What should I rant about at Swancon
Feb. 2nd, 2015 02:14 pmSo Swancon this year is doing ten minute presentations which sounds like fun but I can't decide what to talk about. Anyone got anything you'd like to see me rant about for ten minutes? Or think Swancon could benefit from? If you don't go to swancon you can probably still see it: I'll need to practice and get my timing right so I'm thinking I'll do up a youtube version.
One thing Swancon often misses out on is femlash fandom, in as much as it talk about transformative works at all there's generally a pretty strong focus on slash. That's a pretty big topic though.
So, some thoughts:
One thing Swancon often misses out on is femlash fandom, in as much as it talk about transformative works at all there's generally a pretty strong focus on slash. That's a pretty big topic though.
So, some thoughts:
- Dragon Age
- Hanako Games
- A brief intro to femslash fandom (what is it, where do you find it. Give a basic intro for outsiders, give hints of where to look next for anyone interested)
- A brief history of femslash fandom? In contrast to the tradional "fandom begins and ends with slash" version of transformative fandom history. I'm not much of a fannish historian though.
- Speculative f/f romance. Nice and focussed, positive, wouldn't require too much boring research. Only downside is I got two similar panels up last year. Could include popular f/f fandoms, I guess, and I'd have images.
- Something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT which my brain is not supplying me right now.
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Date: 2015-02-02 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-03 03:20 pm (UTC)Thanks! Will bear that in mind.
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Date: 2015-02-02 08:04 pm (UTC)And also why Continuum is great and everyone should go...
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Date: 2015-02-03 03:18 pm (UTC)I am unqualified, you'll have to fly here and do it :P