squeeing about Enkidu and Gilgamesh in proto-Sumerian. Let us share stories of legendary Holmes/Watson porn from the 1890s, let us read dirty ditties in 19th century French about Enjolras and Grantaire's derriere; let us find Regency gents pruriently speculating about Darcy and Bingley, and read the bit in Don Quixote where Cervantes vindictively josses all the fic in progress and gloats about it. And let's discuss the joys and challenges of shipping pairings that have been shipped since before anyone living was yet born! Other notes:
Title: Not Your Fandom's OTP Mod(s): Open or Closed: Open Type: Full-length live panel Category: Meta Description: Do you think Harry should have ended up with Neville? Are you a Scott/Stiles fan in a universe of Sterek? Have you waded through thousands of Marvel fics for the handful of Tony/Pepper/Steve stories and wept when you reached the end of them? Here's a panel for folks who love tiny pairings in big fandoms. Let's talk about how to hold up under a tide of 'but that's not what I was looking for!' and figure out if there are ways to increase fannish participation in rare pairs (so that you don't have to write them all yourself). Other notes:
Title: Where Do Slashbabies Come From? Mod(s): Open or Closed: Open Type: Full-length live panel Category: Meta Description: Adoption, mpreg, ABO, surrogacy, babies falling from the sky, oopses, dead mommies. Acquiring children lives at an intersection of fun fannish fantasy and the complicated reality of queer family building. Let's talk about that, and all the stuff that goes into putting the kid in kidfic. Other notes:
Title: Fun With Inverted Tropes Mod(s): Open or Closed: Open Type: Full-length live panel Category: Meta Description: We all know the classics: accidental baby acquisition, huddling for warmth, woke up married, undercover in a gay bar, amnesia. What happens when you turn it inside out and upside down? From "woke up straight" to "the aliens made them AVOID doing it," what are your favorite inverted or subverted tropes? We'll talk about our favorite trope inversion fanworks and what tropes we'd like to see switched around next. Other notes:
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Title: Slash Through the Ages
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Let's talk about our grandparents' slash. And their grandparents' slash. And all the way back to people squeeing about Enkidu and Gilgamesh in proto-Sumerian. Let us share stories of legendary Holmes/Watson porn from the 1890s, let us read dirty ditties in 19th century French about Enjolras and Grantaire's derriere; let us find Regency gents pruriently speculating about Darcy and Bingley, and read the bit in Don Quixote where Cervantes vindictively josses all the fic in progress and gloats about it. And let's discuss the joys and challenges of shipping pairings that have been shipped since before anyone living was yet born!
Other notes:
Title: Not Your Fandom's OTP
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Do you think Harry should have ended up with Neville? Are you a Scott/Stiles fan in a universe of Sterek? Have you waded through thousands of Marvel fics for the handful of Tony/Pepper/Steve stories and wept when you reached the end of them? Here's a panel for folks who love tiny pairings in big fandoms. Let's talk about how to hold up under a tide of 'but that's not what I was looking for!' and figure out if there are ways to increase fannish participation in rare pairs (so that you don't have to write them all yourself).
Other notes:
Title: Where Do Slashbabies Come From?
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: Adoption, mpreg, ABO, surrogacy, babies falling from the sky, oopses, dead mommies. Acquiring children lives at an intersection of fun fannish fantasy and the complicated reality of queer family building. Let's talk about that, and all the stuff that goes into putting the kid in kidfic.
Other notes:
Title: Fun With Inverted Tropes
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Type: Full-length live panel
Category: Meta
Description: We all know the classics: accidental baby acquisition, huddling for warmth, woke up married, undercover in a gay bar, amnesia. What happens when you turn it inside out and upside down? From "woke up straight" to "the aliens made them AVOID doing it," what are your favorite inverted or subverted tropes? We'll talk about our favorite trope inversion fanworks and what tropes we'd like to see switched around next.
Other notes: