CON.TXT 2023 Panel Suggestions are Open!
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con_txtWe are now taking panel suggestions for CON.TXT 2023! Please read this post and comment with your suggestions using the template below.
All attendees and those considering attending are welcome to suggest panels, regardless of whether or not you want to moderate them.
You may submit a panel suggestion as an open or closed panel.
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. The lineup does not need to be final when you suggest the panel.
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. However, please contact us if you have any concerns about your assigned co-mods! 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.
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.
If you have an idea for a panel but don’t want to moderate it, suggest it as an open panel. If you see an open panel suggestion and would like to moderate it, drop a comment and volunteer.
If you loved a panel suggestion from a previous year, please contact the person who suggested it or the previous mods if you want to submit the same description. Alternatively, you may write a new description. Panel descriptions may be edited or consolidated before voting at the Concom's discretion.
Save your vid show suggestions—we'll take them in an upcoming post!
Panel suggestions will remain open through March 6, 2023.
To propose a panel for CON.TXT 2023, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Title: Werewolf Torts and Undead Annuities 201
Mod(s): v_greyson & alpheratz
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!
Timeline
Now: Panel submissions are open!
Monday, March 6 (11:59 pm EST): Panel submissions close.
Monday, March 13: Panel voting opens!
Monday, April 3: Panel voting closes.
Early May: Notification of panel assignments.
Beginning of June: CON.TXT 2023 programming schedule posted on our website.
Mid-June: Virtual con instructions go out.
June 23-25: CON WEEKEND!
All attendees and those considering attending are welcome to suggest panels, regardless of whether or not you want to moderate them.
You may submit a panel suggestion as an open or closed panel.
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. The lineup does not need to be final when you suggest the panel.
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. However, please contact us if you have any concerns about your assigned co-mods! 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.
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.
If you have an idea for a panel but don’t want to moderate it, suggest it as an open panel. If you see an open panel suggestion and would like to moderate it, drop a comment and volunteer.
If you loved a panel suggestion from a previous year, please contact the person who suggested it or the previous mods if you want to submit the same description. Alternatively, you may write a new description. Panel descriptions may be edited or consolidated before voting at the Concom's discretion.
Save your vid show suggestions—we'll take them in an upcoming post!
Panel suggestions will remain open through March 6, 2023.
To propose a panel for CON.TXT 2023, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Title: Werewolf Torts and Undead Annuities 201
Mod(s): v_greyson & alpheratz
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!
Timeline
Now: Panel submissions are open!
Monday, March 6 (11:59 pm EST): Panel submissions close.
Monday, March 13: Panel voting opens!
Monday, April 3: Panel voting closes.
Early May: Notification of panel assignments.
Beginning of June: CON.TXT 2023 programming schedule posted on our website.
Mid-June: Virtual con instructions go out.
June 23-25: CON WEEKEND!
Panel Suggestion Template
Date: 2023-01-21 12:46 am (UTC)Mod(s):
Open or Closed:
Category:
Description:
Other notes:
no subject
Date: 2023-01-23 01:01 am (UTC)Mod(s): to be determined
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta
Description: The shifting trends in RPF fandom, from bands to hockey to "reader" fics, as social boundaries regarding celebrities change and different platforms create different idioms.
Other notes: I wouldn't want to mod this, and I'd love to attend it.
no subject
Date: 2023-01-23 10:58 pm (UTC)Mod(s):???
Open or Closed: Open
Category: meta, multi-fandom
Description: Found family is a popular trope, and a reality for lots of fans. Let's explore both our favorite found families and how our RL experience is (or isn't) mirrored in the fic.
Other Notes: a version was done at the 2020 Con.Txt
Title: Mind the Age Gap
Mod(s): ???
Open or Closed: Open
Category: meta, multi-fandom
Description: How do we engage with the difficulties, dynamics, and problems that come with characters of different ages being in relationships with each other? And- a question that has grown in popularity in some fandom corners- just how large can that age gap get?
Other notes: a version was done at the 2012 Con-Txt
no subject
Date: 2023-01-23 11:16 pm (UTC)Mod(s): tbd--I'm happy to do it but also happy to let someone else take it
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta
Description: Dracula Daily has ushered in a whole wave of substack readalongs of classic literature--Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, The Three Musketeers, the Divine Comedy, and probably others I don't know about. In some cases, the format is transformational; in others, it's a restoration of the way readers first encountered it.
