I'm just a copycat without the cut tags.

[rsadelle]

I found Melle's list so interesting that I thought I might as well keep track as I voted. In some cases, you really need the descriptions to know what the heck the panel's about.

Escapade Panels I Will Attend:

• God is in the details*
• Goin' To The Chapel*
• Going Home
• Hit me baby one more time.*
• Pairing Names: Cute or Stupid?*
• Make New Friends, But Keep The Old?
• They're not just characters, they're family!
• The Next Big Thing
• The Tipping Point in Fandom: Mavens, Connectors, Salesmen
• Troublemakers in Paradise*
• What's My Story?
• Where have all the condoms gone?
• Where have all the lesbians gone?*
• You Can't Say That About My Friend! How Loyalty is Killing Fandom
• Buffy: Now, more than ever, we love Spike/Xander.*
• DamonAffleck: Oversaturation or No New Material?
• From Eroica With Love: Found in translation?*
• Jay & Silent Bob: The love that cannot spell it's name
• Jeremiah: Science Fiction or Theological Renaissance?
• Jeremiah: The End of the World as We Know It
• The Wolf & Bruckheimer Effects
• Let's talk about research, baby!

* Not only will I attend, but I'll lead. These are also the panels I myself suggested.

Note to Soo and other interested parties: Although I did not say "Will Lead" for the DamonAffleck panel, I will lead or help lead it if you need/want me to.

Escapade Panels I May Attend:

• Beyond Mary Sue - Writing Credible Original Characters
• Brothers Should Be Close: Incest in Slash
• Clams and Curmudgeons: We Love Our Dysfunctional Guys
• Fandom Sluts and One True Fandoms -- trends?
• Magic: The Slashability Factor?
• Real Life in the Industry
• Slasher Zero
• SOS, DVD, CPR
• Top? Bottom? Flexible?
• Where have all the slashy novels gone?
• Who's Slashworthy?
• 2 Slashed Bi-curious
• House: Out of House and Holmes
• HP: The Phantom of the Soap Opera
• Slash in the Movies
• X-Men: Queer Subtext and Slash
• Getting the Good Parts of a story Just Right
• Late night write-fest

Now that I look at it, that's a heck of a lot of panels. I guess I'm more interested in fandom than I thought I was. On the other hand, just because I'll attend doesn't mean I'll stay the whole time. I'm a pro at escaping bad Escapade panels.

Digression: One of my Escapade notes says, "Take scorecards! a la Celeste in the City," but that would really only be fun if Sky were going, so it'll have to wait for some other year.

The potential problem I see with me actually enjoying some of these is that while I might want to discuss the universe, I might not necessarily be interested in the slash. Like Jeremiah, for example. I love the show, but I'm just not interested in reading/discussing fic for it.

Of course, it looks like this might be a trend larger than just me. The description of Jeremiah: Science Fiction or Theological Renaissance? doesn't actually have any mention of slash or fic in it. Similarly there's Lost: Theories Anyone? Which is partially to illustrate my point and partially to digress: I watched an episode of Lost on, um, Tuesday? Whatever day it's on. Is that a typical episode? Because if it is, I'm not sure I see what the fuss is about. It seemed pretty unremarkable to me. Perhaps it's more fascinating if you've been watching since the beginning.

Comments

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

re Lost: I don't watch it simply because I don't like whatshisface from LotR and I don't like all his fangirls. This is such a shallow reason for not watching but he just creeps me out. (Also on the "such a shallow reason for not watching" list: Not wanting to watch something just because everyone on my LJ is all over it. Bandwagon much?)

re Escapade: So sad I cannot go this year. "The Tipping Point" sounds cool, as does "Slasher Zero" and the "how loyalty is killing fandom" one. And thanks for bringing up the pairing names thing.

I thought it was weird last year, and I still think it's weird this year: the "old" fandoms getting tons of recognition in the fandom panels list. I don't understand how a person can continue writing Highlander fic for years and years.

Minotaur is once again making an appearance. *rolls eyes*

I just remember in that panel about tiny fandoms last year how people were all "twenty people is a small fandom!" and Sky and I were like "... no, TWO people is a small fandom, we would KILL for twenty people to write Clooneyfic..."

Next year I should get winter vacation (if I'm still even at Stein's), so I've started saving up already.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I thought it was weird last year, and I still think it's weird this year: the "old" fandoms getting tons of recognition in the fandom panels list. I don't understand how a person can continue writing Highlander fic for years and years.

There were actually at least two panels that brought this up: one on mono-fandom vs fannish butterflies, and one on how Escapade is shifting towards the meta-panels instead of fandom-specific canon-discussion ones, which I personally think is because of what you said, with the exception of LotR and HP (and even then!), these fandoms are *spent* in terms of canon-discussion!

I want to go to the monofannishness because I really want to know how people can stick with just the one fandom forever and ever. It's so ... weird. And yes, other people's definition of "rare" is often vastly different from ours. I look forward to bringing up my own bunch of fandoms of one in the rare pairings panel. :D

[rsadelle]

Someone from LotR is in it? I didn't even know that. The only person on my friends list watching it is Amy.

I hate pairing names with a passion! I think I did a good job of writing a balanced description that doesn't reflect my hatred of a thousand suns.

I think it has to do with generations of fans. The folks who've been going to cons for years are the old-school fans, who love one fandom forever.

Whee! We'll have more fun when it's all of us. Although I seem to be in a fannish frame of mind this year, so I'll be okay with attending panels instead of spending all my time with friends.