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As usual, I started out with a pass through the dealer room. Like last year, it's one aisle smaller than it normally is and some of the mainstay dealers didn't come for various reasons. I'm sorry to see fewer dealers, but I do like having the extra space in the aisles. And there were still enough dealers there that I only made it 3/4 of the way through before the first panel. My new favorite T-shirt? "Steampunk--What Happens When Goths Discover Brown." ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jennetj makes little pins and magnets out of people's LJ icons, and she surprised me with a magnet of my "sod today" icon. My BF and I saw that sign outside a lawn & garden center last spring. My BF took the picture of the sign for me, and jennetj made the actual icon after I posted the picture to my LJ.
The first panel I attended was on portrayals of asexuality in the media. A lot of time was spent talking about the BBC Sherlock and not only how the show portrayed Sherlock, but the different ways people have portrayed his asexuality in fan fic.
Then it was back to finish up my first pass through the dealer room, followed by a trip up to Agent With Style. I did not purchase my own weight in zines this year, but I picked up more than I thought I would. I just heard about one more I need to look at, but then I think I may be done with zine buying for this year.
Then it was back to the ballrooms with a panel on basic e-book conversion for fan fic. It was a little too basic for me in that it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but the panelist freely admitted that she hadn't had as much time to prepare as she thought she would.
That was followed by an interesting panel on how the major networks seem to be shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to scripted programming. They move shows around without warning, take long hiatuses mid-season, barely advertise, and don't give shows as much time to build an audience as in previous years. They're hemorrhaging viewers to cable, yet don't seem inclined to compete with cable to get those viewers back.
After that, I tried to go to a Professionals fic reccing panel, but only two of us showed up (it was the dinner hour and right before the competition vids), so we chatted for bit, then parted ways.
The competition vids were fun this year. There were quite a few more submissions than the last couple of years. I think the gen show ran about an hour and a half, and the slash show just over an hour. It was kind of hard to tell. A couple of the vid reels suffered technical difficulties that took awhile to fix. There were vids in the usual fandoms (The Sentinel, Starsky & Hutch, The Professionals, etc.), along with some rarer fandoms (Indiana Jones and Generation Kill). It was nice to see some Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural vids again, and this year marked the vid debuts of Sherlock, The Walking Dead, and Hawaii Five-0 (Steve and Danny's carguments are just as entertaining when set to music without dialogue). There was one hilarious Capt. Jack Harkness vid to "There! Right There!" from the musical Legally Blonde ("Is he gay or European?"). California Crew also turned in a reel for the first time in a long time, and somebody actually brought little bags of Cracker Jack for everyone. She was handing them out at the door as people arrived for the show.
And now it's time to go to bed so I can get up and do it all over again tomorrow.
ETA: This is the "sod today" icon jennetj made for me and also made a magnet of for me.
jennetj makes little pins and magnets out of people's LJ icons, and she surprised me with a magnet of my "sod today" icon. My BF and I saw that sign outside a lawn & garden center last spring. My BF took the picture of the sign for me, and jennetj made the actual icon after I posted the picture to my LJ.The first panel I attended was on portrayals of asexuality in the media. A lot of time was spent talking about the BBC Sherlock and not only how the show portrayed Sherlock, but the different ways people have portrayed his asexuality in fan fic.
Then it was back to finish up my first pass through the dealer room, followed by a trip up to Agent With Style. I did not purchase my own weight in zines this year, but I picked up more than I thought I would. I just heard about one more I need to look at, but then I think I may be done with zine buying for this year.
Then it was back to the ballrooms with a panel on basic e-book conversion for fan fic. It was a little too basic for me in that it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but the panelist freely admitted that she hadn't had as much time to prepare as she thought she would.
That was followed by an interesting panel on how the major networks seem to be shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to scripted programming. They move shows around without warning, take long hiatuses mid-season, barely advertise, and don't give shows as much time to build an audience as in previous years. They're hemorrhaging viewers to cable, yet don't seem inclined to compete with cable to get those viewers back.
After that, I tried to go to a Professionals fic reccing panel, but only two of us showed up (it was the dinner hour and right before the competition vids), so we chatted for bit, then parted ways.
The competition vids were fun this year. There were quite a few more submissions than the last couple of years. I think the gen show ran about an hour and a half, and the slash show just over an hour. It was kind of hard to tell. A couple of the vid reels suffered technical difficulties that took awhile to fix. There were vids in the usual fandoms (The Sentinel, Starsky & Hutch, The Professionals, etc.), along with some rarer fandoms (Indiana Jones and Generation Kill). It was nice to see some Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural vids again, and this year marked the vid debuts of Sherlock, The Walking Dead, and Hawaii Five-0 (Steve and Danny's carguments are just as entertaining when set to music without dialogue). There was one hilarious Capt. Jack Harkness vid to "There! Right There!" from the musical Legally Blonde ("Is he gay or European?"). California Crew also turned in a reel for the first time in a long time, and somebody actually brought little bags of Cracker Jack for everyone. She was handing them out at the door as people arrived for the show.
And now it's time to go to bed so I can get up and do it all over again tomorrow.
ETA: This is the "sod today" icon jennetj made for me and also made a magnet of for me.
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