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starladyI took a break from my spring break this weekend and went out to FOGcon 2 in Walnut Creek. All in all, I had a good time, with many awesome people, and I'll definitely be happy to go back to FOGcon 3.
Sitting in the @fogconvention cover panel thinking about how in Haywire when she takes off her heels it's to beat a guy to death.
Okay, Frank Herbert's BDSM novel with a submissive star is now the strangest thing I have heard at @fogconvention.
Though dubcon dragon claw somnophiia is up there too.
I was going to say something about Fogcon. I forget what. I want it to be way more fannish, that's what.
Oh god Jackie Gross is the best.
Panelist: "I feel like the REAL ending to Casablanca is on the Archive of Our Own." #fuckingwin
Problematic things panel degenerating into "Orson Scott Card 201." At least Mary Anne Mohanraj isn't here to defend him.
Thank fuck I am sitting in the fandom row for this panel.
Fannish takes on the existence of Dumbledore's ex-boyfriend diverge radically from the non-fannish.
"Bruce Wayne lost his parents and that's horrible, but he's always lived in a mansion."
Virtuously not mentioning mpreg as Charles Xavier's secondary mutation in this X-Men panel. Wishing @wintercreek were here.
Home from @Fogconvention. Starving. Work to do. See everyone next year!
FOGcon is a young con, and I do think, unsurprisingly, that it had more energy last year, but I also think the con has a lot of potential. That said, the con runners need to put a bit more thought into the panels and the panelists, so that it doesn't feel like Pro and Semi-Pro Con all the time, as it did at times this year, and so that all of the panels aren't overlapping at points, like I felt the programming was this year. Another thing I'd like to see is at least one panel devoted exclusively to (each of?) the Guests' of Honor works, or otherwise what's the point of having Guests and a Ghost of Honor? I don't really know anything more about Nalo Hopkinson's works than I did going in, for example, which makes me glad that she'll be a Guest of Honor at Sirens in October, since Sirens' format will force all the attendees to think about her works explicitly.
The other thing is that I think FOGcon needs to be more fannish--not even a lot, but there needs to be more of fandom officially on the programming than a one-hour vidshow and a "you kids get off my lawn!" fannish history panel. The vidshow, run bylaurashapiro, was one of my favorite things about FOGcon, actually, and in some ways it also did one of the best jobs of any of the panels I attended of thinking critically about the theme of the convention. I'm not surprised that ("new") fandom brought its critical analysis and squee, but "old" fandom and the pros and semi-pros need to meet us halfway. And the way we're going to do that, until and unless FOGcon gets a lot bigger, is via programming.
What did everyone else think? Did anyone else have the frustrating experience of five hotel keys demagnetize in less than 24 hours?
Sitting in the @fogconvention cover panel thinking about how in Haywire when she takes off her heels it's to beat a guy to death.
Okay, Frank Herbert's BDSM novel with a submissive star is now the strangest thing I have heard at @fogconvention.
Though dubcon dragon claw somnophiia is up there too.
I was going to say something about Fogcon. I forget what. I want it to be way more fannish, that's what.
Oh god Jackie Gross is the best.
Panelist: "I feel like the REAL ending to Casablanca is on the Archive of Our Own." #fuckingwin
Problematic things panel degenerating into "Orson Scott Card 201." At least Mary Anne Mohanraj isn't here to defend him.
Thank fuck I am sitting in the fandom row for this panel.
Fannish takes on the existence of Dumbledore's ex-boyfriend diverge radically from the non-fannish.
"Bruce Wayne lost his parents and that's horrible, but he's always lived in a mansion."
Virtuously not mentioning mpreg as Charles Xavier's secondary mutation in this X-Men panel. Wishing @wintercreek were here.
Home from @Fogconvention. Starving. Work to do. See everyone next year!
FOGcon is a young con, and I do think, unsurprisingly, that it had more energy last year, but I also think the con has a lot of potential. That said, the con runners need to put a bit more thought into the panels and the panelists, so that it doesn't feel like Pro and Semi-Pro Con all the time, as it did at times this year, and so that all of the panels aren't overlapping at points, like I felt the programming was this year. Another thing I'd like to see is at least one panel devoted exclusively to (each of?) the Guests' of Honor works, or otherwise what's the point of having Guests and a Ghost of Honor? I don't really know anything more about Nalo Hopkinson's works than I did going in, for example, which makes me glad that she'll be a Guest of Honor at Sirens in October, since Sirens' format will force all the attendees to think about her works explicitly.
The other thing is that I think FOGcon needs to be more fannish--not even a lot, but there needs to be more of fandom officially on the programming than a one-hour vidshow and a "you kids get off my lawn!" fannish history panel. The vidshow, run by
laurashapiro, was one of my favorite things about FOGcon, actually, and in some ways it also did one of the best jobs of any of the panels I attended of thinking critically about the theme of the convention. I'm not surprised that ("new") fandom brought its critical analysis and squee, but "old" fandom and the pros and semi-pros need to meet us halfway. And the way we're going to do that, until and unless FOGcon gets a lot bigger, is via programming. What did everyone else think? Did anyone else have the frustrating experience of five hotel keys demagnetize in less than 24 hours?