Take me on an Escapade, baby, yeah.
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rsadelleRPS, part 1. The RPS panel was incredibly good. The panel description said, "Taboo or old hat?" but it was really more about RPS as a fandom than the okayness of it. What's canon, where do you get it, do you use tabloid info or only the carefully constructed publicity, who do you write? We had a whole list of pairings on the flip chart, and the whole room cracked up when I mentioned Bill Gates/Steve Jobs as one of the pairings with a huge amount of history between the characters. Emma, who was at Red Rose when I went three years ago, said that she remembers me being the only voice out there saying, "What about RPS?" Escapade's RPS panel this year had a huge number of people, and only a very small number of them said they had never gone looking for RPS.
RPS, part 2. My fannish friends circle is rather small, everyone in it is into RPS, and I don't really talk to people outside of that circle, so I pretty much have no contact with the anti-RPS people these days. This made it quite startling to listen to a couple of groups of old-school fans sitting around talking about how RPS is evil. As the only RPSers in the consuite room where one of these conversations took place, Dara and I occupied the Corner of Evil, which became the Corner of Evil and Cheese when Dara got a snack.
Dara. Dara sounds exactly the way I thought she would, but she's much shorter than I thought.
Harry Potter. The Harry Potter panel was also incredibly good. The ostensible topic was young!Harry vs. adult!Harry in the Snape/Harry pairing, but we drifted a bit and talked all about the world of it. In addition to the panel, I had several other Harry Potter conversations with people, one of which developed the following very important question: Would McGonagall in cat form/Mrs. Norris be bestiality?
Battlefield Earth. This is a crap lousy movie which should only be watched late at night with other fangirls when you're either drunk enough to put up with it or tired enough to sleep through bits of it, in which case it can be quite fun. The highlight of the whole movie is John Travolta's ultra-queeny voice. Also, Peter Jackson stole heavily from this movie. Aragorn and Legolas are just prettier versions of Carlo and Jonnie played by better actors than Kim Coates and Barry Pepper.
Slash writers who write het. This small panel managed to go rather off-course. We ended up trading recs and ideas for finding good het rather than actually talking about slash writers who write het, which is also okay. I felt kind of weird for the first day or so of the con because I've been writing so much gen and het and having so many gen and het conversations that being so inundated with slash, slash, slash! was a bit overwhelming.
The one conclusion I can bring this number to. Go to Escapade next year. It was so much fun. The panels I went to were fun, except for the fannish status one, from which I had to escape, but it was just as much, if not more, fun to just sit around the consuite or the lobby and talk to people about fandom and slash and "Have you read this?" and "Oh, you wrote that!" and "Where can I find some of this?"
RPS, part 2. My fannish friends circle is rather small, everyone in it is into RPS, and I don't really talk to people outside of that circle, so I pretty much have no contact with the anti-RPS people these days. This made it quite startling to listen to a couple of groups of old-school fans sitting around talking about how RPS is evil. As the only RPSers in the consuite room where one of these conversations took place, Dara and I occupied the Corner of Evil, which became the Corner of Evil and Cheese when Dara got a snack.
Dara. Dara sounds exactly the way I thought she would, but she's much shorter than I thought.
Harry Potter. The Harry Potter panel was also incredibly good. The ostensible topic was young!Harry vs. adult!Harry in the Snape/Harry pairing, but we drifted a bit and talked all about the world of it. In addition to the panel, I had several other Harry Potter conversations with people, one of which developed the following very important question: Would McGonagall in cat form/Mrs. Norris be bestiality?
Battlefield Earth. This is a crap lousy movie which should only be watched late at night with other fangirls when you're either drunk enough to put up with it or tired enough to sleep through bits of it, in which case it can be quite fun. The highlight of the whole movie is John Travolta's ultra-queeny voice. Also, Peter Jackson stole heavily from this movie. Aragorn and Legolas are just prettier versions of Carlo and Jonnie played by better actors than Kim Coates and Barry Pepper.
Slash writers who write het. This small panel managed to go rather off-course. We ended up trading recs and ideas for finding good het rather than actually talking about slash writers who write het, which is also okay. I felt kind of weird for the first day or so of the con because I've been writing so much gen and het and having so many gen and het conversations that being so inundated with slash, slash, slash! was a bit overwhelming.
The one conclusion I can bring this number to. Go to Escapade next year. It was so much fun. The panels I went to were fun, except for the fannish status one, from which I had to escape, but it was just as much, if not more, fun to just sit around the consuite or the lobby and talk to people about fandom and slash and "Have you read this?" and "Oh, you wrote that!" and "Where can I find some of this?"
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Date: 2003-02-25 09:14 pm (UTC)Where was this con? Sounds ultra interesting, actually. Devon and I just explained slash to my rapt mother. I am not sure what I would think if I found her looking for some now, though. lol
love,
Deandra
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Date: 2003-02-25 09:39 pm (UTC)One of the people I roomed with goes to slash cons with her mother because they run a gallery together and sell their jewelry at the cons.
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Date: 2003-02-25 09:54 pm (UTC)