So let's talk about serial readalongs! How they change the reading experience, for good or ill; how they change (or create) their fandoms, and why they're so popular--is it that we've all lost the ability to read a long novel on our own over the last few years? That we're all longing for the massive pop culture readalong that was Harry Potter? Or just that they're finally making us sit down and (re)read Moby Dick?
no subject
Date: 2023-01-24 11:54 pm (UTC)Mod(s): Dee Laundry & cinco
Open or Closed: Closed (but ping us if you want to help)
Category: Meta
Description: Let's talk about our #actuallyautistic and ADHD faves, whether canon or Word of God; about our neurodivergent headcanons for other human characters; and about which canons lend themselves to neurodivergent original characters. Let's also talk about fandom spaces and any unspoken NT rules we've sussed out for interaction. If there's time at the end, we'll discuss how many excellent OTPs have one autistic character and one with ADHD.
no subject
Date: 2023-01-25 12:24 am (UTC)Mod(s): Dee Laundry and ?
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta
Description: I (or someone who looks like me) can’t get enough of identity play. Superheroes, Quantum Leap, “undercover” episodes of spy/cop/agent shows, the switch in Good Omens, mirror AUs and bodyswap, polyjuice potion, the “everyone is Janet” ep of The Good Place… and that’s just the canon stuff! Let’s dive into good canons, fannish tropes/tags, and fanworks for identity play.
Title: But What About the Pigeon Poop? Worldbuilding
Mod(s): Dee Laundry and ?
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta/How-To
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. We’ll discuss the lows and highs of worldbuilding and share the weirdest details we worked out but never managed to fit into the story.
Title: Fanfic DVD Commentary (A/N But Longer)
Mod(s): Dee Laundry and ?
Open or Closed: Open
Category: How-To
Description: Back in the LJ days, fanfic writers would sometimes provide a separate "DVD commentary" explaining their thought/writing process and providing extra details. This panel discusses how (and why) to create a DVD commentary.
Other notes: "A/N" stands for "author notes"; I have no idea why there's a slash in it.
no subject
Date: 2023-02-06 11:56 pm (UTC)Mod(s): alpheratz and sansets
Open or Closed: closed
Category: meta
Description: There are very few asexual characters in media, but it seems like their number is growing. Let's talk about where we see asexuality represented, whether and how representation has changed over time, how fandom responds to ace characters, and of course, exchange recommendations!
Other notes:
no subject
Date: 2023-02-11 10:12 pm (UTC)Mod(s): JRho
Open or Closed: open
Category: single fandom
Description: New Murderbot coming out this year! Let's discuss what our favorite Sanctuary Moon fan has been up to, what we hope to see from future stories, and our fav fanworks.
Other notes:
no subject
Date: 2023-02-11 10:59 pm (UTC)Title: Several GMs are typing...
Mod(s): TBD
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta/How-to
Description: How do you run your TTRPG campaigns? How do you prepare? What tips do you have for new GMs and what do you recommend they start with? What are your favourite aspects of GMing and your least favourite? Do you create or use others' homebrew content and how? Let's discuss everything relating to running TTRPG campaigns!
Title: Say Hi, Intrepid Heroes!
Mod(s): alpheratz and mobydickery
Open or Closed: Closed
Category: Single Fandom (?)
Description: Let's talk about everything Dimension 20-related! What are your favourite campaigns? Who do you ship? What would you like to see more of, and what would you like to see less of?
Title: How Fandoms Gather: The 2023 Edition
Mod(s): TBD
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta
Description: What with the inevitable end of Twitter, the onslaught of porn porn bots on Tumblr, and the promise of a new platform every few weeks, it's hard to know where to find your people these days. Let's discuss how your fandoms get together, where you find new (and old friends), and how you like to communicate in 2023.
no subject
Date: 2023-02-11 11:26 pm (UTC)Mod(s): tbd
Open or Closed: open
Category: meta
Description: A panel about delicious, delicious books. Bring your recommendations and something to take notes on!
Other notes: I'm open to modding this, but also happy to let someone else take this on.
Title: This is the Way
Mod(s): tbd
Open or Closed: open
Category: single fandom
Description: Let's talk about all the great Star Wars TV shows, old and new! What show do you want more people to see? What are you looking forward to from the next season of Andor? Who do we ship Din Djarin with? What do we want out of the upcoming Ahsoka show?
Other notes: I could co-mod this if my other panels don't make it in.
Title: Lighthouse and Kraken
Mod(s): tbd
Open or Closed: open
Category: single fandom
Description: A panel about Our Flag Means Death! Depending on when season 2 airs, topics may include screaming about what we want to happen in season 2, screaming about what's happening in season 2, or screaming about what happened in season 2. Additionally, let's talk about the show's themes, the cast, and fanworks!
Other notes: I'm open to modding this and helping find a co-mod.
CON.TXT Panel Submission
Date: 2023-03-07 03:48 am (UTC)Title: Archivers of the Lost Art
Mod(s): ViddersAdmin & MorganDawn
Category: Meta
Description: The phrase “the internet is forever” does not hold true when it comes to fan works. Imeem, YahooGroups, LJ, and dare we say, Twitter? Archiving is as relevant today as the next Indiana Jones movie coming out this year! This panel is a show and tell of the latest archiving projects that touch on AO3, You Tube, Twitter, Livejournal, as well as other new projects that are cataloging & honoring the rich cultural legacy of fan works. The value of our fandom nostalgia is as valuable as a Top Gun sequel in 2022. It's as valuable as any works you’d find in a traditional museum. Come learn more about the archiving of valuable fan art and how you can contribute to, and/or provide support for their relevancy in fandom's future. We'll showcase some exclusive content during this panel.
Other notes:
Title: Fandom Community Severance
Mod(s): ViddersAdmin & MorganDawn
Category: Meta
Description: Fandom Communities can either be run by corporations or fans. Sometimes corporate-run projects receive more support from fans, even though they don’t need it, and are frequently not fandom-friendly - severing connections in the process (twitter). Community projects created by fans cater to the unique needs of fans, but may not always receive the support they deserve. In some cases, this is due to a misunderstanding or being unfamiliar with how projects support fan’s needs. This panel will showcase some of the more interesting & novel fandom community projects you may have never heard about. Projects aimed at bringing community together that may also benefit from your support, financial or otherwise.
Other notes:
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 02:51 am (UTC)Title: Fandom Discord
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta, and/or How-to
Description: More and more fandom activity in the last five years (including this convention) is happening on Discord. How is the move to Discord changing fandom, and what does it say about modern fandom? How do fans find and use Discord servers? Share resources and tips for fans looking to try out Discord or become more comfortable there.
Other notes: Could focus more about meta regarding the current fandom migrations, could focus more as a how-to on Discord for fans still finding their feet there or who don't really know how to dive in.
Title: Transformative Fandom and SF Fandom
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom,
Description: Fanworks fandom - lately most well-known as the home of Hugo Award™ Winning Website AO3.org, and Science Fiction Fandom - lately most well-known as the home of the Hugo Awards™ - have always been close kin, although sometimes uncomfortably so. Many professional SF and fantasy fans have gotten their start as fanfic writers, and many fanfic writers have gotten their start in SF fandom. Let's discuss the history of the kinship and crossover and gradient between the two fandom communities, where it's going and where it's been and how we move between them.
Other notes:
Title: Video Blogging RPF
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom, Single Fandom
Description: Over the past few years, Video Blogging RPF has been by far the largest category of RPF on AO3 - including everything from elaborate virtual-world roleplay universes to people who simply go on camera to talk about their lives. RPF about "online content creators" presents new challenges about interaction between creators and fandom, since direct interaction with fandom is often a large part of the creators' work. What's going on in content creators' fandoms, how are they different and the same as other RPF, and how to creators and fans navigate the challenges?
Other notes: This might make a good merge with Hannah's proposal but I think there's enough just about the video blogging fandoms to more than take over a panel. (I can do Minecraft streamers but I am only vaguely aware of things like Phandom and Markiplier, and we could probably also include things like Critical Role which AO3 doesn't file under Video Blogging but definitely fall into the same type of fandom as the Minecraft fandoms that do. So maybe it should have a broader name. Or we can discuss how badly AO3 tag categories handle this kind of fandom….
Title: Star Trek: TOS
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Single Fandom
Description: Star Trek: TOS fandom is still alive, let's talk about the originals and what they're up to these days.
Other notes:
Title: What To Do With An Old WIP
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom, How-to
Description: Sometimes you start a fanwork and you never quite finish it and you never quite quit it either, and next thing you know it's been a year, or two years, or ten years, and your WIP is still around even if your fandom isn't and half the current fans were in elementary school when you started it and you aren't the same person anymore, either. What's to be done with an old WIP? (Finish it???)
Other notes:
Title: Podfic/Podcasts
Mod(s): Melannen
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta, Multi-fandom
Description: A place to talk about fandom in audio.
Other notes:
Title: Fandom Stats
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Multi-fandom, How-to
Description: So, you want to figure out what the numbers say about your fandom. How do you get the numbers, and what do you do with them afterward?
Other notes:
Title: How To Find The Fanfic You Want To Read
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Multi-fandom, How-to
Description: Modern tactics & strategies for finding fanfic you'll like in any mood.
Other notes:
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 03:13 pm (UTC)Mod(s): StupidSexyCopShows, gundred
Open or Closed: Closed
Category: Single Fandom
Description: This seventeen-year-old movie continues to inspire Sapphic writing with an active AO3 presence, a lively discord and several published "Ice Queen" Sapphic romances that began as DWP fanfic. But what does the movie say about the changing opportunities for women in our society? Why does it remain meaningful 17 years later? Is Miranda just a female take on the emotionally unavailable bad boy executive, or is there more to it than that? We'll talk about all that and have some fic recs available, from the sweet to the smutty.
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 07:35 pm (UTC)Mod(s): alpheratz & v. greyson & singlecrow
Open or Closed: Closed
Category: Meta
Description: The continuing comedic exploration of supernatural legal and actuarial hypotheticals! We'll take questions in advance (and maybe some live) to answer questions like: How many times did Stargate Atlantis violate the Geneva Conventions? How would an immortal's life insurance premiums be calculated? Do omegas get heat leave under the FMLA? What are an actuary's professional obligations if the apocalypse is coming? No actual legal or actuarial advice will be provided, even if you are undead.
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 08:13 pm (UTC)Mod(s): corbae (& jrho?)
Open or Closed: Closed
Category: Activity
Description: Fannish pictionary brings characters from disparate fandoms together under strange and often hilarious circumstances. Ever felt a deep yearning to draw Lan Wangji and Yennefer of Vengerberg having a threesome with Dean Winchester? Join us for fannish pictionary to make your dreams come true.
Title: Stuck on Bats
Mod(s): corbae
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Single Fandom
Description: It doesn't matter how you got into the Batfamily or how much you know about its long and complex history, we're just here to discuss our favorite characters, arcs, non-comic depictions, and fic.
Title: Wheat Googling 201: Research for Fic
Mod(s): corbae and mobydickery
Open or Closed: Closed
Category: How To
Description: Have you ever spent days researching something very specific and mundane for a fic? Join us for tips and tricks on doing research for fic writing purposes, with a focus on free online sources.
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-21 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 08:19 pm (UTC)Title: Mothman, The Fourth Amendment, and You
Mod(s): v. greyson
Open or Closed: Closed (but see notes)
Category: How-to
Description: You don't have to be a cryptid to know your rights! This Know Your Rights training will focus on essential constitutional rights of street protestors and online activists in the US, including during interactions with police. We'll also go over a sprinkling of information security best practices.
Other notes: if there's an actual civil rights attorney in the house who would like to co-mod, or someone who wants to talk about non-US jurisdictions, I would love to have them join!
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 08:32 pm (UTC)Mod(s): TBD
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Multi-fandom
Description: Let's talk about shows and ships of years past, both the ones we talk about all the time and the ones we fondly remember and keep meaning to revisit!
Title: Thai BL Discussion Group
Mod(s): TBD
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Multi-fandom
Description: A place to discuss your favourite Thai BLs, share what you're looking forward to watching, and exchange recs
Title: Comparative Sherlock Studies
Mod(s): mobydickery and TBD
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Single fandom? Multi-fandom?
Description: There are a gazillion Sherlock Holmes adaptations, some good and some awful. It's time to dissect the contenders and make dramatic inferences based on circumstantial evidence.
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 08:48 pm (UTC)Mod(s): TBD
Open or Closed: open
Category: meta
Description: Learn to take your vid appreciation to the next level! Let's talk about what makes a vid work. This panel is geared towards casual vidding fans.
Other notes: I can mod this or pass it to someone else.
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 10:23 pm (UTC)Open or Closed: open
Category: meta
Description: Between the number of streaming services and their willingness to ensure no one has legal access to their shows, piracy is regaining popularity as a way to access TV and movies. Let's talk strategies and resources for this new era of piracy.
Title: The Old(er) Guard
Open or Closed: open
Category: single fandom
Description: Our favorite immortal mercenaries are scheduled to make their return this year. What do we want to see in the movie, and what fanworks are we revisiting while waiting for its release?
Title: The Monster is In (the Bed)
Open or Closed: open
Category: multi-fandom
Description: Is a con really a con without a monsterfucking panel? Do we want to take that risk?
Title: Soon May the Wellerman Come
Open or Closed: open
Category: multi-fandom
Description: Why do ships set on ships have such enduring appeal? Revisit your favorite Age of Sail fandoms, old and new, from Moby Dick and Hornblower to Aubrey-Maturin and Black Sails.
Title: Oh the Year was 1778
Open or Closed: open
Category: meta
Description: So you find yourself writing the due South AU where they're in Barrett's Privateers and realize you don't know enough about 1778 to get the details right (and it's Fraser; the details have to be right). Discuss challenges, tips, and resources for getting the historical details right, whether you're doing an AU set in the past or just need help keeping Sports Night in 1999.
Title: You're My Present This Year
Open or Closed: open
Category: multi-fandom
Description: while the Folgers commercial is a classic, it's far from the only time incest has made an appearance in fandom. What makes this so appealing, and what are your favorite times it's kept all in the family?
Title: Ugh, Did You See the Latest from Maciej
Open or Closed: open
Category: meta
Description: Discuss best practices for fanwork preservation, including how to make bookmarking social again now that Pinboard has gone to the dark side.
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 11:10 pm (UTC)I'm in if you need mods for Oh the Year Was 1778!
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 10:39 pm (UTC)Mod(s):
Open or Closed: open
Category: Activity
Description: Bring your favorite fannish thing to show the class and tell us all about how you got it and why you love it. A scarf to match the 4th doctor that was your first knitting project? A handbound copy of My Immortal your girlfriend made for you? The complete Highlander series on VHS you found at Goodwill? Come show it off to people who will appreciate it!
Other notes: This probably just needs one emcee to keep it flowing.
Title: Hybrid Cons - the Good, the Bad, and the JFC
Mod(s): jrho
Open or Closed: open
Category: How to
Description: There's a lot that goes into running an in-person con. There's a lot that goes into running a virtual con. There is, somehow, So Much More that goes into running a hybrid con. We'll discuss the pros, cons, and increased time, effort, and money that goes into making a hybrid event good for all attendees.
Other notes: Would appreciate one or two co-mods who have volunteered at a hybrid con
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 10:50 pm (UTC)Title: Fanbabies & Baby Fans: Parenting in Fandom
Mod(s): tbd
Open or Closed: Open
Category: How-to
Description: A panel about parenting as a fan, parenting the next generation of fans, and all the attendant highs/lows/perks/challenges. Did you prevent your kids from finding your AO3 username at all costs? What happens when your offspring is old enough to start their own Tumblr? Has your kid turned out to be completely uninterested in fandom - or into something you'll never understand? All kid-adjacent folks welcome - you don't have to be a parent to attend!
no subject
Date: 2023-03-20 11:59 pm (UTC)Mod(s):
Open or Closed: open
Category: Activity
Description: Spend an hour working on your current craft project(s) while chatting with your fellow crafters.
Other notes:
no subject
Date: 2023-03-21 12:04 am (UTC)Open
Category: How-To/Discussion
Other notes: I'd like to hear a panel discussion on writing fanfiction where the characters' identities are not the writer's own (e.g. race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, etc.)
no subject
Date: 2023-03-21 12:35 am (UTC)Open or Closed: open
Category: multi-fandom
Description: OT3s and other polyships have become more popular. What makes them so interesting and what are our favorites?
Title: Let's Steal a TV Show
Open or Closed: open
Category: single fandom
Description: The universe had provided more Leverage, and let's discuss the goings-on with Parker, Sophie, Hardison, and the rest of the crew.
no subject
Date: 2023-03-21 01:47 am (UTC)Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta
Description: And baby makes three. Let's talk about mpreg and all the ways we like it. How is it holding up against newer tropes like omegaverse and wishbabies?
Title: To Translate Or Not To Translate, That Is The Question
Mod(s):
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta
Description: What do words mean, anyway? Whether it's a canon that uses specific terms that don't exist in the language you're writing in, or it's worldbuilding you've made yourself, when do we use exposition, when do we use author's notes, and when do we just leave it untranslated? How do we make these choices and when?
Other notes: I may or may not be able to comod this, but I think this panel would have a lot of relevance in cdrama and cnovel fandoms, so it would be good to have mods who are involved in those.